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A64674	The prophecy of Bishop Usher unto which is added two letters, one from Sir William Boswell ... to the Most Reverend William Laud ... : the other from the Reverend John Bramhall ... to the Most Reverend James Usher, late Archbishop of Armah.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1687 (1687)	Wing U209; ESTC R12466	4,824	12

THE PROPHECY OF Bishop Usher Unto which is Added TWO LETTERS ONE FROM Sir WILLIAM BOSWELL Ambassadour at the Hague To the Most Reverend WILLIAM LAUD Late Archbishop of Canterbury The other from the Reverend JOHN BRAMHALL Bishop of Derry in IRELAND To the Most Reverend JAMES USHER Late Archbishop of Armah LONDON Printed in the Year 1687. THE PROPHECY OF Bishop Usher THE Prediction of the most Learned and Pious Arch-bishop Usher is very remarkable as it was Printed about seven years ago with Licence and the Truth of the matter of Fact therein delivered never that I know of denied but confirmed by many which in short was thus That the year before this holy Primate died who was Buried in the Abbey at Westminster 17 of April 1656. The Usuper Cromwel allowing 2001. towards his Funeral so great his Worth that it even charmed that Tyrant otherwise far from being a Friend to any of his Profession An intimate Friend of the Arch-bishop's asking him amongst other discourse what his present Apprehensions were concerning a very great Persecution which should fall upon the Church of God in these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland of which he had heard him speak with great confidence many years before when we were in the highest and fullest state of outward peace and settlement and whether he did believe those sad Times to be past or that they were yet to come He answered That they were yet to come and that he did as confidently expect it as ever be had done Adding That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe His Friend arguing that he hoped the afflicton might now be over and be intended of our late calamitous Civil Wars The Reverend Prelate turning towards him and fixing his Eyes upon him with that serious and severe Look which he usually had when he spake God's Word and not his own and when the Power of God seemed to be upon him and to constrain him to speak said thus Fool not your selves with such hopes for I tell you all you have yet seen hath been but the beginning of sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ who will ere long fall under a sharper Persecution than ever yet has been upon them and therefore said he to him Look you be not found in the outward Court but a Worshiper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will measure all those that profess his Name and call themselves his People and Outward Worshipers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The Outward Court says he is the formal Christian whose Religion l●es in performing the outside duties of Christianity without having an inward Life and Power of Faith and Love uniting them to Christ and th●se God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles But the Worshipers within the Temple and before the Altar are those who do indeed Worship God in Spirit and in Truth whose Souls are made his Temples and he is honoured and adored in the most inward thoughts of their Hearts and they sacrifice their Lusts and vile affections yea and there own Wills to him and th●se God will bide in the hollow of his Hand and under the shadow of his Wings and this shall be one great difference between this last and all the other preceding Persecutions For in the former the most eminent and Spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer m●st and were most violently fallen upon but in this last Persecution these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as ever this storm shall be over for as it shall be the sharpest so it shall be the shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and formal Professors but the true Spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be over past His Friend then asked him By what means or Instruments this great Tryal should be brought on He answered by the Papists His Friend replyed That it seemed very improbable they should be able to do it since they were now little countenanced and but few in these Nations and that the Hearts of the People were more set against them than ever since the Reformation He answered again That it would be by the hands of Papists and in the way of a suddain Massacre and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it He also added That the Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of Rev. 11. to whom the Outward Court should be left that they might tread it under Foot they having received the Gentiles worship in their adoring Images and Saints departed and in taking to themselves many Mediators And this said he the Papists are now designing among themselves and therefore be sure you be ready This gracious man repeated the same things in Substance to his only Daughter the Lady Tyrril and that with many Tears and much about the same time A Letter from Sir William Boswell to the most Reverend William Laud late Arch-bishop of Canterbury remaining with Sir Robert Cotton's choice Papers Most Reverend AS I am here employ'd by our Soveraign Lord the King vour Grace can testify that I have left no Stone unturn'd for his Majesty's Advancement neither can I omit whenever I meet with Treacheries or Conspiracies against the Church and State of England the sending your Grace an Account in General I fear Matters will not answer your expectations if your Grace do but seriously weigh them with deliberation For be you assur d the Romish Clergy have gull'd the misled Party of our English Nation and that under a Puritanical Dress for which the several Fraternities of that Church have lately received Indulgence from the See of Rome and Council of Cardinals or to educate several of the young Fry of the Church of Rome who be Natives of his Majesty's Realms and Dominions and instruct them in all manner of Principles and Tenents contrary to the Episcopacy of the Church of England There be in the Town of Hague to my certain Knowledge two dangerous Impostors of whom I have given notice to the Prince of Orange who have large Indulgences granted them and known to be of the Church of Rome altho they seem Puritans and do converse with several of our English Factors The one James Murray a Scotchman and the other John Napper a Yorkshire Blade The main drift of these Intentions is to pull down the English Episcopacy as being the chief Support of the Imperial Crown of our Nation For which purpose above sixty Romish Clergy-men are gone within these two Years out of the Monasteries of the French King's Dominions to Preach up the Scotch Covenant and Mr. Knox his Discriptions and Rules within that Kirk and to spread the same about the Nothern Coasts of England Let therefore His Majesty have an inkling of these

Crotchets that he might be persuaded whenever Matters of the Church come before you to refer them to your Grace and the Episcopal Party of the Realm For there be great Preparations making ready against the Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Church of England and all evil Contrivances here and in France and in other Protestant Holdings to make your Grace and the Episcopacy odious to all Reformed Protestants abroad It has wrought so much on divers of the Forreign Ministers of the Protestants that they esteem our Clergy little better than Papists The main things that they hit in our Teath are our Bishops to be called Lords The Service of the Church The Cross in Baptism Confirmation Bowing at the Name of Jesus The Communion Tables placed Alter-ways Our manner of Consecrations And several other Matters which be of late buzz'd into the Heads of the Forreign Clergy to make your Grievances the less regarded in case of a Change which is aimed at if not speedily prevented Your Grace's Letter is carefully delivered by my Gentleman 's own Hands unto the Prince Thus craving your Graces hearty Prayers for my Undertakings abroad as also for my safe arrival that I may have the Freedom to kiss your Grace's Hands and to tell you more at large of these things I rest Your Graces most Humble Servant W. B. Hague June 12. 1640. A Letter from the Right Reverend J. Bramhall Bishop of Derry afterwards Primate of Ireland to the most Reverend James Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh Most Reverend I Thank God I do take my Pilgrimage patiently yet I cannot but Condole the Change of the Church and State of England And more in my Pilgrimage than ever because I dare not witness and declare to that straying Flock of our Brethren in England who have misled them and who they are that feed them But that your Lordship may be more sensible of the Churches Calamities and of the Dange●s she is in of being ruin'd if God be not Merciful unto Her I have sent you a part of my Discoveries and it from credible Hands at this present having so sure a Messenger and so fit an Opportunity It plainly appears that in the Year 1646 by Order from Rome above 100 of the Romish Clergy were sent into England consisting of English Scotch and Irish who had been Educated in France Italy Germany and Spain part of these within the several Schools there appointed for their Iustructions In each of these Romish Nurseries these Scholars were Taught several Handicraft-Trades and Callings as their Ingenuities were most bending besides their Orders or Functions of that Church They have many yet at Paris a fitting up to be sent over who twice in the week oppose one the other one pretending Presbytery the other Independency some Anabaptism and other contrary Tenents dangerous and prejudicial to the Church of England and to all the Reformed Churches here abroad But they are wisely preparing to prevent these Designs which I heartily wish were considered in England among the Wise there When the Romish Orders do thus Argue Pro and Con there is appointed one of the Learned of those Convents to take Notes and to Judg And as he findes their fancies whether for Presbytery Independency Anabaptism Atheism or for any new Tenents so accordingly they be to act and to exercise their Wits Upon their Permission when they be sent abroad they enter their Names in the Convent Registry also their Licences If a Franciscan if a Dominican or Jesuit or any other Order having several Names there Entered in their Licence in case of a discovery in one place then to fly to another and there to change their Names or Habit. For an assurance of their Constancy to their several Orders they are to give Monthly Intelligence to their Fraternities of all Affairs where-ever they be dispers'd so that the English abroad know News better than ye at home When they Return into England they are Taught their Lesson to say if any enquire from whence they come that they were poor Christians formerly that fled beyond-Sea for their Religion-sake and are now Returned with glad News to enjoy their Liberty of Conscience The 100 Men that went over 1646 were most of them Soldiers in the Parliament's Army and were daily to correspond with those Romanists in our late King's Army that were lately at Oxford and pretended to Fight for His Sacred Majesty For at that time there were some Roman-Catholicks who did not know the Design a contriving against our Church and State of England But the Year following 1647 many of those Romish Orders who came over the Year before were in consultation together knowing each other And those of the King's Party asking some why they took with the Parliament's side and asking others whether they were bewitched to turn Puritans not knowing the Design But at last secret Bulls and Licences being produced by those of the Parliament's side it was declared between them there was no better Design to Confound the Church of England than by pretending Liberty of Conscience It was Argued then that England would be a second Holland a Common-Wealth and if so what would become of the King It was answered Would to God it were come to that point It was again reply'd your selves have Preached so much against Rome and his Holiness that Rome and her Romanists will be little the better for that Change But it was answered You shall have Mass sufficient for 100000 in a short space and the Governors never the wiser Then some of the mercifullest of the Romanist said This cannot be done unless the King Die upon which Argument the Romish Orders thus Licenced and in the Parliament Army Wrote unto their several Convents but especially to the Sorbonists whether it may be Scrupled to make away our late Godly King and His Majesty His Son our King and Master who Blessed be God hath Escaped their Romish Snares laid for him It was returned from the Sorbonists That it was Lawful for Roman Catholicks to work Changes in Governments for the Mother Churches Advancement and chiefly in an Heretical Kingdom and so lawfully make away the King. Thus much to my knowledge have I seen and heard since my leaving your Lordship which I thought very requisite to inform your Grace for my self would hardly have credited these things had not mine Eyes seen sure Evidence of the same Let these things Sleep within your Gracious Lordships Breast and not awake but upon sure Grounds for this Age can trust no Man there being so great Fallacy amongst Men. So the Lord preserve your Lordship in Health for the Nations Good and the Benefit of your Friends which shall be the Prayers of Your Humble Servant J. Derensis July 20. 1654. These two Letters were taken out of that Treasury of choice Letters Published by Dr. Parr his Lordships Chaplain and Printed for Nathaniel Ranew at the Kings-Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard 1686. FINIS