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A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

Wednesday Morning DEliver me O Lord from the Evil Man and preserve me from the Wicked Man Which imagine mischief i● their Hearts and stir up stris● all the day long They have sharpened their Tongues like a Serpent Adders Poyson is under their Lips II. Keep me O Lord from the Hands of the Ungodly preserve me from the wicked Men which are purposed to overthrow my going The Proud have laid a s●are for me and spread a Net abroad with Cords yea and set Traps in my way III. I said unto the Lord thou art my God hear the Voice of my Prayers O Lord. O Lord God thou strength of my Health thou hast covered my Head in the day of Battle IV. Let not the Ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous Imagination prosper lest they be too Proud Let the mischief of their own Lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about A man full of Words shall not prosper upon the Earth Evil shall hunt the wicked Person to overthrow him The Prayer O Lord God the Strength of all those that depend upon thee deliver us from evil and wicked Men that neither their Examples may corrupt us nor their Counsels misguide us or their Mischief disturb our Safety II. But do thou O Lord cover our Heads in the day of Battle and Strife against all our Bodily and Ghostly Enemies that though they pursue us to overthrow us yet we may be safe on Earth under thy Favour and Almighty Protection and at the last being removed from all Fears and Dangers we may appear in thy sight amongst the Righteous for evermore Meditations for Wednesday Noon HEar my Prayer O Lord and consider my Desire Hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake And enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no one living be justified II. For the Enemy hath persecuted my Soul he hath smitten my Life down to the ground he hath laid me in the Darkness as the men that have been long dead Therefore is my Spirit vexed within me and my Heart within me is desolate III. Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works Yea I exercise my self in the works of thy Hands I stretch forth my Hands unto thee my Soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty Land The Prayer MOst Righteous Judge and dear Redeemer hear us for thy Truth and Mercies sake free us from the hainous Guilt of all our Sins and renounce those Punishments due to us for the same II. Enter not at any time into Judgment with us for in thy sight no Flesh can be justified by its own worthiness Fortifie our Souls with the Holiness of a lively Faith which worketh by Charity that at last we enter into thy Holy of Holies even Life Everlasting Amen Meditations for Wednesday Night HEar me O Lord and that soon for my Spirit waxeth faint Hide not thy Face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in thee is my Trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my Soul unto thee II. Deliver me O Lord from mine Enemies for I flie unto thee to hide me Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the Land of Righteousness III. Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy Righteousness sake bring my Soul out of trouble And of thy goodness slay mine Enemies and destroy all them that vex my Soul for I am thy Servant The Prayer BOW down thine Ear O Lord and hear my Complaint support my weak Spirit with thy Heavenly Grace which is sufficient for me Hide not the light of thy Countenance from me but replenish me with the Beams of thy Mercy and Goodness II. Direct me in the way that I should walk in instruct me to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken my Soul in thy Paths which lead to Life Eternal and so continue the Conduct of thy Blessed Spirit to me that it may never depart from me till I am brought out of this temporal World and am safely arrived at thy Spiritual Kingdom Amen Meditations for Thursday Morning PRaise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any Being will I sing praises unto my God O put not your trust in Princes nor in any Child of Man ●or there is no help in them For when the Breath of Man goeth out he shall turn again to his Earth and then all his Thoughts perish II. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the Hungry III. The Lord looseth Men out of Prison the Lord giveth Sight to the Blind The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the Righteous The Lord careth for the Strangers he defendeth the Fatherless and Widow as for the way of the Ungodly he turneth it upside down The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer GReat God who art King for everlasting world without end vouchsafe us thy Grace and assist us with thy ready help that we may fix all our hopes in thee for thou alone art able to grant Deliverance II. Lord feed our Souls and satisfie us with thy Salvation when we hunger and thirst after thee revenge our Cause when we suffer wrong and heal our back-slidings Enlighten our Darkness that we walk not in the shadow of Death and let thy hand of Providence take care of us in all our necessities that when our life is expired and we return to that Earth from whence we were taken we may reign with thee for evermore Meditations for Thursday Noon I Cryed unto the Lord with my Voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication I poured out my Complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble When my Spirit was in heaviness thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me II. I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no Man that would know me I had no place to flie unto and no man cared for my Soul I cried unto thee O Lord and said thou art my Hope and my Portion in the Land of the Living III. Consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O deliver me from my Persecutors for they are too strong for me Bring my Soul out of Prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the Righteous resort unto my Company The Prayer THou art our Place O Lord to flee unto and the only Sanctuary wherein is

THE PROTESTANT's Crums of Comfort CONTAINING I. Prayers and Meditations with Ejaculations for every day in the Week and other occasions II. Thanksgivings for Deliverances from Popery Tyranny and Arbitrary Power III. The Rebellion in Ireland and Massacre of Paris IV. The Learned Bishop Usher's Prophecy concerning Ireland and the Downfall of Rome V. Advice to the late Besieged in London-Derry under that Reverend Divine and valiant Commander Coll. George Walker Ilustrated with Pictures sutable to each particular Occasion London Printed by W. W. for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane 1690. Defenders of y e Protestant Religio● Q. Elizabeth K. William K. James Q. Mary II. of Sam. XXIII v. 3. He that ruleth ore men must be just ruling in y e fear of God Licensed December 16th 1689. To the Honourable The Lady P. T. Madam WHere true Piety inhabites Charity always ●ims a Priviledge in ●owning Religious Actions ●d like the good Samaritan ●ords the Oil of relief to the ●ounds of the distressed Such tender Compassion al●●ys attends the Great and ●st of whom Madam you ● a perfect Pattern your ●…nty has been unlimited to 〈…〉 distressed and afflicted to 〈…〉 Fatherless and the Widow ●…t even Commiseration it self has been your daily delight and practice Divine Souls like yours can never be free from humbl● Addressers which creates ● Pr●sumption in me to lay th●… Tract at your La●●ships Door where I humbly conceive yo● will honour it so far as 〈◊〉 take it into your Closet That Heaven may prosp●… you with length of days here and reward you with a Cro●… of Glory hereafter is t●… hearty Prayer of Madam Your most obedient Servan● G. W. THE Protestant's Manual OF PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS When we first awake O God thou art my God early will I seek thee I will sing of thy power ●…d will praise thy Mercy becomes in the Morning for ●…ou hast been and wilt be 〈…〉 defence and refuge in the ●…y of my Trouble A Prayer for the Morning O Eternal God whose Providence has protected m● the night past brought me t● the beginning of this day defend me O Lord in the same by thy Almighty power an● grant that this day I fall into n● Sin neither run into any kin● of danger but that all m● doings may be ordered by th● Governance to do alway● that which is righteous in th● sight through Jesus Christ. II. I praise thy Name th●● thou hast still continued to 〈◊〉 the opportunity of servin● thee and advancing my hop● of a blessed Eternity preser●●●● me this day from all violence and snares of my Enemies visible and invisible keep me from all pride self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and dissimulation and let the graces of thy holy Spirit take an absolute possession of my Soul and all its faculties that I may finally tread down Satan under my Feet all this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Evening ALmighty God I praise and magnifie thy holy Name for thy preservation of me this day and all the days of my Life for unless thy Mercy had withheld me I had committed more and more grievous Sins and had been overwhelmed by thy just wrath and severest judgments Pardon O Lord I beseech thee the Sins and Offences of my Youth and the irregularity of all my Actions either in thought word or deed II. Let thy Heavenly Grace be present with me that though my Body sleep yet let my Soul be vigilant lest I sleep in Sin and be forgetfull of my Duty towards thee let thy goodness and loving kindness never slip out of my remembrance but so unite my heart unto thee with fervent Charity that whatever I do may redound to thy glory III. Grant that whether I sleep or wake live or dye I may never lose the light of thy Countenance but evermore live in thy favour that escaping from the Darkness of this World I may at last arrive at the Land of everlasting Peace and happiness to behold thy power and glory Amen Meditations for Sunday Morning LEt God arise and let his Enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoak vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the Fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God But let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce before God let them also be merry and joyfull II. O Sing unto God and sing Praises unto his Name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an Horse praise him in his Name yea and rejoyce before him He is a Father of the Fatherless and defendeth the Cause of the Widows even God in his holy Habitation He is the God that maketh Men to be of one Mind in an House and bringeth the Prisoners out of Captivity but letteth the Runnagates continue in scarceness III. O God when thou wentest forth before the People when thou wentest through the Wilderness The Earth shook and the Heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sina● also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel Thou O God sentest a gracious Rain upon thine in heritance and refreshed'st i● when it was weary Thy Congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy Goodness prepared for the Poor IV. The Lord gave the Word Great was the Company of the Preachers Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the Household divided the spoil Though ye have li●n among the Pots yet shall ye be as the Wings of a Dove that is covered with silver Wings and her Feathers like Gold V. When the Almighty scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon As the Hill of Basan so is God's Hill even an high Hill as the Hill of Basan Why hop ye so ye high Hills this is God's Hill in which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever VI. The Chariots of God are Twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy Place of Sin●i Thou art gone up on high ●hou hast led Captivity Captive and received Gifts for Men yea even for thine Enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them VII Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us He is our God even the God of whom cometh ●alvation God is the Lord by whom we escape Death God shall wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy Scalp of such a one as goeth on s●ill in his wickedness VIII The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan Mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the Sea That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine Enemies and that the Tongue of thy Dogs may be red through the

safety O hide us under the Shadow of thy Wings keep us from all those Dangers which increase upon us when our Spirits are in heaviness and our Bodies bowed down with infirmities II. Stand thou evermore at our right hand and aid us so with the power of thy Grace that our Temptations and Enemies may at no time molest and disturb us Grant that our Souls in thy good time may depart out of the Prison of the Body with joy and not with grief and enter into thine eternal Joy to reign with thee for evermore Amen Meditations for Thursday Night O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before Thou art about my Bed and about my path and spiest out all my ways For lo there is not a Word in my Tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me II. Such Knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence If I climb up into Heaven thou art there If I go down to Hell thou art there also If I take the Wings of the Morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the Sea III. Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me If I say peradventure the Darkness shall cover me then shall my Night be turned into day Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike For my Reins are thine thou hast covered me in my Mothers Womb. The Prayer INfinite art thou O Lord in Wisedom and omnipresent in all places thou fillest Heaven and Earth with Majesty and the effects of thy Glory Hell feels thy Mighty power but thou communicatest to us thy poor Creatures thy boundless Mercy II. And O Lord as thou art present with us so we humbly beseech thee be President amongst us teach us thy Holy Laws and so guide us by thy Golden Rule and Divine Precepts that we wander not in the darkness of our own Errors but in thy Light whom no Clouds can overcast nor Darkness eclipse Preserve us O Lord from falling into utter darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth Meditations for Friday Morning I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy Works and that my Soul knoweth right well My Bones are not hid from thee though I am made secretly and fashioned beneath in the Earth Thine Eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy Book were all my Members written Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them II. How dear are thy Counsels unto me O God! O how great is the Summe of them If I tell them they are more ●n number than the Sand When I awake up I am pre●ent with thee Wilt thou not slay the Wick●d O God Depart from me ●e bloud-thirsty Men. For they speak unrighte●usly against thee and thine Enemies take thy Name in ●ain III. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am not grieved with those that ri●● up against thee Yea I hate them right sor● even as though they we●● mine Enemies Try me O God and se●● the ground of my heart Prove me and examine m● thoughts Look well if there be a● way of Wickedness in m● and lead me in the way ev●● lasting The Prayer O Lord thy Works are marvell● for thou hast done great thi● for my Soul it is thou that hast 〈◊〉 med me in the Womb and thy 〈◊〉 der care hath preserved me to 〈◊〉 moment Teach me to hate and hor all iniquity und to love Counsells as my dearest Treasure we may be as fearfull of committing Sins in Secret with that circumspection as in the Eye of the World II. Lead me in thy Truth and guide me in the Paths of a Holy Life that I may examine my self strictly of what Sins I stand guilty off and earnestly repent of those offences Make me to shun all wicked ways and conduct me into the way everlasting through Christ our Lord Amen Friday Noon's Meditations O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best Member I have Awake thou Lute and Harp I my self will awake right early I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the People I will sing praises unto thee among the Nations II. For thy Mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds Set up thy self O God above the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me III. God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sic●em and meet out the Valley of Succoth Gilead is mine and Mana●se● is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Juda is my Law-giver Moab is my Wash-pot over Edom will I ●ast out my Shoe upon the Philistines will I triumph III. Who will lead me into the strong City and who will bring me into Edom Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our Hosts O help us against the Enemy for vain is the help of Man Through God we shall do great Acts and it is he that shall tread down our Enemies The Prayer EArly O my God to thee will I make my Prayer and Supplication for thy Mercy in extent is greater than the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth for ever be thou exalted in thine own strength and magnifie thy power and thy never-failing Mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our Enemies temporal and spiritual II. Leave us not nor forsake us O God who art our strong Tower and Defence for in vain is Man's help unless thou strengthen us fortifie us and go forth with our Hosts to Battel that we being defended and armed by thee may perform Acts great and good fighting thy Battels and place our Confidence in thy Righteousness only and thy Salvation Amen Meditations for Friday Evening IN Jury is God known his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling in Sion There he brake the Arrows of the Bow the Shield the Sword and the Battel Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the Robbers II. The proud are robbed they have slept their sleep and all the Men whose hands were mighty have found nothing At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the Chariot and Horse are fallen Thou even thou art to be ●cared and who may stand ●n thy sight when thou art angry Thou didst cause thy Judgments to be heard from Heaven the Earth trembled and was still III. When God

Merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour In the time of Plague Let thy Anger cease O Lord and be appeased for the inquity of thy People as thou hast sworn by thy self O Holy God Holy and Strong Holy and Immortal have Mercy upon us For a City Compass this City O Lord with thy Protection and let thy Holy Angels guard the Walls thereof O Lord mercifully hear thy People For Grace Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto us thy humble Servants that by thy Holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Enemies O God the lover and preserver of Peace and Charity give unto all our Enemies thy true Peace and Love and Remission of Sins and mightily deliver us from their Snares through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the Afflicted O Almighty God the Afflicted Soul the troubled Spirit crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have Mercy for thou art a merciful God For Travellers Assist us mercifully O Lord in our Supplications and Prayers and dispose the way of thy Servants towards the Attainment of Everlasting Salvation that among all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life they may ever be defended by thy most Gracious and ready Help through Christ our Lord. For the Fruits of the Earth O God in whom we live move and have our Being open thy Treasure in the due Season and give a Blessing to the works of thy Hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Against Temptation Almighty God which doth see that we have no Power of our selves to help our selves keep us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all Evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ. For Misbelievers and Sinners Almighty and Everlasting God who desirest not the Death of a Sinner mercifully look upon all that are deceived by the subtilty of Satan that all evil Prejudice laid aside they may return to the Unity of thy Truth and Love For Temporal Necessities Replenish those O Lord we beseech thee with Temporal Nourishment whom thou hast refreshed with thy Blessed Sacraments Against Tempests Drive spiritual Wickedness from thy House O Lord and preserve it from the malignity of tempestuous Weather For Women in Travel O Lord of thy abundant Goodness and Mercy help thy Servants who are in great pains and perils of Child-birth that being delivered out of their present Danger they may glorifie thy holy Name who art blessed for evermore For the Sick O God the only refuge of our infirmities by thy mighty power relieve thy sick Servants that they with thy gracious Assistance may be able to give Thanks unto thee in thy Holy Church through Jesus Christ. For Prisoners O God who deliveredst thy Apostle Peter from his Chains and restoredst him to Liberty have pity upon thy Servants in Captivity release their Bonds and grant them Freedom and Safety Accept of the hearty Repentance of those that are appointed to dye and save their Souls for his Merits who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God VVorld without end For the Dying Father of all Flesh and God of all Spirits receive the Souls which thou hast redeemed with thy bloud returning to thee A Prayer before Study O unspeakable Creatour who out of the Treasure of thy VVisdom hast ordained Hierarchies of Angels and hast placed them above the highest Heaven in a wonderfull order and disposed them sweetly for all parts of the VVorld thou the true Fountain and incomprehensible Principle of Light and VVisdom vouchsafe to illuminate the Darkness of my Understanding with a Beam of thy Light remove the Darkness wherein I was born Sin and Ignorance thou who makest the Tongues of Infants Eloquent loosen my Tongue and pour forth the Grace of thy Spirit upon my Lips give me acuteness to apprehend capacity to retain subtilty to interpret aptness to learn readiness to speak direct my beginning farther my progression and perfect my conclusion When the Bell tolls for a Dying Person O gracious God be with this Person in the holy operations of thy Grace and in the yearnings of thy tenderest Mercies in the dreadfull Moment when the Soul shall depart from the Body and conduct this thy dying Creature through the Valley of the Shadow of Death unto the Land of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A concluding Prayer Almighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine Ears to us who have now made our Supplications and Prayers unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy VVill may be effectually obtained to the relief of our Necessities and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be with us now at the hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched Life and take me among thy chosen Howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen's sake send me Life and Health that I may truly serve thee II. O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine inheritance O Lord God Save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy True Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name Amen For God's Mercies upon Their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg O Most powerfull and great God mighty in Battel fearfull in praises doing wonders thou hast done mighty things already for us whereof we rejoice O be pleased still to continue thy undeserved Mercies towards us and accomplish what thou hast already begun for us Go forth we humbly beseech thee with our Armies against those who would make a Prey of thy People II. Protect and guide our great Governour and Commander whose Commission is to fight thy Battel Guide him and Counsel him in all his Undertakings and cover his head in the day of Battel cause those that hate thy Name and People to flee before him and scatter them as the dust before the Wind Crown him with Victory and great Success that at the last he may return home in Peace and Safety to thy Glory their Majesties Comfort his own Satisfaction and all the Nation 's happiness this we beg for the Merits of Jesus Christ Amen For Mercy to the whole Nation

God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly regenerate I found so little of it wrought in my self that I could speak of it only as Parrots by rote and without the knowledge and understanding of what I might have exprest and therefore I durst not presume to proceed any farther upon it When I seemed to stand amaz'd to hear such an humble Confession from so great and experienced a Christian. He added I must tell you we do not well understand what Sanctification and the New Creature are it is no less than for a Man to be brought to an entire resignation of his Will to the Will of God and to live in the offering up of his Soul continually in the flames of love as a whole Burnt-offering to Christ and how little says he are many of those who profess Christianity experimentally acquainted with this Work on their Souls By this Discourse I conceived he had very excellently and clearly discovered to me that part of Sanctification which he was unwilling to write I then presumed to enquire of him what his present apprehensions were concerning a great Persecution which should fall upon the Church of God in these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland of which this reverend Primate had spoken many years before when we were in Peace and Settlement I ask'd him whether he did believe those sad times were past or to come he told me They were to come and that he did as fully expect it as ever he had done adding That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches in Europe I replyed I hoped it might be past as to these Nations of ours since I thought that though we have been punished much less than our Sins have deserved and that our late Wars have made far less devastations than War commonly brings where it pleaseth God in Judgment to suffer it yet we must needs acknowledge that many great Houses have been burnt ruined and left without Inhabitants many great Families impoverithed and undone and many thousand lives also had been lost in that bloudy War and that Ireland and Scotland as well as England had drunk very deep of the Cup of God's Anger even to the overthrow of the Government and the utter Desolation almost of a very great part of those Countries But this holy Man turning to me and fixing his eyes upon me with that serious and irefull look which he usually had when he spoke God's Word and not his own and when the Power of God seemed to be upon him and to constrain him to speak which I could easily discern much to differ from the Countenance wherewith he usually spake to me He said thus Fool not your self with such hopes for I tell you all you have yet seen hath been but the beginning of Sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ who will e'er long fall under a sharper Persecution than ever yet has upon them and therefore said he to me look you be not found in the outward Court but a worshipper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will measure all those that profess his Name and call themselves his People and the outward Worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The outward Court says he is the formal Christian whose Religion lies in performing the out-side Duties of Christianity without having an inward life and power of Faith and Love uniting them to Christ and these God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles but the Worshippers within the Temple and before the Altar are those who do indeed Worship God in Spirit and in Truth whose Souls are made his Temples and he is honoured and adored in the most inward Thoughts of their Hearts and they sacrifice their Lusts and vile Affections yea and their own Wills to him and these God will hide in the hollow of his hand and under the shadow of his Wings And this shall be one great difference between this last and all the other preceeding Persecutions for in the former the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer most and were most violently fallen upon but in this last Persecution these shall be preserved by God as ● Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as ever this Storm shall be over for as it shall be the sharpest so it shall be the shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and formal Professors but the true spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be over-past I then asked him by what means or instruments this great Tryal should be brough● on He answered By th● Papists I replyed Th●● it seemed to me very improbable they should be able t● do it since they were no●● little countenanced and b●● few in these Nations and that ●he Hearts of the People were ●ore set against them than e●er since the Reformation He answered again That it would be by the hands of Papists and in the way of a sudden Massacre and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it All this he spake with so great assurance and with the same serious and concerned Countenance which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him foretel some things which in all humane appearance were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I my self have lived to see happen according to his Prediction and this made me give the more earnest attention to what he then uttered He then added That the Papists were in his opinion the Gentiles spoken of in the Eleventh of the Revelations to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it under foot they having received the Gentiles Worship in their adoring Images and Saints departed and in taking to themselves many Mediators and this said he the Papists are now designing among themselves and therefore be sure you be ready This was the substance and I think for the greatest part the very same words which this holy Man spake to me not long before his death and which I writ down that so great and notable a Prediction might not be lost by my self or others This gracious Man repeated the same things in substance to his only Daughter the Lady Tyrrel and that with many Tears and much about the same time that he had exprest the aforesaid to me and which ●…e Lady Tyrrel assured me of ●…ith her own mouth to this ●…rpose That opening the door of ●…s Chamber she found him ●…ith his eyes lift up to Heaven ●…d the Tears running apace ●…own his Cheeks and that ●…e seemed to be in an Ecstasie ●…herein he continued for a●…out half an hour not taking ●…e least notice of her though ●…e came into the Room but 〈…〉 last turning to her he told ●…er That his thoughts had ●…en taken up about the Mi●…ries and