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A guide to young communicants: or, The whole duty of the sacrament fitted for those that desire to be worthy receivers of the Lords Supper: with suitable prayers, for morning and evening. Also directions for a holy living and dying. A dialogue between a divine and a beggar. And a description of Christ's person when on earth. To which is added, Bishop Usher's prophecy.
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form'd as nothing can be reprehended his Beard pretty thick agreeable in colour to the Hair of his Head not of any great length but forked in the midst of an innocent and mature Look his Eyes grey clear and quick In reproving he is terrible in admonishing courteous and fair spoken pleasant in Speech mixt with Gravity It can't be remembred that any have seen him laugh but Of the Persecution in Queen Mary's Reign BIshop Jewel writes That in the 5 years Reign of Q. Mary was martyr'd 277 Persons viz. 5 Bishops 8 Gentlemen 21 Ministers 84 Tradesmen 100 Husbandmen Labourers and Servants 20 Widows 26 Wives 9 Virgins 2 Boys 2 Infants one sprung from the Womb as its Mother was burning at the Stake so flung into the Fire at the very Birth 64 were also persecuted for their Religion 7 of 'em whipt 16 died in Prison 12 buried in Dunghils and many lay in Captivity till the Reign of Q. Elizabeth In the Year 1572 30000 Protestants were massacred by Papists in France c. In the Year 1642 above 100000 Protestants were massacred in Ireland Many more Cruelties our Historians mention which here is not room to insert Bishop Usher's Prophecy THis pious Man had at several times many things impress'd on his Mind concerning future Events and with that warmness that he could not keep 'em secret He by the Holy Spirit foretold the Irish Rebellion 40 Years before it came and the time it would break out From this Prophetick Spirit he foresaw the Miseries of England in Church and State and gave mournful Intimations of the Death of King Charles I. From this Spirit he foresaw his own Poverty as to Worldly Things From this Spirit he predicted the Divisions and Confusions in England about Religion and the sad Consequences of it some whereof we have seen fulfill'd and I pray God the rest may not be accomplish'd And lastly From this Spirit he foretold that the greatest Stroke upon the Reform'd Christians was yet to come and the time of the utter Ruin of Rome should be when she thought her self most secure His Opinion of Sanctification that is of the New Creature which God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly regenerate I find says he so little of it wrought in my self that I can speak of it only as Parrots by rote and without the Knowledg and Understanding of what I might have express'd and therefore I durst not presume to proceed any farther upon it I must tell you says he 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 Flames of Love as a whole Burnt-Offering to Christ And how little continues he are many of those who profess Christianity experimentally acquainted with this Work on their Souls I ask'd him then what his present Apprehensions were concerning a great Persecution which should fall on the Church of God in England Scotland and Ireland which he had spoke of many Years before when we were in Peace and Whether they were past or to come He told me they were to come and that this sad Persecution would fall on all the Protestant Churches in Europe He was told that it was hoped it might be past as to these Nations instancing the Judgments that had befallen us tho' not so great as we deserv'd He answer'd the Power of God seeming to be upon him to constrain him to speak which Mr. B. says he could easily discern much to differ from the Countenance wherewith he usually spoke to him Fool not yourself with such Hopes for I tell you all that you have yet seen are but the beginning of Sorrows to what is yet to come on the Protestant Churches of Christ who will e'er long fall under a sharper Persecution than ever yet has fell upon them And therefore said he look you be not found in the outward Court but a Worshipper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will rescue all those that profess his Name and call themselves his People but 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 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 said he shall be one great Difference between the last and all the other preceeding Persecutions for in the former the most eminent Spiritual Christians did generally suffer most but in this last Persecution these shall be preserv'd by GOD as a Seed to partake of the Glory that shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as ever this Storm shall be over for as this shall be the sharpest so shall it be the shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and formal Professors but the true Believers shall be preserv'd till the Calamity be over-past Mr. B. then ask'd him By whom He said By the Papists and in a way of sudden Massacre and that the Pope should be the chief Instrument of it He then added That the Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of in Revelat. 11. to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it under foot they having receiv'd 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 you ready This is the Substance says Mr. B. of what he spoke to me and he repeated the same in Substance to the Lady Tyrel and the Lady â—yssâ— An Account of the Spanish Invasion IN the 31st Year of Queen Elizabeth 1588 Philip the Second King of Spain set forth a mighty Fleet which for its mighty Greatness they call'd it The Invincible Armado It consisted of 150 tall Ships in which was 20000 Soldiers The Duke of Parma also was design'd to bring out of Flanders Fifty-thousand more to join them it had likewise 8600 Mariners 2080 Gally-Slaves 2630 Great Guns and abundance of Boats and Tenders beside with Provisions The Pope 't is said also contributed a Million of Money All these were to Land at the Thames Mouth The Queen hearing of it provided two Guards one for the Sea and another for the Land that by Land was divided into Two Armies one of Twenty-two thousand two hundred Foot and One thousand Horse Commanded by the Earl of Leicester at Tilbury where the Queen came and view'd her Army to the great Encouragement of Her Soldiers both by Her Presence and Speech to them Her Guard at Sea were in number One hundred and Forty Ships divided into Three Squadrons Commanded by Admiral Howard Vice-Admiral Drake and Rear-Admiral Seymour The Spaniards having enter'd our Seas the Queen commanded the Lord-Admiral to prepare Eight of Her worst Ships for Fire-ships which in the dead of the Night were sent down the Wind among the Spanish Fleet which so surpriz'd and alarm'd them not understanding the Invention that they immediately cut their Cables and weigh'd Anchor and put to Sea upon which the Queen's Fleet under the Command of Sir Francis Drake and others took some of them drove others on the Sands others were tossed to and fro and mangl'd and rack'd So that more than one half of them were lost returning home with Shame and Dishonour And of the English were lost only One Ship of small Value So that this Fleet that was Three Years preparing was in a Month's Time overthrown with the Loss of a Multitude of Spaniards FINIS