A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

When I lived in Coventry, Major Wilkies a Learned Scot, lived in the house with me, ⟨p. 56⟩who professed to have lived many years in a Course of Visions and Revelations, and had abundance of Texts set upon his heart, and expounded to him by Vision, most for the Millenary way, and for Prophecies about our times and changes, (and some against preciseness) many of his expositions were considerable: some palpably false: some of his predictions came to pass, and some proved false: He was of a hot melancholy temper, and as I heard, after distracted.

When I lived in Coventrey, Major Wilkies a Learned Scot, lived in the house with me, ⟨p. 56⟩who professed to have lived many years in a Course of Visions and Revelations, and had abundance of Texts set upon his heart, and expounded to him by Vision, most for the Millenary way, and for Prophecies about our times and changes, (and some against preciseness) many of his expositions were considerable: some palpably false: some of his predictions came to pass, and some proved false: He was of a hot melancholy temper, and as I heard, after distracted.

If this brother had known how many (if not many score) of deeply melancholy persons have been with me, that have had some of them prophecies, most of them almost in desperation, and some of them comforted by such or such a Text, brought to their mind, which was of a quite different sense, and impertinent to that which they fetched from it, and some of their Collections contrary to the rest; he would take heed of doing Gods spirit so much wrong as to father poor crazed peoples deliratio•s on it? And this is as common, I think, among the Papists themselves, that meddle less with Scripture than we do: What abundance of Books be there, of the phantasms of their Fryers and Nuns, as Prophecies, Visions, and Revelations, which the judicious Reader may perceive are but the effects of melancholy and hysterical passions, improved by ignorant or deceitful Priests.