The Explication of the Dream.

BEfore I come to Explain this Exil'd Queen's Dream, it's fit we should know, she is by birth an Italian Princess, a Bigotted Papist, and much devoted to the Pope, and to the Jesuits: Thence it was, she entertain'd a firm Design to Ruine the English, and to Extirpate the Protestant Religion; to succeed in this damnable De­sign, she pretended a Prince of Wales was born, and was the occasion thereby of that Tragi-Comedy, so known to all Europe, and of her own and the Flight of K. James her Husband out of England: And as she is the principal Person concern'd in this Trage­dy, it has pleased GOD, by this Vision, to give her the just Marks of his Anger and Displeasure against those of that Party.

This Queen, after having heard Mid­night-Mass, went to Bed very much troubled in mind: This Trouble of Mind was a Pre­ludium to that terrible Vision that was to follow. The Prophet says, There is no [Page 5] peace says my GOD, to the sinner: And thence certainly it was, this Princess was disquieted at going to Bed: Why she had this Dream on Christmas-night, I shall shew afterwards.

About four a Clock in the Morning, there appeared to me four Persons whom I knew not, who stood a long time before me without speaking a word: This Vision happen'd at four a Clock in the Morning, which is the ordinary hour of Dreams coming from God; because at that time the Spirit is more free, and not embaras'd with Vapors, or with the Fumes arising from the first Di­gestion. The Queen did not know these four Persons, because God had left her to Blindness of Mind; otherwise she might have easily known that it was the Great Whore and the Signagogue of Satan she saw before her: These four Persons stood a long time without speaking. It pleased God, this Vision should stay a long time before this Unhappy Queen, to the end, she might be the more assured of the truth of that Divine Revelation.

At last the Eldest of them, whose face re­sembled a mixture, betwixt a Mans and a [Page 6] Womans: This Hermophrodite is no other then the Pope, who feigns himself to be GOD's Vicegerent upon Earth, when he is at the same time, the Great Whore men­tion'd in the Apocalipse. In Dubritius his Revelations, the Pope appear'd to him in the shape of a Woman with a Beard; which is just as much as to say, in the shape of a Hirmophrodite, as here.

This Hirmophrodite said, Great Princess, Yet within three and a half, and the fourth part of a half, and he shall be no more: This Expression evinces clearly, that the Speak­er is the Great Whore, since she mentions exactly the time of her own Duration, and the Year in which she shall be no more: It's certain by the Sequel of this Prophecy, that this infamous Hermophrodite speaks of herself, and of her Sinagogue in the third Person. We have prov'd in another Book, viz. The Harmony of the Apocalipse, That the three Days and a half, of which St. John speaks, Revel. chap. 11. v. 11. are 1290 Years, and which will end in the Year 1714: But here this Vision adds the fourth part of a half Day, for the utter De­struction of the Pope; and as every Day [Page 7] of this Great Year, is 360, or 365 Years, it follows, that the total Ruine of the Pope, and of Popery, must be in the Year 1759, for the eighth part of 360 is 45; these 45 Years then, being added to 1714, makes up the Year 1759, in which the Pope will be intirely Extirpated. The Prophet Daniel does explain this Affair af­ter the same manner, as in this Dream of the Queen's, Happy is he that shall see the forty fifth day after the one thousand two hun­dred and ninety. We have in the Book I formerly mention'd, cited this passage of Daniel's, to prove that the last Year of the Pope's Reign, when the last Viol shall be pour'd out upon the Beast, must be the Year 1759: And the wonderful agreement of all their Prophesies does clearly manifest, that this Dream of the Queen's, was sent her of GOD.

Moreover, the ordinary way of count­ing Years at the Court of Rome, is by In­dictions, whereof every one consists of fifteen Years, and makes exactly up the hour of three days and an half of St. John; whence we must conclude, that it's the Great Whore herself, that speaks in the [Page 8] Queen's Dream, since she follows her own way of reckoning.

This Hermophrodite does justly call the Queen Great Princess, because the Pope has not a Princess within all his Empire, that has done more to establish it in Eng­land, and else-where, than she. And it's for the same reason, that it has pleased GOD to make her know, as it were by the mouth of the Pope himself, the end of his Hellish Empire.

Two Thunder Claps that set the Queen's Chamber on fire, made these four Persons to disappear: We have prov'd, that these four Persons that appear'd to the Queen, are the Pope and his Clergy; and the man­ner of those Wretches their disappearing, does put it beyond dispute; for all the Prophesies expresly say, That GOD shall extirpate Antichrist and his Synagogue by the most dreadful judgments: These Judgments are very well represented by two Claps of Thunder, which set the Queen's Chamber on fire. A great many other Visions and Revelations, as that of Kotterus, of Era­britius, Christina Poinatovie, &c. foretels the Destruction of Rome by Fire.

[Page 9] Then she saw a Woman mounted upon a Camel: We have proved elsewhere, That the final Destruction of the Great Whore, shall not happen till the Year 1759, and therefore it's no wonder she should appear a second time to this Queen, so much her Friend. The Whore is mounted on a Ca­mel, because she is to conduct the Queen into a Desart; that is, the Desart of Pope­ry, destitute of all Spiritual Blessings, and where the Flowers and Pleasures of it seem to be, and are indeed Enchanted. This is the same Wilderness of which St. John speaks in the 17th Chap. of Apocalipse.

This Woman would needs have the Queen follow her, together with the little Prince of Wales, telling her, She would bring her to a happy Place: But the end of the Dream will evince how fallacious the Promises of the Devil and Antichrist are.

I followed then this Woman, (says the Queen) and she took me through a pleasant Garden full of Flowers, where all things seem­ed to be Enchanted: It's no wonder that this Princess should give ear to the words of the Great Whore, since she has been be­witch'd with her Witchcrafts from her In­fancy [Page 10] upwards, and a Religious Observer of all the Maxims of Popery and Jesuit­ism.

The Whore conducts the Queen through an Arbour: These are the Court of France, which is a very considerable part of the Desart of the Whore, as the event of this Discourse will justifie: These Ar­bours are full of Flowers, where all things seem to be Enchanted: These Flowers and Delights which the Devil and Antichrist give to Men, are not real ones, but only Delusions: In effect, The figure of this world passes away, but the will of GOD re­mains for ever.

We here met with a Prince (adds the Queen) who look'd as one that had been once very strong, but who now had his right Arm and his left Ear cut off, and whom two Monks helped in his walk: It's not strange, that this Refug'd Queen should meet Lowis the Fourteenth in her way, since the place where she now is, is the Court of France. It is said of this Unhappy Prince, That he look'd as one that had been once very strong; but the Misfortunes which the Monks had brought upon him, has now render'd him [Page 11] the Object of the Hate and Contempt of the whole World. That we may under­stand the Misfortunes the Monks are to bring upon Lowis the Fourteenth, we must consider, that a King has two Bodies, one a Natural, the other Politick; Lowis the Fourteenth is not chiefly to suffer the Ig­nominy mean'd here, in his Natural Body, but in his Mistick or Politick one, which is the Kingdom of France, whereof he is the Head: The right Arm cut from him, is the Massacre of the Protestants of France, which shall begin this present Year 1690, in some parts of France, and shall continue the space of three Years following, as we have prov'd in the Book formerly menti­oned. The Protestants of France were the right Arm of Lowis the Fourteenth for several Reasons: 1. They were more faith­ful to him than the Papists, who would have Dethron'd him, if the Protestants had not stood by him. 2. Because by them the Commerce and Trade of France flour­ished. 3. Because they brought with them a Blessing from GOD upon the King and Kingdom, for their sakes. In effect, when ever the King came to Revoke the Edict [Page 12] of Nants, immediately thereupon he was struck in the Fundament, as the Philistines of old, upon alike occasion: But as the Crime of Lowis the Fourteenth was far greater than that of the Philistines, so much greater was his Punishment, for this Unhappy Prince shall never be entirely cur'd of his Fistula; and because he shall never have the Grace given him to Re­pent, his end shall be with Pains horrid and strange, as Nostredamus has it Cent. 6. Qua­runt. 6. It is also certain, that the out­most of all Miseries, shall happen to France, and to their King, upon the Massacre of the Protestants. This is it which was men­tioned by Nostredamus, when speaking of France, upon the back of this Massacre, After this (says he) there shall follow the greatest of Woes.

All these Reasons prove evidently, That the Protestants were the right Arm of Low­is the Fourteenth, and that by their Mas­sacre the Monks will cut off the King's right Arm. And in this Dream of the Queen's, there is a clear Alusion to an or­dinary Expression used by that KING, That to have all his Subjects become Ca­tholicks, [Page 13] he would let them cut off his right Hand.

It is said in the Queen's Dream, that this Unhappy Monarch had likewise his left Ear cut off: The cutting off the left Ear, signifies upon the matter the same thing with the cutting off the right Hand; for the left Ear of Lowis the Fourteenth ought to have been open to the Complaints of the Protestants, and therefore by the left Ear is meant they. Every body knows that Magistrates ought to have their right Ears open to the Accuser, and the left to the Accused: In France the Papists were ever the Accusers, and the Protestants the Accused; and therefore the left Ear of Lowis the 14th, signifies naturally the Pro­testants of France, and the cutting off this Ear, their Extirpation and Massacre: The Monks stand by, for they have brought the King to this Punishment, and are the Au­thors of this dreadful Execution; which F. La Chaise had put in practise before now, if not hindered by the late Prince of Conde. This horrid Crime will be the Price of F. La Chaise's Absolution; and by this Dread­ful SACRIFICE, Lowis the Four­teenth [Page 14] pretends to Attone for His other Crimes.

The Queen had this Vision on Christmas-Eve, because it relates much to what was predicted of Lowis the Fourteenth, in terms like, and yet opposite to those of the Prophet Isaias, A child is born, and a son to us is given: Whereas Nostredamus has it, in Cent. 3. Quarant. 42. speaking of Lowis the 14th, L'enfant naitra à deux dens en la gorge; A Child shall be born with two Teeth in his Mouth: Which prov'd literal­ly true of him. And indeed within a lit­tle, this Unhappy Monarch shall cause In­nocents to be murder'd in the same man­ner, and for the same reasons, that Herod did it long ago

A Whirlwind (says the Queen) separa­ted us from this Wretched Prince, and his two Monks, when they were just going to speak to us: The Whirlwind that shall take this Queen from France, shall be the unhappy and fatal Crisis of Europe, at the time when Lowis the 14th and his Monks shall be on the point of putting in execution the Mas­sacre of the Protestants of France.

And we found ourselves (continues she) [Page 15] in a Wood very dark, where there was only a little Moon-shine; and where there arose dark and stinking Mists: This dark Wood, is the Condition of France, when the Romish Re­ligion shall be absolute Mistress. This Wood had no light of the Son of Righte­ousness, which is Jesus Christ, but only that of the Moon, which is the Romish Church: In effect this Antichristian Church is exact­ly opposite to that of Jesus Christ; which in the 12th Chapter of the Apocalipse, is cloathed with the Sun, and has the Moon un­der her feet. The thick and stinking Mists are the abominable stinking and tyrannical Doctrine of the Romish Religion, and the innumerable Murders which their execrable Clergy shall cause to be committed in the black Desart or Wood, spoken of in this Dream, and in all the other Dominions of Antichrist.

In the end (says she) we embarked upon the great Ocean: This Ocean where the Queen embarks with the Great Whore, is that of this World, and is the continuati­on of the Life and Actions of this Unhap­py Princess.

Thereafter we arrived at the Elisian fields: [Page 16] The Great Whore had promised the Queen to conduct her to a blessed Place, and in ef­fect, she conducts her to the Elisian Fields. As Popery is but a renewed Paganism, the Great Whore brings the Queen to an Imagi­nary Paradise of the Pagans; which denotes the time and the manner of the unhappy Death of this Princess, since none went, according to the Pagan notion, to the Elisi­an Fields but after Death.

But then (continues she) the terrour I was in awakned me, and I found myself all o­ver in a Sweat, and my Face and Pillow be­dewed with Tears: This terrible Fright the Queen was put in, upon her approaching the Elisian Fields, shews, that the Great Whore kept not her word with the Un­happy Princess; and instead of being con­ducted to a blessed Place, she shall die: And no wonder she was cover'd over with Sweat and Tears, since she shall find how terrible a thing it is to fall into the hands of a living GOD. GOD grant us Grace to profit by the example of this Unhappy Queen, and thereby to shun the terrible Judgments of GOD.

The Explication of Madam La Valiere's Dream.

MAdam La Valiere having gone to Bed the first Night of this Year, after the Office was over, dream'd she was at Versailles in a Se­cular Habit, and that she saw the King walking [Page 20] upon the side of the Canal, in the midst of which appeared two Islands near to one another.

La Valiere in a Secular Habit, represents ve­ry neatly that Seraglio, or House of Pleasure he had at St. Cir, when this Lady was his Con­cubine: The Canal denotes the Sea that envi­rons Great Britaine on all sides: The two Islands amidst this Canal, are the two Islands of Great Britain and Ireland: and Nostrodamus calls these Kingdoms Islands by way of ex­cellence. In the Dream, the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland is represent­ed by two little Islands, because she was to see them in the Canal of Versailles, which being of its self but little, the Islands represented in them, behoov'd to be little also; these Islands are near to one another, because there is but three hours sailing from some parts of Scotland to some parts of Ireland. The King was fol­lowed by Hunters and Spaniels, designing to kill some Fowls: His Hunters are his Armies by Land, and his Spaniels his Fleets at Sea, be­cause Spaniels are fitter than other Hounds to hunt in the Water. Being design'd to kill some of the Fowls; That is, being design'd to make War upon the Inhabitants of these two Islands of Britaine and Ireland, who are properly re­presented [Page 21] by the Fowls of the River. M. La Valiere follows the King; to the end she may inform us of the success of the War he was enter'd into against England.

When the King came over against the first I­sland, she saw a great Spaniel throw himself into the Water, to swim into the Island, followed by a great many Ducks and other Fowls, whose Eggs he eat up: This first Island is England and Scot­land; the great Spaniel that threw himself in­to the Water, is K. James; he is follow'd by a great many Ducks and other Fowls; that is, the English; he eats up their Eggs, that is when he began to destroy and ruine the Peo­ple of England and their Liberties.

The great Spaniel came ashore, and was re­ceived by the King's B. who caus'd fire upon the Fowls, and kill'd some of them; That is, K. James fled over all alone to France, and the King having assisted him with a Naval Force, has since killed several of the English, in the present War he has declared against them.

When they came over against the other Island, they heard the noise of a great many Dogs a hunt­ing, and thereupon the great Spaniel threw him­self into the Water, with some of the King's Spa­niels to joyn them in the Island: When they [Page 22] were near the other Island, that is Ireland, they heard the noise of Dogs a Hunting; that is, the Army of Tyrconnel, Viceroy of Ireland; the great Spaniel upon the noise threw him­self into the Water to joyn them; that is, K. James seeing his Party subsist yet in Ireland, he goes thither, and joyns his Army there, ac­companied by some of the French Officers.

As soon as the great Spaniel had joyn'd the Dogs in the other Island; That is, K. James had joyn'd his Army in Ireland, the noise be­came greater, and continued so for a while, that is, the War became sharper, and did not end so very soon as was at first expected.

After which M. La Valiere, sees another flock of Birds flie out of this Island into the first, and the great Spaniel follows them, where there is a fight betwixt the Spaniel and the Ducks and o­ther Birds, which last, after a brisk resistance, are forc'd to flie, and the King causes fire upon them, and kills some of them: The continuati­on of this Dream, continues to foretel some Advantages to K. James; but what afterwards follows, foretels unquestionably the marvel­lous Success of K. William now of Great Britain, in such sort as that great Prince shall at last Triumph gloriously over all his Enemies: In [Page 23] fine, the great Miseries of Lowis the 14th, and the incomparable good Fortune of K. William, are painted forth in this Dream of M. La Va­liere's, with so much brightness and clearness, as if written with a Sun-beam; which will ap­pear by what follows.

When the King is returning to the Palace, he told those about him, he would go to see his O­range-trees: The Visit design'd by the King to his Orange-Inclosure, foretels the continu­ation of the War of Lowis 14th against K. Wil­liam, who is here represented as P. of Orange. This term to go to see, signifying a Declaration of War, is taken from that place of Scripture, Where Amisias King of Judah, sends to the King of Israel saying, Come let us see one another, or let us look one another in the face: And it's afterwards said, that these two Kings saw one another in the face; that is, they fought to­gether.

In saying this, the King stumbled upon Cail­lon, and fell on his face, bleeding at the Nose: Af­ter this new Declaration of War, or rather re­newing of the former, the King stumbles a­gainst the root of a Tree; that is, he met with a powerful Obstacle of his Design; and God is preparing a great and terrible Vengeance for [Page 24] this Guilty Monarch. In fine, he falls on his Face, bleeding at the Nose; That is, Lowis 14th shall fail in his Enterprize on William King of Great Britain, and this last Monarch shall Tri­umph over the Armies of France. Moreover, His bleeding shall weaken him, and render him timorous and cowardly. And in the old Dialect of France, to say a Man bleeds at the Nose, was to say, he is afraid. The end of the Dream proves, that this Fall of Lowis the 14th will be mortal.

They presently took up the King, and carried him to his Bed: The fall of Lowis upon his Nose, must be terrible, since he fell a bleed­ing thereupon, and was so far unable to rise of himself, that they were necessitated to car­ry him to his Bed: This denotes that Lowis the 14th shall die of this Fall, since the Bed is an Image of Death: Thence this Dream is the fatal Fore-runner and Prediction of the miserable End of this King, and of his King­dom. This is exactly what was foretold by Nostredamus in his 5 Sireain:

The present juncture of the Affairs of Europe, does teach us clearly, that M. La Valiere and Nostredamus speak of one and the same Event; as also the Dream of the late Queen, about the cutting off the right Arm and left Ear of Lowis the 14th, denotes the great en­suing Misery of that Monarch.

M. La Valiere seeing the Orange-Inclosure open, en­ters, where she beholds the beautifulest Orange-trees, she ever saw: As Lowis the 14th is the Capital Enemy of God and of King William, it's not to be doubted, but after the Fall of this Unfortunate Prince, King William will prove a Glorious and Prosperous King; and which God has been pleas'd to reveal to M. La Valiere in this Vision. The Beauty of the Orange-trees, denotes the incomparable Prosperity of that Servant of God, Wil­liam late P. of Orange; which we have likewise prov'd in our Harmony of Prophesies, p. 117. in our Expositi­on of the 38 Sireain of Nostredamus, in that of Cassarel­li, and in our Exposition of the Dream of Lowis 14th.

The Orange-trees were all covered with Flowers, and with all kinds of Fruits: These do denote to K. Wil­liam all sorts of Blessings, both spiritual and temporal.

But what surpriz'd M. La Valiere most, was her seeing that at the root of every Orange-tree, there was Flower-de-luces wreathed about them, and which mixed their Flowers with that of the Oranges: This part of the Dream is very consolatory for M. La Valiere; and it seems God shews her by it, that he is pleased with the beginnings of her Reprentance, and that he will give her Grace to turn to the living and true God, and to live to see the happy Day when all France, and their [Page 26] King, shall make profession of the true Religion, in a manner more perfect than is yet to be found among the Protestants, the best Reform'd: It's for this reason, that M. La Valiere is so pleasantly surpriz'd, and ra­vish'd with Joy and Admiration, which would seem to foretel her Happiness in seeing a great Reformation, and the happy Union of a King of France with K. William.

This beautiful Flower-de-luce, which she sees wreath'd about the Orange-trees, and mix their Flowers with theirs, does clearly denote the Successor of Lewis 14th, who being animated with the Spirit of God, as K. William is at present, shall Unite himself in a strict Alliance with him; so that the Interests of them both, shall be one and the same, because they shall seek after the same things, viz. The Glory of God, and the Good of his Church. There are a great many Prophesies, parti­cularly that of the Young Prophetess of Dauphine, who say the same very thing.

This mixture of Flowers, render'd a pleasant smell; which denotes the marvellous Blessings wherewith God shall follow the Alliance and Union betwixt the King of France and K. William: And this sweet smell may be truly compared to that which is called, The Savour of Life unto Life.

While M. La Valiere contemplates all these things, she hears a loud cry thrice repeated, The King's a com­ming, the King's a coming; which cry awakens her: This great redoubled cry, denotes that Lowis 14th be­gins just now to enter into that Action foretold in the first part of M. La Valiere's Dream, in such sort that it may be justly said to Lowis 14th, as was said to ano­ther of old, What thou dost, do it quickly.