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A28194	Ostenta Carolina, or, The late calamities of England with the authors of them the great happiness and happy government of K. Charles II ensuing, miraculously foreshewn by the finger of God in two wonderful diseases, the rekets and kings-evil : wherein is also shewen and proved (I.) that the rekets after a while shall seize on no more children but quite vanish through the mercy of God and by means of K. Charles II., (II.) that K. Charles II is the last of kings which shall so heal the kings-evil / discovered by the hand of the Lord upon his unworthy servant and His Majesties subject, John Bird ...	Bird, John, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2954; ESTC R5738	69,269	100

were there among them Prophets of another sex some also Prophetesses Miriam Deborah Huldah and Types of our Savior Christ I will not dispute here the reason thereof in them but great cause there is that this Disease should be common to both sexes First because it is laid upon us by the Lord as a Punishment and so indifferently to lye upon both sexes in regard of their parents sin Secondly to premonish us how the Afflictions and Calamities should lye hard upon women as well as men But yet as the Prophets and Prophetesses both aimed at a Christ to come who was a male who sometime by ceremony was designed to be such as in the Paschal lamb enjoyned to be a male of the flock so did and do both males and females in this childes Disease point out unto us a Son of a King a King to be our Deliverer Now it remains that I give the like account concerning the Struma as it is healed by the touch of the hand of the French King Which healing in such manner Guido Tagautius and Laurentius specially French Authors do averr and Sennertus a famous and very judicious Physician of Germany acknowledgeth in his Cure of the Struma but unjustly ascribeth the work by a Divine Dispensation to the French King only Of which briefly As those calamities and corrupt sores which shall be removed and healed by King Charles II in the kingdom of England in such manner must certainly the putrid sores and bruises and wounds be healed in the Kingdom of France For the Disease is one in both Kingdomes the Form of healing the same by the Touch and the Healers of like Dignity being Kings as to shew unto us these things shall be accomplished by the hands of a King But as in these fore-named things there is a Parity in the healing of the Kings-evil by the King of England and French King so is there a Difference in the qualifications of the first Healers For the First Healer of the Kings of France was not the Son of a Martyr as was our Soveraign but the French Stories tell us how Clovis the First of that name and Fifth King of France who reigned about the year of our Lord 500. had first of the Kings of that Kingdom this gift of healing the Struma which since we call the Kings-evil bestowed upon him And what was this King The Story tels us That he was first a Heathen and an Idolater and being afterward converted to the Christian faith then this great gift of healing the Struma was from the Mercy and Power of God bestowed upon him which hath continued thorow the several families of their Kings unto them all even to this day This King Clovis therefore who first cured this Evil in France is to be the Type according to the Example in England of him that is to be the Antitype in France to do all those fore-named things which are prefigured thereby after which time also no King of France shall be able to heal in such a manner the foresaid Malady Whereupon I conclude When the French King or King of France from being such a one as King Clovis was becomes and is turned ro such a Christian indeed as he was after stiled then at that time by such a King of France shall the wounds bruises and putrid soars of that distressed Kingdom be healed I need not here be large but by what hath already been said will the Judicious Reader understand that I mean the corruptions of Religion and Justice and by such a King who is of the Reformed Religion which dependeth for salvation only upon Christ the Head Nevertheless to determine what Person individually shall be that King who shall there perform that great and incredible work by what is contained in the Type is not so easie a thing because the Antitype if what I assert be granted doth not declare what that man shall be nor at what time it shall be done For if the Antitype must necessarily answer to the Type may some say as the Type is of a single Person who first was an Ethnick and afterward became a Christian so ought the Person which shall perform these great matters be a single Person who from a false religion shall be converted to the true To which objections I make this Answer That although it be not clearly contained in the Type when and by what Person or Persons King or Kings of France these works shall be brought to pass yet other circumstances there are pertaining thereunto which help to signifie both Time and Person For Almighty God when he is pleased to work deliverances for his people is wont sooner or later to express the Time when such mercies shall be wrought and who shall be the Deliverer That nothing may be wanting to the comfort of the Lords people and that his children may follow and cleave unto those that are so appointed to be their deliverers That the children of Abraham should be no longer servants in Egypt but that in the Fourth Generation they should come out from thence it was foretold Abraham Gen. 15. and that Aaron and Moses should bring them out of Egypt God called them by name Exo. 6. 26. The abiding of the Jews in Chaldea was determined to be for 70 years and their Deliverer Cyrus by name exprest Therefore it is not without precedent when God hath appointed Salvation and a Saviour to name the Time and Person as well as the thing But where it is laid down for a Rule That the Antitype must be a single Person as well as the Type this I deny Because the Type of a single Person may prefigure One or More according to the nature of the things Adam a single Person was the Type of all man-kinde The Image of one mans Person seen by Nebuchadnezzar was a Type of the several Princes of the four ensuing Monarchies So the meaning of the Healing of the Struma by King Clevis when of a Heathen he turned a Christian is to this effect When a King of France from the false shall be of the true Reformed Religion then shall by such a King these evils of that Kingdom be taken away Which may be affirmed both when the same Person is converted and when another King of the true Religion comes in the room of a former of the false Having therefore this liberty to place the Antitype of King Clovis either on Two Kings or else on One as need requires I here place it upon Two and of all Kings upon King Levis the 14 and King CHARLES II our reigning Soveraign the later of which by being inthron'd King of France God our Mighty and Merciful Lord will enable and encline to do those great things For as the Things fore-named shall most certainly be brought to passe by a King of France the Lord hath left the rest touching the Time when and the Performer who to be collected from probable Arguments Which probable Arguments are all for and none

OR ●HE Calamities of ENGLAND With the AUTHORS of them 〈◊〉 ●●eat HAPPINESS and Happy GOVERNMENT OF K. CHARLES II ENSUING Miraculously FORESHEWN by the Finger of GOD in two wonderful Diseases the REKETS AND KINGS-EVIL Wherein is also shewen and proved I. That the ●EKETS after a while shall seize on no more Children but 〈◊〉 VANISH through the MERCY of GOD and by MEANS of K. CHARLES II. II. That K. CHARLES II is the LAST of KINGS which shall so HEAL the KINGS-EVIL Discovered by the Hand of the Lord upon his unworthy Servant and his Majesties Subject JOHN BIRD And by 〈…〉 publike for the Glory of GOD Honor of the KING and comfort of the PEOPLE of God Joh. 16 13. and he will show you things to come 〈◊〉 Printed for Fra. Sowle and are to be sold by Robert Harrison the next Shop to Gre● Church in Leaden-H●●● Street 1661. To our Dread Soveraign Lord CHARLES II By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King SIR I Here humbly offer into your Royal Hands a Message sent from Heaven for your Majesties acceptance Written it is in the mystical Characters of Two Diseases and partly upon your Royall Hands which now heal one of these Diseases and shall do the other The signification whereof in summe is to shew How miserable your Kingdomes have been through want of your Royal Father first and since of your Majesty How happy these your Dominions shall most certainly be made by your Religious Just and Merciful Government and lastly what shall be done by Almighty God for you here upon the earth in recompence of your Royall Fathers our Late Soveraigns precious blood your Majesties Wrongs and Afflictions your Constancy in the true Religion against so many Temptations your Maintaining of the Honor of God in your religious care of Gods Worship and your Compassion and Love toward your Majesties poor oppressed Subjects Nor let it seem more strange unto your Majesty that Diseases should portend such great matters than a Star that Star which with the next rising Sun after your joyful Nativity shining with the glorious Sun as gloriously in his ascension and even at mid-day should designe your Majesties Person and future Glory which undoubtedly it did For there is a similitude and proportion betwixt sins and calamities on the one side and bodily Diseases on the other for both disquiet and disease us as likewise therefore betwixt the healer of the one and the taker away of the other Far be it from me Gracious Soveraign to require from your Majesty credit to what I shall affirm nor is it just I should upon my bare assertion Let your Majesties Reason and Royall Wisedome judge whether that I deliver be probable or not For such Reason as is grosse and depraved or meerly Naturall cannot pierce into those deep matters but such which is fine and yet helpt and directed by rule of Holy Scripture For Ignorance Prejudice and Rashness cannot and Interest will not discern these Mysteries Let not the meanness of the discoverer discredit the truth of these things to your Majesty which may call to minde that the glad tidings of our Saviours Nativity was by the Angels first made known to Shepherds If I shall speak Royal Soveraign in some places very freely or peradventure too boldly give me leave or pardon me Merciful Prince who being a great King cannot but be very sensible what a crime it should be for a credited Messenger to temper the Message of the King of Kings It now remains that these things which are to come be beleeved that Almighty God be entreated and have the Glory of all on your Majesties part that you prepare your self for the embracing so great Hopes on your Subjects that we all repent and with humble thankfulness for so great mercies toward us our Love and Reverence toward so blessed a Prince our Soveraign be encreased And that all this may be done is and shall be the continual prayer and earnest endeavour of Your Majesties ever Loyal and Loving Subject JOHN BIRD The EPISTLE to the READER IT is now twenty years ago since when this formerly united Kingdom divided into parties that I also clave in my opinion to one for who could do otherwise even to that side which so much pretended to the love of Religion and Justice that these and not self-love was their end What I did was altogether from the first to the last peaceably which notwithstanding the distinction spoiled my aged Father for the same cause and myself of our goods and quiet habitation We bare it patiently But this Virgin Assembly quickly forgat the guide of her youth although she still wiped her mouth and said She had committed no evil to the neglect and perverting of all Justice And here I left them What comfort had I then in this my condition If I lost what I had for Christs sake as God and my Conscience are witness I did I am promised Recompence in this world a hundred-fold and do acknowledge that I have found it though not in riches For first I am hereby more assured because I abhor all Injustice that I am in that small number which the Scripture so often cals Just men Secondly I am comforted that such times have been of old and such as God detests and will punish Jer. 5. 1. Lastly in abundant recompence to the utmost of what the Lord hath-promised such Secret Mysteries from the first to the last have been from God revealed unto me as may appear in a Treatise written by me called ROMAVATUM wherein the History of the Religion Policy and Destruction of the City of Rome is discovered to have been portended in the Theology and Fables of the ancient Heathen Greek and Latine c. not quite finished Next through the mercy of God in my Annotations upon Ezekiel chap. 1. c. now ready for the Press beside this here presented Reader farewell and let God have the praise of all which is true herein as from whom it came all the errors and imperfections I challenge as mine own excepting some few mistakes of the Printers From my Chamber in Sion College in London Jan. 24. 1660. JOHN BIRD LEst I should incur your blame for not presently falling upon the main work in shewing you instantly how the REKETS and KINGS-EVIL foreshew and declare the promised things and that I may not justly deserve worse in telling you so great a Paradox having not first made known unto you how such a matter may be done I judge it here fit to let you know that I have prepared this other as a better way which may by Gods assistance bring you to a fuller and clearer view of whatsoever is pretended in the Title if you enter upon it and go along orderly as it here lies before you IN old time when Israel was in Egypt and afterward when Israel and Judah dwelt in their own land and when the Jews were carried into Babylon the Almighty