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A40466	A French prophecy, or, An admonition to the English concerning their near approaching danger and the means to escape it : being a prediction of a gentleman of quality in Languedoc concerning the downfall of the French king ... to which is added a fuller account of Archbishop Usher's prophecy ... / translated from the French copy.; Avis pour les fidelles d'Angleterre. English.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656. Prediction concerning a coming persecution of Protestants.	1691 (1691)	Wing F2196; ESTC R34442	5,777	14

j'avance Etant en Etat de quitter la Province ou je faisois mon sejour il y a environ cinq á six ans l'auteur des avis qui a rêcu d'une vie si chretienne qu'on ne luy sçauroit rien imputer á qui Dieu a fait de Graces si extraordinaires que je ne pense pas que depuis plusiers siecles on ait oui parler de semblables me donna un depôt cachete me dit le tems que je devois l'ouuir Il avoit au commencent de cet êcrit O Roy un plus grand Roy que Toy te commande songe aut conte que tu dois rendre plutôt que tu ne penses Et a fin O Angleterre si tu te rends complice du crime Tu auras part á la peine L'orage est furieux rempli d'horreur de carnage Tachez á le prevenir á fin que votre Contree soit une Contre de paix une Isle fortunée un jardpin d Eden C'est le souhait de Votre tres obeissant Serviteur Saint Jean Guettes Israel c'est ici le tems de veiller de prier C'est le tems de cries á plein gosier de ne se point epargner sonnez du Cornet en Sion Reveillez les Peuples endormis Insistez en tems hors tems Ditez hardiment á Jerusalem qu'elle fe repente á fin qu'il y ait Paix pour elle non une souddain destruction Car le Tonnere a grondé An ADMONITION to the Christians of England HE must be very blind who perceives not that the Wrath of GOD hath long since been kindled against all parts almost of Europe so that he seems resolved to destroy all Flesh again as it were with a New Deluge since it is but too true that they have abandon'd themselves to all kind of Wickedness But the Indignation of the Almighty hath begun to manifest it self more especially against those who are called Protestants And by those means ought we to have been induced to Repentance and the Reformation of our Manners But Heaven and Earth are Witness that we have not so much as known or well considered What it is to afflict our Souls and amend our Lives Hence it is that the Judgments of God which we so little regarded though the Decree hath again and again brought forth so terribly have been daily more and more increasing This we in France have been made to see by Experience since we neglected the Admonitions which were given to us It is now twenty years and upwards since I received a Letter which admonished Me of Our approaching Miseries in France and the Means to prevent them Which were to call together the Governours of our Church and acquaint them that they should appoint a three days Fast in that Church which soever should first be attach'd by Process by our Enemies and they should see the Effects thereof But I neglected that advice not knowing whence it came But abut ten years after when I understood that and saw the Event of much of that which was foretold I acquainted those Gentlemen with it But they regarded not what I said Which made the Consequence so sad There are now in England divers Ministers who were present when I shewed the Letter which was sent me The same Advice which was given to me was sent also to Madam Turone and to the Sieur Rouvigny and to Mr. Gache Minister of Charenton and to the Synod of Languedock And when the Author who sent these Admonitions understood that nothing was done thrreupon be wrote thus to me Very unhappy is that Ship which being shaken in a grievous Storm the Mariners will not be roused even by a Child to pump out the Water which he sees running in till he be forced to cry out Every one shift for himself Wo to him who loves not our Lord Jesus and doth not carry the Divine Crucified One daily in his Heart About Eight or Nine years since a sudden stroke as of Thunder struck me down in the Day-time about Eight in the Morning according to three several Warnings thereof given to me three years before This was followed about six Weeks after by a Thunder in the Night Whereof I had also been admonished Whereupon I called up all who were in Bed in my House and we went into the Room where we used to have Prayers and there read the Scriptures While that was doing it Thundered under my Feet though the plate was paved and upon a Rock We all heard the Noise of Thunder directly under Me who was at a distance from them though all in the same Room as loud as it used to be in the Air and for some time Yet we left not off our Reading the Scriptures Those were terrible Claps and mysterious Presages and Forerunners of the Calamities which are ready to break out upon the Kingdoms of France and England There are in England several persons who were at my House when these things happened They understood not the Mystery of them but I am able to prove what I here declare About five or six years since when I was to leave the Countrey where I dwelt the Author o● these Admonitions who lived so Christian a Lif● as none could blame and whom God had favoured with such extraordinary Graces as few I believe in several Ages have heard the like deposited with me a sealed Paper and told me the time when I should open it In the begitning were these words O King meaning the French King a greate King than thee commands or rules thee consider of the Reckoning thou art to make soone● than thou thinkest And in the End O England if thou make thy self partaker i● the Crime thou shalt take part in the punishment The Storm is violent full of Horror and Destruction Endeavour to prevent it that your Countrey may be a Countrey of Peace a Fortunate Island and a Garden of Eden Which is the hearty desire of Your most obedient Servant Saint Jean Postscript You who are Watchmen of Israe● this is the time to Watch and to Pray this is t●● time to cry aloud and spare not Sound the Trump●● in Sion Awaken the sleeping People Be instant season and out of seasor and speak boldly to Jerusalem that she repent that so Peace may be unto he● and not sudden Destruction for the Thunder has a●ready begun Archbishop USHER's PREDICTIONS THe Year before he died being asked Wbether he did believe that Great Persecution of the Church of God in England Scotland and Ireland of which he had spoken with great confidence many years before in time of great Peace to be passed or yet to come He said That it was yet to come and that he did as confidently expect it as ever he had done adding That this said Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe And when it was answered It might be hoped that

A French Prophecy OR AN Admonition to the English CONCERNING Their near approaching Danger and the Means to Escape it BEING A Prediction of a Gentleman of Quality in Languedoc concerning the Downfall of the French King and several other Things relating to England To which is added A fuller Account of Archbishop Vsher's Prophecy than has ever yet been Printed agreeing with this and attested by the Lord Chief Justice Hale and another Person of Honour Translated from the French Copy Licens'd Feb. 25. 1690. THe Original French of following Admonition I received lately in Holland of the Author whose Name is thereunto subscribed a Gentleman of an Ancient Family in Languedoc whose Seat is an ancient Castle of the same Name with himself about three English Miles from Montpeilier with a considerable Revenue thereunto belonging But he was forced to leave it and all that he had after two years Imprisonment for his Religion And this is his Condition at present The Author of the Admonition which he mentions was his Younger Brother who died near three years since of about Forty eight years of Age a Person as he saith of great Piety and Credit and of extraordinary Knowledge of things absent and future And of him our Author received both Admonition before-hand of the things here said to have happened to him and an Explication afterward of the Mysteries of them and the Signification thereof He is not without Witnesses of the truth of what he relates but they are dispersed into several Parts and some of them now in England It was the Author's Desire to have it committed to the English as soon as might be and my Good-will to my Country and desire to serve them inclined me to lend him my Assistance therein without much difficulty both because it doth agree so much with the known Prediction of Bishop Usher and because the State and Course of Affairs seem to agree but too much with both in a manifest tendency to the Accomplishment of them And that the Reader may not be so much disturbed as admonished by it for his better Direction and Instruction how to use it I thought fit to subjoyn the principal part of the Bishop's Predictions Which I can assure the Reader to be no Imposture but True and Genuine from the Testimony of two Witnesses beyond all Exception The one the late Lord Chief Justice Hale who when I shewed it him in Writing before ever it was Printed and desired his Judgment of it told me he had heard him say the Substance of it the Substance of it repeating those words twenty times with a great deal of confidence The other a Person whom I ought not to name without License but of great Honour by Degree and much greater by real Worth and Vertue to whom the words were spoken by the Bishop and who committed them to Writing and was pleased to favour me with the perusal of the Original Avis pour les Fidelles d'Angleterre IL faut être dans un grand aveuglement pour ne s'être pas apperceu que la colere de Dieu paroit alummée depuis long temps presque sur toutes les parties de l'Europe de sorte qu'il semble que Dieu vueille comme par un nouveau deluge exterminer toute chair puisqu'il n'est que trop uray qu'elle s'est portée á toute sorte d'excess L'indignation du Tout-puissant a commencé á le respandre en particulier presque sur tous ceux qui portent le nom des Protestans Ces raisons devoient nous porter a nous amender nous corriger de nos vices Mais le Ciel la terre sont Temoins que nous n'avons sçeu qu c'estoit d'affliger nos Ames amender le train de nôtre vie C'est aussi pour cela que les jugemens de Dieu dont nous n'avons tenu Conte Lorsque leur decret a tant tant de fois si epouvantablement enfanté se sont tous jours r'enforcées L'Experience nous la fait voir en France n'ayant pas profité des avis qui nous avoyent ête donnes Il y a plus de vingt ans que je receus une lettre qui m'apprennoit nos malheurs me marquoit le moien de les prevenir qui êtoit d'assembler les Intendants Pasteurs Anciens de l'Eglise leur dire de faire faire une Jeune de trois jours á la premiere Eglise qui feroit attaquée qu'on en verroit les effets Je negligai cet avis non sçachant d'ou il venoit Mais environ dix ans apres l'ayant sçeu vu arriver bien de choses qui m'avoyent êté marquées j'en parlay á ces Messieurs qui n'en profitoyent pas Ce qui nous a fait voir de façheuses suittes Il y a en Angleterre plusieurs Ministres qui estoient presens Lorsque je leur vis voir la lettre qui m'avoit êté envoyée Madam de Turene Monsieur de Rouvigny Monsieur Gaches Ministre de l'Eglise de Charonton curent les mêmes avis que moy le Synode en eut en suite l'auteur voyant qu'on n'en profitoit pas m'ecrivoit en ces Termes Un Vaisseau ogitè d'une rude Tempete en piteux êtat Lorsqu'un Enfant n'avant su eveiller les Matelots pout sortir les eaux qu'il y voioit entrer est en-fin obligé de crier sauve qui peut Malheur á qui n'aime le Seigneur Jesus ne porte tous les jours ce Divin Crucifié dans son Ceur Il y a environ huiet a neuf ans que je receus un coup de Foudre de jour j'avois été averti de de ce coup trois ans avant qu'il tomba sur moy par trois diverses fois Ce coup fut suivi environ six semaines apres d'un coup de Tonnerre qui tomba de nuit dont même etoit averti Je fus obligé de faire eveiller tous ceux qui estoyent chez moy an lict Nous fusmes au lieu ou je faisois precher je faisois lire la parole de Dieu lorsque le Tonnere tomba sous mes pieds Le lieu ou nous estions estoit pavé les rochers au dessous Ou entendoit gronder le Tonner sous moy qui estois ' eloigné d'eux neanmoins dans le même endroit aussi fort qui'l a accoutumé de faire Il y fut assez de tems Nous ne discontinuasmes pas pourtant la lecture de l'E●●iture sainte Ces fui ent des coups terribles mystnrieux presages avantcourreurs des maux pres á fondre sur la France sur l'Angleterre Il y a en Angleterre plusieurs Personnes qui estoyent ches moy lorsque ces choses se passereat Ils en ignoroyent le Mystere mais je puis bien prouver ce que