THE FAMOUS PROPHESIE OF THE
White King
and the
Dead Man
Explain'd To the Present TIMES.
CONTAINING
The Introduction.
I. The
White King
's Character and Description.
I. The Time when the
White King
shall raise the
Dead Man,
and the Signs of his Coming.
That the
Dead Man
is the
Lyon
's Whelp which the
Eagle
had drove away from the Old
Lyon
before.
The Business that the
Dead Man
is sent about by the
White King.
I. The
Dead Man
's Governor, and what he does with his Charge.
II. The Signs when the
Dead Man
and the
White King
shall be Destroy'd, after which Peace shall be Establish'd for ever more.
By
ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE,
Esq
LONDON
Printed for
J. Morphew,
near
Stationers-Hall.
THE Famous Prophesie OF THE
White King
and the
Dead Man,
&c.
IT will be necessary to inform the Reader that this
Prophesie
was writ
seven hundred
Years ago in
Latin,
and found about
a hundred
Years since at the pulling down of an old
Monastry:
All
e parts of this
Prophesie
are already come to pass
t this last, which you will find by the sequel is
w at hand: The first thing that was foretold by
was the
Union
of the two
Crowns
under one
Mo
rch,
after the Death of the
Maiden Queen;
the ext thing was the Troubles of
England,
and the
eath of King
Charles
the
Martyr;
the third thing
as the
Exile;
and the fourth the
Restauration
of
ing
Charles
the Second; after that, this
Prophesie
mes to the late
Revolution
and describes it; by
Eagle
coming out of the
East,
landing in the
South,
nd coming to the
West,
where, at an old Castle that ands by the River side that washes the Walls of
Briain
's Metropolis, the Great and Mighty Men of the
ingdom shall come to receive him, and offer him their
ervice to catch the Old
Lyon
's Whelp; the last Pro
hesie that shall come to pass is just succeeding the time
at
England
and
Scotland
shall lose their former
Names, and be swallow'd up in that of
Great Britai
and then shall be explain'd this of the
White King
a
the
Dead Man.
The
White King,
and his Character.
He is th
great Red Dragon who is gorg'd and ready to burst wit the Blood of all Nations: He is known by the mightiness of his Power, and the absoluteness of his Dominion The best of his Subjects are the greatest of his Slaves and his most applauded Acts of Devotion consist in th Multitude of Victims be has Sacrificed to the false God that he Worshippeth. His Honour is lodged in the numberless Number of his Troops: His Religion in th Breast of his Confessor; and his Riches in the Purs
of his Subjects;
which, like the Unjust Steward, h useth at his own
Will and Pleasure.
This
White King
you may plainly see by th Description is meant for the
French
King, who ha been so long foretold to be a
Tyrant
over his People and a
Scourge
to the Neighbouring Nations, as th
Prophets
of old deliver'd in dark Misteries thei
Prophesies
concerning the coming of
Cyrus,
the down-fall of the
Persian Monarchy
under
Darius;
and th
rise of the
Western
under
Alexander,
and afterwards that of the
Caesars.
Can any thing point plainer at him than to say
He is gorg'd with the Blood of all Nations,
when there is scarce one in
Europe
whom the
French
King has not imbrued his Hands in their Blood? The next is as plain, which points at Power, and the Arbitrariness of his Government▪ and wherein he has made the best of his Subjects▪ which are the
Protestants,
without whose assistance he had scarce been able to have kept his Crown, now
Slaves
by sending several to the
Gallies,
and forcing others to quit his Dominions. The rest of the
Prophesie
is as true in every particular, and therefore needless to repeat.
The Time when the
White King
shall raise the
Dead Man,
and the Signs of his
Coming.
The Time when this shall come to pass shall be the time after
England
and
Scotland
shall lose the Distinction of their former Names, and be swallow'd up in their Original Name of
Great Britain.
And the Sign that shall be given shall be that when
False Prophets
arise, and shall pretend to raise the
Dead Man;
but this shall not be the
Dead Man
which the
White King
shall raise; for he is not a
Dead Man,
but to the Hopes and Expectations of the People he is Dead only, but shall rise again.
This is directly hit at the
Union
of the Two Kingdoms, and cannot be interpreted to mean any
ther thing, but what the
Dead Man
is wou'd look
little doubtful, but the next
Paragraph
explains it, which if it did not the present times wou'd show that it has brought him to Life which every Body thought was
Dead,
to us at least; but that
hich is very particular, and wonderfully remarkable in deed, is the Sign given us of those times that is when
False Prophets
shall arise and pretend to aise the
Dead Man,
before ever the other
Dead Man
hat was meant, was ever thought to make such a
Resurrection.
This is worth a serious Reflection to hink that just at a time when these
False Prophets
pretend to raise
Emes,
one of their pretended
Probets,
which is their
Dead Man,
the
White King,
in he
Prophesie,
is pretending to raise to us, the People of the
Union,
another
Dead Man,
contrary to all our Thoughts, our Apprehensions, or Expectations, and who this
Dead Man
is, the next Paragraph of the
Prophesie
shows.
And the
Dead Man
is the
Lyon
's
Whelp,
which the
Eagle
had drove away from the
Old Lyon
before.
This part of the
Prophesie
is explain'd by that which foretold the
Revolution
by the coming of an
Eagle
out of the
East,
which was the then Prince of
Orange,
afterwards our Glorious
Restorer
King
William,
who came to catch the
Old Lyon
's
Whelp,
which may be plainly understood of the then
Pretended Prince
of
Wales,
who is afterwards all along call'd the
Dead Man,
which very emphatically shows us, He is a Person
Dead
and lost to all Reasonable Expectation. But this is the
Dead Man
which the
Eagle
had drove away from the
Old Lyon,
as this
Pretender
was driven from K.
James,
before he
Abdicated
the Crown of
England,
and therefore he is a
Dead Man
indeed that is excluded all hopes of Reigning, by the Crown of
Great Britain
's being Settled on the House of
Hannover,
and in a
Protestant Succession
for ever, so that he is actually
Dead
to the Law. Therefore we shall proceed to examine in the next place.
The Business that the
Dead Man
is sent about by the
White King. And the
White King
having War with all the Nations round about him, setting up one King, and pulling down another, at last raises up the
Dead Man,
which was the
Old Lyon
's
Whelp,
and furnishes him with Wooden Horses to carry him to his Native Country, there to assault it, and destroy the People for the hardness of their Hearts, and their Infidelity in not beliening that the
Dead Man
shou'd come again, whom they spued out from amongst them long before. This is the design the
Dead Man
is sent about
y the
White King;
but his Governour has disappoin
d all his Projects.
This Paragraph needs but little explaining at his time of Day, when we find the
White King▪
is
etting up the
Dead Man
against us, and sending
im to execute his own Designs. The
Wooden Hor
s
he is preparing for him to Visit the Land of his Nativity are the
White King
's
Shipping,
wherewith he threatens to Invade us, and Force the Subjects of a Free State, and who Live under the happiest Government in the World, to bow their Necks down to a Foreign Yoke of Slavery, under Pretence of a Person and Title that is absolutely
Dead
to us, and all the World beside this
White King,
this Scourge of the Nations, which, as the
Prophesie
says,
Is for setting up one King, and pulling down another.
But
n the last place this
Dead Man
shall bring a Governour along with him; now who this Governour is will be worth while to enquire, because this Governour shall break the Neck of all his Designs in a manner that shall be acceptable to all the World, as the Prophesie further illustrates when it comes to the Destruction of the
White King
and the
Dead Man.
And this Governour seems to be directly level'd at the Duke of
Berwick,
who shall discover all the Underhand Projects of the
White King,
to make a
Property
of the
Dead Man,
and so shall deliver up the
Dead Man,
that he may be no more a Disturber of the People, or a Handle for the
White King
to work all his dark Designs withal.
And the
Dead Man
's Governour shall bring over his Charge, and then the
White King
shall leave the
Dead Man
to the Charge of his Governour, and there sha
Consternation, and Confusion, and Amazement; but the B
of the People shall not be spilt, nor shall Desolation or Des▪ ction come near their Houses; for the Governour of the
D Man
shall deliver up his Charge to the Hands of them that quire it of him, and he shall be Crown'd with Honour for Wonderfulness of that Work; and the signs of it coming to p
shall be when the false Prophe
s that pretended to raise up th
Dead Man
shall be confounded and dispersed Abroad, so t
their Names shall be no more heard of in our Str
ets: And th
the
White King
shall be destroy'd from off the face of the Eart
the
Dead Man
shall never Rise again, bu
Peace
shall be Est
▪ blish'd for evermore.
The Reader may observe that this Paragraph brings the
Prophesie
down to a general Peace, if not to the last Day, whic
none knows how near its approach may be: However we fin
by this plain
y that the
Dead Man
and his Project shall com
to nothing, but he be made a
Prey
and
Sacrifice
to the Ambition and Tyranny of the
White King,
who shall be disappointe
in the Trust of this Great Governour whoever he shall be; fo
he seems resolved by the
Prophesie
to prevent the Effusion o
Blood, by readily delivering up his Charge, which must immediately put an End to all the
White King
's Designs, nay the
Prophesie
seems to Point plainly at his own Destruction at Home, while he is so busied in forming Foreign Projects, and that the Time is very shortly at hand, for it says the sign of its coming to p
ss shall be soon after this A
tempt in
May
next of pretending to rai
e
Emes,
the false Prophets
Dead Man;
and when we find them disappointed in their Designs, as we have no reason to doubt but they will, then may we expect the fulfilling of these things; That all Foreign Attempts against us will be en
irely baffled; the
White King,
our Great Enemy, utterly destroy'd; the
Dead Man
in the
Prophesie
shall never rise again, that is, we shall be freed from all Fears or Disturbances from him, and then there shall be Peace to the End of the World.
FINIS.