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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46355	The strange and wonderfull visions and predictions of William Juniper of Gosfield in Essex relating to the troubles of England, as they were by him delivered to Dr. John Gauden then at Bocking, and now Lord Bishop of Exon.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing J1191; ESTC R10908	8,698	20

THE STRANGE and WONDERFULL VISIONS AND PREDICTIONS OF WILLIAM JUNIPER Of Gosfield in Essex Relating to the Troubles of ENGLAND As they were by him delivered to Dr. JOHN GAUDEN then at BOCKING AND NOW LORD BISHOP OF EXON LONDON Printed for J. Davies and are to be sold ●y Simon Miller at the Star in St. Pauls Church-yard 1662. The strange Dreames and Predictions of William Juniper of Gosfield in Essex relating to the after Troubles of England as he related them to Dr. Gauden at Bocking ALthough I am farre from that vulgar Credulity or prophetick Itch to which the Learned Earle of Northampton and Sir Francis Bacon Lord Viscount Verulam with others observe the English humour is very subject but have rather a regardlesse diffidence of those Fancifull toyes as things commonly rising either from the distempered fancies or popular artifices of some people who love to make themselves appear somebody by amusing others and also having no great reputation at stake do easily put the veracity of their fore-tellings upon the contingency and hazard of such future events in which they know there can be no great variety or odds all things by an even-lay falling out either contrary to or consonant with that tenour which they venture to fore-tell and wherein they can forfeit little of their credit though they fail especially if they have the old art of Oracles to wrap up the misteries of their conceptions in such Generalities Obscurities and Ambiguitie of words which like pleited Pictures shall have severall aspects or representations according to the several stations of spectators § Yet having had opportunity more exactly to know the person and to receive an immediate account of himselfe who died Three or Four years b●fore the happy event verifyed some of his late predictions I think it not amisse by way of diversion to give even the graver and more serious world upon the occasion of my publishing those papers written in the darknesse and horrour of those times some account of what I know in those particulars and with which I was beforehand acquainted in the worst of Times and Things not that I then much valued them but yet I did not wholy disregard them but having made diligent enquiry of them I then laid them up in my Memory and for fear of mistake I presently wrote them down in my Memorialls soon after I had received a punctual information of them from his own Mouth § There are two things which give some repute to that that goes under the notion of Prophecy or Prediction First The credit of the Person foretelling Secondly The accomplishment of what was foretold The Validity of both these I shall with all Fidelity and Impartiality present to the Readers having no designe herein but to let them see in a true Glasse what my selfe have not a little wondered at since I have lived by the Mercy of God to see those things accomplished which were then so improbable when I first heard them England being then buried in such a Chaos of Confusion and oppressed with such a Tyrannous and vigilant power as required a great faith to expect any blessed Reformation of Church and Kingdome which was not to be relieved indeed by any ordinary power and humane counsel but only by divine Wisdome and Omnipotent Mercy § For the credit of the person William Juniper ●● Gosfield I knew him many years while I liv'd at Bocking he dwelling at Gosfield a mile from me and oft working in his Trade as a Bricklayer at Squire Wentworths House the Lord of Bocking my next Neighbour who would sometimes tell me merrily that Goodman Juniper had strange Fancies Dreams and Visions but withall that he was a very honest man I took little notice of the Man or his Fancies supposing him to be but a weak and crazy minded Man whose simplicity and Honesty were the best Apology for all he said possibly without fraud or affectation but mixt with some Fatuity After some years now full of trouble and terror when the new Modelled Army had shewed the King the two Houses their own Associates and all the world what Souldiers and Saints what Preachers and Princes they would be by levelling all things in Church and State to a Democracy Stratocracy and Anarchy about the year as I remember 1649. in the spring time Juniper comes one morning betimes to my House very importune to speak with me being told by my servants that I was not yet risen he desired he might have accesse to my Chamber which I permitted him looking upon him as a very harmelesse poor man when he was come to my Chamber dore he told me after the usual civility of a good morrow that he was that night commanded to come to me and to signifie to me what I should Preach Holinesse to the Lord Holinesse to the Lord Holinesse to the Lord which he repeated three times with an Emphasis so took his leave hastning though a wet morning to go to Four or Five other neighbour Ministers and sound the same Alarme to them This sudden and odd accesse of Juniper confirmed me in the thoughts that he was a little crazy full of Fancies and more to be pitied than regarded Afterwards as our English Affairs grew perplexed deplored and desperate my Neighbour Mr. Wentworth would now and then intimate to me what strange confidences Juniper had of a Revolution and Restoration of the Church and Kingdom How he had foreseen and foretold many Calamities which were come to passe c. Yet nothing could so weigh with me as to give Juniper any occasion to think that I had the least consideration or confidence of his Dreames Visions and Predictions Yet at last hearing from divers hands many strange expressions of his referring to the publique I sent for him one day as desirous alone and at leasure to speak with him and to see whether the man had such defects or darknings of reason as might wholy impute his Fancies to a crazy brain or melancholly dotage or whether there were any thing extraordinary and remarkable in him § He very Officiously came in a faire Summers morning to my house and walking with him alone in the very pleasant walks of my Garden I told him that I had heard many strange things relating to our times which were Fathered on him I seriously conjured him as in Gods sight to tell me the truth of things I told him he could not be ignorant how great a sinne a lye was especially when being forged in a mans own heart and imagination he should impute it to God as a Revelation Vision or prediction § The good man now above Sixty years old of a very comely and honest aspect with great plainnesse of Speech gave me thanks for my favour to him that I would vouchsafe to speak with him and to admonish him of that duty in truth-speaking which he owed to God to his own Soul and to all Men professed to me he would not speak any thing