ABSTRACT

After a little time it was said, 'The Lamb's wife is also come', at which I beheld a beautiful young virgin, slender, modest and grave, in plain garments, becoming and graceful, and her image was fully answering his as a brother or sister. After I had beheld this and joyed in it as far as I durst, I spake to Thomas Zachary (whom I then knew a seeker after the Lord, though tossed as myself in the many ways, yet pressing after life) 'Seeing Christ is indeed come, and few know it, and that those that in that confusion mourned and rejoiced knew it not, but Christ is hid from them, let us take the King's house at Greenwich,71 and let us dwell with Christ, and enjoy him from those that look for him, in that they cannot find him ... .'