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A04970	A prophesie that hath lyen hid, aboue these 2000. yeares Wherein is declared all the most principall matters that hath fallen out, in, and about the ciuill and ecclesiasticall monarchie of Rome, from the rising of Iulius Cæsar, to this present: and which are to be done from hence to the distruction of it, and what shall ensue after that. As the liues and deaths of the emperors. The rising of the ecclesiasticall monarchie. The storie of the greatest enemies of them both with manie other notable accurrences [sic] concerning Germany, France, and Spaine. With the inuasion of the kings of the East.; Babylon is fallen	T. L., fl. 1595.; Legate, Thomas, d. ca. 1607, attributed name.	1610 (1610)	STC 15111.3; ESTC S108178	20,639	60

Germanie France and Spaine Roomes long approoned trusty friends and their seuerall ends destruction 5. And how that Roome shall be burnt with fire and when 6. The earth refreshed and Israell restored to life 7. The comming downe of the Turke and his Army vpon Christendome till fire come downe from heauen vpon them Ierem 20.10 For I haue heard the raylings of many and how they watch for my halting saying it may be that he is deceiued A DISCOVERYE OF A PROPHESIE Esdras 4. Chap 11. Then I sawe a dreame Verse 1 AFTER this the Prophet saw a vision concerning the beginning continuance fall of th' Empire and supremacie of Rome And this vision was shewed him in the dayes of Artaxerxes King of Persia about 400. yeares before the first stone of her Empire was laide Iu. Cesar And behold there arose from the Sea an Eagle And there arose among the Nations the fierce and fearefull Kingdome and Empire of Rome seene in vision by the Prophet Daniel some few yeares before Which had 12. feathered winges Wherein should arise and reigne 12. Emperors which should spred their power like winges ouer all the earth in great feare sitting on it And it seemed good vnto the Prophet to touch by an intellection these 12. only both for they are a Iewrye sufficient to argue the whole suite of Emperors which did arise raigne in her as also because they only were natiue Romans descended of the Iulij Seruij Saluij Flauij c. vnlike therein vnto the rest which were all or almost all like changeable stuffe of diuers colours so of diuers Nations Their rising continuance and end is toucht in their proper place And three heads Her three heads are three Kingdomes fore-ordained to vpholde and maintaine the power of her pride when all her winges and feathers should faile her And are reserued to execute her last will and finishe her funerals as shal be hereafter more at full declared Verse 2 And I saw and beholde she spread her winges ouer all the earth all the winds of the ayre gathered themselues and blew on her By the windes are meant her prosperous and happie successe in all her proceedings And of necessitie it must goe well with her whom euery winde doth blowe to good Witnes the limits of her territories from Ganges to Gades and from the Scythian Sea vnto the Cape of Hope as testifieth one of her own which saith that she extended her tents to the borders of the Ocean and the feare of her name vnto the heauens Verse 3 And I saw that out of her fethers grew vp other contrarie fethers but they became litle fethers and small And the Prophet saw that among the Princes and gouernors which ruled in her there arose and grew vp certain Kings which were contrary vnto her marking such as intended to roote vp the crown and dignitie of her Empire to plant themselues therin their house for euer But their thoughts preuailed not for as the verse concludeth their power waned and they perished like the rest what those contrary Kings were their number names attempts and end shal be deliuered in their place Verse 4 But her heads rested and the head in the midst was greater thē th' other heads yet rested it with them But the three kingdomes fore-apointed t' accomplish finish the wickednes of this great Citie were quiet and at rest as not yet during the reigne of her fethers conceaued and brought forth And the Prophet obserued that th'oue of those Kings was greater in power then both his fellowes yet rested it with them Concerning these three Kings their names their greatnes and al that appertaineth shal be spoken in due place Verse 5 Then I saw and behold the Eagle flew with her fethers and reigned vpon earth and ouer them that dvvelt therin Verse 6 And I savv that all things vnder heauen vvere subiect vnto her and no man spake against her no not one creature vpon earth And the Prophet beheld that this proud citie flew with her Emperors and Legions ouer all her neighbors subiecting all the dwellers on earth vnder her in such sort as there was not a Natiō or People to be found vnder heauen that was not either rooted out by her or inforced to receiue their Gouernors from her Verse 7 And I savv that the Eagle stood vp vpon her clavves and spake to her feathers saying Verse 8 VVatch not altogether sleep euery one in his ovvn place and vvatch by course Verse 9 But let the heads be preserued for the last And the Prophet obserued that this powerful Citie in the daies wherein ouergorged with pride she stood vpon terms of her counsell and armes tooke such order for in euill she was very methodicall that her Kings and Kaysers should neither sleep nor watch that is neither perish nor rule all at once but rise in a successiue course as in the verses following is manifested And she further commanded that the three last Kingdomes ordained to conclude the number of her sinnes should take their ease and not awake till their time appointed Verse 10 Neuerthelesse I savve that the voice vvent not out of her heads but from the middest of her bodye As hee that vndertakes a dangerous leape doth first retire the better to aduance his strength so to bound fairlye ouer the dacke vnderstanding of these words we must of necessitie looke backe carry before vs the true birth and perfect nature of this Empire which the Prophet Daniel in his vision designeth vnder the forme of a ten-horned beast signifying thereby that it should be a power vpheld by a succession of many Kinges for the hornes betoken Kings and the number of 10. comprehends all be they neuer so many as all numbers are contained vnder 10. or made of their reduplication be they neuer so infinit And addeth further that his teeth were of iron his nails of brasse inferring therby the vnresistable force of his legions and Leaders And proceding saith that there arose amongst his Kings one of an exceeding strange nature signifying by that one a strange race and succession of Princes far differing in shape and forme of regiment from al their predecessors obtaining dominion not by iron teeth and brasen nails as did th' Emperors which arose before them but by disceit and by a mouth which spake presumptuous things against the most High blaspheming his name his Tabernacle them that dwel in heauen who by a hidden vnknown force should subdue the third part of the world meaning al Europe with her Princes By which deliniation it is euident that the holy-Ghost accounteth the chalenged prerogatiue supremacie of Rome all one power all one Empire whether it obtaine the spoile by force or by fraud that is by power of Emperors or crast of Popes Cha. 7.24 who should be far vnlike them as Daniel himselfe saith And he shall be vnlike to the first Meaning in forme of claiming obteining

to the liken of them And in this difference this head shall die ne shall this difference be exempted from paine Verse 34 But the two heads remained vvhich also reigned ouer the earth and ouer the inhabitants thereof And when the power of this great head which is now so little like a tale that 's told shal be cleane ended yet the feare of th' other two shall still remaine and haue dominion ouer the earth and those that dwell therein till the fulnes of their malice and tiranny be accomplisht also which may not long be vn-fulfild for beholde in the verie next verse their distruction commeth Verse 35 And I savve and behelde whilst the head on the right side deuoured that which was on the left By the right head is ment as through all this prophesie the strongest so as the Prophet implyeth that the sworde of Spaine shall deuide the strength of France that her pride by deuision made lesse may at the last as euery deuided kingdome doth returne to nothing Nether shall the prosperitie of this right-head be long free from like retaliation but as the truth foresaith Esd 4.12 He that deuideth with the sword shall perish by the sword For how may the sword for euer escape him whom heauen hateth and earth doth persecute and of whom may be truly said which was spoken of Ismael Manus corum contra omnes omnium contra illos And thus shall these heads perish and hast the faster to their end because the iudgment of the Beast is nigh in the very next verses attending to come in Verse 36 Then I heard a voice vvhich said looke before thee and consider the things vvhich thou seest Verse 37 So I saw and behold as it were a Lyon came hastily out of the wood roaring and I saw that he sent out a mans voyce vnto the Eagle and spake saying Verse 38 Heare thou and I shall tell thee what the most High doth say vnto thee The roaring of the Lyon is the breath of the Highest which shall rebuke th'Egle for her vnrighteousnes and cast before her al her spoiles and set her aliue in iudgement and with the spirit of his mouth rise vp against her and lay vnto her charge as in the text followeth Verse 39 Art not thou he which of the foure Beastes remainest whome I made to reigne in my world that by them th' end of thinges might come Verse 40 And the fourth is come and hath ouercome all the Beasts that were past and obtained povver ouer the vvorld vvith great fearfulnes and ouer the whole compasse of the earth vvith extreame oppression and hath possessed so long time all the vvorlde vvith deceit Verse 41 For thou hast not iudged the earth vvith truth Verse 42 But hast troubled the meek and hurt the peacefull and thou hast loued lyers and destroyed the dwellings of them which brought foorth fruit and hast cast dovvne the vvalls of such as did thee no harme Verse 43 So as thy vniust dealing is ascended to the most High and thy pride vnto the mighty Verse 44 And therefore he that is Highest hath beheld the proud times and beholde they are ended and their abhominations are finished And if thou plead not guilty hereunto beholde a thousand witnesses shall rise vp against thee and proue th'inditement true that the iust iudgment which hath so long attended for thee may at the length be pronounced against thee in forme as in the text followeth Verse 45 Therefore appeere no more thou Egle nor thy fearful vvings nor thy vvicked feathers nor thy malitious heads nor thy cruell clavves nor thy vaine bodie And least in thy drunkennes thou maist thinke thy sinne may ouer-shoot this iudgment to come and in thy madnes glorifie thy selfe as thou hast euer done perswading thy selfe thou shalt euer be because thou hast bin king long and like a foole hast not considered the more thy yeares the nigher thy graue beholde thus saith the truth in the yeare which shal be 1666. Reuel 13 18. this iudgment here pronounced shall lay hands on thee And as all thy fearefull winges and fethers be already descended and blowen downe so before that day which is so nigh at hand the tyrannie of thy malitious heads and cruell clawes shal be consumed and brought to nought And in that day thy vaine body shall be burnt with fire and shall so cleane be cut of from the land of the liuing that neither sonne nor nephew as the Prophet saith Esay 14.22 nor branche nor remnant of thy name shall be found vpon the earth For as it is purposed Esay 14.24 so shall it come to pas and as it is consulted it shall stand Goe to now take counsell of thy Seers and call thy inchanters about thee build thy deuises as high as heauen lay their foundations low as hell yet shal they not deliuer thee from the day appointed but as Salmanazar destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battell wherein the mother with the children was dasht in peeces or like the milstone which the mightie Angell did cast into the Sea with such violence shalt thou be throwen downe and be found no more And all hell shal be moued at thy comming and prepare it selfe and raise by all her dead against that day to meet thee and all the Princes and Kings of Nations whom thou hast slaine with the cup of thy fornication shall rise out of their torments against thy cōming and at thy sight shall wonder and cry Esay 14.10 and say vnto thee Art thou become weake also as we art thou become like one of vs Is thy pompe bowed downe vnto the graue and are thy pleasures departed like ours and is the worme spred vnder thee and do the wormes couer thee also how art thou falen from heauē O Lucifer sonne of the morning which hast cast lots vpon the Nations and saidst in thine heart I will ascend into heauen and exalt my throne aboue besides the starres of God and I will sit vpon the mount euen the holy mount of his Sanctuarie and Congregation I will ascend aboue the height of the clouds and will be like the most High And all hell which once did wonder worship and kisse thy feet beholding now thy nakednes thy shame and iudgement shall die for greefe of mind Esay 14. and dying shall say Is this the man that made the earth to tremble and with his worde did shake the Kingdomes that made the world a wildernes and a wast of the Cities thereof Then shalt thou lying in torment death gnawing on thee answere Wisd 5. them and say We haue erred from the way of truth and the light of righteousnes hath not shined vpon vs nor hath the Sonne of vnderstanding risen ouer vs. We haue wearied our felues in the wates of wickednes and we haue gone through dangerous pathes but the way of the Lord we haue not knowen What hath pride profited vs or what profit hath the pompe of riches brought vs all these things are vanished like a shadow and as a poste that passeth by And casting vp thy eye to heauen shalt see the righteous stand in great boldnes before thee and before the face of such as tormented thē and tooke away their labours and thou shalt ware exceedinglie at the sight of them and be amased at their wonderfull deliuerance and die for greefe of minde and dying shalt say Wisd 5. These are they whome we sometime had in derision and in a parable of reproche wee fooles thought their life madnes and their end without honor But how are they counted among the children of God and their portion among the Saintes Verse 46 That all the earth may be refreshed and come againe as one deliuered from thy violence that she may hope for the iudgement mercy of him that made her And thy death shall comfort and refresh the earth and deliuer Syon from her great and violent oppression but their prosperities may not longendure as testifieth the Prophet Daniel Chap. 12.12 For may Israel dwell safe and the Kings of th' east not know it Nay verily they shall arise Ezec. 39. and come down like a storme and like a cloud shall couer the earth and compas round the tents of the Saintes Reuel 20.9 and the beloued Citie till fire disceud from God out of heauen as it is written and deuout them And in those daies shall be finished the mistery of God fore-declared to his seruants the Prophets and witnessed by the mighty Angell which came downe from heauen and stood vpon the Sea and vpon the earth and raysed vp his hand and voice to heauen and sware by him that liueth for euer and euer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reuel 10. Beholde it is come and it is done saith the Lord Ezec. 39. this is the day whereof I haue spoken For the hope of which day the stones of Syon die day by day tho little esteeming seuen thousand deaths in regarde of the preeious assurance ingrauen in their brests that they shall then and in that day beholde the Lo●● hath so mercifully gathered them from among the Nations That hath so wonderfully preserued them from the sorcerie of Babylon which hath destroyed all the earth That dayly leadeth them in and out before the scorners the couetous and foolishwise of this world so prudently and so inuisibly that they seeing are not seene and lyuing are not knowen That hath bestowed on them a thousand treasures more then these so secretly as no man suspecteth but they that haue them That hath so surely and fully perswaded them that tho they now goe on their way weeping yet they shall then returne againe with ioy and bring the sheafes with them and all the earth shall then knowe which now is hid howe much the Lord their Redeemer loued them and night and day shall praise and magnifie the iuste iudgement and mercie of him that hath done all things for them Which day in due time He that is Highest shall manifest to all He that is Prince an 〈…〉 ●boue all who only hath immo●●●● 〈…〉 ●elleth in the light which none 〈…〉 whome no man euer sawe nor can see vnto whome be all ho●●ur and power euerlasting Amen Zachar. Saue thy selfe O Syon thou that dwellest with the daugher of Sebel

Empire name and tittle for euer So that all the fethers which the Prophet beheld in processe of time to follow the 12. and in their strength their sinne and crueltie to defile the earth namely from Domitian to the third Valentinian were 50. and 3. Kings All which in a while as this verse concludeth vanished like the 12. and appeared no more Verse 21 And some of them were set vp but ruled not As Vindex Piscenius Niger Albinus Diadumenus Maximus Balbinus 30. Tirants Firmus Saturninus Proculus Bonosus Aper Eugenius Quintillus Rufinus Constantinus non Magnus Heraclianus and others as in the description of times may more plainly appeare Verse 22 After this I looked and beholde the twelue fethers appeered no more Vnder the 12. winges or fethers for both betoken one are comprehended by an intellection as in the first verse all which in the strength of the twelue followed from Domitian to the third Valentinian who perished in the yeare 455. after he had reigned 30. and liued 5. more And thus according to promise made in the first verse is presented a tragicall succession of all the Eagles winges from her first fether Iul. Caesar in whome the power of her pride began to the third Valentinian with whome it ended who after they had shewed themselues and trodden down the earth 500. 30. yeares they departed for euer the stage of this world and all their pompe and glorie descended and appeered no more And here my pen like to the earth which being deliuered from her oppressors did thirst to be refreshed so hauing ouercome this part of her taske did think to and some ease but in their hopes they are both deceiued for after the Eagles fethers decended the sorrowes of the earth increased more and more and ther arose as seldome comes the better a race of Sodomiticall and vnnaturall Kings who vnder the visar of Successors to Peter and vicars to the Lamb so far excelled the whordomes of their fathers the Emperors whose Vicars and Successors indeed they are that they inforced the Highest to poure his determined vengeance vpon the children of men Who according to the iudgement fore-denounced by his seruant Iohn Reuel 16. Poured out his wrath vpon the Sea that it became like to the blood of the dead that is to say vpō the great Citie and Empres of the world by scourge after scourge as how often and greuous in the vew of her contrary fethers may appeere so at the the full auenging himselfe that there was not a drop of Roman blood to be founde on earth these many hundreth yeares And as the defection and vncleannes was generall so was the punishment for as the Apostle in the same chapter prophesieth The wrath of the highest Reuel 16 was poured out vpon the riuers and fountaines likewise and they were turned into blood also that is vpon all People and Nations whatsoeuer in such sort as ther is not a kingdome this day on earth to be found that hath not bin since the rising of the beast cut downe by sword and yeelded her stock to strange griffes as by the bloody Registers of euery perticular Nation doth so cleerly appeere as if it were written with the beames of the Sunne And as the dayes were euill aboue measure so they exceeded in darknes ignorance that my pen hath no lesse trouble to be deliuered of the rest of her labor then had the then-dwellers on-earth to indure the paines of their oppression and trauell but to take into my way againe the Prophet addeth Nor the two winges Figuring by the two winges the two first contrary fethers Alaricus and Attalas The first arose in the 19. of Honorius predecessor to the third Valentinian And was the first that slewe the great Citie the murtherers of all the world measuring her by famin sworde and fire according to the square whereby shee had iudged others almost 12. hundreth yeares Which wofull end or rather beginning of her wofull end made a certaine antient friend of hers bewailing the night wherein shee was smitten to crye Hierom. Nocte Moab capta est nocte cecidit murus eius quis cladem illius noctis quis funera fando explicet And when this feather had thus troden downe the pride of the Eagle in the yeare 410. a 1157. yeares after Romulus had raised her walles with the blood of his brother proceeded to rip vp her bowels spoiling and burning her principall partes Latium Campania Apulia Lucania Calabria where raging in his highest thoughtes deuising now to spred his glory ouer all was by suddeine death blowen away and his place appeered no more Th' other arose in the 27. of the third Valentinian in greater feare then did the first deuouring at his entrance all that rest of Italie which Alaricus had left vneaten Aquileia Verona Mantua Cremona Brixia Concordia with all the now territorie of Venice but by the cunning dealing of the deceitfull King whose name was then Pope Leo was intreated to sel the great Citie and to depart Italie which he left as a wast stinking in her fierie ruins so repassing the Danube returned into his Scythia againe where the yeare following in top of his fulnes was in a night found strangled in his owne blood whereinto he was disolued by the intemperate vse of a wedding feast and a new spouse And thus perished this sonne of Mundzuccus the scourge of God and terror of men for so he called himselfe and which not only the fiers of Italie but his very shape may well iustifie for he is described a man of litle stature square set great head litle eyes thin hair'd thinner bearded a nose great and prominent his colour foule and gypson-like Verse 23 And ther was no more vpon the Eagles body but two heads that rested and six winges And ther were no more triumphing fethers to be found on her for all her glorious power was decended to two weak and feeble heads which for they reigned not in the strength of their predecessors the Prophet daineth not to call ruling fethers but resting heads Martian Th' one slept in th' east at Constantinople whom Genserick the third contrary fether not long before had dishonorably taken prisoner Valentin Th' other in the west at Rauenna taken with such a Lethargy that he neither heard nor felt the Massacre of Vngarie committed by Hunns nor the loud and pitifull crie of his cheefest Prouinces Spaine and Africa deuoured by Gothes and Vandals nor the teares and deepe lament of Gaule and Britanie ouerflowen with Franks and Angles people from beyond the Rhene who not only with their blood and posteritie but with their name also haue stain'd both kingdomes to this day So as the Prophet well concludeth ther was no more to be found vpon the Eagles bodie but these two drowsie heads which refted and six contrary fethers viz. Genserique 1 Odoacer 2 Theodorick 3 Totilas 4 The Longobards 5 And th' intestine faction

6 of which in the verses following Verse 24 Then saw I also the two winges deuided them-selues frō the six and remained vnder the head that was vpon the right side but the foure continued in their place And the Prophet saw that two of the six deuided thē-selues in counsell manner of proceeding frō th' other foure for wheras the four sought to be Lords of Rome in fee resoluing in their thoughts t' extinguish the name and maiestie of her Empire for euer these 2. were of an other minde for they agreed to remaine vnder the countenance and fauour of the Eagles right head contented to weare a crowne tho with leaue of it meaning by the right head th' east Empire so called in regard it was far stronger in power then the west whose broad-spreading honor as in the verse fore-going was now become a starueling onlie his name and appellation continued some ten successions viz. 1 Valentinian 2 Maximus 3 Auitus 4 Maiorianus 5 Seuerus 6 Anthemius 7 Olybrius 8 Glycerius 9 Iulius Nepos 10 Momyllus Which all also vanished as before is toucht in 20. yeares And the Eagles pompe which was at full in Augustus was enterred with Augustulus for so was Momyllus called and with him descended the name and title of Imperium Romanum for euer And the two winges thus deuided in pollicie from the foure were Genserick and Theodorick Of which the first trained into Italie by treason of the Empres entred Rome 43. yeares after she had bin hūbled by the Gothes and led into captiuitie all her treasor and as is the fatall reward of such offenders the traitres also her-selfe And after 14. daies thus loaden departed into his Africa againe wher-ouer he reigned in peace and pleasure 51. yeares Th' other hauing obtained of th'East-head the scepter of Italie according to his patent proceeded and got it by Conquest from Odoacer But after he had reigned therouer 30. yeares descended also leauing his fame and kingdome to his posteritie hauing fullfild his pleasures two and fortie more But this counsell pleased not th' other 4. for as the verse concludeth they remained in other thoughts drifting in their place to rise and reigne without leaue or licence of any Verse 25 So I looked and beholde the vnder-winges thought to set vp them-selues and to haue the rule And as the Prophet beheld the foure contrary fethers which were left he saw how they also stroue in their hearts to establish them-selues but like a dreame their purpose vanished in the next immediate verses following Verse 26 Then was ther one set vp but shortlye it appeered no more Then arose Odoacer the first of the foure leading a people begotten in the bowels and inmost parts of the North who hearing of the deuided and weak estate of the Empire was encouraged to moue from beyond the Danube in much feare and blood descended into Italie slew her last Lord and Emperor Momyllus Augustulus destroyed the name of her Consuler dignitie and blotted out for euer the memory of her holy Senat the murtherer of Romulus their first King and Iulius their first Keyser And not daring as base begotten to put on the presence and stile of an Emperor which name this fether fatallie resisted contented him-selfe with the title of King of Italie But his glory indured not for after he had reigned eighteene yeares Theodorick as in the 24. verse tooke his kingdome from him by force and his life by fraude and he descended and appeered no more Verse 27 And the second was sooner gone then the first After him arose Totilas the second fether of the foure by birth a Spaniard by blood a West-gothe whose fearefull fires burne in Rome to this day but these daies were more in trouble and as the Prophet fore-saw in number fewer then Odoacers from his first rising alway in armes and after many hopes and as many dispaires was at last put to flight by Narses whom the East head had made gouernor of Italie and flying was wounded so deadlye that assone as he gat his Inne he lost his life after he had worne the crowne if to fight for a crowne be to weare a crowne 11. yeares Verse 28 Then I beheld and loe the two that remained did thinke also in them-selues to reigne So as of all th' eight ther remained but the Longobards and th' intestine faction which thought also in them-selues to reigne The first inflamed by the letters of Narses and with the goodnes of Italie left their northern dennes and like a fearefull storme fell down vpon it and in two yeares ouerthrew it crowning their leader Alboinus King thereof at Milan who after he had spred him-selfe ouer the great Citie and ouer all her Italie three yeares and a halfe was murthered by the treason of Rosimond his wife leauing his kingdome but not his honor to his successors who possessed it for 24. generations The eight and last and of all other the most dangerous was a home conspiracie plotting to raise from the dead the antient long-before buried gouernment of Rome te reedifie her S.P.Q.R. And to root out the Priestly preheminence and Church-superiority which had so cunningly eaten and destroyed the seculer Which faction after it had taken fire in the hearts of many and secretly burned a long time at length brake out like the fury and violence of a risen stream so as it might not be quencht but with much blood and exceeding labor as in the one thirteth verse appeereth Verse 29 But whilst they so thought beholde ther awaked one of the heads that were at rest which was in the midst for that vvas greater then the tvvo And whilst they thus thought beholde there awaked one of the three Kingdomes appointed to finish and end the wickednes of the Eagle figuring by this resting head the new West-Empire which title of supremacie the Beast bestowed as hath bin alwaies his practise to runne with the strongest vpon Charles King of France and sonne to Pepin the traiter This head is said to be awaked when it was first raysed which was in the yeare 801. wherein it receaued his augustal robe his crowne and stile viz. Carolo Augusto a Deo coronato magno pijssimo Imperatori Romanorum vita victoria And the title of dignitie Imperiall which had laien dead aboue 300. yeares was in this yeare on Christmas day thus raised vp to life againe to the end it might defend the proceedings of the great adulteres and murtheres of the earth as by the forme of othe exhibited at his consecration appeereth In nomine Christi spondeo atque polliceor ego A. Imperator coram Deo beato Petro Apostolo me protectorem ac defensorem fore huius Sanctae Rom. Ecclesiae in omnibus vtilitatibus quatinus diuino fultus fuero adiutorio pro-ut sciero poteroque In that this head is said to be in the midest is ment that it should be chosen from among the Nations and Kingdomes of the earth

A PROPHESIE THAT HATH LYEN HID ABOVE THESE 2000. yeares WHEREIN IS DECLARED ALL THE MOST PRINCIPALL matters that hath fallen out in and about the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Monarchie of Rome from the rising of Iulius Caesar to this present and which are to be done from hence to the distruction of it and what shall ensue after that AS The liues and deaths of the Emperors The rising of the Ecclesiasticall Monarchie The storie of the greatest enemies of them both with manie other notable accurrences concerning GERMANY FRANCE and SPAINE With the inuasion of the Kings of the EAST LONDON Printed for NATHANIEL FOSBROOKE and are to be solde at the West-end of Paules Neere to the Bishop of Londons gate 1610. To the Reader DEere Christian Reader thinke it not strange I pray thee that Esdras the Scribe and Prophet of the Lord in the principallest of his bookes should be so little regarded Dani. 12.6.7.8 9.10 for Daniel the Prophet prophecying of these times foretelling the wonders that shold come to passe in them sayeth Esdras 12 37.38 That none of the wicked should haue vnderstanding but the wise shall vnderstand And therefore was Esdras commaunded to wright those vision which he saw in a Booke and hide them teach them the wise of the people whose hearts he knew were able to cōprehend the wayes of the highest for as god himself doth not shew his secrets to the vnwise Psal 25.14 so no more would he haue the wise to whome he sheweth thē to teach them but to the wise least the vnwise not being capable should spurne and barke against it wherefore he sayeth Math. 7 6. giue not holy things to dogges neither cast ye your pearles before the Swine c. And as wisedome is iustified of her Children Math. 11.19 only because it is wisedome and for no other respecte so the vnwise resist it because their tongues cannot taste it nor their stomackes digest it 1. Cor. 2 14.15 it being heauenly and they earthly who iudge things by earthly reason Therefore hath God seene it good to lock vp and hide his treasures and richest iewels in most secret places that the dilligent searchers for wisedome might onely finde them out and that fooles might be fooles as they please to be Prou. 2.3.4.5 though wise in their owne conceits The Booke of Wisedome which hath it name according to it nature who knoweth not with what vehemency it is resisted although it be the very flood of Salomons wisdome If Iohn The greatest that was borne of women Math. 11 and Christ his Lord the bridegroome were iudged of the vnwise children to be possest of diuels what maruell though Salomon and Esdras with other prophets and righteous men be blasphemously delt withall But the principall cause pretended is for that it was not found compiled with other scriptures in the Hebrew tongue for which cause they may aswell exclude some part of Daniel and the greatest part of the new Testament but they say it is full of lyes and was neuer cannonized darst thou say so Because the wisedome of the vnwise neuer cannonis'd it did the children of wisedome therefore neuer approue it If all be current that hath bene cannonized Then many deuils shall goe to heauen much falsehood shall stand for truth and if all be lyes that is not cannonized then much truth shall perish and many Saints goe to hell For some of the Epistles of the Apostles As the second Epistle of Peter and the two last Epistles of Iohn Iames and Iudes Epistles were for a long time not receiued generally and many hundred Saints were neuer cannonized By the Church of Rome wheras many vncleane lyers and murth erers were and darest thou blaspheme the truth and accuse it of lies for these causes If Charity did rule thy heart and wisdome gouerne thy minde thou wouldest labour to reconcile it with the other scriptures which if men be so disposed they may also cauill against But let men take heede what they doe let them not condemne that they know not nor call that a lye which they vnderstand not If I should say Saint Iohn spake vnaduisedly when he sayeth Iohn 21.25 There are also many things that Iesus did which if they had bene all written I suppose the world could not containe the bookes did I not belye the holy Apostle If time prooue that to be of God which I in my ignorant boldnes blaspheme and speake against shall I escape vnpunished by that truth let me therefore take heede and feare and as I may not take vpon me to affirm that I know not so let me take heede that I condemne not that which I conceiue not especially such holy writings wherein such great wisedome doth consist least for a words sake that I vnderstand not I depriue my selfe of a great benefit that I might enioy For if time prooue it to be of God as sure it will what shall I then excuse my selfe withall was not the Reuelation of Saint Iohn doubted of by many a great while is it not now receiued as a most deuine Prophecy So shal it be f●●nd in time that none of al the Prophets of ould did excell this Prophet Esdras nor see more secrets nor prophecie more plainely of Iesus Christ and of the misteries of the Gospell then he And also greater wisedome is not to be found in all Salomons writings then is in the book of Wisedome so much condemned why should we not iustifie the truth for it owne sake and not shake it off and take it vp vpon such colde and weake occasions If the maiesty and truth of the other Scriptures did not plead for it selfe Time also bringing foorth all the Hebrues Grecians Latinists and Cannonisers in the world could neuer make it good therfore let truth speake and wisdome vtter her voyce and let time bring foorth as they haue euer done and forbid them not and if thou be one of wisedomes children receiue it And although there be too many that dooth take vpon them to discouer prophecies whose falsehoods time will discouer yet there is a worke which is of God and that shall stand mauger the spight of all it enemies and let them that dare so boldly rage and rayle against it knowe that when the day doth declare it they shall be ashamed and wish they had held their tongues Thus I thought good to aduertise thee by the way least at the first sight of enuied Esdras thou shouldst be dismayed Enuied I say by enuious spirits but approued of God and of his holy ones I will say no more for him at this time he is at hand let him now speake for himselfe FINIS The contents of the Prophecie 1 THe liues and deaths of the Emperors 2. The rysing of the Ecclesiasticall Monarchie 3. The storie of the greatest enemies of them both with their principall actions and of their ouerthrow and ends 4. Of the three kingdomes