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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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But this Holy Man turning to me, and fixing his eyes upon me with that serious and ireful look which he usually had when he spake God's Word, and not his own, and when the Power of God seemed to be upon him, and to constrain• him to speak, which I could easily discern much to differ from the countenance wherewith he usually spake to me; He said thus:
Fool not yourself with such hopes, for I tell you all you have yet seen, hath been but the beginning of Sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ, who will, ere long, fall under a sharper persecution than ever yet was upon them; and therefore (said he to me) look you be not found in the outward Court, but a Worshipper in the Temple before the Altar, for Christ will measure all those that profess his name, and call themselves his People; and the outward Worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles. The outward Court (says he) is the formal Christian, whose Religion lies in performing the outside duties of Christianity, without having an inward Life and Power of Faith and Love, uniting them to Christ, and these God will leave to be trodden down, and swept away by the Gentiles; but the Worshippers within the Temple, and before the Altar, are those who do indeed worship God in spirit and in truth, whose souls are made his Temples, and he is honoured and adored in the most inward Thoughts of their Hearts, and they sacrifice ⟨p. 34⟩their lusts and vile affections, yea, and their own wills to him; and these God will hide in the hollow of his hand, and under the shadow of his wings; and this shall be one great difference between this last, and all the other preceding Persecutions; for in the former, the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally […] most, and were most violently fallen upon, but in this last Persecuti•• these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to partake of that glory which shall immediately fo••ow and come upon the Church, as soon as eve• this storm shall be over; for as it shall be the arpest, so it shall be the shortest Persecution […] them all, and shal only take away the gross hypocrites and formal Professors, but the […] spiritual Believers shall be preserved till […] calamity be […].