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Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy, learned, and excellent James Usher,…
Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy, learned, and excellent James Usher, late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh ... giving an account of his foretelling I. the rebellion in Ireland ..., II. the confusions and miseries of England in church and state, III. the death of King Charles the First, IV. his own poverty and want, V. the divisions in England in matters of religion ... / written by the person who heard it from this excellent persons own mouth ...
London: printed for R.G., 1678
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.
All this he Spake with so great Assurance, and with the same serious and concerned Countenance, which I have before observed him to have▪ when I have heard him foretell some things which in all humane appearance were very unlikely to come to pass, which yet I my self have lived to see happen according to his prediction, and this made me give the more earnest attention to what he then uttered.
All this he Spake with so great Assurance, and with the same serious and concerned Countenance, which I have before observed him to have▪ when I have heard him soretell some things which in all humane appearence were very unlikely to come to pass, which yet I my self have lived to see happen according to his prediction, and this made me give the more earnest attention to what he then uttered.
He then added, That the Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of in the 11th of the Revelations, to whom the outward Court should be left, that they might tread it underfoot; They having received the Gentiles worship in their adoring Images, and Saints departed, and in taking to themselves many Mediators; And this (Said he) the Papists are now designing among themselves, and therefore be sure you be ready.
This was the Substance, & I think (for the greatest part) the very same words which this Holy man spake to me at the time beforementioned not long before his death, and which I writ down, that so great and notable a Prediction might not be lost and forgotten by my self nor others.