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WONDERFUL PROPHECIES OF THESE TIMES.

WITH SIXTEEN MORE,

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

HOUGH 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, wherof 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 in the year 1651. Relating to the French Nation.

Certain Prince as religious as a Turk, ſhall everſpread 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 and 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 Authors, &c.

HE French King (ſays he) or (as latin has it) the King of France, ſhall be driven out by his own people; King for he will exerciſe very great tyranny againſt his ſubjects and againſt the church of Chriſt, being inſtigated,