A Prophesie of the Judgment Day.
Being lately found in Saint Denis Church in France,
and wrapped in Leade in the forme of an Heart.
To the tune of the Ladyes fall.
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[?] [w]onders of the Lord are great,
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[?] daylie may be seene,
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[F]ier, Water, Ayre, and Earth,
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[Wh]ich hath full often beene,
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[?]ple doe we take,
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[?] courses runne,
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[?]age more sinne commit,
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[?] were new begun.
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[?] daylie doe arise,
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[W]horedome, Theft, and Pride:
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[?]ters we doe reject,
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[?]rdes should be our guide.
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[?] there any peace as yet,
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[?] ull then now:
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[?] and Corne, & all thinges else,
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[?]uly power did low.
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[?] great unthankefulnesse,
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Gods powerfull hand:
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Great store of Floods, and Raine,
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[?] fruitefull Land;
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[?] thinke good people then,
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[?] will send a scourge:
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[?]or our wickednesse,
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[?]nnes, his wrath doth urge.
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[?]ke upon the Latter day,
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[?]raweth to an end:
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[?]t thou upon this world,
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[?]eft thoughtes depend,
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[?] not alwayes heere to live,
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[?]nke that thou must die:
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[?] being come, you must away,
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[?]ling of an eye.
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[?] by Gods owne promise made,
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[?]ot long endure:
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[?]he [sayd], is truth it selfe:
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[?]oth [?] else, so sure.
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For he hath P[?] [?]t he will,
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our time more [?] [?]ake:
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And that heele Cut [?] [?]ees,
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even for his Elects [?]
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As by a Prophesie in France,
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the which was lately found:
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In Parchment writ, and wrapt in Lead,
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most close unto the ground.
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Within a Churches wall, which then,
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was pulled downe to mend:
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Which shew'd eare thirteene yeeres were past,
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the world should come to end.
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The first Prophesie for the yeere, 1620.
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The wordes were these, which then were found:
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within this sacred place,
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Great Warres shalbe in Italy,
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within this little space.
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Which is no doubt Gods handy worke,
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to Plague them for their pride:
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Which doth with foule Idolatry,
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his holy name deride.
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The Second Prophesie for the yeere 1622.
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There shall not be a shepheard left,
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to feed the silly Flocke:
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Then let us pray that in our hearts,
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he Graft a surer stocke;
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And that we may not be bereft,
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of Pasters, us to teach:
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But that amongst us he will send,
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good men his word to Preach.
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The third Prophesie for the yeere 1623.
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The wrath of God shall shew it selfe,
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throughout the world so wide:
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Which he will powre upon us all,
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for our incessant Pride.
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Then let us pray with full consent,
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that he may hold his hand:
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And that he will not wreake his wrath,
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upon our sinfull Land.
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The fourth Prophesie for the yeere 1624[.]
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God shall be knowne but of a few,
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which is a grieuous thing:
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That wee so little should regard,
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our God, the heavenly King.
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Who sent his Sonne to save our Soules,
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from Sathan, Death, and Hell:
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And that we should in heavenly blisse,
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with him for ever dwell.
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The fifth Prophesie for the yeere 1625.
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A great man shall arise, they say,
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which is a thing conceald:
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And unto few but Godly men,
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the same shall be revealed.
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Then let us pray which little know,
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that wee may ready bee:
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For him the which in glory sits,
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from all eternite.
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The sixth Prophesie for the yeere 1626.
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The fourt part of the Earth shall burne,
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the Sunne shall darkned bee,
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The Moone shall powre foorth streames of blood,
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which fearefully will see,
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Unto the Soules which ill have done:
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but joyfull to the rest:
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The bad twill terryfie to death,
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and greatly joy the rest.
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The Second part of the Prophesie
To the same tune.
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The seventh Prophesie for the yeere 1628.
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AN universall Earthquake shall
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upon this Globe remaine:
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The earth shall seeme to moove and stir,
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so shall the Oceans maine:
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Then if his breath can shake the same,
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which is the God of might.
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How could he plague us if he pleas'd
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but with his force to smite.
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The eight Prophesie for the yeere 1629.
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The Infidels true God shall know,
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and Trinity professe:
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God graunt which wee that Christians are,
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may never doe the lesse:
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If those which doe not feare the Lord,
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shall truest Christians turne.
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Then wee which know the living God,
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in Hels hot flame shall burne.
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The ninth Prophesie for the yeere 1630.
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The Rivers shall be dryed up,
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one Shepheard shall remaine,
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And but one Shepefold shall be left,
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God's glory to maintaine.
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Which is the latter day of all:
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where but one God shall raigne,
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Then let us labour day and night:
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his favour to obtaine,
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Great God which sit'st in heavenly Throane
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graunt that we sinners may,
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Have place in thy eternall Court,
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where holy Saints doe pray.
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Still holy, holy Lord of Lords
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and Spirit full of grace,
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God graunt that in that Kingdome wee,
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may have a resting place.
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Behold I come shortly: blessed is hee that keepeth
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the words of the Prophesie.
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Revelation. 22.7.
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These here under written, are the true
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words of the Prophesie of the last Judge-
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ment, which were translated into English,
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out of the Hebrue copy, being found un-
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der Saint Denis Church in the great City of
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Paris in France, and was wrapped in Lead
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in the forme of a Heart. 1616. Which co-
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py hath been sent to divers great Princes
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of Christendome in France.
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1620. There shall be great warres through
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Italy.
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1622. There shall not be a Shepheard to
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feed the flocke.
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1623. The wrath of God shall shew it selfe
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through the whole World.
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1624. God shall be knowne but of a few.
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1625. A Great Man shall arise.
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1626. Affrica shall burne: the Sunne shall
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be darkned, etc. Math. 24.29. And the
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Moone shall be bluddy. Reve. 6.12.
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1628. There shall be an universall Earth-
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quake.
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1629. Infidels shall know the Trinity and
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unitie of the Godhead.
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1630. The Ryvers shall be dryed up, and
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there shall be but one Shepheard, and one
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Sheepefolde.
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