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truth_n	spirit_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	5,508	5	12.7528	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64674	The prophecy of Bishop Usher unto which is added two letters, one from Sir William Boswell ... to the Most Reverend William Laud ... : the other from the Reverend John Bramhall ... to the Most Reverend James Usher, late Archbishop of Armah.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1687 (1687)	Wing U209; ESTC R12466	4,824	12

THE PROPHECY OF Bishop Usher Unto which is Added TWO LETTERS ONE FROM Sir WILLIAM BOSWELL Ambassadour at the Hague To the Most Reverend WILLIAM LAUD Late Archbishop of Canterbury The other from the Reverend JOHN BRAMHALL Bishop of Derry in IRELAND To the Most Reverend JAMES USHER Late Archbishop of Armah LONDON Printed in the Year 1687. THE PROPHECY OF Bishop Usher THE Prediction of the most Learned and Pious Arch-bishop Usher is very remarkable as it was Printed about seven years ago with Licence and the Truth of the matter of Fact therein delivered never that I know of denied but confirmed by many which in short was thus That the year before this holy Primate died who was Buried in the Abbey at Westminster 17 of April 1656. The Usuper Cromwel allowing 2001. towards his Funeral so great his Worth that it even charmed that Tyrant otherwise far from being a Friend to any of his Profession An intimate Friend of the Arch-bishop's asking him amongst other discourse 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 he had heard him speak with great confidence many years before when we were in the highest and fullest state of outward peace and settlement and whether he did believe those sad Times to be past or that they were yet to come He answered That they were yet to come and that he did as confidently expect it as ever be had done Adding That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe His Friend arguing that he hoped the afflicton might now be over and be intended of our late calamitous Civil Wars The Reverend Prelate turning towards him and fixing his Eyes upon him with that serious and severe 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 said thus Fool not your selves 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 has been upon them and therefore said he to him 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 Outward Worshipers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The Outward Court says he is the formal Christian whose Religion l●es in performing the outside duties of Christianity without having an inward Life and Power of Faith and Love uniting them to Christ and th●se God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles But the Worshipers 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 there own Wills to him and th●se God will bide 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 preceding Persecutions For in the former the most eminent and Spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer m●st and were most violently fallen upon but in this last Persecution these shall be preserved by God as a 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 His Friend then asked him By what means or Instruments this great Tryal should be brought on He answered by the Papists His Friend replyed That it seemed very improbable they should be able to do it since they were now little countenanced and but few in these Nations and that the Hearts of the People were more set against them than ever since the Reformation He answered again That it would be by the hands of Papists and in the way of a suddain Massacre and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it He also added That the Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of Rev. 11. 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 gracious man repeated the same things in Substance to his only Daughter the Lady Tyrril and that with many Tears and much about the same time A Letter from Sir William Boswell to the most Reverend William Laud late Arch-bishop of Canterbury remaining with Sir Robert Cotton's choice Papers Most Reverend AS I am here employ'd by our Soveraign Lord the King vour Grace can testify that I have left no Stone unturn'd for his Majesty's Advancement neither can I omit whenever I meet with Treacheries or Conspiracies against the Church and State of England the sending your Grace an Account in General I fear Matters will not answer your expectations if your Grace do but seriously weigh them with deliberation For be you assur d the Romish Clergy have gull'd the misled Party of our English Nation and that under a Puritanical Dress for which the several Fraternities of that Church have lately received Indulgence from the See of Rome and Council of Cardinals or to educate several of the young Fry of the Church of Rome who be Natives of his Majesty's Realms and Dominions and instruct them in all manner of Principles and Tenents contrary to the Episcopacy of the Church of England There be in the Town of Hague to my certain Knowledge two dangerous Impostors of whom I have given notice to the Prince of Orange who have large Indulgences granted them and known to be of the Church of Rome altho they seem Puritans and do converse with several of our English Factors The one James Murray a Scotchman and the other John Napper a Yorkshire Blade The main drift of these Intentions is to pull down the English Episcopacy as being the chief Support of the Imperial Crown of our Nation For which purpose above sixty Romish Clergy-men are gone within these two Years out of the Monasteries of the French King's Dominions to Preach up the Scotch Covenant and Mr. Knox his Discriptions and Rules within that Kirk and to spread the same about the Nothern Coasts of England Let therefore His Majesty have an inkling of these