Predictions of Christopher Love, Part 1
THE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL PREDICTIONS OF Mr. CHRISTOPHER LOVE, Minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London: WHO WAS BEHEADED ON TOWER-HILL, IN THE TIME OF Oliver Cromwell's Government of England. GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF BABYLON'S FALL, And in that Glorious Event, A GENERAL REFORMATION OVER ALL THE WORLD. With a most Extraordinary PROPHECY, OF THE LATE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND THE Downfall of the Antichristian Kingdom, In that Country.
BY M. PETER JURIEU.
ALSO, NIXON's CHESHIRE PROPHECY.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE following Prophecies, some of which have been accomplished in our own time, must appear interesting, and as such we publish them; those of Mr. LOVE promise great events, which must happen before the present generation passes away: and as to Monsieur JURIEU's predictions, relative to the French Revolution, they point out so clearly part of what has already come to pass, in France, that it may be reasonably presumed the rest will be verified in due time.
PREDICTIONS OF Mr. CHRISTOPHER LOVE,
A FEW nights after he was sentenced to be b…eaded, on Tower-hill, which was on the 22d day of August, 1651, ten days before his appointed time, by the sentence he received at the bar, being one night visited by two of his intimate acquaintances, or bosom friends, as he himself called them, they began to complain of the cruelty of the times, and the malice and usage of time-serving brethren; to which Mr. Love answered, And think you this is an evil time? No, no; this is the very time when grace and true god…iness can be distinguished f…om hypocrisy: many have followed Christ hitherto for the loaves, and are now turned back for the roughness of the way, and the sore trial and tribulation which others met with who are gone be…ore them.
There are many in London at this very day, who think to go to heaven in their gilded coaches, and have denied Christ's cause before men (against whom I now witness) and Christ in his never failing word has promised to deny all such before his father and the holy angels. This is the time to discern be…ween him that s…rveth God, and him that serveth him not. They formerly were my familiar acq…ain…ance, in fellowship and sweet converse. I sent this day to have a few words with them here in prison; but they would not come; for their countenance is fallen, their consciences wounded,—they cannot look me in the face; because I knew of their resolution, and was a witness to their perjuration,— But, ah! how will they look the blessed Jesus in the face in the morning of the resurrection? what answer or excuse will they have for what they have done? O foolish people! who think to escape the cross, nay, you must all suffer persecution who follow the Lamb; we must be hated of all nations for Christ's sake; we must come thro' great tribulation, thro' the fiery furnace of affl…ction, before we can enter the land of joy and felicity. Know ye not that the souls that were slain for the testimony of Jesus are placed under the altar? Happy, happy are those men at this day, and ever shall be happy, who suffer for Christ's sake in a right and charitable way—thro' love to his cause, and honesty of heart: not thro' pride and hypocrisy, without the root of the matter, to have it said they died …: these are they who will miss their mark; and those who denied the call and looked back shall never have the honour to find it I am now pointed out by many to be in a destitute and forlorn condition; but I would not exchange my state, no, not for all the glory that's on the earth; I find my R…deemer's love stronger in my bonds, than ever I did in the days of my liberty; therefore I hold living here as death itself. I am as full of love and joy in the Holy Spirit, as ever bo…le was fi…led with new wine. I am ready to cry out, The spirit of the Lord is upon me; I will not take upon me to prophecy; neve…theless the spirit of the Lord causeth me to utter:—This usurped authority of Cromwell, shall shortly be at an end; England shall be blessed with meek Kings, and mild governments; powerful preachers, and dull hearers: good sermons to them will be as music to a sleepy man; they shall hear, but not understand, nor lay the word … the heart, to practise it in their lives, to walk by it. O England, thou shalt wax old in wickedness; thy sins abound like those of Sodom; thy voluptuousness shall cry aloud for vengeance; the Lord shall threaten and chastise thee, yet in mercy and love will he look upon those that fear him, and call upon his name: he will spare of his anger, when the wicked shall be sifted from amongst you as the chaff is sifted from amongst the wheat; for out of thee, O England, shall a bright star arise, whose light and voice shall make the heathen to quake, and knock under with submission to the gospel of Jesus; he shall be as a sound of thunder in the ears of the wicked, and as a …anthorn to the Jews, to lead them to the knowledge of Jesus, the only son of God, and true Messiah, whom they so long mistrusted, for the short work spoken of by the apostle, which the Lord is to make upon the earth, in the latter age of the world, cannot be far off. Observe, my dear friend, while you live my calculation of the dates in the book of the Revelation, and in Daniel, which the Spirit of the Lord led me into; for the Lord will reveal it to some of his own, ere that time come; for the nearer the time is, the seals shall be taken away, and more and more shall be revealed to God's people; for the Lord doth nothing without he reveal it, by his Spirit, to his servants the prophets: He destroyed not the old world, without the knowledge of Noah—He did not overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah, without the knowledge of Abraham. I do not mean now, that any new prophet shall arise; but the Lord by his Spirit shall cause knowledge to abound among his people, whereby the old prophecies shall be clearly and perfectly understood. And I die in that thought, and really believe that my calculations are right, on the Revelation by St. John, and the prophecy which St. Jerome copied off and translated out of the Hebrew language, as it is written on Seth's pillar in Damascus, which pillar is said to have stood since before the flood and was built by Seth, Adam's son, and written by Enoch the prophet; as likewise the holy precepts whereby the patriarch walked before the law was given to Moses, which were also engraven on the said pillar. whereof many Jews have copies, in their own language written on parchment, and engraven on brass and copper; but the alteration of the date makes them to stagger at it, not knowing that the dates were to be altered by the birth of Christ. First, This prophecy is enti…led. A short work of the Lord's in the latter age of the world. Great earthquakes and commotions by sea and land shall come in the year of God 1779. Great wars in Germany and America, in 1780. The destruction of popery, or Babylon's fall, in the year 1790. God will be known by many in the year 1795. This will produce a great man. The stars will wander, and the moon turn as blood, in 1800. Africa, Asia, and America, will tremble, in 1803. A great earthquake over all the world, in 1805. God will be universally known by all: Then a general reformation, and peace for ever, when the people shall learn war no more. Happy is the man that liveth to see this day!