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A49486	The prophecyes of the incomparable Dr. Martin Luther concerning the downfall of the Pope of Rome, and the subversion of the German Empire, to be over-run by the armies of the Turks, together with the many reasons that he giveth for it : as also, the remarkable prophecy of the learned and reverend Mvscvlvs, to the same effect / collected by R.C. M.A.	R. C., M.A.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3513; ESTC R23003	35,433	50

satisfaction for sin and that by that means they do purchase Grace is to make our best works to be of God utterly rejected Wherefore Christ saith In vain do they serve me teaching such Doctrines which are the Commandements of Men and St. Paul saith If either we or any Angel from Heaven preach any other Doctrine to you then that which we have preached let him be accursed Antichrist must fall and it plainly and clearly appeareth saith Luther The Pope true Antichrist and must fall page 312. that the Pope is true Antichrist those that transgresse his Decrees and Statutes are farr more severely and diligently punished then those who offend the Laws and the word of God In such a sort doth the Pope exalt himself over and above God and he is therefore most properly called Antichrist in regard that he sitteth in the Temple and in the Church of God and boasteth himself above all that is called God The Turk is not this Antichrist saith Luther for the sitteth not in Gods Church he is but the Battle-Axe of God whereby he executeth his Vengeance upon the Nations he is a wicked Beast out of Gods Church there is no Antichrist now the Pope sitteth in the Holy Church and taketh unto him that Honour and Worship which is due unto God onely therefore the Pope must be the true Antichrist It is but a cold and an idle dream of the Papists that Antichrist should be a single and an unattended person that should govern in a wilde way by suborning and scattering of moneys in the streets and that he should do Minacles and carry about him a fiery Oven and that he should destroy the Saints Eliah and Enoch There are too many said Luther who complain and think I am too fierce and too violent against the Pope when alas I conceive my self to be too milde I do wish that I could breath out thunder-bolts against the Pope and Popery and that every word were a clap of Thunder I do believe saith Luther that the Pope out osspecial consideration ordained and appointed the Feasts of St. Silvester and of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury to be Celebrated eight days after the Nativity of our Saviour in regard that St. Thomas of Canterbury brought unto the Pope the Kingdom of England and St. Silvester the Empire of Rome In the year one thousand five hundred and thirty in the Raign of Henry the eighth the Pope endeavoured by money to corrupt some of the Kings Counsellours and promised one of them who was of the Blood-Royal and near unto the Kings Person that he would give that Kingdom unto him The Pope boasted in Luthers days that he was Heir to the Kingdome of England page 310. The Pope boasted that he himself was Heir unto that Kingdome by reason it was held as from him per feodum but the Popes pride is so great that he must fall and it is no great wonder saith Luther that even in his time the Majesty of the Pope was already fallen All Monarchs Emperours Kings and Princes before Luthers time did ever tremble at the Majesty and the Power of the Pope none durst mutter so much as one word against him This great god is now fallen his own creatures the Monks and Fryers do begin to be his Enemies and they onely adhear unto him for their Lucres sake Popery must needs be brought to the stake and pay for all the Pope shall be devoured by Monks and Friers which are his own Vermine and Creatures It is they who do shake and make loose the fairest Monarchy of Popery which with great Advice and Consideration was erected He hath forbidden them to enter into the State of Matrimony when notwithstanding he hath commanded the same to be observed as a Sacrament but if Matrimony be a Sacrament saith Luther then it cannot be observed by the Heathen for the Unbelieving Gentiles who are the Heathen have nothing to doe with the Sacraments The Pope saith Luther must and shall fall Another Reason of the Popes Fall the blindnesse of the Papists is great and horrible and is much to be admired because in the Reconciliation for the living and the and though they would pretend it is a Sacrisice of Thanksgiving yet all their Cannonists and School-Divines and their Preachers in their Pulpits do apparently disprove it you may observe the impudence of some Popelins that go about to prove this horrible Errour every Lievetenant say they hath the same full and compleat power as his Lord and Master Peter was Christs Lievetenant therefore he hath the same power that Christ had and because Christ saith To me is given all power in Heaven and in Earth therefore they conclude that the Pope who is Peters Lievetenant hath the same Power as Christ himself To this Luther answers That suppose it be granted that Peter was Christs Lievetenant here on Earth so long as he demeaned himself according to Christs word yet it doth not hereupon follow that Peter is Christs Lievetenant in Heaven for Christ that said unto him what thou bindest on Earth doth not say unto him what thou shalt binde in Heaven He saith unto Peter follow me feed my sheep my kingdome is not of this World that is to say it is not gotten by humane strength and power neither will it be maintained thereby The Pope therefore saith Luther is a Right Jew who boasteth to enjoy by Christ a temporal Kingdome he alone will have all the Power Authority he will Rule and Determine all Councels and Encroach upon them under the Name of God If one should have defloured the Virgin Mary or have crucisied Christ yet the Pope for money could pardon and forgive the same therefore his Dominion is but short Page 306. and will be brought to Confusion in the year 666. according to the Number of the Beast in the thirteenth Chapter of the Revelations Again Popedome saith Luther must fall Another reason of the Popes Fall It hath been alwayes managed by wicked persons and Correspondent to their Doctrine for as the Creator is such is also his Creature Pope Alezander was a Moran that is to say a Baptised Jew he believed nothing at all he had a Concubine called Lucretia to whom he afterwards espoused his own Pon the Pope that succeeded him was so great an enemy to him that he caused all the Gates Doors and Windows on which his Name was Written or his Armes Pourtrayed to be broken down and defaced when God speaketh the word Jerusalem fall Rome be destroyed and lye in the Ashes Pope come down from your Throne the word of God will be obeyed and must be accomplished immediately Pope Julius the second Page 302. celebrated a faire Masse to the Devil upon Easter day in the morning at which time he made a lamentable Slaughter and Massacre with the French in which twenty thousand Christians were slain The Pope and his accomplices saith Luther strive not for the benefit or

An Advertisement to the Reader THe spirit of Luther whereby he did Beat down the strong Holds of sin and over came both the False-hood and the Pride of the Church of Rome was the Spirit of Truth there being as great an Antipathy betwixt Truth and False-hood as between Heaven and Hell GOD himself being the Authour of Truth and the Devil the Father of Lyes By the same Spirit of Truth by which Luther Convinced the Corruptions of the Church of Rome He Compiled his Prophecies and foretold those sad Events which should fall upon Rome and the Impire of Germany unless they would for sake their sins the Inviters and Procurers of the Wrath of God These Prophecies we have here presented to the View and the Readers are to take Notice that with much Industry and Diligence they have been carefully Collected out of the Book of Dr. Martin Luther Intituled Colloquia Mensalia which Book being of Excellent Vse as may appear by the Approbation of the most Reverend Father in GOD Doctor Land Late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury as in the last page of this Book is specified Is to be sold by Andrew Kembe at Saint Margarets-Hill in South-warke And Edward Thomas at the sign of the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain The Book is Admirable for Instruction and Reproofe the Prophecies are many and some of them already Accomplished as may more Largly Appear by the Book it Self of which we have here given You but a Short View The Reader also may be pleased to take Notice that the two Above-mentioned Book-Sellers have both of them to Sell that most Incomperable Book of Mr. John Selden Translated into English called Mare Clansim or the Interest and Propriety of His Sacred Majesty on the Narrow Seas THE PROPHECYES Of the Incomparable Dr Martin Luther Concerning the Downfall of the Pope of ROME and the Subversion of the German EMPIRE to be Over-run by the Armies of the TVRKS Together with the many Reasons that he giveth for it AS ALSO The Remarkable Prophecy of the Learned and Reverend MVSCVLVS to the same Effect Collected by R. C. M. A. London Printed for Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas and are to be sold at their Shops at Saint Margarets Hill in Southwark and at the Adam and Eve at Little Brittain 1664. The Prophecies of Martin Luther concerning the Down-fall of the Pope of Rome and of the Germane Empire that will be over-run with the Armies of the Turks together with the Reasons that he giveth for it c. THe Name of Martin Luther is so Famous throughout all Europe that he cannot be unknown either to the Papist or the Protestant having deeply obliged the One by opposing the Errours and the False-hoods of the other Indeed there were some others before Him that did write against the Corruptions of the Church of Rome As John Hus Jerome of Prague who were the First Fruits of the Reformation and were both Honoured with the Crowns of Martyrdome Martin Luther as he came after them so having a higher Spirit to imbolden him and a more Powerfull Number of Friends to assist him did give a greater blow to the Church of Rome and fulfilled his own Prophecy which was That the longer Popery continued the more it should be every day contemned See Luther colloquia Commo alis page 537. The Prophecies of this great Reformer of the Church were Remarkable foretelling the Ruine of the Pope of Rome and of the German Empire which should be brought unto Confusion by the Formidable Powers of the Turk But before I represent unto you the Prophecies of Martin Luther it will not be amisse to give you a short View of his Life and of the Prophecies of others concerning him that so by reading of their Prophecies in Relation to himself His own Prophecies concerning the Downfall of the Pope of Rome and of the German Empire may gaine the greater Confirmation In the first place I shall give you the True Presage of John Hilton who was himself a Friar by Profession He Prophecied that much about the Year one thousand five hundred and sixteen which was at the same time when Luther began to Declare himself against the Church of Rome the Mystery of Ungodliness would begin to be Discovered and the Son of Righteousness shine forth in the Truth of the Gospel and that Popery would at that time finde in Germany and in other parts of Christendome a general Declension which Prophecy was by Martin Luther who flourished in those times most undoubtedly fulfilled But the Testimony of John Hus who being condemned to suffer the Flames of Martyrdom at Constance is most remarkable It was almost one hundred years before that Luther did openly professe himself an Enemy to the Errours and Idolatry of the Church of Rome John Hus being brought unto the Stake Inthers Coloquia page 534. The Belief of the Church of Rome 203. expressed himself in these words This day said he you do rost a Goose for so the word Hus signifies in the German Tongue but one hundred years hence you shall hear a Swan to Warble whom you shall not be able to rost nor overcome and this at the end of the Time prescribed was effectually made good for then Martin Luthers voice was effectually heard who Preached so powerfully with his Tongue and wrote so sharply with his Pen as not any one before him since the time of the Apostles did the like and notwithstanding all the Fury and Violence of the Papists who with elabourate Malice endeavoured to suppresse him he continued Preaching and Writing against them many years afterwards and departed this Life in Peace to the Praise of God and the great Shame and Derision of the Pope and his Accomplice We may instance many other Prophesyes of the like Nature which we purposely forbear being to contract much into a little Volume Of the Parentage and Life of Luther Martin Luther was the Son of a Farmer he was born at Isleben in the County of Mansfield in the year one thousand foure hundred and eighty three on the 10th day of November His Father his Grand Father and his Great Grand-Father as he saith himself were Farmers His Father abandoning his Farme upon some discontents and finding some Profitable Imployments at Mansfield he addressed himself to that place where he was one of the Miners in the Silver Mines In the mean time Luther had his Education in the same Town where he was born and being fitted for the University at Ersurd he took there the Degrees of Bachellour and Master of Arts and in a short processe of time he took upon him the Habit and Formality of a Friar at which his Father was much displeased But it pleased God by this means to make use of him for the over-throwing of the Power of Antichrist Luther having found how directly opposite the Supremacy of the Pope was to the Doctrine of the primitive times there grew on it the first contention which being

bandyed up and down with Animosity it gave Luther the occasion more strictly to examine some other Corruptions in the Church of Rome which he did with so much vigour that Pope Gregory the 13th understanding what great hurt and prejudice he received from it and fearing it might bring a further Contempt upon him he did exasperate Rodolphus the second at that time Empire that all the Books of Martin Luther should be burned and that it should be Death for any man to keep them in his House which Edict was not onely suddainly put in Execution by himself but it was continued also by Ferdinand the second who was a severe Enemy and a Persecutor of the Protestant Religion Luther long before this had Esponsed a Virgin whose Name was Katherine Bora she had sometimes entred hen self into a Cloyster of the Nuns but disliking many abuses she found therein before her year of Probation was expired she relinquished it This gave an occasion to the Monks and Friars to exclaime against Luther as having broken the Vow of Chastity Luthers Colloqua 445. but Luther had abandoned the Office of a Friar before neverthelesse he thus far declared himself That a Preacher of the Gospel being orderly called thereunto ought above all things to purify himself before he teacheth others and if he be able with a good Conscience to live unmarried it is his safest course to continue so but in case he cannot abstain and live chastly he is then to marry and to take a wife for God hath provided such a Remedy for that Infirmity I could here insert Luther's own Prayer before his Marriage Vide Luth. colloq 452. and the Reason why he took a Wife which was as he himself said to upbraid the Devil and to confound the filthy incontinent life in Popery which was so odious and abominable that Pope Leo himself was taken out of the World at that time when he was committing Buggery with a Prostituted Boy I could here also insert the lamentable Fruits of an unmarried Life in Priests and Nuns which have been so notorious that not onely in Rome and Germany but in England also and many other Places there have been found in Ponds and Cellars many thousand heads of Infants who thus desperately have been thrown away to preserve the Reputation of the Chastity of the Nuns and Friars But I must returne from whence a little I have digressed Luther's Name growing Famous in Germany for the great overthrows which he gave to many of the chiefest Professors of the Church of Rome and to the Supremacy of the Pope himself he was summoned by the Emperour to appear at the Imperial Diet at Worms which when the Prince Electour of Saxony understood he did earnestly disswade him from it alleaging that he should have the whole Christian world against him and although he was ready and willing to defend him yet Luther and he being but two persons they were unable to oppose so great a Multitude he there advised him not to undertake so dangerous a Journey but to be warned by the example of John Hus who although he had the Emperours Letters of safe Conduct to preserve him yet he was surprized there and consumed by fire to ashes Luther having heard the Elector to give him this council made answer to him that he must confesse Luthers Colloqu 433. that as the case now stood he was too weak to defend him neverthelesse he was resolved to go and to defend the Elector for although said he there be in Worms as many Devils as there be Tiles on all the Houses of the City yet I am resolved to go thither and to maintain what I have done and undertaken Many more such examples may be given of his Courage and his Confidence at the last when he saw that by his endeavours the Gospel began to flourish and to be preached not onely in Germany but other Countryes and that he had reaped the comfert of his Industry and his Study it pleased God to visite him with sicknesse at which time giving thanks unto God who had delivered him from so many Deceits and Assaults of his Merciless Enemies he composed these following Verses in Latine Quaesitus toties toties tibi Roma petitus Ille ego per Christum vivo Lutherus adhuc Vna mihi spes est quâ non fraudabor Jesus Hunc mihi dum teneam perfida Roma cave Which are thus in English Behold through Christ I Luther yet do live By Rome so often sought but I believe Christ Jesus is my onely hope by whom Whilest I do live take heed perfidious Rome Being a little recovered he was advised to take the Ayre which accordingly he did Luthers Prophecy on his own Death on the sixteenth of February in the year 1546. at what time he said when I come again to Wittembergh I will be lodged in a Coffin and will surrender to the Worms a sat Luther to feed upon and so it fell out for two days afterwards he was translated from this life unto a better and perceiving himself to grow fainter and draw near unto his end he called for Pen Inke and Paper and wrote this verse following to lye as it were an Epitaph upon his own Tomb. Pestis eram viven moriens ero mors tua Papa Living I was a Plague to thee Dying O! Pope thy Death I 'le be Which by Philip Melancthon was rendred in a Distich much after the same sence and manner Quidum vixit erat tua pestis Papa Lutherus Hic tibi causa suo funere mortis erit Luther who living was thy Plague he shall Cause by his death O Pope thy utter fall He lived sixty and three years and was buried at Isleben where he was born on the 19th of February 1546. Having given you this Account of his life we shall now passe unto his Prophecyes The Prophecies of Luther And above all His Prophecy conceining the Turk page 518. this is most remarkable The Turk saith he shall give a great Clap to Germany Me thinks I see him Marching through and through the whole Body of the Empire who so liveth one hundred years and upwards will see the same accomplished I oftentimes do contemplate thereupon and thinking on the great misery which will insue upon the Empire I do sweat thereat Neverthelesse Germany goeth on in sin and refuseth to be helped No humane power or potentate can beat the Turk but onely that Man who is named Christ as for the Emperour King Ferdimand and the Princes they can accomplish nothing It is observable that although Luther had Prophecied this of the Turk yet he had no good opinion of him How the Turk maketh War and prevaileth in it Luthers Colloq 519. for there being a great Commotion at that time in Germany concerning Religion the Turk desired to know what manner of man Luther was and of what years when it was told him that he was a Corpulent man and of about