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BISHOP USHER'S

WONDERFUL PROPHECIES OF THESE TIMES WITH SIXTEEN MORE.

Relating to the Affairs in Kingdoms and States; predicting the DOWNFAL of the POPE, the EMPIRE of the TURKS, and the FRENCH KING. With other wonderful things immediately expected to happen.

A Faithful collection of ſundry Prophecies and Predictions, &c.

THOUGH ſome may ſlight Prophecies and Predictions as frivolous and vain, yet not only Holy Scripture, but the experience of moſt ages have found their events, when time has unravelled the myſterious and ambiguous words and phraſes, that make them at firſt ſeem hard and difficult to underſtand, whereof I might inſtance many, but intending only to lay down for the ſatisfaction of the curious, ſuch as are not yet known to be paſſed, but their events expected, I come to what is material.

A Prophecy Recited by Mr. Lilly in the year 1651. Relating to the French Nation.

A Certain Prince as religious as a Turk, ſhall overſpread that peoples territories, and war and deſolation will be occaſioned by the unruly nobility, who by their civil diſſentions ſhall occaſion the ruin of the French monarchy; and if you would know near the time of this great mutation, it ſhall be when a certain King called Henry is twice made a King, and Duke of Florence turns Proteſtant. This prophecy ſeems to hint at the preſent juncture, though written ſo many years ſince, in conſideration the Engliſh and Scotch nation have unanimouſly proclaimed and ſubmitted their crowns to William Henry his preſent Majeſty; ſo that he may be ſaid twice to be made a King.

Another Prophecy of the ſame Author, &c.

THE French King (ſays he) or (as the latin has it) the King of France, ſhall be driven out by his own