A49257:26
The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at…
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 Cheshire prophecy.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.
London : printed for the bookseller, 1651?
Part › Introduction: INTRODUCTION TO NIXON's CHESHIRE PROPHECY, BY THE AUTHOR of his LIFE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As to the credit of this Prophecy, I dare say it is as well attested as any of Nostradamus's or Merlin's, and come to pass as well as the best of Squire Bickerstaff's. It is pain enough that great men have in all ages had recourse to prophecy as well as the vulgar. I would not have all grave persons despise the inspirations of Nixon. The late French King gave audience to an inspired farrier, and rewarded him with an hundred pistols for his prophetical intelligence; though by what I can learn, he did not come near our Nixon for gifts.
As to the credit of this Prophecy, I dare say it is as well attested as any of Nostradamus's or Merlin's, and come to pass as well as the best of Squire Bickerstaff's. It is pain enough that great men have in all ages had recourse to prophecy as well as the vulgar. I would not have all grave persons despise the inspirations of Nixon. The late French King gave audience to an inspired farrier, and rewarded him with an hundred pistoles for his prophetical intelligence; though by what I can learn, he did not come near our Nixon for gifts.
The simplicity, the circumstances, and history, of the Cheshire Prophecy, are so remarkable, that I hope the public will be as much delighted as I was myself.
By the way, this is not a prophecy of to-day; it is as old as the Powder plot, and the story will make it appear that there is as little imposture in it as the Jacobites pretend there is in the person it seems to have an eye to: but whether they are both impostures alike or not, I leave to the reader to determine.
By the way, this is not a prophecy of to-day; it is as old as the Powder plot, and the story will make it appear that there is as little imp•sture in it as the Jacobites pretend there is in the person it seems to have an eye to: but whether they are both impostures alike or not, I leave to the reader to determine.