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B09165	A French prophecy, or, An admonition to the English, concerning their near approaching danger and the means to escape it. Being a prediction of a gentleman of quality in Languedoc, concerning the downfall of the French king, and several other things relating to England. / Translated from the French copy.; Avis pour les fidelles d'Angleterre. English.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656. Prediction concerning a coming persecution of Protestants.	1690 (1690)	Wing F2195; ESTC R177269	12,649	16

a thing is it to fall into the hands of the living God! * L'Armaged ch v. §. 13. In Egypt the first-born and the chief of their strength were smitten So in the Romish church which spiritually is Sodom and Egypt Rev. ii 8. many of their first-born and chief of their strength have been smitten in many kingdoms and are dead yea the very posterity and memory of them are rooted out of the earth as in Germany France Flanders Scotland England and several other kingdoms The deliverance of the churches of God was accomplished by a strong hand and stretched out arm with signs and wonders Et quand le premier ne qui est assis sur ce throne tenebreux de Pharao occidental sera frappe lors la delivrance sera accomplie And when the first-born who is seated upon that darkened throne of the western Pharoah shall be smitten then the deliverance shall be completed † Ibid. ch x. §. 3. As those who departed out of Egypt were for the most part rebellious and fell thro' their unbelief in the wilderness so shall it befall those still who having left this Egypt rebel against the Lord in order to return thither Not even the king himself the higher powers ordained of God to whom all persons ought to be subject can again bring back the Lord 's redeemed seeing he hath said ye shall never again return this way For we must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's We must obey God God rather than men Wo unto them that go down into Egypt for help and rely upon their great number of horses chariots and horsemen but they look not to the Holy One of Israel for they are men and not God The Lord shall stretch forth his hand and he who helpeth shall fall and he who is holpen shall stumble and they all shall fall together And if ye will return he will bring upon you all the sicknesses of that land and make them cleave to you he will make your plagues and the plagues of your children wonderful even great plagues and of long continuance Betake not yourselves to the shadow of Egypt for that shall be your confusion seeing it is a people that shall not profit you at all their help shall be in vain and to no purpose but ' your strength is to sit still and to stay yourselves entirely upon the Lord for it is a land of trouble and anguish from whence come the old and young lion to devour the viper and the fiery flying serpent to bite and to sting Let every one cast away his idols of silver and of gold for your fortresses shall pass away for fear and your princes and captains shall be afraid of the ensign saith the Lord whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem Isa xxxi Ye pastors of the Romish church who feed your flocks with the wind of traditions the commandments and ordinances of men even doctrines of devils howl and cry and ye magnificent cardinals archbishops and bishops roll yourselves in the dust for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel your peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord. He shall kindle a fire in the houses of yours Gods and shall burn them and break the statues of your gods in pieces Doth not the Lord remember the incense you have burnt to them in all the cities and in all the streets of that great city you and your fathers your kings the chief men among you and your people Is not all this come into his heart so as no longer to endure your wicked and abominable deeds Order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battle harness the horses and get up ye horsemen and stand forth with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines Wherefore are they dismayed and turned away back The swift cannot flee away nor the mighty man escape they shall stumble and fall towards the north for out of the north cometh destruction Jer. xlvi 3 4 c. Go up to Gilead and take balm O daughter of Egypt in vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shalt not be cured Declare ye this in Italy and publish it in Naples publish it in Milan and in Rome and in all the strongest cities thereof all thy plains shall be ravaged and the strong shall fall upon the strong and both shall fall down together O inhabitress of Italy prepare thyself for removing Thy military men thy cardinals bishops canons monks Jesuits and all thy troop of locusts maintained by thee are as fatted calves they shall turn their backs and fly together they shall not stand their ground because the day of their calamity the time of their punishment is come upon them for thine adversaries shall march with power and come against thee with an ax as fellers they shall cut down thy forest although the trees thereof cannot be numbered Pharaoh thy king with his triple crown is but a sound and the noise of thy frogs and locusts shall pass like the hissing of a serpent All the fowls of the air are called to the banquet of the great God they shall all be assembled to eat the flesh of those who take part with the beast and then you shall know that the Lord is the God and Reedemer of the reformed churches Many kings and princes have served and made their subjects perform great services against the Turks c. without receiving their wages See then O kings and princes and ye who follow him who rides on the white horse Behold the land of Italy behold the great city that hath enriched her merchants with her wealth and made them princes in the earth lo they are given you for the recompence of your service ye shall gather the booty thereof and seize upon her spoil this shall be your pay and the wages of your armies inasmuch as ye have wrought for me saith the Lord. Howl ye gentlemen Messieurs of the Romish church and cry Alas alas wo worth the day for the day of the Lord is near thy foundations shall be overthrown thy primacy that thou hast laid as the foundation of thy reign thy wicked hierarchy thy diabolical doctrine superstitions and the burden of thy commandments which thou hast bound upon the shoulders of the nations And not only thou but those who shall support thee shall fall thy strength shall be brought low and those who shall give thee aid shall be broken for the armies gathered together and the kings that are with the beast to make war with him who sits on the white horse shall be killed Rev. xix 19 20 21. Those who shall afford thee aid shall be broken It will be your great wisdom then O ye kings and princes of the earth who have committed whoredom with her you her merchants in the sale

of souls ye masters of ships and all ye mariners whoever you be that trade upon the sea of this beastial monarchy and all you who love it and bear affection to it ye will do well I say to stand at a distance from it and venture not to approach when you shall see her condemnation and the day of God's vengeance which shall come suddenly upon her If you chuse not to join with the Lamb and those in heaven and earth who sing Hallelujah for judging the great whore at least come not near keep at a distance for fear of her torments when you shall see the dunghill deities her gods created by the blowing of their breath her gods of bread and graven images are but vanity and abomination O ye Romanists this sentence is sure The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish Thy wisdom and knowledge shall perish He hath turned your counsels into foolishness he will break your bars and your arms and will put his sword into the hand of his delegates A lamentation shall be taken up over the multitude of thy people and the daughters of magnificent nations the kings of the earth shall weep and lament saying Alas alas Babylon the great city the city so powerful They shall convey thee to the grave with those who descend into the pit saying Go down daughter of spiritual Egypt and be with the uncircumcised The mighty shall speak to thee out of the midst of the grave and say Alas the great and powerful city Thou also art become weak as we thy pomp is brought down to the grave * L'Armaged p. 138 c. The Apocalyptic Babylon the Romish church hath oppressed the church of Christ she hath brought it into a harder and longer bondage than the Chaldean Like ancient Babel she hath instructed her young captives in the science of her mythology and mateology her scholastic babblings missals c. having abolished the language of Canaan She hath likewise set up statues of gold silver wood and stone all the false gods they adore especially that grand idol the Mass the great Diana of Italy the goddess of papal Rome She hath commanded all people nations and languages to fall down before it and worship it It is she that hath kindled a burning furnace in all her provinces commanding those who would not fall down to worship the idol to be cast into it But the Lord hath marvelously preserved his church as he did the three young men in the furnace in the midst of her most bloody persecutions that furnace seven times hotter than that of Nebuchadnezzar in all the kingdoms where there was any resistance made to her idolatry The Son of God hath walked with them in the midst of the flames They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony for they loved not their lives even to the death Now they are clothed in white robes and live and reign with him while many have been raised up with the same spirit to maintain and justify their cause before their enemies But the flame of their fiery furnace hath killed those who at the commandment of that beast cast the children of God into it witness the violent and miserable death of such as were the executioners of that bloody beast and the instruments of her butcheries committed on the professors of the truth These examples are yet fresh in our eyes and ears But the king of Babylon in the west is worse and more obstinate than the Chaldean for the latter upon seeing the wonderful deliverance approached and called upon the servants of the Lord to come forth confessing the true God and made an edict that none should speak a word against the God of Shadrach c. and he promoted them in the province of Babylon But do the great deliverances of the servants of God astonish our Roman Babylon Does she hastily arise call out assemble her counsellors governors c. Does she strive to convince them that their fires swords treachery imprisonments butcheries are of no avail Do they confess the true and living God Do their kings and governors dread the cruel orders or publish contrary edicts Quite the reverse They cease not to heap fire to fire and to inflame the furnace still more And though they had seen the flame devour their mighty and valiant men who had cast the children of God into it at their urgent command yet the dragon the beast and false prophet having collected all their force and deceits into one desist not from sending unclean spirits out of their mouth to gather together the kings of the earth in battle against the Lamb and those who follow him for which cause that great tree of the papacy that has become so strong and high shall not only have its branches hewed down and scattered but the trunk also shall be cut up and plucked out of the land of the living This is the decree of the Almighty that shall come upon the king and his kingdom when the word shall yet be in his mouth Is not this great Babylon that I have built c. The voice from heaven shall cry O bloody beast O Romish Babylon thy kingdom is departed from thee When the seventh angel shall pour out his vial in the air a great voice from the temple shall proclaim It is done and then the great city shall be divided into three parts c. A grievous vision is declared against thee the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously the spoiler spoileth Go up ye Elamites besiege ye Medes ye kings and princes who have departed from Babylon go up and besiege O Belshazar king of Romish Babylon make a great feast to thousands of thy lords and great men drink proclaim your solemn festivals praise your gods of gold silver brass wood stone and flour Make good cheer But mark the decree of the Most High See the fingers of the man's hand gone forth writing on the wall of thy royal palace a writing that shall make thy countenance change and thy joints to shake a writing which none of thy astrologers or divines can read or interpret That writing shall be the destruction of all thy grandees thy prelates princes cardinals thy red hats and servants Hear the writing that is written Mene c. God hath brought thy kingdom to an end he hath divided it and given it to whom to these ten kings who shall hate thee and burn thee with fire even to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven who shall eat thy flesh and the flesh of thy kings captains of great and small thy patrimony and the revenues of thy cardinals which are like kings of thy archbishops and also of thy bishops and of thy abbeys and the flesh of all thy monasteries colleges and societies both of the small and of the great Arise then ye captains and princes and anoint your shields for thus saith the Lord Babylon is fallen

and we went into the chapel where we were wont to have sermon * The original is au lieu ou je fasois precher The London copy reads the room where we used to have prayers and there read the scriptures While that was doing it thundered under my feet tho' the place was paved and upon a rock We all heard the noise of thunder directly under me who was at a distance from them tho' all in the same room as loud as it used to be in the air and for some time Yet we left not off our reading the scriptures Those were terrible claps and mysterious presages and forerunners of the calamities which are ready to break out upon the kingdoms of France and England There are in England several persons who were at my house when these things happened They understood not the mystery of them but I am able to prove what I here declare About five or six years since when I was to leave the country where I dwelt the author of these Admonitions who lived so Christian a life as none could blame and whom God had favoured with such extraordinary graces as few I believe in several ages have heard the like deposited with me a sealed paper and told me the time when I should open it In the beginning were these words O King meaning the French king a greater King than thee commands or rules thee consider of the reckoning thou art to make sooner than thou thinkest And in the end O England if thou make thyself partaker in the crime thou shalt take part in the punishment The storm is violent full of horror and destruction Endeavour to prevent it that your country may be a country of peace a fortunate island and a garden of Eden which is the hearty desire of your most obedient servant Saint Jean Postscript You who are watchmen of Israel this is the time to watch and pray this is the time to cry aloud and spare not Sound the trumpet in Sion awaken the sleeping people Be instant in season and out of season and speak boldly to Jerusalem that she repent that so peace may be unto her and not sudden destruction for the thunder has already Here a few words are wanting being cut off in binding SOME PASSAGES EXTRACTED FROM A SCARCE BOOK WRITTEN BY THE EMINENTLY PIOUS MR. J. WELCH WHEN MINISTER OF JONZAC DURING HIS EXILE IN FRANCE RELATING TO THE APPROACHING DESTRUCTION OF THE ANTICHRISTIAN KINGDOM AS FORETOLD IN THE PROPHECIES OF SCRIPTURE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH COPY ENTITLED L'ARMAGEDDON de la Babylon Apocalyptique pr. in 1612. AS the Lord rained fire and brimstone from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah and overthrew the cities and all the plain so that the smoke of them ascended as the smoke of a furnace so undoubtedly will the Lord surprise papal Sodom as in a moment in one day shall her plagues come death sorrow and famine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire For strong is the Lord of hosts that judgeth her In an instant shall she be made desolate her great riches shall come to nothing and the smoke of her torment shall ascend up for ever The beast and the false prophet shall be taken and cast alive into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and all who worship the beast c. Rev. xiv 9 10 11. The Lord hath seen in thee and in thy prophets great and horrible enormities adulteries whoredoms lies and abominations more than Sodomitical Have you not wrought wickedness with a high hand Hath not profaneness gone forth from you among all nations You strengthen the people in their superstitions and idolatries Hear then Italian Sodom Hear ye princes of Sodom and ye people of spiritual Gommorah what the Lord hath pronounced against you He will feed you with wormwood and make you drink the water of gall Thou shalt be made a desolation so that every one that goeth by shall be astonished and hiss at all thy plagues No man shall abide there neither shall a son of man dwell in it for who is like me and who will appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that shall stand before me Jer. xlix 17 c. Hear then the counsel he hath determined against thee O Italy and the thoughts that he thinketh against the inhabitants of Rome The earth shall be shaken at the noise which shall bring upon them ruin He shall come up as an eagle he shall fly and stretch his wings over that great city and the hearts of her mighty men in that day shall be as the heart of a a woman in travail Behold a people shall come from the north and a great nation c. Jer. l. 41 42 43. Thou shalt become like Sodom in thy punishment as thou wast Sodom in thy sins and thy children as Gomorrah a place for breeding of nettles and salt pits and of desolation for ever This shalt thou have for a reward of thy pride Even as thou hast used reproaching taunts and boastings against the people of the Lord so the Lord shall be terrible against thee He will famish all thy gods Depart then quickly ye who are his people tarry not Save your lives your souls your bodies your families and your posterity Wash you make you clean Lo you are admonished of this Behold the patience and goodness of God leading thee to repentance Therefore while it is said to-day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts make haste arise save your life stop not in any place of the plain of this spiritual Sodom Ascend and save yourselves in the mountain of God Arrange yourselves on the side of the Lamb for those who are with him are called and holy Linger not and if there are any others pertaining to you kinsman son or daughter remove them far from these places for assuredly the Lord is about to destroy them because the cry of them is become exceeding great before the Lord. He will send his delegates and his holy ones to destroy them Therefore do not scoff at the warning for if you do not believe and obey the voice of the Lord you shall perish in these judgments And as for you who have departed thence tarry not in that plain Suffer not yourselves to be allured by the pleasures the plenty the opulence or delights of it Stretch not out your tents so far as Sodom for the men of it are wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly Their cry is increased their sin highly aggravated and the Lord is come down to see whether it be not so Remember the wife of Lot who is proposed for an example to all those who put their hand to the plough and look back and lay to heart that most alarming word of God enough to make ten thousand worlds to tremble If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth c. Heb. x. 26 27 28 29 31. and chap. vi 4 5. How fearful