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A41938	The great prophecy of King William's success in Flanders: or, The happy fourth year of His Majesty's reign giving several famous predictions of the honour of England, in His glorious actions to be performed this present year, 1692. Licensed and entred according to order.		1692 (1692)	Wing G1745; ESTC R218946	6,898	12

THE Great Prophecy OF King William's SUCCESS IN FLANDERS OR The Happy Fourth Year OF HIS MAJESTY's REIGN Giving several Famous Predictions of the Honour of England in His Glorious Actions to be performed this present year 1692. Licensed and Entred according to Order Printed at London And Re-Printed at Edinburgh 1692. The Great Prophecy of King William 's Success in Flanders c. THE Great Changes and Revolutions which have happen'd in the Affairs of the World have been very often usher'd in with some strange Passages and Predictions It would be tedious to recount all the prodigious Comets Visions Apparitions and Prophecies which have in all Ages given occasion of Wonder and Amazement ●his is most certain never was there a more active World than now and ●erhaps the mightiest Wheels are now at work that the great Machine ever set 〈◊〉 moving The long depending Tryal of skill between the vast Ambition of ●rance and the tugging World engaged against him affords Mankind no ●ean Hopes and Fears and no common Expectation And if Portents and ●redictions were ever the Forerunners of extraordinary Revolutions we have ●ome Reason to believe that since the present Ferment of Europe is too violent to ●old long at a stay and some great Change must suddenly follow if all those ●peaking Oracles are not quite silenced there may be some Propheticks point●ng to this present Age. Though Prophecies 't is true generally meet the ●●me Treatment from the incredulous World which Noah's Prophetick Sermon of forty years whilst he was building the Ark received from the insensible Race of mankind before the universal Deluge And as the generality of Prophecies are commonly so wrapt in Disguise and Riddle that is very difficult to give 'em an Interpretation yet without vanity 〈◊〉 here present the Reader with some few possibly as free from that Veil and Obscurity as any he has met with and perhaps those that speak as plainly to his Great Fourth Year of our present King William as can be expected The First shall be that ancient one going under the Title of Mr. Truswell the Recorder of Lincoln's Prophecy found the best part of a hundred Years ago in ●he Ruins of a Religious House near Lincoln and possibly first written as long before the barbarous Latin in which it was penn'd giving sufficient assurance of its Antiquity being much about the Standart of the Learning of those Times And that the Reader may be confident 't is no modern Novel or Fiction it has been in print these forty Years in a Treatise called A Voice from Heaven printed Anno 1652. And consequently as near as it resembles the present 1692. can be ●o foisted Sham or Invention The PROPHECY Lilium manebit in meliori parte movebitur contra semen Leonis Et stabit ex una parte inter spinas Regni sui cujus Regnum est Terra Lunae per totum Orbem timendum Et veniet Filius hominis ferens feras in brachiis cum multitudine Populi transibit multas aquas veniet in terram Leonis auxilium quarens à bestiis terrae suae Veniet Aquila ex Oriente aliis expansis radiis filii Hominis Et hoc anno Castrasuper Thamesin peribunt magn●● eris timor in toto Orbe in quadamparte Terrae Magna Praelia ernos inter multos Reges in illo die erit Pugna Cruenta in qua Lilium perde● coronum suam de qua coronabitur filius hominis Et quarto anno multa erunt pro fide certamina caput mundi erit ad Terram Filius hominis Aquila elevabuntur tunc erit Pax in Terris Vniversalis Et accipiet filius hominis mirabile signum Et erit magna frugum abundantia ibit in Terram Crucis In ENGLISH The Lilly shall remain upon the better part and he shall be moved against the Seed of the Lyon And be shall stand on one part amongst the Thorns of his own Kingdom whose Kingdom is the Land of the Moon which is to be dreaded throughout the World And there shall come the Son of Man bearing the Wild-beasts in his Arms with a multitude of People He shall pass many Waters and shall come to the Land of the Lyon looking for help from the Beasts of his own Countrey Then shall there come an Eagle out of the East and his Wings spread with the Beams of the Son of Man And in that year shall be destroyed Castles upon the Thames and there shall be great fear over all the World and in a part of the Land There shall be great Battles among many Kings In that Day shall be the Bloudy Field in which the Lilly shall lose his Crown wherewith the Son of Man shall be crowned and in the fourth year many Battles shall be for the Faith The Head of the World shall be brought to the Earth And the Son of Man with the Eagle shall be exalted And there shall be Universal Peace over all the World And the Son of Man shall receive a wonderfull Sign And there shall be great plenty of all Fruits of the Earth And he shall go into the Land of the Cross The Lilly shall remain upon the better part By the Lilly is plainly meant France whose Ensigns are the Lillies shall remain on the better part plainly signifies the long Success and Triumph that France has obtained so many Years together the better part being interpreted the Conquering side the Glory Greatness and uninterrupted Prosperity of that encroaching Monarch having sufficiently hitherto clamed him the Title of Conquerour And be shall be moved against the seed of the Lyon That is He shall make War against the Vnited Provinces and Spanish Netherlands who are altogether called the Belgick Lyon and give the Lyon for their Ensign the very Figure of their Countrey in the Man being observed to resemble a Lyon And be shall stand upon one part amongst the Thorns of his own Kingdom His standing upon Thorns signifies the Uneasiness of his own Kingdom the Subjects of France from the Tyranny and Slavery they groan under the long Ambition of so Aspiring a Prince laying no little Yoke and Oppression upon that miserable People Whose Kingdom is the Land of the Mon. And the Land of the Moon must mean France still so called from the aforesaid Uneasiness of the French who only want some happy and favourable hour possibly under the umbrage of some kind Invasion to shake off their long Yoke and change their Fetters for Liberty the Moon being always the Emblem of change as indeed the whole Prophecy as you will find in the sequel looks that way Which is to be dreaded throughout the World Here this dreaded Kingdom plainly points to France whose Power and Growth has but too long and too truly been the Ter●our of the World And there shall come the Son of man who carries the wild Beasts in his arms This must intend the King and Kingdom of England which 〈◊〉 so distinguishing a

Difference from all other Princes that no Arms but those ●f England pretend to wild Beasts a part of their Escutcheon With a multi●ude of people With a multitude indeed as Generalissimo of the Confederacy so many Nations and People fighting under his Standard He shall passe many waters and shall come to the Land of the Lyon looking for help from the Beasts of his own Country The passing of many Waters can apply to nothing but our present Soveraign his first Expedition for ●e Redemption of England his Voyage to Ireland his passing the Boyne his ●uccesse over the Shanon his several Expeditions to Flanders all manifestly poin●ng at no other Prince His coming to the Land of the Lyon his Embarquing or Flanders looking for help from the Beasts of his Own Countrey that is ●xpecting assistance from the States General of the United Provinces the na●●ve Countrey of our present Sovereign The word Beasts in the Language 〈◊〉 a Prophecy meaning the People ' Then shall there come an Eagle ●●out of the East and his wings spread with the Beams of the Son of man ●●ere is plainly decypher'd his Imperial Majesty of Germany whose Ensign is ●●e Eagle display'd and his Wings being being spread with the Beams of the Son 〈◊〉 man denotes the Confederacy between England and the Empire the spread●●g the Imperial Wings by the Influence of the English Beams being a Prophe●● truly so fulfilled in his Britanick Majesty's vigorous Espusing of the common ●uarrel of Christendom and the Dependence the whole Confederacy has upon 〈◊〉 at Potent and Leading Hero and Champion of their Cause ' And in this year shall be destroyed Castles upon the Thames and there shall be great ●ear over all the World and in a part of the Land These Castles upon 〈◊〉 Thames undoubtedly can signifie nothing but the Naval Preparations ●hose floating Castles the Fleets that shall be engaged in this Quarrel The ●●ar that shall be over the World being no more than the universal Apprehen●●ns on all sides together with the Eyes and Concerns of all Nations being ●●t and intent upon the Fortune and Successe of such formidable Preparations ●nd that Fear that shall be in a part of the Land may very reasonably be ap●●ed to the present state of England where the Difference of Parties and Divi●●ns since the late Revolution have possibly created some particular Fears in ●●gland more and above those of the whole World besides so highly as be●●re said instructed in the Common Cause of Christendom ' There shall ●e great Battels amongst many Kings This still confirms the present Con●●deracy in which all Europe stands engaged ' In that day shall be the Bloudy Field 〈◊〉 which the Lilly shall lose his Crown where-with the Son of man shall be ●rowned Here we come to the concluding Stroke that there shall be one ●ore remarkable Great Day being the Defensive Blow in which the Lilly viz. ●rance shall be subdued and lose her Crown a Victory that shall be the particu●●r Trophy of England and the vanquished Diadem of France the Conque●●ur's Prize and Reward Nay the very next Paragraph assigns the very Year in which this Defeat or Overthrow of France shall be accomplished viz. And in the fourth Year many Battels shall be for the Faith and the Head of ' the World shall be brought to the Earth and the Son of man and the Eagle shall be exalted Now what can this Fourth Year in this reasonable Interpretation direct but this very 1692. the Fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign when the Son of man and the Eagle viz. the King of England and the Emperor shall be so highly exalted by bringing down the Head of the World to the earth viz. The French King that aspires at least to be the Head of the World and indeed who has but too long stood fair for being so The only thing tha● hitherto appears most mystical through the whole Prophecy is ' Battles for the 'Faith as if thereby were intimated some Religious War which indeed is not the present Case of Europe But what pro fide the words in the Original should amount to pro fide Christiana is going beyond the Text and truly to make this finishing part all of a piece with the foregoing Discourse we have all imaginable reason to construct the word Fides more inclining to Fidelity in opposition to the Infidelity of France And so the construction will run thus Viz. That these many great Battles in this great Fourth Year shall be fought in the Cause of Righteousnesse Honour Justice and Truth by the Confederacy for Recovery of so many Towns Provinces Principalities and Kingdoms torn from 'em by the Rapine and Violence of the French King or rather by his Treachery and Gold This being the true pro fide for which this just War is waged against that great Infidel of the World so notoriously guilty o● all manner of Breach of Faith Leagues Covenants nay Oaths themselves ' And ' there shall be Universal Peace over all the World Undoubtedly the subduing of France must soon settle the whole World in Peace and Plenty accordingly follow And the Son of Man shall receive a marvelous sign and shall go into the Land of the Cross What this wonderful Sign shall be we must expect from Time that part of the Prediction being above the Reach o● Foresight and Conjecture nor can we dive so far as to assign any particular Interpretation to that last part his going into the Land of the Cross unless w● may for once adventure to give this meaning to the Close of the Prophecy viz. That this our Great son of man shall finish his Race of Glory by acquiring a ye● brighter Crown that is from the Hand of the Greater Son of Man when a● the last Trophy and Reward of Vertue and Honour he shall be received into th●● Land of the Glorified Sufferer on the Cross the Kingdom of Bless Thus far our English Prophecy And now let us hear something from Prophet of their own the famous Nostradamus the great Favourite of thre● French Kings Henry the 2d Francis the 2d and Charles the 9th Celuy qui la Principaute Tiendra par grade cruanté Al● fin verra grand Phalange Par Coup defen tres dangereux Par accord pourroit fair mieux Autrement hotrasue D' Orenge In ENGLISH He we who shall with great Cruelty hold the Principality in the Conclusion shall see a great Army ruined by a most dangerous Fire●●low he might do better to make an Accord otherways he shall drink the juice of Orange Here is first a plain Description of the French Dominion which is certainty carryed on by the greatest Cruelty and Oppression wherever their Arms have made a Conquest so great are the Desolations of Germany especially Alsace and all that pleasant populous and fertile Countrey along the Rhine that there is scarce an Inhabitant or a Village left for many Leagues together to make complaint of the