A true relation of some passages which passed at Madrid in the year 1623. by Prince Charles, being then in Spain prosecuting the match with the Lady Infanta.: As also, severall observations of eleven ominous presages, some of them hapning in the same hear whil'st the said Prince was in Spain, the rest of them hapned from that time untill his death. With a discovery of some of the wayes which the then Popish Bishops used to bring Poperie into this nation. / By a lover of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.

To the Impartial Reader.

READER,

I Had no intent ever to have put in print these Ominous Presages, for they have been of an ancient standing in my head; (the most part of them) old things being fit for nothing but to be forgotten, or at least laid aside. But a friend of mine knowing that I had observed them long agoe (some of them being of 30. years standing or more) de∣sired me to give him a short brief of them, which I did, but when I had collected my memory, and saw the troubles that do dayly increase by some who delight to fish in troubled wa∣ters; and considering that there are many good people that are not yet setled in their hearts concerning these mutable times, but do still continue opposite to the Government as now it is, and do not once think of, or it may be never heard of any of those sad Presages which the Lard sent to give warning to those that would take warning or notice of them and lay them to their hearts. I did also then consider with my self, that if they were published to the view of all the Na∣tion, that they may give good satisfaction to some, and might draw them from their self-opinions, which of a long time they have had of these most turbulent times, so that if they will but look up to God, they shall plainly see, that the hand of God is in all the actions that hath passed untill this day; and that no one tittle of the work that the Lord hath appointed to be done, but it shall be fully effected, though men strive never so much against it. Therefore I desire thee to consider well of what thou shalt find written in these few lines, (for they are truth) and were acted by those which sought to bring in Popery to this Nation, in those days when

they had the reines in their own hands. And certainly these Predictions are true, and were purposely sent by God to some (though not to all) that they might take notice of them. I having long agoe spoke with some that did take notice of them as well as my self (and did look upon them as from the hand of God). And I do wish in my heart that all those into whose hands they shall come, to read them carefully and im∣print them in their hearts, and be well advised how they do practise or contrive any thing tending to the shedding of any more innocent bloud in this Nation; for certainly they will be found out, and themselves will have as great a share in the destruction which they do practice as any of those shall have which they shall practise against, either in their lives, Limbs, Estates, Wives, Children, and all that is deer unto them; nay which is the greatest of all, their souls will have the greatest losse when they shall lose heaven, with∣out the great mercy of God. I will conclude with the words of the Psalmist, O that men would fear the Lord and praise his holy name, for his mercie endu∣reth for ever! For certainly he will (as heretofore he hath done) overthrow the horse and his rider if they do persist in their exorbitant wayes. And I will now say with Paul, as in an other case, My hearts desire to God is, that men would serve the Lord with fear and trembling, and fit still and see the Lords work done in his onwn good time.