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A49257	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.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305	41,319	88

are such a one who can through an ill habit and bad custom curse swear and do any other bad action almost without reproof or feeling though your case be so desperate there is yet mercy with God that he may be feared and I advise you to endeavour to be still a few minutes in the morning when you awake before you rise up and then think seriously with yourself thus I have not given my being to myself I am accountable to the Author and Creator of it and this day He the LORD of all will take notice of all my actions this day he will hear all my Words this day he will know all my thoughts and at a certain time yet unknown to me when my soul must give him a full account I am not without some degree of hope that such serious reflections may be conducive to raise desires like these Oh! that I may be watchful Oh! that I may sin no more as long as I live For we must cease to do evil before we can learn to do well Therefore silence before the LORD and attention to his reproofs of instruction in your own heart which are the way to life are the first steps to come to CHRIST and to be made a real Christian. Self Enquiries for Every Morning 1. Was God in my thoughts at lying down and ●ising up and were the thoughts of him sweet and refreshing to my soul 2. In what frame is my heart this morning Do I admire the goodness of God in the last night's Sleep and for adding more time to my life and am I heartily thankful 3. Can I r●ally commit myself and all my affairs to God this day to be guided by his counsel and protected and provided for by his care and to be entirely at his disposal 4. Am I resolved to speak for God and his Glory and in the strength of Christ will I n●ither be afraid ashamed nor weary of well-doing 5. Am I a child of God and an heir of Glory and does the Spirit of God testify that I am born again If I am God's child should I not wear the garments of righteousness and take heed of defiling myself with sin should I n●t do more than others 6. Who is the greatest deceiver if my heart should I not be jealous and watchful over it where are the greatest dangers and m●st p●rnicious mistakes if in so●l concerns should I not venture the loss of all things rather than lose my precious never-dying soul 7 Who are my most implacable powerful and soul-destroying Enemies but the World the Flesh and the Devil and should I no● w●●ch and be sober so as neither to idoli●e the 〈◊〉 pamper the second nor listen to the third 8 Who is or can be my best Friend but God And should I not fear his displeasure more than death desire his favour more than life and thro' all this day love honour and obey him 9. Where is the greatest vanity and vexation but in the World And should I not live above it 〈◊〉 not Godliness the greatest gain and should I not make it my chiefest business 10. What is my heavenly work but to Strive R●● W●estle Fight and can ● do all this withou● Care Dilige●ce and Watchfulness 11. Whose eyes will be upon me all this day to observe my head and heart my Lip and Life but his who is the Judge of all the Earth And dare I Sin in his presence and affront him to his Face 12. If I should spend this day in Vanity Idleness or Sin will it not be sorrow●ul at night if I spend it holily and p●ofitably shall I not pray with greater confidence lie down more peacefully and have 〈◊〉 ●estimony of a good conscience for my rejoicing 13 How would I have this day appear at the day of Judgment Ought not my Though●s Words and Actions to be such now as I 〈◊〉 then wish them to have been 14. How may I this day order my secular business with most prudence and wisdom integrity and upligh●ness and for my real advantage 15. Am I now fit to draw nigh to God in pray●● and can I seek first and as my chief concern the Kingdom of God and his righteousness 16. Am I now willing to take Christ alone for righteousness and to devote all my time and 〈◊〉 to him And to offer him praise continually Self Enquiries for every Evening 1. What have I done this day for God and his Glory what can I look back upon with comfo●● 2. In what frame hath my heart been all this day Have I more desired heavenly or earthly things hath my jo●s been more in God and in the hopes of ●uture Glory than in worldly Riches Honours or Pleasures was my g●●ef more for sin or for the troubles of Li●e Have I more derived comfort from the broken cis●erns of created good or from God the living fountain 3. What were m● intentions Have I been sincere and maintained a conscience void of off●●c● towards God and towards man Did I eat and drink pray and converse to the Glory of Ged or was Self ●ppermost in all 4. What spiritual duties have I performed this day Did I regard the manner as well as the ma●●er and do them from conscience not from custom Did I pray servently and ●ead and m●ditate so as to affect my heart 5. How faithful diligent and care●ul have I been in my place and calling And have there been no idle hours in the day 6. What has been my company this day What good have I done them or received from them Did ● reprove exhort and strengthen encourage comfort and w●rn as the matter required 7. How have I bo●●e the crosses and troubles of the day Did I neither despise them nor saint under them neither entert●in hard thoughts of God nor utter rash words against him 8. What were my temptations this day was I easi●y d●awn into Sin or restrained and overawed by God's all-seeing eye merciful heart or a●enging hand What convict●on merey or warning did I sin against and have I repented of my sin 9. What were my enjoyments and how was my hear●●ffected under them Was I affected with the goodness of God to me in my health ●riends and estate and unfeignedly thankful for them 10. What have I learned this day have I got more heart-affecting knowledge of God and of his Glory and of myself and of my sins Of this word and that which is to come 11. What have I remembered of the word of God whether read or heard Was any 〈◊〉 sweet 〈◊〉 my soul and did I by ●aith make any promise my ow● Did any particular precept 〈…〉 12. What graces have I 〈…〉 have I lived by ●ai●h loved God and 〈…〉 for Chr●st have I had 〈◊〉 to God the 〈◊〉 as my 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 saviour 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 and to the holy 〈◊〉 as my 〈◊〉 strength and com●o●●er 13 Have I been suitably affected with the 〈◊〉 or miseries of others

ever heard from 〈◊〉 other But because I had but an imperfect 〈◊〉 confused Remembrance of the Particulars took the Boldness to importune him that 〈◊〉 would please to give a brief Account of them 〈◊〉 Writing whereby I might the better impri●● them in my Memory of which he would 〈◊〉 have excused himself by declaring his 〈◊〉 of not writing any more adding That if he did write any thing it should not exceed above a Sheet or two But upon my continued Importunity I at last obtained his Promise He coming to Town some Time after was pleased to give me a Visit at my own House where I failed not to challenge the Benefit of the Promise he had made me He replied That he had not writ and yet he could not charge himself with any Breach of Promise For said he I did begin to write but when I came to write of Sanctification that is of the New Creature which God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly regenerate I found so little of it wrought in myself that I could speak of it only as Parrots by Rote and without the Knowledge and Understanding of what I might have expressed and therefore I durst not presume to proceed any further upon it 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 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 per●ecution 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 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 Worshiper 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 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 diffe●●nce 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 v●olently fallen upon but in this last Persecuti●● these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to p●rtake 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 short●st Persecution 〈◊〉 them all and sha●l only take away the gross ●●ypocrites and formal Professors but the 〈◊〉 spiritual Believers shall be preserved till 〈◊〉 calamity be 〈◊〉 I then asked him by what means or instruments this great trial was to be brought on ●e answered by the Papists I replied that it 〈◊〉 to me very improbable they should be able to do it since they were now little countenan●ed and 〈◊〉 in these nations and that the hea●●s o● the People were m●re set against 〈◊〉 than eve● 〈◊〉 the Reformation He 〈◊〉 again That it would be by the hands of Pa●is●s in a time when they would be in gr●at power and in the way of a sudden 〈◊〉 and that the Pope should be the chief instrument of it All this he spake with so great assurance and with the same serious and concerned 〈…〉 which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him foretel some things which in all human appearance were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I myself 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 Pa●ists were th● Gentiles spoken of in the 11th of the Revelations to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it under foot they having received the Gentiles worship in their

pride the Devil instigates him to renounce his name and take the ridiculous name of a river a town a hill or a province and tacks God's name and title to it Then he is exalted and God positively declares and says whoever exalts himself shall surely be abased that is cast into Hell and thus does the Devil sport with all wealthy people and proud people and dressy people Dress draws every curse from God down upon the soul the more dressy the more vicious clothing was first invented to cover sin and shame and ought therefore be as plain as possible besides God strictly commands it should be so Now hear the declaration of a fine shewy dressy person to God viz. I will dress powder curl and paint to spite you God because you desire me not I will flirt laugh please and be pleased praise and be praised read plays romances and all other devilish books because you say all those will corrupt me and that I must account for every idle word I speak I will not read the bible nor do therein because you desire me for every thing you command me I will not do and every thing you forbid me I will do God because my father and mother brought me up this way and they follow the same life themselves for we all prefer the damnation of Hell to you and your old book filled with stories of love terrors Heaven Hell and all such tedious nonsense to people of fashion going into Perdition The more wicked and abominable a person is before God the more glaringly they wish to adorn the filthy carcase iniquity invented new fashions it originated in France every married woman there was despised if she was not a w the bible was forbid to be read by order of Ant●christ and his Deputies least the people should perceive their own damnation and rebel against idolatry the contagion is in England Ireland c. the world is teeming with wickedness the Lord God is like a roaring lion filled with wrath fury and revenge he is thundering down his vengeance in a variety of ●hapes previous to the general judgment which is now the general dread of the people teeming with iniquity and filled with terrors without one single exception among the wicked whenever the Almighty intendsany great event he puts it more or less in the people's minds before the execution to induce them to holiness for there is no other way to prevent his wrath But instead they continue to act as if they were never to die and blinding each other with praise flattery hypocrisy and deceit Suppose Christ was this instant to come down and judge all people shewing Heaven's great expanse of innumerable pleasures on one side and Hell's yawning torments on the other how would the proud and dressy appear Would the not with their pride and fashionable dress in Hell where it originated Are they the pious holy people marked with the Holy Ghost to sa●vation that could run to meet Christ whose face is of flaming fire Or are they those pointed out in the bible who are marked by the Devil to devote themselves to the pleasures and passions of this Hell-grown world Let them answer for themselves 〈◊〉 if they cannot I can they are of the latter description they are an ab●mination before the L●rd and before his holy people on earth they have stipulated with the Devil their pre●ious souls for fashionable dress pride and as God says cannot escape the damnation of Hell Therefore Readers do not ye be of this accursed number but follow the advice given in this little pamphlet of very great value cast away instantly your fashionable dress pride ●rippery and all accursed worldly show and you will make the Devil fly away from you roaring with despair and God and the innumerable host of Heaven will shout for joy and the windows of Heaven will be opened unto you Give atrention now ye wealthy ye great wicked ones who are squandering thousands and tens of thousands yearly in superfluous excesses which are the works of the son of Perdition Squander your thousands on the purchase of millions of bibles new testaments hymn books and psalm books scatter them among the people like corn before the plow by which all the human race will learn to know the Lord and do his blessed will propagate the gospel of Christ in its original purity until all the people shall know that the gospel sound alone is sure salvation and not the abominable works of man's hands renounce idolatry sue for the property of the distressed when wronged by the unjust distrib●te justice without favour or affection and God will love you and keep you in safety Read the bible the ensuing long winter evenings ye and your families expound it to each other every night and if at leisure in the day time also Glorify God let your conversation turn on every verse on every chapter you read of the wonderful works of the Lord Iesus Christ and his Apostles then your conversation will be in Heaven and this is also the communion of Saints so little understood in this world Let that same Jesus never leave your thoughts this is what the Apostle means where he says pray without ceasing this incessant silent meditation on Jesus is certain salvation this is worshiping in spirit and in truth because God is in Christ your souls then feed on him and grow rich in grace and grace is the gradual operation of the Holy Ghost which brings you from glory to glory Let all men and women be exhorters to good by their profound knowledge of the bible which will abolish evil from the human race empty your purses to put all the indigent to industry who have the inclination but not the means and after doing all these things and ten thousand times more do not take the least merit to yourselves it is not ye that do it it is the Holy Ghost in ye therefore give all the merit to God and all the glory and then know he has only done ye the honor of choosing ye to be useful machines to do his business and if ye are conscious in your hearts it is so and that ye firmly believe that property which ye so distribute is his and not your own as all wealthy fools imagine then the wide expanse of Heaven is open for your enjoyment as soon as your fervency of love for him desire it with millions of millions of pleasures with him on his holy mountain do all those things if you can and if you can and do not read your dreadful sentence in the new testament Give attention again ye wealthy cast away all your ●rippery your variegated head-dr●sses and all other ornaments calculated to adorn your carcas●s for praise and admiration which is certain c●●demnation to your souls play no cards or other gambling never enter them hellish seminaries of corruption called play-houses do not suffer a play book of any kind romance or novel inside your houses

they are the keys that unlock the doors of Hell propagate industry the arts and sciences travels voyages geography the globes the maps c. among the poor squander God's money in all such employments but let holy writ be always uppermost in your thoughts and the subjects of your conversations when the others are not absolutely necessary become domesticks and ●ay no more ridiculous fashionable vis●ts do not continue to make Gods of your filthy carcases with made dishes Iuscious meats and ●rinks or other vicious extravagancies you must certainly give an account of every shilling you unnecessarily lay out on your persons and families and if contrary to the observations made here and in the new testament th●n the dreadful and intolerable sentence is 〈◊〉 for an endless eternity A Seasonable Hint Dear F●llow Traveller thro' the Wilderness of this World YOU and I must soon appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ and as we may possibly never meet again in this ●if● a 〈◊〉 Hints concerning that most joyful or most awful Event may not be unseasonable The Bible is the word of the living God for all Scrip●ure is given by inspiration of GOD holy men of GOD s●ake and worte as they were move● by the HOLY GHOST The follwing Hints taken from that Divine Book deserve your immediate and most serious consideration The word of GOD assures us that you and I are Sinners for GOD hath n●lu●ed all under Sin There is none that doeth Good and 〈◊〉 not no not one we were even sh●p●n in Iniquity and in Sin did our Mother con●●ive us Another awful Truth contained in Scripture is that the wages of Sin is Hell and that it is appointed unto all men once to a●e and after Death the Iudgment that heart searching judgment where not an action in your life not a word of your tongue nor a thought of your heart will escape the notice of that JESUS who will be the Judge of both the quick and the dead then the righteous and the wicked will recei●● according to the Things done in the Body whether 〈◊〉 be good or evil The righteous shall go away into everlasting Life but the wicked will be ●ast down to Hell to be tormented with Devils and damned Spirits for ever and ever Oh how dreadful will that be to you and m● if thro' our Sins we should come into that ●lace of torment I would further ●int to you that the blessed GOD hath manifested his grace and love and hath shewn his tender pity and compassion in giving his dear Son the LORD JESUS CHRIST to be a REDEEMER and SAVIOUR of poor lost Sinners that JESUS is both God and Man in one Divine Person that he might be able to save the very worst of Sinners who come unto GOD thro' him His blood was shed on the cro●s for your Redemption from Sin Death and Hell His spotless Righteousness was wrought out for your eternal justification if you indeed and in Truth believe in him He obeyed the Law of GOD in your room and 〈◊〉 and be died that you might not die eternally and is that glorious SUN of RIGHTEOUSNESS that will arise and shine upon his People for ever and ever In order to your saving Knowledge of JESUS CHRIST your having ●aith in him and a living Union with him a very great change must pass in your heart and li●e This change is the peculiar work o● the HOLY GHOST and is called in Scripture RE●ENERATION or the NEW BIRTH Except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God You know that this divine Change manifests itself by a heart deeply humbled under a sense of Sin and an earnest desire after Salvation It further shews itself by a discovery of JESUS CHRIST as a suitable compassionate and all ●ufficient Saviour and by a holy life and conversation To them that believe CHRIST is percious He is the Chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely Oh is he ●o to you and me ●xamine your heart daily on this weighty Question Do you know JESUS CHRIST Do you love him Are you devoted to him and do you put all your trust in him If you do you are happy If not your condition is most miserable L●t me beseech you by the mercies of GOD by the Love of JESUS and by the worth of your precio●s Soul that you earnestly pray O! my Heavenly FATHER forgive my Sins and ●eveal thy dear SON in me blessed JESUS let me be redeemed by thy Blood and clothed with thy Righteousness Oh! holy and blessed SPIRIT ●anctify my heart be in me a Spirit of frequent and fervent prayer Give me faith in JESUS CHRIST Teach me to love him and give me Grace to grow like him and make me what thou wouldst have me to be Guide me by thy counsel and fit me for thy Glory Let me beg of you my dear to give up your heart to these Things that we may meet in Heaven and be for ever with the LORD I conclude with intreating you most affectionately to consider these things directly Life is uncertain DEATH JUDGMENT HEAVEN and HELL are at hand and are awful Things devote your time to seek an interest in JESUS CHRIST as your SAVIOUR and REDEEMFR ask and you shall re●●ive seek and you shall find kno●k and it shall be opened unto you That the Lord may bless these hints to your Soul is the earnest Prayer of your hearty well-wisher For JESUS ' sake CHRISTIANUS The Quaker's Advice AS I have often in passing along the streets and highways heard the Most Sacred Name very profane●y made use of both by men and women and many grievously calling for damnation on themselves and one on another my heart has been and is deeply afflicted t●ereat and therefore I beseech you in the Name of JESUS CHRIST do not defile your Souls which are dear and precious by any wilful sin and amongst other things do not ta●e the Holy Name of God in vain for the Lord will not hold him or her guiltless that taketh his holy Name in vain GOD is willing to save you why should any of you lose and destroy yourselves Observe this attentively for notwithstanding all that the LORD has done and is d●ing for us such as die in their sins where he is gone they can never come Abstain from drunkenness and all excess and from every appearance of evil love one another as JESUS CHRIST hath loved you apply yourselves to the witness of God within you which reproves you for evil submit to and obey its holy manifestations and discoveries and it will do much more for you than a●● you can hear from any man This witness of GOD is the word of his Grace even the word of Life the Holy Ghost which is able to save your souls In the love of the Gospel I invite you all to come and taste how good and merciful the LORD is towards all those that return to him with their whole hearts If you