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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?
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.
THE PROPHECY.
IN the reign of King James the First, there lived a man, generally reputed a fool, whose name was Nixon. One day, when he returned home from ploughing in the field, he laid the things down which he had in his hands, and continuing for some time in a seemingly deep and thoughtful meditation, at length he pronounced in a loud voice, Now I will prophesy. And spoke as follows:
IN the reign of King James the First, there lived a man, generally repu•ed a fool, whose name was Nixon. One day, when he returned home from ploughing in the field, he laid the things down which he had in his hands, and continuing for some time in a seemingly deep and thoughtful meditation, at length he pronounced in a loud voice, Now I will prophesy. And spoke as follows:
When a Raven shall build in a stone Lion's mouth on the top of a Church in Cheshire, then a King of England shall be driven out of his kingdom, and never return more.
When an eagle shall sit on the top of the house, then an heir shall be born to the Cholmodeley's family; and this heir shall live to see England invaded by foreigners, who shall proceed so far as a town in Cheshire; but a miller named Peter, shall be