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A97162 The prophecy of Gnatus a Brittish prophet: introduced by a preface of Robert Ware, Esq; and set forth with a few notes by the introductor. Gnatus.; Ware, Robert, d. 1696. 1681 (1681) Wing W850A; ESTC R186263 2,615 9

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THE PROPHECY OF GNATUS A BRITTISH PROPHET Introduced by a PREFACE OF ROBERT WARE Esq AND Set forth with a few NOTES By the INTRODUCTOR DVBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray at Colledge-Green for Samuel Helsham Bookseller at the Colledge-Arms in Castle-street 1681. THE PREFACE AS Almighty God hath dignified man with the similitude of his own Image so hath he been pleased of special priviledge to raise some of mankind by extraordinary elevation of spirit above the rest not only in Natural and Artificial Endowments of Understanding and Perception but also hath many times infused into them above the sagacity of ordinary gifts a faculty of foreseeing and declaring unto others fatal events unperceived by any but themselves who have therefore been called Prophets and such a one Gnatus the Author of this Prediction seems to have been who being a Christian cannot be presumed to have founded his Predictions in Drycraft Deopo●craft or any other ealdre healsung or ancient Heathenish Rites or Ceremonies then used nor with regard to Constellations or Dominion of Planets or Mid heofonlicum wondrum i. e. Prodigies of Heaven But as Beda terms it mid Godcunde or Godcundre onbry ardnysse that is to say by Divine instinct Nor did he by Iergon or the jugling artifice of ambiguous expressions cast a mist about his words or inwrap them in darkness of sense but in clear terms sets forth his meaning in the following Prophecy which being of late casually found and drawn out of the Archives of Sir James Ware 's rich and careful preserved Antiquities now breaks forth like a Star newly created in the Firmament of Heaven which draws all the World to look upon it with admiration and moreover affords things new and old that is to say an Historical Instruction of what is past as well as Predictions of very fatal events hereafter to be accomplish'd depending on the behaviour of Nobles and people practising and maintaining the true Religion against Idolatry and subduing the lusts and appetites of the flesh R. W. A Brittish Prophecy in the Sixth Century after Christ Taken out of an Old Register Book belonging to Rochester and translated out of the Saxon Character into English by John Gravener some time Chaplain to the said Bishop being named Edmond Gest Anno 1564. IN the days of Ethelbert King of Kent Augustin Chief Patron of Carlem that Palace being bestowed on him by the King he bearing his Banner in Procession at his first Entrance into this Isle of Brittain one Gnatus the then Brittish Prophet met him to whom he thus spake You nor your Master have not observed the Masters Precepts which is this Let him that is the meanest of you be as Master and the Master as the meanest Which Precept had he that sent you but observed he nor ye had not fallen For Hierusalem hath fallen out with Antioch and she with her So likewise hath Constantinople with Rome and she with her from whence thou now comest Where is then the Peace of Christ with which thou must qualify the people of this Isle seeing ye have rented your Saviours seamless Garment For the light hath shined with in this Isle for many days past Be thou therefore cautious neither to add nor diminish what hath been already Planted by thy Predecessors within the same least you and yours become as odious as those that sent you for Ambition Pride and Covetousness hath already brought in Antichrist sprinkled amongst them which as yet is insufficient For another Antichrist is arising to contend with Antichrist who by little and little and in space of days shall make them Vassals and subject to their Power and so inherit what they now possess But if you and yours follow their Paths more then Christs you and your Successors shall be hated as they by the people of this Isle then in the height of yours and their Pomp through Vain Glory Covetousness and Idolatry ye and they shall be mowed as the Grass and wither within the same Then Brittain shall bring forth a Babe from whose lips shall flow sweetness which Antichrist within this Isle shall for five days make it bitter until a Judith shall rise and refresh their senses who hath heard and will not hear seen and will not see who hath tasted and yet doth not taste who have smelt and yet were not sensible of its fragrancy who have held and yet let it go Thus Truth being planted and sprung up afresh shall never wither within this Isle unless her Nobles and her People wilfully follow strange Gods through the lusts and appetites of the flesh and then become the Children of Wrath. To prove that there was a Wise Man with whom the Brittish Clergy Conversed and is supposed to be the said Gnatus 1. THat Ethelbert was Contemporary with Augustin appears by the Ecclesiastical History of Venerable Beda and that he had communion in a Synod with Augustin in the time of Dynoth Abbot of Bangor There also it appeareth what was done in this Synod Beda Lib. 2. Cap. 2. 2. Carlem was at that time the chief City of Kent and as the Author of the Brittish History affirmeth was Built by Rudhurdibras or as some Copies have it Lud Rudibras almost nine hundred years before the Incarnation of Christ and the same is called by Henry of Huntingdon Cacr Kent in his recital of ancient Brittish Cities 3. Banner this Banner was the Cross and Image of Christ which Beda calls Lib. 1. Cap. 25. Cristes Gade Tacen silfrene and Cristes mael mid him 4. Gnatus so far as the probability of conjecture may administer credit this Gnatus was the holy and prudent Anchorite with whom as Beda in his Ecclesiastical History saith seven Brittissh Bishops and many most Learned men came to advise when they were to consult with Augustin For these are the words of Beda that they came aerst to sumum Ancram se was mid him halig and wis i. e. they came to a certain Anchorite whom they reputed holy and wise Hence it may be observed that the Brittish Church was a well Constituted Church at and before the time of Augustine's first coming which could on the sudden out of the Kingdom of Kent assemble seven Bishops and so many most Learned Men. FINIS a The Prophet checketh Austin at his first entrance into Brittain b He gives Rome a caution not to bring in Popish Ceremonies into the Liturgy c He shews what hath brought in Antichrist d Antichrist against Antichrist is supposed the Mahumetan Sect against the Roman Sect. e King H. 8th his dissolving of the Monasteries Priories Abbies c. f K. E. 6ths Reformation g Romes tyranny during Qu. Maries days h Qu. Elizabeth i A warning to the Protestant Church to keep Unity against Rome and her devices The Authors to prove that the Clergy in those days did not own Rome nor her Tenents viz. Beda Stow Baker Fullar and Lambard For Carlem to be the Kings chief Seat See Lambard's Perambulation of Kent