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di mtb wat er t though it/D?am v And in the Fore-end of it f which was 

 Uwards htm , grew a fmall green Branch of Tdm j J ad y>hm the 

 wife man had taken it with ail reference into his Boat 7 it opened of it 

 filf 9 and there t>as found in it a Book, W 4 Letter; Both written* 

 in fine Parchment , and "wrapped in Sindons of Lthnen m The Book con-\ 

 tamed all the Canonical Books of the Old andNtw Teftament,; 

 according as you ba)>e them; (For "we know well what the Churches 

 ! with you receive; ) Jnd the Apocalypfc it felf. And fame other] 

 \ Books of the New Teftament , which were not at that time writ-j 

 j ten. x were neverthelejje in the Book* J nd for the Letter, ittpasm] 

 I thefe words. 



I' Bartholomew, a Servant of the Highe^and 

 poflleoffESVS CH2(IST,was warned ban An- 

 gel that appeared tome, in a yifion of (j lory , that I 

 Jhould commit this Ark to the flouds of the Sea. There- 

 fore I do teftifie and declare g unto that ^People where 

 (fQD /hall ordain this Ark to come to JLand, that in 

 the fame day is come unto them Sabation andTeace, 

 and (food Will from the; Father, W from theJLO^T) 



liEms. 



There was alfo in both thefe Writings y as well the Book, as the 

 ; Letter , wrought a great Miracle, Conform to that of f/tfApoftles, 

 in the Original Gift o f Tongues. For there being at that time , 

 in this Land y Hebrews, Perlians,W Indians, be fides the Natives ] 

 every one read upon the Book, and Letter, as i ' they had been written 

 in his tfton Language, And thus was this Land fayed from Infide- 

 lity j ( as the Remain of the Old World was from Water ) by an Ark, 

 through the Jpoflolicai and Miracukus Evangelifme of S- Bar- 

 tholomew. And here he paufed , and a Meffenger came, 

 and called him forth from us. So this was all that palled in that 

 ^Conference. 



| The next Day , the fame Governor came again to us, im- 

 mediately after Dinner, and excufed himfelf , faying y That the 

 .Day before be leas called from us fome^hat abruptly , but Ww ht\ 

 ^ would make «f amends, and fpendtime with if we held his Cm- 

 pany and Conference agreeable . We anfwered • That we held it fo 

 agreeable and pleafing to us, a* "tie forgot both 'Dangers pafl , and 



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