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and rehearſed all the Wonders which God hath poured out here and there through the World. Every one may hold it out for certain, that ſuch perſons as were ſent, and joyned together by God, and the Heavens, and choſen out of the wiſeſt of men, as have lived in many Ages, did live together above all others in higheſt Unity, greateſt Secrecy, and moſt kindneſs one towards another. After ſuch a moſt laudable ſort they did ſpend their lives; and although they were free from all diſeaſes and pain, yet notwithſtanding they could not live and paſs their time appointed of God. The firſt of this Fraternity which dyed, and that in England, was J. O., as Brother C. long before had foretold him; he was very expert, and well learned in Cabala, as his Book called H. witneſſeth: In England he is much ſpoken of, and chiefly becauſe he cured a young Earl of Norfolk of the Leproſie. They had concluded, that as much as poſſibly could be their burial place ſhould be kept ſecret, as at this day it is not known unto us what is become of ſome of them, yet every

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