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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?
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How or whether he prophesied to his Majesty, no body can tell; but he is not the first fool that has made a good Court Prophet.
That Nixon might be well provided for, 'twas ordered that he should be kept in the kitchen, where he grew so troublesome in licking and picking the meat, that the cooks locked him up in a hole, and the King going on a sudden from Ham• ton ⟨p. 20⟩Court to London, they forgot the fool in the hurry, and he was really starved to death.
There are a great many passages of this Fool-Prophet's life and sayings transmitted by tradition from father to son in this county palatine; as, that when he lived with a farmer, before he was taken into Mr. Cholmondeley's family, he gored an •x so cruelly, that one of the ploughmen threatened to beat him for abusing his master's beast. Nixon said, My master's beast will not be his three days. A life in an estate dropping in that time, the Lord of the manor took the same ox for an heriot. This account, as whimsical and romantic as it is, was told to the Lady Cowper, in the year 1670, by Dr. Parric•, late Bishop of Ely, then Chaplain to S•r Walter St. John; and that Lady had the following farther particulars, relating to this Prophecy, and the fulfilling of many parts of it, from Mrs Chute, sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, of Vale-Royal who affirmed, that a multitude of people gathering together to see the Eagle before mentioned, the bird was •rightened from her young▪ that she herself was one of them, and the cry among the people was, Nixon's Prophecy is fulfilled, and we shall have a foreign King. She declared, that she read over the prophecy many times, when her sister was with child of the heir who now enjoys the estate. She particularly remembered