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A80722	The visions and prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner, son of Obadiah Grebner, son of Paul Grebner, who presented the famous book of prophecies to Queen Elisabeth.	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6696; Thomason E1936_3; ESTC R210101	29,500	93

THE VISIONS AND PROPHECIES Concerning ENGLAND SCOTLAND And IRELAND Of Ezekiel Grebner Son of Obadiah Grebner Son of Paul Grebner who presented the famous Book of Prophecies to Queen ELISABETH Ezekiel 2. 4. For they are impudent Children and stiff-hearted I do send thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord God 5. And they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are a Rebellious House yet shall know that there has been a Prophet among them London Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Anchor in the lower walk in the New Exchange 166● ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the BOOK and AUTHOR PAUL GREBNER came out of Germany in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and presented to her a Book of Prophecies which she gave to Dr. Nevill Dean of her Chapel and he to Trinity College in Cambridge whereof he was Master where it remains still in the Library and has of late years been made very famous by the fulfilling of many of the Predictions in it concerning our Nation and mens hopes of the speedy accomplishment of some others concerning the re-establishment and exaltation of the afflicted Royal Family This Paul Grebner maried a wife with a considerable fortune in the North and had by her a Son called Obadiah Grebner and two Daughters who both dyed young after which he made a journey into his own Country leaving his family in England and there deceased His son abeut the middle of King James his time maried too in the North and had by his wife who lost her own life in the Child-birth this Ezechiel Grebner whom hee bred up very carefully in all manner of good Literature being himself a person of great Piety and Learning and esteemed to have the gift of Prophecie as well as his Father though nothing of that kind was published by him From these two sprung our Son and Grandchild of Prophets who was first educated a while at the University of Cambridge and after sent to several Academies beyond Seas where he got great reputation for his extraordinary parts and virtues at the beginning of the late troubles he returned into England and engaged with the Parliament not forsaking them till they as he was wont to say revolting had left their Cause and Him to shift for themselves among the men whom he had fought against Ater the death of the King not onely his detestation of the fact but his indignation to be so abused and deluded as to have his own innocency made instrumental towards the producing of such wicked Ends drew him to such an open and avowed hatred of them as occasioned the ruine of his estate the danger of his life and the losse twice of his liberty first under the Parliament and then under the Protector at the time of whose Funeral as appeareth by the Book it self this Vision happened to him which that he might write and publish with lesse danger than he had formerly spoken he made a journey into Germany and had no sooner done the thing he went for but he died at Strasburg last October He left all his papers with a Dutch Gentleman called Conrart Sluys who had lived long in England and spoke our language perfectly well There were of them as I understand several little Treaties in English and Latin a book of Verses upon different occasions some English some Latin and some Dutch for it seems he was a great Lover and Writer of Verse as you will find by his frequent Excursions into it in this Discourse and lastly three books of Visions and Prophecies concerning the Affairs of our three Nations The first which is but as it were a Preface to the other is that which is here published The second contains a Discourse with the Angel Guardian of England concerning all the late confusions and misfortunes of it The third denounces heavy judgements against the three Kingdoms and several places and parties in them unlesse they prevent them speedily by serious repentance and that greatest and hardest work of it Restitution There is there upon this subject the burden of England the burden of Scotland the burden of Ireland the burden of London the burden of the Army the burden of the Divines the burden of the Lawyers and many others after the manner of Prophetical threatnings in the Old Testament Thus I am told by the Gentleman who gave me this first book and who had read the other two This was left in his hands accidentally the other were carried as we believe into Italy by Mr. Conrart Sluys and we have used means to recover them from him if it be possible hoping that they may be blessedly instrumental towards that repentance and conversion of our Nations which is so evidently necessary for the diverting of all those calamities which are there foretold and which hang already so apparently over our heads that they may be seen even by Human Reason as well as foreseen by Divine Inspiration Both the Book and this Preface were written in the time of the late little Protector RICHARD THE VISIONS AND PROPHECIES Concerning ENGLAND SCOTLAND And IRELAND IT was the Funeral day of the late man who made himself to be called Protectour and though I bore but little affection either to the memory of him or to the trouble and folly of all publick Pageantry yet I was forced by the importunity of my company to go along with them and be a Spectator of that solemnity the expectation of which had been so great that it was said to have brought some very curious persons and no doubt singular Virtuosos as far as from the Mount in Cornwall and from the Orcades I found there had been much more cost bestowed than either the dead man or indeed Death it self could deserve There was a mighty train of black assistants among which too divers Princes in the persons of their Ambassadors being infinitely afflicted for the losse of their Brother were pleased to attend the Herse was Magnificent the Idol Crowned and not to mention all other Ceremonies which are practised at Royal interrements and therefore by no means could be omitted here the vast multitude of Spectators made up as it uses to do no small part of the Spectacle it self But yet I know not how the whole was so managed that methoughts it somewhat represented the life of him for whom it was made Much noise much tumult much expence much magnificence much vain-glory briefly a great show and yet after all this but an ill sight At last for it seemed long to me and like his short Reign too very tedious the whole Scene past by and I retired back to my Chamber weary and I think more melancholy than any of the Mourners Where I began to reflect upon the whole life of this Prodigious Man and sometimes I was filled with horror and detestation of his actions and sometimes I inclined a little to reverence and admiration of