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<P>A &s;trange Prophecie, AGAINST BISHOPS PRELATES, AND ALL other <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> which have not kept the faith|full Order of <HI>Prie&s;thood;</HI> And al&s;o again&s;t the Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in the&s;e Times.</P>
<P>Together with the Downe-fall and de&s;truction of <HI>Poperie,</HI> and the Ruine of <HI>Romes</HI> Monarchall and Tyrannicall Government.</P>
<P>Prophetically declared, that in the yeares 1641, 1642, and 1643. The reformed Churches in the&s;e We&s;terne I&s;lands, &s;hould (both King and People) joyne with a religious con&s;ent to aboli&s;h them out of the Church.</P>
<P><HI>Written by</HI> HILGARD <HI>a</HI> Nunne, 1558. and &s;ince pre&s;erved by an Antiquary in this Kingdome, and now publi&s;hed for the in&s;truction of the Church of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Thomas.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>The Preface to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>VVHether the&s;e or &s;uch like Prophecies be of God, and proceed from the Holy Gho&s;t or no, let the godly judge. But &s;urely it is commonly &s;eene, when God will &s;hew his di&s;plea&s;ure and in|dignation, and intendeth to bring to pa&s;&s;e &s;ome great act, that all creatures doe Prophecy before, and give warning, although it helpe but little. Eve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ouching the &s;ubver|&s;ion of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> his Prophets, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ophecy it before but it availed not. Chri&s;t him&s;elfe had breathed it unto them. The Apo&s;tles had warned them thereof. They heard voyces in the Temple. They &s;aw &s;ignes in the Element. They heard battels in the clouds. Mad men, and &s;uch as were out of their wits, did prophecy it unto them, but all the&s;e &s;ignes prevailed not, they &s;aw it in act and yet it preuailed not. They might have remedied it, if they would have &s;uffered the Emperour to rule over them, but all prevailed nothing, for they were de&s;troyed becau&s;e they di&s;pi&s;ed Gods word.</P>
<P>Even &s;o &s;hall it happen unto the Papi&s;ts al&s;o. It is prophe|cied unto them by <HI>Daniel</HI> in the <HI>7.</HI> and <HI>8.</HI> chap. Jt is pro|phecied unto them by <HI>Zachariah</HI> in the <HI>11.</HI> chap. It is pro|phecied by St. <HI>John</HI> in the Revel. It is prophecied unto them by Chri&s;t him&s;elfe, Matth. <HI>24.</HI> It is prophecied un|to them by St. <HI>Paul. 2</HI> The&s;. <HI>2.</HI> and <HI>1.</HI> Tim. <HI>4.</HI> It is prophe|cied unto them by St. <HI>Pet. 2.</HI> It prevaileth not Their owne Bi&s;hops, Abbots, Monkes and Nunnes prophecy un|to them, but it prevaileth not. Jt is prophecied unto them by A&s;tronomers. It is prophecied unto them by the common
<PB REF="3">rumour with certaine Proverbes. It is prophecied vnto them by vi&s;ions and &s;ignes in the Element, but all prevai|leth not, they might turne it, if they would not pre&s;ume to be aboue Gods Word and mens con&s;ciences, but would &s;uf|fer God and his trueth to raigne over them and all mens con&s;ciences, but all prevaileth nothing, Therefore mu&s;t they be de&s;troyed, there is no remedie, &amp; that which they will not now, they mu&s;t not &s;ee to their griefe at la&s;t, when all helpe is pa&s;t.</P>
<P>Wherefore let no good Chri&s;tian grieue him&s;elfe with them, but rather &s;uffer and take patience, and pray to God that it would plea&s;e him to revenge the blood of his Saints, and &s;peedily to deliver us from the&s;e cruell Ty|rants, &amp; all their mi&s;chievous or rather helli&s;h enchant|ments. Thereby &s;hall a man get a greater conque&s;t over them, then by Sword and Armour. God knoweth well where &s;uch a <HI>Titus</HI> is, as &s;hall be the finall de&s;truction of the&s;e arrogant Rabbies, or contemptuous Iewes al&s;o. To whom be all honour, prai&s;e, and glory, for euer and euer. Amen.</P>
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<HEAD>The Prophecie of <HI>HILGARD.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALl worldly Princes and the common people al&s;o, &s;hall fiercely fall upon you Prie&s;ts, which hitherto haue abu&s;ed me. They will turne you away from them, and put you to flight. They &s;hall take away your &s;ub&s;tance and riches, becau&s;e that in your time, you have not kept the order of your Prie&s;thood well. The&s;e words will they &s;peake by you. Let us ca&s;t the&s;e Oath-breakers, robbers, and people repleni&s;hed with all kind of iniquity, forth of the holy Catholique
<PB REF="3">Church: for the holy Church is contaminated and pol|luted by them. And therefore will God &s;uffer al&s;o &s;uch things to come over you. Yea, the Kings of the world, &s;hall a&s;&s;i&s;t them with their earthly power and might that &s;hall with&s;tand you. Your Prie&s;tly dignity and annointing, they will e&s;teeme as nothing worth, and to that purpo&s;e will they gather together in Councell, that they may drive you out of their Dominions, be|cau&s;e you have driven away the mo&s;t holy and innocent Lambe from you, with your vngodly and abhominable workes. Then &s;hall the Heavens raine downe divers Plagues, which &s;hall be as a revenge of God upon men. The mi&s;te &s;hall cover the whole Earth, &s;o that all your gra&s;&s;e &s;hall dry up, and your ornaments become pale. The deepe &s;hall &s;uffer Earthquakes, and then &s;hall ap|peare the very anger of God, and the rage both of Hea|ven and Earth. God will &s;end a righteous and &s;traight judgement again&s;t the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e. And then &s;hall we &s;ay altogether. How long &s;hall we forbeare and &s;uffer the&s;e ravening Wolves? they ought to have bin feeders of the &s;oules, but they be de&s;troyers of them. They bind and vnbind at their owne plea&s;ure (yet &s;uch power belongeth not unto them) and as mo&s;t fearefull bea&s;ts they utterly ca&s;t us away. And thus re|maine we &s;till in our mi&s;ery and they in their &s;ins, in&s;o|much that all Chri&s;tendome peri&s;herh through them. And what&s;oever is right that write they not, but wre&s;t, and onely doe that which is contrary to the Law of God. They devoure us, as the Wolfe devoureth the &s;heepe, they live continually in lu&s;t and glut|tony, they bee very robbers of the Church, and
<PB REF="4">what&s;oever they can catch or come by, they take and de|voure it. They make us al&s;o with their occupation poore and beggerly. They damne them&s;elves &amp; de&s;ire to de&s;troy us al&s;o. Therefore will we judge them righ|teou&s;ly, anb &s;eperate them from vs, for they be rather &s;educers then teachers, &amp;c. Yet care they not for it, but remaine &s;o &s;till, &s;eeking to make all Kingdomes &s;ubject unto them. Neverthele&s;&s;e, for all this they mu&s;t away, and leaue behind them all that they have, neyther &s;hall they afterward rule any more ouer the people againe, with Lands, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, Vineyards, and other temporall goods, which worldly Princes be ap|pointed for. A Pope &s;hould be a Pope, a Knight a Knight, a Gentleman a Gentleman, wherefore all &s;uch things as they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e vnrighteou&s;ly, &s;hall be taken a|way from them. &amp;c. But again&s;t the &s;ame will the &s;pi|ritualtie as heads of this world repine and rebell: to wit, the Popes, Cardinals, Bi&s;hops, Abbats, and other Prelates. Fir&s;t with their cur&s;e, and with &s;hutting up of the Heavens, but the &s;ame will not &s;erve, neither &s;hall men feare it any whit. After that, they will get them to their Armour and weapons, thinking therewith to defend them&s;elves, but again&s;t the judgement of God they can doe nothing, for their time is come, &amp;c. Thus much prophecied the Nunne <HI>Hillgard.</HI></P>
<P>So <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> mu&s;t the bloody whore drinke of her owne Challice, and the bea&s;t with the fal&s;e Prophets be ca&s;t down into the bottomle&s;&s;e pit, where as is no re&s;t night nor day, there to &s;uffer paines eternally. And then will Chri&s;t rai&s;e up faithfull &s;hepheards to feed his flock.</P>
<P>What the&s;e &s;hall be, we find in the Scriptures plain|ly enough declared, as they that came from him, and
<PB REF="4">how may it faile, or what defect can be in &s;uch as God &s;endeth? God is Righteous, and al&s;o &s;endeth good &s;hep|heards when he &s;eeth his time. They doe righteou&s;ly, and as they teach, euen &s;o they liue.</P>
<P>The&s;e be the true &s;eruants which Chri&s;t &s;peaketh of, which in due time &s;et forth the gifts and glory or the Father of the hou&s;hold, and not their owne traditions, whereof as yet the whole world is full. But the Lord (at his good plea&s;ure) for his &s;onne Ie&s;us Chri&s;ts &s;ake, will &s;comme away all filthine&s;&s;e and make his glory appeare. So be it</P>
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<HEAD>The Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>DIvers other like Prophecies there are no whit nece&s;&s;ary to be written, becau&s;e I hope there will amendment follow after this, except the Readers be found to want the chiefe effects of their eies and eares: for whom would not this ancient, true, and faithfull declaration of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Babiloni&s;h</HI> &s;trumpet, bring to conver&s;ion and knowledge? Shee is here &s;o clerely &s;et forth and painted with all her fal&s;e|hood and colours, that it cannot be done more liuely. Hath &s;he not with her Challice made drunke, and with her &s;ubtilty and deceit overcome Emperors, Kings, Prin|ces, Lords? and with her &s;nares overthrowne all Chri|&s;tendome? Let euery man marke it well. When did they any other thing but Pole and &s;have, lye and de|ceiue, burne, and banne, continually increa&s;ing warres and murder? untill &s;uch time as they were become heads of all Kingdomes. &amp;c. The &s;ame (as aboue mentioned) hath endured many yeares, but now will take an end. For the time of the Whore is come about, and he com|meth that &s;peaketh in the <HI>Apocalips,</HI> &s;aying: <HI>I am Al|pha
<PB REF="5">and Omega, the beginning &amp; the ending, the fir&s;t &amp; the la&s;t.</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed be they that follow his Commandements, to the end that they may come to the tree of life, and and enter in at tho&s;e &s;traight gates of the cele&s;tiall <HI>Ieru|&s;alem,</HI> out of which &s;hall be &s;ecluded all Vnbeleeuers, Enchaunters, Whores, murderers, Idolators, and all &s;uch as loue and follow after lyes, who&s;e portion is in the unquenchable Lake that burneth with fire and Brim&s;tone.</P>
<P>Now hath Je&s;us Chri&s;t &s;ent his Angell againe, to &s;hew the people that he is the very roote of <HI>David,</HI> and the cleere morning Starre, and in none other is there any &s;aluation, but in him onely, for it is written. There is no other name vnder heauen whereby we may be &s;a|ved, but this onely. &amp;c. Now he that is faithfull &s;till, he that is holy, let him become more holy, and continue to the end. and let him not long for the time appro|cheth. And thus let every man be warned, for when he knocketh, happy are they that open, but to tho&s;e that doe not &s;o, the danger is apparent: for unto &s;uch, both Bapti&s;me and all holy Rites are mini&s;tred in vaine. Wherefore let us beware of beeing Chri&s;tians onely in name, and let us pray God to ble&s;&s;e us, and to grant us his grace, and that he would vouch&s;afe to guide us a|right by his holy Spirit. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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