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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
tions in the prifon, at midnight, the houfe was fufpended in the
air by four angels, and the Lord Jefus appeared to him in a glory
of light, and lifting him from the earth to which he had fallen,
took him by the hand, waffled him with rofe-water, wiped his
face, kiffed him, and faid to him (dixit michi), “Be not
afraid Jofeph, I am Jefus.” He then fhowed Jofeph the
place where he had buried him, and the linen in which he had
wrapped him, and the napkin in which he had folded his
head, as a proof that he was the Lord ; and then conducted
him home to his houfe in Arimathea, bidding him not to go
out for forty days, and so difappeared.
This account feems to have charmed the Jews ; and as for
Jofeph, he betook himfelf to the evangelift Philip, and was
baptifed with his fon Jofeph. Afterwards he was delegated by
St. John, whilft he was labouring among the Ephefians, to
become the Para-nymph or devotee of the bleffed and perpetual
Virgin Mary, and of her glorious virgin affumption. And he
joined St. Philip and other difciples who had feen and known
the Lord Jefus and his mother Mary, and they preached
through various regions, converting and baptizing many people,
till, in the fifteenth year after the affumption of the bleffed
Virgin, he came with his fon Jofeph, whom the Lord Jefus
had confecrated as biftiop in the city of Shiraz, to the apoftle
Philip in Gaul. Philip, defirous to preach the gofpel, fent
twelve of his difciples, including his beloved friend Jofeph and
his fon Jofeph, into Britain, Jofeph being put at their head,
Five hundred men and women fet forth with Jofeph under vows
of chaftity, which however they broke, and only a hundred
and fifty were allowed to accompany the faint. Thefe by the
command of the Lord fet fail on the night of the Lord’s afcen-
fion, on Jofeph’s fhirt, which he fpread for them, and arrived
in Britain the next morning. But the finners having repented,
GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
tions in the prifon, at midnight, the houfe was fufpended in the
air by four angels, and the Lord Jefus appeared to him in a glory
of light, and lifting him from the earth to which he had fallen,
took him by the hand, waffled him with rofe-water, wiped his
face, kiffed him, and faid to him (dixit michi), “Be not
afraid Jofeph, I am Jefus.” He then fhowed Jofeph the
place where he had buried him, and the linen in which he had
wrapped him, and the napkin in which he had folded his
head, as a proof that he was the Lord ; and then conducted
him home to his houfe in Arimathea, bidding him not to go
out for forty days, and so difappeared.
This account feems to have charmed the Jews ; and as for
Jofeph, he betook himfelf to the evangelift Philip, and was
baptifed with his fon Jofeph. Afterwards he was delegated by
St. John, whilft he was labouring among the Ephefians, to
become the Para-nymph or devotee of the bleffed and perpetual
Virgin Mary, and of her glorious virgin affumption. And he
joined St. Philip and other difciples who had feen and known
the Lord Jefus and his mother Mary, and they preached
through various regions, converting and baptizing many people,
till, in the fifteenth year after the affumption of the bleffed
Virgin, he came with his fon Jofeph, whom the Lord Jefus
had confecrated as biftiop in the city of Shiraz, to the apoftle
Philip in Gaul. Philip, defirous to preach the gofpel, fent
twelve of his difciples, including his beloved friend Jofeph and
his fon Jofeph, into Britain, Jofeph being put at their head,
Five hundred men and women fet forth with Jofeph under vows
of chaftity, which however they broke, and only a hundred
and fifty were allowed to accompany the faint. Thefe by the
command of the Lord fet fail on the night of the Lord’s afcen-
fion, on Jofeph’s fhirt, which he fpread for them, and arrived
in Britain the next morning. But the finners having repented,