Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	great_a	name_n	11,099	5	4.9414	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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

adoring Images and Saints departed and in taking to themselves many Mediators and this said he the Papists are always designing among themselves therefore be sure you be ready and not found wanting This was the substance and I think for the greatest part the very same words which this Holy Man spake to me at the time before mentioned not long before his death and which I writ down that so great and notable a prediction might not b●-lost and forgotten by myself nor others This gracious man repeated the same things in substaace to his only daughter the Lady Tyr●il and that with many tears and much about the same time that he had expressed what is aforesaid to me and which the Lady Tyrril assured me of with her own m●uth to this purpose That opening the Door of his Chamber she found him with his Eyes lift up to Heaven and the Tears running apace down his Cheeks and 〈…〉 continued for about half an Hour not taking the least Notice of her though she came into the Room but at last turning to her he told her That his Thoughts had been taken up about the Miseries and Persecutions that were coming upon the Churches of Christ which would be so sharp and bitter that the Contemplation of them had fetched those Tears from his Eyes The same Things he also repeated to the Lady Bysse wife to the then present Lord Chief Baron of Ireland but with adding this circumstance wo unto them that are found unprepared for it ●o conclude in the words of Dr. Bernard speaking of this excellent person Now howsoever I may be as far from heeding of Prophe●cies this way as any yet with me it is not improbable that so great a Prophet so sanctified from his youth so knowing and eminent throughout the Universal Church might have at some special times more than ordinary motions and impulses in doing the Watchman's part of giving warning of judgments approaching From M` Auliffe's Prophecies AND in those days it shall come to pass that the nations of Europe will be moved to war and that mighty men and princes will unite from all corners of the ea●th to maintain their power and that they will gather from all quarters thousands and tens of thousands to fight their battles and establish their dominions over multitudes and nations but their arms shall avail them nought in their union they shall find destruction and their mighty hosts shall be scattered like chaff before the wind pestilence and famine shall overtake those who escape from the sword and few shall live to bring home the news of their mishap and defeats The stars of nations shall then fall and desolation shall reign among the great and proud of the earth for their ways are the ways of ungodliness and their paths are those of injustice and oppression In those days and they are at hand the mighty Lord of truth shall avenge the injuries of his people and his name shall be known throughout The reign of his justice shall succeed that of his mercy and long forbearance his mighty arm shall exalt the humble and prostrate the proud It shall also come to pass in those days that the blood of Africans shall be repaid and slavery shall be no more the beams of truth all strike on the eyes of all nations and Evangelical love shall pervade all hearts equa● rights shall be the foundation of continua● peace and the glory of all people shall be to know the Lord of armies and obey his eternal laws It is to be lamented that the Compiler could not collect the whole of this great man's predictions but hopes to get them shortly being promised them by a friend who will interpret them faithfully from the old Irish. The families of M` Auliffes were formerly an ancient Irish family in the County of Cork and possessed of large estates there some of which are now enjoyed by the respectable families of the name of St. Leger who purchased them this great prophet foretold the transferring of all the family property and the total extinction of his name which he said would be forgotten and hardly remembered by the rising generations which has all turned out as ●e foretold He also foretold a gentleman in his days named Anthony St. Leger that he would live to a great age providing he would never pass over Bennet's Bridge in the county of Kilkenny and if he would that there he most undoubtedly was to lose his life but as destiny in human circumstances is by some deemed unavoidable it was most unfortunately verified in Mr. S. who lost his life by a gun shot at Bennet's Bridge by the following accident One of his carriage horses had dropped a shoe traveling through that country from which accident Mr. S. could not pursue his journey without getting a shoe on his beast and being told there was a smith's forge at Bennet's Bridge on his way he drove to the fatal place where a forge remains to this day but there had not been any person at work in it the smith was found and applied to to put a shoe on the horse with all convenient dispatch who excused himself saying he had no iron The horse being lame and not able to go on further without a shoe necessitated Mr. S. to get out of his carriage and im●ortune the smith to search diligently for iron sufficient for the purpose when after a long research it could not be obtained without having recourse to an old rusty gun barrel from which a shot had not been fired p●rhaps for half a century b●fore and being in some useful position was at length put into the furnace by the smith with reluctance for the ●urpose of taking off sufficient to make an horse● shoe little did Mr. S. think of M` Auliffe's prophecy or eternity at hand whilst he stood in the forge all the time The rusty old gunbarrel which had been load●d with powder and ball of a long time no sooner had got the heat of the fire than the contents went off and unluckily killed Mr. S. on the spot which shews that Mr. S. had either disbelieved or had forgotten the Prophet's caution which too often has been the case of many who are ashamed of taking council in pe●ilous cases least they may become thereby subjects for the ridicule of their more hardened acquaintances The following other prophecy of M'Auliffe's has not yet come to pass and is dev●utly hoped it never may When every running water in Ireland shall turn a mill wheel the● shall the Protestants and Romanists Papists kill each other with great slaughter But as his prophecies have been spoken and wrote in Irish it is left with the wise and sagacious to explain his words which signify battles between the Sasanoughs and Irish. The Irish word Sasanough signifies an English Protestant and what is difficult to explain whether between the people of the Romish persuasion aginst the other dissenting sects in Ireland or nation against nation is not

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

●epresentatives of divine virtue which armed ●ons against their fathers and made them be●●me ra●●ors to their oath and allegiance Alexander the 〈◊〉 is reco●ded as a wonder of brutal crimes-Clement the Seventh had the mortification to see 〈…〉 his cha●● and could work no miracle to prevent his being dr●ven out of Rome He also 〈◊〉 the Emperor 〈◊〉 cry loudly against the pow●r and u●urpation of the 〈◊〉 which awed him so ●uch that he lost England as he dared not give 〈◊〉 to Hen●y the Eighth to divor●e Catharine of A●●agon becau●e she was the Aunt of Charles whom he was afraid more to irritate Henry enraged against every thing which stood in opposition to his wishes bu●ned the Pope in ●ffigy in Lon●on and ordered every ore to change their ●eligion with as little remoise as he changed his wife thus an 〈◊〉 people are for e●er persecuted by despotic ●ools Paul the Third was famous for being the most luxurious and licen●ious man of his time he made his ba●●ards cardinals whe● boys At this period the ●lergy made a violent effort to re-establish their power in Englan● and Mary with that cru●l revengeful spirit which seems to have been the most powerful engine of the church by burning and ex●irpating all those who dared oppose her did all she could to bring England again under the yoke of pop●●y but such a co●●uct was not calculated to make pro●elytes of the minds of men enlightened by the mild i●fluence of truth and it soon pleased God to purge the ear●h of such a monster But it was 〈◊〉 to Paul the Fourth to see the mortal blow given to the power of the S●e of Rome in the glorious reign of Elizabeth whose want of ●oleration which stained her name with a Sister's death arose from a conviction that tolerating such opposite doct●ines in the chur●● must inevitably sooner or later involve the 〈◊〉 in civil disco●d Six●us the 〈◊〉 was 〈…〉 at England's having not only thrown off the 〈◊〉 of Rome but her sudden rise to grand ●r and 〈◊〉 that he promised Philip the Second to secure to him the 〈◊〉 of Britain prov●ded he would do h●m●ge to him but all his hol● 〈◊〉 and masses would not save the invin●●b●e armada In latter times the popes have 〈◊〉 a ver● 〈◊〉 conduct in com●arison to 〈◊〉 former Their intrigues are now chie●ly 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 money on the superstitious and in that debau●her● which so eminently distinguishes the clerg● in the Roman Catholic count●ies where the harrassed people revo●● at seeing the divine representatives of Christ such avaricious 〈◊〉 and poor miserable and di●contented they only wait an opportunity to throw off the yoke and worship God in purity and sincerity No p●i●ce is now so ignorant as to tremble at the thunders of the Vatican yet the pope c●●tinues to impoveri●h the neigh●ouring ki●gdoms b● selling every year his bulls nec●ss●ry for all ranks of the priesthood to their being in orders it would appear very wonderful that sovereig●s should continue to submit to what so evidentl● impoverishes their people did not that love of despotism which is imbi●ed with the name of king render them unwilling to destroy its chief source On a view of the many vicious characters who have filled the chair one shudders to think in this enlightened age that any part of mankind shou●d attribute to such sinners the virtues of Christ and lo●k on men polluted with every crime as ves●ed with a supernatural power At fi●st by degree● by treac●ery and us●rpation on the part of the 〈◊〉 of Rome by interested motives on the part of the Emperor and b● big●try in the people they a●●ved a● that wealth splendor and power wh●ch th●y make their 〈◊〉 followers falsely believe th●● have derived ●●om Heaven but now the mi●ds of men are ope●ing to the treacherous delusions which have so long duped them and reformation o● an absolu●● revolution will most likely soon be ●ffected in all 〈◊〉 governments An Answer to Doctor PRIESTLY And all other Deis●ical Unitarians who deny Christ's Divinity By a Christian Unitarian who believes in Christ's Divinity THIS is a subject of the greatest importance to mankind par●i●ularly as their eternal happiness depends on the knowledge of this great divine m●ster● which the pe●ple who imagine they are Christians concei●edly 〈◊〉 themselves they have a perfect knowledge of and some independent people will spurn with contempt at the impudence of any spiritual enlightened person who will dare intrude so trifling a subj●ct on their idle fashionable hours yet a great many who read this will acknowledge that not one in a million know any thing of the matter not know how to-call-on the Deity or what Deity to-call-on Mankind may be informed in the new testament that in the last days which is shortly before the general judgmen● fa●se Prophe●s shall appear and deny the Lord J●sus Christ who bought them with his blood and will almost deceive the very el●ct The word elect means such as are filled with the Holy Ghost In the book of Isaiah the Propher in the old testament God speaks frequently of his intention of essuming flesh and becoming man and even speaks to the humanity and the humanity to his divinity which confound the unconverted not knowing how to separate the divinity from the humanity The followi●g remarks and explanations will prove there 〈◊〉 but one God or one Being to be worshipped which is the invisible God in the visible Christ and the Holy Ghost in God This is well known to the elect only and is also called grace which word grace 〈◊〉 understood by the unconverted externally only not internally Whosoever worships Christ includes the God-head In Isaiah cha● 1 and ver 4 God calls himself the holy one of Israel verse 11 he never delighted in offerings Verse 13. incense an a●omination verse 18 though your sins be red as scarlet they shall be made white as snow verse 24 Lord of Hosts mighty one of Israel Chap. 7. verse 14 shews how the Virgin Mary was to conceive and bear a son whole name should be ●manuel which is God Chap 8. verse 13 14 the Lord of Hosts himself shall be your fear a●d dread he shall be for a sanctuary a holy place to resort to but to some people a stumbling none a rock of offence and a sna●e ●such as despise information to holiness and Christ. The same words are mentioned of Christ in the new testament Chap. 9 verse 6 shews the birth of Christ that his name shall be Wonderful Counsellor the migh●y God the everlasting Father the p●ince of peace There shall be no end to his government it shall hold for ever This chapter and verse is sufficient to prove Christ God Chap 11 and five first verses shew the birth of Christ that is in his human nature saying there shall appear a rod or branch of the root of J●sse J●ss●-was David's father and the 〈◊〉 of the Lord shall rest-upon him he shall be filled with

no nec●ssity ●o re●er to Isaiah to corroborate the observations made in this chapter as most of the quotations from Isaiah 〈◊〉 it Ch. 4. v. 10 if Jesus was not God he c●uld 〈◊〉 offer the w●man of Samaria living waters which is the Holy Gh●st Refer to J●remiah c. 2. v. 13 in v ●4 of St. Joh●'s 4●h chap Jesus said whoever drinks of the wat●r I give it shall be a well in him sp●inging up to everlasting life which water is the Holy Ghost Refer to Jeremiah as before A●d in John c 4 v. 23 24. Jesus said true worshipers shall worship ●he ●ather in spirit and in truth Now observ● God out of Christ is a co●suming fire therefore he is to be worshiped in Chinst the sat●ctuary and propitiation for 〈◊〉 Ver. 42 Christ the Saviour of the world Refer 10 Isaiah c 43. v. 3. 1● J●hn c 8 v. 16 17 18 19 〈◊〉 says my judgment is ●●ue I am not alone but I and the father tha sent me this prove● God in Jesus the earthen vess I which God made and sent and again he says the test mony of two are true God and himself and again he says to the people if ●e had known me ye would know the father also V 29 he that sent me is with me the father has not left me alone for I do alwa●s the things that please him V. 58. J●sus said before Abraham was I am and in the old testament God is called the great I am Ch. 10 Jesus said I am the door of the sheep by me man sh●●l be saved I am the good shepherd I giv● my life for my sheep I am the good sh●pherd I know my sheep and they know me I lay down my life for my sheep no man compels me or takes it from me I lay it down of myself and take it again because I have power I and my father are one the father is in me and I in him Refer to Isaiah c. 40 v 9 ●0 11 In John c. ●2 v. 45 Jesus says whoever sees me sees 〈◊〉 father also c. 14. v. 7 whoever knows me k●ows the father and have seen him and known him V. 9 he that knows me sees and knows the father V. 10 I am in the father and the father in me and the words that I speak are not sp●ken by me but by the father that dwells in me he does the works Acts c 20 v. 28 G●d was crucified and purchased his people with his won blood Corinth c. 5. v ●9 God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself The first epistle general of John c 3 v. 5 God was manifested in the fl●●h Chri●● to take away sins Rev. c. 1 v 7 8. J●sus is God behold I●come in the clouds and every eye shall see and also them that pierced him and the people shall weal then he said I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end saith the Lord which is a●d which was on earth and which is to come again on earth the Almighty V 11 I am A●pha and Omega the fi●st and the last V. 12. like the son of man Jesus V. 17 18 I am the first and the last I am he that lived and was crucified and behold I am a●ive again for ever more 〈◊〉 2 v 8 J●sus is the first and the last that was crucified and is a live Ch. 4 v. 8. 9. 10 11 Christ proved to be God Ch. 5 v 5. Jesus is called the Lion of the tri●e of Juda. Ch 20 v. 12 J●sus is called God opening the books and judgi●g the world Ch 21 v 5 6 7 and he tha● sat up●n the throne Jesus judging the world said it is done I am Alpha and O●ega the beginning and the end I will give u●to the thi●sty the fountain of living waters But unbelievers liars c shall be cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone Ch. 22. v. 12 13 16 behold I come quickly my reward is with me to give according to people's works I am Alpha and Om●ga the beginning a●d the end the fi●st and the last I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these thing● in the churches among the people Ver. 20 he that testifies these things saith surely I come quickly the Lord Jesus 〈◊〉 A most effectual Plan To Prevent a French Invasion THE people who are to execute this plan are that class who are possessed of perpetuities of upwards of One Thousand Pounds yearly after a deduction of two thousand pounds principal money for each of his or her children except the eldest son who should have 200l yearly from the age of 21 and the remainder at his father's death except 200l yearly to the widow if a widow should be Religion and the bare necessaries of life are such total strangers to the lower class of people that they are always looking for a change in the government favourable to a total annihilation of the wealthy and the wealthy on the other hand believe keeping the poor in profound pove●ty and darkness the best way to keep them quiet but it is not and only resembles a fire to be quenched by putting dry fuel on it which will make it burn more violent oppression always terminates in human slaughter though the fire may be a century kindling or centuries it is better for the wealthy lose a liable voluntarily than lose all with the loss of life i●voluntarily like a death bed repentance which God does not listen to for what man worth five ten or twenty thousand pounds yearly in the hands of a banditti of assassins would not give it all for his life Here follows the preventative take a poor man and settle him in a comfortable situation making him pay or fecure a reasonable valuation then see what family he has and for himself wife and children abate twenty shillings yearly each on the following terms give him the book called the new testament and then say do you and your family read this as often as ye are at leisure and whilst you perform its contents I will keep you in the comfortable place I have given but no longer wealthy one you must do more establish a school in your parish or neighbourhood and pay the teacher also and thus do ye wealthy ones with all the poor and idolatry goes to destruction the poor will all love you and God will love you the poor will revolt at the idea of invasion or revolution or any change that should di●comfit their comfort Or if you will not do this subscribe a million of guineas and all people you suspect for wishing your overthrow give them a guinea an head to each in their families to go to America But this last advice will not prevent an invasion it would be only a foolish act of charity that God reqnires besides it wonld depopulate the nation and lessen the rent roll then would the wealthy cry out O my rent roll my rent roll is not half what it was but God will answer O thy rent roll has shut thee out eternally from me thou did not send my messenger among the nations that is to distribute the new testament among the poor thou did not propagate the gospel You will say your Ministers did propagate the gospel but the Lord will say your Ministers are ordained with human forms but my Ministers are ordained with the Holy Ghost from the foondations of the world but ye and your Ministers persecute them and perhaps he will even say ye have also called yourselves Lords and great ones who are but earth which names and titles are for me only and how can you look in my face EXTRACTS FROM DUPATY'S TRAVELS IN ITALY IN my way to the capitol I met a coach in which were two recollet Friars the one seated backwards the other forwards holding between their legs something I could not distinguish Every one stopped and saluted with profound respect I asked to whom this reverence was addressed It is answered one of the standers-by to the Bambino which these good Fathers are carrying to a Prelate who is very ill and given over by his physicians I afterwards procured an explanation what this Bambino was The Bambino is a little wooden Jesus richly dressed and ornamented The Convent which has the good fortune to possess this image neither has nor needs any other patrimony As soon as any person who can afford the expence is seriously ill they send for the Bambino and always in a coach for he never goes on foot Two Recollets conduct and place him by the sick man where they remain at his expence until he dies or recovers The Bambino is constantly running about they sometimes fight who shall have him at the gate of the Convent and tear him from each other in the Summer especially he has extraordinary business though he makes them pay very dearly for his visits on account of the demand and the hot weather This is but fair THE progress insolence and intolerable tyranny of the church of Rome is now become of serious consideration and publick complaint the establishment of which will infallibly be the destruction of church state laws liberties properties and lives The Protestant writers ever since the Revolution have frequently and effectually exposed and confuted this pernicious doctrine calculated to plunder and rob the ignorant and illiterate to whom only the Church of Rome pretends to be the mother and mistress of all churches and domineers the vulgar and wicked into that belief or faith always exerting her tyranny to continue them in the grossest darkness and from a knowledge of the Gospel light from generation to generation The Pope always imposes a belief on the ignorant that he is successor to Christ St. Peter c. and such blasphemy and none can be saved but his subjects and eating of all the luxuries and dainties in the world on a friday or saturday sends people to Heaven except meat which sends to Hell but all his wicked doctrines being contrary to that of Christ he takes ●are the gospel light shall be kept from them as long as he can well knowing a general knowledge of it would destroy his craft as St. Paul did that of Alexander the Copper-Smith FINIS

to ontinue there in hopes of becoming as good a knight as Sir Philip his landlord was Of this Peter I have been told that the Lady Narcliff of Chelsea and the lady St. John of Battersea have often been heard to talk and that they both asserted the truth of our Prophecy and its accomplishment with particulars that are more extraordinary than any I have yet mentioned The noise of Nixon's predictions reaching the ears of King James the First he would needs ●ee this fool who cried and made a●o that he might not go to Court and the reason that he gave was That he should be starved A very whimsical fancy of his Courts are not places where people use to starve in when they once come there whatever they did before The King being informed of Nixon's refusing to come said he would take particular care that he should not be starved and ordered him to be brought up Nixon cried out He was sent for again and soon after the messenger arrived who brought him up from Cheshire How or whether he prophesied to his Majesty no body can tell but he is not the first fool that has made a good Court Prophet That Nixon might be well provided for 't was ordered that he should be kept in the kitchen where he grew so troublesome in licking and picking the meat that the cooks locked him up in a hole and the King going on a sudden from Ham●ton Court to London they forgot the fool in the hurry and he was really starved to death There are a great many passages of this Fool-Phrophet's life and sayings transmitted by tradition from father to son in this county palatine as that when he lived with a farmer before he was taken into Mr. Cholmondeley's family he gored an ●x so cruelly that one of the ploughmen threatened to beat him for abusing his master's beast Nixon said My master's beast will not be his three days A life in an estate dropping in that time the Lord of the manor took the same ox for an herriot This account as whimsical and romantic as it is was told to the Lady Cowper in the year 1670 by Dr. Parric● late Bishop of Ely then Chaplain to S●r Walter St. John and that Lady had the following farther particulars relating to this Prophecy and the fulfilling of many parts of it from Mrs Chute fister of Mrs. Cholmondeley of Vale-Royal who affirmed that a multitude of people gathering together to see the Eagle before mentioned the bird was ●rightened from her young that she herself was one of them and the cry among the people was Nixon's Phrophecy is fulfil●ed and we shall have a foreign King She declared that she read over the prophecy many times when her sister was with child of the heir who now enjoys the estate She particularly remembered membered that King James II. was plainly pointed at and that it was foretold he would endeavour to subvert the laws and religion of this kingdom for which reason they would rise and turn him out that the Eagle of which Nixon prophesied perched in one of the windows at the time her sister was in labour She said it was the biggest bird she ever saw that it was in a deep snow and that it perched on the edge of a great bow-window which had a large border on the outside and she and many others opened the window to try to scare it away but it would not stir till Mrs Cholmondeley was delivered after which it took flight to a great tree over against the room her sister lay in where having staid about three days it flew away in the night She affirmed further to the Lady Cowper that the falling of the garden-wall was a thing not to be questioned it being in so many people's memory That it was foretold that the heir of Vale-Royal should live to see England invaded by foreigners and that he should fight bravely for his King and his country That the Miller mentioned is alive and expects to be knighted and is in the very mill that is foretold That he should kill two invaders who would come in the one from the West and the other from the North That he from the North should bring with him of all nations Swedes Danes Germans and Dutch and that in the solds of his garments he should bring fire and famine plague and murder That many great battles should be fought in England one upon London Bridge which would be so bloody that people would ride in London streets up to their horses bellies in blood that several other battles should be sought up and down most parts in Cheshire and that the last that ever would be fought in England should be on Delamere fo●est That the heir of Oalton whose name is E n and has married Earl Cholmondeley's si●ter shall be hanged up at his own gate Lastly He foretels great glory and prosperity to those who stand up in defence of their laws and liberties and ruin and misery to those that should betray them He says the year before this would happen bread-corn would be very dear and that the year following more troubles should begin which would last three years that the first would be moderate the second bloody and the third intolerable that unless they were shortened no mortal could bear them and that there were no mischiefs but what poor England would feel at that time But that George the son of George shall put an end to all That afterwards the Church should fl●uri●h and England be the most glorious nation upon Earth The same Lady Cowper was not content to take these particulars from Mrs. Chute but she inquired of Sir Thomas Aston of the truth of this Prophecy and he attested it was in great reputation in Cheshire and that the facts were known by every one to have happened as Nixon said they would adding that the morning before the garden-wall fell his neighbour Mr. Cholmondeley going to ride out a hunting said Nixon seldom fails but now I think he will for he foretold that this day ●y garden wall would fall and I think it looks as if it would stand these forty years that he had not been gone a quarter of an hour before the wall split and fell upwards against the rising of the hill which as Nixon would have it was the presage of a flourishing church As to the removal of Pecserton mill it was done by Sir John Crewe the mill having lost its trade there for which he ordered it to be set upon Ludditon hill and being asked if he did it to fulfill the Prophecy he declared he never thought of it I myself have inquired of a person who knows Mr. Cholmondeley's pond as well as Rosamond's in St. James's Park and he assured me the falling of the wall and the pond running blood as they call it are facts which in Cheshire any one would be reckoned mad for making the least question of As there are several particulars in this Prophecy

which remain unfulfilled so when they come to pass some other circumstances may be added which are not convenient to be told now for private reasons but will shortly appear If I had a mind to look into the antiquities of this county I might ●ind that Prodigies and Prophecies are no unusual things there Cambden tells us that at Brereton not many miles from Vale Royal which gave name to a famous antient numerous and knightly family there is a thing as strange as the perching Eagle or the falling of the wall which he says was attested to him by many persons and was commonly believed that before any heir of this family dies there are s●en in a lake adjoining the bodies of trees swimming upon the water for several days together He likewise adds that near the Abbey of St. Maurice in Burgundy there is a fish-pond in which a number of fishes are put equal to the number of Monks of that place and if any one of them happens to be sick there is a fish seen floating on the water and in case the fit of sickness proves fatal to the Monk the fish foretells it by its own death some days before This the learned Cambden relates in his description of Cheshire and the opinion of the trees swimming in the lake near Brereton prevails all about the country to this day only with this difference that some say 't is one log that swims and some say many J. OLDMIXON Strange and Remarkable Prophecies and Predictions Of the Holy Learned and Excellent JAMES USHER Late Lord Bishop of ARMAGH And Lord Primate of IRELAND Giving an Account of his Foretelling I. The Rebellion in Ireland forty Years before it came to pass II. The Confusions and Miseries of England in Church and State III. The Death of King Charles the First IV. His own Poverty and Want V. The Divisions in England in Matters of Religion Lastly of great and terrible Persecutions which shall fall upon the Reformed Churches by the Papists wherein the Pope should be chiefly concerned Written by the Person who heard it from this excellent Man 's own Mouth and now published e●rnestly to persuade us to that Repentance and Reformation which can only prevent our ruin and Destruction And the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham the Thing which I do Gen. xviii 17. Strange and Remarkable PREDICTIONS Of that Holy Learned and Excellent Bishop JAMES USHER Late Lord Primate of IRELAND THE Author of the Life of this excellent and worthy Primate and Archbishop gives an Account that among other extraordinary Gifts and Graces which it pleased the Almighty to bestow upon him he was wonderfully endued with a Spirit of Prophecy whereby he gave out several true Predictions and Prophecies of Things a great while before they came to pass whereof some we have seen fulfilled and others remain y●t to be accomplished And though he was one that abhorred Enthusiastic Notions being too learn●d rational and knowing to admit of such idle Freaks and Whimsies Yet he professed That several Times in his Life he had many Things impressed upon his Mind concerning future Events with so much Warmness and Importunity that he was not able to keep them secret but lay under an unavoidable Necessity to make them known From which Spirit he foretold the Irish Rebellion forty Years before it came to pass with the very Time when it should break forth in a Sermon preached in Dublin in 1601 where from Ezek. iv 6 discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the Iniquity of Iudah forty Days the Lord therein appointed a Day for a Year He made this direct Application in relation to the Connivance at Popery at that Time From this Year says he will I reckon the Sin of Ireland that those whom you now embrace shall be your R●in and you shall bear this ●niquity Which Prediction proved exactly true for from that Time 1601 to the Year 1641 was just forty Years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and Destruction of Ireland happened which was acted by those Popish Priests and other Papists which were then connived at And of this Sermon the Bishop reserved the Notes and put a Note thereof in the Margin of his Bible and for twenty years before he still lived in the Expectation of the fulfilling thereof and the nearer the Time was the more confident he was that it was near Accomplishment though there was no visible Appearance of any such Thing and says Dr. Bernard the Year before the Rebellion broke forth the Bishop taking his Leave of me being then going from Ireland to England he advised me to a serious Preparation for I should see heavy Sorrows and Miseries before I saw him again which he delivered with as great Confidence as if he had seen it with his Eyes which seems to verify that of the Prophet Amos iii. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing but he will reveal it to his Servants the Prophets From this Spirit of Prophecy he foresaw the Changes and Miseries of England in Church and State for having in one of his Books called De Prim. Eccl. Brit. given a large Account of the Destruction of the Church and State of the Britons by the Saxons about ●50 Years after Christ He gives this among ●ther Reasons why he insisted so largely upon 〈◊〉 that he foresaw that a like Judgment was ●●et behind if timely Repentance and Reforma●●on did not prevent it and he would often ●ourn upon the Foresight of this long before it ●ame From this Spirit he gave mournful Intima●●ons of the Death of our Sovereign Charles the 〈◊〉 of whom he would be often speaking 〈◊〉 Fear and Trembling even when the King 〈◊〉 the greatest Success and would therefore 〈◊〉 pray and gave all Advice possible 〈◊〉 prevent any such Thing From this Spirit he foresaw his own Poverty in worldly Things and this he would often speak 〈◊〉 with Admiration to the Hearers when he was in his greatest Prosperity which the Event did most certainly verify From this Spirit he predicted the Divisions and Con●usions in England in Matters of Religion and the sad Consequences thereof some of which we have seen fulfilled and I pray God the rest which he feared may not also be accomplished upon us Lastly From this Spirit he foretold That the grea●●st Stroke upon the Reformed Church●s was yet to come and that the Time of the utter Ruin of the See of Rome should be whe● she thought herself most secure And as to thi● last I shall add a brief Account 〈◊〉 the Person 's own Hand who was concerned therein which followeth in these Words The Year before this Learned and Holy Primate Archbishop Usher died I went to him an● earnestly desired him to give me in Writing his Apprehensions concerning Justification an Sancti●ication by Christ because I had for merly heard ●im preach upon those Point● wherein he seemed to make those great Mysteries more intelligible to my mean Capacity tha● any thing which I had

pride the Devil instigates him to renounce his name and take the ridiculous name of a river a town a hill or a province and tacks God's name and title to it Then he is exalted and God positively declares and says whoever exalts himself shall surely be abased that is cast into Hell and thus does the Devil sport with all wealthy people and proud people and dressy people Dress draws every curse from God down upon the soul the more dressy the more vicious clothing was first invented to cover sin and shame and ought therefore be as plain as possible besides God strictly commands it should be so Now hear the declaration of a fine shewy dressy person to God viz. I will dress powder curl and paint to spite you God because you desire me not I will flirt laugh please and be pleased praise and be praised read plays romances and all other devilish books because you say all those will corrupt me and that I must account for every idle word I speak I will not read the bible nor do therein because you desire me for every thing you command me I will not do and every thing you forbid me I will do God because my father and mother brought me up this way and they follow the same life themselves for we all prefer the damnation of Hell to you and your old book filled with stories of love terrors Heaven Hell and all such tedious nonsense to people of fashion going into Perdition The more wicked and abominable a person is before God the more glaringly they wish to adorn the filthy carcase iniquity invented new fashions it originated in France every married woman there was despised if she was not a w the bible was forbid to be read by order of Ant●christ and his Deputies least the people should perceive their own damnation and rebel against idolatry the contagion is in England Ireland c. the world is teeming with wickedness the Lord God is like a roaring lion filled with wrath fury and revenge he is thundering down his vengeance in a variety of ●hapes previous to the general judgment which is now the general dread of the people teeming with iniquity and filled with terrors without one single exception among the wicked whenever the Almighty intendsany great event he puts it more or less in the people's minds before the execution to induce them to holiness for there is no other way to prevent his wrath But instead they continue to act as if they were never to die and blinding each other with praise flattery hypocrisy and deceit Suppose Christ was this instant to come down and judge all people shewing Heaven's great expanse of innumerable pleasures on one side and Hell's yawning torments on the other how would the proud and dressy appear Would the not with their pride and fashionable dress in Hell where it originated Are they the pious holy people marked with the Holy Ghost to sa●vation that could run to meet Christ whose face is of flaming fire Or are they those pointed out in the bible who are marked by the Devil to devote themselves to the pleasures and passions of this Hell-grown world Let them answer for themselves 〈◊〉 if they cannot I can they are of the latter description they are an ab●mination before the L●rd and before his holy people on earth they have stipulated with the Devil their pre●ious souls for fashionable dress pride and as God says cannot escape the damnation of Hell Therefore Readers do not ye be of this accursed number but follow the advice given in this little pamphlet of very great value cast away instantly your fashionable dress pride ●rippery and all accursed worldly show and you will make the Devil fly away from you roaring with despair and God and the innumerable host of Heaven will shout for joy and the windows of Heaven will be opened unto you Give atrention now ye wealthy ye great wicked ones who are squandering thousands and tens of thousands yearly in superfluous excesses which are the works of the son of Perdition Squander your thousands on the purchase of millions of bibles new testaments hymn books and psalm books scatter them among the people like corn before the plow by which all the human race will learn to know the Lord and do his blessed will propagate the gospel of Christ in its original purity until all the people shall know that the gospel sound alone is sure salvation and not the abominable works of man's hands renounce idolatry sue for the property of the distressed when wronged by the unjust distrib●te justice without favour or affection and God will love you and keep you in safety Read the bible the ensuing long winter evenings ye and your families expound it to each other every night and if at leisure in the day time also Glorify God let your conversation turn on every verse on every chapter you read of the wonderful works of the Lord Iesus Christ and his Apostles then your conversation will be in Heaven and this is also the communion of Saints so little understood in this world Let that same Jesus never leave your thoughts this is what the Apostle means where he says pray without ceasing this incessant silent meditation on Jesus is certain salvation this is worshiping in spirit and in truth because God is in Christ your souls then feed on him and grow rich in grace and grace is the gradual operation of the Holy Ghost which brings you from glory to glory Let all men and women be exhorters to good by their profound knowledge of the bible which will abolish evil from the human race empty your purses to put all the indigent to industry who have the inclination but not the means and after doing all these things and ten thousand times more do not take the least merit to yourselves it is not ye that do it it is the Holy Ghost in ye therefore give all the merit to God and all the glory and then know he has only done ye the honor of choosing ye to be useful machines to do his business and if ye are conscious in your hearts it is so and that ye firmly believe that property which ye so distribute is his and not your own as all wealthy fools imagine then the wide expanse of Heaven is open for your enjoyment as soon as your fervency of love for him desire it with millions of millions of pleasures with him on his holy mountain do all those things if you can and if you can and do not read your dreadful sentence in the new testament Give attention again ye wealthy cast away all your ●rippery your variegated head-dr●sses and all other ornaments calculated to adorn your carcas●s for praise and admiration which is certain c●●demnation to your souls play no cards or other gambling never enter them hellish seminaries of corruption called play-houses do not suffer a play book of any kind romance or novel inside your houses

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