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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64683	Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy, learned, and excellent James Usher, late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh ... giving an account of his foretelling I. the rebellion in Ireland ..., II. the confusions and miseries of England in church and state, III. the death of King Charles the First, IV. his own poverty and want, V. the divisions in England in matters of religion ... / written by the person who heard it from this excellent persons own mouth ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Person who heard it from this excellent person's own mouth.	1678 (1678)	Wing U225; ESTC R7048	5,200	10

added I must tell you We do not well understand what Sanctification and the New Creature are It is no less then 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 part 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 it as ever he had done adding That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe I replyed That I did hope it might have been past as to these Nations of ours since I thought that though 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 then War commonly brings upon those Countries where it pleaseth God in Judgement 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 drunk very deep of the Cup of Gods 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 Gods 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 where with he usually spake to me He said thus Fool not your self 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 upon them and therefore said he to me look you be not found in the Outward Court but a worshipper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will measure all those that profess his Name call themselves his People 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 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 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 most 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 Profesors but the true Spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be over-past I then asked him by what means or Instruments this great Tryal should be brought on He answered By the Papists I replyed that it seemed to me 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 then ever since the Reformation He answered again That it would be by the hands of Papists and in the way of a suddain Massacree and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it All this he Spake with so great Assurance and with the same serious and concerned Countenance which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him soretell some things which in all humane appearence were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I my self 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 Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of in the 11th of the Revelations to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it underfoot 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 was the Substance I think for the greatest part the very same words which this Holy man spake to me at the time beforementioned not long before his death and which I writ down that so great and notable a Prediction might not be lost and forgotten by my self nor others 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 that he had exprest what is aforesaid to me and which the Lady Tyrril assured me of with her own mouth to this purpose That opening the Door of his Chamber She found him with his Eyes lift up to Heaven and the tears running a pace down his Cheeks and that he seemed to be in an Extasie wherein he continued for about half an hour not taking the least notice of her though she came into the Room but at last turning to her he told her That his thoughts had been taken up about the Miseries and Persecutions that were coming upon the Churches of Christ which would be so sharp ●●d bitter that the contemplation of them had fetched those Tears from his Eyes and that he hoped he should not live to see it but possibly she might for it was even at the door Therefore take heed says he that you be not found sleeping The same things he also Repeated to the Lady Bysse Wife to the present Lord Chief Baron of Ireland but with adding this circumstance That if they brought back the King it might be delayed a little longer but sayd he It will surely come therefore be sure to look that you be not found unprepared for it To conclude in the words of Dr. Bernard speaking of this Excellent Person Now howsoever I am as far from heeding of Prophesies this way as any yet with me it is not Improbable that so great a Prophet so sanctified from his youth so knowing eminent throughout the Universal Church might have at some special times more then Ordinary Motions and Impulses in doing the watchmans part of giving warning of Judgments approaching FINIS