Two Riderless Horses Galloping around in Central London   3 comments

Two Riderless Horses Galloping around in Central London

George Fox–An Autobiography
Edited by Rufus M. Jones

Chapter XVI
“A Year in Scarborough Castle”
1665-1666

“The very next day after my release, the fire broke out in London [The Great Fire of London, 1666], and the report of it came quickly down into the country. Then I saw the Lord God was true and just in His Word, which he had shown me before in Lancaster jail, when I saw the angel of the Lord with a glittering sword drawn southward, as before expressed.

“The people of London were forewarned of this fire; yet few laid to heart, or believed it; but rather grew more wicked, and higher in pride. For a Friend was moved to come out of Huntingdonshire a little before the fire, to scatter his money, and turn his horse loose on the streets, to untie the knees of his trousers, let his stockings fall down, and to unbutton his doublet, and tell the people that so should they run up and down, scattering their money and their goods, half undressed, like mad people, as he was sign to them; and so they did, when the city was burning.

“Thus hath the Lord exercised His prophets and servants by His power, shown them signs of His judgments, and sent them to forewarn the people; but, instead of repenting, they have beaten and cruelly entreated some, and some they have imprisoned, both in the former power’s days and since.

“But the Lord is just, and happy are they that obey His word.”

This was the King’s Guard in the Mall with the Flag Covered

The Signs of the Times, London – Revd Christopher Wickland

The Great Fire of London

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN

3 responses to “Two Riderless Horses Galloping around in Central London

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  1. Looks like a sign to me, too

    • I’m not even thinking of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Two riderless horses running loose with one of the horses with blood on it. I am thinking what George Fox wrote about London back in the 1600s before The Great Fire of London.

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