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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85467	Charls Stuart and Oliver Cromvvel united, or, Glad tidings of peace to all Christendom, to the Jews and heathen, conversion, to the Church of Rome, certain downfall: the Irish not to be transplanted. / Extraordinarily declared by God almighty to the publisher, Walter Gostelow.	Gostelo, Walter.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1318; Thomason E1503_3; ESTC R22601	98,622	320

like that of the Apostle Peter when the Prison door was set open for him and his Irons fell off so was the effect of that Call Come away the doors are opened to me the very next day But close up my mouth O Lord I may not complain every defer of thine is as my self suspended for a further good I know it thy own time and workings have none like them Thou wilt make discoveries of men and let us see as well who would be good if there were no law as who would practice wickedness by a law doth not God Almighty put us often into his sive several wayes also discovering the Wheat from the Chaff pray we must believe we must that all works for the best to them that fear God and patiently abide his good pleasure Return I must go on to my former intentions yet this believe me in you worthies of Parliament this insert was not begot by either of the Protectors two speeches to your good selves for I take God Almighty to witness I had not then read either of them Inlarged from Prison I gather in all my material papers as commanded which were not a few I now see them of very great concernment for the carrying on of this work I believe I wrote in Prison then twice as much as this Book and twice over also This Call thus directing Come away bring your Papers come away was certainly of God Well my self gotten out of Prison and my Papers gotten into my possession I hasten for England and in Easter week 1654. came to my own house where I now do and have resided twenty years being in Broadstreet near the Church over against Gresham Colledge at which Church once but not long enough officiated that so eminent and renowned Doctor Oldsworth but thank you invisible Parliament and such Oakes our then wicked Governours you sequestred imprisoned and destroyed him as you did hundreds and thousands of others God sent unto you of which you were unworthy but you could not help it the Jews your brethren did so persecute those sent unto them and aud truely you could not but follow the worst of examples the best are to be conformed to by these which are wiser men and therefore a true Parliament You long since as your actions have been the dishonour of the Protestant Religion and the Nation all the World over and future times will never call you a sober Parliament but as we desire not to believe you were English men so well constituted Parliaments for time to come will look upon you as upon Lots wife a lasting monument of her shame for looking towards Sodom when God had set her face towards salvation But I go on SECT VI. HAving passed a few dayes in my house I could not be in longer quiet untill I took me a lodging near Saint Jame's his house attending all opportunities and possible means to speak with the General whom not meeting with I wrote unto him several times to give him to understand that I had received of the Lord the most considerable and highest things imaginable to communicate to his good self being therein concerned as much as any and to whom from prison in Youghall God had pleased to send me for that very purpose therefore besought him to hear me After much attendance and not a few disappointments I had first at White-Hall the opportunity onely to speak to him made my self known to him but he had not the conveniency at that time to hear me in the things I so much desired yet then told me he would speak with me That further opportunity I had not though continued seeking it it and reminded him by Letters of his promise untill one Saturday in June a little before the death of the Portugal when and where it pleased Almighty God to afford me a most convenient one at Hampton Court and his Lordship there pleased to hear me out to the full affording me both his patience and attention too as I firmly believe There was present Sr. Gilbert Pickering and a Gentleman or two more whom I knew not for all which I returned as in duty Obliged first to God next to his Lordship all possible prayers and humble thanks And now least any thing might scape his Lordships observe which it is possible did my recital he hath this second review of it but printed more particularly for the World of men in it so highly concerned for I cannot be quiet untill to them I publish it also this being a light not to be hid the universal splendor of the Protestant Religion must break forth also the obedience of men to the Lord who I conceive and believe is now coming in mercy and wayes of making himself known to the Christian World Jews and Heathen in mercy but in judgement to others for the evil doer shall not abide in this so great and wonderfull a change On earth whom is the Lord pleased to make his Viceroy for rule his favour and loving kindness is the highest to our King CHARLS the Second CHARLS the Great CHARLS the good King of the whole World these are the words and declared pleasure of the ever living and our most mercifull God which I dare not conceal nor longer keep uncommunicated but must publish them to all concerned to have an end of all the Wars in the Christian World with the rest in the Prophesie is certainly considerable I confess after I had wrote to the General I could not but also do so to his Majesty my King the import of both refers onely to my duty in the discharge of which I onely can have quiet The Original of all Letters to them I have being to each five in all ten in any of them not the least thing advised to but as I conceive and so believe the minding both of them to the perform of such their duties as are most acceptable with God Almighty the one how to rule well the other so to obey things the most to be desired of good Kings good Subjects of which I wish the whole world were made up of I have therefore in the end of the book given two of those Letters to publick view that at once my inward thoughts may appear to the excite of walking as best becomes the most excellent of Kings and the highest of Subjects where the meanest also have to observe that in fearing God and honouring their King they are blest here and ever so to be hereafter omitting it miserable to all eternity From which sin of Rebellion because compared with that of witchcraft we have good reason to pray The Lord be pleased to deliver us especially when covetuousnes is joyned therewith the root of all evil sins which some men therefore will have the World justly condemned as a Witch in the end to be burnt because it and its lying vanities hath so bewitched us as to prefer them before the ever living God and our walking according to his

are alike The Commemoration also of the Nativity of our Lord the Descending of the Holy Ghost and divers other Superstitious things and times all which the true Prophets of the Lord have cried down and long since declined as most abominable and Superstitious Here lay his proof when I asked him who those Prophets were he told me the Godly Ministers and Prophets the Parliament had preferred appointed to hear preach I replied little onely told him some reasons that induced me to be of that judgement yet withall it was worth his consideration to remember what became of those Children that mocked the Prophet against whom the Lord sent Bears out of the Wood to tear them in pieces and devour them Well reconciled we were he told me it should no more be so neither did his Child any more provoke me but on the contrary I loved it and the Child me Upon a short time after he told me If I were a Prophet then he was a Dog I reminded him such expressions did not well become he might in that Prophesie unhappily of himself Dogs were without when Prophets were in Heaven I observed to him he did all without reason told him I forgave him and his Son formerly and that I prayed for both that God would be pleased to forgive them It is true I did so and do so that he would be pleased to have mercy upon them He bid me keep my prayers to my self he nor his had no need of them and desired them not He was often girding at me quiet I could not be for him I saw he loathed me which made me sometimes think on those evil Spirits that though they knew it was our blessed Lord yet raging asked him why he was come to torment them before their time Good he told me I could not be because I approved not of one Mr. Wood whom the Parliament power had put in Preacher at Youghall and settled upon him an handsom Sallery of some an hundred and twenty pounds per annum His name implies he may be Timber though some suspect he is not yet fitted for the building up the House of God God be pleased to make all men wise and better Certainly the best accomplished is fittest for his service This being Sunday and my keeper going then to hear this Mr. Wood Command is given none must come to me locked up I am Things thus hightening and his prejudice encreasing against me my Bed the night before taken from under me sent for away after he came from M. Woods Sermon my bolster sheets and whatsoever I had of his taken away from me by himself so great a zeal brought he home with him from his so good Preacher M. Wood. Well to this condition being reduced my self not very well not used to such affronts not such lodgeing the season winter truely I walked and prayed most of that night abandoned I now saw my self almost by all nothing but hard usage and aversness do I meet with in all men to this business of the Lords which much troubled me And truely I might here observe to you that I besought God Almighty to direct deliver and enable me to get from under those great oppressions of men which without him I could not overcome Observe I beseech you God withdraws not our helps but for a further advantage however our hopes may seem crossed Where his name may gain we cannot complain of loss 't was so here the work was the Lords and he was pleased to assure me I should grow from strength to strength untill I arrived at perfect peace in Zion and how that for his Glory Honour Mercy and Names sake he would bring it all to pass it should be marvellous in our eyes Thus beseeching the Lord I prayed and now do pray the Reader that he firmly believe as I do it being true I had that night this Vision or Call of the Lord Come away bring your writings come away reitterated just as the people you read before did when they saw the Light and Crown in the Heavens bowed to God and it it being of Heaven they all said Come we will follow it so here Come away bring your writings come away I could here truely observe to you that although my so civil Landlord was warm that night in a good Bed I cold and had none in Bed with him such another Saint his Wife educated married from the house of the once no less zealous I believe than these two the Lord Brook whose Servants they were either both or one Yet on a sudden she riseth and runneth the strong water is fetched my Landlord very sick nay very ill his Childe had formerly been so This strong water was to be fetched out of the next Room where I was pounded up so know it I did indeed his wife told me the reason of her haste and coming Well the strong water he had and my prayers also for his amendment and Gods forgiveness to him and though he formerly bade me keep them to my self he nor his had no need of them his Child I believe fared not the worse for me for it after loved me when well himself then had them as also the strong water if of any validity God Almighty have the glory he had the recovery then but a Fool is not alwayes to be answered in his folly This I should not have observed but that it is in reverence to what himself hath very often told me he was that Thomas a Diddimus that should not believe any thing of my Prophesie untill he saw it come to pass the rather because it was against those whom God approved of and set up to his glorie therefore he took the liberty to call me Traitor as to them and false Prophet as in reverence to their Godly Ministery such was his zeal but whether well guided or of God that 's the question But I leave him in his Dog-kennel for so his then habitable house was formerly called as himself told me one time and truely me thinks upon this account and action it may well retain the former name if it hath been discontinued Dog kennel Day being come I penned a Letter presenting the whole Vision Come away bring your writings come away to the Secretary of the Lord of Broghill entreating him that he forthwith impart it to his Lord and others concerned for the ordering of affairs in those parts beseeching they would after address made to God Almighty for his guidance forthwith dispose of me as he should please to direct them to do They I humbly conceive did so for that day or the next morning I had word sent me that I might go whither I would Yet observed to me it was by that Gentleman which brought me my enlargement that I should not proclaim the King in the streets Truely I was never guilty of any such madness neither did it so much as once come into my thoughts Had I not been guided by God in

of it 68 and 69. you shall there read that I being brought from what I had of Vision dream or my own dictates there is the cause of those words to that which is certainly Prophesie immediately following and the words of God by which onely I abide as infallably true and will come to pass going on you may there see the Scripture quoted What is the rest but as Chaff to Wheat whether Dream Vision or Dictate by that Prophesie I will abide whilest I am in this World yea O Lord though men attempt to kill me I will yet trust in thee So that all considered I doubt not but to be cleared in sober mens judgements Next in page 63 I there tell you you are unworthy of a man sent unto you your eyes have seen what Arise Evans said already fulfilled and this methinks might free me from this cavil together with the known hard measure as imprisonment and affronts late times have put upon him whilest the good man other I can not call him hath for your good indured so much and almost worn himself out that you might turn and live yet him you asperse Too many of you miscalling him Mad Foolish Babbling mistaken fellow I confess I knew him not untill my return from Ireland many times I visited him and he me when I lodged at Saint Jameses upon this imploy waiting for the Protector I still reserved my self in all things of what I have here Printed Curious I was to know the manner of things coming so to his observe the times also his Government I enquired after looked into him as narrowly as I could observed the effects and fulfill of things Predicted and what more I could think on still reserving my self having understood the manner and in particular his alwayes being directed to the word of God in conformity to that his word advising all men to turn from sin that God might return in mercy I could not but conclude him sent of God for that very imploy if this be to be deceived then am I also but I suspect it not in the least he is for the rebuild of Gods House the restore of his Ministers and Worship the invite-home of the King a far greater rule given to him of God than to any of his Predecessors also the conversion of the Jews and the spreading of the Protestant Religion to which purpose and speedier invite of him home Oliver Cromwell shall be highly subservient when done the Land and people blest This being his principles in all this and more he is in the right and sent of God he is I will not cry any of you mercy for what I have said of him it is too little he deserves more he will go for a man sent of God of whom you are unworthy whose good admonitions you seem to contemn as you have done his person but mark the end of that man it will be happines I suspect yours me thinks I can right him in what you so much slight him it is now come to my minde he told you the King should be restored by May last as you say observe now upon the 3 January 3 Moneths before that May I tell you from God he is and shall be here Crowned King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith in Heaven it s done and so I proclaimed him on the 12 of January 1653. In the Church of Youghall as commanded of God Now to us he is come I see him already come so might you also but that you have neither faith nor good works in my last letter at the opening of this Parliament I wrot to the King these very words Sir I see you already come to your crown and dignity onely I do not sensibly touch you but restor'd you are S● do but stand still a little put all iniquity from your heart believe in God and your self with others shall see it so suddenly God will have it so you may not doubt it The next and last also I hope I am sure the greatest to give satisfaction to is how I dare be so proud as to stile my self so often a Prophet nay a great Prophet also Here O Lord in all possible humility of soul and body I do acknowledge my self to be the most unworthiest of the Sons of men and well know that of merit there is not any thing on this side Hell but it is too good for me beseech thee onely O Lord I do for thy Almighty guidance and deliverance herein thou canst do it and make this word good and I know wilt of thy mercy thy honour being at stake I dare not doubt thy power nor distrust thy loving kindness who hath assured that I should by thy enablements grow from strength to strength until I arrived at perfect Peace in Sion it is the introduction to thy commission given me for my consolation and inablement in this thy imploys Yet I will give you some reasons to beget belief in you also and true ones too or else may the ground open and swallow me if I be guilty of any conspiracy and Hell for ever continue me if in this I am rebellious against thee my God it is the black portion of false Prophets may it be mine also that quickly too if I have any Commission for this but thine or any aim more than thy glory the reasons of my belief I will give you truly and as they fell out some of which I formerly concealed in modesty because they referred so much to my own honour yet I now see when calumniated I am and suspected of pride God clears me and more than recompences me he will now give Honour to me and mine yea such Honour as I was never in the least worthy of Reason 1. VVhen I was the second time before the Lord of Broghall in the presence of those persons of Honour desired declaring the vision of the fire that fell down from Heaven upon me in my bed and the man sent of God called me three times by my name Walter Gostelow asked me if I did see the fire that came down from Heaven whch I replyed to as you there may read yea I did then I say that second time being before his Lordship and those present declaring that and others of my visions and revelations in particular one that related to my Eldest Son Richard Gostelow these words last of all on a sudden came from me His Father is a Prophet and his Fathers Father was a Prophet astonished I was my very next action amazeth me also speaking to the Lady Elizabeth Boyl appointed of God Wife to our King CHARLES STVART when I come to tell that Lady so I am thrown upon my face thus over-ruled I was in these two actions of words and demenor any reason for these two proceedings I cannot give neither of them having ever been in my thoughts or purpose but when done to none present more strange than to my self Now mark Gods