But his Majesty being then alive, I
forbore much of that subject, not willing to give offence. I dedicated
that book unto him; and, in the conclusion thereof, I advised his return
unto Parliament, with these words, _Fac hoc & vives_.
There was also a _Prophecy_ printed 1588, in Greek characters, exactly
decyphering the long troubles the English nation had from 1641 until
1660; and then it ended thus:
'And after that shall come a dreadful dead man, and with him a Royal G.'
[it is Gamma in the Greek, intending C. in the Latin, being the third
letter in the alphabet,] 'of the best blood in the world, and he shall
have the Crown, and shall set England on the right way, and put out all
heresies.'
Monkery being extinguished above eighty or ninety years, and the Lord
General's name being Monk, is the Dead Man. The Royal G. or C. is
Charles the Second, who, for his extraction, may be said to be of the
best blood in the world.
These two prophecies were not given vocally by the angels, but by
inspection of the crystal in types and figures, or by apparition the
circular way, where, at some distance, the angels appear, representing
by forms, shapes, and creatures, what is demanded.
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