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of future things, was of fuch great fan6lity, 

 that Brother Guy of Affifi, and Brother 

 Mark of Montino, and Brother Juniper, 

 and Brother Lucius faid of him that they 

 knew no man in the world more famihar 

 with God than this Brother James. Great 

 was my defire to fee him; forafmuch as I, 

 praying Brother John, the Companion of 

 the faid Brother Guy, that he would ex- 

 pound to me certain fpiritual matters, he 

 faid to me : " If you would be well informed 

 concerning the life of the Spirit, make 

 fhift to have fpeech with Brother James of 

 Maffa:" forafmuch as Brother Guy longed 

 to be informed of him, and no man was able 

 either to add or to take away from his 

 words, not one jot or tittle, and his words 

 are the words of the Holy Ghofl, and there 

 is no man on the earth whom I fo much 

 defire to fee. This Brother James, in the 

 beginning of the miniftry of Brother John 

 of Parma, praying was once rapt in God, 

 and remained three days in this ftate of 

 ecfbafy, deprived of all bodily fenfe, and 

 was fo lifelefs that the Brethren doubted 

 whether he were not dead ; and in this 

 trance God revealed to him the future of 

 our Order : for the which thine:, vvhen I 



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