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Englands warning, that is three remarkable visions of Stephen Melish, an inhabitant of Breslaw, the chief city of Silesia Englished in the year 1664.
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Melish, Stephen.
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Englands Warning That is Three Remarkable VISIONS OF Stephen Melish An Inhabitant of Breslaw the chief City in Silesia Englished in the Year 1664. Imprinted at London in the Year 1664. To the Reader IF the Rule where to try Prophets by given by God himself Deut. 18.21 is still in force then no doubt but Stephen Melish hath not brought forth his Prophesies by the will of man but as it is written Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Now it is evident accordingly as to the matter of the fact that very many of those Prophecies of the said Melish have been fulfilled in Germany and thereabouts as he that may confer with them the things past afterwards will not deny See the Annotations to each one of his Visions printed beyond Seas in the Latin and in the German tongue Why would then any body detract them Divine Authtrity and not rather be bound to respect them as the Counsel of the Lord of Hosts sent unto those that are concerned in it as to the end of their Preservation and Welfare Therefore if like as the Counsel and Secresie of Kings and Princes shall be kept in silence so on the contrary the Work of God must be praised revealed or made manifest The duty of every one that fearth the Lord requires of him to do accordingly and not to keep from those at the least that are concerned any Counsel of him who doth nothing but he revealeth his Secrets unto his Servants the Prophets to wit the Lord God Amos 3.7 ENGLAND'S WARNING That is the 115th VISION of Stephen Melish June the 15th 1664. THis night I had a wonderful Vision but I do not know whether I was asleep or awake I was brought out of the Suburbs into the City in broad day-light but as soon as I was entered into it there it was night presently and there appeared an horrible sight in the Sky towards the East And some body I knew not who said unto me Where are now those Incredulous let them come forth and look upon the wonderful things of God what they may portend And as soon as he was yet a speaking there came out of the Stars some bloody Rods like unto Brooms their handle turned downward and the points upward flames and sparks of fire sparkling forth of them and he said unto me Let the Burgomasters and Aldermen with other chief men and the Citizens or at least some of thy Friends be called for to be Witnesses But with all my bauling and loud crying I could make no body to stir except the Watchmen of the City that were walking hither and thither tremblingly Then I came to stand in the Market-place and went on with a most clamorous voice to cry what I could for he commanded me Cry aloud for a Witness against them or write it But I had nothing where to write upon and it was exceeding dark and all were asleep every-where Then he hat spoke to me like a man but I could not know him by his countenance nor by his speech yet I saw him commanded the Drums to be beaten But all the noise of the Drums could make no body awake Let the Trumpets be sounded forth said he both through the Streets and upon the Towers but all was in vain Then I saw that fiery Rod standing in the East just where the Sun rises in this month turned into fire and two other Fires on both sides ascending upward in the midst of the Sky Woods Villages and Cities being kindled by them no body appearing or stirring to quench that Burning or to remove any thing of theirs out of it or at the least to save themselves by flight I seeing all this with horror began to quake and tremble the more because I knew not what would become of all that But the man said to me As for thee fall not into a fright fear God and admonish thy house of Repentance daily for to escape what shall come swiftly But I asked him Sir when is such a thing to come upon us Tell me and I 'll tell to others Answer was returned Thou also hast thou forgot that great Prodigy on the Sun that hath been seen through all Christendom and beyond And likewise of many other Prodigious Signs over so many Lands Cities Villages Towns that have been seen so often to the end all should be left without excuse That on the Sun did happen ten years ago when from the ninth hour till beyond mid-day the Sun was taken over with darkness and recovered his light from the East Westward like unto a Sickle For lo 1. The Sickle from the East is coming to mow down the moyety of Christians of the whole Europe betwixt the South and the West 2. But afterwards he shall become a partaker also of that Sun-light 3. The Rod of the East shall strike both Pious and Impious yet these unto destruction and those for a tryal The Fires thou hast seen are the Plagues of the angry God whom no body can withstand nor escape those Plagues The Darkness and deep dead-sleep signifies their uttermost security which men of this day are fallen into like unto Pharoah the more God threatneth with punishment and sheweth his scourges the more they become obstinate mocking at all things The Kings and Princes are asleep the Magistrates are asleep all the People without and within the City are asleep being altogether very secure in their sins and saying Such-like Signs have also been of old so they are now and will be after us too But hearken to what I say The Miracles are the Word of God and the daily Obtestations of his Punishments Thy Voice are the true Ministers of the Churches and their Writs that do denounce the terrible Judgments of God 4. The Drums and Trumpets are the Wars that now begin of the one against the other to the end all might be left without excuse Now the eleventh hour is come and the twelfth hour too in which the Lord will pour forth his Anger upon the Apostates from the Truth and upon the Impious Pharoahs those cruel Rackers both of the Bodies and Souls that kill with the Sword and with the venemous Doctrine of Satan together and upon all that fear men more than God and upon the Secular Power that abuseth the Sword given unto protection of the good ones to root out the Church and to revenge themselves to their own ends and upon all unjust partial Judges looking for Money and setting aside their Consciences And upon all Simoniacous Luxurious Sluggish Priests and upon the whole Multitude both in the City and in the Countries given over to Treachery Betraying Murder Robbery Pride Gluttony wherewith they shorten their lives themselves And so I being admonished of all this was not to keep silence any longer but to write this and to publish it After this I came to my self again and the Clock struck One and soon after it struck Two or the second hour and
presently it waxed day This makes me to conceive a good hope that God after a sharp chastisement will shorten the time and make out of the first and second hour but one All the day before I was very much troubled as not knowing how it was with me as if some evil would befal me Yet I did recommend my self to the Lord and fell asleep from the eighth hour until the tenth from thence I counted all the hours following even as being not asleep but awake feeling all my senses as lively as any man out of sleep can do seeing and hearing all And therefore I arose walk'd up and down in the Chamber and cryed thus shrilly that my folk did hear me yet not knowing what it signified So then this my Dream in case it was a Dream continued from the eighth to the second hour As concerning that Eclipse of the Sun in the year 1654. Aug. 12 and its natural constitution or reason I confess my self to be ignorant therein not knowing any thing of it But the man said expresly The tenth hour was past already and the eleventh was approaching Yet these two last should pass away quickly that so the Sun of Righteousness may receive again his shining The Lord God Almighty help to it for his Mercy-sake And this is now that remarkable Vision which I according to Commandment forthwith have written down and send unto thee dear Friend of God to the end that thou mayest make it known and not to hide it from any that fear the Lord to stir up if it might still be any that would awaken out of the sleep of sin lest the fault fall upon us He that will receive our Admonition let him receive it he that will despise it let him despise it viz. them that are wise and just by themselves The 116th VISION June 20. 1664. As concerning that Fiery Rod together with the twofold Collateral Fire I saw that it moved from the East through the South into the West from whence did arise an exceeding thick smoak rouling as it were into the North whence arose an exceeding great Commotion of the Nations They fell so fiercely incensed one against another that it was a terror to look upon them they dealt not one with another like Christians but like as wild barbarous Nations bended upon mutual destruction yet I knew not what Nations they were because they were not named and by their speech or language I could not discern them This onely I assuredly know and write that the said Fire did stay in the West and still it was exceeding dark every where which made the Fire grow hotter and hotter even as if the whole World should be inflamed Nevertheless men were asleep very deeply and no body any more was to awake them and although some did awake as it were and looked upon that fire in the West yet they took no notice of it because they all had drunk of the Cup of Malignity Enviousness Fury and Blood-thirstiness whereof they were made so drunk that there was no possibility in what Clamour sound of Trumphets and noise of Drums soever that could make them awake to consider the issue of all such doings in case no body would give over and leave off Persecution and dispatching of others After I heard Lamentations of such as were grieved for that they had drunken out of the Cup of the Esauvitish Dragon whereof the Land was thus desolated the King thrust out the People destroyed the Lords and Pillars of the Land fallen down the Pious â—â—achers killed or banished the Children scattered throughout the streets there they lay and none was that did help it never such a VVar hath been like unto this in the West O would to God the King might be awake and take Counsel to prevent this uttermost destroying Burning and Inflamation Above that I have seen one of the Northern Kings especially the King in Denmark standing in the Flame as it were scorched who will be thrust also cut of his Kingdome and his Cities with the key of the Sea the Sound fall into the power of the VVestern Part unless he look to iâ— because that black Smoak will spread forth its sparks of Fire in the North too but the North VVind will soon scatter them that â—â—y may be quenched for the Esauvitish contrivances will 〈◊〉 shortly be manifested therefore let them well look about and not permit that the Southern and VVestern oppress their Neighbours betwixt the VVest and North for when the Hollanders though they have bound themselves a rod upon their back should be oppressed then the Northern also will have business enough VVould to God that I might be found a Liar in foretelling these Plagues to the World which the Lord of Heaven hath been pleased to manifest not only by the Scriptures and so many Prophets raised up and other Pious men but also by me poor little one yea by so many Signes in the Skie Earth Sea given forth to forewarn us Although I was constrained thereto yet I believe and am resolved to dye upon it that God speaketh truth and is faithful to what he promiseth and a Revenger of wickedness yea because he is merciful also his Mercy slows from him before the execution The like is to be seen in Lot and Jonah But this it is there be many that having stiff necks and uncircumcised hearts will rather hear and follow the counsel of the Devil or Devilish counsels than the Counsel of God and no other counsel there is left then to cast our selves in the bottomless pit of the Mercy of God for to escape the Flame of the Anger of God who even now goeth about to consume the world with Sword and Pestilence The 117th VISION June 26. 64. After I had passed three dayes with Prayers and Sighs unto God in consideration of the approaching of so great an Anger Beseeching him he would turn from his Anger and grant his People before the worlds end a friendly Peace I fell of a sudden in a heavy disease of the body but in far greater anguish of my soul insomuch that I was crying aloud Will the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more Hath God forgotten to be gratious Hath he in anger shut up his tender Mercies and the inward distresses of my soul was so exceeding horrid that there was left no comfort in the least And this lasted a whole day insomuch that I knew not on what side to turn me being as a man left destitute of all kind of Patience Then the Devil came too and tempted me endeavouring to quench that small confidence also that I might have left in me towards God My Mother my Wife my Children they all stood round about me astonished and weeping no counsel nor consolation they could give me and I looking upon them was therewith the more afflicted seeing I must be gone and leave them in beggarliness for there was nothing but very Death to be