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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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And when I seemed to sta•d amazed, to hear such an humble Confession from so great and experienced a Christian, He added, I must tell you, We do not well understand what Sanctification and the New Creature are; It is no less than 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 ⟨p. 32⟩par• 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 i• as ever he had done, adding, That this sad persecution would fall upon all the Protestan• Churches of Europe; I replied, That I did hope it might have been past as to these Nations of ours, since I thought that th•ugh 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 than War commonly brings upon those Countries where it pleaseth God in Judgment 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 drank very deep of the Cup of God's Anger, even to the Overthrow of the Government, and the utter Desolation almost of a very great Part of those Countries.