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heard it, my dcfire to hear him and to 

 fpeak with him did but wax ever greater. 

 And when it pleafed God that I fliould 

 have occafion to talk with him, 1 befought 

 him thus : " If thofe things be true which I 

 have heard of thee, I prythee keep them 

 not hidden from me. I have heard that 

 when thou didft lie three days as one dead, 

 among other things which God revealed 

 unto thee was that which was to befall this 

 our Order ; and this was I told by Brother 

 Matthew, preacher in the Marches, to whom 

 thou didft reveal it in compliance with 

 thy vows of Obedience." Then Brother 

 James with great humility acknowledged 

 that the words of Brother Matthew were 

 true. His words, that is, thofe of Brother 

 Matthew, the preacher in the Marches, were 

 thefe : " I know. Brother, unto whom God 

 hath made known that which fhall befall 

 our Order, forafmuch as Brother James 

 of Maffa hath publiflied and told me, that 

 after many things which God revealed to 

 him concerning the future ftate of the 

 Church Militant, he faw in a vifion a beau- 

 teous and very great tree, whofe roots were 

 made of gold, the fruits which hung upon 

 its boughs were men, and they all were 



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