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A49257 The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy. Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large. 1651 (1651) Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305 41,319 88

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they are the keys that unlock the doors of Hell propagate industry the arts and sciences travels voyages geography the globes the maps c. among the poor squander God's money in all such employments but let holy writ be always uppermost in your thoughts and the subjects of your conversations when the others are not absolutely necessary become domesticks and ●ay no more ridiculous fashionable vis●ts do not continue to make Gods of your filthy carcases with made dishes Iuscious meats and ●rinks or other vicious extravagancies you must certainly give an account of every shilling you unnecessarily lay out on your persons and families and if contrary to the observations made here and in the new testament th●n the dreadful and intolerable sentence is 〈◊〉 for an endless eternity A Seasonable Hint Dear F●llow Traveller thro' the Wilderness of this World YOU and I must soon appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ and as we may possibly never meet again in this ●if● a 〈◊〉 Hints concerning that most joyful or most awful Event may not be unseasonable The Bible is the word of the living God for all Scrip●ure is given by inspiration of GOD holy men of GOD s●ake and worte as they were move● by the HOLY GHOST The follwing Hints taken from that Divine Book deserve your immediate and most serious consideration The word of GOD assures us that you and I are Sinners for GOD hath n●lu●ed all under Sin There is none that doeth Good and 〈◊〉 not no not one we were even sh●p●n in Iniquity and in Sin did our Mother con●●ive us Another awful Truth contained in Scripture is that the wages of Sin is Hell and that it is appointed unto all men once to a●e and after Death the Iudgment that heart searching judgment where not an action in your life not a word of your tongue nor a thought of your heart will escape the notice of that JESUS who will be the Judge of both the quick and the dead then the righteous and the wicked will recei●● according to the Things done in the Body whether 〈◊〉 be good or evil The righteous shall go away into everlasting Life but the wicked will be ●ast down to Hell to be tormented with Devils and damned Spirits for ever and ever Oh how dreadful will that be to you and m● if thro' our Sins we should come into that ●lace of torment I would further ●int to you that the blessed GOD hath manifested his grace and love and hath shewn his tender pity and compassion in giving his dear Son the LORD JESUS CHRIST to be a REDEEMER and SAVIOUR of poor lost Sinners that JESUS is both God and Man in one Divine Person that he might be able to save the very worst of Sinners who come unto GOD thro' him His blood was shed on the cro●s for your Redemption from Sin Death and Hell His spotless Righteousness was wrought out for your eternal justification if you indeed and in Truth believe in him He obeyed the Law of GOD in your room and 〈◊〉 and be died that you might not die eternally and is that glorious SUN of RIGHTEOUSNESS that will arise and shine upon his People for ever and ever In order to your saving Knowledge of JESUS CHRIST your having ●aith in him and a living Union with him a very great change must pass in your heart and li●e This change is the peculiar work o● the HOLY GHOST and is called in Scripture RE●ENERATION or the NEW BIRTH Except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God You know that this divine Change manifests itself by a heart deeply humbled under a sense of Sin and an earnest desire after Salvation It further shews itself by a discovery of JESUS CHRIST as a suitable compassionate and all ●ufficient Saviour and by a holy life and conversation To them that believe CHRIST is percious He is the Chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely Oh is he ●o to you and me ●xamine your heart daily on this weighty Question Do you know JESUS CHRIST Do you love him Are you devoted to him and do you put all your trust in him If you do you are happy If not your condition is most miserable L●t me beseech you by the mercies of GOD by the Love of JESUS and by the worth of your precio●s Soul that you earnestly pray O! my Heavenly FATHER forgive my Sins and ●eveal thy dear SON in me blessed JESUS let me be redeemed by thy Blood and clothed with thy Righteousness Oh! holy and blessed SPIRIT ●anctify my heart be in me a Spirit of frequent and fervent prayer Give me faith in JESUS CHRIST Teach me to love him and give me Grace to grow like him and make me what thou wouldst have me to be Guide me by thy counsel and fit me for thy Glory Let me beg of you my dear to give up your heart to these Things that we may meet in Heaven and be for ever with the LORD I conclude with intreating you most affectionately to consider these things directly Life is uncertain DEATH JUDGMENT HEAVEN and HELL are at hand and are awful Things devote your time to seek an interest in JESUS CHRIST as your SAVIOUR and REDEEMFR ask and you shall re●●ive seek and you shall find kno●k and it shall be opened unto you That the Lord may bless these hints to your Soul is the earnest Prayer of your hearty well-wisher For JESUS ' sake CHRISTIANUS The Quaker's Advice AS I have often in passing along the streets and highways heard the Most Sacred Name very profane●y made use of both by men and women and many grievously calling for damnation on themselves and one on another my heart has been and is deeply afflicted t●ereat and therefore I beseech you in the Name of JESUS CHRIST do not defile your Souls which are dear and precious by any wilful sin and amongst other things do not ta●e the Holy Name of God in vain for the Lord will not hold him or her guiltless that taketh his holy Name in vain GOD is willing to save you why should any of you lose and destroy yourselves Observe this attentively for notwithstanding all that the LORD has done and is d●ing for us such as die in their sins where he is gone they can never come Abstain from drunkenness and all excess and from every appearance of evil love one another as JESUS CHRIST hath loved you apply yourselves to the witness of God within you which reproves you for evil submit to and obey its holy manifestations and discoveries and it will do much more for you than a●● you can hear from any man This witness of GOD is the word of his Grace even the word of Life the Holy Ghost which is able to save your souls In the love of the Gospel I invite you all to come and taste how good and merciful the LORD is towards all those that return to him with their whole hearts If you
THE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL PREDICTIONS OF Mr. CHRISTOPHER LOVE Minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury London WHO WAS BEHEADED ON TOWER-HILL IN THE TIME OF Oliver Cromwell's Government of England GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF BABYLON'S FALL And in that Glorious Event A GENERAL REFORMATION OVER ALL THE WORLD With a most Extraordinary PROPHECY OF THE LATE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE AND THE Downfall of the Antichristian Kingdom In that Country BY M. PETER JURIEU ALSO NIXON's CHESHIRE PROPHECY LONDON PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS TO THE PUBLIC THE following Prophecies some of which have been accomplished in our own time must appear interesting and as such we publish them those of Mr. LOVE promise great events which must happen before the present generation passes away and as to Monsieur JURIEU's predictions relative to the French Revolution they point out so clearly part of what has already come to pass in France that it may be reasonably presumed the rest will be verified in due time PREDICTIONS OF Mr. CHRISTOPHER LOVE A FEW nights after he was sentenced to be b●●eaded on Tower-hill which was on the 22d day of August 1651 ten days before his appointed time by the sentence he received at the bar being one night visited by two of his intimate acquaintances or bosom friends as he himself called them they began to complain of the cruelty of the times and the malice and usage of time-serving brethren to which Mr. Love answered And think you this is an evil time No no this is the very time when grace and true god●iness can be distinguished f●om hypocrisy many have followed Christ hitherto for the loaves and are now turned back for the roughness of the way and the sore trial and tribulation which others met with who are gone be●ore them There are many in London at this very day who think to go to heaven in their gilded coaches and have denied Christ's cause before men against whom I now witness and Christ in his never failing word has promised to deny all such before his father and the holy angels This is the time to discern be●ween him that s●rveth God and him that serveth him not They formerly were my familiar acq●ain●ance in fellowship and sweet converse I sent this day to have a few words with them here in prison but they would not come for their countenance is fallen their consciences wounded they cannot look me in the face because I knew of their resolution and was a witness to their perjuration But ah how will they look the blessed Jesus in the face in the morning of the resurrection what answer or excuse will they have for what they have done O foolish people who think to escape the cross nay you must all suffer persecution who follow the Lamb we must be hated of all nations for Christ's sake we must come thro' great tribulation thro' the fiery furnace of affl●ction before we can enter the land of joy and felicity Know ye not that the souls that were slain for the testimony of Jesus are placed under the altar Happy happy are those men at this day and ever shall be happy who suffer for Christ's sake in a right and charitable way thro' love to his cause and honesty of heart not thro' pride and hypocrisy without the root of the matter to have it said they died 〈◊〉 these are they who will miss their mark and those who denied the call and looked back shall never have the honour to find it I am now pointed out by many to be in a destitute and forlorn condition but I would not exchange my state no not for all the glory that 's on the earth I find my R●deemer's love stronger in my bonds than ever I did in the days of my liberty therefore I hold living here as death itself I am as full of love and joy in the Holy Spirit as ever bo●●le was fi●led with new wine I am ready to cry out The spirit of the Lord is upon me I will not take upon me to prophecy neve●theless the spirit of the Lord causeth me to utter This usurped authority of Cromwell shall shortly be at an end England shall be blessed with meek Kings and mild governments powerful preachers and dull hearers good sermons to them will be as music to a sleepy man they shall hear but not understand nor lay the word 〈◊〉 the heart to practise it in their lives to walk by it O England thou shalt wax old in wickedness thy sins abound like those of Sodom thy voluptuousness shall cry aloud for vengeance the Lord shall threaten and chastise thee yet in mercy and love will he look upon those that fear him and call upon his name he will spare of his anger when the wicked shall be sifted from amongst you as the chaff is sifted from amongst the wheat for out of thee O England shall a bright star arise whose light and voice shall make the heathen to quake and knock under with submission to the gospel of Jesus he shall be as a sound of thunder in the ears of the wicked and as a ●anthorn to the Jews to lead them to the knowledge of Jesus the only son of God and true Messiah whom they so long mistrusted for the short work spoken of by the apostle which the Lord is to make upon the earth in the latter age of the world cannot be far off Observe my dear friend while you live my calculation of the dates in the book of the Revelation and in Daniel which the Spirit of the Lord led me into for the Lord will reveal it to some of his own ere that time come for the nearer the time is the seals shall be taken away and more and more shall be revealed to God's people for the Lord doth nothing without he reveal it by his Spirit to his servants the prophets He destroyed not the old world without the knowledge of Noah He did not overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah without the knowledge of Abraham I do not mean now that any new prophet shall arise but the Lord by his Spirit shall cause knowledge to abound among his people whereby the old prophecies shall be clearly and perfectly understood And I die in that thought and really believe that my calculations are right on the Revelation by St. John and the prophecy which St. Jerome copied off and translated out of the Hebrew language as it is written on Seth's pillar in Damascus which pillar is said to have stood since before the flood and was built by Seth Adam's son and written by Enoch the prophet as likewise the holy precepts whereby the patriarch walked before the law was given to Moses which were also engraven on the said pillar whereof many Jews have copies in their own language written on parchment and engraven on brass and copper but the alteration of the date makes them to stagger at it not knowing that the dates were to be altered by the birth of Christ. First This prophecy is
easy to say Another of his prophecies is as follows In seventeen hundred ninety and five Whoever will be at that period alive Will see plenty revisit this fortunate land And Ireland emerg'd from her slavish command Ere the period arrives will a torrent of blood Discolour'd be forc'd from it's primitive flood The verdure of Spring will be shaded with red And the fruits of the earth oppress'd with the dead It should be seriously remarked that the year 1795 has been pointed out particularly by different Prophets as a year of greater destruction and human slaughter than any year previous even Mrs. Shipton prophecied a century or two back that E 's ruin would begin in 1792 and terminate in 1795. The wicked in all nations and ages ridicule prophecies never acknowledging the ordained will of an angry Providence yet they are always more fearful than such as believe and though it appears in holy writ that revolutions happen from the foundation of the world and will to the end of time yet the Almighty always and without exception gives some people the gift of foretelling such changes in human affairs and expressly declares he will not do any such things but he will first impart to his servants the Prophets And as often as he threatens his creatures with any dreadful change it is to convince them it proceeds from his wrath and indignation originating from their intolerable wickedness and changing his love into hatred yet always and at all times promises to withhold the scourge or persecution if the threatened nations of people will cry out for mercy and call in fervency upon his holy name to come to their a●●istance and avert his dreadful wrath and vengeance from them but they seldom or never do though he quotes examples to every succeeding generation in vain viz. Noah's flood the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with many others when the people laughed at predictions and timely advice as they do still In the whole course of human affairs holy writ proves his threats and promises are all conditional calculated to stimulate people to call always on him for mercy and to execute his easy commands particularly his doctrines in the new Testament be their accursed hearts are hardened and the shut the gates of their understanding again●● him and in the blind career of their lives have insensibly bid defiance to him and his laws that the text of scripture in the book of Esdras may be fulfilled to their eternal condemnation wherein the Lord God desires Esdras not mind who shall be damned but seek after them who shall be saved for Hell was created for the multitude and Heaven for the few Let all who read this book strive to be of that few and mind the rules mentioned therein and also in the new Testament and if they do not they will be outcasts in Hell and all their finery and ●rippery here will be their open and everlasting shame there If the bible was universally ●●ad and fulfilled to the utmost of human power the mighty God would not have so great cause against his creatures or to warn them to turn to him the merciful and loving Father by the voice of Prophets and other warnings than that blessed book Is he not constantly looking down from his holy mountain the variety of the glories and pleasures of which never yet entered the heart of mankind to conceive the least idea of on the wicked universe with grief and sorrow saying O my people my people how often would I have gathered ye together as a hen gathers her chickens but ye would not Hear now Readers you have a loving God a weeping God and a God who tells you in the bible his nature and his name is Love with out-stretched arms open to receive ●very one that will turn unto him but ye will not therefore if you do not when you die a●ter performing faithfully all the works of the Devil by greedily desiring and pursuing with your wicked hearts and inclinations the alluring ways of this world in which all your thoughts are enveloped expect the dreadful sentence from him who will then he says appear to ye as a roaring Lion and say I know ye not go ye accursed into everlasting torments prepared for the Devil and his servants Let none be alarmed at the revolution in France such revolutions must happen in all idolatrous nations they corroborate with the holy bible a nation shall be converted in a day that is emerging from idolatry and idolatrous persecution at destined periods in the fulness of the time of the Most High and so on previous to the coming of the great Judge idolatrous Monarchs must be all cut off But if mighty men should plan and scheme for centuries to reduce things to their own human weak and wicked wishes their labour is in vain they are mocked by God they cannot see into the great causes they are greedy for dominion and filthy lucre they are cruel and unjust and all their ways are an abomination before the face of the great One they are poor blind naked miserable foolish and wicked Give attention now ●ll who never go● the gift of repentance from above read the new Testament and the most imaginary innocent among ye will find yourselves fitted for Hell's torments rouse to immediate repentance call on the Most High for mercy cease from Hell-born wickedness such as gambling night parties revelling balls assembli●s drums hellish masquerades drunkenness glu●tony dress and pride which Christ says is of your father the Devil cease from superfluous dress be a Quaker entirely in dress and a very plain one for your soul's sake to obey Christ and fulfill the holy scriptures cry aloud to the Most High with the true baptismal tears of repentance which is the real water baptism of salvation previous to the operation of the Holy Ghost and externally described in the third chapter of St. John in the new Testament Beware of hypocrisy ostentation and falsehood banish these hydras from the inmost recesses of your hearts make room there for the Holy Ghost to dwell in for with them hydras he cannot dwell and without him do not trouble yourselves to look forward to salvation do not strive to please human creatures or you cannot please God talk no more of fashions or of the circle of your acquaintances such conversation is abominable to God boast no more of your acquaintances Lord such a one or Lady such a one they are earth and dirt titles are sacrilegeous and blasphemous which is always the consequence of accursed wealth for wealth is a curse from God because it never was and never will be applied as God commanded it therefore he declares it is harder for a wealthy person to enter the kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle when a person gets wealth he gets pride and contempt for all who do not possess the same curse wealth and in consequence of that wealth and
are such a one who can through an ill habit and bad custom curse swear and do any other bad action almost without reproof or feeling though your case be so desperate there is yet mercy with God that he may be feared and I advise you to endeavour to be still a few minutes in the morning when you awake before you rise up and then think seriously with yourself thus I have not given my being to myself I am accountable to the Author and Creator of it and this day He the LORD of all will take notice of all my actions this day he will hear all my Words this day he will know all my thoughts and at a certain time yet unknown to me when my soul must give him a full account I am not without some degree of hope that such serious reflections may be conducive to raise desires like these Oh! that I may be watchful Oh! that I may sin no more as long as I live For we must cease to do evil before we can learn to do well Therefore silence before the LORD and attention to his reproofs of instruction in your own heart which are the way to life are the first steps to come to CHRIST and to be made a real Christian. Self Enquiries for Every Morning 1. Was God in my thoughts at lying down and ●ising up and were the thoughts of him sweet and refreshing to my soul 2. In what frame is my heart this morning Do I admire the goodness of God in the last night's Sleep and for adding more time to my life and am I heartily thankful 3. Can I r●ally commit myself and all my affairs to God this day to be guided by his counsel and protected and provided for by his care and to be entirely at his disposal 4. Am I resolved to speak for God and his Glory and in the strength of Christ will I n●ither be afraid ashamed nor weary of well-doing 5. Am I a child of God and an heir of Glory and does the Spirit of God testify that I am born again If I am God's child should I not wear the garments of righteousness and take heed of defiling myself with sin should I n●t do more than others 6. Who is the greatest deceiver if my heart should I not be jealous and watchful over it where are the greatest dangers and m●st p●rnicious mistakes if in so●l concerns should I not venture the loss of all things rather than lose my precious never-dying soul 7 Who are my most implacable powerful and soul-destroying Enemies but the World the Flesh and the Devil and should I no● w●●ch and be sober so as neither to idoli●e the 〈◊〉 pamper the second nor listen to the third 8 Who is or can be my best Friend but God And should I not fear his displeasure more than death desire his favour more than life and thro' all this day love honour and obey him 9. Where is the greatest vanity and vexation but in the World And should I not live above it 〈◊〉 not Godliness the greatest gain and should I not make it my chiefest business 10. What is my heavenly work but to Strive R●● W●estle Fight and can ● do all this withou● Care Dilige●ce and Watchfulness 11. Whose eyes will be upon me all this day to observe my head and heart my Lip and Life but his who is the Judge of all the Earth And dare I Sin in his presence and affront him to his Face 12. If I should spend this day in Vanity Idleness or Sin will it not be sorrow●ul at night if I spend it holily and p●ofitably shall I not pray with greater confidence lie down more peacefully and have 〈◊〉 ●estimony of a good conscience for my rejoicing 13 How would I have this day appear at the day of Judgment Ought not my Though●s Words and Actions to be such now as I 〈◊〉 then wish them to have been 14. How may I this day order my secular business with most prudence and wisdom integrity and upligh●ness and for my real advantage 15. Am I now fit to draw nigh to God in pray●● and can I seek first and as my chief concern the Kingdom of God and his righteousness 16. Am I now willing to take Christ alone for righteousness and to devote all my time and 〈◊〉 to him And to offer him praise continually Self Enquiries for every Evening 1. What have I done this day for God and his Glory what can I look back upon with comfo●● 2. In what frame hath my heart been all this day Have I more desired heavenly or earthly things hath my jo●s been more in God and in the hopes of ●uture Glory than in worldly Riches Honours or Pleasures was my g●●ef more for sin or for the troubles of Li●e Have I more derived comfort from the broken cis●erns of created good or from God the living fountain 3. What were m● intentions Have I been sincere and maintained a conscience void of off●●c● towards God and towards man Did I eat and drink pray and converse to the Glory of Ged or was Self ●ppermost in all 4. What spiritual duties have I performed this day Did I regard the manner as well as the ma●●er and do them from conscience not from custom Did I pray servently and ●ead and m●ditate so as to affect my heart 5. How faithful diligent and care●ul have I been in my place and calling And have there been no idle hours in the day 6. What has been my company this day What good have I done them or received from them Did ● reprove exhort and strengthen encourage comfort and w●rn as the matter required 7. How have I bo●●e the crosses and troubles of the day Did I neither despise them nor saint under them neither entert●in hard thoughts of God nor utter rash words against him 8. What were my temptations this day was I easi●y d●awn into Sin or restrained and overawed by God's all-seeing eye merciful heart or a●enging hand What convict●on merey or warning did I sin against and have I repented of my sin 9. What were my enjoyments and how was my hear●●ffected under them Was I affected with the goodness of God to me in my health ●riends and estate and unfeignedly thankful for them 10. What have I learned this day have I got more heart-affecting knowledge of God and of his Glory and of myself and of my sins Of this word and that which is to come 11. What have I remembered of the word of God whether read or heard Was any 〈◊〉 sweet 〈◊〉 my soul and did I by ●aith make any promise my ow● Did any particular precept 〈…〉 12. What graces have I 〈…〉 have I lived by ●ai●h loved God and 〈…〉 for Chr●st have I had 〈◊〉 to God the 〈◊〉 as my 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 saviour 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 and to the holy 〈◊〉 as my 〈◊〉 strength and com●o●●er 13 Have I been suitably affected with the 〈◊〉 or miseries of others
whether 〈…〉 have I had a compassionate heart and 〈◊〉 hand to any in want 14 Have I especially done good to them who a●e of the 〈…〉 however 〈…〉 15. Did the C●●●ch of God 〈…〉 of Christ ●e near my heart Have I 〈…〉 the welfare of Christs Chu●ch and 〈◊〉 its desolations and 〈◊〉 Heav●n abo●e my 〈◊〉 Joy 16. Have I really set death before me and 〈◊〉 my life as a vapour if God should this ●ight clo●e my eyes in death how is it like to be with my soul 17. lo●●nceivably great glorious and terrible as the day of Judgment will be dare I meet Christ at his coming Will my graces bear the t●ial of that day Can I now with joy say even so Come 〈◊〉 Iesus Lady JANE GREY'S Letter TO HER SISTER The Evening before she was beheaded in the Towe● of London Translated from the Original Gre●k I HAVE sent you my dear fi●●er Catharine a book which though ●t be not exte●nal●y 〈◊〉 with gold or curious embroidery of nee●l● work ● internally of more value than a● the precious mines in the wide world my only dear and best beloved 〈◊〉 it is the book of the law of our great and dear Redeemer his testimony and last 〈◊〉 bequeathed to lead us to e●ernal happiness Read it with attention and an earnest de●ire to follow its precepts and it wi●●urely bring you to immo●tal and everlasting life teach you to live ●nd die win you to God e●dow you with happiness and glory Labour to live acco●ding to the rules it contains and you shall inherit su●h riches as the covetous cannot wi●hd●●w the thie● steal nor the moth corrupt My dear sister ask wisdom from above and de●ire with David to understand the law of the Lord our God 〈◊〉 on the 〈◊〉 of thy heart by divi●e love live still to die that through death you may obtain eternal life Let not your youth blind you from knowing that at all hours times and seasons are alike to the most high God when he 〈…〉 are they 〈◊〉 ●amps are 〈◊〉 when he comes the Lord is equall● glorified in the young as in the old my dear good si●ter 〈◊〉 to die deny the ●en 〈◊〉 of the wo●●d the 〈◊〉 and the D●vil and delight 〈…〉 in the Lo●d Jesus Christ be sorry for yo●r sins love God do●●e●lpair be strong in faith in Christ live and die him the dear Redeemer and with St. Paul wh● fi●led with the fulness of divine love you will 〈◊〉 to be d●ssolved to be with Christ wi●h whom 〈◊〉 love and life eternal be the good servant that wh●●eath steals on like a thief in the n●gh● you b● not found in da●k●ess with the children of th● world who know not God and be not witho●● oil in your lamp like the foolish Virgins least yo● be re●used ad●it●ance to the marriage ●upper of th● Lamb or w●thou● the w●dding ga●ment least 〈◊〉 be cast into outer da●kness Rejoice in the Redeemer follow our great master Christ ●heerfully bear your cross or crosses lay a●l your sins on hi● shoul●ers and embrace him always Rejoice with me at my death my dearest sister that I shall be delivered from this body of corruption and clothed with the garment of incorruption for by 〈◊〉 this mortal life I shall obtain one immor●al joyful glorious and eve●lasting which I pray the Almighty God to give you when he shall please to call you hence and send you all sufficient grace ●o live in his love and fear and die in true Christian ●aith in Christ Jesus who redeemed us and all who love him and long for his coming a●d I now exhort you in the name of our Almighty Father neve● to swerve either from the hope of life or ●ear of death for if you deny his truth to prolong a we●ry and corrupt being Omniporence himself will 〈◊〉 you and cu● sho●● by his vengeance what 〈◊〉 were desirous of prolonging by the loss of your precious soul. Cleave to him and he will ex●end your days to a 〈◊〉 circumsribed to his own glory to which I 〈◊〉 God bring me now a●d you hereaf●er when it shall please him to call you Farewell once more my beloved 〈◊〉 put your whole ●ru●t in the great 〈◊〉 who alone ca● help you AMEN Your loving Sister J●NE DUDLEY She was a Lady of the m●st amiable person most engaging disposition and 〈◊〉 ●●c●mpl●shed parts She 〈…〉 greatest 〈◊〉 in acq●●●ing every part of poli●e Li●e●●●ure had a 〈◊〉 knowledge of the Ro●●a● and Greek languages 〈◊〉 modern tongues and the elega●● arts the best of wives to the most aff●cti●nate husband she re●u●ed being placed on the ●hrone till 〈◊〉 by her Father Father-in-law and H●sb●●d when she had been warned to prepare for death which she had long expected she received the dreadful news with jo● The Queen 's bigo●●ed zeal under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul induced her to send Priests who tormented her wi●h perpetual disputations and ● 〈◊〉 was granted her on conditions that she would embrace the ●do●atrous wo●ship of the Church of Rome 〈◊〉 she he●d Death and Christ in greater esteem Lady Jane had presence of mind in them 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 circumstances to d●fend her religion with a christian for●itude supported from holy writ and also wrote a letter to her Sister in the ●reek ●angua●e exhorting her to maintain in every reve●se of fortune the like steady ●erse●erance On the da● of her execution she re●used to see her ●●sband Lord Guil●ord but sent him word that the ●e●derness of their ●arting might probab●● 〈…〉 〈…〉 from that co●●●ancy which their approaching end ●●qu●red of them Their separation would be only fo● a m●m●nt and would soon r●join each other in 〈◊〉 where their affections would be 〈…〉 and where death disappointments and 〈◊〉 co●ld no lo●ger have access to them 〈◊〉 break on their happin●●s Extracts relative to the Church of ROME By Lady Wallace TO be able to judge of the discontent which is now general in all Roman Catholic countries as well to draw natural conclu●ions from those com●●●tions which seem to be inevitable from the a●arice of the c●ergy you must go back to the infancy of Christianity and make you●self acquainted with the increase abuse and decrease of the power of the church of Rome which now even it s once most supe●stitious adherents begin to revolt against from the avarice and depravity of the clergy Begin from A D. 66 when we find the marty●●dom of Pe●er and Paul upon record and the appointment of St. Lin to be bishop of Rome happy for Ch●istianity the cruel 〈◊〉 which cru●hed and ha●assed the ens●●ved people rendered them greedy to adopt a doctrine which promised comfo●t to their sufferings eternal rest and blessings herea●●e● in proportion to their oppression and sufferings in this world In the three fi●st ages of the church the bishop of Rome in common wi●h the other ●ishops preached the ●●ctrine of Christianity in all tha● purity which ou●