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 14, 2024.

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Out of his 8 section, from the Prophesie of St VINCENT.

Then there shall enter ito Italy three most puiss n Armies one from the West, another from h East, and th third from the Nrth, which shall fight to get her, and there shll be such blood sh d as the l ke ath not been seen in Ital sic the world began; and thn h Ege shal ••••k the counterfi King, and all things sha l be subdued and made bdient uno him▪ and

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there shall be a new reformation in the world, but wo and wo again shall be then to the shaven Order, for the sect of divisers and attempters shall cease.

Again, saith the same St Vincent, because the understanding of holy Scripture hath borrowed a strange colour from Philo∣sophers; for the most part of preachers now adayes preach not the simplicity of the Gospl, but the subtilty of Aristotle; in which words the holy man taxeth the nice and subtile kinde of divinity devised by the School-men: Wee have likewise (saith he) drunk water for money; that is to say, we have been made to buy with our money the holy Sacraments, which are the instruments of Gods free grace signified by the water; for now all our Priests are guilty of Simony.

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