Commissioning it to go forth Begin at London and go throw all his dominions Fear all that read it and you that hear it I say fear and Tremble for they are the words of the Lord Almighty and his also is this sent-out fire So soon as the words were spoken Begin at London go thorow all his dominions the fire immediately removed from between the Kings feet to a distance some three yards from him and there stood but still kept in a right line before him there and then that fire suddenly became dilated and forthwith was big as the Sun in appearance when so dilated it had then ashes all under it which ashes were of the thickness of a pocket-Bible fire ashes and Bible are made up of the word and power of God who so contems his word his fire makes ashes of them contemn God and the King and you perish together Certainly on purpose is it thus shewed me with ashes under it that I may let you all see and know its readiness to Execute Gods Command first upon you of London Begin at London then his three Kingdoms and Christian world Men and Brethren either suffer your Corruptions and Rebellions of all sorts of which you are Horridly Guilty against God and his King Charles Stuart your Sacrifices are Dirt your hypocrisies are the Greatest your Rebellions have no compare suffer all these things and whatever more to be burnt up and consumed in you by his sent-out fire of mercy which if you shall madly neglect to do deceive not your selves it shall suddenly do its other work commissioned for to make ashes of you and all those mountains of opposition that men or Devils have can or dare raise up to obstruct the way and rule of Gods Vice-gerent Charles Stuart your only lawful King and Soveraign God is irritated and you have done it look to your selves when the Almighty kindles and sends forth a fire as here he doth read I beseech you to what purpose he doth it The Prophet Amos assures evil doers no less then six several times in his first Chapters which are but very short yet most admirable full to this very purpose there he saith That the Lord will send a fire that the Lord will Commission a fire That the Lord will kindle a fire And to what purpose I beseech you is all this even as here it shall devour it shall burn up it shall consume if not sin then sinful persons Do you ask me what it shall do I answer you and all for I fear no man do what shall it not do when commissiond and sent out by God as this is what shall it do why it shall burn up his enemies on every side if they repent not Ps. the 97. 3 verse There shall go a fire before him and Burn up his Enemies round about The Army of Horses went before this fire comes next after that nothing may escape I dare not yet leave this Commissioned fire of the Lords sent out upon this particular day the Eighth of Aprill what I have now to say in this so wonderful proceed of God Almighty is to you Oliver Cromwell Protector of these three Kingdoms pro Tempore Sir well look about you and best bethink your self and know Sir That for more then three months it was my continual meditation and amaze to think why it was dictated Waite until the Eighth of Aprill why to that day I could never give his Majesty and Heroick Brother any clear or certain reason for it but having upon that day seen the vision and then heard the words of Commission to the Almighties fire in our Kings behalf I can now give His Majesty his Brother you and all such a certain and true reason for it as will astonish the world there is in it Wonder upon Wonder it looks like the Children of Israel being brought out of Egypt upon the very day both the Lords own doings O that I were with you your Lordship should find I would speak to you as sent of God not flatteringly Examin your self Sir did not the Lord some two years since Easter next it will be so I again say did he not then in mercy send to you Oliver Cromwell the wife of Thomas Chalener a free-holder dwelling on the Edge of Sussex whose Commission was to this very purpose First to ask you whether or no the Vineyard you yet gathered the fruit of was yours or Gods if it was yours then to say so if Gods then your duty forthwith to give the fruit of it to his Steward Charles Stuart for God had given it unto him by inheritance if you refused forthwith to submit or doubted his right of inheritance she tells you that God had vouchsafed for the decision of his right three wayes Chuse you either of them God would appear for him whose unquestionable right it was for in the Court and justice of Heaven the Father having paid the debt the Son was to have the inheritance Her first offer to you is to cast Lots and by lot you should see on whom the Lord would resolve it to that you wisely considered and said what if the lot should go against me she truly told you it would your answer was that way of lot you would decline Her second offer was would you fight personally with Charls Stuart and so decide it to that as I have heard you gave no answer indeed God forbid that any such damnable thought or word should ever be found in your heart or mouth An impiety of that ugly nature I print to the whole world will never be found in you as ill as men generally speak of you who was most Culpable before God knows I do not The persons of Kings are sacred Appointed of God and anointed by his Prophets wise and honest men know it well their persons are rarely to be exposed Crowns not to be worne by any but whom the Lord sets apart with us it must be so the law of God and our Land best directs in that particular and I firmely believe That as you said nothing to that second offer of the Lords for they are all his offers not hers so upon that very consideration let the world say what they will you have hitherto declined and ever will do to put on his Crown they were fools that said you were afraid of the Army when t was offered you no no you were afraid of God and your King do well and be so Ever I commend your wisdom in that you put that Dirty assembly upon tryal what they would do with the Crown whereby you might clearly see and discover the Enemies of God and the King also the haters of Monarchy how could you a served your King better you have out-witted all those Arrant Good subjects The Lord shewed me before their sitting and told me when they were to sit their sacrifices were Dirt you had it before those were the very Men that was the Dirty Parliament his Crown I say
The coming of GOD IN MERCY IN VENGEANCE Beginning With fire to Convert or Consume at this so sinful City London Oh! London London Amos the 3. verses 6 7 8. Shall a Trumpet be blown in the City and the people not be afraid Surely the Lord will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets to his servants the Prophets The Lion hath roared who will not be afraid the Lord hath spoken who can but prophesie this to you I must or perish Printed for the Authour WALTER GOSTELO dwelling in Broad-street London 1658. To OLIVER CROMWELL Lord PROTECTOR To this City LONDON To the People of these three NATIONS and CHRISTIAN WORLD is this matter of so high concernment Dedicated AFter how Miraculous a manner God is Coming in mercy to his in vengeance to Evil-doers this Book made up of truth and good affection as the Author ought to be for his Countries Good will tell you which being sent as an Herald to declare the Coming of God It doth not Crave but Command protection And though I may not dedicate it to any other then to whom God Almighty hath directed the matter of it Primarily to you of this so sinful City London subsequently to all the people of the three Nations and Christian World yet is it good manners fairly to intreat of you Oliver Cromwell Protector that it suffer not by any prohibition of yours in sale or otherwise Indeed I do not doubt of that from your Lordship which I beseech from all its good acceptance Especially if you did know or do remember those two so Considerable passages both which not long since fel out at White-Hall A person well known to your Lordship E. C. gives to one near you but purposely for your perusal A paper of which you were to take Cognisance That paper he or they Burnt Now to let you or them see clearly Gods dislike of that wicked act his Fire of displeasure not long after flamed out of the Chimney t was near you its rage frighted some it was visible to very many in vision was it said to the party that gave the Paper they have burnt thy Paper but go forth and thou shalt see their Chimney on Fire the party did so and saw it so on Fire At another time the same party endevours to set a Paper on the Chappel doors of White-Hall White-Hall still the matter of that was as much of this Book is what God would have speedily done for his injured King and despised Church of all which your self Chaplaines and others under that roof were to take special notice and conforme unto The Chappel Officer would needs hinder the setting up of that Paper for some time he did so in fine he boldly said if ever it was set up he would pull it down He was then forewarned and charged not to do so lest God took vengeance on him he slighted the counsel and when it was set up not fearing God but men he puls it down The next news heard and seen of him is that very right hand of his so misimployed as to pull it down is suddenly bound up becomes unuseful and withers a very few dayes after some 15. or 20. himself dyes These things are true I can prove them My Lord it is very seasonable here to remind you of what so sadly befall Mr. Whaley Mayor of North-hampton in the very year of his Majoralty on Tuesday Easter next it is but two since marke it well I beseech you for these things are clearly of God yea clearly so That Presbyter Whaley an Early Complyer with the worst times most falsly and shamefully belyes me he traduceth and Endeavours to suppress the so Miraculous proceedings of God Almighty afforded in that Town of Northampton on behalf of his own prophecy my unworthy self and what past the very night of my enlargement from prison there After I had wrote to him and followed him close to know his grounds or reasons of those his ugly practices but could never receive any from him at last I wrote to his fellow-Iugler and brother Presbyter Ball Minister in that Town Charged him that he should let Whaley know if I received not speedily from him in writing he should from me in print yea both of them should On Goodfriday I finished what I intended to print against them The Tuesday follovving God takes the business into his own hand Whaley sinks down and dyes suddenly in his Clothes Indeed I was unalterably resolved not to endure them or any to belye endeavour to suppress or oppose the proceedings of my God and his Prophecy for so this is if I could help it and because I could not God did it for me The Manuscript which your Lordship had of mine declaring their bad practises against Gods so wonderful proceedings in that place of Northampton because I could not get Printed I left it in the University Library of Oxford My Lord it is worthy your Remembrance for ever I shall one day get most of it Printed the world must know what 's in it For Ball his minister he is now become a Pulpit-defender in Print the World hath too many such not long known to be so but he sees early and comes round with the first I have desired him Ball by word of mouth that his repentance be sincere early and publick the rather because his aberrations were publick and with the first Oh Presbytery Presbytery Thou hast not hitherto done Gods Church and this kingdom many good offices mend for shame Presbytery Reader I must therefore Print these Precedents of truth that they may deter all Presbyters or others from belying or impeding the Revealed Decrees of Heaven in favour of Gods King and true Church which decrees he is pleased now to have made publick and by all are to be conformed unto But why complain I of ill offices done to me or others in these three Kingdoms seeing I know very well yea this Book tells you truly as much that to remedy all this and more God is coming Whose Almighty fire sent out up on the Eight of April is gone before him Commissioned to begin at this so sinful City London Converting or Consuming the Enemies of his King and Church Believe it Reader our appeal is heard in Heaven and we shall shortly have a Court on Earth to remedy what 's amiss For God hath revealed from between the Cherubins where he is said to dwell That the Restoration of our King is of God and then all those lesser devils waiting upon this Kingdom of darkness will suddenly become invisible To conclude why should I in a Preface tell thee what I have therefore made so very short in the book on purpose that it should be Read be Believed and practised by all all are infinitely concerned to do so Certainly happines will be had thereby Reader distrust me not there is a storm and change at hand a greater or any like it since our Saviors time I firmly and warrantably believe
hath not been on Earth After which will ensue Golden times and dayes A Church more conspicuously glorious then ever for the defence and Protection of which God will afford his Nursing Kings and Queens as promised of Old but in his wisdom reserved for the fittest time In Good Earnest I do pray for all men duty binds me to it yet can I not but fear A very General Confusion of the most This is what I must faithfully let you all know and stand to when I have done So help me O God as I ever own in all times and places thy Prophecy I formerly printed and this book I now publish to the world being both of thee Witnessed and sealed unto by me VValter Gostelo dwelling in Broad-street London at which Church officiated as our pastor The so deservedly beloved Doctor Oldsworth Men and Brethren Divines learned Good and of holy life like him ever taught their Auditors to be peaceable sons of the true Church so is faithfully to serve you of this City and his Country VValter Gostelo CIty London the Protector whom God will ever direct and bless hath now put the Militia into your own hands purposely That if you will ruine your judgement shall be of your selves I wil likewise now send or put into your Mayor Sheriffes Aldermen every of your Ministers and Common Council mens hands one of these Books for I do tell you truly Gods Menace and Decree is gone forth against London for its destruction continue your Rebellions but a little longer against God and your King who are both coming to you and if you perish not cut off my head as you have done your chief Magistrate and Ministers God give you Repentance and Life W. G. THE Unquestionable Restore of OUR KING Charles St. Is Revealed and assured by God Almighty C. R. His restore is of God He hath Revealed it he hath Assured it from between the Cherubims he did it where he is known to dwell God save the King and Oliver Cromwell Protector The Introduction SOber men know very well that amongst us most sort of villanies have been committed by a Law God coming as now he doth to give deliverance to his people commanding them to lift up their heads for their Redemption draweth nigh it remains what will become of such wicked Law-makers as ours have been in that day whose sad fate being shewed me and very short also like their continuance Read that first I beseech you for so I received it and the rather read it for as much as I am to let you see and know clearly that the sign by which my self and you are given to understand when the deliverance and redemption doth draw nigh is their sudden dissipation and trouble yea perpetual rejection as to Law-makers or Rulers and that it is now come to pass in this place where it was shewed me In this City London near two years since particularly upon the eighth of March 1655. God shewed me with others this Vision which I presently wrote to the Protector he that believes it not may see my Manuscript left near two years since in the University Library of Oxford assuring it there left because I could not get it printed As for the Vision it self thus it was I first saw the wicked Governours and mis-Rulers of these people met as in a Convocation or Parliament-house That wicked Council was no sooner set but some of them hastily rose up and bearded their fellow members telling them you were for Presbytery others upbraid them with lying cheating and wicked practises They go on to wrangle and discontents agree not at all nothing but Animosities amongst them Indeed they there behaved themselves just as our Glorified King prophesied it should come to pass you that agreed in nothing more then to make me and this kingdom miserable shall agree in nothing less then to make your selves happy so his Majesty prophesied and so God will certainly now fulfill In this wicked assembly of Black Saints and Justiciaries for I heard not a man amongst them condem himself though guilty and stunk at stake their looks discovered as much yet see I beseech you even to admiration how God brought truth from their own mouthes they then charged themselves to be most culpable not the people Oh the wayes of God are past finding out God will one day set the saddle upon the right jade when this disorder was at the highest in comes a person very hastily as sent of God Oliver Cromwell is this person sent of God and looking boldly upon them spake thus Our Lord Iesus Christ is at hand presently these Grandees startled and looking pale as death like Cowards and villains fastened their gastly eyes and looks upon that messenger the messenger reiterates the words Our Lord Iesus Christ is at hand he after added he is at the very doore I saw him he comes with Flagons when this was spoken and heard those dirty fellows and misgovernours of the people hastily and confusedly broke up house stayed not at all disappeared immediately whither they hasted to their own home or their last home swallowed them quick I cannot tell but this I am most sure of they were all made invisible in an instant Oh wickedness wickedness in Governors can not stand in the day of Gods coming though it be acted by a law of their own of which vile nature these mens wickedness was and doubtless more should have been had not God so scattered them by his sent messenger Oliver Cromwell I told you it was but short God having done with them because they were Dirt I have done with them also For a further confirmation of this thing time persons as Iam alive I shall declare truth unto you Upon the first day of Ianuary last being on a Friday and New-years day my unworthy self then in retirement after I had passed my most infirme devotions of prayer and meditation that day by the side of the River Meade in Kent I was thus wonderfully dealt with The Lord carried me in vision to this City London set me down in the inner Chambers and places where the people of this City performed their devotion or sacrifices and being there I was shewed the Close hypocrisies most irreverent and damnable irreligious practises of the ungodly people of this City and Nation committed in those very places where they pretended to worship God for which their great impiety and fornications I then saw some of them carryed away and thrown into a Bed but it was a Bed of destruction for in it was a pit out of which they never rose nor appeared more yet was it like a Bed This terrible sight made me make haste from amongst them Going into other Chambers I saw more but nothing that pleased me Earthen vessels goodly to look on Paintedboxes but nothing in any of them at which I being much troubled some of them persecuted me from place to place out they drove me into the street Looking behind
and print to the world you will not touch it nor meddle with it upon any ill account indeed upon no account except it be to settle it upon the right head I have heard of a King who being at Sea and his Crown on his head by some unhappy accident his Crown fell into the Sea a most Excellent swimmer dives after it recovers it brings it above water which being too proud of he staid there and put it on his own head at last the Crown came to the right hand and owner the King Commands that the man should be Royally rewarded for his swimming so well and recovering the Crown but withall strictly charged he should be forthwith Hanged for putting the Crown upon his own head I speak not this to deter you you know very well that the Crown was none of those upright just dealing mens to give neither were you to take it it is Gods only to give and our lawful declared Kings Charls Stuarts only to receive God and our Laws have both pointed him out during life and prohibited all others to be Capable of it God save the King Even Ours Charls Stuart yea God will save him for Ever Her third offer was you having been so well advised as to refuse the two former Whether or no you would set apart persons on both sides and let them persons so presented fight for the right of inheritance and future receit of the profits belonging thereunto if you would so fight that you then declared when you would fight here was a most merciful proceeding of the Lords Davids three offers for choice were of another nature To this last also you decline to answer I am Glad to see now the power is in your own hand that you are not for imbroyling the Kingdoms in a new war Upon that very consideration it may fare much better with you then it hath with those that set you to work God assures us in his word in this Prophecy of mine also that he will scatter the men which delight in war and I praise his name for it he hath done very much by your hand and wisdom to avoid the shedding of any more Innocent Blood She tells you she is not to quit you untill you do answer to this last offer following and importuning you for it In fine after some short demurre These very words or words to this purpose come from you If fighting could not be avoided and it must be so then be it upon Munday come twelvemoneth other answer untill then she might not expect nor stay for but be gone To all which as her self hath since told me She then replyed God certainly would fight or appear in the behalf of his and our King Charls Stuart before that time so sure as the Lord is in Heaven there was Prophecy in these her last words and she knew it not My Lord and all that read this Now observe very well and see what God doth The Munday come twelvemoneth you set for fighting or further answer was with us of this Nation April the 6. 1657. and the very next day after Low-Sunday last Where God shews me this Vision at Bridges in Flanders Low-Sunday last fell out to be upon the Eight of April 1657. just one day before that Munday come twelvemoneth Oh all that read see here how miraculously doth this make good what she said and Prophesied but knew not of just as of old to the children of Israel whom the Lord wrought for and by his mighty hand brought out of Egyptian Bondage the very same day as promised is not this our Eighth of April so likewise God lets it alone untill the very last day before that set Munday Then he doth it the very next day before none betwixt and on that very day he doth it as I foretold his Majesty it should be done on the eighth of Aprill Who sees not now clearly we were all over-ruled of God even you Oliver Cromwell also in your replyes For my unworthy self in good earnest I profess unto you I could never tell the King what he might expect on that day I deal clearly with you I did in a very great measure expect that some sudden judgement from Heaven would that day visibly have fallen in England upon incorrigible sinners but see and for ever praised be Gods holy name it is the clean contrary for the present This fire from Heaven must first burn up our corruptions and make many of us true servants of God and our King Charles Stuart in whose behalf it is sent out This is that I am to let you all know and came hither for I warrantably tell you neither Men nor Devils shall be of power long to keep out Gods Anointed and our lawful King Charles Stuart God will not longer be mocked undeniably thus it is none shall prosper that opposeth him or his King he that but puld down her Paper from the Chappel doore his arm withers God indeed suffers him to live some 15. dayes after but it is to carry about with him a withered Arm that the judgements of God may appear the more publick and sure to come upon evil doers affording yet more time for him and us to repent and amend for shame In the Epistle you have read when Whaley of Northampton Belies Traduceth and I fear endevours much more to suppress Gods so miraculous proceedings in that Town on my behalf Prophecy and Book he drops down and dies in his clothes immediately without any more a do The Preface to the Reader tels you as much he that fears man more then God and to lose an estate on Earth more then Heaven Certainly his impieties are of the worst nature and illest consequence God would convert you and you abuse his mercies despise and persecute his sent Messengers Oh mercy abused leaves room for judgement warning not taken is a certain presage of destruction if often we receive pardon as you have done to expect it longer is desperate Look back a little and well consider what this fire of mercy hath done amongst us and the Kings Enemies since sent out by God on his Majesties behalf being but the Eighth of Aprill last did it not before or upon the fifteenth day of that very month of Aprill defeat and bring to nought that so bloody and damnable designe of the Annabaptist fifth Monarchy men and Levellers all sworn Enemies to Monarchy all mischievous brethren in that intended Rebellion did it not do its work also at London as Commissioned Begin at London after go through all his dominions So that visibly you shall know it in stead of setting up their standard and Arming of thousands which they were provided of and for together with the spreading of their seditious Pamphlets for a new Rebellion which the better to dispose others to joyn with them they had well provided by specious pretences and sharing of other mens estates not willing that any should be poor amongst those only Saints which
as they said and printed were undonbredly the just ones that should now rule the world us of this part of it at the least so that if Gods sent-out fire on the Eighth of Aprill had not prevented it These Saints Martin Webbâ—rs or Iohn of Leydens all of them call them what you will are the most implacable haters of all Kings and Monarches in the whole world had suddenly or in a short time molded and Gathered an Army of thirty or forty thousand whose business certainly was to have embroiled this kingdom in a new and most dangerous war the principles of those men with the now poverty of the most men would a made mad work had not this fire of Gods burnt up and prevented the confusions As I am a Christian God shewed me in a vision that whole Rebellion Their contrivances their actings and their ruine he shewed it me in Flanders the wednesday before Easter 1657. On Goodfriday I told the King after that I wrote it and set my hand and seal unto it that it was a true vision of Gods Given by the Lord for a signe that it should all so and so Come to pass by that day month and this God did to satisfie some that desired a signe of God to the end belief might be created in the hearts of many that doubted Nay I was so impowred of God that after I had wrote it and sealed unto it I laid it upon the Communion Table and there received the Communion upon it That this was Gods vision and he would fulfill it that day month when as I am alive I knew nothing of it but what the Lord shewed me of vision from thence I wrote to the Protector here that he should fear nothing for God would disappoint the designes of wicked men who were working mischief and that he would do it before the twentieth of April Indeed I told the King the very day he would do it on that wednesday moneth on which it was shewed me for so was it said unto me after the vision ended this day month this vision shall have its fulfill Eight dayes before that day month came was it said unto me by vision also what shall be done that day is not of man but that God may be Glorified God my King and His two Princely Brothers are my witness I told them of it long before and all this I now see is Gods working fire which on my Kings behalf shall Convert defeat or Consume his Enemies This is that stone cut out without hands which shall now do that Great work of the Lords Break in peeces the powers that are not of God Prophecied of old by Daniel but now fulfilling and thus by the power of God these mens Arms Ammunition standard books designe and persons came all by that day month nay your own books tell you in print that very morning they came all into and under the Protectors hand and power Come I say he shall do the work of God and his King he shall subdue the enemies of Monarchy yea his Kings enemies he shall subdue root out and make them incapable to offend or hurt and this he shall do because his heart doth or shall fear God and the King And this I will ever stand to this I have related unto you was the initiatory part and fulfill of that Great vision but the latter and completory part of it is and will be the wonder of the world bur I must yet conceal that part of it from the nonconcerned a few shall know it and but a few For a second work of this Fire sent forth in the behalf of our King in May the very next moneth after six thousand men in arms are sent for France a short time after them four thousand more in all ten thousand men pray tell me are not these men being so great a number Converted or Consumed how many of them now live the Kings Enemies Adde to these no small number sent others blown back again from the cost of Swedeland to let us see God is not pleased with these warriours of ours if Gods and the Kings Enemies I have heard some of them say they repent themselves of their former disservices against the King many of them dead also to-say nothing of the miscarriage by sea wherein perished Colonel Reynolds with others Captains and Officers As for that blow at the Hermitage and sudden burst by Gun-powder was it not given you and me as a warning-piece to look about us it fell out so soon as ever I came over to Print unto you that God had sent out his Fire in behalf of our King to Convert or Consume in good earnest I looked upon that Blow though a judgement yet a mercy a few men killed many houses much defaced I viewed it well and in sober judgement with neighbours and inhabitants there abouts we allowed fifteen hundred houses to be torn and damaged by it All this is shewed me and you what your City should be if you repent not an heap of Rubbish and Chaos of Confusion For that so general sickness which went almost through the whole kingdom the last summer taking away very many Truly it was no other to my understanding then the merciful shaking of Gods Rod over the whole land for amendment for a Menace if they amended not and look to it that you do Amend or assure your selves sudden Death Plagus Sword Fire Violence what not shall in a very short time burst in upon you to devour to burn up to consume and to lay waste And this brings me to the now sad fate of this so sinful City London Oh! London London Read and well consider it its judgement with a witness nay many witnesses agree in this thy sad fate Thy Sacrificers and Sacrifices are both Dirt The first Generally Canting dirty fellows the lowest and worst of the people neither Scholars nor Honest men the latter altogether the abominations and horrid practises of this most sinful world Thy Dirty Parliament Gods sent out Fire did this very moneth scatter and bring to nothing are not all these a very great number of mercies and warnings for one year London go on still in thy presumptuous wickednesses Put the evil day far from thee and Repent not do so London but if Fire make not ashes of thy City and thy bones also Conclude me a lyar for ever stand out London against God and thy King but a little longer and then it will be high time for me to have done with that Rebellions City and People whose sins of all sorts unrepented of have made them cease to be a City or a People But I know you deride me therefore read on Oh London London sinful as Sodom Gomorrah the Decree is gone out Repent or Burn as Sodom as Gomorrah Sect. IV. AT Bridges in Flanders upon Whitson Munday last the morning of that day bright and clear I saw my self placed on the North-fide of this so sinful City