Letter
I now lay before you a very Entertaining Story, a Story which relates yet
more Wonders of the Invisible World,[186] a Story which tells the Remarkable
Afflictions and Deliverance of one that had been Prodigiously handled by the Evil
Angels. I was my self a daily Eye Witness to a large part of these Occurrences,
and there may be produced Scores of Substantial Witnesses to the most of them;
yea, I know not of any one Passage of the Story, but what may be sufficiently
Attested. I do not Write it with a design of throwing it presently into the Press,
but only to preserve the Memory of such Memorable things, the forgetting
whereof would neither be pleasing to God, nor useful to Men; as also to give
you, with some others of peculiar and obliging Friends, a sight of some
Curiosities, and I hope this Apologie will serve to Excuse me, if I mention, as
perhaps I may, when I come to a tenth Paragraph in my Writing,[187] some things
which I would have omitted in a farther Publication.
