THE MYSTERY OF Prophesies revealed, By which the Restoring of K. charles the Second TO THE Government of these Three Nations and to extraordinary Glory and Greatness is manifoldly, plainly, and fully convinced by several plates and Prophesies in the Scriptures. And by the infallible Demonstrations of Reason itself.  

C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown, used as a printer's device  
LONDO● 〈…〉 1660,   


C P  ICH DIEN  coronet of the Prince of Wales adorned with three ostrich feathers (Mc Kerrow no. 354)   

The mystery of all true Prophesies faithfully unlocked, and opened, by which the speedy restoring of King Charles the second out of banishment into a Throne of established Advancement, is certainly foreshown.  
WE shall in the first place begin with that in the sevent of Daniel, verse 24. Where we shall find that the Beast or Horn was divers from the ten horns; So is this Government from all Kings and Governments in christendom; For the ten horns were all Monarchyes, that is to say Kingly Governments, but this hath been of late an Anarchy, called commonly a Commonwealth. There are indeed other Common-wealths, as that of the Papists at Venice, the Common-wealth at Genoa, and the Common-wealth of the Protestants, in the Nether-lands, and at Geneva, but in none of them there hath been such an Arbitrary Government as in this, which coming near to the Heathen Roman, and the Mahometan Common-wealth for cruelty, and nearer to that Government of the Devil in Hell, is a Government without any President, except it be hell itself.  
And as the reigning of the Beast continued but for a time, and times, and half a time, So hath this late Government in England, the first began on the third of Novem. 1640. With the rise of the Beast, but was not visible until the Loyal Members, separated from those of the Beast, and Robert Earl of Essex, July the twelfth 1642 was voted the first General to this Monster, this first Reign, or this first time was but a short day, reaching not full two years and an half to an end, and only wounded the witnesses and so went out. The second begun Decemb. 31. 1644. and was the day time of Sir Thomas Fairfax, afterwards Lord Fairfax, the Second General, which continued five years and almost an half, but it was but a short time though it reached beyond the death of both the Witnesses. The third began June twenty six, in the year 1650. and was the time or days of Oliver Crumwel, called afterwards the Lord Protector, the third General which continued longest of the three, for it continued above eight years, and so was a long day, yet but a day, or as a short time, during which the corps of the Witnesses lay all the while dead, and unburied in the streets of the great City. The time, but of the false time, began on the fourth of September 1658. And it was the strides time of Dapper Dick, otherwise Richard; Cromwels Son, the Second Protector, or the half General, which continued but half an year, and expired ever since this Beast, or fatal monster hath lain under a desperate Ague, or tottering Earthquake, which will shortly prove to be the utter ruin of his power.  
And as that little horn in the seventh of Daniel, was said to be a Beast, a false Prophet, and the Son of perdition, which was deprived of his dominion, and consumed and destroyed unto the end; So no doubt but the same Monster in its due time, will arrive unto the same end, for the three days and a half being expired, and the Earthquake coming which shall shake him in pieces, what can be expected every day, but the destruction of those persons that governed in them; And according to the prophesy is it not already come to pass, for where is this Rump, or rotten Members of Parliament? where is this imperfect b●dy of the Beast? Have not the same horns that set it up, that heretofore fought for it, and defend it, pluckd it down again and again, and again, and made it destitute, and naked of all its dignity, and all the pomp which they procured for it, and where are now the horns of the Beast, and the whole power of this Monsters Army? are they not under an Earthquake tottering, and reeling to, and fro, to day friends, and to morrow great Enemies, Lambert against Fleetwood, and Fleetwood against Lambert, and with much ado both piecing together against monk, and Hazlerigg against them all, and the City against him too? But suppose it were possible that they should ocne more all agree, as indeed there are now not the least probabilities of it, yet after these closings, and clashings, the Mountain must break at last, and the Witnesses that were dead and lay in the streets of the great City Shall recoive-breath, as it is in the Revelations.  
This great City is the Roman Empire, and the streets are the several kingdoms thereunto belonging, whereof Jury where our Lord was crucified, was one of them, and this of England where Charles the First was beheaded is another and the Countries of France, Flanders, Germany, and Holland where the Corps of the Witnesses lay were others. The Corpes or the bodies of the Witnesses is Charles the Second, the succeeding King, and the Bishops of the Church, who having Authority from God, are said to be his Witnesses, and wanting power to execute their Authority are said to be but dead Corpes; Now when the Beast of the bottonles pit prevailed, and had killed the Witnesses in being, the heirs of them as you do red it in the Revelations were carried away into a place of security, on two wings of an Eagle, this Eagle signifieth the Roman Empire which carrieth an Eagle in its standard, and they by course preserved the King, and his flying Clergy, who seemed like the woman persecuted in the Wilderness, and the Dragon sent out water out of his mouth like a Flood, to persecute this woman, by which is meant the Dragon sent poison out of England, after the King and his little company, to swallow them up, which they attempted by several ways, but because they could not effect it, they fell upon the rest of the seed which remained at home, and by Imprisonment, Murder, Sequestration, and Exile, they persecuted all who were found to keep the Commandment of God; But this persecution lasted not long, for old cronwell who raised this persecution, and for nothing but his own pleasure, Murdered the reverend Doctor Heuit, the Noble Sir Henry Slingsby and others, and who Imprisoned heaps of Innocents, was quickly after smitten by God, with a Regiment of diseases at once, after whom his Son, and Successor not staying long enough to be warm in his robes, was deposed by those horns that had advanced him, and wanted opportunity to show whether he had any teeth or not, since which the whole Horn of the Beast have been so vexed, and disturbed with a difference betwixt their own hoofs and hairs, and a quarreling betwixt the tail and ears, that they have not had the leisure to hatch the mischiefs they had conce●ved; And now the Earthquake increasing, Fleetwood and Desborough being fallen aside, and the new building of the committee of Safety turned upside downward, what can be expected but that this Monster shall be destroyed; For the King and Clergy having lain a long time as it were dead, being now in greater hopes then ever of being restored, may be said to have the spirit of life in them again, and to stand upon their feet, and there are voices from Heaven, that is from the disconsolate members of the Church called Heaven, saying come up hither, so that all good men by their helping hands, and their prayers furthering it; the King, and the Clergy are ascended, although that as yet, it is but in a Cloud, that is, darkly, and not fully out of their calamities.  
The time, and times, and half time being thus ended; Behold wherein the seventh of Daniel, there cometh one like the Son of man riding upon white clouds in heaven; And the ancient of days shall give him an everlasting kingdom, This ancient of days is doubtless the Lord Christ. The clouds do signify calamities; The whiteness of them implies Innocency, and the riding on them doth import a Command or Victory over them; And by David the Servant of the Lord, who is to be the great Deliverer of the Jews, is doubtless meant Charles the Second, as evidently may appear by these following Demonstrations.  
For First, If his Father was the head of the slain Witnesses, who shall be the head of those that rise from the dead; but the Son, who is the true heir both of his Fathers Name, Virtues, and Authority? Who can better or more properly be the Witnesses, reigning but those who are the Witnesses suffering? And who are they but the King his Court, and Clergy, the Corps that lie unburied in the street.  
Secondly what King except our sovereign, who ought to be, and is another King David, did ever ride on so many clouds, that is; on so many calamities, what man but he then can be the man on the cloud, that is to be advanced by the ancient of days?  
Thirdly, What man was ever more like unto the Son of man then this sacred King, who, First of all, was born to be a King with him; Secondly, he was pointed out as he was by an extrordinary Star. Thirdly, pursued into a worse condition then Birds, and Foxes with him. Fourthly slandered for a friend to Papists, and Malignants, as the Son of man was of being a friend to Publicans, and Sinners. Fifthly, Slandered for a Sabbath-breaker. Sixthly for a Deceiver. Seventhly, Slandered for being a traitor to his Country. Eighthly, Was driven( as the Son of man into egypt) so was he into the North, and the furthest parts and borders of his kingdom for his safety.  
This relation may be spoken of the young prince now at Brussels, as he may be resembled to the Son of man, let us see how the comparison in these proceeding observations may hold with his Father. First, He was persecuted under pretence of the peoples liberty; So was the Son of man. Secondly, it was followed with a Command, that all men should discover where he was, so was Christ. Thirdly, He was bought, and sold for money, so was he. Fourthly, He was taken, Imprisoned, and tried for his life at a High Courr of Justice, so was Christ also. Fifthly, He was condemned by his own Subjects, in all, just as he was; Sixthly, He was railed on by the people and Soldiers, crying Justice, Justice against him, as they cried out against our Saviour, crucify him, crucify him. Sevently, He was so mocked, and had just such Enemies; Lastly, he dyed, was lamented and butted like him, why then should he not reign with him, yea and that extroardinarily, since the resemblance all along was so extraordinary.  
But let us return in the comparison to the Prince again, what man ever was more like unto Gods servant David, then this blessed servant of the Lords, who had First such Enemins to deal with. Secondly, Such persecutions both at home and beyond the Seas as he. Thirdly, who in the same manner was entertained by foreigners, and Papists, as he was by the Heathens. Fourthly, Called every where plain Charles Steuart, as he was the Son of Jesse. Fifthly, Who held so honourably to the imitation of Davids virtues, Witness his denying to licence the killing of cromwell, when opportunity was offered, Witness also the keeping of his faith, though he lived amongst Papists, as David amongst the Idolaters, who therefore can be this servant David which is spoken of by the Prophet that should deliver the Jews, but this man only, for the natural line of David being extinct and ending in Christ, it was by Chris● translated from the natural into the spiritual stock. This therefore cannot be understood so much by some of Davids prosterity as by this noble Prince.  
But to proceed, doth not the Scripture point at him very nearly when it saith in one place, That the Name of the Lord should be brought by him to the Jews, and so come from far? And again when it saith, That the ity from whence this great King shall come is as Mount Sion, that shall be beautiful for situation, and the joy of the whole Earth, A City that sitteth not on the South fide of Jerusalem, as the Jews Sion did, but on the sides of the North of christendom, even as the Church of England at this day doth, being distinguished from all the world, and very far from Judea, for England exactly and only is neither too much Southerly, nor too much Northerly, neither East, nor full West, but on the Western side of the North, and therefore the King of England must needs be the David, or the King here spoken of, and of all Kings that ever were in England, this present King must needs be the man.  
You shall again observe him to be a person of extraordinary sufferings, and that in his youth and innocence, and to be the Son of an innocent sufferer, which are both of them extraordinary, which being the usual path way and the Method of God unto preferment, we may conclude him to be the undoubted person, and heir marked out for extrordinary Glory and greatness. Again he hath been extraordinarily preserved from the paw of the Lion, during all the wars in his Fathers time, and from many desperate dangers both before, at, and after Worcester fight, and lately from many attempts against him in Brabant, and Flanders, by which it most evidently doth appear, that he is a person most dear in Gods eye. and preserved for some extraordinary Advancement. He s a person again of extraordininary Faith and virtue, and fit for such extraordinary service, as the governing of these three Nations, and restoring the ruined Church, and lastly, he is a person endued with an extraordinary gift of curing diseases, but by touch only as is manifest to all the world, and therefore to be declared the David of these latter days, the man spoken of in the Revelation, riding on the clouds of Heaven, and ordained to have the Government over Nations being as eminent for his virtue, as for the righteousness of his cause, and as famous a Saint, as a Sufferer.   
FINIS.