“ From this Year (says he) will I reckon the Sin of Ireland, that those whome you now embrace shall be your Ruin, and you shall bear this Iniquity. Which Prediction proved exactly true; for from that Time 1601, to the Year 1641, was just Forty Years, in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and Destruction of Ireland happened; which was acted by those Popish Priests, and other Papists which were then connived at. ”

“ And tho' he was one that abhorr'd Enthusiastick Notions, being too learned, rational and knowing, to admit of such idle Freaks and Whimsies; yet he profest, "That several Times in his Life he had many Things imprest upon his Mind, concerning futrue Events, with so much Warmness and Importunity, that he was not able to keep them secret, but lay under an unavoidable Necessity to make them known."
From which Spirit he foretold the Irish Rebellion Forty Years before it came to pass, with the very Time when it should break forth, in a Sermon preached at Dublin in 1601, where, from Ezek. 4. 6. ”

“ And the nearer the Time was, the more confident he was that it was near Accomplishment, tho' there was no visible Appearance of any such Thing. And (says Dr. Bernard) the Year before the Rebellion broke forth, the Bishop taking his Leave of me, being then going from Ireland to England, he advised me to a serious Preparation, for I should see heavy Sorrows and Miseries before I saw him again ”