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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is fallen and all the graven images of her gods are broken and cast to the ground The watch is set and prophecy is added to prophecy to confirm the vision See the chariot of men with a couple of horsemen that come against thee thy defence shall forsake thee thy great river Euphrates is dried up thy friends shall be turned another way and thy first-born Spain shall keep at a distance and not dare to approach thee to help thee those who love thee shall mourn for thee but they will not draw near thee to afford thee help Lo I have declared unto you what I have heard from the Lord of hosts So we believe and therefore we speak It is he who performs the word of his messengers that saith to Jerusalem and to the temple thou shalt be built again even in the midst of thee O Italy Hear then ye kings who are anointed of the Lord thus he speaks to you I hold your right-hand he shall subdue the nations before you he shall loose the reins of kings who take part with the beast They shall open the doors and the gates of cities shall not be shut against you He shall go before you make rough places plain break in pieces the gates of brass and will give you the hidden treasures riches hoarded there with the utmost secrecy that you may know that the Lord is the God of the reformed churches who hath called you by your names for the love he bears to his chosen who serve him Be of good courage and let not your hearts fail you It is he who formed the earth and created man upon it who stretched out the heavens and gives law to all their host it is he who hath raised you up in righteousness and who directs all your designs against her * L'Argamed p. 199-207 Rev. xviii 1 2 4. One angel proclaims Babylon the great is fallen c. and another voice from heaven says Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues The former voice is a prediction of her ruin the latter is a command pointing out the duty of the children of God to withdraw from her both are heavenly and divine The first obliges our consciences to believe the second to obey He who believes not the Lord foretelling and denouncing her ruin will not obey the Lord charging men to depart from her Infidelity is the cause of disobedience You obey not the divine order Come out of her because you believe not the divine oracle Babylon is fallen Believe and then you will obey that voice from heaven Depart from her my people Purge your hearts of infidelity and you would not rebel against the voice of the Lord. If the world believed the ruin and fall of Babylon men would not remain one hour in her communion What have you to do O kings and princes small or great with that disgraced and wasted harlot grown old in her whoredoms You have neither part nor lot with her retire therefore to your tents retire to the tabernacles of Zion What madness what frenzy to be found exposed to the avenging hand of God in the arms of this whore when become the habitation of devils and the haunt of every unclean spirit What infatuation to be found on the side of the beast and of the false prophet whose ornaments are employed to make war against him who sitteth on the white horse having on his vesture and thigh the name written King of kings and Lord of lords He shall gather the vintage of the earth for her grapes are ripe and he shall tread the wine-press of Divine wrath without the city And the beast shall be taken c. chap. xiv and xix Wherefore withdraw from her for this is her end this her condemnation and fixed doom for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her † L'Argamed p. 269 c. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness What communion hath light with darkness What concord hath Christ with Belial Or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols Therefore come ye out from among them and be ye separated saith the Lord God 2 Cor. vi 17 c. Be ye separated in respect of her doctrine which is a lie the seduction of iniquity it is the mouth of the dragon the doctrine of devils the efficacy of error it subverts and overthrows completely the foundation of our salvation it is spiritual adultery that dissolves the conjugal bond of the spiritual marriage with Jesus Christ He therefore that would be in covenant with God and who would not drink of the wine of his wrath eternally must have no communion with her doctrine or her religion In respect of her religious services and idolatrous assemblies I would not said the Apostle that you should be partakers with devils for such is the service of idols 1 Cor. x. Also in respect of alliances for mutual aid and protection with them Why shouldst thou help the ungodly said the Prophet to Jehosaphat and love them that hate the Lord therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord. 2 Chron. ix 2. Wo to them that go down into Egypt for help c. Isa xxxi Depart ye thence and touch not any unclean thing Take heed to the interdict for fear lest you fall under the curse and bring the camp of Israel under an interdict and thereby trouble it Covet not these Babylonish garments these ceremonies and ornaments nor the wedge of gold Keep yourselves from the accursed thing for none may take any stone from that cursed city for a corner nor a stone for a foundation otherwise the curse would fall on the takers and the whole camp of Israel so that they could not stand but would turn their backs before their enemies Go forth then be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. Go forth and be ye as the he-goats before the flock for Italian Chaldea in the west shall be delivered up to pillage and all those who spoil her shall be satiated and the arrows of those whom the Lord shall raise up against her shall be as those of a mighty man skilfull to destroy for they shall not return empty Ye therefore who have escaped march halt not although you be already far off Remember the Lord and let Jerusalem come into your mind Come forth and deliver every man his own soul from the heat of the Lord's anger for she shall become a heap c. Go forth in body and soul Have no communion with her either in her doctrines or idolatrous assemblies nor in her ceremonies nor in her ecclesiastical hierarchy and episcopal government nor in her religious customs and modes nor in her iniquities nor in any unequal yoke with these who belong to her nor finally in aid and mutual protection Go forth yourselves and go with all your household leave not a hoof behind and go thence never more to return * L'Argamed p. 274 c. Be not partakers of her sins Obey not those who would command you or constrain you to this or who would entice and counsel you Should even your father or brother your wife or husband your companion or your master your lord your prince or your king should your minister or even an apostle or angel command or counsel you to do so hearken not to them Gal. i. 5. Away with all authority human or angelic in the matter of religion in the matter of our faith and religious obedience Ye princes and kings ye fathers and magistrates command not constrain not entice not nor draw away others to communication with or participation in your own iniquities or those of others especially to a participation of the iniquities of Babylon for they are great and shall certainly be punished both in those who commit them and on those who are or shall be partakers of them L'Argamed p. 274 c. FINIS

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