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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85469	The coming of God in mercy, in vengeance; beginning with fire, to convert, or consume, at this so sinful city London: oh! London, London.	Gostelo, Walter.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1319; Thomason E1612_3; Thomason E1833_1; ESTC R202235	30,426	80

me to see if the Persecutors still followed me I then saw them no more but I did see a man making great haste coming after me with a Mete-wand rod or rule in his hand it was about the length of six foot by his side came only a harmless little boy very Beautiful and in appearance very innocent Being then in the streets of this City I suddenly saw the people all of them wonderfully affrighted and being so afraid they run every man of them to my left hand astonished at the suddenness of it I asked what frighted the people and why they run so to the left hand I was forthwith answered by the man with the measuring Mete-wand in his hand or rule Their Sacrifices are dirt or thus they offer dirt for sacrifices In good earnest when I had heard the words I looked up to heaven and I there saw such a Cloud of Blackness and Dirt as could not possibly arise from any place but Hell it was a Cloud made up of nothing but Devillish Dirt and thick stinking Darkness which Cloud almost totaly obscured a very great light that was in the Heavens above it so that there appeared no more of that great light but as a Quarter Moon So soon as the Lord had shewed it me perfectly he scattered that dirty cloud with a vengeance t was done immediately and the place of it no more seen What I saw afterwards of Beauty and wonder as well in this vision as in the former belongs not to these wicked ones these were all to be first scattered and made invisible as well the wicked Okes chosen for their Law-makers or rulers as the Briars and Thornes being the people which sent them up for so they are all termed in the word of God and they must perish together It is impossible in this depraved age of ours to have a good Parliament if the people must choose who are now so generally Bad and here is the Reason the Lord gives me of this dirty Parliaments and this suitable peoples dissipation and scattering for a signe and signal watch-word by which we were to know when our Redemption did draw nigh and when we were to lift up our heads as in the next Section I shall and am to declare unto you And now tell me Reader was there not such dirty wicked Law-makers as these in this last dissolved House What think you not to particularize any of that Rable were not the most of them too many at least bad from the Beginning and did they not so continue all along did they not divide which of them repented himself of his former wickednesses Find me the man that ever took the blame to himself they suddenly divided and fell to wrangling they would have us believe it is you and you him and him that committed the wickedness none condemned himself were there not the highest Animosities imaginable amongst them I dare say they would have fired and imbroyled the Kingdom in a New war rather then some of that faction should seem other then a true Saint or White Devil I still speak of the major part I beseech you what number of them ever agreed to make themselves or the people happy by returning to every man or but to any man his own inheritance They spoke well of the covetous and deceitful person whom God abhors that they did themselves being so is it not high time think you that such Miscreants as these be scattered Thanks be to God who sent Oliver Cromwell hastily in amongst them as in the vision to do so in great haste he did come in upon them yes he did so so in the vision so in thefulfil Reader did not Oliver Cromwell come in upon them in haste did he not then or at their sitting down tell them plainly most sure he did That our Lord Jesus Christ was at hand and now at the very doore and that he saw him coming with Flagons also as in the 85. Psalme Namely to establish peace to have mercy and truth meet together that Righteousness and peace may now kiss each other and that glory may dwell in our Land did he not further say unto them that he our Lord was coming to break in pieces all powers that were not of God and for God alluding to the leggs and feet of Nebuchadnezzars Image which being Iron for oppression and dirt for irreligion was now to have its end Thus was his speech thus were his words to them he told them that both these prophecies were now fulfilling he advised them so and so instructed them to this end he did it also that they might now apply themselves to be subservient thereunto here is what he directed unto also what they should have done I told you before what they did now see this very Prophesies fulfill first it must break in pieces the Powers that are not of God I am sure it points out them to be broken point Blanck and more also if Principled like them they and such as they broken to pieces in comes that power and rule of Gods under which we shall be blest and our land happy for ever as in the former prophecy and other part of his speech taken from the 85. Psalm here is what he said here 's what he did broke them to pieces they are both of God he did it in haste also so in the vision so in the fulfill O God this thy signal signe given me and then vision shewed me having thus undeniable in all Circumsiances had its now fulfill and being as I may truly say the very watch-word and acting by which I was to know when our Redemption should draw nigh and when we were to lift up our heads Our heads to whom the vision was shewed with my self your heads your with an Emphasis none of theirs theirs are to be Broken the words lift up your heads were not spoken nor heard by me and them until those wicked ones were all dissipated and gone Truly I had been blind and most unfaithful to you if I had not thus proceeded for an introduction I now see clearly the reason why I could not get this book printed as I intended before Christmas I penned it early as once I did the like for the Good of the world and a Parliament then ready to meet and sit intitled it Charles St. and Oliver Cromwell united so I have already printed which I will ever stand to and so will God certainly fulfill let things seem to the world never so contrary for it is of God But I could never get that book forth until those as these were turned out of Doors because good for nothing Indeed the work of the Lord as his secrets is chiefly for those that fear him and such the Lord will certainly now in merey give us for rulers for Law-makers We have no reason at all to doubt it You may well wonder and stand amazed to read what the Lord shewed me as to this last Parliament sitting on

The coming of GOD IN MERCY IN VENGEANCE Beginning With fire to Convert or Consume at this so sinful City London Oh! London London Amos the 3. verses 6 7 8. Shall a Trumpet be blown in the City and the people not be afraid Surely the Lord will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets to his servants the Prophets The Lion hath roared who will not be afraid the Lord hath spoken who can but prophesie this to you I must or perish Printed for the Authour WALTER GOSTELO dwelling in Broad-street London 1658. To OLIVER CROMWELL Lord PROTECTOR To this City LONDON To the People of these three NATIONS and CHRISTIAN WORLD is this matter of so high concernment Dedicated AFter how Miraculous a manner God is Coming in mercy to his in vengeance to Evil-doers this Book made up of truth and good affection as the Author ought to be for his Countries Good will tell you which being sent as an Herald to declare the Coming of God It doth not Crave but Command protection And though I may not dedicate it to any other then to whom God Almighty hath directed the matter of it Primarily to you of this so sinful City London subsequently to all the people of the three Nations and Christian World yet is it good manners fairly to intreat of you Oliver Cromwell Protector that it suffer not by any prohibition of yours in sale or otherwise Indeed I do not doubt of that from your Lordship which I beseech from all its good acceptance Especially if you did know or do remember those two so Considerable passages both which not long since fel out at White-Hall A person well known to your Lordship E. C. gives to one near you but purposely for your perusal A paper of which you were to take Cognisance That paper he or they Burnt Now to let you or them see clearly Gods dislike of that wicked act his Fire of displeasure not long after flamed out of the Chimney t was near you its rage frighted some it was visible to very many in vision was it said to the party that gave the Paper they have burnt thy Paper but go forth and thou shalt see their Chimney on Fire the party did so and saw it so on Fire At another time the same party endevours to set a Paper on the Chappel doors of White-Hall White-Hall still the matter of that was as much of this Book is what God would have speedily done for his injured King and despised Church of all which your self Chaplaines and others under that roof were to take special notice and conforme unto The Chappel Officer would needs hinder the setting up of that Paper for some time he did so in fine he boldly said if ever it was set up he would pull it down He was then forewarned and charged not to do so lest God took vengeance on him he slighted the counsel and when it was set up not fearing God but men he puls it down The next news heard and seen of him is that very right hand of his so misimployed as to pull it down is suddenly bound up becomes unuseful and withers a very few dayes after some 15. or 20. himself dyes These things are true I can prove them My Lord it is very seasonable here to remind you of what so sadly befall Mr. Whaley Mayor of North-hampton in the very year of his Majoralty on Tuesday Easter next it is but two since marke it well I beseech you for these things are clearly of God yea clearly so That Presbyter Whaley an Early Complyer with the worst times most falsly and shamefully belyes me he traduceth and Endeavours to suppress the so Miraculous proceedings of God Almighty afforded in that Town of Northampton on behalf of his own prophecy my unworthy self and what past the very night of my enlargement from prison there After I had wrote to him and followed him close to know his grounds or reasons of those his ugly practices but could never receive any from him at last I wrote to his fellow-Iugler and brother Presbyter Ball Minister in that Town Charged him that he should let Whaley know if I received not speedily from him in writing he should from me in print yea both of them should On Goodfriday I finished what I intended to print against them The Tuesday follovving God takes the business into his own hand Whaley sinks down and dyes suddenly in his Clothes Indeed I was unalterably resolved not to endure them or any to belye endeavour to suppress or oppose the proceedings of my God and his Prophecy for so this is if I could help it and because I could not God did it for me The Manuscript which your Lordship had of mine declaring their bad practises against Gods so wonderful proceedings in that place of Northampton because I could not get Printed I left it in the University Library of Oxford My Lord it is worthy your Remembrance for ever I shall one day get most of it Printed the world must know what 's in it For Ball his minister he is now become a Pulpit-defender in Print the World hath too many such not long known to be so but he sees early and comes round with the first I have desired him Ball by word of mouth that his repentance be sincere early and publick the rather because his aberrations were publick and with the first Oh Presbytery Presbytery Thou hast not hitherto done Gods Church and this kingdom many good offices mend for shame Presbytery Reader I must therefore Print these Precedents of truth that they may deter all Presbyters or others from belying or impeding the Revealed Decrees of Heaven in favour of Gods King and true Church which decrees he is pleased now to have made publick and by all are to be conformed unto But why complain I of ill offices done to me or others in these three Kingdoms seeing I know very well yea this Book tells you truly as much that to remedy all this and more God is coming Whose Almighty fire sent out up on the Eight of April is gone before him Commissioned to begin at this so sinful City London Converting or Consuming the Enemies of his King and Church Believe it Reader our appeal is heard in Heaven and we shall shortly have a Court on Earth to remedy what 's amiss For God hath revealed from between the Cherubins where he is said to dwell That the Restoration of our King is of God and then all those lesser devils waiting upon this Kingdom of darkness will suddenly become invisible To conclude why should I in a Preface tell thee what I have therefore made so very short in the book on purpose that it should be Read be Believed and practised by all all are infinitely concerned to do so Certainly happines will be had thereby Reader distrust me not there is a storm and change at hand a greater or any like it since our Saviors time I firmly and warrantably believe