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A95181	A true relation of some passages which passed at Madrid in the year 1623. by Prince Charles, being then in Spain prosecuting the match with the Lady Infanta. As also, severall observations of eleven ominous presages, some of them hapning in the same hear whil'st the said Prince was in Spain, the rest of them hapned from that time untill his death. With a discovery of some of the wayes which the then Popish Bishops used to bring Poperie into this nation. / By a lover of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.	Lover of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.	1655 (1655)	Wing T2918; Thomason E842_18; ESTC R207227	15,273	24

all the former Presages the greatest part of them bending to the head but as I said before the Lord did hide them from him And with my heart I wish that those ominbus presages which the Lord did send as forerunners of his wrath against him in his so great fall and ruin might deter all men of what condition soever to leave plotting and contriving any further tumults or sedicions tending to the shedding of any more innocent bloud in this Nation but let them plot what they will against this Government they will surely be destroyed in all their practises as it is evidently seen in the two last plots for when they thought themselves secure the childe of the Devill as I may truly say brought to the very birth see then how the Lord did frustrate their actions and with the least breath of his nostrils brake them to pieces and that in a moment as he did all the enemies of that famous Queen Elizabeth all her life as well before her coming to the Crown as after First by Bishop Bonner and his crew by setting her sister Queen Mary to take away her life and for no other cause but for professing the Gospell of Jesus Christ had not the Lord discovered it in his due time to King Philip in a warrant which the Bishops had shuffled in amongst other warrants to be signed by him for her death but the King reading the warrant refused to sign it and threw it aside but before they could bring their purposes to passe Queen Mary died and then their hopes were frustrate for she was presently Crowned Queen to the great terrour of all those that did plot her downfall for her heart was up right unto the Lord and the Lord kept her from all their plots and devises for after she came to the Crown what plots and devises did they not practise to take her life away by Pistols Poysonings Stabbings and by many other hellish practises how many lowing buls of Bashan did the Pope send against her discharging her Subjects of their alsegiance unto her animating her subjects to destroy her by any means whatsoever as it was plainly seen in the treasons of those hellish Conspiratos Lopus Campion Parry Garnat Banister Summervild Squire and the rest of that Popish rable and then by that never to be forgotten deliverance of that invincible Navy as the Spaniards called that great Armado in 88. when they made themselves sure of all this Nation and so to bring it to Idolatry for they brought with them whips of wire gagges and many other instruments of cruelty to force this whole Land to Popery But blessed be God the snare is broke and we are escaped except our sins which are innumerable do make us fall into the snare for surely our sins are even ripe unto the harvest and there wants nothing but the Lords putting in his sickle to reap us for surely the Lords patience is very much in waiting for our repentance therefore let us not defer it any longer least the Lord cast us off if we repent not all the sooner but blessed and praised be the Lord for it he brought that invincible Armado to nought for not one third part of them ever came home to Spain again and for all their malice against her she died in a good old age full of dayes riches and honour for she left all her coffers full of riches and treasure which she got from those that sought her life by making wars against them for the Lord did prosper all her undertakings which she took in hand for her heart was upright unto the Lord all her dayes as the heart of Asa king of Juda was and the Lord did keep her in store to settle the Gospell of Jesus Christ in this Nation and hath continewed it here almost 100. yeers praised be his holy name for it and grant good Lord that it may continew in this Nation so long as the Sun and Moon endureth And now let me return unto the King in his project of bringing in of Popery he had the least cause of any in the world to have any alliance at all with Papists much lesse to link himself in the affinity of marriage with them for look but back upon the Powder-plot and you shall see his Father himself and all their posterity with all the Nobility and all the chief Gentry of this Nation designed to be blown up into the aire the Lady Elizabeth his sister only excepted for they had determined to marry her to some Catholick Gentleman and so to have made her Queen but God did laugh at them and brought them to nought blessed and praised be his holy name for it But his Father and himself very well knew that all the considerable Papists in England did know of it and were ingaged in it and did contribute to it and for him to make a firm league with them the enemies of Jesus Christ was most abominable but as the Lord said unto Ezekiel Son of man turn thee and thou shalt see greater abominations then these so he yet added more to all the rest in putting forth that hellish book of sports as his Father had formerly done which book was put forth by the Counsell and advise of the then Popish Bishops long after his coming from Spain wherein he gives free liberty to the people to commit all licentiousnesse for prophaning the Lords day by dancing revelling gaming and all that the Devill could invent to the great dishonor of God and his Sabaths but it was contrived of set purpose to silence all conscientious Ministers that did seruple the reading of it as many of them did and were put from their preaching for not reading the same and also to draw the hearts of the rude multitude to himself if there should be occasion offered by any that should oppose the rise of Popery which the multitude is apt to do as the multitude of Asia did against Paul but knew no cause for what they did the whole City being in an uproar but knew not for what so this book was put forth to cause the rude multitude to rise in defence of the profain liberty which was given them by authority if there should be occasion as I said before it was one of the greatest Mr. Pieces that ever the Devill did put on foot in this Nation to draw the people to himself that ever was hatcht in hell far greater then the Powder plot for that had destroyed but the bodies of a few b●t this would have destroyed the souls of many thousands if it had continued longer It was worse then Balaams counsell for the Midianitish women to draw the children of Israel to commit folly and Idolatry but he had his reward for he was slain shortly after by the Israelites and so will all the enemies of Jesus Christ perish in all their wicked practises if they desist not in the pursuance of them Here are pregnant examples enough to make men leave their wicked practises if they will take notice of them which God of his mercy give all those hearts to do that shall read these Ominous Presages and the Lord give all men hearts to understand what it is to strive against God And my hearts desire is that the Lord would stir up the hearts of those that are in authority to put in execution that Additionall Act for the better keeping of the Lords day which is so much neglected and the Sabbath abused in the fields and Alehouses where the people do muster at play as if it were the week day yea even in the time of divine prayer to the great dishonour of God and disgrace to this City and that it may be carefully lookt into and amended he prayeth who is a lover of the Gospell of Jesus Christ and the peace and welfare of this Nation THE END

which came from Bristoll a widdow and had been the wife of one Mr. Cary a Woollen Drapper on the back of Bristoll this woman had seen many strange apparitions of the late King at severall times as his Crown all bloudy himself in black and his head off with many other such visions she could not be quiet untill she came to London to acquaint himself with those visions which she had seen of him and after two years time spent in soliciting this Noble man and that Noble man and others to bring her to the King at length the Earl of Dorset after much importunity brought her to the King where she told his Majesty all that she had seen of him he gave her the hearing of it but would give no credit to what she had said but bid take her away she was a merry woman then when she had told him all that she had seen of him she returned to Bristoll again thinking there to rest her sell in peace she had not been there many dayes but those Visions appeared to her as at the first whereupon she could not contain herself but must of force come up to London the second time to acquaint his Majesty with what she had seen of him since her last being with him at Whitehall but before she could get to London his Majesty was gone to York yet though she was in years and a weakly woman and the journey long and tedious for such a one as her self to undertake yet she must of necessity go after him to York and was conveyed to York in a Coach by means of a Lady which at the writing hereof is living neer London who can justifie the same if any should scruple the truth hereof and being come to York she had admittance to his presence where she once again related to him all that she had seen of him since her last being with him at Whitehall with much praying and beseeching him to consider what she had seen and said of him but he would not harken to her nor give credit to what she had said unto him for certainly the Lord had hid these things from him and would not let him understand them because he would destroy him for to that purpose the Lord did harden the heart of Pharaob that he should not believe the wonders which Moses the servant of the Lord wrought in his fight to make his name known to all the world for saith the Lord Exod. 9.16 For this cause have happointed thee to shew my power in thee and to declare my name in all the world but the more plagues the Lord did send on Pharaob the more his heart was hardned by them I could wish that all those into whose hands these sad Presages shall come that they would consider with themselves that there was more then an ordinary hand in causing this Gentlewoman being so antient as she was to take upon her two so great journeys as these were first from Bristoll to London then to Bristoll again then to London and so to York and all upon her own charge surely there must be more then an ordinary hand in it which did guide this woman she being so ancient as she was and no kind of distemper at all in her but in a very good temper both in mind and words and in her behaviour very civill as many people in London that did talke with her concerning these visions can witnesse ☞ VIII I have been credibly informed that his Highnesse the Lord Protector that now is being in a Gentlemans house at prayer in a room wherein the Kings Picture did hang neer about the middest of prayer the Picture fell down to the ground which was a sad presage to the King and now seems to be a clear testimony of Gods purpose to reject him but how hath the Lord Protector been preserved in so many great dangers as by Gods providence he hath gone through in his own person since these troubles began and that dainger which he escaped in the Coach was not the least and questionlesse the Lord hath appointed him to be the man to Govern the Nation at this time who can deny Gods permissive providence IX His Majesty being one day at Causam neer Redding playing at Chesse he playing with the white men the head of the white King fell of which was as ominous a presage as any of the rest X. When the Lord Fairfax was at St. Albons and the generall Counsell of the Army drawing up the grand Remonstrance in order to require justice against the King the Sign of the Kings-head beneath the hill from the Crosse that part of the board between the head and shoulders was broken out of the Sign none knowing how it came to be so so that the head and shoulders were separated from each other it seemed then to be an ominous thing to what did shortly befall him in pursuance of that Remonstrance then drawing up against him by the Army Wherefore I would wish that althose malignant spirits that are so bitter against this Government to consider that there is no power given unto men upon earth but by God therefore let them sit still and see the Lords work done in truth and righteousinesse for surely the Lord will owne him so far as he doth act for the Lord and no underhand practis shall prevail against him mauger all the Devils in hell they shall not touch him to do him harme for the Lord will be his Protector so long as he doth act for the Lord but if he act not of and for the Lord then the Lord will bring all his actions to nought and it will fall to the ground of it self as once Gamaliel said to the Jewish Rabbins refrain from these men and let them alone for if this Counsell or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God you cannot overthrow it least happily ye be found fighters against God Act. 5.28 29. And as M. Saltmarsh said once in a Sermon before the Lord Fairfax So long as you serve the Lord he will be with you but if you fall from the Lord the Lord will fall from you Therefore to those turbulent spirits I will use our Saviour Christs own words to Saul going to Damascus to persecute the people of God It is hard for you to kick against prickles And I do now wish that you which are such enemies against this Government to look up to God and lay aside your own particular interesse and if there be any thing amisse in your hearts cast it out and leave all unto the Lord for himself to rectifie for your plots and devises will surely come to nought XI There is one thing more yet as remarkable as the rest When the King was at the high Court of Justice on his Tryall the head of his cane fell off he stopping to take it up himself took it as an ominous Presage unto himself and so indeed he might have done