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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64683	Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy, learned, and excellent James Usher, late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh ... giving an account of his foretelling I. the rebellion in Ireland ..., II. the confusions and miseries of England in church and state, III. the death of King Charles the First, IV. his own poverty and want, V. the divisions in England in matters of religion ... / written by the person who heard it from this excellent persons own mouth ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Person who heard it from this excellent person's own mouth.	1678 (1678)	Wing U225; ESTC R7048	5,200	10

Strange and Remarkable Prophesies and Predictions Of the Holy Learned and excellent James Usher Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Lord Primate of Ireland Giving an Account of his Foretelling I. The Rebellion in Ireland Forty Years before it came to pass II. The Confusions and Miseries of England in Church and State III. The Death of King Charles the First IV. His own Poverty and want V. The Divisions in England in matters of Religion Lastly Of a great and Terrible Persecution which shall fall upon the Reformed Churches by the Papists wherein the then Pope should be chiefly concerned Written by the Person who heard it from this Excellent Persons own Mouth and now publisht earnestly to perswade us to that Repentance and Reformation which can only prevent our Ruin and Destruction And the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do Gen. 18. 17. Licensed November the 16 th LONDON Printed for R. G. 1678. Strange and Remarkable Predictions of that Holy Learned and excellent Bishop James Usher late Lord Primate of Ireland THe Author of the Life of this Excellent and Worthy Primate and Arch-Bishop gives an Account that among other extraordinary gifts and graces which it pleased the Almighty to bestow upon him he was wonderfully endued with a Spirit of Prophecy whereby he gave out several true Predictions and Prophesies of things a great while before they came to pass whereof some we have seen fulfilled and others remain yet to be accomplished And though he was one that abhor'd Enthusiastick Notions being too Learned Rational and knowing to admit of such idle Freaks and Whimsies Yet he profest That several times in his Life he had many things imprest upon his mind concerning future Events with so much warmness and importunity that he was not able to keep them secret but lay under an unavoidable necessity to make them known From which Spirit he foretold the Irish Rebellion Forty years before it came to pass with the very time when it should break forth in a Sermon Preached in Dublin in 1601. where from Ezek 4. 6. discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the iniquity of Judah forty days the Lord therein appointed a day for a year he made this direct Applycation in Relation to the connivance at Popery at that time From this year says he will I reckon the sin of Ireland that those whom you now imbrace shall be your Ruin and you shall bear this Iniquity Which Prediction proved exactly ture for from that time 1601 to the year 1641 was just Forty years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and Destruction of Ireland happened which was acted by those Popish Priests and other Papists which were then connived at And of this Sermon the Bishop reserved the Notes and put a Note thereof in the Margent of his Bible and for 20 Years before he still lived in the Expectation of the Fulfilling thereof And the nearer the Time was the more confident he was that it was near Accomplishment though there was no visible appearance of any such thing And sayes Dr. Bernard the Year before the Rebellion broke forth the Bishop taking his leave of me being then going from Ireland to England he advised me to a serious Preparation for I should see heavy Sorrows and Miseries before I saw him again which he delivered with as great Confidence as if he had seen it with his Eyes Which seems to verify that of the Prophet Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing but he will reveal it to his Servants the Prophets From this Spirit of Prophesie he fore-saw the Changes and Miseries of England in Church and State for having in one of his Books called De Prim Eccl. Brit. given a larg account of the Destruction of the Church and State of the Brittains by the Saxons about 550 Years after Christ He gives this among other Reasons why he insisted so largely upon it That he fore-saw that a like Judgment was yet behind if timely Repentance and Reformation did not prevent it And he would often Mourn upon the Fore-sight of this long before it came From this Spirit he gave Mournful Intimations of the Death of our late Soveraign Charles the First of whom he would be often speaking with Fear and Trembling even when the King had the greatest Success And would therefore constantly pray and gave all advice possible to prevent any such thing From this Spirit he fore-saw his own Poverty in worldly things and this he would often speak of with admiration to the Hearers when he was in his greatest Prosperity which the Event did most certainly verify From this Spirit he Predicted the Divisions and Confusions in England in Matters of Religion and the sad consequences thereof some of which we have seen fulfill'd And I pray God the rest which he feared may not also be accomplished upon us Lastly From this Spirit he fore-told That the greatest stroke upon the Reformed Churches was yet to come and that the time of the utter Ruin of the See of Rome should be when she thought her self most secure And as to this Last I shall add a brief Account from the Persons own hand who was concerned therein which followeth in these Words The Year before this Learned and Holy Primate A. Bishop Usher dyed I went to him and earnestly desired him to give me in Writing his Apprehensions concerning Justification and Sanctification by Christ because I had formerly heard him Preach upon those Points wherein he seemed to make those great Mysteries more intelligible to my mean Capacity than any thing which I had ever heard from any other But because I had but an imperfect and confused Remembrance of the Particulars I took the boldness to importune him that he would please to give a brief account of them in Writing whereby I might the better imprint them in my Memory of which he would willingly have excused himself by declaring his intentions of not writing any more Adding That if he did write any thing it should not exceed above a Sheet or two But upon my continued Importunity I at last obtained his Promise He coming to Town some time after was pleased to give me a Visit at my own House where I failed not to challenge the Benefit of the Promise he had made me He replyed That he had not writ and yet he could not charge himself with any Breach of Promise For said he I did begin to write but when I came to write of Sanctification that is of the New Creature which God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly Regenerate I found so little of it wrought in my self that I could speak of it only as Parrots by Rote without the knowledge under standing of what I might have exprest therefore I durst not presume to proceed any further upon it And when I seemed to stand amazed to hear such an Humble Confession from so great and experienced a Christian He