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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 Iames Usher,…
Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy learned, and excellent James Usher, late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland Giving an account of his foretelling I. The rebellion in Ireland forty years before it came to pass. II. The confusions and miseries of England in church and state. III. The death of King Charles the first. IIII. His own poverty and want. V. The divisions in England in matters of religion. Lastly, of a great and terrible persecution which shall fall upon the reformed churches by the Papists, wherein the then Pope should be chiefly concerned. Written by the person who heard it from this excellent persons own mouth, and now published earnestly to persuade us to that repentance and reformation which can only prevent our ruin and destruction. Licensed, November the 16th.Strange and remarkable prophesies and predictions of the holy learned, and excellent Iames Usher, late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland Giving an account of his foretelling I. The rebellion in Ireland forty years before it came to pass. II. The confusions and miseries of England in church and state. III. The death of King Charles the first. IIII. His own poverty and want. V. The divisions in England in matters of religion. Lastly, of a great and terrible persecution which shall fall upon the reformed churches by the Papists, wherein the then Pope should be chiefly concerned. Written by the person who heard it from this excellent persons own mouth, and now published earnestly to perswade us to that repentance and reformation which can only prevent our ruin and destruction. Licensed, November the 16th.
Cork : reprinted by William Smith, in the year 1679Corke : reprinted by William Smith, in the year 1679
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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 my sell 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, & in taking to themselves many Mediators; And this (Said he) the Papists are now designing among themselves, and therefore be sure you be ready.
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 adoreing Images, and Saints departed, & 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, and I think (for the greatest part) the very same words which this Holy man spake to me at the time before mentioned not long before his death, and which I writ down, that so great and noble a Prediction might not be lost and forgotten by my self nor others.