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A28194	Ostenta Carolina, or, The late calamities of England with the authors of them the great happiness and happy government of K. Charles II ensuing, miraculously foreshewn by the finger of God in two wonderful diseases, the rekets and kings-evil : wherein is also shewen and proved (I.) that the rekets after a while shall seize on no more children but quite vanish through the mercy of God and by means of K. Charles II., (II.) that K. Charles II is the last of kings which shall so heal the kings-evil / discovered by the hand of the Lord upon his unworthy servant and His Majesties subject, John Bird ...	Bird, John, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2954; ESTC R5738	69,269	100

so intitled in the Writings of Learned men and is so to be accounted for giving Testimony with his blood to that which in the secret thoughts of his heart he judged to be the Truth King Charles II our Gracious Soveraign for better cause then his Predecessor King Edward the Confessor hath deserved that name for his Majesty hath made a Holy and Royal Confession with his mouth Wherefore I most humbly Almighty God in whose hand are the hearts of Kings so to dispose his Majesties heart and I humbly beseech his Majesty to be entreated that he will not suffer such men who have opened their mouths in vows to the Most High God to be enforced either to revoke that which cannot be recalled or being pious skilful and faithful laborers for that cause to be excluded from working in the Lords Harvest And I do with confidence believe that my prayer is heard in heaven and will be upon the earth Whereunto if there be need of more marks which may shew that King Charles II was designed to be the Antitype of Edward the Confessor though the distance of time betwixt them be the space of 600 years or more for Edward the Confessor died about the year 1066. having reigned much about the time of twenty three years See Henry Knighton and John Brompton in Edward the Confessor adde and observe that K. Charles II our Royal Soveraign succeeded his martyred Father CHARLES I after so many Governors and Governments and no more as Edward the Confessor succeeded after Kings the Martyred Edward Moreover two of those one in the Types the other in the Antitypes are strangely of one Name and in the same Order of Governing that is the III. Let us compare them Edward the Martyr I Egelred II Edmund Ironside III Hardicantus IV Edward the Confessor V. The ANTITYPE Charles the Martyr I Common-wealth II Oliver Protector by-named Ironside III Richard Protector IV Charles our Gracious Soveraign Confessor V. Now according to Example in the Balm according to Scripture and reason as that precious oyle ceast to be when Christ had suffered and as the substance being come the shadow goes away and there is no reason to expect a signe when the thing signified thereby is now come I conclude that our Royal Soveraign will be the last of the Kings of this Nation to whom God will give the gift of healing the KINGS-EVIL Now Reader take here notice of the Pride Malice and Subtlety of the Devil and his Emulation of Almighty God who hath so wound himself into the mindes of Impostors and thorow them into the perswasions of the ignorant and rude multitude that the seventh son in order from the first without any daughter born betwixt is able to cure that Disease which we call the KINGS-EVIL And this Imposture is frequently undertaken and performed by stroaking with the hand and the Minister thereof is called a Stroaker This I say is attributed by some to a seventh son by others to a seventh son of a seventh son Which albeit a lye from the father of lies the devil immediatly proceeding doth nevertheless declare the devils knowledge and fore-knowledge of our Royal Soveraign King CHARLES II his virtue And as the Lord will win glory unto himself from all Creatures and all Things for to this purpose they were by him created so will he likewise from Satan and his practices even to illustrate and confirm though against the mindes of the Serpent his Glory and Truth This is the matter the Prerogative which the Lord hath given to the Kings of England and among but far above them to our Dread Soveraign Charles II the devil having a foresight of in his counsell which he giveth to Impostors doth secretly thereby acknowledge and yet defaceth but not wholly by adding somewhat of his own For it is true that a seventh son of a seventh is indued with Power from above not only to cure the bodily malady called the KINGS-EVIL as others have had but to take away the Evil of the Kingdom and is his Royal Prerogative which none of his Predecessors have had This Profession of curing this Malady is held out ordinarily in this form viz. The seventh son without a daughter born betwixt them cures the KINGS-EVIL In which expression the devil as he hath wont to do abuseth the truth three waies 1. By speaking ambiguously as he did use in the Oracle of Apollo leaving it uncertain whether Son be in those words to be taken according to the common acception of the word or otherwise 2. By leaving out some part of the matter which notwithstanding sometimes I have heard used and which serves to discovery of the truth and that is these words of a seventh 3. By adding words thereto wholly false such are without a daughter born betwixt and putting Son after seventh so making it to be of a seventh son Thus did Satan speak doutfully when he told our first parents They should be as God or Gods knowing good and evil The word there signifying God and also damned Spirits and knowing good and evil to be interpreted both knowledge of speculation and knowledge of feeling joy and sorrow the later of which Adam and Eve felt as did those lost Angels As for leaving out part of the truth the Devil was guilty thereof when speaking unto our Saviour to fast himself down from a pinnacle of the Temple he used this expression Mat. 4. 6. If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down For it is written He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone in which words taken out of Psa 91. 11 12 these words are left out by the devil to keep thee in all thy waies Lastly by adding words the devil corrupteth the truth which he did when he spake unto Saul unto the truth which he spake in part by aujoyning lies 1 Sam. 28. And the Lord hath done by him saith the devil concerning David truly as he spake by me which was false for the Lord spake not so by the Devil but by the true Samuel What I affirmed before That a seventh son of a seventh shall cure the KINGS-EVIL and to be understood in such manner as abovesaid of the Person of King Charles II doth thus appear Account all the Descents from father to son that is in a right line from King Henry VII to our Dread Soveraign now reigning taking and including both terms we shall finde them to be seven so that our Soveraign last in order is the seventh son of a seventh understand Henry For it is common in Scripture not to call the grandchildren sons only as Josiah is said Matth. 1. 11. to have begotten Jeconiah but those which after many generations have come out of the loins of a man by the name of sons to such a one as the children of Israel of Esau But more nearly to our purpose Enoch is

enjoy to the gladding of our hearts for the establishing of Gods own and true Religion and Justice in the Land and for shewing Mercy to the poor afflicted and oppressed Among which mourners and opp●essed the Writer of this Relation is certainly not the least but who hath continually prayed unto our Gracious God to bring us once again our King our good Josiah The Lord is my witness I flatter not for if I should use flattering Titles God would soon take me away This Elihu hath taught me Job 32. 21. But what I judge to be truth and fit to be spoken I here deliver That as Josiah had the praise of being the best of all the Kings of Judah which went before and followed after him 2 Kin. 23. 25. And like unto him was there no king before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him So shall King CHARLES II. prove unto us the best of Englands Kings and the expresse Antitype unto good Josiah And it is not without example for one eminent person to be Type of the other Antiochus Epiphanes the Greekish King in sundry chief respects for small and single serve not the turn was the Type of the Bishop of Rome For in as many and such nay more ways doth our Soveraign resemble Josiah and how he shall express him more exactly in what of his Majesty in his blessed Government we shall enjoy will follow by Gods assistance in this Discourse Josiah was named three hundred years before he was born and by the name Josiah designed to defile the altar of Bethel by burning mens bones thereon 1 King 13. 2. which was so fulfilled by that King according to the Prophecy 2 King 23. 16. So shall it be made apparent anon in due place that King CHARLES II. was appointed by Almighty God to the great work of reforming Church and State which Josiah also did before him twise three hundred years before his restoring to his Three Kingdoms by a plain description of his Royal Person K. Josiah made a covenant with God both he and his people 2 Chr. 34. 31 32. and he caused them to stand to it and he himself kept it so hath and will our Gracious Soveraign King Josiah was the son of a murthered father so was the precious Innocent bloud of our Royal Soveraigns Father shed King Josiahs Father King Amon was conspired against by his own servants and slain in his own house 2 Chron. 33. 36. In like sort our Soveraigns Father King CHARLES I. was designed to death in his House of Parliament adjudged to death by some of his servants and kill'd at the gate of his own House and all by conspiracy But the People of the land they were the Commons in the Jewish Parliament slew all those which conspired against K. Amon v. 25. So let the Parliament of England imitate them to the full whom they imitated in this part which made Josiah his son king So much in this place touching the great Instrument of Gods glory and our deliverance sent from heaven until I shall proceed to make this my assertion good touching his Royal Majesty our Soveraign I have declared and proved unto you how probable it is that Almighty God had given us warnings and forewarnings of these our evils and the issue and do now proceed in order to declare that it is not only likely so to be but so in truth and in deed But here I shall first admonish those that have read thus far or hear of this Treatise that they prejudge not the thing esteeming it a Fable but to follow the advice of S. Paul who admonisheth us not to despise Prophecy and not to streighten the word in its due signification as if it were only to be understood of preaching knowing that the commandments of God according to the Psalmist are exceeding broad in which breadth many things there are on the right hand commanded as on the left hand forbidden which do not at first sight appear For I cannot but foresee that some will smile at what they reade whom I advise they take heed of contemning that which for ought they or any man living can deny may all prove true which if it do they despise not me the writer but him who sent the Message who hath told us That he will not be mockt Others no doubt unwilling to have these things fall out true because it serves not their particular interesses will shew their teeth not laugh at what I have here written like those Jews which for the like cause censured our Saviours miracles as Diabolical even against their knowledge To these and the like men I say they despise not this but him which sent it As for such men who more favourably will call it pretty and censure the Discourse to be the fruit of a melancholike phansie if it did extend no farther then to touch the person of the Writer as if the argument were not skilfully enough handled and no more all this I say will be easily confest by me but when it pierces to the matter it self as if it were an argument to play withall and not rather as it ought to be thought a Discovery to be admired let every such commender know that God despises such cold praises It was truly spoken by Agellius book 19. c. 3. Turpius esse exiguè atque frigidè laudari quàm insectanter graviter vituperari that is It is more to the disgrace of a man to be sparingly and coldly praised than bitterly and most reproachfully to be reviled But he that will ponder and well consider the things which are delivered shall I trust in God finde the words of reason and soberness and no melancholy nor other humour in them at all The man who is weak of understanding although the book be little yet is it too big for him to swallow such a one is desired to lay it by Let the man of wisedom and judgement reade it with the strictest observation and the Lord give him understanding Now to make what I have promised to appear true in every part that as well our sins and with them our troubles the Lord was pleased before they were in being to make known unto us as that after all our vexations and afflictions we shall be delivered from all those burthens which lye upon us and that by the hand of our Gracious Soveraign whom God preserve CHARLES II. we shall be freed I say and made a happy people and that we only may not be thought to reap the benefit of his Royal Government what Recompence shall accrue from God unto our good King first take a view strictly of Isaiahs Prophecy Chap. 1. In this Chapter you shall finde the same sins to have been committed then by the Jews which we labour under at this day the same Hypocrisie and sin of Murther