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A70061	Fore-warn'd, fore-arm'd, or, England's timely warning in general and London's in particular by a collection of five prophetical predictions published by Mr. William Lilly forty years ago, two of Mr. John Gadbury's, anno 1678, and one of Mother Shipton's long since, all at large published in the said Mr. Lilly and Gadbury's own words, purporting I, London's danger anno 1683 and its catastrophe soon thereafter, II, The danger that the Protestant religion will be brought unto all over Europe, and by whom effected and where contrived, III, That England in general will be brought into great calamities and by what means, IV, The extinguishment of a very great family in some part of Europe, V, That the breach of some nations priviledges, ancient customs and long enjoyed rights may produce dangerous effects : all of which are published by the author, not to affright the people with, but to warn them of, knowing that evil before-hand warned of commonly hurts less then that which comes at unawares.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1682 (1682)	Wing F1556A; ESTC R15451	4,754	10

Fore-Warn'd Fore-Arm'd OR England's Timely Warning in general And London's in particular By a Collection of Five Prophetical Predictions Published by Mr. William Lilly Forty years ago Two of Mr. John Gadbury's Anno 1678. And One of Mother Shipton's long since all at large Published in the said Mr. Lilly and Gadbury's own Words PURPORTING I. London's Danger Anno 1683. and its Catastrophe soon after II. The Danger that the Protestant Religion will be brought unto all over Europe and by whom effected and where contrived III. That England in general will be brought into great Calamities and by what means IV. The Extinguishment of a very great Family in some part of Europe V. That the Breach of some Nations Priviledges Ancient Customs and Long-enjoyed Rights may produce dangerous Effects All of which are Published by the Author not to affright the People with but to warn them of knowing that Evil before-hand warned of commonly hurts less then that which comes at unawares London Printed for John Powel 1682. Fore-Warn'd Fore-Arm'd OR England's Timely Warning in general and London's in Particular I Shall begin first with Mr. Lillies grounded on that as he said of Mother Shiptons but was not hers but Ambrose Merlins concerning London Published in his Englands Prophetical Merlin Anno 1642 page 91. the words are as followeth What Lincoln was and London is That York shall be The fairest City of the three Brave London prays that day she nere may see On which he saith That London in England by reason of the unlucky Position of Mars in her Sign and being Cadent from Aries and Mercury his Dispositer in Combust and in Detriment shall indure many a hard shock two plagues but from Mercuries being Combust and in detriment he might and its a wonder to mee why he did not say that one of those two Plagues might have been a fiery one as indeed it proved to be extream dammage in her Wealth the loss of many Valiant Citizens but it shall be with Honour and to her perpetual Renown Nor shall any man yet alive s●e the days Mother Shipton spake of concerning London yet in time all Cities must have an end But I rather think that about the year 1683. the City shall be in great danger and then come to a final Catastrophe during the Revolution of that fifth Conjunction So far Mr. Lilly in that page but its danger shall be more particularly declared anon But by that fifth Conjunction is to be understood that of Saturn and Jupiter in the Fiery Triplicity and in Leo on the 20 day of October Anno 1682. which will be their fifth from that seventh great Conjunction of theirs Anno 1603. when they left the Watery and entred into the Fiery Trigon on the 7 of December in the said year which kind of Conjunctions seldom or never hapned if Credit may be given to History Antiquity or Experience as Mr. Lilly saith but they were followed with great and strange Changes in the World both in Civil and Ecclesiastical States and are as seldom accompanied with any propitious Successes to England in general or London in particular 1. For at their first entrance into Aries called by Ptolomy the first of the Zodiake and the Arabians the fiery Trigon which was their first Conjunction after the Creation and was called their great Conjunction and was before Enochs Translation 2. Their Second before Noahs Flood and was followed with the sad Universal Deluge Nimrods usurped Monarchy and the building of Babel 3. Their third before Moses bringing the Israelites out of Egypt and the giving of the Law 4. Their fourth was also followed with erecting of the Empire of the Medes 5. Their Fifth with that of the Romans and the Incarnation of Christ and Publishing the Gospel to the Jews 6. Their Sixth with the Translation of the said Empire to the Germans 7. And their Seventh great yea and greatest being their Sabbatical Conjunction was Anno 1603. which was followed first with the Death of Queen Elizabeth a Mother to the English Nation at which time was a great Plague in London And secondly The raising the Monarchy of great Brittain and Ireland to the Family of the Stewarts in Scotland and could a more memorable change happen in this part of the World then for a Scotch King to become King of England and Ireland without blows considering the Antipathy between both Nations And was not this a raising of a new Monarchy and a great one too of which James the sixth of Scotland was the first King and our King Charles the second was and is the first King of the said Race born in it and to it and consequently a proper Native of it God grant he may live long to enjoy it And here we are to take Notice That these said seven Conjunctions of the two superior Planets are all the great Conjunctions that have been since the Creation or that will be in some Centuries of years if ever any more be at all of which Mr. Lilly doubted with many more the Sabbatical one being now already past neither do they come to pass above once in eight hundred years -And further that there have been but fifteen more in all of those two Planets since the Creation as appears by Ptolomy's Table of all the Conjunctions that have been of all the Plannets since as aforesaid of which said Table the Author hath a Copy now extant of Mr. Lillies Transcribing 1. Which said 15 Conjunctions past with the next to come this next October are called lesser or minor Conjunctions 2. But the next Conjunction that followed that of 1603. was that which came to pass in seven degrees of Leo in the same Trigon Anno 1623. and was followed first with King James his death and then with that Plague of which was said to dye above 50 thousand People in London Anno 1625. 3. Their third Conjunction fell out to be Anno 1642. in which said year began our intestine War between King and Parliament which lasted more or less with some Intermissions until 1652. in which year or the next we had a dull Saturnine Comet on Contemplation whereof Mr. Lilly writ a second Prediction for matter and form as followeth In the Year of Eighty Three Great Changes there will be In England But Long ere that time poor Merlin sleeps In his Grave secure sad England weeps Leaves he no Heir unhappy man That this obscure Riddle can Vnfold No. But more remarkable was that which followed their fourth Conjunction in Sagitarius and fiery Trigon Anno 1663. when all the Planets met in that house as at a general Rendezvouz to consult the effecting the heavenly decrees and was followed first with three great Comets in less then Seven Months space and then secondly with the greatest Pestilential Plague that ever London knew to the Destruction of near an hundred thousand People thereby leaving many houses desolate of the Inhabitants Anno 1665. and then with that dreadful fire which Consumed

most of the City and as much of the Suburbs as it left of the City thereby leaving more Inhabitants destitute of houses Anno 1666. by all which we may observe that the Effects of these last Conjunctions were speedy and severe though not of any long Continuance But what manner of Effects have already or may yet precede this now so near approaching on a very few years may probably determin and for as much as the former were as aforesaid what may we expect otherwise then that this coming of the same or the like cause should produce the like Effects unless God of his great Mercys be pleased to prevent the same 3. Mr. Lillies third Prediction saying page 25. of the same Book I judge that privately by Lies Treacheries fained and dissembled Treaties and Embassadors and by the Policies of a Jesuitical Faction all over Europe the true Protestant Religion will be infinitely distressed and the heavenly intentions Impedited and all those Countreys professing Protestantisme exceedingly molested by so great a Compact of Villains and false hearted Traytors lurking in the Clossets and Bosoms of Princes that many shall think that Popery shall return to its old Seat in every Countrey c. Consider who are Enemies to the Protestant Religion viz. The Popish Priests Jesuits and Papists with their Adherents and where they Harbour and Contrive their Mischiefs if Mr. Lilly were not mistaken 4. His fourth Prediction page 110. of the same Book Woe to a great Family in Europe That was is now and shall not be 't is not old it s not Antient but like an untimely Birth it s cut off and shall not flourish in Branch or Root Good Lord shall the number of Fifty cut off more than five or shall less then 90. be alotted for four shall the Virgin be barren and the Lyon have no Issue shall less then 36 end in two shall the second end in a Cipher and shall seven come to be one and then none The fifth of Mr. Lillies I intend to reserve for the close of the Treatise Mr. Gadburies Prediction in his Almanack for the Year 1678. What art thou O Crafty but smooth Tongued Enemy whether Courtier Causidian or Ecclesiastick that thus delightest to obstruct the Peace of Kingdoms and Republicks and playest thy Game under a shew of Friendship Piety and Conscience with a seeming compliance with the things thou really opposest shall time be so much a Traytor to Truth and Goodness as not at length to pull off thy Hypocritical Vizor Be quiet Friends it cannot yet be Eighty Three is not yet come But the Heavens and Stars are by Gods Permission preparing matter Another of the same Author When Venus shall a Prince and Empire raise And Jove's Constrain'd to give dull Saturn praise Then shall the Laws and Powers Jove did Erect Strike Sail and how to a Saturnine Sect. One of Shiptons own Prophecies England thy proper Native thee betrays Because all Nations hate thee and thy ways Spain doth Vndermine thee France doth gnaw Wales Threats thee Irish thee by Snares do aw Thy bravest men do on a suddain dye And thou thy self dost wholly ruin'd lye And seest it not but under feigned Peace Do'st thine own Misery still the more encrease Having thus given the Nation in general and the City in particular a Prospect of some of the dangers predicted against them and in possibility may be brought upon them and by whom and about what time viz. Soon after the Celebration of that Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter spoken of by Mr. Lilly and is already preceded as followeth First by a restraint put upon Liberty of Conscience in Religious things contrary to some Engagements past to another purpose and procured at the Request and Solicitation of such men as peradventure are of no Religion themselves or at the best such a Religion whose Principle is to conclude Papist-like with Nulla Fides otherwise it had never been desired but we may thank the first Parliament for that A second precedent is a Mercurial War managed with Tongue and Pen apt Weapons for such a Warfare Which is in all the Nation proclaimed by those distinguishing Nicknames of Whiggs and Tories obscenely and provokingly put upon the Adherents to the two adverse Parties in the quarrel id est the Protestants and Papists just as it was before the War began between the late King and Parliament Anno 1642. when called Cavaliers and Round-Heads A Third is some apparent dangers which the City of London does now labour under which may be part of the danger Mr. Lilly said the City should be in about 1683. The first is that of their Charter called for by the King with a Quo Warranto and as some think is in danger of being lost The second is their Priviledges assaulted by their present Lord Mayor who as his Lordship thinks has drank the Commons out of their Priviledge of Electing two Sheriffs The third is their Religion in common with the rest of the Nation and hath been and still is designedly assaulted by its common Enemies the Papists But the fourth last and greatest and worst danger preceding the foresaid Conjunction is the Miserable Divisions the whole Nation in general is fallen into and labours under making themselves two distinct parties in absolute Opposition against each other of which kind of danger it may be feared that there is but little hope to escape from unless the Lord send help some other way then is yet thought of Therefore let 's yet consider Christs Words A City divided against it self cannot stand The present Condition we now stand Labouring under may probably be the matter Mr. Gadbury said that the Heavens and Stars were preparing for Eighty three This is it that the Popish Priests Jesuits and other Papists longed for ever since they miscarryed in their Design Anno 1678. and is the Product of what the Addressors from the North to West desired at the first and what some Gentlemen near home Solicited so often for since and which some of the Ministry Magistracy and People of the Church of England do so violently prosecute against the Dissenters abroad and which the Papists Atheists and Debauchees of the Nation do now rejoice in and hope to confound the Protestant Religion Laws and Government by against which together with Popery with its ill Circumstances or for avoiding thereof a War with its doubtful events we should pray to God to deliver us from Which War I mention the rather because Mr. Lilly in his Almanacks for 77 and 81. saith That the breach of Just Priviledges Antient Customes and Long-Enjoyed-Rights will Animate the generality in some Nation to a strong and Sturdy Rebellion For preventing of all which that God may bless King Charles the Second with Life to the height of old Age shall be the dayly Prayers of this Author FINIS