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A49257	The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305	41,319	88

easy to say Another of his prophecies is as follows In seventeen hundred ninety and five Whoever will be at that period alive Will see plenty revisit this fortunate land And Ireland emerg'd from her slavish command Ere the period arrives will a torrent of blood Discolour'd be forc'd from it's primitive flood The verdure of Spring will be shaded with red And the fruits of the earth oppress'd with the dead It should be seriously remarked that the year 1795 has been pointed out particularly by different Prophets as a year of greater destruction and human slaughter than any year previous even Mrs. Shipton prophecied a century or two back that E 's ruin would begin in 1792 and terminate in 1795. The wicked in all nations and ages ridicule prophecies never acknowledging the ordained will of an angry Providence yet they are always more fearful than such as believe and though it appears in holy writ that revolutions happen from the foundation of the world and will to the end of time yet the Almighty always and without exception gives some people the gift of foretelling such changes in human affairs and expressly declares he will not do any such things but he will first impart to his servants the Prophets And as often as he threatens his creatures with any dreadful change it is to convince them it proceeds from his wrath and indignation originating from their intolerable wickedness and changing his love into hatred yet always and at all times promises to withhold the scourge or persecution if the threatened nations of people will cry out for mercy and call in fervency upon his holy name to come to their a●●istance and avert his dreadful wrath and vengeance from them but they seldom or never do though he quotes examples to every succeeding generation in vain viz. Noah's flood the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with many others when the people laughed at predictions and timely advice as they do still In the whole course of human affairs holy writ proves his threats and promises are all conditional calculated to stimulate people to call always on him for mercy and to execute his easy commands particularly his doctrines in the new Testament be their accursed hearts are hardened and the shut the gates of their understanding again●● him and in the blind career of their lives have insensibly bid defiance to him and his laws that the text of scripture in the book of Esdras may be fulfilled to their eternal condemnation wherein the Lord God desires Esdras not mind who shall be damned but seek after them who shall be saved for Hell was created for the multitude and Heaven for the few Let all who read this book strive to be of that few and mind the rules mentioned therein and also in the new Testament and if they do not they will be outcasts in Hell and all their finery and ●rippery here will be their open and everlasting shame there If the bible was universally ●●ad and fulfilled to the utmost of human power the mighty God would not have so great cause against his creatures or to warn them to turn to him the merciful and loving Father by the voice of Prophets and other warnings than that blessed book Is he not constantly looking down from his holy mountain the variety of the glories and pleasures of which never yet entered the heart of mankind to conceive the least idea of on the wicked universe with grief and sorrow saying O my people my people how often would I have gathered ye together as a hen gathers her chickens but ye would not Hear now Readers you have a loving God a weeping God and a God who tells you in the bible his nature and his name is Love with out-stretched arms open to receive ●very one that will turn unto him but ye will not therefore if you do not when you die a●ter performing faithfully all the works of the Devil by greedily desiring and pursuing with your wicked hearts and inclinations the alluring ways of this world in which all your thoughts are enveloped expect the dreadful sentence from him who will then he says appear to ye as a roaring Lion and say I know ye not go ye accursed into everlasting torments prepared for the Devil and his servants Let none be alarmed at the revolution in France such revolutions must happen in all idolatrous nations they corroborate with the holy bible a nation shall be converted in a day that is emerging from idolatry and idolatrous persecution at destined periods in the fulness of the time of the Most High and so on previous to the coming of the great Judge idolatrous Monarchs must be all cut off But if mighty men should plan and scheme for centuries to reduce things to their own human weak and wicked wishes their labour is in vain they are mocked by God they cannot see into the great causes they are greedy for dominion and filthy lucre they are cruel and unjust and all their ways are an abomination before the face of the great One they are poor blind naked miserable foolish and wicked Give attention now ●ll who never go● the gift of repentance from above read the new Testament and the most imaginary innocent among ye will find yourselves fitted for Hell's torments rouse to immediate repentance call on the Most High for mercy cease from Hell-born wickedness such as gambling night parties revelling balls assembli●s drums hellish masquerades drunkenness glu●tony dress and pride which Christ says is of your father the Devil cease from superfluous dress be a Quaker entirely in dress and a very plain one for your soul's sake to obey Christ and fulfill the holy scriptures cry aloud to the Most High with the true baptismal tears of repentance which is the real water baptism of salvation previous to the operation of the Holy Ghost and externally described in the third chapter of St. John in the new Testament Beware of hypocrisy ostentation and falsehood banish these hydras from the inmost recesses of your hearts make room there for the Holy Ghost to dwell in for with them hydras he cannot dwell and without him do not trouble yourselves to look forward to salvation do not strive to please human creatures or you cannot please God talk no more of fashions or of the circle of your acquaintances such conversation is abominable to God boast no more of your acquaintances Lord such a one or Lady such a one they are earth and dirt titles are sacrilegeous and blasphemous which is always the consequence of accursed wealth for wealth is a curse from God because it never was and never will be applied as God commanded it therefore he declares it is harder for a wealthy person to enter the kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle when a person gets wealth he gets pride and contempt for all who do not possess the same curse wealth and in consequence of that wealth and

pride the Devil instigates him to renounce his name and take the ridiculous name of a river a town a hill or a province and tacks God's name and title to it Then he is exalted and God positively declares and says whoever exalts himself shall surely be abased that is cast into Hell and thus does the Devil sport with all wealthy people and proud people and dressy people Dress draws every curse from God down upon the soul the more dressy the more vicious clothing was first invented to cover sin and shame and ought therefore be as plain as possible besides God strictly commands it should be so Now hear the declaration of a fine shewy dressy person to God viz. I will dress powder curl and paint to spite you God because you desire me not I will flirt laugh please and be pleased praise and be praised read plays romances and all other devilish books because you say all those will corrupt me and that I must account for every idle word I speak I will not read the bible nor do therein because you desire me for every thing you command me I will not do and every thing you forbid me I will do God because my father and mother brought me up this way and they follow the same life themselves for we all prefer the damnation of Hell to you and your old book filled with stories of love terrors Heaven Hell and all such tedious nonsense to people of fashion going into Perdition The more wicked and abominable a person is before God the more glaringly they wish to adorn the filthy carcase iniquity invented new fashions it originated in France every married woman there was despised if she was not a w the bible was forbid to be read by order of Ant●christ and his Deputies least the people should perceive their own damnation and rebel against idolatry the contagion is in England Ireland c. the world is teeming with wickedness the Lord God is like a roaring lion filled with wrath fury and revenge he is thundering down his vengeance in a variety of ●hapes previous to the general judgment which is now the general dread of the people teeming with iniquity and filled with terrors without one single exception among the wicked whenever the Almighty intendsany great event he puts it more or less in the people's minds before the execution to induce them to holiness for there is no other way to prevent his wrath But instead they continue to act as if they were never to die and blinding each other with praise flattery hypocrisy and deceit Suppose Christ was this instant to come down and judge all people shewing Heaven's great expanse of innumerable pleasures on one side and Hell's yawning torments on the other how would the proud and dressy appear Would the not with their pride and fashionable dress in Hell where it originated Are they the pious holy people marked with the Holy Ghost to sa●vation that could run to meet Christ whose face is of flaming fire Or are they those pointed out in the bible who are marked by the Devil to devote themselves to the pleasures and passions of this Hell-grown world Let them answer for themselves 〈◊〉 if they cannot I can they are of the latter description they are an ab●mination before the L●rd and before his holy people on earth they have stipulated with the Devil their pre●ious souls for fashionable dress pride and as God says cannot escape the damnation of Hell Therefore Readers do not ye be of this accursed number but follow the advice given in this little pamphlet of very great value cast away instantly your fashionable dress pride ●rippery and all accursed worldly show and you will make the Devil fly away from you roaring with despair and God and the innumerable host of Heaven will shout for joy and the windows of Heaven will be opened unto you Give atrention now ye wealthy ye great wicked ones who are squandering thousands and tens of thousands yearly in superfluous excesses which are the works of the son of Perdition Squander your thousands on the purchase of millions of bibles new testaments hymn books and psalm books scatter them among the people like corn before the plow by which all the human race will learn to know the Lord and do his blessed will propagate the gospel of Christ in its original purity until all the people shall know that the gospel sound alone is sure salvation and not the abominable works of man's hands renounce idolatry sue for the property of the distressed when wronged by the unjust distrib●te justice without favour or affection and God will love you and keep you in safety Read the bible the ensuing long winter evenings ye and your families expound it to each other every night and if at leisure in the day time also Glorify God let your conversation turn on every verse on every chapter you read of the wonderful works of the Lord Iesus Christ and his Apostles then your conversation will be in Heaven and this is also the communion of Saints so little understood in this world Let that same Jesus never leave your thoughts this is what the Apostle means where he says pray without ceasing this incessant silent meditation on Jesus is certain salvation this is worshiping in spirit and in truth because God is in Christ your souls then feed on him and grow rich in grace and grace is the gradual operation of the Holy Ghost which brings you from glory to glory Let all men and women be exhorters to good by their profound knowledge of the bible which will abolish evil from the human race empty your purses to put all the indigent to industry who have the inclination but not the means and after doing all these things and ten thousand times more do not take the least merit to yourselves it is not ye that do it it is the Holy Ghost in ye therefore give all the merit to God and all the glory and then know he has only done ye the honor of choosing ye to be useful machines to do his business and if ye are conscious in your hearts it is so and that ye firmly believe that property which ye so distribute is his and not your own as all wealthy fools imagine then the wide expanse of Heaven is open for your enjoyment as soon as your fervency of love for him desire it with millions of millions of pleasures with him on his holy mountain do all those things if you can and if you can and do not read your dreadful sentence in the new testament Give attention again ye wealthy cast away all your ●rippery your variegated head-dr●sses and all other ornaments calculated to adorn your carcas●s for praise and admiration which is certain c●●demnation to your souls play no cards or other gambling never enter them hellish seminaries of corruption called play-houses do not suffer a play book of any kind romance or novel inside your houses

●epresentatives of divine virtue which armed ●ons against their fathers and made them be●●me ra●●ors to their oath and allegiance Alexander the 〈◊〉 is reco●ded as a wonder of brutal crimes-Clement the Seventh had the mortification to see 〈…〉 his cha●● and could work no miracle to prevent his being dr●ven out of Rome He also 〈◊〉 the Emperor 〈◊〉 cry loudly against the pow●r and u●urpation of the 〈◊〉 which awed him so ●uch that he lost England as he dared not give 〈◊〉 to Hen●y the Eighth to divor●e Catharine of A●●agon becau●e she was the Aunt of Charles whom he was afraid more to irritate Henry enraged against every thing which stood in opposition to his wishes bu●ned the Pope in ●ffigy in Lon●on and ordered every ore to change their ●eligion with as little remoise as he changed his wife thus an 〈◊〉 people are for e●er persecuted by despotic ●ools Paul the Third was famous for being the most luxurious and licen●ious man of his time he made his ba●●ards cardinals whe● boys At this period the ●lergy made a violent effort to re-establish their power in Englan● and Mary with that cru●l revengeful spirit which seems to have been the most powerful engine of the church by burning and ex●irpating all those who dared oppose her did all she could to bring England again under the yoke of pop●●y but such a co●●uct was not calculated to make pro●elytes of the minds of men enlightened by the mild i●fluence of truth and it soon pleased God to purge the ear●h of such a monster But it was 〈◊〉 to Paul the Fourth to see the mortal blow given to the power of the S●e of Rome in the glorious reign of Elizabeth whose want of ●oleration which stained her name with a Sister's death arose from a conviction that tolerating such opposite doct●ines in the chur●● must inevitably sooner or later involve the 〈◊〉 in civil disco●d Six●us the 〈◊〉 was 〈…〉 at England's having not only thrown off the 〈◊〉 of Rome but her sudden rise to grand ●r and 〈◊〉 that he promised Philip the Second to secure to him the 〈◊〉 of Britain prov●ded he would do h●m●ge to him but all his hol● 〈◊〉 and masses would not save the invin●●b●e armada In latter times the popes have 〈◊〉 a ver● 〈◊〉 conduct in com●arison to 〈◊〉 former Their intrigues are now chie●ly 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 money on the superstitious and in that debau●her● which so eminently distinguishes the clerg● in the Roman Catholic count●ies where the harrassed people revo●● at seeing the divine representatives of Christ such avaricious 〈◊〉 and poor miserable and di●contented they only wait an opportunity to throw off the yoke and worship God in purity and sincerity No p●i●ce is now so ignorant as to tremble at the thunders of the Vatican yet the pope c●●tinues to impoveri●h the neigh●ouring ki●gdoms b● selling every year his bulls nec●ss●ry for all ranks of the priesthood to their being in orders it would appear very wonderful that sovereig●s should continue to submit to what so evidentl● impoverishes their people did not that love of despotism which is imbi●ed with the name of king render them unwilling to destroy its chief source On a view of the many vicious characters who have filled the chair one shudders to think in this enlightened age that any part of mankind shou●d attribute to such sinners the virtues of Christ and lo●k on men polluted with every crime as ves●ed with a supernatural power At fi●st by degree● by treac●ery and us●rpation on the part of the 〈◊〉 of Rome by interested motives on the part of the Emperor and b● big●try in the people they a●●ved a● that wealth splendor and power wh●ch th●y make their 〈◊〉 followers falsely believe th●● have derived ●●om Heaven but now the mi●ds of men are ope●ing to the treacherous delusions which have so long duped them and reformation o● an absolu●● revolution will most likely soon be ●ffected in all 〈◊〉 governments An Answer to Doctor PRIESTLY And all other Deis●ical Unitarians who deny Christ's Divinity By a Christian Unitarian who believes in Christ's Divinity THIS is a subject of the greatest importance to mankind par●i●ularly as their eternal happiness depends on the knowledge of this great divine m●ster● which the pe●ple who imagine they are Christians concei●edly 〈◊〉 themselves they have a perfect knowledge of and some independent people will spurn with contempt at the impudence of any spiritual enlightened person who will dare intrude so trifling a subj●ct on their idle fashionable hours yet a great many who read this will acknowledge that not one in a million know any thing of the matter not know how to-call-on the Deity or what Deity to-call-on Mankind may be informed in the new testament that in the last days which is shortly before the general judgmen● fa●se Prophe●s shall appear and deny the Lord J●sus Christ who bought them with his blood and will almost deceive the very el●ct The word elect means such as are filled with the Holy Ghost In the book of Isaiah the Propher in the old testament God speaks frequently of his intention of essuming flesh and becoming man and even speaks to the humanity and the humanity to his divinity which confound the unconverted not knowing how to separate the divinity from the humanity The followi●g remarks and explanations will prove there 〈◊〉 but one God or one Being to be worshipped which is the invisible God in the visible Christ and the Holy Ghost in God This is well known to the elect only and is also called grace which word grace 〈◊〉 understood by the unconverted externally only not internally Whosoever worships Christ includes the God-head In Isaiah cha● 1 and ver 4 God calls himself the holy one of Israel verse 11 he never delighted in offerings Verse 13. incense an a●omination verse 18 though your sins be red as scarlet they shall be made white as snow verse 24 Lord of Hosts mighty one of Israel Chap. 7. verse 14 shews how the Virgin Mary was to conceive and bear a son whole name should be ●manuel which is God Chap 8. verse 13 14 the Lord of Hosts himself shall be your fear a●d dread he shall be for a sanctuary a holy place to resort to but to some people a stumbling none a rock of offence and a sna●e ●such as despise information to holiness and Christ. The same words are mentioned of Christ in the new testament Chap. 9 verse 6 shews the birth of Christ that his name shall be Wonderful Counsellor the migh●y God the everlasting Father the p●ince of peace There shall be no end to his government it shall hold for ever This chapter and verse is sufficient to prove Christ God Chap 11 and five first verses shew the birth of Christ that is in his human nature saying there shall appear a rod or branch of the root of J●sse J●ss●-was David's father and the 〈◊〉 of the Lord shall rest-upon him he shall be filled with

they are the keys that unlock the doors of Hell propagate industry the arts and sciences travels voyages geography the globes the maps c. among the poor squander God's money in all such employments but let holy writ be always uppermost in your thoughts and the subjects of your conversations when the others are not absolutely necessary become domesticks and ●ay no more ridiculous fashionable vis●ts do not continue to make Gods of your filthy carcases with made dishes Iuscious meats and ●rinks or other vicious extravagancies you must certainly give an account of every shilling you unnecessarily lay out on your persons and families and if contrary to the observations made here and in the new testament th●n the dreadful and intolerable sentence is 〈◊〉 for an endless eternity A Seasonable Hint Dear F●llow Traveller thro' the Wilderness of this World YOU and I must soon appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ and as we may possibly never meet again in this ●if● a 〈◊〉 Hints concerning that most joyful or most awful Event may not be unseasonable The Bible is the word of the living God for all Scrip●ure is given by inspiration of GOD holy men of GOD s●ake and worte as they were move● by the HOLY GHOST The follwing Hints taken from that Divine Book deserve your immediate and most serious consideration The word of GOD assures us that you and I are Sinners for GOD hath n●lu●ed all under Sin There is none that doeth Good and 〈◊〉 not no not one we were even sh●p●n in Iniquity and in Sin did our Mother con●●ive us Another awful Truth contained in Scripture is that the wages of Sin is Hell and that it is appointed unto all men once to a●e and after Death the Iudgment that heart searching judgment where not an action in your life not a word of your tongue nor a thought of your heart will escape the notice of that JESUS who will be the Judge of both the quick and the dead then the righteous and the wicked will recei●● according to the Things done in the Body whether 〈◊〉 be good or evil The righteous shall go away into everlasting Life but the wicked will be ●ast down to Hell to be tormented with Devils and damned Spirits for ever and ever Oh how dreadful will that be to you and m● if thro' our Sins we should come into that ●lace of torment I would further ●int to you that the blessed GOD hath manifested his grace and love and hath shewn his tender pity and compassion in giving his dear Son the LORD JESUS CHRIST to be a REDEEMER and SAVIOUR of poor lost Sinners that JESUS is both God and Man in one Divine Person that he might be able to save the very worst of Sinners who come unto GOD thro' him His blood was shed on the cro●s for your Redemption from Sin Death and Hell His spotless Righteousness was wrought out for your eternal justification if you indeed and in Truth believe in him He obeyed the Law of GOD in your room and 〈◊〉 and be died that you might not die eternally and is that glorious SUN of RIGHTEOUSNESS that will arise and shine upon his People for ever and ever In order to your saving Knowledge of JESUS CHRIST your having ●aith in him and a living Union with him a very great change must pass in your heart and li●e This change is the peculiar work o● the HOLY GHOST and is called in Scripture RE●ENERATION or the NEW BIRTH Except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God You know that this divine Change manifests itself by a heart deeply humbled under a sense of Sin and an earnest desire after Salvation It further shews itself by a discovery of JESUS CHRIST as a suitable compassionate and all ●ufficient Saviour and by a holy life and conversation To them that believe CHRIST is percious He is the Chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely Oh is he ●o to you and me ●xamine your heart daily on this weighty Question Do you know JESUS CHRIST Do you love him Are you devoted to him and do you put all your trust in him If you do you are happy If not your condition is most miserable L●t me beseech you by the mercies of GOD by the Love of JESUS and by the worth of your precio●s Soul that you earnestly pray O! my Heavenly FATHER forgive my Sins and ●eveal thy dear SON in me blessed JESUS let me be redeemed by thy Blood and clothed with thy Righteousness Oh! holy and blessed SPIRIT ●anctify my heart be in me a Spirit of frequent and fervent prayer Give me faith in JESUS CHRIST Teach me to love him and give me Grace to grow like him and make me what thou wouldst have me to be Guide me by thy counsel and fit me for thy Glory Let me beg of you my dear to give up your heart to these Things that we may meet in Heaven and be for ever with the LORD I conclude with intreating you most affectionately to consider these things directly Life is uncertain DEATH JUDGMENT HEAVEN and HELL are at hand and are awful Things devote your time to seek an interest in JESUS CHRIST as your SAVIOUR and REDEEMFR ask and you shall re●●ive seek and you shall find kno●k and it shall be opened unto you That the Lord may bless these hints to your Soul is the earnest Prayer of your hearty well-wisher For JESUS ' sake CHRISTIANUS The Quaker's Advice AS I have often in passing along the streets and highways heard the Most Sacred Name very profane●y made use of both by men and women and many grievously calling for damnation on themselves and one on another my heart has been and is deeply afflicted t●ereat and therefore I beseech you in the Name of JESUS CHRIST do not defile your Souls which are dear and precious by any wilful sin and amongst other things do not ta●e the Holy Name of God in vain for the Lord will not hold him or her guiltless that taketh his holy Name in vain GOD is willing to save you why should any of you lose and destroy yourselves Observe this attentively for notwithstanding all that the LORD has done and is d●ing for us such as die in their sins where he is gone they can never come Abstain from drunkenness and all excess and from every appearance of evil love one another as JESUS CHRIST hath loved you apply yourselves to the witness of God within you which reproves you for evil submit to and obey its holy manifestations and discoveries and it will do much more for you than a●● you can hear from any man This witness of GOD is the word of his Grace even the word of Life the Holy Ghost which is able to save your souls In the love of the Gospel I invite you all to come and taste how good and merciful the LORD is towards all those that return to him with their whole hearts If you