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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

enti●led A short work of the Lord 's in the latter age of the world Great earthquakes and commotions by sea and land shall come in the year of God 1779. Great wars in Germany and America in 1780. The destruction of popery or Babylon's fall in the year 1790. God will be known by many in the year 1795. This will produce a great man The stars will wander and the moon turn as blood in 1800. Africa Asia and America will tremble in 1803. A great earthquake over all the world in 1805. God will be universally known by all Then a general reformation and peace for ever when the people shall learn war no more Happy is the man that liveth to see this day PROPHECY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FROM A PUBLICATION BY THE LATE MR. PETER JURIEU IN 1687. Rev. xi 13. And the same hour was there a great earthquake and the tenth part of the City fell and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to God NOW what is this tenth part of this city which shall fall we cannot doubt that 't is France This kingdom is the most considerable part or piece of the ten horns or states which once made up the great Babylonian city it fell this does not signify that the French Monarchy shall be ruined it may be humbled but in all appearance Providence does design a great elevation for her afterward 'T is highly probable that God will not let go unpunished the horrible outrages which it acts at this day Afterward it must build its greatness upon the ruins of the papal empire and enrich itself with the spoils of those who shall take part with the papacy They who at this day persecute the protestants know not whither God is leading them this is not the way by which he will lead France to the height of glory If she comes thither 'tis because she shall shortly change her road Her greatening will be no damage to protestant states on the contrary the protestant states shall be enriched with the spoils of others and be strengthened by the fall of Antichrist's empire This tenth part of the city shall fall with respect to the papacy it shall break with Rome and the Roman religion One thing is certain that the Babylonian empire shall perish through the refusal of obedience by the ten Kings who had given their power to the beast The thing is already come to pass in part The kingdoms of Sweden Denmark England and several sovereign states of Germany have withdrawn themselves from the Iurisdiction of the Pope They have spoiled the h●rlot of her riches They have eaten her flesh ie seized her benefices and revenues which she had in their countries This must go on and be finished as it began The Kings who yet remain under the empire of Rome must break with her leave her solitary and desolate But who must begin this last revolt 'T is most probable that France shall Not Spain which as yet is plunged in superstition and is as much under the tyranny of the clergy as ever Not the Emperor who in temporals is subject to the Pope and permits the Archbishop of Strigonium in his states to teach that the Pope can take away the Imperial crown from him It cannot be any country but France which a long time ago hath begun to shake off the yoke of Rome 'T is well known how solemnly and openly war hath been declared against the Pope by declaration of the King ratified in all the parliaments by the decisions of the assembly of the French clergy by a disputation against the authority of the Pope managed in the Sorbon solemnly and by order of the Court. And to heighten the affront the theses were posted up even upon the gates of his Nuncio Nothing of this kind had h●●herto happened at least in a time of peace and unless the Pope had given occasion by his infolencies Besides this superstition and idolatry lose their credit much in France There is a secret party though well enough known which greatly despiseth the popular devotions images worship of Saints and is convinced that these are human inventions God is before-hand preparing for this great work To this it may be objected that for the last fifty years the Pope's empire hath not been made up of ten Kings because England Sweden Denmark c. have thrown off his government and consequently France is not at this day the tenth part of the Babylonian empire for 't is more than a tenth part of it But this is no difficulty for we must know that things retain the names which they bore in their original without regarding the alterations which time does bring along Though at this day there are not ten kingdoms under the Babylonian empire 't is notwithstanding certain that each Kingdom was called and ought to be called in 〈◊〉 prophecy the tenth part because the prophet having described this empire in its beginning by its ten horns or ten Kings 't is necessary for our clear understanding that every one of these ten Kings and kingdoms should be called one of the ten Kings or of the ten kingdoms with respect to the constitution of the Antichristian empire Seeing the tenth part of the city that must fall is France this gives me some hopes that the death of the two witnesses hath a particular relation to this kingdom 'T is the street or place of this city i. e. the most fair and eminent part of it The witnesses must remain dead upon this street and upon it they must be raised again And as the death of the witnesses and their resurrection have a relation to the kingdom of France it may well fall out that we may not be far distant from the time of the resurrection of the witnesses seeing the three years and a half of their death are either begun or will begin shortly And in the earthquake were slain seven thousand in the Greek it is seven thousand names of men and not seven thousand men I consess that this seems somewhat mystericus in other places we find not this phrase names of men put simply for men Perhaps there is here a figure of grammar called hypallage casus so that names of men are put for men of name i. e. of raised and considerable quality be it on account of riches or of dignity or of learning But I am more inclined to say that here these words names of men must be taken in their natural signification and do intimate that the total Reformation of France shall not be made without bloodshed nothing shall be destroyed but names such as are the names of Monks of Carmelites of Augustines of Dominicans of Iacobins of Franciscans Capuchins Iesuites Minimes and an infinite company of others whose number 't is not easy to define and which the Holy Ghost denotes by the number seven which is the number of perfection to signify the number of monks and

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

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

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