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B09165	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. / Translated from the French copy.; Avis pour les fidelles d'Angleterre. English.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656. Prediction concerning a coming persecution of Protestants.	1690 (1690)	Wing F2195; ESTC R177269	12,649	16

and we went into the chapel where we were wont to have sermon * The original is au lieu ou je fasois precher The London copy reads the room where we used to have prayers and there read the scriptures While that was doing it thundered under my feet tho' the place was paved and upon a rock We all heard the noise of thunder directly under me who was at a distance from them tho' 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 country where I dwelt the author of these Admonitions who lived so Christian a life 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 beginning were these words O King meaning the French king a greater King than thee commands or rules thee consider of the reckoning thou art to make sooner than thou thinkest And in the end O England if thou make thyself partaker in the crime thou shalt take part in the punishment The storm is violent full of horror and destruction Endeavour to prevent it that your country may be a country 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 Israel this is the time to watch and pray this is the time to cry aloud and spare not Sound the trumpet in Sion awaken the sleeping people Be instant in season and out of season and speak boldly to Jerusalem that she repent that so peace may be unto her and not sudden destruction for the thunder has already Here a few words are wanting being cut off in binding SOME PASSAGES EXTRACTED FROM A SCARCE BOOK WRITTEN BY THE EMINENTLY PIOUS MR. J. WELCH WHEN MINISTER OF JONZAC DURING HIS EXILE IN FRANCE RELATING TO THE APPROACHING DESTRUCTION OF THE ANTICHRISTIAN KINGDOM AS FORETOLD IN THE PROPHECIES OF SCRIPTURE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH COPY ENTITLED L'ARMAGEDDON de la Babylon Apocalyptique pr. in 1612. AS the Lord rained fire and brimstone from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah and overthrew the cities and all the plain so that the smoke of them ascended as the smoke of a furnace so undoubtedly will the Lord surprise papal Sodom as in a moment in one day shall her plagues come death sorrow and famine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire For strong is the Lord of hosts that judgeth her In an instant shall she be made desolate her great riches shall come to nothing and the smoke of her torment shall ascend up for ever The beast and the false prophet shall be taken and cast alive into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and all who worship the beast c. Rev. xiv 9 10 11. The Lord hath seen in thee and in thy prophets great and horrible enormities adulteries whoredoms lies and abominations more than Sodomitical Have you not wrought wickedness with a high hand Hath not profaneness gone forth from you among all nations You strengthen the people in their superstitions and idolatries Hear then Italian Sodom Hear ye princes of Sodom and ye people of spiritual Gommorah what the Lord hath pronounced against you He will feed you with wormwood and make you drink the water of gall Thou shalt be made a desolation so that every one that goeth by shall be astonished and hiss at all thy plagues No man shall abide there neither shall a son of man dwell in it for who is like me and who will appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that shall stand before me Jer. xlix 17 c. Hear then the counsel he hath determined against thee O Italy and the thoughts that he thinketh against the inhabitants of Rome The earth shall be shaken at the noise which shall bring upon them ruin He shall come up as an eagle he shall fly and stretch his wings over that great city and the hearts of her mighty men in that day shall be as the heart of a a woman in travail Behold a people shall come from the north and a great nation c. Jer. l. 41 42 43. Thou shalt become like Sodom in thy punishment as thou wast Sodom in thy sins and thy children as Gomorrah a place for breeding of nettles and salt pits and of desolation for ever This shalt thou have for a reward of thy pride Even as thou hast used reproaching taunts and boastings against the people of the Lord so the Lord shall be terrible against thee He will famish all thy gods Depart then quickly ye who are his people tarry not Save your lives your souls your bodies your families and your posterity Wash you make you clean Lo you are admonished of this Behold the patience and goodness of God leading thee to repentance Therefore while it is said to-day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts make haste arise save your life stop not in any place of the plain of this spiritual Sodom Ascend and save yourselves in the mountain of God Arrange yourselves on the side of the Lamb for those who are with him are called and holy Linger not and if there are any others pertaining to you kinsman son or daughter remove them far from these places for assuredly the Lord is about to destroy them because the cry of them is become exceeding great before the Lord. He will send his delegates and his holy ones to destroy them Therefore do not scoff at the warning for if you do not believe and obey the voice of the Lord you shall perish in these judgments And as for you who have departed thence tarry not in that plain Suffer not yourselves to be allured by the pleasures the plenty the opulence or delights of it Stretch not out your tents so far as Sodom for the men of it are wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly Their cry is increased their sin highly aggravated and the Lord is come down to see whether it be not so Remember the wife of Lot who is proposed for an example to all those who put their hand to the plough and look back and lay to heart that most alarming word of God enough to make ten thousand worlds to tremble If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth c. Heb. x. 26 27 28 29 31. and chap. vi 4 5. How fearful

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 Translated from the French Copy and printed at London with Licence Feb. 1690. ADVERTISEMENT THE following paper accidentally fell into the hands of the Editor bound up with a number of other fugitive pieces The title struck him as every thing that may seem to have any reference to the great events of the present time is ready to do He lays no undue stress upon extraordinary admonitions much less upon pretensions to modern prophecy seeing we have Moses and the Prophets and the holy Apostles to testify unto us a more sure word of prophecy to which we do well to take heed Yet it would be wrong to limit the divine sovereignty as to the ways in which Providence may give warning to a guilty people and impress the minds of some with regard to approaching danger The following is written in a pious strain and bears at least evident marks of sincerity and good intention in the writers Every one is left to judge of the marvellous part of it as he thinks proper But whatever opinion he may form of that the advice given may appear both salutary and seasonable for Britain in the present awful crisis It is therefore presented without farther comment and without alteration except in one or two phrases wherein the English translation does not so exactly express the meaning of the French original Introduction by the English Publisher THE original French of the 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 above three English miles from Montpelier with a considerable revenue thereunto belonging But he was forced to leave it and all that he had after two years imprisonment for 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 it might be and my good-will to my country and desire to serve them inclined me to lend 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 bur too much with both in a manifest tendency to the accomplishment of them And that the Reader may not to be so much disturbed as admonished by it for his better direction and instruction how to use it I thought fit to subjoin the principal part of the Bishop's predictions * Bishop Usher's prophecy is not here subjoined as it hath been lately and repeatedly printed in Scotland 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 word twenty times with a great deal of confidence The other a person whom I ought not to name without licence but of great honour by degree and much greater by real worth and virtue to whom the words were spoken hy the Bishop and who committed them to writing and was pleased to favour me with the perusal of the original 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 abandoned themselves to all kind of wickedness But the indignation of the Almighty hath begun to manifest itself 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 governors of our church and acquaint them that they should appoint a 3 days fast in that church which soever should first be attached by process of our enemies and they should see the effects thereof But I neglected that advice not knowing whence it came But about 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 Turene and to the Sieur Rouvigny and to Mr. Gache minister of Charenton and to the Synod of Languedoc And when the author who sent these Admonitions understood that nothing was done thereupon he 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 is 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 8 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