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A93935	An iron rod put into the Lord Protectors hand, to break all antichristian powers in pieces. Or, A discourse, which tends to a spirituall war with all sects and self-opinions, which are the Churches enemies: wil bring Englands everlasting happiness, and joyn all other lands into the body of Christs Church, to serve God with with [sic] one consent, Zeph. 3.9. All which was discovered to John Sanders of Harburn, neer Brimingham [sic]: by true apparitions, revelations, and many several visions, as the second book sheweth.	Sanders, John, of Harburn.	1655 (1655)	Wing S575; Thomason E842_23; ESTC R203488	52,643	75

Angels with the names written on them of the twelve Tribes of Israel and the Lamb and his twelve Apostles which are the chiefe Founders and Builders of this glorious situated government Wee must understand that as the judgments of God first began at his own house in this Land so God wil have his house restored and built up again to be as it were a pattern for the King and Lord Protector to frame and set up their State-government by For a● there is to be appointed by God twelve Apostolical Bishops under a Head spiritual Father to be the Leaders of the Church so far as their power can wel be able to rule so likewise it is convenient to have 12. temporal Judges in chief under one Father the King so far as their power is wel able to extend in every division which being thus done according to order righteousnesse and true holinesse every Kingdome wil then become the Kingdome of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 16 17. So then the King being as Abraham or Moses in chief under God the Father Exod. 4.16 he must be as Moses was to Aaron as it were a God to the High Priest or Arch-Bishop The High Priest or Arch-Bishop representing Isaac and Rebecca by a Melchisedech-order of Christ must be as it were a chiefe Prophet to the King as Aaron was to Moses And the twelve chief temporal Judges and the twelve Head spiritual Bishops which make the number of 24. Elders must cast themselves down with all their government both for Church and State to give all praises to God the Father and his Son Christ Jesus for judgment given to the great Whore and the other 70. discipled Elders wil doe their office as God wil appoint them to and carry them on by the power of the Holy Ghost And the High Priest shal then weare no more polluted garments but God wil cause him to have change of rayment and a fair Diadem or a Micre on his head as Aaron had And then the Church wil begin to flourish in a glorious manner This fifth and last elect 70. wil by Gods assistance beautifie the fifth Monarchy and God wil carry on this last 70. under the High Priest and the 12. Apostolical Bishops which are to be heads of the 12. spiritual Tribes of Israel Gods holy spirit guiding these and going along with them they wil build up the truth Church better and firmer then ever it was before advancing the true worship of God above all Zach. 3. And they wil give example for the Judges and State-officers to follow them in like manner for the spirit of Daniel wil be among them standing in the Lot the dark letters and the hidden mysteries which are to be revealed to man God by these wil unseal and God wil esteem of them as his dearest Jewels These wil be guided by the Holy Ghost to doe as Solomon exhorteth to purge the tin and the drosse from the go Iden and filver governments The two famous Universities and Schooles of learning shal be made pure fountains by these from whence the sincere milk of Gods word shal flow for the nourishment both of Church and State to feed the flock and people of God as the breasts of Sarah and Rebecca did nourish Isaac and Iacob Then shal all houses of hospitality and religious store houses be setled established according as is intended to their right end again the store houses to be rightly erected without either Idolatry or Superstition for an account of the Tithes and other things to be brought in thither that their may be provision for Gods house for all necessary uses that belong thereunto according to the word of God that being their guide and all parish Churches and Places that are or have been appointed for Gods worship as neede requireth to be desently restored to their Priestine adornments to make them the beauty of holinesse as Gods word requireth without superstition or idolatry as Paul saith Let all things be done decently and in order and the Ministery for every degree rightly to be restored and they to have their charge and orders from the Apostolical Bishop and Discipled Elders of their several limitted Diocesses in all degrees as belong to the Ministerial office to be as careful of their chargeover every Parish according to Vrim and Thummim soundnesse of Doctrine and integrity of life and to be as careful over all sorts of people that belong to their congregated charge in all needful degrees as great rich mens Shepherds must be over their folded or pastured Sheep which were onely kept and appointed for that end if any of their flock be lost by the Shepherds negligence as earthly Masters wil look for the price of the sheep at their hand as is hired and kept for that end Zeph. 3.9 Saith the Lord surely I will turne to the people a pure Language that they may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one consent Lord hasten this time In this time of the kingdom of glorious grace there shall no man need to ask the wayes of God of Lay men but we shal all be taught of God and fed with the sincere milk of Gods word which floweth from the mouth of Gods messengers the true Ministers Every neighbour and private man to follow his temporal calling living in unity amity and true Christian brotherly love saying one to another where sin and envy hath heretofore abounded so now true love grace shal much more abound serving God with one consent saying one to another Come let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob to learn of his true Shepherds and Ministers We may wel conclude believe this to be the time that the whole earth wil be filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord as the waters covereth the Sea Yea much more must the Minister Shepherd or Watchman give an account both to God and them as God hath set over them of their charge for if any be lost for want of their care their blood God wil require at their hands Ezek. 33. The same charge lieth upon me or any other that hath a message to declare from God to your Highnesse concerning the seeing of a sword or a judgement or an alteration of the times we must not fear to declare the mind of God for the displeasure of either King or Potentate if we doe whensoever it be they die in their sins or ignorance for want of having warning by the seer that God revealeth it to they shal die and their blood shal be required at his hand For by this which I am to declare to your Highnesse I am appointed of God to assure you and the whole Council of State that although other powers of the late several choices for Church and State have not sought Gods ways but their own yet those that God wil perfect his work by he wil have them to deny all to follow

of Christ when he began to put in practice his Fathers businesse when he chose his twelve Apostles Mark 3.17.21 and called some of them sons of Thunder his kindred thought he had been beside himself intending to lay hands on him if it were so judged of Christ by natural men let not his spiritual souldiers be ashamed to be called mad-men and so all natural men doe all Gods people But all that ever saw me let them be enemies or friends I praise God cannot but say I ever spake sensibly with sobriety and very wel in the Scriptures which made all that heard me admire to heare me speak and to read those things which I wrote having no natural learning to attain to it but the dictates of Gods holy spirit to press me on to it And when all this misery and much more had befel me I willingly submitted my selfe under this great burden of afflictions to Gods protection and to be ruled by my Father counsel although I knew it were against me But when I came out of that misery I went to a Justice of the Peace againe for a warrant to bring some of the chiefe actors of my misery before a Justice in Worcestershire on Midsomer day was seven yeares past and when I had laid open the wrongs to him it much grieved him and all that heard of it The Justice promised me that I should have justice for he had heard that the whole countrey spake wel of me and cryed out against them for wronging of me So I went that day after to see my unnatural Wife to her Fathers house and finding none at home but she with her little child I was glad She pretended a great deale of love to me when she saw me by outward signes of weeping and good words as she sate by my little child it lying in a Cradle My Wife desired me not to think of any difference that had been past but to forget is and to goe as soone as possibly I could to house-keeping again for she told me that they began to lead her a very disquiet life Quoth I to her againe I hope all wil make for the best to cause your love to cleave to me againe for said I you ought to forsake all your friends to live with your loving husband you know Gods word commands you so to doe I desired her never to so much as think any more of any thing that had been past but now to turn over a new leafe as though we had been newly married and so she made great promises to me that she would I further asked her how it was possible we should keep house so suddenly againe seeing they had sold my horses and broke me of my Trade She told me her Father would restore to me such things again for he loved me wel she said and was sorry for me I took the little infant out of the cradle and sate me down on a stoole at the end of the cradle and layed my staffe at my feet for I was fearful of more mischiefe if any of the rest were at home which made me doe so My Wives Mother and her daughter Katherine being neer the house and seeing me when I came fromward the Justices they laid a plot thinking that I had been for a warrant for them if they could perswade my wife to take their part they would fall upon me and so would take their oath all three when they came before the Justice that I offered them wrong and so make their owne matter good and throw me in prison again As soon as they came into the house they called my Wife from me and told her privately if she did not help to assist them against me they should be utterly undone and discredited So she presently yielded to her Mothers and middlemost Sisters counsel and came presently from them I had the child on my knees and was playing with it She took up my staffe as lay at my feet and made as though she would have carried out of the hall into the parlour she turned back againe suddenly with a great blow and struck me on the head and studied me and caught me by the throat and pluckt me by the haire of the head and beat my head against the wall her Sister being a great lusty wench came running upon me too and beat me about the head with my own staffe and thus I lay with the child on my knees leaning with my back against the wall my breath being almost gone yet I praise God I lay quietly til the Lords providence had caused me to passe the child safe off my knees into the cradle without harme I sitting as the end of the cradle I looked up and saw my Mother in Law comming in upon me too I by the power of God who preserved me and in abled me gave my wife a push on the brest as hard as J. could and flung her backward J. leapt up and pluckt the staffe out of her Sisters hand and gave her but one I bow which lighted on her arm and bruised it forely that the ran away crying and her Mother My wife as soon as she could recover her selfe to get up ran and took up an axe and came having it up above her shoulders with the edge towards me ready to cleave my braines in twain J strook up my hand quick under the head of the axe by the handle and put it by my head all this being done and J being wounded My Wife with that one blow J gave her on one of her breasts never gave suck more of that breast which made me very sorny Her Sisters arme was so bruised that it was lame above two years after The Angel of God that preserved me caused them to be so wounded for J dare sweare J struck but onely those two blows for J had so much patience from God that time that J was not angry Her Sister and Mother ran both out of the house J stayed my wife by the arm and told her if she had not betrayed me with her Judas-kissing and dissembling weeping J had not so much cared J never struck woman before that time nor since neither would I have done it then but in defence of my life A while after ah Briget said J when thou hast done all against me as can be done thou wilt be sorry for it and sorely repent it For J fully believe said J that it is not thee but the Devils temptation and thy Mothers bad counsel for lack of serving God but if thou wilt swear said J that thou wilt not come neer them for a great while and goe along with me from them J wil freely forgive thee and never speak of it to any man I spake thus but not intending to doe it suddenly She replyed againe saying that she would never live with me more cursing me in the name of God with many bitter curses Then I spake mildly again to her saying J pray you fetch some

seventy interpreters of the Scriptures were guided by the holy Ghost Then I intreat you for the Lords sake who hath sent me as a Herald to you to cause you to chuse such a number as you see Law and Gospel rule holdeth out a just proofe for which being chosen and elected as by the power of Gods holy word and spirit guiding me to direct you as hereafter followeth To shew your Highnesse and all the world by the power of God which he is able to perfect and make good in my weaknesse For as we read Mal. 4. that Elias will come before the latter day to turne the hearts of Fathers and Children one toward another and to end controversies in Families Nations and Kingdoms lest he should smite the whole earth with cursing that as where hatred warre devision and heresies have most and last abounded there grace love peace and concord may first begin to abound here for a true exampled pattern for all other Nations to follow us for Christ saith the first shall be last and the last shal be first There is no fearful or doubtful question to be objected against this earth and way which here is laid down the ground from antiquity of other ages how God hath sent the holy Ghost into such an equal rising number heretofore to carry on his work by but that he will do the like now if we would deny our own corrupt ways and embrace his waies which are all grace vertue and humility for God is Alpha and Omega at the beginning and ending of his workes all one and the same and his wayes of mercy are past finding out The Apostles say that these days would not come unlesse there were first a departure of the Faith by many falling into grosse erronious heresies blasphemies and apostasies there were never more then now therefore we may well assure our selves by natural reason that this is the very last age of the world and should be the best but nature is more abused now then ever it was in our forefathers days so that this time shewed forth it selfe to be the worst and the very dregs of all other ages that ever have been For behold both natural pride and spiritual pride abound in every high degree natural drunkennesse and spiritual not onely by excesse of drinking which is a very great reigning sin in this land but also Sects and selfe opinions which makes many thousands stagger without drinking of either wine or strong drink so that they are drunken and bereaved of all true spiritual senses and many others are blind by ignorance their knowledge being so weak and shallow in points of Religion that they know not their right hand from their left and although they have been brought up as it were in the Schooles of Moses and the Prophets in Abrahams bosome by going to Church hearing Sermons and reading or hearing the Scriptures yet they are prophane and covetous both people and Priests like one another so that it grieveth the holy Spirit of our God to see his people destroyed for want of knowledge In the late Bishops time in some places we were guided by a sort of Shepherds Of the late Bishops time which although they were knowing enough for learning and charitable enough to the poor in temporals yet they were prophane by starving their flocks But now we are troubled in most places with a covetous sort of Teachers I had like to said in all places being ignorant themselves they do not onely starve their flocks for want of saving and sound knowledge but also for lucre sake they drive and carry them into by and separate paths of errors and heresies so being like people like Priests God hath punished our sins together and yet our putrified sins being not healed are like to break out into another red sea of blood if God prevent not Now the Church being thus brought into the wildernesse weeping in her widows-like mournful Condition as one that hath lost her husband Luke 10. Rev. 9. and the Elders being all cast out of the City so that she hath no guide for her children which are left alone among fiery serpent-like Teachers and Scorpions and beastly poysoned opinions and the Ark and Temple of God is razed and taken by the uncircumcised of heart and we are a murmuring rebellious people worse then the Israelites were for our God hath brought us thorow a red sea of civil Wars to an entrance of a spiritual Canaans peace And if our rebellion against God doe not prolong our misery I fully believe we are neer the very entrance of a glorious time for the Church to break forth into her brightnesse and to shine in a more glorious manner then ever she did since Adams fal For the time is near at hand when all oppressors and dissembling hypocrites which do not speedily leave their evil ways shal be rooted out of power And those that have served God following the good old way shal shine as the stars do in the firmament both in Church and State and to enjoy a true religious … tled peace according to righteousnesse and true holinesse so that the civil Magistrate may be a wal to the Church and Ministery Four Monarchs being broken down there wil be another set up even a Kingly power under the Scepter of Jesus Christ Believe not those Dreamers Mockers Makers of Sects whose study is all to write or speak great swelling words against dignities and the powers which are ordained of God nay even against the Lords day or Christian Sabbath and the sacred ordinances of Gods Law and Christs command even the ten Commands which God writ with his own finger in stone never to be washed out or abolished having a double memento for the keeping of the Sabbath and Lords day as wel to the Christian Gentiles as the Jews for take away the Lords day even the day which is set apart onely for his worship if the candlestick be removed away from us the light of Gods true worship wil immediately follow Luke 10. But as Christ saith he saw Satan fal as lightning from heaven and transforming himselfe into a glorious Angel of light to carry on many with their new lights and false visions and new fangled doctrine to deceive if it were possible the very Elect but that is an impossible thing More I would have spoken of the Christian Sabbath and of these strange opinions to shew every poor soule the subtile wiles of Satan and the means at large how to escape him in this time of spiritual blindnesse and proud knowledge which darkens mens mindes and divides their judgements by grosse thick darknesse which if we have not lost our spiritual feeling we might feele it at none time under the Gospels glorious light which makes many other doat away their pretious time First a sign of the Stars ALL which wickednesse and Apostasies are but signs of a glorious time at hand nay even at our very doores For as

united minde with one accord to carry on the great weighty affaires both for Church and State to begin the work in a perfect way and so goe on to more perfection Your Highness cannot chuse but see what great things the Lord hath done for you by preserving your person in many and sundry great Battels of war and since many several dangerous plots which have been lately found out which for brevities sake I must omit to name all which plots and dangers shew you God is angry with you to see his house lie waste still and no one is setting about the work of God You may well assure your selfe that God is sorely displeased that many are planting and setling themselves in great Estates and making themselves great by this slaughterous wars and so cast Gods work behind their backs Now his House and Worship hath been pluckt down and brought to ruine by several Sects and evil members which have some of them been of the Army and the rest the Army have favoured I meane all Hereticks seditious and blasphemous persons in this fiery time of trial or consuming of the true worship and zeal of Gods good old wayes of worship which did shine in a flourishing condition And now you see God hath preserved your Highnesse as he spake by the Prophet Zechariah 3.2 concerning Joshua the High Priest The Lord will rebuke Satan and chuse Ierusalem to reprove him But saith the Lord Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire And thus you see the Lord many times brings his beloved children very neare the very gates of Hell or in great danger of falling And now you may see God hath pluckt your Highness from among those brands and brought you to the Kings Throne to be chiefe Ruler over all as Abrahams eldest servant was The first thing you ought to have done that would have been most pleasing to God and best and surest for your selfe was to have found out the true worship of God and to have been as faithful in chusing a spiritual Head for the Church the woman as St. Iohn saw to be cloathed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet having a crown of 12. Stars on her head Revel 12.1 being meant Christ or one in his stead twelve Apostolical governours called a crown of twelve Stars that is Bishops of his Church being cloathed with the Son of Gods bright garment of pure government Having the Moon under her feet that is all changeable governments which change like the Moon Take one imitation of Abrahams servant who refused the eating of bread to feed his hungry appetite after his long journey till he had shewed his faithfulness and knew Rebeccha and her friends mind Gen. 24. So take heed of feeding your selves with worldly dignitie till you have found out a Head and an espoused company to make a body for Christs Church Take your example from Moses who after he was Gods chiefe servant although he was brought up in Pharaohs Court by Pharaohs daughter when he came to yeares of understanding he refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter O therefore take heed of those Courtly offers after you understand the wayes of God as either to defraud or detaine any man from his Right or keep the Church and people of God either in bondage or a wildernesse condition O therefore for the Lords sake delay no more time by building your own houses but set about the house of the Lord which is called a house of prayer for all people For the neglect of that God shewed you a sign of his anger when you were in that great danger of being kild in Hide Park on S. Michaels day if you can beleive the word of God to be true That God commanded Moses to put off his natural shooes when God called him from being a natural shepherd to be the chiefe Leader of his people Exod. 3.5 and likewise the same he commanded to Joshua Josh 5. The shooes signifie the natural affection of a mans heart and minde when he is called to the holy work of the Lord. We read that for a very small offence the Lord met Moses and would have killed him in the way Exod. 4.24 And as the Angel of the Lord stood with his sword drawn before Ioshua to cause him to unloose the natural shooes from his feet if the Lord hide it not from you and so leave you off to hardnesse of heart and spiritual blindness you may well see that the Lord is not pleased by the many dangers you have been near All those plots and dangers should be as warning pieces to set you forward to goe about the work of the Lord or as goads to stir you up to it I intreat the Lord and oftentimes doe pray that God will be pleased to open the spiritual eyes of your soul and clear up your understanding that you may goe about the great work of the Lord with all expedition And you may well assure your selfe that if the burden was too heavy for Moses who had his counsel at Gods own mouth who had likewise Aaron the High Priest and other Priests to assist him yet it made him to cry out to be eased of the Lord or slain Therefore let the example of the Jewish and Christian Churches lead you as a pattern or line Chuse first a High Priest then 12. and gather 70. The manner of the High Priests receiving the number of 12. for to be Apostolical Bishops by the holy order of laying on of Hands and then 70. proved from Jacob Moses and the Apostles ●octrine YOur Highnesse having according to Gods command and Scripture rule to be your guide chosen a High Priest for the head of Christs Church as Aaron and Peter were and then by the High Priests advice ●o ordaine twelve Apostolical Bishops as several heads under him for to be over the twelve spiritual Tribes of Israel or Christs Church the High Priest should not receive them to be his spiritual Sons without the laying on of hands this holy order and confirmation of laying on of hands I shal prove to you by example from Jacob Gen. 48.14 who when he was about to die and to receive Manasse● and Ephraim into the number of his twelve Sons to make them thirteen Head Fathers of the twelve natural Tribes of Israel Manasseh and Ephraim being called the two halfe Tribes at Jacobs receiving of them at the hands of their Father Ioseph to make them as his sons to bear their part of his name for the time to come throughout all generations he did not do it without laying on of hands and receiving them without that holy order to confirm them by his blessing Ioseph at his bringing them to old Iacob his Father whose eyes were dim his ful intention was that old Israel should have laid his right hand on the eldest and his left on the youngest but he would not do so although his natural eyes were dim yet God gave him

to have reigned in a living condition by it and knew they could notwithout it yet his death and the Bishops wil prove to be the death of al Sects and Herefies and the chiefest meanes under God to convert the Jewes Pagans and Turks to Christs truth The Lord guide me with this holy Spirit I Shal assure you in truth eleven year agoe I being an Apprentice to an Iron-Monger it happened by the powerful providence of God as I was at a Fare on the longest day of the year called Saint Barnabies day as I was helping my Master to keep the Fare at Newport-pannel in Buckinghamshire I being in perfect health and busily exercised about my Masters imploiments with him at the stall About 12. of the clock as I was weighing out of ware and many people at the stal I was struck of a suddain with amazement the power of God caused me to look before me and there was standing before me the shape of a Woman cloathed in blew like an old fashioned cloak and safeguard The Woman cloathed in blew raiment signified the Protestant Church Aaron the High Priest his colours were blew for the Ephod Exod. 28.28 31 37. the liknesse of her face was black as an Oven Her blacknesse of face signified that she began then to be overwhelmed with darknesse lamentations mists of Heresies as Jude calls them Clouds without water she strook her hands over her face Her striking of her hands over her face in a mournful condition signified the lamentable condition which she then was fallen into when the High Priest and the Apostolical and Discipled Elders were cast out of the City and there was no true government then either in Church or State when Kingly power was spurned against and so fearfully despised weakned so that the Judges and civil Magistrates could not be a wal to the true Orthodox Ministry then many old heresies which had been long ago buried began to be new digd up new fangled opinions began to be found out by Satans malicious temptations I took as little notice of it as I could but was following my Masters occasion of trading being a waighing of nailes I was struck fick at heart of a suddain and was forced to look on the strong appeparission which was like a Woman and looked stedfastly on her who strook her hands again over her face in a wailing condition as a … man that had lost her h … and or children or some great friend and so she vanished away I was very heart and stomach sick of a suddain being forced to leave the stal I told my Master I was not wel I went to his Inne and being very sick I vomitted blood after a little time being something better I went to my Master againe and staid by him all day but not without much paine this was on the Satterday and was I sick and heavy at heart and all parts of my body many days after but I praise God I slept very wel every night but could not tel what ailed me my stomach was gone I could not eat any thing at all nor drink any thing but what was soure like vinegar I told my Master at night of the strange apparission and vision and of my sicknesse but he believed me not so we went that night to Eubourne in Bedfordshire on Monday I was not able to goe on foot but rod on my Masters hackney horse most of the way to Hampsteed in Hartfordshire On Teusday we went to Watford fifteen miles off London but very sick and weak I was every day yet slept wel every night On Monday we returned homeward I riding with much pain on horseback I besought the Lord with a fervent mind to be merciful to me he heard my prayers and as we were riding about a mile and an halfe off Redburne the Lord made my heart to think and my tongue to speak and tel my Master that if he would goe by Redburn it being neer a mile out of his way I might ride home in a Waggon he asked me how I could tel or with whom I told him with my Father for I told him my Father had two Waggons then in Redburn it being at mid time of the day and how that my Father was there and one Brother and his man I had no natural reason to say so for I could not tel they were in those Countries but onely the Lord had revealed it to me who reveales his secrets to them that fear him Psal 25. 34 his holy Angels pitch●s their tents about them My Master was unwilling to go that way but with much intreating did and we found them in Redburn according as the Lord had caused me to speak My Master overwent me that day and left me to ride in my Fathers Waggon On Thursday night we came to Tosseter fifty miles from London Coventrie rode my Fathers Inne was at the Sarasens head but my Master appointed if I was not able to ride home I should be carried to his Inne which was the fign of the Peele As soon as I came thither I defired to goe to bed presently with in an hour after my Fathers Brother and many more came to see me and asked me how I did I told them I praised God I was better then I was before and many such words I told them of the strange Vision in the Fair at Newport-pannel but they beleeved me not and the manner of it oftentimes and how the Lords Revelation to me made me know where to meet them which was against natures reason My brother offered me to watch with me all night no said I brother goe to your bed and take your rest for I praise God I am better then I have beene ever since I saw the Vision So they left me There was no Guests in the house that night and I did lodge in an upper roome a good distance from the people in the house and I had been hot and cold on a sudden my cloaths being light and thin on my bed and I was dangerous sick neer unto death of a sudden not thinking I could possibly live while morning it being the dead time of the night I could get none to come to me by knocking or calling The Lord put it into my mind of a sudden that I should live to see an end of these troublesome times and how God had ordained me to be an instrument to the bringing it to passe Lord said I to my selfe how can can this be seeing I am thus weak not like to live til morning My heart began to sink so that I could scarce speak Within a little space the Lord strengthened me wonderfully and put it into my heart to hang my cloaths about me and goe out of my bed to other beds in the next chamber and fetch cloaths I being not able to stand crept on my hands and knees and fetcht the cloaths of two other beds and with the help of Gods holy Angel laid them on my