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An exact collection of many wonderful prophecies relating to the government of England &c. since the first year of the reign of King James I to this present time all which have been truly fulfilled and accomplished : also ... foretelling what government is to succeed to make this kingdom happy : with the certain time of the downfal of Antichrist throughout the world / written and published ... by P.C.
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P. C.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.
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1689
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Wing C92; ESTC R35462
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COLLECTION Of many Wonderful PROPHESIES Relating to the Government of England c. Since the First Year of the REIGN of King JAMES I To this present Time. All which have been truly Fulfilled and Accomplished ALSO Of many PROPHESIES yet foretelling what Government is to Succeed to make this Kingdom happy With the certain Time of the Downfal of ANTICHRIST throughout the World. Written and Published in the Years 1623 1628 1641 1647 and 1660. With many Special Remarks on the same and on the Several Changes of Government By P. C. M. D. a Lover of Religion and his Country Dedicated to the LORDS and COMMONS now Assembled LONDON Printed for Thomas Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar 1689. Advertisement SEveral Discourses and Characters Addressed to the Ladies of the Age. Wherein the Vanities of the Modish Women are discovered Written at the Request of a Lady by a Person of Honour Printed for Thomas Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple next to the Inner Temple-Gate in Fleet-street 1689. To the Right Honourable the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal and the House of Commons Assembled in this present Convention THE following Poem containing several remarkable Prophesies of what has happened for several Ages past with Directions and Assurances of what must succeed to make this Kingdom happy which Business being at present under Your joint Consideration I thought it expedient to Dedicate these Lines to Your Honours which if perused I doubt not may be both acceptable and useful and is the only Reason that it is published hoping the Success may be according to the earnest Desire of a Lover of Religion and his Country P. C. To the Reader THE ensuing Prophesies being of great use in this present Conjuncture I thought it not amiss to expose them for the publick Benefit which all true English Men desire should be setled under a happy Government without Personal Interest and will certainly be effected according to the Purport of this Poem the Author having had the said Revelations from God so many several Years before they were acted which are past as also those that succeed as may appear by the several Dates when they were exposed by the said Author and I hope will be now acceptable to all that love their Religion and Country and are Enemies of Antichrist and his Adherents Farewel AN EXACT COLLECTION Of many Wonderful PROPHESIES Relating to the Government of England c. This was Printed in the Year 1623. AND since Men wandring in a Wood by Night When they shall through a Glade behold some light Take thereby Courage to walk chearly on In hope their Fears and Toyls are nearly gone I 'le from a Cloud flash out a little Gleam Of Lightning and disclose a little Beam Whereby on you a Glimmering shall be cast Of what you may attain to at the last For I will shew you by what Pedegree That Government to you deriv'd shall be Which will at last the British Islands bless With Inward Peace and Outward Happiness It was of late a brief Presage of his Who oft hath Truth foretold and it is this WHen here a Scot shall think his Throne to set Above the Circle of a British King He shall a Dateless Parliament beget From whence a Dreadful Armed Brood shall spring This Off-spring shall beget a wild Confusion Confusion shall an Anarchy beget That Anarchy shall bring forth in Conclusion A Creature that you have no Name for yet This Creature shall conceive a sickly State Which will an Aristocracy produce The many Headed Beast not liking that To raise Democracy shall rather choose And then Democracy's Production shall A Moon-calfe be Which some a Mole do call A false Conception of imperfect Nature And of a shapeless and a brutish Feature For these Descents shall live and reign together So acting for a while that few shall know Which of them has the Sovereignty or whether There be among them a Supream or no. When they with Jars and Janglings have defac'd Your Triple Building and themselves nigh worn Into Contempt they of one Cup shall tast And into their first Elements return Five af them shall subdue the other Five And then those Five shall in a doubtful Strife Each others Death so happily contrive That they shall dye to live a better Life And out of their Corruption rise there shall A true Supream acknowledged by all In whom the Power of all the Five shall be With Unity made visible in Three Prince People Parliamen with Priests and Peers Shall be a while your emulous Grandees Make a confused Pentarchy some Years And leave off their distinct Claims by degrees And then shall Righteousness ascend the Throne Then Truth and Love and Peace re-enter shall Then Faith and Reason shall agree in one And all the Virtues to their Council call And timely out of all these shall arise That Kingdom and that happy Government Which is the Scope of all those Prophesies That future Truths obscurely represent But how this done shall be few Men shall see For wrought in Clouds and Darkness it will be And e're it come to pass to publick View Most of these following Signs must first ensue A King shall willingly himself unking And thereby Grow far greater than before The Priests their Priesthood to Contempt shall bring And Piety thereby shall thrive the more A Parliament it self shall overthrow And thereby shall a better Being gain The Peers by setting of themselves below A more Ennobling Honour shall obtain The People for a time shall be enslav'd But that shall make them for the future free By Private Loss the Publick shall be sav'd An Army shall by yeilding Victor be The Cities Wealth her Poverty shall cause The Laws Corruption shall reform the Laws And Bullocks of the largest Northern Breed Shall fatted be where now scarce Sheep can feed You may perhaps deride what 's here recited As heretofore you other Truths have slighted But some of my Presage you have beheld Already in obscurity fulfill'd The rest shall in its time appointed come And sooner than will pleasing be to some The last Nine Signs or Symptoms of the Ten Which should precede them shall appear to men Of all Conditions but our Author saith The first is but in Hope not yet in Faith And may be or not be for so or so That King shall have his Lot as he shall do If all his Sins he heartily repent God will remit even all his Punishment And him unto his Peoples Hearts restore With greater Honour than he had before If he remain impenitent like Saul God from the Throne shall cast both him and all His whole Descent and leave him not a Man To fill it though he had a Jonathan If Ahab-like his Mourning has respects To temporary Losses or Effects Like Ahab then it therewithal shall