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A85467	Charls Stuart and Oliver Cromvvel united, or, Glad tidings of peace to all Christendom, to the Jews and heathen, conversion, to the Church of Rome, certain downfall: the Irish not to be transplanted. / Extraordinarily declared by God almighty to the publisher, Walter Gostelow.	Gostelo, Walter.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1318; Thomason E1503_3; ESTC R22601	98,622	320

of a true Church and that theirs onely hath and always had 'T was too much said for him to prove yet this I will say of him nay I have Prophesied it and it will come to pass he is too good a man to sin against the light of his Conscience he would fear and serve none but God onely nor obey any but his King and both them with all his heart Therefore I told him God had of his Providence then sent him my Fellow-Prisoner to shew him first or last the Error of of his Judgement and that Church And then because he was so eminently good otherways in his Countrey so exemplarie he would being converted bring his Countrey to the Service of God as well as he had formerly done them to his Kings service from which interest he would never suffer himself nor them to be stirred in the least for in that he was a true Rooche which in French is a Rock whereas now I understand the Honor was in a French Field but in the good Service of his then King given to his Ancestors Viscount Lord Rooche I could not for the honor of our Church the glorie of God and discharge of my own dutie but reply to him and let him know that such foolish Babblers as those which now so preached were no more of our Church the true Protestant than those that make merchandize of the kingdom of heaven now in the delapsed Church of Rome would be reckoned to be if that Church were again restored to her Pristine Puritie which I believe God would in mercie do by throwing down and out of her all the workers of iniquitie crept in in several ages who for their own ends defiled her with damnable Tenents and Absurdities The beloved Church of God I observed to him we were though now thus beclouded The Moon to which that Church is compared is not alwayes at full she has wanes and changes and Eclipses also yet still a Church as that a Moon I beseech you is not now the Honour of the Protestant Religion at stake and doth it not clearly appear to all that love her what discervices these unsent bold and empty Babblers have done us Those Vagabonds are like those Vagabond Jews in the 19 of the Acts the 13 vers who took upon them to call over them that had evil Spirits the name of the Lord Jesus saying We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth to come forth yet no good is done by them out they come not the evil Spirits are where they were not cast out but replied to them Jesus we know he is sent of God Paul we know he is sent of Jesus but who are you who the Devil sent you Well unsent of God they finde them What doth that man possessed with the evil Spirits do He leaps upon them over-comes them prevails upon them so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded This spread over the Countrey and the Name of Jesus was magnified so shall his Name also be magnified by us or you in Authority if you suppress those unsent vagabond giddy bold empty scandalous what shall I call them Itinerates froward factious Presbyterians dishonourers of Gods true Religion Church and our Nation By sober men are not these things and times to be lamented And are not wise men if now in power obliged to help distressed Religion thus crying out O Religion Religion thou that art the strongest of policie which teachest to rule well and to be so ruled Pray did not the fear of God which is the beginning of wisedom not fear of man make David wiser than his Teachers And doth it not strengthen more than ten mighty men Oh! its Excellencie invites you to side with it though now seemingly down it will raise it self and all that love it Haste you be ye of this bless'd number But to the matter All thus done at Church I went to the Earl of Cork's house endeavoured to enter the Parlour where that day were sate divers Persons of quality at Dinner I was refused enterance though my unworthy self formerly by the good favour of that Earl and Countess was one they were pleased to admit to their own Table for some moneths but now denied enterance I was Well I watched my opportunity my business being of another nature than eating it was to do the will of my Father which is in Heaven which was to let that most incomparable Lady the Lady Elizabeth Boyl for other I may not call her whom God Almighty hath set apart chosen to so much Honour and bliss as to be his Queen and the beloved of God on my knees I told her That in obedience to the Commands of God I had that day in the Church of Youghall Proclaimed our King and her good self his Queen From my knees I rose went out amde no disturbance though the most considerable there so soon as he saw me I well remember rose up and was for my being had out but having done what I could not choose my duty so much desired I took my self away for I neither spake more nor did more but quietly went away Now comes the sign given me for confirmation of my Faith that the things Prophesied shall come to pass observe how it is made good to me both for day persons state and place Dinner there ended a Coach with six Horses is made ready which in that place I never saw before into it gets the Countess of Cork the Lady Broghall the Lady Queen Elizabeth Boyl the Lady Frances Boyl the Earl of Cork on Hors-back the Lord of Broghill likewise mounted and all these well accountred no otherwise attended In good equipage they ride through and out of this Town of Youghall unto the Strand where the several Hors-matches were that day run Well they all gone my self rode after coming thither was looked at by all for my forenoons work the Governour of the Town there on the Strand I rode to others I told what I had in the Church did not madly rave or beget any the least disturbance stayed to the last rode off the Strand sometimes betwixt the Lord of Broghill and the Governour Colonel Saunders told them what God Almighty would have done and come to pass rode next them all through the Town no disturbance all this while yet the Lord of Broghill told me several times I must forbear such expressions otherwise he would order me and committed I should be He was as good as his word for out of my Lodging I was fetch'd and had to Prison but by the Governours Warrant he not seen in it Truely I think I may take his word at all times for what he promiseth hear my reason In France some 17 years ago I furnished upon Bills of exchange one of his Brothers with a considerable sum of money for his Brothers own use after that near upon one hundred pounds more for this Lord of Broghill who was not then at age his

minde nor knew not before I was taken up that I was rising nor one word of what I said before pronounced I could not but very much admire and so I did both the manner and the matter Well I then prayed and praised God for awake I was as truely as I am now the sequel will prove that I then concluded it was not at all I that did it it was the Lord who would have it so and his Prophesie it was and is Much about half a quarter of an hour after I was taken up again as formerly and spake these words Proclaim CHARLS STUART King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Charls 2 d King of the whole World This CHARLS STUART shall never die the Lady Elizabeth Boyl shall never die the Queen his Mother wife to the late King already blessed shall never die the now Queen of France shall never die the King of France shall never die his Brother the Queens other Son shall never die but shall all be taken up into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ that never shall have end This spoken I was laid down again then did one M. Barret a Merchant in Bristol that deals in Leather and Skins who lodged in the same Chamber with me but in another bed call to me asked me how I did and if I was well I replied to him very well He asked me if I was asleep I said no he asked me if I knew what I said I replied yes very well he asked me if I believed what I said I told him he must give me leave to believe what the Lord caused me to speak and would have done There lodged also in the next room one John Marrick the Widdows son of that house aged about 21. With him in bed another Merchant as I take it of Bristol also or thereabouts to them both well known Those in that one bed spake to me also I replyed to them many words we had all I remember not I was anon after taken up again as formerly and spake these words OLIVER CROMVVELL shall never die the Countess of Cork shall never die the Earl her husband shall never die the Ladie Frances Boyl their eldest daughter shall never die the Lord of Broghill shall never die the Ladie Broghill his now wife shall never die but shall all be taken up into the kingdom of Jesus Christ which never shall have end I was laid down again and considered with my self What shall Oliver Cromwell never die it pleased me not But again the Lord reproved me and would have me know he judgeth not as man judgeth neither did his ways admit of any repine or contradiction Here again I spoke to the former parties but little lay still praying weeping and praising God for now I firmly believed and remembered that although these things were mightie strange and wonderfull yet by his Power for his mercie glorie and names sake he had assured me he would bring them to pass and they should be marvellous in our eyes as the Seal of my Commission was And remember I did he was now giving me the matter Again anon after I was raised as formerly and spake these words Thou Walter Gostellow shalt never die thy three Sons shall never die thy wife Anne and daughter Anne Gostellow shall never die but shall all be taken up into the kingdom of Jesus Christ that never shall have end Then shall the bodies of the Saints alreadie dead arise and be taken up into heaven also the Sheep shall go to the right hand and the Goats to the left pronounce this house a blessed house and this chamber shall for ever be called the chamber of the Great Prophet Thus have I set here down every word then pronounced by me but certainly the Dictates and good pleasure of the Lord of hosts that they be published to the world concerned by me Walter Gostellow his unworthy instrument I have not added or taken from one word that I know of nor misreported the manner But as old Eli asked Samuel after called of God by his name 3 times Samuel God had spoken unto him and given him his imploy what it was the Lord had said unto him as you may read in the 3 Chapter of that his first Book and the 17 ver and Eli there charged him that he hid nothing from him but tell him all which Samuel tels you and him in the next verse He did so hid nothing from him What follows it is the Lord let him do what seems him good and the Lord was with Samuel he grew and the Lord let none of his words fall to the groūd So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established a Prophet of the Lord things coming to pass as he had foretold When I heard the word Prophet knew my unworthy self to be the man O Lord thou knowest my thoughts both then and now they are at no time hid from thee I stand amazed O Lord and am silent lay my hand I do upon my mouth and my mouth upon the ground A Prophet I am unworthy O Lord yea I am unworthy to live much more unworthy of this so great honor but O Lord thou hast fashioned me make me I beseech thee always to do thy will not mine own that hath been and now is sinfull yea so hath it been all my days therefore I most humbly beseech thee to have mercy upon me O Lord the greatest of sinners nay thou wilt have mercy for thy compassions fail not and thy mercies as thy ways are past finding out The rest of that night I spent in Meditation and Prayer when day I arose not fully dressed took Pen Ink wrote all spoken but with this addition I began with a Summons and Invitation to whomsoever that they would repair the next week Thursday morning about nine of the Clock being the 12 of January to the Town and Church of Youghal there to hear a Sermon upon this Text He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall finde mercy The Text was given by a Prophet of Almighty God now here in Youghall his name Walter Gostelow which Prophet will then after Sermon that day tell you all in the Church that there is an end of all the Wars in the Christian World And so I went on to finish as before Prophesied and recited Further they should that day see riding out in great state several of those Saints and this Prophet out of Town and upon the Strand of Youghall which to me as well as others was given as a sign or miracle being yet to come for the strengthning of my Faith as also for the conversion and ground of belief to the Sons and Daughters of Men. I there went on The Heathen and the Jews are now fitting by the Lord to come into his Doctrine worship and service and under his Scepter Against which word of God the Holy Bible