DOOMSDAY: OR, The great Day of the Lords judgement, proved by Scripture; and two other Prophecies, the one pointing at the year 1640. the other at this present year 1647. to be even now near at hand.  
WITH The gathering together of the Jews in great Bodies under Josias Catzius (in Illyria, Bithynia, and Cappadocia) for the conquering of the Holy Land.  2 Peter 3.10, 11. 
The day of the Lord will come as thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the element shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.  
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness.  (The Prophecy of Enoch the seventh from Adam.) 
Behold the Lord cometh with thousands of his Saints.  
April 8 th'. LONDON, Printed for W. Ley. 1647.   

Doomsday: or, the great day of the Lords Judgement, proved by Scripture to be even now near at hand.  
SEtting aside all opinions of the Ethnics who (some of them) affirm, that as the world had no beginning, so it shall never have end, that there are more worlds than one, that the face of things shall only be changed, and not a final dissolution; we will inform ourselves out of the Word of God, and from two other Prophecies, never before imparted, and find out so far forth as we may whether or no the destruction of the world, and the second coming of Christ, be not even now to be expected.  
It were needless to go about to prove, that most part of the Prophecies of the ancient Prophets are already fulfilled.  
Christ the Son of God, is come in the flesh, and hath performed the work of our redemption: the Gospel hath been preached to all Nations, yea to those Nations that (when our Lord lived on earth) were not so much as heard of, nor known to be under heaven, who have been converted from Paganism to Christianity, and are at this day zealous for the truth; the Jews who betrayed the Lord of life, and crucified their redeemer, whose blood, according to their rash desires, hath been upon the heads of them and their children, and have (according as he prophesied) been scattered among all Nations: the remnant of those many hundred thousands the Sword of God, and Vespasian had spared, the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, viz. the head of a swine in derision of the Jewish Religion set up over the gate of that Temple where God himself was once pleased to dwell, and which may certainly assure us, that the day of doom is even now at hand, according to the Prophecies of the Prophets; that before that day there shall be a restauration of Israel, even those people the Jews, according to certain and credible information, are at this time 
* Under Josias Catzim, and according to Letters from beyond the Seas, they are numerous, and show themselves in great bodies in Illyria, Bethinia and Cappadocia.  assembling themselves together into one body from out of all countries, wherinto they have been driven with a resolution to regain the holy land once more out of the hand of Ottoman: But here me thinks I hear some men say, but yet is not come the downfall of the Whore of Babylon, who hath made all Nations drunk with the wine of her fornication; That man of Sin, the Pope, who sitteth in the Temple of God, and is worshipped as God, hath not yet tasted of the fierceness of God's wrath. I answer, That the fall of that Antichrist is even now at this present, he sitteth tottering on his seat, he hath a long time pursued the Israelites, viz. the faithful servants of Jesus Christ, but now his Chariot wheels are taken off England, Scotland, and Wales, which some three hundred years ago was wholly in subjection to the papal Throne, and wandered groping in an Egyptian darkness of Popery and Superstition, are now illuminated with the glorious light of the Gospel, and enjoy the pure and undoubted Word of God, sufficient for the salvation of their souls; the house of Austria have burst in sunder their yoke, and cast off the bondage of Antichrist, the Danes and Hollanders, sometime superstitious Papists, are at this present sincere Protestants. France even now also looking two ways, and desirous to renounce the Pope's power, with divers other Kingdom's Principalities, Provinces and Dukedoms, formerly yielding obedience to the See of Rome, now the haters of his usurped power: 
* Rev. 18.20.  rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy Apostles and Prophets, for God hath avenged you on her 
* Chap. 19 Vers. 1.  for true and righteous are his judgements, for he hath judged the great Whore▪ which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, but some may object, and say, why yet the great and mighty King of Spain with others, stand firm to his holiness? I answer, and so may do (even till 
* The meaning of that place Rev. 18.17, 8.  Christ coming to judgement) she shall sit as a Queen and say, I am no widow; she shall say, though these Nations and those Kingdoms are departed from me, and are the servants of the living God, yet I am no widow, the King of Spain etc. is my husband, and still maintaineth my abominations: But mark what the Holy Ghost: saith, 
* Chap. 18. Vers. 8.  therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly burnt with fire, and lest any should doubt her so sudden subversion, the words ensuing tell them, without doubt it shall be so, for strong is the Lord who judgeth her: This bringeth a Prophecy into my mind, which I once saw in the study of a great Scholar, and no mean Antiquary who deceased some few years since, which I copied out, and having this opportune occasion, will present it to public view.  
When Chawcers Prophecy shall be  
Found true by folk of Brittany,  
When England's walls, and Scotland's shall  
Have pure religion amongst them all,  
Then lo the Pope shall tumble down,  
And F. shall wear his triple crown.  
Now the Prophecy of Geoffrey Chawcer, who flourished in the days of King Richard the second, ran thus.  
When faith fails in Priests Saws,  
And Lord hests are taken for Laws,  
Then shall the Isle of Brittanîe  
Be brought into great misery.  
Now let us compare and examine these two Prophecies: The first saith, when Chawcers Prophecy shall be fulfilled, when troubled and miseries shall come upon great Britain, occasioned through the wickedness of the Pastors, who (themselves erring from the way) cause the people to walk astray with them; for so he certainly meant when he said, When faith fails in Priests Saws.  
The fulfilling of the Prophecy we all know before our present distractions: Was not the most part of the Clergy of this Kingdom given over to vice, and Epicurism? when arbitrary power shall be endeavoured to be set up, and the Subjects of the Kingdom brought into bondage: for so he no doubt meant when he said, When Lords hest are taken for Laws.  
Do we not know, that before the breaking forth of our present distractions, the power of the King was divulged to be over the people both body and goods, that a few persons in favour with his Majesty, imposed upon the Subjects of this Kingdom the great loan of Ship-money; and that the Earl of Strafford proposed, that the tyrannical power of the Kings of France might warrantably be exercised by the Kings of England; therefore when things should be thus carried, he prophesied:  

His Prophecy began to be effected in the year 1640. and was fulfilled in the year 1644.  Then shall the Isle of Brittany  
Be brought into great misery.  
And have not our eyes seen the same fulfilled? What greater misery can come to a nation, then to be at variance among themselves, mutually to sheathe their swords in each others bowels, to batter down Cities o'er one another's heads, to have their Sovereign in arms against them, and in a word, to have all the calamities of war at once heavy upon them; and this hath this poor Kingdom of England, till of late, undergone; therefore the fulfilling of Chawcers Prophesy none but a mad man will deny.  
But now for the other Prophecy, it comes more near unto us, even to this present year 1647. for are not the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Wales entered into a solemn League and Covenant, to set up one and the same Religion in the three Kingdoms? then (if granted) now is the long looked for year come, that Antichrist shall fall, and then the day of Doom shall happen, But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels which are in heaven, Mat. 13.32. that is, no man can positively affirm, that such a day in such a month, & at such an hour. The Prophet Daniel giveth us the time when it shall be, saying, Dan. 12.1. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, to that time: and is not that time now. Is not the whole world involved in waters, was there ever such a time of trouble as there is now, since there was a Nation upon the earth? And that these troubles foretell the near approach of the day of judgement, the very next Verse informs us: And many of them what sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some so overlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting c●●●●●…p●. Again, for our Saviour's Prophecy, Mark 23. confirming the Prophecy of the Prophet joel, Iod 3.15. That the Sun shall be darkened, and the Moon turned into blood, it is the opinion of the Ancients, and of ●he best of our mode●● Divines, that the darkness of the Sun, not ●●●●●…tion of the Moon is not to be expected, but rather the mystical sense thereof, the Sun being taken for the glorious light of the Gospel, the Moon to presigure the Church. But now what is meant when he saith, And F. shall wear his triple crown?  
I am not able to determine, whether (as is most likely) that some Prince, the first letter of whose name gins in F. shall pluck the Pope out of his Throne, let the learned judge, whose knowing minds are able to dive into such deep mysteries: it sufficeth me to be informed, that the ruin of Antienrist is near, even at the door, and that the day gins to draw nigh that God will visit them that dwell upon the earth, when God will make of them what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and that the righteous man shall stand with great boldness before the faces of them that have afflicted him, who when they see it, shall be amazed with terrible fear, and wonder at the strangeness of his salvation; and they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit within themselves, shall say, this is he whom we had sometime in derision, and a proverb of reproach, we fools accounted his life madness, but now he is numbered among the children of God, and hath his lot with the Saints.  
There is a report spread abroad, and the common talk about London, and so consequently over England, that such a day in such a week the day of Doom shall happen: others will have it, that on that day Christ shall come again on earth, and there personally reign with his Elect a thousand years; and opinion monstrous, and to be abhorred as much as their opinion who contend, that the devils shall at length be released from their torments. We are sufficiently informed in the Scriptures, and next to them from others, that the day of Doom is even now at hand, and that the second coming of Christ is each day and hour to be expected; what remaineth then, but that we prepare ourselves to meet the Bridegroom, with the loins of our minds girded, and oil in our lamps, that when our Lord cometh, he may say, well done good and faithful servants, enter ye into your master's joy.  
FINIS.