Mary Cary

Mary Cary Rand (or Rande; c. 1621 – 1653) was an English writer, prophetess and pamphleteer supporting the Fifth Monarchists during the English Civil War.

Work

During the English Civil War, Cary lived in London. A Presbyterian, she became a Fifth Monarchist and started prophesying and writing about church reform, equality for women, and poverty. She was a follower of Thomas Brightman and Henry Archer. She believed the New Model Army was a sign of the arrival of the Two witnesses and that Charles I was the little horn found in Daniel 7. is anagogical interpretation, a form of theological exegesis.

Personal life

Little is known of Cary's personal life. She is believed to have started developing her theories and prophecies in the wake of studying the Bible starting at the age of 15. She was born Mary Cary around 1621 and died in 1653. She was married to a man with the surname "Rand" or "Rande."

Works A Word in Season to the Kingdom of England (1647) The Resurrection of the Witness (1648) England's Fall from The Mystical Babylon—Rome (1648) The Little Horn's Doom and Downfall (1651) A New and More Exact Mappe or Description of New Jerusalem's Glory, When Jesus Christ and His Saints with Him Shall Reign on Earth a Thousand Years, and Possess all Kingdoms (1651) Twelve New Proposals to the Supreme Governours of the Three Nations now assembled at Westminster (1653). The Resurrection of the Witnesses and England's Fall (1653)