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<P>The great &amp; bloody Vi&s;ions; INTERPRETED BY Ari&s;e Evans, Fore-telling the &s;trange and wonderful things that will befall the Common wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the e&s;tabli&s;hing of a glorious Government under his High|ne&s;s the Lord Protector, and the &s;etling of Peace and happine&s;s in all the&s;e Dominions.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, the re&s;toring of the Churches from defiling and robbing, and the pre&s;erving of all &s;acred Rites and Ordinances belonging to tho&s;e glorious Sanctuaries, and Chri&s;tian Temples.</P>
<P>Together with the &s;ignification of the coming in of the white Doves, the appearing of Charles's Wain, the di&s;&s;olution of Tyranny, the re&s;toring all men to their ju&s;t Rights, and pri&s;tine Li|berties, and the vani&s;hing away of all Oppre&s;&s;ors, Traytors and Tyrants.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for G. CONVERT, and are to be &s;old at the We&s;t end of PAULS, and at the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>The Bloody Vi&s;ion,</HEAD>
<P>I Saw in a Vi&s;ion revealed unto me as I was &s;tanding upon &s;tone-&s;teps, at a place in London, there came a man riding before me, and made a &s;tand again&s;t me, and then I &s;aw a Coach coming be|tween the man and me pa&s;&s;ing by, and in the Coach was a woman cloathed in &s;carlet, and one who &s;tood by me, &s;aid: Behold this Wo|m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n! how do you like of her? And I an&s;wered, I liked none but mine own; and then the man who was on the hor&s;e back &s;aid unto me, then it &s;eemeth you like no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, but your own, 'tis well: then there came 6 youths in blew caps, &amp; &s;tood between the man on hor&s;eback and me, and &s;aid, Behold! take notice of the Moon, and thereupon I looked up and &s;aw a &s;ign po&s;t, with the &s;ign of the Moon hanging as a &s;ign under it, which I beholding, pre&s;ently there appeared a &s;pot of blood upon the picture of the Moon which &s;pot &s;pread it &s;elf over all the Moon, and the blood &s;parkled up upon the skey and over&s;pread the &s;ame. Then &s;uddenly falling down upon my knees, and lifting up my hands to heaven, I called upon the Lord to be my Protector, and im|mediatly upon that there appeared by the picture of the Moon and a man &s;itting, having a candle light in his hand; then came another man with a candle unlighred in his hand, which he lighted at the other candle. And then the man who &s;at by the Moon &s;pake and &s;aid I thank you all for beholding the &s;ame. Then there came a Char<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ot
<PB N="4" REF="3"> with milk white hor&s;es, like as if it had come out of a Court by the place where I &s;tood; and as they approached near me, I thought them to be of fire, &s;o &s;parkling, that the heat thereof came mightily unto me, whereby I was forced to &s;hrink back from the extremity thereof, and returning two or three &s;teps back, I beheld the Chariot and hor|&s;es coming up the &s;teps after me: thus going back, and &s;eeking for &s;ome place for &s;helter to keep my &s;elf from the heat thereof; but finding neither doors nor &s;hop windowes open, I could have no place of &s;afefuard. And &s;eeing before me another Cha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">iot with hor&s;es ap|proachi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g toward me, I was greatly troubled in mind; and then behol|ding upon my right hand a &s;treet turning another way, in which <HI>I</HI> thought to be free, entred the &s;ame: And having gone but a little way therein, it was be&s;et in like manner. And there came foremo&s;t a man having a long light like unto a Torch in his hand, which when <HI>I</HI> &s;aw <HI>I</HI> thought it was Doom<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">-day, and fell to the ground as a dead man, and could not move hand nor foot, yet had my remembrance per|fect; and when he came unto me, he &s;aid, Who is here? but <HI>I</HI> &s;aid nothing unto him, and then he &s;trode on foot over me, and lift me up from the earth, and held me in his arm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and blue into mine ears three or four time<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">: then &s;aid he there was no means to help me, but to be wa&s;hed with the blood of I<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;us Chri&s;t: &s;o &s;oon as he had &s;poken, <HI>I</HI> perceived my &s;elf to be naked, and then he wa&s;hed and bathed my bo|dy all in blood; which b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing done, he departed and went forward, and <HI>I</HI> thought he drew me after him. Then pre&s;ently <HI>I</HI> was brought like a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> if <HI>I</HI> had been in &s;ome great Church, wherein was much Timber|work, and there <HI>I</HI> &s;aw men w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hing and be&s;mearing all the po&s;ts and timber with blood, and then <HI>I</HI> &s;eemed to depart out of the &s;ame place; but coming to the door of it, <HI>I</HI> hea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d as i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> were the ru&s;hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g of a mighty wind, with a noi&s;e of chariots and hor&s;es, with beholding of &s;umptuous buildings and multitudes of m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n; and being a&s;toni&s;hed therewith, <HI>I</HI> returned into the Church again; and then by that time <HI>I</HI> &s;kemed to have a great bundle of bladders about me, which vani&s;hed all but three, whereof one was very little, and the re&s;t were very great, e&s;pecially one of them, and the&s;e two &s;eemed like two earthen pots, which wearied me to bear. And as <HI>I</HI> went forward in a back way fly|ing from the Church, <HI>I</HI> heard a voyce, &s;aying Go apace: and when <HI>I</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="3"> came to the end, at a place where <HI>I</HI> could go nr further, <HI>I</HI> thought the&s;e pots did dimini&s;h mightily; and there came a voyce unto me, &s;aying, there will not be left the worth of a half peny remaining of all this &s;ight; &s;o <HI>I</HI> awaked, But being in fear and amazement at this Bloo|dy Vi&s;ion, within a quarter of an hour after fell into a Trance again, and &s;aw another Vi&s;ion, which is as followeth: <HI>I</HI> beheld, and lo, <HI>I</HI> was in a field, as <HI>I</HI> thought, newly &s;own with Wheat, and as <HI>I</HI> beheld, <HI>I</HI> &s;aw upon the Land &s;owed a company of Doves, being milk white, and all of them &s;tood in a round Ring, or Circle, and in the mid&s;t was one|ly one alone by him&s;elf, which &s;urpa&s;&s;ed all the re&s;t in brightne&s;s, &s;hi|ning like the Sun-beams in its brightne&s;s, &s;o did this Dove appear in brightne&s;s and glory, and <HI>I</HI> awaked again. The&s;e were the Vi&s;ions which Mr. Farly related unto me; <HI>I</HI> &s;hall now give you the interpre|tation thereof, as <HI>I</HI> gave it to him then.</P>
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<HEAD>The interpretation of the fir&s;t Vi&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>Whereas you &s;aw your &s;elf &s;tanding upon &s;tone &s;teps in London, it &s;ignifies the firmne&s;s thereof. And whereas you &s;aw a Coach with a Woman in it all clothed in &s;carlet pa&s;&s;ing by, &s;ignifies a bloody e|nemy that will &s;uddenly vani&s;h away and be con&s;umed. And whereas you &s;aw fix youths all in blue, they &s;ignifie Charles his Wain, and their Voyce which &s;aid; Behold, take notice of the Moon, &s;ignifies the Comet or Blazing. Star, which Star &s;ignified the di&s;&s;olution of the late power. And whereas you &s;aw a &s;ign po&s;t with the &s;ign of the Moon to it, and of the &s;pot of blood that appeared upon ii, and over|&s;pread both it and the sky; by the &s;ign of the Moon is &s;ignified, the multiplicity of Divi&s;ions. And whereas you &s;aw a man &s;itting by the picture of the Moon with the light like a candle in his hand, and a|nother man coming to him with a candle unlighted, &s;ignifies the i&s;|&s;uing forth Commi&s;&s;ions by an eminent Commander for aid and a&s;|&s;i&s;tance. And whereas you &s;aw a Chariot with milk-white hor&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> co|ming out of a Court, and the Chariot of fire, &s;ignifies a violent inte|re&s;t to be &s;et up, &s;o that all will in that day be forced to &s;hut up their &s;hop windows and doors for fear, &s;o that he which is without doores &s;hal not finde a place wherein to hide his head, but the violating of Tyranny re&s;tores us to our former pri&s;tine liberty.</P>
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<P>And whereas you &s;aw a &s;tseet on your right hand in the which you thought to e&s;cape, but found it be&s;et with a multitude of men, &amp;c, The fore-mo&s;t man &s;ignifies an emi|nent Commander, who &s;hal lovingly &s;end forth his Decla|ration to the people; but they wil not come in to him, nor &s;tir no more then you did, when the man calld to you, took you up, and blew in your ears: then &s;eeing that he mu&s;t do it, this Champion wil re&s;olve to proceed with fire and &s;word, and wa&s;h the Nation of its enemies with blood. And whereas you &s;aw that you came into a great Church where men wa&s;hed all the po&s;ts with blood, it &s;ignifies that God will now avenge him&s;elf on &s;uch as have de&s;troyed, robbed, and defiled his Sanctuaries; for if the Lord Je&s;us was fo &s;ore offended with tho&s;e that &s;old Doves for the &s;acrifice in the Temple at Jeru&s;alem, and &s;o zealous for it that he would not &s;uffer any to carry a Ve&s;|&s;el through it, how much more is he offended with tho&s;e that would &s;o highly have abu&s;ed the Chri&s;tian Tem|ples and the Mini&s;tery, had they not been prevented by his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector. And whereas you &s;aw your &s;elf departing out of the Church, it &s;ignifies that in the ci|ty of London &s;hal ari&s;e great controver&s;ies. And whereas you &s;aw that as you returned again, and found another way to go out of the Church, you were burthened with a bundle of blown Bladders, which vani&s;hed from you as you went, &s;aving onely three remained: By which is &s;ignified, that tho&s;e which delighted them&s;elves in wicked and fruitle&s;s notions, will be troubled and get together, being
<PB N="7" REF="4"> a&s;&s;ured, that they &s;hall now be called to an account for their works, yet thinking to do &s;ome feats by rai&s;ing com|bu&s;tions to pre&s;erve their own intere&s;t, but they &s;hall be cut off in the bud one after another, except three that &s;hal e&s;cape:, And whereas you &s;aw the bladders remaining, and that one of them was a vere little one, and the other two very great ones, &amp;c. it &s;ignifies, that three eminent men &s;hal have their honour eclip&s;ed, and at la&s;t made &s;horter by the head.</P>
<P>And whereas la&s;t of all you heard a voyce, &s;aying, that there will not be left the worth of a half-peny of all this &s;ight, it &s;ignifies that of all the riches and glory that hath been gotten unju&s;tly, there &s;hal not be left the worth of a half-peny.</P>
<P>This is the interpretation of your fir&s;t Prophecy Mr. Farly, which indeed is a terrible one, and I could wi&s;h with all my heart, that if it be po&s;&s;ible it come not to pa&s;s: But rather that God would be plea|&s;ed to pardon the &s;ins of this Land, and to give them grace to &s;ubject them&s;elves to the peace and tranquility of the Nation. Now after I had interhreted this bloody Vi&s;ion he was very well &s;atisfied in his Spirit, and de&s;ired me to interpret the other Vi&s;ion, which he had within a quarter of an hour after the former, but he &s;aid it never trou|bled him as the other did, and I &s;aid it &s;hall be al&s;o done; for it may be there is more of comfort in that, then there is of &s;orrow in this.</P>
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<HEAD>The interpretation of the &s;econd Vi&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>THen &s;aid I, whereas you &s;aw your &s;elf in a field-newly &s;own with Wheat; that &s;ignifies a new Government to be e&s;tabli&s;hed in Brittain, that is, the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ire|land, more glorious then ever was upon earth. And whereas you &s;aw a company of milk white Doves upon that field, all in a round Ring, or circle: The Ring, or Circle, &s;ignifies the endle&s;s, everla&s;ting, and e|ver&s;tanding Court that &s;hal be e&s;tabli&s;hed. And the company of milk white Doves &s;ignifies the &s;potle&s;s Saints that have continued faith|ful to his Highne&s;s. Therefore they and their &s;eed &s;hal tryumph glo|riou&s;ly for ever. And whereas you &s;aw one Dove alone in the middle of the Ring, or Circle, which did &s;hine like the Sun in brightne&s;s; by that Dove is &s;ignified his Highne&s;s, who in due time will &s;hine like the Sun over all the earth, to an&s;wer the expectation of all Nations, and fulfill the promi&s;e of our Lord Je&s;us; which is the &s;ole de&s;ire, and fervent prayer of him, who remains, yours in King Chri&s;t,</P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ari&s;e Evans.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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