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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

whether 〈…〉 have I had a compassionate heart and 〈◊〉 hand to any in want 14 Have I especially done good to them who a●e of the 〈…〉 however 〈…〉 15. Did the C●●●ch of God 〈…〉 of Christ ●e near my heart Have I 〈…〉 the welfare of Christs Chu●ch and 〈◊〉 its desolations and 〈◊〉 Heav●n abo●e my 〈◊〉 Joy 16. Have I really set death before me and 〈◊〉 my life as a vapour if God should this ●ight clo●e my eyes in death how is it like to be with my soul 17. lo●●nceivably great glorious and terrible as the day of Judgment will be dare I meet Christ at his coming Will my graces bear the t●ial of that day Can I now with joy say even so Come 〈◊〉 Iesus Lady JANE GREY'S Letter TO HER SISTER The Evening before she was beheaded in the Towe● of London Translated from the Original Gre●k I HAVE sent you my dear fi●●er Catharine a book which though ●t be not exte●nal●y 〈◊〉 with gold or curious embroidery of nee●l● work ● internally of more value than a● the precious mines in the wide world my only dear and best beloved 〈◊〉 it is the book of the law of our great and dear Redeemer his testimony and last 〈◊〉 bequeathed to lead us to e●ernal happiness Read it with attention and an earnest de●ire to follow its precepts and it wi●●urely bring you to immo●tal and everlasting life teach you to live ●nd die win you to God e●dow you with happiness and glory Labour to live acco●ding to the rules it contains and you shall inherit su●h riches as the covetous cannot wi●hd●●w the thie● steal nor the moth corrupt My dear sister ask wisdom from above and de●ire with David to understand the law of the Lord our God 〈◊〉 on the 〈◊〉 of thy heart by divi●e love live still to die that through death you may obtain eternal life Let not your youth blind you from knowing that at all hours times and seasons are alike to the most high God when he 〈…〉 are they 〈◊〉 ●amps are 〈◊〉 when he comes the Lord is equall● glorified in the young as in the old my dear good si●ter 〈◊〉 to die deny the ●en 〈◊〉 of the wo●●d the 〈◊〉 and the D●vil and delight 〈…〉 in the Lo●d Jesus Christ be sorry for yo●r sins love God do●●e●lpair be strong in faith in Christ live and die him the dear Redeemer and with St. Paul wh● fi●led with the fulness of divine love you will 〈◊〉 to be d●ssolved to be with Christ wi●h whom 〈◊〉 love and life eternal be the good servant that wh●●eath steals on like a thief in the n●gh● you b● not found in da●k●ess with the children of th● world who know not God and be not witho●● oil in your lamp like the foolish Virgins least yo● be re●used ad●it●ance to the marriage ●upper of th● Lamb or w●thou● the w●dding ga●ment least 〈◊〉 be cast into outer da●kness Rejoice in the Redeemer follow our great master Christ ●heerfully bear your cross or crosses lay a●l your sins on hi● shoul●ers and embrace him always Rejoice with me at my death my dearest sister that I shall be delivered from this body of corruption and clothed with the garment of incorruption for by 〈◊〉 this mortal life I shall obtain one immor●al joyful glorious and eve●lasting which I pray the Almighty God to give you when he shall please to call you hence and send you all sufficient grace ●o live in his love and fear and die in true Christian ●aith in Christ Jesus who redeemed us and all who love him and long for his coming a●d I now exhort you in the name of our Almighty Father neve● to swerve either from the hope of life or ●ear of death for if you deny his truth to prolong a we●ry and corrupt being Omniporence himself will 〈◊〉 you and cu● sho●● by his vengeance what 〈◊〉 were desirous of prolonging by the loss of your precious soul. Cleave to him and he will ex●end your days to a 〈◊〉 circumsribed to his own glory to which I 〈◊〉 God bring me now a●d you hereaf●er when it shall please him to call you Farewell once more my beloved 〈◊〉 put your whole ●ru●t in the great 〈◊〉 who alone ca● help you AMEN Your loving Sister J●NE DUDLEY She was a Lady of the m●st amiable person most engaging disposition and 〈◊〉 ●●c●mpl●shed parts She 〈…〉 greatest 〈◊〉 in acq●●●ing every part of poli●e Li●e●●●ure had a 〈◊〉 knowledge of the Ro●●a● and Greek languages 〈◊〉 modern tongues and the elega●● arts the best of wives to the most aff●cti●nate husband she re●u●ed being placed on the ●hrone till 〈◊〉 by her Father Father-in-law and H●sb●●d when she had been warned to prepare for death which she had long expected she received the dreadful news with jo● The Queen 's bigo●●ed zeal under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul induced her to send Priests who tormented her wi●h perpetual disputations and ● 〈◊〉 was granted her on conditions that she would embrace the ●do●atrous wo●ship of the Church of Rome 〈◊〉 she he●d Death and Christ in greater esteem Lady Jane had presence of mind in them 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 circumstances to d●fend her religion with a christian for●itude supported from holy writ and also wrote a letter to her Sister in the ●reek ●angua●e exhorting her to maintain in every reve●se of fortune the like steady ●erse●erance On the da● of her execution she re●used to see her ●●sband Lord Guil●ord but sent him word that the ●e●derness of their ●arting might probab●● 〈…〉 〈…〉 from that co●●●ancy which their approaching end ●●qu●red of them Their separation would be only fo● a m●m●nt and would soon r●join each other in 〈◊〉 where their affections would be 〈…〉 and where death disappointments and 〈◊〉 co●ld no lo●ger have access to them 〈◊〉 break on their happin●●s Extracts relative to the Church of ROME By Lady Wallace TO be able to judge of the discontent which is now general in all Roman Catholic countries as well to draw natural conclu●ions from those com●●●tions which seem to be inevitable from the a●arice of the c●ergy you must go back to the infancy of Christianity and make you●self acquainted with the increase abuse and decrease of the power of the church of Rome which now even it s once most supe●stitious adherents begin to revolt against from the avarice and depravity of the clergy Begin from A D. 66 when we find the marty●●dom of Pe●er and Paul upon record and the appointment of St. Lin to be bishop of Rome happy for Ch●istianity the cruel 〈◊〉 which cru●hed and ha●assed the ens●●ved people rendered them greedy to adopt a doctrine which promised comfo●t to their sufferings eternal rest and blessings herea●●e● in proportion to their oppression and sufferings in this world In the three fi●st ages of the church the bishop of Rome in common wi●h the other ●ishops preached the ●●ctrine of Christianity in all tha● purity which ou●

to ontinue there in hopes of becoming as good a knight as Sir Philip his landlord was Of this Peter I have been told that the Lady Narcliff of Chelsea and the lady St. John of Battersea have often been heard to talk and that they both asserted the truth of our Prophecy and its accomplishment with particulars that are more extraordinary than any I have yet mentioned The noise of Nixon's predictions reaching the ears of King James the First he would needs ●ee this fool who cried and made a●o that he might not go to Court and the reason that he gave was That he should be starved A very whimsical fancy of his Courts are not places where people use to starve in when they once come there whatever they did before The King being informed of Nixon's refusing to come said he would take particular care that he should not be starved and ordered him to be brought up Nixon cried out He was sent for again and soon after the messenger arrived who brought him up from Cheshire How or whether he prophesied to his Majesty no body can tell but he is not the first fool that has made a good Court Prophet That Nixon might be well provided for 't was ordered that he should be kept in the kitchen where he grew so troublesome in licking and picking the meat that the cooks locked him up in a hole and the King going on a sudden from Ham●ton Court to London they forgot the fool in the hurry and he was really starved to death There are a great many passages of this Fool-Phrophet's life and sayings transmitted by tradition from father to son in this county palatine as that when he lived with a farmer before he was taken into Mr. Cholmondeley's family he gored an ●x so cruelly that one of the ploughmen threatened to beat him for abusing his master's beast Nixon said My master's beast will not be his three days A life in an estate dropping in that time the Lord of the manor took the same ox for an herriot This account as whimsical and romantic as it is was told to the Lady Cowper in the year 1670 by Dr. Parric● late Bishop of Ely then Chaplain to S●r Walter St. John and that Lady had the following farther particulars relating to this Prophecy and the fulfilling of many parts of it from Mrs Chute fister of Mrs. Cholmondeley of Vale-Royal who affirmed that a multitude of people gathering together to see the Eagle before mentioned the bird was ●rightened from her young that she herself was one of them and the cry among the people was Nixon's Phrophecy is fulfil●ed and we shall have a foreign King She declared that she read over the prophecy many times when her sister was with child of the heir who now enjoys the estate She particularly remembered membered that King James II. was plainly pointed at and that it was foretold he would endeavour to subvert the laws and religion of this kingdom for which reason they would rise and turn him out that the Eagle of which Nixon prophesied perched in one of the windows at the time her sister was in labour She said it was the biggest bird she ever saw that it was in a deep snow and that it perched on the edge of a great bow-window which had a large border on the outside and she and many others opened the window to try to scare it away but it would not stir till Mrs Cholmondeley was delivered after which it took flight to a great tree over against the room her sister lay in where having staid about three days it flew away in the night She affirmed further to the Lady Cowper that the falling of the garden-wall was a thing not to be questioned it being in so many people's memory That it was foretold that the heir of Vale-Royal should live to see England invaded by foreigners and that he should fight bravely for his King and his country That the Miller mentioned is alive and expects to be knighted and is in the very mill that is foretold That he should kill two invaders who would come in the one from the West and the other from the North That he from the North should bring with him of all nations Swedes Danes Germans and Dutch and that in the solds of his garments he should bring fire and famine plague and murder That many great battles should be fought in England one upon London Bridge which would be so bloody that people would ride in London streets up to their horses bellies in blood that several other battles should be sought up and down most parts in Cheshire and that the last that ever would be fought in England should be on Delamere fo●est That the heir of Oalton whose name is E n and has married Earl Cholmondeley's si●ter shall be hanged up at his own gate Lastly He foretels great glory and prosperity to those who stand up in defence of their laws and liberties and ruin and misery to those that should betray them He says the year before this would happen bread-corn would be very dear and that the year following more troubles should begin which would last three years that the first would be moderate the second bloody and the third intolerable that unless they were shortened no mortal could bear them and that there were no mischiefs but what poor England would feel at that time But that George the son of George shall put an end to all That afterwards the Church should fl●uri●h and England be the most glorious nation upon Earth The same Lady Cowper was not content to take these particulars from Mrs. Chute but she inquired of Sir Thomas Aston of the truth of this Prophecy and he attested it was in great reputation in Cheshire and that the facts were known by every one to have happened as Nixon said they would adding that the morning before the garden-wall fell his neighbour Mr. Cholmondeley going to ride out a hunting said Nixon seldom fails but now I think he will for he foretold that this day ●y garden wall would fall and I think it looks as if it would stand these forty years that he had not been gone a quarter of an hour before the wall split and fell upwards against the rising of the hill which as Nixon would have it was the presage of a flourishing church As to the removal of Pecserton mill it was done by Sir John Crewe the mill having lost its trade there for which he ordered it to be set upon Ludditon hill and being asked if he did it to fulfill the Prophecy he declared he never thought of it I myself have inquired of a person who knows Mr. Cholmondeley's pond as well as Rosamond's in St. James's Park and he assured me the falling of the wall and the pond running blood as they call it are facts which in Cheshire any one would be reckoned mad for making the least question of As there are several particulars in this Prophecy

are such a one who can through an ill habit and bad custom curse swear and do any other bad action almost without reproof or feeling though your case be so desperate there is yet mercy with God that he may be feared and I advise you to endeavour to be still a few minutes in the morning when you awake before you rise up and then think seriously with yourself thus I have not given my being to myself I am accountable to the Author and Creator of it and this day He the LORD of all will take notice of all my actions this day he will hear all my Words this day he will know all my thoughts and at a certain time yet unknown to me when my soul must give him a full account I am not without some degree of hope that such serious reflections may be conducive to raise desires like these Oh! that I may be watchful Oh! that I may sin no more as long as I live For we must cease to do evil before we can learn to do well Therefore silence before the LORD and attention to his reproofs of instruction in your own heart which are the way to life are the first steps to come to CHRIST and to be made a real Christian. Self Enquiries for Every Morning 1. Was God in my thoughts at lying down and ●ising up and were the thoughts of him sweet and refreshing to my soul 2. In what frame is my heart this morning Do I admire the goodness of God in the last night's Sleep and for adding more time to my life and am I heartily thankful 3. Can I r●ally commit myself and all my affairs to God this day to be guided by his counsel and protected and provided for by his care and to be entirely at his disposal 4. Am I resolved to speak for God and his Glory and in the strength of Christ will I n●ither be afraid ashamed nor weary of well-doing 5. Am I a child of God and an heir of Glory and does the Spirit of God testify that I am born again If I am God's child should I not wear the garments of righteousness and take heed of defiling myself with sin should I n●t do more than others 6. Who is the greatest deceiver if my heart should I not be jealous and watchful over it where are the greatest dangers and m●st p●rnicious mistakes if in so●l concerns should I not venture the loss of all things rather than lose my precious never-dying soul 7 Who are my most implacable powerful and soul-destroying Enemies but the World the Flesh and the Devil and should I no● w●●ch and be sober so as neither to idoli●e the 〈◊〉 pamper the second nor listen to the third 8 Who is or can be my best Friend but God And should I not fear his displeasure more than death desire his favour more than life and thro' all this day love honour and obey him 9. Where is the greatest vanity and vexation but in the World And should I not live above it 〈◊〉 not Godliness the greatest gain and should I not make it my chiefest business 10. What is my heavenly work but to Strive R●● W●estle Fight and can ● do all this withou● Care Dilige●ce and Watchfulness 11. Whose eyes will be upon me all this day to observe my head and heart my Lip and Life but his who is the Judge of all the Earth And dare I Sin in his presence and affront him to his Face 12. If I should spend this day in Vanity Idleness or Sin will it not be sorrow●ul at night if I spend it holily and p●ofitably shall I not pray with greater confidence lie down more peacefully and have 〈◊〉 ●estimony of a good conscience for my rejoicing 13 How would I have this day appear at the day of Judgment Ought not my Though●s Words and Actions to be such now as I 〈◊〉 then wish them to have been 14. How may I this day order my secular business with most prudence and wisdom integrity and upligh●ness and for my real advantage 15. Am I now fit to draw nigh to God in pray●● and can I seek first and as my chief concern the Kingdom of God and his righteousness 16. Am I now willing to take Christ alone for righteousness and to devote all my time and 〈◊〉 to him And to offer him praise continually Self Enquiries for every Evening 1. What have I done this day for God and his Glory what can I look back upon with comfo●● 2. In what frame hath my heart been all this day Have I more desired heavenly or earthly things hath my jo●s been more in God and in the hopes of ●uture Glory than in worldly Riches Honours or Pleasures was my g●●ef more for sin or for the troubles of Li●e Have I more derived comfort from the broken cis●erns of created good or from God the living fountain 3. What were m● intentions Have I been sincere and maintained a conscience void of off●●c● towards God and towards man Did I eat and drink pray and converse to the Glory of Ged or was Self ●ppermost in all 4. What spiritual duties have I performed this day Did I regard the manner as well as the ma●●er and do them from conscience not from custom Did I pray servently and ●ead and m●ditate so as to affect my heart 5. How faithful diligent and care●ul have I been in my place and calling And have there been no idle hours in the day 6. What has been my company this day What good have I done them or received from them Did ● reprove exhort and strengthen encourage comfort and w●rn as the matter required 7. How have I bo●●e the crosses and troubles of the day Did I neither despise them nor saint under them neither entert●in hard thoughts of God nor utter rash words against him 8. What were my temptations this day was I easi●y d●awn into Sin or restrained and overawed by God's all-seeing eye merciful heart or a●enging hand What convict●on merey or warning did I sin against and have I repented of my sin 9. What were my enjoyments and how was my hear●●ffected under them Was I affected with the goodness of God to me in my health ●riends and estate and unfeignedly thankful for them 10. What have I learned this day have I got more heart-affecting knowledge of God and of his Glory and of myself and of my sins Of this word and that which is to come 11. What have I remembered of the word of God whether read or heard Was any 〈◊〉 sweet 〈◊〉 my soul and did I by ●aith make any promise my ow● Did any particular precept 〈…〉 12. What graces have I 〈…〉 have I lived by ●ai●h loved God and 〈…〉 for Chr●st have I had 〈◊〉 to God the 〈◊〉 as my 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 saviour 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 and to the holy 〈◊〉 as my 〈◊〉 strength and com●o●●er 13 Have I been suitably affected with the 〈◊〉 or miseries of others