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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52522	Wonderful predictions of Nostredamus, Grebner, David Pareus, and Antonius Torquatus wherein the grandeur of Their present Majesties, the happiness of England, and downfall of France and Rome, are plainly delineated : with a large preface, shewing, that the crown of England has been not obscurely foretold to Their Majesties William III and Mary, late Prince and Princess of Orange, and that the people of this ancient monarchy have duly contributed thereunto, in the present assembly of Lords and Commons, notwithstanding the objections of men and different extremes.	Atwood, William, d. 1705?; Grebner, Ezekiel.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566.; Pareus, David, 1548-1622.; Torquato, Antonio, 15th cent.	1689 (1689)	Wing N1401; ESTC R261	72,982	73

WONDERFUL PREDICTIONS OF NOSTREDAMUS GREBNER DAVID PAREUS and ANTONIUS TORQUATUS Wherein the GRANDEUR of Their Present Majesties THE HAPPINESS of ENGLAND AND DOWNFALL of FRANCE and ROME Are plainly Delineated WITH A LARGE PREFACE SHEWING That the CROWN of ENGLAND has been not obscurely foretold to Their MAJESTIES WILLIAM III. and MARY late PRINCE and PRINCESS of ORANGE And that the People of this ANCIENT MONARCHY have duly Contributed thereunto in the Present ASSEMBLY of LORDS and COMMONS notwithstanding the Objetions of Men of different Extremes LONDON Printed for J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard T. Fox in Westminster-hall and M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street 1689. To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of MACCLESFIELD LORD PRESIDENT of WALES And one of His MAJESTY's Most Honourable PRIVY-COUNCIL MY LORD SINCE the Great Grotius and Sir Matthew Hales sometimes softned their severer Studies with Verse I hope Your Lordship will not think a plain English Preface the more unworthy of Your Patronage because of the Rhimes that follow it Certainly we are bound by the most Sacred Ties to use all Means in our Power for the Preservation of the present Government with which the Protestant Religion throughout Christendom may expect to flourish or fail as to its visibility And as Your Lordship's Sword is ready under our Glorious King WILLIAM again to do Wonders whenever this Noble Cause shall draw it permit me in the mean while under Your Lordships Banner to offer this Earnest of my utmost either natural or acquir'd Force in its Service against a sort of Enemies below Your Lordships Indignation Some of them being Men of Letters will yield to no Authority but what they find in Books and were it not for the Invention of Printing would almost have been depriv'd of the use of Reason For these I hope I have brought both Weight and Measure and prov'd to them that our Government is as Legal as it may be Happy if they please and I doubt not will be whether they please or no. With others no Arguments are of any moment but as they work upon their Hopes or Fears and Reason in them is always subservient to Sense or Interest These if they have not Religion at least are Superstitious and as the Poet has it are the Men who tremble and look pale at every Flash of Lightning Every cross Accident is with them a Presage of more and disposes them to change their Side and time was when by looking up to the Fane over the Horse-Guards one might know who they were for If these Men can be persuaded that the wonderful Successes which his present Majesty has met with have been plainly foretold and that no less are promis'd yet to come if they do not assist they will not dare to oppose And till they can either fix an Imputation of Forgery upon the Predictions here collected or evade their Agreement with known Events the Government has them sure I must confess I believe it will never be well with this divided Nation till Men act like Your Lordship upon more generous and steady Principles Whoever espouses Truth only while it is prosperous is beholden to Chance for his Honesty as some have been for their mistaken Loyalty with which specious Pretence they have varnish'd over a long Series of the most illegal and barbarous Actions that ever were the Reproach of any Civiliz'd Nation Vnder that Rage Your Lordship suffer'd and not to have suffer'd would have been enough to have brought Your Fame in question when it was hardly possible for one of so great a Figure to live in safety without such shameful Compliances as our English Spirits were never guilty of in the darkest Ages of Popery These things I am confident Your Lordship would be loth to remember against any now likely to represent themselves fair to a Prince newly come from abroad were it not for the manifest Tendency I may say Effects of their Principles And till they either publickly repent of or condemn those Doctrines upon which such Actions are grounded Your Lordship may well apprehend a Relapse into the former State. The Absurdity of their Notions is not a more proper Subject of Laughter than the Guilt is of Punishment yet had they the Ingenuity by a free Confession to stop the spreading Contagion I dare say few would have the ill Nature to upbraid them with their Faults I am sensible that I have rais'd many Enemies by the Freedom which I have taken with them yet methinks that Caution and Discretion which has with-held others more able who look more at Times and Seasons than Things is little less than Criminal at least they deserve no Praise who will not make or enter a Breach till cover'd with Crowds Sure I am many lamented Worthies have been condemn'd in Form of Law and censur'd by the thoughtless higher and lower Vulgar because of the Pusilanimity or Treachery of others or fatal Lethargy of the Times in short have been thought Fools and Traytors because they could not Prophesie Yet as Your Lordship has declin'd no Danger where the Cause of Your Religion or Country call'd permit me tho' not to aspire to the Imitation to profit by the Example Many Men above Fears are Slaves to Ambition or Gain perfect Mercenaries and fight for Pay they think the World but a Stage to scramble on and he that gets most tho' to the ruine of Thousands is with them the Bravest Man. If Your Lordship had been of this Mind Your Valour might have carv'd out a Fortune enough to have bought a Nation to Your Side But that Trust which His present Majesty has repos'd in Your Lordship is more valuable than the Indies given by unthinking Multitudes or Monarchs and I doubt not but Your Lordship will in Execution of so high an Office shew that Bravery of Nature Fidelity by Principle and Skill both in Civil and Military Affairs from a long well-improv'd Experience as may sufficiently satisfie all reasonable Men in the difference between the Ministry of the last Reign and This. For my own part since my early Zeal for the Service of Your Lordship and the Publick in truth of the Publick in Your Lordship has entred me of Your Retinue permit me the Glory of declaring to the World that I am MY LORD Your Lordship 's most Obliged and Devoted Humble Servant WILL. ATWOOD PREFACE AFTER those Great and Glorious Things which His present Majesty William III. has done for this Nation had we not made His Government our Choice as His Protection was our Refuge the Ingratitude would have been as signal as our Deliverance has been thro' His auspicious Conduct And whoever opposes this may be thought to fight against those Providences and Predictions which give as it were a Sacred Unction and Designation of His Person to the Supremacy of Power among us Yet how plainly soever this seems to have been design'd by Heaven I must own