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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.
Now as for authorities to prove this Prophecy to be genuine, and how it has hitherto been accomplished, I might refer myself to the whole county of Chester, where it is in every one's mouth, and has been for these forty years. As much as I have of the manuscript was sent me by a person of sense and veracity, and as little disposed to believe visions as any body. There is something so very odd in the story, and so pat in the wording of it, that I cannot help giving it as I found it. The family of the Cholmondeley's is very ancient in this county, and takes its name from a place so called near Nantwich. There are also Cholmton and Cholmondeston; but the feat of that branch of the family, which kept our Prophet Nixon, is at Vale Royal, on the river Weaver in Delamere forest. It was formerly an Abbey founded by Edward I. and came to the Cholmondeley's from the famous family of the Holcro•ts. When Nixon prophesied, this family was near being extinct, the heir having married ⟨p. 18⟩Sir Walter St. John's daughter, a lady not esteemed very young, who, notwithstanding being with child, fell in labour, and continued so for some days. During which time an eagle fat upon the house-top, and flew away when she was delivered, which proved to be a son.
A Raven is also known to have built in a Stone Lion's mouth, in the steeple of the Church of Over, in the forest of Delamere. Not long before the abdication of King James, the wall spoken of fell down and fell upwards, and in removing the rubbish, were found the bones of a man of more than ordinary size. A pond at the same time ran with water that had a reddish tincture, and was never known to have done so before or since.
Headless Cross, in the Forest, which in the memory of man was several feet high, is now sunk within half a •oot of the ground.