Five Strange and wonderfull Prophe­sies and Predictions of severall men fore­told long since. All which are likely to come to passe in these our distracted times.

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  • 1 Ignatius his prophesies and strange predictions of these times.
  • 2 Some of Scottish Merlins prophesies.
  • 3 Old Otwell Bins his prophesies.
  • 4 Master Brightman his predictions.
  • 5 Mother Shiptons prophesies, more fuller and larger than ever before was printed.

Ignatius Loyola his Prophesies.

WHen first and latter meet in dayes and name,
Some shall the Church and State contemne and blame:
There shall be then a Church within the Moone,
From which most Lunatick aspects shall come;
For as she shewes a changing various face,
So strange new changes shall the Church disgrace.
Downe then shall fall the Bishops Constellation,
And all the people shall love innovation.
Then women shall be all allow'd to teach,
And in the Moone-Church shall in Pulpits preach;
Most strange Ecclipses every where abound,
While darknesse strives the light still to confound:
Her motions shall be turned in her spheare,
With apparitions shining every where,
In Germany, in Holland, Amsterdam,
In Scotland and all countries you can name,
[Page] This Moone Church with a full cleere face shall shine▪
And everie Nation shall think it divine:
Then to make many Popes it shall be fit
To rule the Curch with wisdome and with wit:
And that which was call'd the Church Catholike,
Shall be transform'd to the Church Lunatick;
Then all the wandring Planets you shall see
Erroneous and popu­lar opinions.
Will in a strange and hot combustion bee:
Venus must yeeld a while, and Mars shall raigne,
And many men in battaile shall be slaine;
Strange orders and strange factions shall be seene
In the Moone-Church, the like hath never beene:
Then Schismes and Sects shall with the truth contend,
When this you see, the world is neere an end.

Scottish Merlin his Prophesies of Old England.

WHen Englands Rose is gather'd and hence gone,
There shall succeed a second Salomon;
Then Manna downe from Heaven a while shall raine,
The preaching of the Gospell should have free passage.
And being full they shall this food disdaine:
The Serpent then shall shew his power and might,
And men shall dazled be with too much light:
The Kingdome then on waves of surging seas
Shall s [...]at, and be call'd the Antipodes:
Matters carried in a contrarie manner.
False Prophets shall sow fancies for good seeds,
And men be pleased then with Pans rude reeds:
Ignorant Preachers.
Apollo shall become a Shepherd Swaine,
And on the mountaines keep his flocks againe,
Schollers grow contemptible.
And men shall wade in bloud up to their chins,
And all this come upon them for their sins.
Minerva then shall on the Muses frowne,
And the Blue Bonnet put the Myter downe:
Time shall grow sick with a hot burning feaver,
Dogged and dissen­ting [...]ime▪
And the Dog dayes shall last whole yeares together:
A Cuckow then on Cheap-side Crosse shall sit,
The Round-heads Cuckow-like exclai­ming against the Cross [...].
And nodding with his head, cry Downe with it:
From an old tree a voyce shall then be heard,
While Asses bray therein with a long beard.
Brownists.
[Page] Then the Greeke fire put to the fire in Welch,
[...] to fire, and Tame fire in Welch, make Puritaine.
Shall make true Protestants against them belch.
When this strange Metamorphosis you see,
Let Papists then beware of the Greeke P.
The world shall be with child with too much wit▪
And women Mid-wives shall deliver it.
Women Preachers.
When mens heads are as round as any-ball,
The world shall then unto dissention fall:
Then sons of earth and croaking frogs shall make
A strange religious noyse in pond and lake:
Ignorant discoursers of Religion.
Then cork shall float,
Vnworthinesse shall be advanced.
and Gentry downe shall sink,
And paper then much store of bloud shall drink:
Then Commons shall grow proud,
Relations of war in pamphlets.
but very bare,
And to be then enclos'd shall take great care;
Defended.
While each one would a Phaeton become,
Popularitie.
To rule the glorious charriot of the Sun.
Then Boyes along the street,
Young Statists.
as they do walk,
Shall like young Machivels both prate and talk▪
When this you see, then be therewith content,
There's like to be then a strange government.
The Hammer and the Spade shall think that they
Could without King or Kesar the Land sway.
The Commons shall grow wild, and sometimes vex
At the integrous goodnesse of R X:
When this and other things before recited
Do happen, England shall be much affrighted:
Then shall the people Clergy-men despise,
And seek to pluck out Englands two faire Eyes.
Oxford and Cam­bridge.
There shall be Locusts, and of flyes great swarmes,
And wings shall better be than legs and armes:
Greedy Patentees.
Strange Comets shall within this Land appeare,
Running away as Finch did.
With thunder that shall fright the eye and eare.
Furious and factious zeale.
Luke-warmnesse there shall be in great and small,
The Gospell tossed like a Tennis ball;
There shall be mourning then in stead of mirth,
A Mouse shall be an Elephants great birth:
Many things in agitation.
The Shepherds then their cotes shall hardly keep,
Because they once did starve and fleece their sheep.
Ministers accused.
And then a star of Marses spheare shall come,
The Earle of Strafford.
That by an axe shall fall, and be undone:
[Page] Then Irish Rebels shall on Bog and Heath
Be conquer'd, and be forc'd to taste of death;
Then shall the Moone againe recover light,
The Protestant Church.
When that these Rebels are all put to flight:
Then shal the Whoore of Rome weare poore apparrel,
And pawne her Myter to maintaine her quarrell.
When the small Birds and Eagle joyne in one,
The King and the Parliament.
They quickly shall subdue the Whoore of Rome:
Bu [...] yet a while there shall be hot fierce wits,
And Schismaticka shall run in frantick fits,
Vntill their necks grow longer, that they may
Grow wise and modest 'gainst another day;
Then Crowes and Rooks shall never vex the Dove,
Facticus sp [...]rits shall not disturb the peace.
The Church shall be united in true love,
The Lyon with the Lamb shall then lye downe,
And England be a Land of much renowne.
Then all your Sectaries which did abound,
Vnitie in Rel [...]gion.
Shall in the sheafe of unity be found.
Before that nine be set before twice twenty,
1649. or 1650.
In England there shall be much peace and plenty,
And he that beareth the great Worthies name,
Charles our most gracious King.
Shall be the tenth great Worthy by his fame.
O England, now behold and see
The strange sayings of a Prophesie,
Foretold some forty yeares agone,
Whose words and truth shall here be showne.

Master Brightmans Prophesies.

WHen Englands Church grows Englands shame,
Full of lukewarmnesse,
Master Brightman makes Lao [...]icea the counterpane of Eng­land▪ terming it luke­warme.
glory vaine,
The worst in works, and outward forme,
And with contrary factious torne,
When Romish Ri [...]es by reformation,
And as for reforma­tion next specified, he nameth the Church of England a Hotch­potch of cont [...]ar [...]s; not so cold to be all Romish, nor so hot to admit a full reforma­tion, &c.
Shall be expell'd out of this Nation▪
Lord Beggar-Bishops then shall come
To ruine, and be overthrowne.
The Priests shall be vile to each wight,
Their downfall read with much delight;
[Page] For God will not them guiltlesse hold,
That neither have been hot nor cold.
The Scotch Chu [...]ch shall be in condition
A virgin free from superstition,
The Sco [...]tish Church typified by Philadel­phia, he saith shall be a virgin Church, chaste, and not so defiled with Romes superstitions as others.
They shall be joyn'd in Covenant,
[...]Gainst which the world shall boast and vaunt:
But Englands Church must feele the storme,
Vntill she throughly her-selfe reforme;
Such hurly burly and such stir,
No forme of Church shall remaine in her:
But reformation must take breath,
From the raigne of Queene Elizabeth.

The Prophesie of old Otwell Bins, kept by M. Smith Vicar of Hudderfield 40 yeares.

THen Iames shall seeke a second crowne,
The sayings of old Otwell Bins of Greishorow, and de­livered to him by Doulton a Seminary, which Prophesie Mr. Smith Vicar of Hud-derfield in Yorkshire kept fortie yeares, begins to shew how King Iames should weare the Crowne of England, and raigne but halfe the time that Queene Eliza­beth did.
In pulling Pope and Papists downe;
But Iames shall vanish from the [...] face
At halfe Elizabeths royall race.
Then using forraine pol [...]cies,
Grudgings and discontents arise;
Yet shall they assemble at the seat
Of Parliament, for a work most great;
But strange opinions there shall sow,
Dissentions that too high shall grow;
And L [...]odicea's, Englands Church,
Of grace and beautie some shall lurch:
And Smiths of policie shall invent,
To cast molds of new government,
While vulgar Birds of weakest wing
Grow stout against their Eagle King,
Whose just integrous heart shall prove
The Adamant of Subjects love:
Then Pride shall some in prison lock,
Then it is shewed how the pride of the B [...]shops should lock some in pr [...]s [...]n. And should also lop a head off, as the Earle of Strafford.
And lop a head off on a block:
By honest power they [...] all bring downe
An Aspirer that assum'd a Crowne;
That he whose power did Lawes contemne
Might find a grave, no Diadem.
[Page] Some Comick Scenes shall then be acted
By vulgar Players much distructed;
And now since Reli­gion hath been tur­ned into a Comedy, the Coblers, [...]eltma­kers, Brewers Clerks and women have a­cted their parts ther­in, and like fooles beene only laught at, while the Muses have been sorrie to see, that Stultorum omnia sunt plena, that the high study of Divinity should be mouth'd out of Tubs, and be made the subject of foolish arrogancie.
The Gospell from a tub or tun
Shall broached by Mechanicks run.
Petticoats shall in Pulpits preach,
And women be allow'd to teach;
And in those gloomy dogged dayes
They shall teare off the Muses Bayes.
Thus strife and furie shall encrease,
And Round-heads shall disturb the peace
Of Religion, while they it tosse
In blankets, and pull downe the Crosse.
The Brownists shall no old prayers brooke,
Sermons shall drowne the Service-booke:
Then all men in those times shall see
Great troubles and calamitie:
Then on the Irish bogs and heath,
Many a man shall taste of death.
The Souldiers wages shall increase,
Till wars at last in conquest cease:
To such as are good Land-lords knowne,
In hostile times some love is showne:
But for all such as have great store,
Th'are in lesse safetie than the poore:
Then twentie pounds of coyne in hand,
Is worth so much of yearely land.
From Ireland then there shall come one,
Must lose his head upon a stone:
But when England doth swim in flouds
Of plentie, and growes proud of goods,
Then from their sleep they shall be waked,
To know themselves both blind and naked;
Christs Church must know some miserie,
There shall be a dolefull tragedie:
The Lord abroad his sword will send,
Vnlesse they warning take t'amend:
Yet Germany, France, and Britanny,
This last act of your tragedy,
Good dayes will follow, bad ones cease,
There shall be plentie and great peace:
[Page] The whore of Romes nose shall be slit,
Where you find these words, there shall be a dolefull Tragedy; Master Brightman saith, that after it is past, there will ensue abundance of peace, and that before 1650 the Jewes shall bee called, Rome demoli­shed, and the Pope quite vanquished & overcome; and that it shall be in destroy­ing at the year 1686 in some of his Domi­nions. Hee concludes that our King should be the tenth Worthy, and that the Moone, which is the Church, should flourish in his raigne, which God grant that it may, to Gods glorie, the ho­nour of the King, and the prosperitie of the Kingdom of England.
And of her proud attire be stript:
In the meane time Bishops shall be
Throwne downe from all their dignitie;
Their Hierarchy and their traine
Shall ne're recover strength againe:
Nor is Romes Citie only Rome,
But all the Popes Dominion;
So that Rome feeles herselfe annoy'd,
While she in Ireland is destroy'd:
In fortie one by computation,
The Pope shall fall by Reformation:
A Clergy-man shall then suffice
His pride with one poore Benefice;
Then Cambridge and the Oxonian
Shall be scorn'd by the Rotundian,
And some that cannot say nor sing,
Shall drink much at a troubled spring,
And Coblers then shall leave their last,
In Sermons up their gall to cast:
Magpies and Parrats then shall prate,
Both of the Eagle and the State,
Vntill they bring things in conclusion,
To much disorder and confusion.
Rebels and men most seditious
Shall make the times prove pernitious,
Rich men shall do things unbefitting,
An upright Iudge be scarce found sitting:
Vpstart honour shall seeme dreames,
And Bishops Seas prove little streames;
While many feather'd Fowle shall flie
Beyond the seas for jeopardie;
Rumours shall be of wars and Armes,
And there shall be of Sects great swarmes:
A sort of mad rude common people
Shall pull the crosse from everie steeple.
The King while they doe thus presume,
Vnto this Realme the right shall doome,
He shall this Kingdome wisely guide,
And other Kingdomes more beside:
[Page] Then Peeres and Commons shall elect,
Whose Lawes shall ever take effect;
No man shall Lawyers counsell crave,
For men their right at home shall have;
And Officers each Towne within,
Shall right their wrongs and punish sin▪
Worthies be nine, and reckon we,
And this the tenth and last shal [...] be:
The Moone o [...]scur'd full sixtie yeare,
Shall then get light and shine full cleare;
While England then for joy shall sing,
And blesse the reigne of their good King.

Mother Shiptons Prophesie, more ample and fuller than ever before printed.

VVHen stern wars shall in England raigne,
The plough shal cease, & Citizens gain.
By those have least, least shall be lost
And worst for them that have the most.
You shall not know of war ore night,
Yet in the morning it shall affright:
And full three yeares this war shall last▪
Before that it be done and [...]as▪
And when all the world is as lost,
It shall be then called Christs crost;
And where King Richard made his fray,
The [...] shall war for halfe a crowne a day:
To warfare they'll say for your King,
But stir not upon paine of hanging:
For he that goes forth to complaine,
Shall never more returne againe:
Then Ravens on the Crosse shall sir,
And Nobles and Commons bloud think fit
To drink then London wo is me,
For ever shall destroyed he:
Then York shall be besieg'd, and they
Shall keep them out till the third day,
After that they will let them in,
And to hang the Mayor they will begin,
The Sheriffes too and the Aldermen,
And make a Proclamation then,
That for twent [...]e yeares a house or Tower
May be taken or any Bower;
Then never shall be wars againe,
Nor any Kings or Queenes shall reigne;
But the Kingdome govern'd by [...]
And then old York shall London [...]ed:
Then shall be a white Harvest of Corne▪
Which shall by women kind he shorne:
Then in the North a woman shall say,
Mother, I hav [...] seene a man to day.
There shall moreover for one man,
A thousand women be seene [...]han:
On St. James Church hill a man sitting
Shall be seene, and his fill weeping.
A sh [...]p sailing on the Thames shall come
Vp to the ci [...]e of rich London,
A Ship master as he doth passe,
Shall say, What a faire Citie this was,
Now nor [...] house is left, I think,
That for money can let's have drink.
Thus Shiptons wife most strange events did shew
In former times, God grant they pr [...]ve not true.
FINIS.

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