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A76478 The French king's dream, which he had in his coach going to Marly : together with its explication / by the Sieur Van Beuninghen, late ambassadour from the States General here in England. ; Licens'd November 22. 1689. J.F. Beuningen, Koenraad van, 1622-1693. 1689 (1689) Wing B2089; ESTC R170519 9,007 28

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THE French King's DREAM WHICH He had in His COACH Going to MARLY Together with its EXPLICATION By the Sieur Van Beuninghen late Ambassadour from the States General here in England LICENS'D November 22. 1689. J. F. LONDON Printed for R. B. and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin in the Old Baily MDCLXXXIX THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER AMong others who have entertained Vs with their Reveries upon a late Dream of the French Kings Monsieur van Beuninghen has been very lately pleas'd to publish at the Hague his performances upon the same Subject both in French and Dutch. To gratifie the curious of our Nation they are also now put into English and the rather seeing He is a Man so eminent thro' the World on the account of his several Negotiations and long Ministry of Publick Affairs and more especially at the Court of Great Britain where he was Ambassador for many Years Tho' possibly this States-mans Friends will be sorry to find he has so far out-liv'd himself That from Secrets he is come to Revelations An Interpretation Of The DREAM WHICH The French KING had in His Coach going to Marly PARIS November the 11th The KING being in his Coach at Marly Dreamt He saw the Heavens on a Flame and that a very thich Smoak issued out of the Earth of which was formed a very Numerous Army of Men like to Black-Smiths And that the Person who Commanded them in chief was mounted upon a Horse half gray half green and that He was clad in a Coat half Gold half Iron wearing a Breast-plate of Lead and Brass Boots and having a Wooden-Sword He fell a Crying Now must Men Fight for the hour is come that they who will not Fight must Perish That then the KING heard two lamentable Screams and that He afterwards perceived that the Earth trembled and that all that Multitude of Smiths was swallowed up That in a little time after there appeared a fair Forest full of Stags and other Animals for Chace and that He call'd out to the Hunters who were surrounding it Kill Kill for the Game is good Whereupon he awak'd and told His Dream to the whole Court and added that He would give Twenty Thousand Golden Louises to know its Interpretation and then became very Pensive If this Article of the Gazettier be true as it is likely it first seems to me very remarkable that the French King who may be look'd upon as the Nebuchadonosor of our Time in Christendom has had a Dream or rather a Vision in Dreaming which He has taken so much to heart as to have declared He would pay so dear for its Interpretation And that the Great Assyrian Monarch had the same fondness but with so much the more Passion as that He had lost the remembrance of his Vision and that He stood in need of a new Manifestation which to know could only come from God whereas that to satisfie His Majesty there needs no more than a Man who understands the Interpretation of the Prophecies to which His Vision does relate I believe that the Great and Good God has endued me with this Grace and that I shall not swerve from the Truth in affirming That the King 's said Dream is come from Heaven to let His Majesty know that the last hour is come of the Accomplishment of the Prophecies grounded upon the Apparition of Nebuchadonosor's Image or Statue and of the second coming of our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ and of that Stone cut out without hand which will break to pieces and abolish all other Kingdoms by Establishing this of God and of the Saints here upon Earth will suddenly become manifest to give the final Conclusion to all the Prophecies I shall presuppose that they who shall read this have already taken or would be willing to take the pains of reading my Remarks and Annotations on St. John's Revelation and what is writ in my first Letter to David Pina concerning the true sence of the Prophecies of Daniel in the 2d and 7th Chapters so far as they are applicable to the Promise of the Reign of God and of the Saints upon Earth I moreover entreat them to read with attention the said 2d and 7th Chapters of Daniel the last verse of the 8th all the 9th and the 11 last verses of the 16th and the 13th and 14th of the 11th Chapter and the 16th verse of the 17th of the Revelations And then most maturely to consider whether the Heaven on a Fire does not evidently signify the just Anger of God denoted in the Revelations made by our Saviour to St. John by the Seven Angels which should inflict the last Plagues and of whom the three last which the King's Dream levels at are to be the most fatal as is very clearly said in the said last verse of the 8th Chapter The thick Smoak issuing from the Earth is doubtless that which the Gulph of the Bottomless Pit vomits out of its Flaming Furnace and which darkens the Sun and produces the strangely Monstrous and most pernicious Locusts or the most infamous and black Corrupters of Christian Morality and of true Felicity and the most dangerous Disturbers of the Publick Peace that have been in any time since there has been Men And who as my said Annotations and Remarks do make appear by Diabolical Artifices and the inconceiveable Blindness of those they have deluded have occasioned all the Wars and Inhumanities that have afflicted Christendom for above these 160 Years through the mad Disputes and Differences in Matters of Religion And so much the more Credence is to be given to this my Interpretation for that not only several of the Calvinist Writers have taken the Jesuits and such like Religious and Political Monks for the said Locusts but more especially because that my said Annotations have been communicated to those they so grievously accuse without any one having undertaken to Refute me among all the Prelates Professours Doctors and Preachers of the Three Sects now Ruling Namely of the Papal Lutheran and Calvinian Heresies to whom this horrible Crime is more especially imputed than to all other Heretical Assemblies that have swerv'd from the Vnion which is not to be found or procur'd save by Preaching the Gospel all alone without Explication and humane Doctrines as was done in the Primitive Church and by taking care that Charity which is the true Character of Christianity be Christianly observed with all the other Duties imposed upon us by the Precepts of the Gospel for the being Temporally and Eternally happy And as the said Locusts were changed into Froggs in the Revelations to make up the Scene of the impure and diabolical Spirits that have excited the present Wars or the War of that great Day of the Almighty God as is seen in the 14th and 15th Verses of the said 16th Chapter of the Revelations It is in no wise strange that those same Children of Darkness have appeared to the King under the Image of