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A49257	The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305	41,319	88

no nec●ssity ●o re●er to Isaiah to corroborate the observations made in this chapter as most of the quotations from Isaiah 〈◊〉 it Ch. 4. v. 10 if Jesus was not God he c●uld 〈◊〉 offer the w●man of Samaria living waters which is the Holy Gh●st Refer to J●remiah c. 2. v. 13 in v ●4 of St. Joh●'s 4●h chap Jesus said whoever drinks of the wat●r I give it shall be a well in him sp●inging up to everlasting life which water is the Holy Ghost Refer to Jeremiah as before A●d in John c 4 v. 23 24. Jesus said true worshipers shall worship ●he ●ather in spirit and in truth Now observ● God out of Christ is a co●suming fire therefore he is to be worshiped in Chinst the sat●ctuary and propitiation for 〈◊〉 Ver. 42 Christ the Saviour of the world Refer 10 Isaiah c 43. v. 3. 1● J●hn c 8 v. 16 17 18 19 〈◊〉 says my judgment is ●●ue I am not alone but I and the father tha sent me this prove● God in Jesus the earthen vess I which God made and sent and again he says the test mony of two are true God and himself and again he says to the people if ●e had known me ye would know the father also V 29 he that sent me is with me the father has not left me alone for I do alwa●s the things that please him V. 58. J●sus said before Abraham was I am and in the old testament God is called the great I am Ch. 10 Jesus said I am the door of the sheep by me man sh●●l be saved I am the good shepherd I giv● my life for my sheep I am the good sh●pherd I know my sheep and they know me I lay down my life for my sheep no man compels me or takes it from me I lay it down of myself and take it again because I have power I and my father are one the father is in me and I in him Refer to Isaiah c. 40 v 9 ●0 11 In John c. ●2 v. 45 Jesus says whoever sees me sees 〈◊〉 father also c. 14. v. 7 whoever knows me k●ows the father and have seen him and known him V. 9 he that knows me sees and knows the father V. 10 I am in the father and the father in me and the words that I speak are not sp●ken by me but by the father that dwells in me he does the works Acts c 20 v. 28 G●d was crucified and purchased his people with his won blood Corinth c. 5. v ●9 God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself The first epistle general of John c 3 v. 5 God was manifested in the fl●●h Chri●● to take away sins Rev. c. 1 v 7 8. J●sus is God behold I●come in the clouds and every eye shall see and also them that pierced him and the people shall weal then he said I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end saith the Lord which is a●d which was on earth and which is to come again on earth the Almighty V 11 I am A●pha and Omega the fi●st and the last V. 12. like the son of man Jesus V. 17 18 I am the first and the last I am he that lived and was crucified and behold I am a●ive again for ever more 〈◊〉 2 v 8 J●sus is the first and the last that was crucified and is a live Ch. 4 v. 8. 9. 10 11 Christ proved to be God Ch. 5 v 5. Jesus is called the Lion of the tri●e of Juda. Ch 20 v. 12 J●sus is called God opening the books and judgi●g the world Ch 21 v 5 6 7 and he tha● sat up●n the throne Jesus judging the world said it is done I am Alpha and O●ega the beginning and the end I will give u●to the thi●sty the fountain of living waters But unbelievers liars c shall be cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone Ch. 22. v. 12 13 16 behold I come quickly my reward is with me to give according to people's works I am Alpha and Om●ga the beginning a●d the end the fi●st and the last I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these thing● in the churches among the people Ver. 20 he that testifies these things saith surely I come quickly the Lord Jesus 〈◊〉 A most effectual Plan To Prevent a French Invasion THE people who are to execute this plan are that class who are possessed of perpetuities of upwards of One Thousand Pounds yearly after a deduction of two thousand pounds principal money for each of his or her children except the eldest son who should have 200l yearly from the age of 21 and the remainder at his father's death except 200l yearly to the widow if a widow should be Religion and the bare necessaries of life are such total strangers to the lower class of people that they are always looking for a change in the government favourable to a total annihilation of the wealthy and the wealthy on the other hand believe keeping the poor in profound pove●ty and darkness the best way to keep them quiet but it is not and only resembles a fire to be quenched by putting dry fuel on it which will make it burn more violent oppression always terminates in human slaughter though the fire may be a century kindling or centuries it is better for the wealthy lose a liable voluntarily than lose all with the loss of life i●voluntarily like a death bed repentance which God does not listen to for what man worth five ten or twenty thousand pounds yearly in the hands of a banditti of assassins would not give it all for his life Here follows the preventative take a poor man and settle him in a comfortable situation making him pay or fecure a reasonable valuation then see what family he has and for himself wife and children abate twenty shillings yearly each on the following terms give him the book called the new testament and then say do you and your family read this as often as ye are at leisure and whilst you perform its contents I will keep you in the comfortable place I have given but no longer wealthy one you must do more establish a school in your parish or neighbourhood and pay the teacher also and thus do ye wealthy ones with all the poor and idolatry goes to destruction the poor will all love you and God will love you the poor will revolt at the idea of invasion or revolution or any change that should di●comfit their comfort Or if you will not do this subscribe a million of guineas and all people you suspect for wishing your overthrow give them a guinea an head to each in their families to go to America But this last advice will not prevent an invasion it would be only a foolish act of charity that God reqnires besides it wonld depopulate the nation and lessen the rent roll then would the wealthy cry out O my rent roll my rent roll is not half what it was but God will answer O thy rent roll has shut thee out eternally from me thou did not send my messenger among the nations that is to distribute the new testament among the poor thou did not propagate the gospel You will say your Ministers did propagate the gospel but the Lord will say your Ministers are ordained with human forms but my Ministers are ordained with the Holy Ghost from the foondations of the world but ye and your Ministers persecute them and perhaps he will even say ye have also called yourselves Lords and great ones who are but earth which names and titles are for me only and how can you look in my face EXTRACTS FROM DUPATY'S TRAVELS IN ITALY IN my way to the capitol I met a coach in which were two recollet Friars the one seated backwards the other forwards holding between their legs something I could not distinguish Every one stopped and saluted with profound respect I asked to whom this reverence was addressed It is answered one of the standers-by to the Bambino which these good Fathers are carrying to a Prelate who is very ill and given over by his physicians I afterwards procured an explanation what this Bambino was The Bambino is a little wooden Jesus richly dressed and ornamented The Convent which has the good fortune to possess this image neither has nor needs any other patrimony As soon as any person who can afford the expence is seriously ill they send for the Bambino and always in a coach for he never goes on foot Two Recollets conduct and place him by the sick man where they remain at his expence until he dies or recovers The Bambino is constantly running about they sometimes fight who shall have him at the gate of the Convent and tear him from each other in the Summer especially he has extraordinary business though he makes them pay very dearly for his visits on account of the demand and the hot weather This is but fair THE progress insolence and intolerable tyranny of the church of Rome is now become of serious consideration and publick complaint the establishment of which will infallibly be the destruction of church state laws liberties properties and lives The Protestant writers ever since the Revolution have frequently and effectually exposed and confuted this pernicious doctrine calculated to plunder and rob the ignorant and illiterate to whom only the Church of Rome pretends to be the mother and mistress of all churches and domineers the vulgar and wicked into that belief or faith always exerting her tyranny to continue them in the grossest darkness and from a knowledge of the Gospel light from generation to generation The Pope always imposes a belief on the ignorant that he is successor to Christ St. Peter c. and such blasphemy and none can be saved but his subjects and eating of all the luxuries and dainties in the world on a friday or saturday sends people to Heaven except meat which sends to Hell but all his wicked doctrines being contrary to that of Christ he takes ●are the gospel light shall be kept from them as long as he can well knowing a general knowledge of it would destroy his craft as St. Paul did that of Alexander the Copper-Smith FINIS

ever heard from 〈◊〉 other But because I had but an imperfect 〈◊〉 confused Remembrance of the Particulars took the Boldness to importune him that 〈◊〉 would please to give a brief Account of them 〈◊〉 Writing whereby I might the better impri●● them in my Memory of which he would 〈◊〉 have excused himself by declaring his 〈◊〉 of not writing any more adding That if he did write any thing it should not exceed above a Sheet or two But upon my continued Importunity I at last obtained his Promise He coming to Town some Time after was pleased to give me a Visit at my own House where I failed not to challenge the Benefit of the Promise he had made me He replied That he had not writ and yet he could not charge himself with any Breach of Promise For said he I did begin to write but when I came to write of Sanctification that is of the New Creature which God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly regenerate I found so little of it wrought in myself that I could speak of it only as Parrots by Rote and without the Knowledge and Understanding of what I might have expressed and therefore I durst not presume to proceed any further upon it And when I seemed to sta●d amazed 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 par● of Sanctification which he was unwilling to write I then presumed to enquire of him what his present Apprehensions were concerning a very 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 with great Confidence many Years before when we were in the highest and fullest State of outward Peace and Settlement I asked him whether he did believe those sad Times to be past or that they were yet to come To which he answered That they were yet to come and that he did as confidently expect i● as ever he had done adding That this sad per●ecution would fall upon all the Protestan● Churches of Europe I replied That I did hope it might have been past as to these Nations of ours since I thought that th●ugh we who are the People thereof have been punished much less than our Sins have deserved and that our late Wars had made far less Devastations than War commonly brings upon those Countries where it pleaseth God in Judgment to suffer it yet we must needs acknowledge that many great Houses had been burnt ruined and left without Inhabitants many great Families impoverished and undone and many Thousand Lives also had been lost in that bloody War and that Ireland and Scotland as well as England had drank 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 ireful look which he usually had when he spake 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 yourself 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 ere long fall under a sharper persecution than ever yet was upon them and therefore said he to me look you be not found in the outward Court but a Worshiper 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 outside 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 diffe●●nce between this last and all the other preceding Persecutions for in the former the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally 〈◊〉 most and were most v●olently fallen upon but in this last Persecuti●● these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to p●rtake of that glory which shall immediately fo●●ow and come upon the Church as soon as eve● this storm shall be over for as it shall be the ●●arpest so it shall be the short●st Persecution 〈◊〉 them all and sha●l only take away the gross ●●ypocrites and formal Professors but the 〈◊〉 spiritual Believers shall be preserved till 〈◊〉 calamity be 〈◊〉 I then asked him by what means or instruments this great trial was to be brought on ●e answered by the Papists I replied that it 〈◊〉 to me very improbable they should be able to do it since they were now little countenan●ed and 〈◊〉 in these nations and that the hea●●s o● the People were m●re set against 〈◊〉 than eve● 〈◊〉 the Reformation He 〈◊〉 again That it would be by the hands of Pa●is●s in a time when they would be in gr●at power and in the way of a sudden 〈◊〉 and that the Pope should be the chief instrument of it All this he spake with so great assurance and with the same serious and concerned 〈…〉 which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him foretel some things which in all human appearance were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I myself 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 Pa●ists were th● Gentiles spoken of in the 11th 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

whether 〈…〉 have I had a compassionate heart and 〈◊〉 hand to any in want 14 Have I especially done good to them who a●e of the 〈…〉 however 〈…〉 15. Did the C●●●ch of God 〈…〉 of Christ ●e near my heart Have I 〈…〉 the welfare of Christs Chu●ch and 〈◊〉 its desolations and 〈◊〉 Heav●n abo●e my 〈◊〉 Joy 16. Have I really set death before me and 〈◊〉 my life as a vapour if God should this ●ight clo●e my eyes in death how is it like to be with my soul 17. lo●●nceivably great glorious and terrible as the day of Judgment will be dare I meet Christ at his coming Will my graces bear the t●ial of that day Can I now with joy say even so Come 〈◊〉 Iesus Lady JANE GREY'S Letter TO HER SISTER The Evening before she was beheaded in the Towe● of London Translated from the Original Gre●k I HAVE sent you my dear fi●●er Catharine a book which though ●t be not exte●nal●y 〈◊〉 with gold or curious embroidery of nee●l● work ● internally of more value than a● the precious mines in the wide world my only dear and best beloved 〈◊〉 it is the book of the law of our great and dear Redeemer his testimony and last 〈◊〉 bequeathed to lead us to e●ernal happiness Read it with attention and an earnest de●ire to follow its precepts and it wi●●urely bring you to immo●tal and everlasting life teach you to live ●nd die win you to God e●dow you with happiness and glory Labour to live acco●ding to the rules it contains and you shall inherit su●h riches as the covetous cannot wi●hd●●w the thie● steal nor the moth corrupt My dear sister ask wisdom from above and de●ire with David to understand the law of the Lord our God 〈◊〉 on the 〈◊〉 of thy heart by divi●e love live still to die that through death you may obtain eternal life Let not your youth blind you from knowing that at all hours times and seasons are alike to the most high God when he 〈…〉 are they 〈◊〉 ●amps are 〈◊〉 when he comes the Lord is equall● glorified in the young as in the old my dear good si●ter 〈◊〉 to die deny the ●en 〈◊〉 of the wo●●d the 〈◊〉 and the D●vil and delight 〈…〉 in the Lo●d Jesus Christ be sorry for yo●r sins love God do●●e●lpair be strong in faith in Christ live and die him the dear Redeemer and with St. Paul wh● fi●led with the fulness of divine love you will 〈◊〉 to be d●ssolved to be with Christ wi●h whom 〈◊〉 love and life eternal be the good servant that wh●●eath steals on like a thief in the n●gh● you b● not found in da●k●ess with the children of th● world who know not God and be not witho●● oil in your lamp like the foolish Virgins least yo● be re●used ad●it●ance to the marriage ●upper of th● Lamb or w●thou● the w●dding ga●ment least 〈◊〉 be cast into outer da●kness Rejoice in the Redeemer follow our great master Christ ●heerfully bear your cross or crosses lay a●l your sins on hi● shoul●ers and embrace him always Rejoice with me at my death my dearest sister that I shall be delivered from this body of corruption and clothed with the garment of incorruption for by 〈◊〉 this mortal life I shall obtain one immor●al joyful glorious and eve●lasting which I pray the Almighty God to give you when he shall please to call you hence and send you all sufficient grace ●o live in his love and fear and die in true Christian ●aith in Christ Jesus who redeemed us and all who love him and long for his coming a●d I now exhort you in the name of our Almighty Father neve● to swerve either from the hope of life or ●ear of death for if you deny his truth to prolong a we●ry and corrupt being Omniporence himself will 〈◊〉 you and cu● sho●● by his vengeance what 〈◊〉 were desirous of prolonging by the loss of your precious soul. Cleave to him and he will ex●end your days to a 〈◊〉 circumsribed to his own glory to which I 〈◊〉 God bring me now a●d you hereaf●er when it shall please him to call you Farewell once more my beloved 〈◊〉 put your whole ●ru●t in the great 〈◊〉 who alone ca● help you AMEN Your loving Sister J●NE DUDLEY She was a Lady of the m●st amiable person most engaging disposition and 〈◊〉 ●●c●mpl●shed parts She 〈…〉 greatest 〈◊〉 in acq●●●ing every part of poli●e Li●e●●●ure had a 〈◊〉 knowledge of the Ro●●a● and Greek languages 〈◊〉 modern tongues and the elega●● arts the best of wives to the most aff●cti●nate husband she re●u●ed being placed on the ●hrone till 〈◊〉 by her Father Father-in-law and H●sb●●d when she had been warned to prepare for death which she had long expected she received the dreadful news with jo● The Queen 's bigo●●ed zeal under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul induced her to send Priests who tormented her wi●h perpetual disputations and ● 〈◊〉 was granted her on conditions that she would embrace the ●do●atrous wo●ship of the Church of Rome 〈◊〉 she he●d Death and Christ in greater esteem Lady Jane had presence of mind in them 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 circumstances to d●fend her religion with a christian for●itude supported from holy writ and also wrote a letter to her Sister in the ●reek ●angua●e exhorting her to maintain in every reve●se of fortune the like steady ●erse●erance On the da● of her execution she re●used to see her ●●sband Lord Guil●ord but sent him word that the ●e●derness of their ●arting might probab●● 〈…〉 〈…〉 from that co●●●ancy which their approaching end ●●qu●red of them Their separation would be only fo● a m●m●nt and would soon r●join each other in 〈◊〉 where their affections would be 〈…〉 and where death disappointments and 〈◊〉 co●ld no lo●ger have access to them 〈◊〉 break on their happin●●s Extracts relative to the Church of ROME By Lady Wallace TO be able to judge of the discontent which is now general in all Roman Catholic countries as well to draw natural conclu●ions from those com●●●tions which seem to be inevitable from the a●arice of the c●ergy you must go back to the infancy of Christianity and make you●self acquainted with the increase abuse and decrease of the power of the church of Rome which now even it s once most supe●stitious adherents begin to revolt against from the avarice and depravity of the clergy Begin from A D. 66 when we find the marty●●dom of Pe●er and Paul upon record and the appointment of St. Lin to be bishop of Rome happy for Ch●istianity the cruel 〈◊〉 which cru●hed and ha●assed the ens●●ved people rendered them greedy to adopt a doctrine which promised comfo●t to their sufferings eternal rest and blessings herea●●e● in proportion to their oppression and sufferings in this world In the three fi●st ages of the church the bishop of Rome in common wi●h the other ●ishops preached the ●●ctrine of Christianity in all tha● purity which ou●