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<P>THE DECLARATION OF Ari&s;e Evans, From his Study in the Black-Fryars, concerning his High|ne&s;s the Lord Protector, and the Government of the three Nations of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND.</P>
<P>With his Prophetick Propo&s;als, touching Mr. FEAK, and Mr. SIMPSON, and the re&s;t of the di&s;contented and Independent Party: fore-telling, the great Change that will happen in this pre&s;ent Year, 1654. and the wonderful Things that will befal the Anabapti&s;ts.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, the Bloody Prophecie; concerning the Lilly, the Lyon, the Son of Charles, the Land of the Moon, and the Ea&s;tern Eagle: With his interpretation upon each par|ticular: Directed to the people of England.</P>
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<HEAD>The Bloudy Prophecie, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>GEntlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I hope I &s;hall be cleer from the blood of this Genera|tion, being &s;ent of God to declare the things hereafter mentio|ned: For it is evident, I fore-told the manner of the death of King Charles, and do herein fore-&s;ee a great and mighty change. So that if the people now refu&s;e to hear me, who have had &s;o many witne&s;|&s;es to &s;hew that God is plea&s;ed to declare his determinate Will by me) they of all others will be the lea&s;t excu&s;able for de&s;pi&s;ing me, and &s;o the lea&s;t capable of mercy. For, have they not known how God by me declared the mo&s;t remarkable things that befel the&s;e king|doms &s;ince the wars began: How that 20 years ago I declared the things that befel my late Soveraign, and that I &s;uffered three yeares impri&s;onment for the &s;ame? How that I declared to the Earl of E&s;&s;ex 7 years before he was General, that he &s;hould be the peoples General again&s;t the King? Have they not known how that in the year 1646 I declared the downfal of the Presbyterians. How I de|clared, that the Kings Son would come to Eng<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">and long before he came to Worce&s;ter, and his &s;ucce&s;s likewi&s;e? How I declared to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he Parl. that they &s;hould be de&s;troyed long before <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">heir di&s;&s;olution&punc; And now, as concerning you, ye di&s;contented people of Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> that u&s;e to meet every Monday&punc; ye pray, ye preach&punc; y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">m|plain, that God doth not hear yo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r prayer, and ye cry <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Go<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> he w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nd <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he Spirit of Prophe&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> by &s;ome o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> or o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> un<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he things to come&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> you <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nnot <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="4" REF="3"> when God &s;heweth you all the&s;e things by me his poor Me&s;&s;enger; Therefore, I &s;ay unto you, bend your prayers for the pre&s;ent Power, &s;ubmit unto OLIVER yout &s;upream Governor and Lord Protector, and then doubtle&s;s ye &s;hal prevail with God in prayers for him, and have all your de&s;ires accompli&s;hed; that is, to have the late members of Parliament called to an account for all their va&s;t &s;ums of money, and to have the people ea&s;ed of their heavy Taxations, and weari&s;om Burdens, which for many years (poor &s;oules) they have undergone: For indeed what is become of the Bi&s;hops, Deans, and Chapters lands and Delinquents e&s;tates, for&s;ooth? and many other things that are gone I know not where: no, nor he that has as big a head as a Hor&s;e I believe: But &s;ure I am, that there are many worth a thou&s;and <HI>li.</HI> now, that were not worth one hundred pe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ce b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">fore the wars began&punc; So that you may cleerly &s;ee&punc; we have had more Juglers than Gyp&s;ies of late dayes. And therefore, if ye would have God to hear you, why do you not hear him by doing ju&s;tly to his Highne&s;s, and &s;ubmitting to the pre&s;ent Government, <HI>that righteou&s;ne&s;s may run down as a Ri|ver,</HI> or el&s;e all your &s;eeking the Lord wilbe in vain; for if ye will &s;till have your prayers granted according to your own &s;en&s;e and will, that is, for you to prevail, kil and &s;lay all that wil not &s;ubmit unto you, then the Lord wil &s;hew your folly to all the world. And do not you boa&s;t, as &s;ome of you do, that ye have had the Spirit of Prophe&s;ie&punc; the&s;e 7. years; that the Armies over-coming your enemie<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> is the fruit of your prayers. Alas! it is but your <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ride for it was Gods Decree to deliver his people into your hands for a time, to puni&s;h them for their &s;ins, and he revealed it unto me 20 years ago, that your party &s;hould pre|vail as they h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve done, and the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> come to a mi&s;er<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ble end.</P>
<P>But I &s;hal take occa&s;ion by the way to &s;peak a Word al&s;o to M. Feak, and M. Simp&s;on, and others of their party, meeting at the afore&s;aid place of Black-Fryars, not doubt|ing, but when God &s;hal arre&s;t them, &s;aying, 1 King. 21:19. Ha&s;t thou killed and taken po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion in that place where the King and his people lo&s;t their blood, in that very place &s;hall thy blood be &s;pilt, even thine; and &s;et their bloody
<PB N="5" REF="3"> Deeds to cry unto their Con&s;ciences, &s;aying, We are thine, and we will not leave thee until thy judgment come; and when Nathans Riddle is opened unto others, &s;aying, Thou art the man, for thou ha&s;t given great occa&s;ion to the Pa|pi&s;t to bla&s;pheme, &s;aying, The&s;e are the works of &s;uch as would be altogether ruled by the Bible: they will break their Vowes, and kill and &s;teal by authority; when like Davids their &s;in as a bloody &s;heet is &s;et before them. It wil make them ro<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r like David, &s;aying, I acknowledge mine iniquity, and my &s;in is ever before me; again&s;t thee, thee onely have I &s;inned, by cau&s;ing the enemies to bla&s;pheme thy Word, the holy Bible. Oh now I will repent, and en|deavor to make re&s;titution to the families we have &s;poil|ed, and I will pay my Vows, and &s;top the mouthes of the Bla&s;phemers of thy Word thereby, &s;o far as I am able, help me Lord, that J may prevail and appea&s;e thy hot indig|nation again&s;t me: and my de&s;ire is, that tho&s;e of Mr. Simp&s;ons party would repent and be of the &s;ame re&s;olu|tion: But J know of a certain there is a party in this Land, that &s;hall fall by their wilful impenitency. But con|&s;ider, J be&s;eech you, that the Elect mu&s;t endure and &s;lye, until the Lord come as lightening to lighten the earth, to give them hope and a&s;&s;ured knowledge that judgment is coming upon their per&s;ecutors; for ye know that we are exhorted by Chri&s;t Je&s;us, to compare what we &s;ee in his Word with the things done in our times, for he gives Us true &s;ignes; and then &s;aith he, When ye &s;ee the&s;e things begin to come to pa&s;s, know that your redemption draw|eth nigh.</P>
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<P>Truly, I have no cau&s;e to doubt the&s;e people; for though they have not yielded to the truth: yet they have been per&s;waded that my Declaration was &s;o much in the way of Gods Spirit, that they did not mole&s;t me at all when I delivered my Petition to the Council of the Army, and &s;poke in the defence of King Charles at that time when I di&s;puted it before them all four hours together. And now I am as the <HI>Paul</HI> of this time: he was a Mechanick, a Tent-maker, I am a Taylor: I plant and &s;hew the&s;e things, <HI>Apollo,</HI> that is the elo|quent Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t are to water them, but God giveth the in|crea&s;e. I recommend all to God, and his Mini&s;ters, and I remain your faithful Servant in Chti&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ari&s;e Evans.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Prophecie and Interpretation.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>FIr&s;t, the Lilly &s;hall remain in a merry World, and hr &s;hal be mo|ved again&s;t the Seed of the Lyon, and he &s;hall &s;tand on one &s;ide among&s;t Thrones of his Countrey, which Country is the Land of the Moon, which is to be dread throughout all the World.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 And there &s;hall come the Son of Man, bearing three wild Bea&s;ts in his Armes, with a company of people he &s;hall pa&s;s many waters, and he &s;hall come to the Land of the Lyon, looking for help with Bea&s;ts of his own Countrey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 And in that year there &s;hall come an Eagle out of the Ea&s;t, and his Wings &s;pread with the beames of the Son of Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 And that year &s;hall be de&s;troyed Ca&s;tles upon Thames, &amp; there &s;hall be great fear over all the World, and in a part of the Land there &s;hall be great Battels among many Kingdoms.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 That day &s;hall be the bloody field, and the Lilly &s;hall lo&s;e the Crown, and th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rewith &s;halbe crowned the Son of man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 And in the fourth year many battels &s;halbe for the faith, and mo&s;t of the world &s;halbe &s;loopen; but the Son of man with the Eagle &s;halbe preferred, and there &s;halbe univer&s;al peace over all the World: then &s;hall the Son of man r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ceive a marvellous token, and there &s;halbe great plenty of all manner of fruits, and then &s;hal he go to the Land of the Cro&s;s.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Interpretation.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>THis Lilly is Mr. Lilly the A&s;trologer, and the merry Worln is a mad world that believe A&s;trologers, contrary to Gods mind. M. Lilly &s;hall be moved again&s;t the Seed of the Lyon, that is, the Kings Seed, again&s;t whom he writ &s;o bitterly. And Lilly &s;hall &s;tand on one &s;ide among&s;t Thrones of his Countrey, that is, he &s;hal &s;tand for the Common-wealth: which Countrey is the Land of the Moon: He compares England to the Moon, in regard of its changing from one thing to another, as the Moon changeth every month: &s;o England to day is a Prote&s;tant, to morrow a Presbyterian, next day an Indepen|dent, and you know not what; and all rhe world looking uhon the di|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ers
<PB N="8" REF="5"> of England, is afraid l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">t &s;ome of this Engli&s;h Seed come among&s;t them, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d infect them with the &s;ame di&s;ea&s;e, yea and con|quer their Kings, and bring them al&s;o to ruine and de&s;truction.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 The Son of man is the King which cro&s;&s;eth the waters from France to Holland, and from Holland to Scotland, to &s;eek help and a&s;&s;i&s;tance: And Scotland he calleth the Land of the Lyon, in regard their King came from thence.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 By this Eagle that comes from the Ea&s;t, is meant the Dutch, &s;hips coming again&s;t England, and &s;ome of them bearing the Kings Colours. 1652.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 By the Ca&s;tles de&s;troyed upon Thames, is meant the overthrow given to our &s;hips in Decemb. 1652.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5 By that day, he meanes 1653. in which the bloody Battel &s;hall be fought, and the Lilly &s;hall lo&s;e his Crown: here M. <HI>Lillie</HI> appeares to be the white mock-king; for he hath domineer'd the mo&s;t: And therefore &s;hal he and his lo&s;e their Crowns.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 By the fourth year he means 1654. then &s;hal the World be in an Uproar fighting for Religion, but they mu&s;t bow to the true Prote&s;tant Religion, and God will cau&s;e the Supporters thereof to be highly honoured in all parts of the World. Thus hoping I have &s;poken the truth to all, without re&s;pect of per&s;ons, wherein I am not their enemy, but their friend, being Gods &s;ervant in &s;o doing, for his glory, and the peace and tranquility of his People,</ITEM>
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<CLOSER>Amen, Amen,</CLOSER>
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