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THe Original French of following Admonition I received lately in Holland of the
Author, whose Name is thereunto subscribed; a Gentleman of an Ancient Family in
Languedoc, whose Seat is an ancient Castle of the same Name with himself, about
three English Miles from Montpeilier, with a considerable Revenue thereunto belonging.
But he was forced to leave it, and all that he had, after two years Imprisonment, for
his Religion. And this is his Condition at present. The Author of the Admonition, which he
mentions, was his Younger Brother, who died near three years since, of about Forty eight
years of Age, a Person, as he saith, of great Piety and Credit, and of extraordinary Knowledge of
things absent and future. And of him our Author received both Admonition before-hand of the
things here said to have happened to him, and an Explication afterward of the Mysteries of them,
and the Signification thereof. He is not without Witnesses of the truth of what he relates; but
they are dispersed into several Parts, and some of them now in England.
It was the Author's Desire to have it committed to the English as soon as might be, and my
Good-will to my Country, and desire to serve them, inclined me to lend him my Assistance therein
without much difficulty, both because it doth agree so much with the known Prediction of
Bishop Usher, and because the State and Course of Affairs seem to agree but too much with both, in
a manifest tendency to the Accomplishment of them. And that the Reader may not be so much diHale, who, when I shewed it him in Writing before ever
IL faut être dans un grand aveuglement pour
ne s'être pas apperceu, que la colere de
Dieu paroit alummée depuis long temps presque
sur toutes les parties de l'Europe, de sorte qu'il
semble que Dieu vueille comme par un nouveau
deluge exterminer toute chair; puisqu'il n'est
que trop uray qu'elle s'est portée á toute sorte
d'excess. L'indignation du Tout-puissant a
commencé á le respandre en particulier presque
sur tous ceux, qui portent le nom des Protestans.
Ces raisons devoient nous porter a nous amen
Il y a plus de vingt ans que je receus une let
Madam de Turene, Monsieur de Rouvigny,
& Monsieur Gaches Ministre de l'Eglise de Cha
Un Vaisseau ogitè d'une rude Tempete en piteux
êtat. Lorsqu'un Enfant, n'avant su eveiller les Ma
Il y a environ huiet a neuf ans que je receus
un coup de Foudre de jour; j'avois été averti
de de ce coup trois ans avant qu'il tomba sur
moy & par trois diverses fois: Ce coup fut
suivi environ six semaines apres d'un coup de
Tonnerre, qui tomba de nuit (dont même etoit
averti.) Je fus obligé de faire eveiller tous
ceux, qui estoyent chez moy an lict: Nous
fusmes au lieu ou je faisois precher; je faisois
lire la parole de Dieu, lorsque le Tonnere tomba
sous mes pieds: Le lieu ou nous estions estoit
pavé & les rochers au dessous: Ou entendoit
gronder le Tonner sous moy, qui estois 'elo
Etant en Etat de quitter la Province ou je
faisois mon sejour, il y a environ cinq á six ans,
l'auteur des avis, qui a rêcu d'une vie si chre
O Roy un plus grand Roy que Toy te commande:
songe aut conte que tu dois rendre plutôt que tu ne
penses: Et a fin, O Angleterre si tu te rends com
L'orage est furieux rempli d'horreur & de
carnage, Tachez á le prevenir á fin que votre
Contree soit une Contre de paix, une Isle for
Guettes Israel c'est ici le tems de veiller & de
prier, C'est le tems de cries á plein gosier & de
ne se point epargner, sonnez du Cornet en Sion,
Reveillez les Peuples endormis, Insistez en tems
& hors tems, & Ditez hardiment á Jerusalem,
qu'elle fe repente á fin qu'il y ait Paix pour elle
& non une souddain destruction: Car le Ton
HE must be very blind, who perceives not
that the Wrath of GOD hath long since
been kindled against all parts almost of Europe;
so that he seems resolved to destroy all Flesh
again as it were with a New Deluge, since it is
but too true, that they have abandon'd themselves
to all kind of Wickedness. But the Indignation
of the Almighty hath begun to manifest it self
more especially against those who are called ProAnd by those means ought we to have
been induced to Repentance and the Reformation
of our Manners. But Heaven and Earth are Witor well
considered, What it is to afflict our Souls and
amend our Lives. Hence it is that the JudgFrance have been made to
see by Experience, since we neglected the Admo
It is now twenty years and upwards, since
I received a Letter, which admonished Me of Our
approaching Miseries [in France,] and the
Means to prevent them: Which were, to call toten years
after, when I understood that, and saw the Event
of much of that which was foretold, I acquainted
those Gentlemen with it: But they regarded not
what I said. Which made the Consequence so sad.
There are now in England divers Ministers, who
were present when I shewed the Letter which was
sent me.
The same Advice which was given to me, was
sent also to Madam Turone, and to the Sieur
Rouvigny, and to Mr. Gache Minister of Charenton,
and to the Synod of Languedock: And
when the Author, who sent these Admonitions,
understood that nothing was done thrreupon, be
wrote thus to me:
Very unhappy is that Ship, which being shaEvery one shift for himself.
Wo to him who loves not our Lord Jesus, and
doth not carry the Divine Crucified One daily
in his Heart.
About Eight or Nine years since a sudden
stroke as of Thunder struck me down in the
Day-time (about Eight in the Morning) according
to three several Warnings thereof given to me three
years before. This was followed about six Weeks
after by a Thunder in the Night: Whereof I had
also been admonished. Whereupon I called up all
who were in Bed in my House; and we went into
the Room where we used to have Prayers, and
there read the Scriptures. While that was doing
it Thundered under my Feet, though the plate was
paved and upon a Rock. We all heard the Noise
of Thunder (directly) under Me (who was at a
distance from them, though all in the same Room)
as loud as it used to be in the Air, and for some
time. Yet we left not off our Reading the ScripFrance
and England. There are in England several per
About five or six years since, when I was to
leave the Countrey where I dwelt, the Author o
O King, (meaning the French King,) a greate
King than thee commands [or rules] thee: conAnd in the End.
O England, if thou make thy self partaker i
The Storm is violent, full of Horror and DeEden: Which is the hearty desire of
Postscript.] You, who are Watchmen of IsraeSion; Awaken the sleeping People: Be instant
season, and out of seasor, and speak boldly to Jerusalem,
that she repent, that so Peace may be unto he
THe Year before he died, being asked, Wbether he did believe that Great Persecution of the Church
of God in England, Scotland and Ireland, (of which he had spoken with great confidence
many years before in time of great Peace) to be passed, or yet to come? He said, That it was yet to
come, and that he did as confidently expect it, as ever he had done; adding, That this said Persecution
would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe. And when it was answered, It might be hoped
that it might have been past in these Nations, by reason of the Devastation and Bloodshed which
had been in the late Civil War: He replied with a very serious and stern Look,
Fool not your self with such Hopes; for I tell you, All you have yet seen, hath been but the
Beginning of Sorrows, to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ: Who will
e're long fall under a Sharper Persecution than ever yet has been upon them. And therefore
look you be not found in the
Outward Court, but a Worshipper in the Temple before the Altar.
For Christ will measure all those who profess his Name, and call themselves his People; and the
Outward Worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles. The Outward Court is
the Formal Christian, whose Religion lies in performing the Out-side Duties of Christianity, without
having an Inward Life, and Power of Faith and Love Uniting them to Christ. And those God will
leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles. But the Worshippers within the Temple
and before the Altar, are those who do indeed worship God in Spirit and in Truth, whose Souls
are made his Temple, and he is honoured and adored in the most inward Thoughts of their
Hearts; and they sacrifice their Lusts and vise Affections, yea, and their own Wills to him. And
these God will hide in the Hollow of his Hand, and under the Shadow of his Wings. And this
shall be one great Difference between this last and all the other preceding Persecutions: For in
the former, the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer most,
and were most violently fallen upon; but in this last Persecution, these shall be preserved by God
as a Seed to partake of that Glory, which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church,
as soon as this Storm shall be over: For as it shall be the Sharpest, so it shall be the Shortest PerHypocrites and Formal Profissors; but the
true Spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be overpassed.
To this I think very pertinent that Excellent Passage of his to the same Person, concerning
Sanctification, in these words:
I must tell you, We do not well understand what
Sanctification and the New Creature are. It
is no less than for a Man to be brought to an intire Resignation of his Will to be Will of God;
and to live in the offering up of his Soul continually in the flames of Love, as a whole Burnt.
Offering to Christ. And how little are many of those, who profess Christianity, experimentally
acquainted with this Work on their Souls!
Some Circumstances of the Persecution aforesaid are mentioned in the Printed Paper of his Previz. the Time. Of which yet it may be observed, that he seems in
divers Discourses to have intimated it so, as it must be now very near, by telling some Persons,
viz. such as were ancient, that they should not live to see it, and others that they might, that is
by course of years, and among others Judge Hale, who, had he been now living, had been upwards
of Eighty one. Besides, if the same was signified by the Thunder under-ground mentioned by
Mr. St. Jean, that seems to agree well with the Manner mentioned by the Archbishop, of a sudden
unexpected Massacre.
LONDON, Printed for J. Harris in the Poultrey, 1691.