hear us upon once Praying and Fasting before him 'tis well, and if he will not vouchsafe his _Mercy_ upon our _thrice_ doing so, yet we must not be so discouraged as to throw by our Devotion but if the Soveraign _Grace_ of our God will in any particular Instances count our Patience enough tryed when we have Solemnly waited upon him for any determinate Number of times, who shall say to him, what doest thou, and if there shall be any Number of Instances, wherein this Grace of our God has exactly holden the same course, it may have a room in our humble _Observations_, I hope, without any Superstition; I say then that after _Margaret Rule_ had been more than five weeks in her Miseries, this _White Spirit_ said unto her, _Well this day such a Man_ (whom he named) _has kept a third day for your deliverance, now be of good cheer you shall speedily be delivered_. I inquired whether what had been said of that Man were true, and I gained exact and certain information that it was precisely so, but I doubt lest in relating this Passage that I have used more openness than a Friend should be treated with, and for that cause I have concealed several of the most _memorable things_ that have occurred not only in this but in some former Histories, altho indeed I am not so well satisfied about the true nature of this _white Spirit_, as to count that I can do a Friend much Honour by reporting what notice this _white Spirit_ may have thus taken of him. _Sect._ 11. On the last day of the Week her Tormentors as she thought and said, approaching towards her, would be forced still to recoil and retire as unaccountably unable to meddle with her, and they would retire to the Fire side with their Poppets; but going to stick Pins into those Poppets, they could not (according to their visions) make the Pins to enter, she insulted over them with a very Proper derision, daring them now to do their worst, whilst she had the satisfaction to see their _Black Master_ strike them and kick them, like an _Overseer_ of so many _Negro's_, to make them to do their work, and renew the marks of his vengeance on them, when they failed of doing of it.[27] At last being as it were tired with their ineffectual Attempts to mortifie her they furiously said, _Well you shant be the last_. And after a pause they added, _Go, and the Devil go with you, we can do no more_; whereupon they flew out of the Room, and she returning perfectly to herself most affectionately gave thanks to God for her deliverance; her Tormentors left her extream _weak and faint_, and overwhelmed with _Vapours_, which would not only cause her sometimes to Swoon away, but also now and then for a little while discompose the reasonableness of her Thoughts; Nevertheless her former troubles returned not, but we are now waiting to see the good effects of those troubles upon the Souls of all concern'd, And now I suppose that some of our Learned _wit[10]lings_ of the _Coffee-House_, for fear lest these proofs of an