Forraign and domestick prophesies

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Forraign and domestick prophesies
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London :: printed, and are to be sold by Lodowick Lloyd, at his shop, next to the Castle in Corn-hill,
1659.
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"Forraign and domestick prophesies." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A84708.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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The Interpretation whereof delivered by her brother Merlin.

Gwendolina my dearly beloved Sister, be not thou discoura∣ged at thy revelation; for it tendeth to thy comfort, and be thou confident that the field which thou sawest signifieth this Island of great Brittain, and the small heaps of stones signifieth the Commonalty of all sorts which get their living through the Industry of their labour, and which do put their whole trust and confidence for their sustenance in the Almighty God.

The great heaps which thou sawest, signifies the whole no∣bility and great ones of this Island, the multitude of people which thou sawest carrying away the stones from the small heaps and pouring of them into the great heaps, signifies the Servants, Bayliffs, and Stewards of the nobility and great ones, which are and which will he hereafter: These, by fraud, op∣pression, and sinister ways and means will queeze the poor and weak, sometimes by colour or pretence of Offices, sometimes in colour of the Legal power, sometimes by fraud and oppre∣ssion, and sometimes by Robbery and Thievery. And where∣as thou sawest the great heaps not increasing or growing bigger by the carriage of the small heaps into them, that signifies the wrath of God against fraud and oppression, which prevents the prospering of such wicked heaping up of riches with the

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doers and their posterity, and whereas thou sawest the small heaps not lessened or diminished, notwithstanding such carri∣age away from them, that signifies that the Servants and Re∣tainers of the great Ones will defraud the poor, yet that God will (out of his infinite goodness) and treasury adde unto their estates, and provide for the oppressed from time to time, for what they shall lose by oppression, God will adde to them another way, especially if they will suffer their oppression with patience and thankfulness, referring the revenge unto the Fa∣ther of Heaven, unto whom only belongs to punish the wick∣ed; for it is he that ordained the strong and weak, notwith∣standing the sufferings of the just in this world, God will pro∣vide for them both in this world, and in the world to come. And verily my sister, this is the right Interpretation of thy Re∣velation.

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