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John Lacy ' $ Prophecy wfctheFrench Revolution . 469
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?• And further Paris ! Paris ! that imperial city , I will , afflict : itv dreadfully *; yea , the royal family will I afflict , I will avenge the iniquity of the king on his grand children ; yes , yes , I will visit thee O JLyonsf , yey , ye 3 ; an 4 after r I have scourged thee , there shall be great glo | y to thee , O l , yons ; And thou Toulose , ( Tpulon £ supposed to be meant ) I will reduce thee to ashes ; yes , yes : thou that art a detestable city , a city
of murderers ; and as for thee Bourdeaux § , 1 will b ? favourable to tl \ ecf nevertheless I must chastise thee , but thou shalt be distinguished- —Come on , come oh , I have taken the field , and am more dreadful than thine enemies . I will make thee know , that it is hot Marlborough , it is not prince Rugene || whois to make thee tremble : It is I myself , thou tyrant !—Thou wilt think hell
more favourable to thee , than thy own palace . JLouis ! Louis le grand ! There shall not remain one of' tby insolent inscriptions in France ; For thou art Unworthy . Satan himself shall hot have more misery than I shall give thee . In hell thou shalt be no prince ; yes , thou butcher ! thou shall not be many years a king ; for thou hast set me at nought , and to me it belongs to judge princes as well as the cause of the poqr . "
Jiere ends the second warning against France . In the same book there are some warnings against our country , and one begins ihus : — Thu > likewise shall Englaud be visited , but less with n ^ y judgments . than France : * ' but he proceeds to denounce a heavy pu-
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nishment on Londpn ; which , it * this coninTunication is acceptable , I mhy furnish you with for a future Monthly Repository . ¦
Your ' -s , &c . P . Q . P . S . It is the fashion of the day to deny every thing ' we call supernatural , or not to be ac » counted for on common principle ' s ; yet the wisest of us poor mortals , may not after all v know \ vhat > are the laws of nature and whfit they may comprehend . ;¦¦ The king of Siam , when told e by an English ambassador , thftt at some times of' the year , the water
became sohd in his country , sooas to enable people to walk' an 'it , thought it absurd , and contrary , to the laws of nature , and treated the re la tor of such things , with
¦ s overeign contempt . Just-as--reprehensible ate some of our learned Christians , Who place the doctrine of necessity against the foreknowledge of God , so as to puzzle their brains with absurd consequences , making God the author of sin , and so become Atheists .
" Know then ' thyself , presume not God to scan . The proper study of mankind is man . In a wild mas ; e such vain endeavours end ; How can the less the greater comprehend j Or finite beings , reach-infinity , Fur tolnow iiod , were only leas than he . "
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its beauty has been destroyed , and every vestige of the greatness of its founder is thrown to the grqund , and all his insolent inscriptions , amongst which that impious one—JV < r < - pluribus 'impar . * And dreadfully ii has been afflicted , though no-one at the time could have reasoned upon the probability of the manner of it . f * No one who has read of the misery and carnage inflicted by Collot d'Herboi » , but must have trembled at this dreadful visitation : the latter part of the prophecy , its subsequent prosperity , still remains to be seen . J Toulon was destroyed by fire in Decernber I 793 « Thoulouse has not been distinguished by any great eve t . It may have beeri erroneously printed , but which was really meant , is ascertained by referring to sprue great muidera . here ^ po ^ en of . committed . there before thia ^ imc § An ^ idst % he uniyerjsai horrors of the French Re volutipn , it nqav be tr ( ujy said that Bourdeanx was favoured ; as it partook , much less qf the miseries , than most other cities , thoiigh cluastiacd in some degree , as this prophecy says , and many circumstances occurred very favourable to it . ; H . Tjic puke of JVI ^? il ?« roug h in th battle , of RamjlUe ? , apd Prip ^ e JE ^ gc nje . ^ t the siege of Turin ha 4 , the year before this prophecy , gained two Very signal victoris * aver JLouis XIV . ! . ' . ¦ ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/13/
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