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A40467	The French prophet being the famous predictions foretelling the fate of France, with the ruin and downfall of the present French King, this ensuing summer, 1692. By the victorious aims of our gracious sovereign King William the III. With the great confusion and distress of several cities and sea-ports of France, the insurrections of the people in several parts thereof, thereby facilitating a descent upon France. Together, with several other notable predictions of that reverend and learned divine, D. B----ly; wherein is briefly hinted the speedy subversion of the French monarchy, by the confederate army, under His present Majesty. Licensed according to order.		1692 (1692)	Wing F2196A; ESTC R221224	4,256	10

THE French Prophet BEING The Famous Predictions Foretelling the Fate of France With the Ruin and Downfall OF THE Present FRENCH KING This Ensuing Summer 1692. By the Victorious Arms of our Gracious Sovereign King William the III. With the Great Confusion and Distress of several Cities and Sea-Ports of France The Insurrections of the People in several Parts thereof thereby facilitating a Descent upon FRANCE Being a Prophecy of a Great and Learned Man in France which was found in St. Rhemy in Provence and happily brought to Light by the Care of several French Protestants who escaped the French Kings Tyranny and safely arrived in England Printed both in English and French Together with several other notable late Predictions of that Reverend and Learned Divine D. B ly wherein is briefly hinted the speedy subversion of the French Monarchy by the Confederate Army under His present Majesty Licensed according to Order LONDON Printed for H. Marston in the Strand 1692 The French Prophet Or The Sad Fate of France Predicted THE present Tryal of Skill between the boundless Ambition of France and the tugging Confederacy engag'd against him affords Mankind no mean Hopes and Fears and no small Expectation of the Event And if Portents and Predictions we●e over the Prodroma's of extraordinary Accidents and Revolutions we have great Reason to believe that since the present Firment of Christendom is too violent to hold at a Stay and some great Change must certainly very shortly ensue we might reasonably expect some Propheticks pointing to this present Summer 1692. Though Prophecies 't is true generally meet the same Treatment from the present Age which the Patriark Noah's Prophetick Sermon of Forty Years whilst he was Building the Ark receiv'd from the Brutish Race of Mankind before the general Deluge Now the generality of Prophecies are commonly couch'd in such Obscurity that it is very difficult to explain them yet without Vanity I think I may assert these to be as free from that dark Obscurity as any that has come to light and perhaps those that speak as plainly to this Fourth Year of our present Gracious Sovereign K. William as can rationally be expected You have them in French the very Language they were writ in as well as English they were found with divers others in the Ruin of an old Monastry near the Place of the Authors Nativity the manner and way of writing them gives sufficient Assurance of their Antiquity and consequently can be no Sham or Invention To strengthen these I shall here insert some of the many late Prophetick sayings of a great Man of our Nation the Learned Dr. B ly who writing on the Fate of the present Times delivers himself to this Effect 1. The French Protestant Churches cannot be long without some Redress because the Time of the Anti-Christian Apostasie is now so near its end I look upon the Churches of Thyatira as the Emblem of those Churches of the Protestation that lye in the Bowels of Princes who yet own Antichristian Rome of which there is none so eminent and conspicuous as the French Protestant Churches with whom also the Vandois are Allyed 2. Seeing that there is an extraordinary Concurrance of gracious Signatures of God upon our present Soveraign there is great hopes God will stir him up to appear at this Time in so Honourable a Service as Scripture stiles it as of helping the Lord against those Mighties And if God be pleased to stir Him up He will undoubtedly appear with Him for I am bold in our God to say I shall not be mistaken in our King as to some extraordinary Service God hath to do by Him the time being so near and that on these great Reasons 1. That he is the Third Descendant of the Great Prince of Orange by whom God was pleased in the United Provinces to propagate the Protestancy and to give that curb to the grasp of that Time after the Vniversal Monarchy And because he fell a Martyr in it and receiv'd no Recompence from the Bounty of God equal after the general estimate of Providence I doubt not God hath reserved it for his Posterity and for the Prince that he hath raised at this Time to be so Serviceable to the Protestant Religion and inspired with so much Zeal and Courage for it 2. Our King as Prince of Orange but now under greater Stiles is One of the Princes and Nobles of France That as the first Works of those Churches were principally by Princes and Nobles proceeding of themselves In the same manner shall their Last greater Works be done In which regard our King appears an Instrument fitted by God as a Prince and Noble proceeding from themselves 3. Above all I persevere that within the Six next Summers viz. in 97. Anti-Christian and Turkish Tyranny shall Fall and a great Re-Reformation ensue And now if these things shall seem of value to so Sovereign an Authority let it please them to take care that Consideration may be had whether upon just Grounds what is or hath been offered can be refus'd viz. on due Debates according to the Records of Scripture Chronology History Reason and Experience without any other Reflections than what enter into the Merits of the Cause Advice 1. That the Arms of the Protestauts Refugees of France of the Vandois of Protestant Princes in general be highly valued Adv. 2. I would most humbly advise That there might be under so great an Authority and Influence an Assembly of Men Learned and loving the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ who might discover so admirable a part hitherto it may be called a Terra Incognita of Scripture even the stupendious Prophesies of it I am bold to say if I had as now God hath vouchsafed me understood Prophesie in the Years 48 and 50 and so onward in the very Top of those Powers over the Nation and kept close and steady to the Guidance of it I should certainly have foreseen the Re-enstating the Church of England that lay then in the Dust and so of the Royal Family that should do it Here begins The French Prophesie French Roy contre Prince le Due contre Roy Haine entre iceux Dissention horribile Rage Fureur fera toute Province France grand Guerre Changement terrible English King against Prince and Duke against King Hatred between them horrid Dissention Rage and Fury shall be in every Province Great Wars in France and horrid Changes Annotations This is a true Picture of the impending Miseries of France French Par Conflict Roy Regne abandonera Le plus grand Chess faillira au besoigne Morts profliger pen en rechapera Tous destrencher un en sera Testmoin English By a Battle the French King shall forsake his Kingdom The greatest Commander shall fail in time of need They shall be Killed and Routed few shall escape They shall be cut off one only shall be left for a Witness French La Ligue nevue d' Ansone fera

Guerre Que contre eux ils se viendront bander English The new League of Ansone shall make Wars So that they shall stand against them Annotations This speaks of a League and Insurrection that shall be at Bordeaux which is here called Ansone from a Famous Latin Poet named Ansonius who was Born in that City French Le Ciel de Plaucus la Cite nous presage Par Clercs insignes pur Estoiles fixes Que de Son Change subit laproche lage Ne pour Son bien ne pour ses male fiat English The Heavens foretelleth concerning the City Plaucus By famous Clerks and fixed Stars That the time of her suddain Change is near at hand Neither because of her Goodness nor Wickedness Annotations The City of Plaucus is Lyons because he was Founder of it it 's a Famous City in France That City is threatned here of a sudden Change caused neither by her Goodness or Wickedness but by a certain Position and Aspect of the fixed Stars which makes it fatal French Eu la Citè ou le Loup entera Bien pres de la les Ennemies seront Copie Estrange grand pais Gastera Aux Mouts des Alpes les annis passeront English In the City wherein the Woolf shall go Near that place the Enemy shall be An Army of Strangers shall spoil a great Country The Friends shall go over the Mountains of the Alpes French Des Deux duelles l'vn percera le siel Hay de lay ayme de sa Mere. English An English Prince Mars hath his Heart from Heaven Will follow his prosperous Fortune Annotations By this Stanza is promised to England a Martial Prince who hath his Heart from Heaven and with all endeavours follows his prosperous Fortune French Celuy qui la Principautè Tiendra par grade cruante Ala fin verra grand Phalange Par loup de feu tres dangereux Par accord pourroit fair mieux Autrement boira suc d' Orenge English He who shall the Principality hold with great Cruelty in the Conclusion shall see a great Army ruin'd by a most dangerous Fire-blow he might do better to make an Accord otherways he shall drink the Juice of Orange Annotations In the first Place here is an exact Discription of the French Power and Dominion which has been carry'd on by the greatest Cruelty and Oppression where ever they have been Conquerors so great have been the Desolations in the Empire and part of Italy especially in Savoy and the Palatinate especially the latter that there is not a Village left for many Miles together And he shall see his Army ruin'd by the most dangerous Blow of Fire By this Fire is plainly meant the force of Powder the now common and terrible Composition of the horrid Engines of War He might do better to make an Accord It is certainly the true Interest of France to lay hold on this wholesome Councel if the Pride and Ambition of the great Tyrant would refund the Acquisitions and ill gotten Victories to purchase that Peace which at present indeed is not agreeing with his Kidney Otherways he shall drink the Juice of an Orange Most certainly by this Juice of Orange must be meant The Arms of his present Majesty our most illustrious Monarch for want of which Accord not made nor now like to be perhaps before July next the Great Lewis will find the Force and Power of this Mighty Prince in the Bowels of France French Le grand D' Hungrie ira dans la Nacelle Le Noveau ne fera Guerre Novelle A Son voisin qu'il tiendra Assiege Et le Noire du avec Son Altesse Ne suffrira que par trop on le pres●e Duraut Trois ans ses Gens tiendra Range English The Great One of Hungary shall go to the Boat The New One shall not make a New War Against his Neighbour whom he shall Besiege on every side And the Black one with his Highness Shall not suffer him to be over-pressed During thre years he shall keep his People in order Annotations I shall here take notice only of the latter part which relates more immediately 〈…〉 And the Black one with his Highness shall not suffer hi● 〈…〉 be over-press'd that is the Spaniard with his Highness the Prince of Orange shall t●ke the Emperors part and make some Check to the Progress of France For the Black one must mean Spain the Epethite of Black being the vulgar Characteristick of the Spaniard and His Highness must mean his present Majesty more properly called His Highness in the Prophesie as the young Hannibal against Rome being an early Sworn Foe to France and though not so Potent a one yet no less Zealous a Champion of the Consederacy when only Prince of Orange During Three Years he shall keep his People in Order Here the English and French Prophet jump for here we come to the Old Prediction of this approaching 92 the Famous Fourth Year of His Majesties Reign before-mentioned During three Years of our Sovereigns Reign France shall hold up his Head against his Enemies and make hard shift to keep Peace at home But this great Fourth Year let him look for Domestick Insurrections and Rebellions from a People over-laden with intollerable Burthen of so long a War and feel the weight of the impending Bolts that hang over him whose Execution perhaps the Justice of Providence has thus long retarded to fall at last more home and more heavy When both the Eagle and the Son of Man shall be Exalted and the Lil●y meet the Fate it hath deserved FINIS