Unsilent instruments and the devil's cushions: authority in seventeenth-century women's prophetic discourse

To speak the word of exhortation, and information, to the conforming of Saints in the truth, is to prophesie. … Another passage to this purpose is Revel. 19.10. For the testimony of Jesus Christ is the spirit ofprophesie. This passage gives a most clear answer to the question, What is it to prophesie? ¹