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A52817	The signs of the times, or, VVonderful signs of wonderful times being a faithful collection and impartial relation of several signs and wonders, call'd properly prodigies, (together with some philosophical and theological descants upon them) which have been seen in the heavens, on the earth, and on the waters, as they have been testifyed by very credible hands, all of which have hapned within the compass of this last year 1680 : which may well be called another annus mirabilis, or wonderful year, wherein the Lord hath given us loud warnings to repent of our sins and return to him, that he may have mercy upon us / by C. N.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1681 (1681)	Wing N463; ESTC R32306	68,903	90

chiefly aimed at 2ly We do not find in our Case any seeking to this Apparition for that is Tantamount a Worshipping though there be no bowing and how far amounts holding Conference with Apparitions see above but yet it seems an higher step to obey their Commands especially such as are dissonant to the Law of Nature or Nations or Scripture which is not our Case neither doth this comport with the latter Instance though here 's a Divining Damsel yet not such an one as the Septuagints usually call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the Devil spake out of their Bellys for which cause also the Hebrews call them Oboth or Bottles because the Bellys of those Women thus made use of by the Devil swelled as big as Bottles when they began to Prophesy 2ly Neither do we hear of any gain either to her self or to her Masters here as appeareth there 3ly Neither do we find any Disturbance given to Gods Worship under specious pretences here as is found there They that desire to know more of those Divining Intrigues let them consult Baldwins Cases of Conscience Lib. 3. Pag. 533. to 620. c. too long here so much as to abridge in this small Treatise and other Casuists I add this only 1st If the Death of any be foretold by the Devil we ought not to believe it as from him the Lyar God can Cross it 2ly If God permit it 't is to harden the superstitious Observers of it 3ly 't is enough Gods Word foretels that all shall fall out for the best to them that love God Rom. 8.28 So ail's welcome so far as Gods Word guideth us we walk safely but if we step farther into a By-way 't will lead us down into the Chambers of Death I Omit the strange Apparitiors at Pons Town in Tipperary in Ireland attested by 16 persons Eye Witnesses and Printed The last and latest of Land-Prodigies omitting many others that come not yet well proved to my Hand is the Death of 3 Tower-Lyons called Old Charls Queen and Duke which is the more Remarkable because we do not find scarce in a whole Age any Record of the Death of so much as one of those Royal Long Lived Creatures the Keeper whereof is so much obliged both by Loyalty and Advantage to preserve them much less of so many and that within few days as if they had conspired to march off together the more to amuse and amaze this Tripple Realm for every Kingdom one to Exemplify it in our English Chroniels though something like it is said to happen in King Richards Reign yet I cannot find a fit Paralel unto this strange Prodigy upon Record save only in Henry the sixths Reign Whereof Sir Richard Baker who is generally owned as an Impartial Chronicler of former Times giveth us this Account That in the 18th year of Henry the sixth all the Lyons in the Tower Dyed Bakers Chron. pag. 199. This Kings Reign was attended with many mischiefs betwixt him and the then Duke of York Henry the Fifth after he had Conquered France and kept his Court with incompatable Magnificence for some time then he Returns with his Queen into England who was delivered of a Son at Windsor called therefore Henry the 6. of Windsor upon whom at his Birth his Father spake Prophetically I Henry of Monmouth have gain'd much and shall remain but a short time but Henry of Windsor shall Reign long and loose all and acording to this Paternal Prophesy the Son first lost His All in France and after 2ly His All in England In this Henry the sixths time France Normandy Aquitain were all lost from the English and in England such were the bloody Contentions between the two Houses of York and Lancaster that ten several fierce Battels were fiercely fought between the two Factions whereof 5 were fought in Henry the sixths time The first at St. Albans in which Yorks prevailed the second at Black-Heath in which the Confederate Lords were Conquerors the third at Northampton in which Henry the sixth was again overthrown the fourth at Wakefield in which the King was Victorious the sixth at Towton in which the new Duke of York carried it who became thereby King Edward the IV. In whose time also five more several set Battels were fought upon the same Quarrel as first that at Exham secondly that at Banbury thirdly the Battel of Loose-Coats fourthly that in Barnet Fields and fifthly that at Tewxbury Thus even the White Rose was Dyed Red over and over again with the blood of many brave men and a Period was never put to this Contention twixt the White and Red Rose until that concluding Battel at Bosworth Fields in which the Plantaginets expired and both the Houses were after united in Henry the VII Rosse's History of the World pag. 534. c. and Dr. Prideaux's History of Successions in our own Land pag. 333. Who tells a memorable Story of those such Catching Times as he calls them of one Burdet a Mercer in Cheap side who jocularly said to his Son if he would ply his Book he should be Heir to the Crown meaning his own House which had the Crown for its Sign and had no Relation to the Crown of the Kingdom for this Jest the Man lost his Life assuredly an Honest Jury would not have given him such hard Measure God bless us from such Contentious and such catching Times which were presaged not only by the Death of the Tower Lyons as above but also by several other Prodigies as a Blazing Star Monstrous Births a prodigious C●●k out of the Sea at Portland crowing three times and turning his Head to the South North and West and Pauls Steeple was fired with Lightning See Ra●●es History of the World pag. 534. And Sir Richard Bakers Chronology of the same time all these Prodigies were Presages of sad future Calamities Enquiry Why must the Death of Lyons be made a Prodigy seeing they are M●r●● as other Beasts and Dye only in the common course of Nature Answer the first Consider in the general A Lyon 1st For his Majesty that sits enthroned in his looks 2ly For his Magnanimity as disdaining to go out of his stately pace though Danger pursue him Prov. 30. v. 30. 3ly For his Formidableness insomuch that when the Lyon Roareth all the Beasts Tremble Am. 3.8 and have not power to fly from him though they can out run him hence he is the Hyeroglyphick of Dominion and worthily as well as vulgarly is called the King of Beasts Hereupon the Fall of a Lyon is as the Fall of Abner the Fall of a Prince 2. Sam. 3.38 'T is looked on as a Fatal Fall the Death of a Lyon was the presage of Julian's death saith Ammianus Marcellinus Answer the second more specially as the living Lyon Resembleth Majesty Domineering according to Aesops Apologue over the Ass and the Fox in sharing the Prey they had joyntly caught in Hunting So the Dead Lyon representeth Majesty Deceased according to