bending his utmost endeavours to ruine the Gospel licenceth 17000 Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild their Temple but God destroyeth them all by Lightnings and Pestilences Horrible Earthquakes cast up into the Air the foundations which had been buried in rubbish till then Therefore Daniels compute of the Temples finall ruine must but begin then there begin his two Numbers Chap. 12. ver. 11 12. of 1290 and 1335 which in all must but make 1335 years which added to 363 make up and point to Anno Christi 1698 the joyfull Jubile of the Churches Deliverance from all Adversity Anno Mundi 4373 Anno Christi 426 The first Trumpet blown Fire and hail war and bloudshed cast into the troublesome Sea of the Roman-Western-Empire by Valentinian and the succeeding Emperours untill the end of the Western-Empire The savage Inundations of Goths Huns Vandals and Bulgarians into Italy Revel. 8. 7. Anno Mundi 4553 Anno Christi 606 The second Trumpet blown Boniface that Mountain of fiery Combustions obtaineth of Phocas the Popish Supremacy Hence wars betwixt the Emperours and Popes Revel. 8. 8 9. Anno Mundi 4613 Anno Christi 666 The third Trumpet blown The Romish Bishop the great Star of the Western Christian Clergy falleth from the Heaven of Truth and Godlinesse and of a vigilant Pastour becomes a ravenous Robber of the Church and the gifts thereof Revel. 8. 10 11. Anno Mundi 4946 Anno Christi 999 The fourth Trumpet blown The Pope fallen from Piety and his Clergy from the Pulpits Christ the Sun of righteousness with his Merits the Church the Moon and the Ministers the Stars thereof are eclipsed and vilified by Sylvester II Revel. 8. 12 13. Anno Mundi 5018 Anno Christi 1071 Satan loosed out of prison beginneth to rage by Gregory VII against the Gospel of Christ Revel. 20. 4. Anno Mundi 5140 Anno Christi 1195 The fifth Trumpet blown The Vicar of Christ with his Keyes openeth hel's mouth to let out his Cloister-fiends and satanical Locusts to overspread the Earth of Christendome described by John most graphically Revel. 9. 9. to 13. Anno Mundi 5245 Anno Christi 1300 The sixth Trumpet blown The Ottoman Empire ariseth invadeth first the Eastern-Empire of Constantinople and winneth it then flieth upon the Germane Emperour with barbarous millions of invincible Armies Revel. 9. 13. to the end The saying Revel. 9. 15. of the Turks preparation for a day a moneth and a year beginneth now Which Number allegorically taken maketh 398 years which added to A. 1300 the year of the original of the Turkish Empire sheweth that A. 1698. shall be the final downfal of the same Anno Mundi 5462 Anno Christi 1517 The last Trumpet is blown The Thrones Principalities and Dominions in Heaven rejoyce that God would now at length take his Churches Cause in hand and raise up Luther and other Sons of Thunder to vindicate the quarrel thereof against the Romish Antichrist to the ruine of his Kingdom Revel. 11. from ver. 15. to the end By eating of the Book Chap. 10. Measuring the Temple and slaying the Witnesses Chap. 11. is understood the Reformation by Luther and downfall of the Papacy under Charles the fifth Anno Mundi 5504 Anno Christi 1559 The first Vial poured-out England Scotland and Ireland by the Reign of Queen Elizabeth renounce the Papacy which generates the ulcers of spight and malice in the Romish Church against England Revel. 16. 2. Anno Mundi 5518 Anno Christi 1572 The second Vial poured out Martin Chemnitius and others pronounce the vengeance of God against the mortiferous Sea of the Councel of Trent Revel. 18. 3. Anno Mundi 5528 Anno Christi 1583 The third Vial poured out The stinking Waters of the Papacy are infected with bloud in murthering of the Popes and Romanists in Rome the slaughters of the Spaniards in the Low-Countreys and the Discomfiture of the Spanish-Armado in Anno 1588. Revel. 16. 5 6 7. Anno Mundi 5540 Anno Christi 1605 The fourth Vial poured out The Protestant Champions Pareus Polanus Whitakers Perkins Andrews King James and others pour light upon the Sunne of the Gospel in writing against Bellarmine Stapleton Campian and other Papists Revel. 16. 8 9. Anno Mundi 5565 Anno Christi 1630 The fifth Vial is now pouring out The Swedes in Germany An. 1632. The English in England 1640 combine against the Papists Jesuites proscribed in Poland and Swethland Anno 1648. This Vial shall end in the ruine of Rome Anno 1666. Revel. 16. 10 11. Anno Mundi 5594 Anno Christi 1659 The sixth Vial beginneth to be poured out Three barbarous Nations sack Hydruntum in Apulia made enrodes into the Eastern Coasts of Italy and sack them with fire and sword Factions and Massacres in Rome and Tuskany The Pope contemned and invaded The Western Christians make an Army and fire Rome in the 2419 year after Romulus laid the foundation thereof as Sibylla prophesied Oracul lib. 4. Revel. 16. from ver. 12. to 17. Anno Mundi 5595 Anno Christi 1660 The faithfull and true Warriour riding upon a white Horse descendeth from heaven with his Souldiers riding upon white horses to fight against the enemies of his Church The Angel in the Sun calleth to all the fowles of heaven to come to the feast of God to eat the flesh of Kings Captains mighty Men and horses Rev. 19. 11 17 18. And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and the Warriours gathered together to warre against him that sate on the horse and against his Souldiers But the beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him whereby he deceived them that have received the beasts mark and them that worship his image These two were cast alive into the lake burning with fire and brimstene c. Ibid. 19 20. Anno Mundi 5601 Anno Christi 1666 Vrbs antiqua ruit multos dominata per annos Destruiturque armis gens scelerata suis Go out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins nor receive of her plagues Forasmuch O Rome as thou glorifiedst thy self and livedst in pleasure saying I sit a Queen am no widdow and shall see no sorrow therefore shall thy plagues come upon thee in one day death sorrow and famine and thou shalt be burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth thee The Kings of the earth shall bewail thee and thou shalt never more be inhabited the light of a candle shall shine no more in thee and the voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride shall be heard no more in thee Rejoyce O heavens for righteous are Gods judgements He hath condemned the great Whore Then they sung Hallelujah and her smoak arose up for evermore Rev. 18. 7 8 20. 19. 3. Anno Mundi 5614 Anno Christi 1679 Rome being destroyed Jews dwell amongst Protestants and begin to search into the Scriptures and learn the waies of God
nefandarum domitrix altrixque ferarum Quid fueras quid fisque vide tua prima propago Bella gerit fibolémque pctet lues atra secundam At Leo terribilis Borealibus cduus oris Fammifcram ex Orco pelagiplangentibus undis Educens aciem pecudes urbésque virósque Sternet antiquis Solem Lunámque movebit Sedibus ille etiam patrie jure infima summa Reddet Occasum sub leges mittet inermem Thus Englished Alas ill race to dismall Fates reserv'd By whom dire Beasts are tamed and preserv'd See what thou wert and art Thy first issue Inclines to War Plague doth the next subdue But Lion fierce sprung from the Northern shore Shall bring from deepest Hell and waves that rore A blasing Army he shall men o'rerun Cities and cattel yea the Moon and Sun Shall he remove and Father-like the least Make highest and give Laws to the weak West Yet he that returns back in reviewall of the conjunctions and fiery Triplicities may see how they have in part prognosticated the present troubles and and distractions of Europe with the Common-wealths of England and Scotland Anno 1603 in the first great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the fiery triplicity K. James came to the Crown of England and so was fulfilled that Prophecie which an holy Anchoret made 890 years agoe English men for that they wonneth them to drunkeinesse to treakson and rechlesenesse of Got's house firsten by Dancs thenth by Nortmans and the thrid time by Scots whom they holden lest worthen of all they shallen be overcompn Then the world shallen be unstable and so various and diversable that the unstablenesse of thoughts shallen be betookeineid by many manner diversity of cloathing This could never be fulfilled but by a Scottish King swaying the English-scepter and therefore never came to passe till the Union of the two Kingdoms under the said King As the second Conjunction Anno 1623. found Germany and most of the West involved in civil Wars and as the third An. 1643. found the King and Subjects of England in the field one against the other so the fourth Conjunction An. 1663 in Sagitarius shall begin those destructive Combustions in Italy which shall allure the Protestant Armies to make a third all-conquering Party in the same and the fifth An. 1683 in Leo shall bring forth the Conversion of the Jews but the sixth Conjunction happening in Taurus An. 1703 shall behold that which many glorious Saints and children of God have read of and rejoyced and desired to see and yet could not see them For now Revel. 22. 1. shall the Sea that is the miserable estate of the World by Wars Desolations and Sicknesses be destroyed and no more extant Now shall the time of Tribulation War and desolation the time of torments temptation heresie and persecution be utterly abolished from the memory of men For a new Heaven and a new Earth a renovated Church purified Saints shall succeed in the room of those Wolves who in sheeps-cloathing devoured the Flock of Christ These are the dayes for the hope of which the stones of Sion cry day by day though little esteeming seven thousand deaths in regard of that precious assurance graven in their Brests that they shall then and in that day behold the Lord which hath mercifully gathered them from all Nations and hath so wonderfully preserved them from the sorcery of Babylon which hath destroyed all the Earth that leadeth them in and out before Pagans Hereticks and Idolaters before the covetous and foolish-wise of this world so prudently and so invisibly that they seeing are not seen and living are not known But from these low things let us ascend up to Scripture further to prove the certainty thereof Daniels Image as it gave the first so it gave the fullest Knowledge of this great Mystery of the Church of God Dan. 2. per tot In which Image is described in brief the Estate of the World from the very day God revealed this to Damel and he to Nebuchadnezzar to the full and final End and Conclusion of time By the golden Head silver Arms brazen Belly and iron Legs we must understand the Chaldean Persian Macedouian and Roman Monarchies which successively one after another tyrannized over mankinde by cruelty and by cruelty came to as miserable Destructions in the end The feet part of Iron and part of Clay denoted the declining Estate of the Roman Empire after that indiscreet Division of it under Charles the Great into the Eastern and Western under the present Papacy and now-vulturizing house of Austria which hitherto doth and shall continue until An. 1694. Therefore the Stone cut without hands in the 34 verse which smote the Image on his feet that were part of Iron part of Clay and so brake them to pieces that the Iron Brasse Clay Silver and Gold became as chaff of the Summer-flowers that the winde carried them away and no more place was found for them And the Stone that smote the Image became a great Mountain and filled the Earth must needs be understood of a glorious Monarchy of the Church of God upon Earth which by the Conversion of the Universal Nation of the Jews shall overcome all her Enemies and reign triumphantly in all Nations under Heaven in universality uniformity integrity and innocency of life and conversation This blessed and happy estate of Christs Church upon Earth after the aforesaid battel of Gog and Magog described Ezech. 38. and 39 Chap. of which enough before is graphically deciphered in the nine last Chapters of the same Prophet beginning at the 40 where under a specious and large type of restoring the old Jewish Temple with the Sacrifices chap. 40. the measuring ordering and disposing of it in every thing thereto belonging chap. 41. as the chambers of the Priests in the Temple the holy Utensils chap. 42. the glory of God filling the house chap. 43. his paternall upbraiding the Israelites for their antient Idolatry and demonstrating his great and affectionate love to them for the present chap. 44. is contained as I said before a pithy discourse how powerfull and magnificent these new converted Christians shall be how holy learned and unanimous their Ministers should be how ardent and studious they shall be in communicating the Gospel of Christ to such as yet sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death chap. 45. how vigilant their Princes and Magistrates shall be in being keepers of the house of God that is in incouraging the Ministers tam praemio quà m paenâ to inftruct the people in the knowledge of the truch that so both Ministers and people may render due obedience to their common Saviour in love to God and charity toward men And again the reserved portions of Land for the Temple City Priests and Princes all in just measures and dimensions the waters issuing out of the Temple ever increasing in Latitude and Profundity the severall divisions of the particular lots of
A brief DESCRIPTION Of the future History of Europe from Anno 1650 to An. 1710. Treating principally Of those grand and famous Mutations yet expected in the World as The ruine of the Popish Hierarchy the final annihilation of the Turkish Empire the Conversion of the Eastern and Western Jews and their Restauration to their ancient Inheritances in the holy Land and the FIFTH MONARCHIE of the universall Reign of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth With principal Passages upon every of these out of that famous Manuscript of PAVL GREBNER extant in Trinity-Colledge Library in Cambridge Composed upon the Occasion of the young KINGS Arrival into Scotland to shew what will in probability be the Event of the present Affairs in ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Ludit in humanis divina Potentia rebus Printed in the Year 1650. TO THE Ingenuous and wel-affected Readers GENTLEMEN I Here present you with a mishapen Embryo having neither had time for Perfection nor life to actuate Acception A meer Chaos and disordered Discourse is it yet for matter treating of wonderfull and famous Events which in this European world are quickly to be performed It is true that Primi foetus sunt horridiores as commonly defective in mature Conceptions and ripenesse of judgement Yet they that reade this Pamphlet seriously will finde those Passages opened I will not say fully explained in Scripture which Commentator never yet disclosed nor Divine unfolded In such an intricate Labyrinth it is easie to stray therefore I am confident Charity will usher your Iudgements and your love cover mine Infirmities I know I have slipt in many places but for the present can neither tell where nor how Some Ariadne might do well to lead the way and I shall be as ready to follow Secundae cogitationes sunt meliores If I finde those Non-entities to be accepted with but as much respect as worse ware every day is it shall not irk me to bestow a week or two in licking it over into a better form and putting a handsomer Coat upon it 's back There are several passages in it which I know will not resent with our Great Ones but Amicus Plato amicus Socrates yet Magis amica veritas which shall prevail though all the world gather in battalia against it I must confesse it is too too abortive for it came into the world in fewer hours then Tostatus bestowed in translating the five first Chapters of Genesis out of Greek into Latine I wish it may obtain the end for which I made it that is to move us all with repentance to meet God in these great Mutations and Changes he is bringing upon us in this Land that every one would strive to reform one from Heresies Sects and Schisms to suffer the Scriptures to be our Rule and the holy Ghost our Guide both in Faith Religion and Discipline that so God may put out his hand in amending the Body-Politick in the whole that judgement may depart from us destruction flee far from us that Peace may dwell within our wals and plenteousness within our Palaces I study multum in parvo and hope to give satisfaction to all but such as are wedded more to their wils then reasons For these I have no more but this A good winde at their backs to the Anticyra's that they may drink Hellebor lustily to purge their Brains that they may be more quick and their Eye-sight clearer I quote strange Authors in this Work and good Reason for the Work it self is strange Yet they in whose hands these Authors are and they are not in every Library shall finde I have both dealt with them truly and cited them faithfully And for the Tractate it self it will with the learned be either Laudatus aut saltem excusatus either of which shall content me at this time Farewel A brief DESCRIPTION OF THE Future History of EUROPE from Anno 1650 to An. 1710. I. The Occasion of writing this Treatise HAving with silence and admiration beheld these ten years the horrid Broyls and civil Tumults in these Western Coasts of Europe I cannot but adore the Justice of God upon his enemies and his paternall chastisements upon his Church for sin It hath made me often wonder to behold how virulently and barbarously Protestants could oppose and massacre one another when the Romish Froggs can live in an established amity among themselves and laugh at our follies I will not say it is Jesuiticall projects which sets us by the ears together so much as our own Seditious and Schismaticall spirits and want of Charity If we would but ponder how much Popery hath won upon us by these Warres and Divisions what fearfull occasions we have given to the professed enemies of Christ to blaspheme his Name and deride our Religion it would much provoke us to end our Controversies and band against the common Enemy The Empire hath got but a wofull Booty by her 30 years Warres having weakned her self with the losse of Six Millions of valiant Souldiers and enticed that Imp of Mahomet to prepare an Army of 200000 now in the Field and ready to march within the bowels of Germany We in England have gained no better by our civil Warre but in stead of one Tyrant to advance a douzen over us and from the height of Liberty to runne the broad way up the next hill to the height of Slavery Our Western Sun is set on whom the eies of all Protestants were fixt to have composed their differences and united them into a mutuall League against the Romish Dragon and the false Prophet Nor was any insufficiency in him to the performance of so glorious an Enterprize had not the sins of his own Subjects hastned his untimely Fate Behold then what profits our Warre hath brought us and what a blessing our sins have deprived us of How fearfull are the Judgements of God and his anger against sin when the Church is dilacerated the Commonwealth disjoynted and dismembred in every part thereof the lust of Tyrants the pleasure of Pesants the barbarousnes of Souldiers dissentions of Churchmen sad and tragicall ends of Nobles confusions in Families countenancing of Heresies and applauding of Blasphemies are so rife and ripe amongst men On the contrary how happy are Kingdomes how blessed be Commonwealths when Princes Magistrates and other subordinate Officers each in their severall place and calling strive to promote the glory of God with the Liberty Honour and Tranquillity of Subjects where the Ministry is incouraged Universities countenanced Courts of Judicature upholden Subjects be unanimous and accustomed to the Exercise of Piety and Godlinesse lastly when both Prince and people aim joyntly at the advancement of the Gospel and mutuall commodity of one another so that there be no decay no leading into Captivity nor complaining in their streets II. The subject matter of this ensuing Discourse The disparity of these two contradictory conditions and the fearfull effects which they in all ages have wrought in the Consciences of
men have made me at length after a long time of silence put Pen to Paper and through the intricate Labyrinth of those portions of Scripture which never Commentator yet ever medled with I mean the twelve last Chapters of Ezekiel the three last of the Revelation the last of Daniel with some passages in Hosea and Zechary to descry when We People of England with all Protestants in Europe shall see an end of these our Warres and Tumults what shall be the Estate of our Churches Stares and Kingdomes from this present year 1650 to the beginning of the Fifth and last universall MONARCHY of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth which shall begin in the year of our Lord 1710 and in what year we may expect the downfals of the Beast of Rome the Red Dragon of Constantinople the totall Conversion and restauration both of the Eastern and Western Jews within their holy Land of Jury all which must most certainly be falfilled before the end of the World Of these high Points and Mysteries I finde nothing in any Commentator upon the last of Daniel and the Revelations save only Brightman who being acquainted in Leiden with Joseph Scaliger got some but those very imperfect notes of Grebner concerning those Numbers in Ezekiel and Daniel But that excellent Manuscript which Johannes Baudensis writ of the Life and Writings of Grebner declareth all these things most plainly and punctually how that greater Troubles fearfuller Combustions direfuller Devastations shall come upon the Western Kingdomes of Europe then yet ever did before they can expect the downfall either of Turk or Pope or the universall Monarchy of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth In which incomparable Work the Learned Astrologer bringeth Divine and Heavenly Reasons why Europe for the space of thirty seven years after that fearfull blazing Comet in 1618. should with amazed eyes behold the infinite and sudden mutations and downfals of flourishing States and potent Kingdomes the deformity of Empires and mournfull faces of Commonwealths as is lately happened in England Portugall Swethland Bohemia and Denmark the Devastations of whole Kingdoms at a clap and burning six or seven Nations at once in their ashes and cinders as of late in Germany not to make them ask whether there be a God Heaven and Providence or not or whether Empires and States depend wholly upon the will and power of man or upon secret and hidden causes beyond the thoughts and expectations of the World but to praise God for his paternall corrections seeing by this they know he remembreth them and that through this Fire and Water of Affliction he will bring his Church to a finall Conquest over her Enemies and both the Congregations of Jews and Gentiles to an universall Monarchy over the face of the whole Earth Severall passages of which Manuscript I will insert here and there in this ensuing Discourse as Method and Matter shall require III. The Confutation of the wicked Opinions of the Millenaries of the Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth after An. 1700. Since the spirituall sword was sheathed in England which lopt off the serpentine Heads of Heresie and Schisme while they were yet growing it is a wonder to see how all Sects and Schismaticall Opinions in the world have like devouring Weed overgrown and choked the seed of the Word Above the rest the Millenaries have exalted themselves whose abominable Pamphlets have flown abroad like Atomes wherein they dream of a Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth how he shall descent from Heaven An. 1666 destroy all the works of darknesse in every corner of the Earth make an easie passage to men from Earth to Heaven so that they may ascend into Heaven and leap down to Earth again as oft as they list how he shall keep a Quarter Sessions or Goal-delivery in his own Person upon Mount Olivet call all Nations before him rebuke them of sin face to face and shall cut out of them their stony hearts and shall sew in their bellies hearts of flesh in stead thereof that An. Dom. 1700 shall be the day of Judgement and that the Judgement shall last other 1700 years because otherwise the glorious Attributes of Christ's Mercy and Justice cannot be sufficiently explained to the World and the Consciences of men All which Fopperies with many mo too horrid to relate are contained in M. Archers Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth Rich. Stirreys Kingdome of King Jesus and in A.R. his Caelestis Hierusalem Printed A. 1642 1644 and 1645. Now having unmasked the vanity of this Error ut contraria juxtà se posita magis elucescant I will epitomize in this Section the truth of the future estate of the World from this time to the end which afterward I intend God willing further to dilate and prosecute in this Treatise This year 1650 all Europe are in civil Warres These civill warres shall not cease till they have mustered out a great Army of the true worshippers of God to ruine Rome which shall be about Anno 1666. Rome thus destroyed the Western Jews shall begin to learn the waies of God and believe his Gospel which they cannot do so long as Rome standeth and shall Anno 1683. enter upon the conversion of their Eastern brethren the 10. Tribes now invisibly hid in Tartaria and India and they two none else shall ruine the Mahumetan Empire about An. 1698. and so shall be restored to the holy Land to reinhabit Jerusalem Then must begin a comparative felicity of the Church of God upon earth because after these times both Turk and Pope shall be destroyed Neverthelesse this felicity must be mingled with internall troubles and persecutions within the bowels of the Church because the Church shall never be wholly at rest while the world standeth Lo here the difference betwixt Truth and Heresie betwixt the opinions of the Millenaries and right sense of Scriptures The Millenaries say Christ must descend personally feom heaven The Scriptures on the contrary say he shall not come from Heaven personally till the last day when he shall descend with his holy Angels in flaming fire to judge the quick and the dead He shall send power and strength from heaven to his true Worshipppers as he hath done hitherto to destroy Turk and Pope from Heaven he shall give power to his ancient people the Jews to regain their ancient Land of Judea and not by his corporeall presence upon Earth from Heaven about An. 1700. he shall transferre his Gospel from Europe as he hath done from Asia and raise up and inspire godly Ministers after his own will who shall implant his holy word in all and every of the Kingdomes and Provinces of America and in all countries of the Southern and Eastern India China Tartaria and in all the regions of the North unto the worlds end and make it shine in as great purity and glory as ever it hath done in England or Germany This is the felicity of the Church the fifth Monarchy
name of Turks shall be rooted from off the Earth must be before the beginning of this glorious Estate and Felicity of the Church of God here upon Earth and therefore the 7 8 9 and 10 verses are in order of time before the 5 and the 6. The Devil and Antichristianity must be chained up in the dungeon of Hell for the space of a 1000 years after the Incarnation of Christ An. 1000 must the Devil and Romish Idolatry by the Popedome of Sylvester the second be let loose to range upon Earth and tyrannize over the Church for the most part of another 1000 ever till An. 1698 numorus completus being put here pro incompleto before an happy and comfortable Estate of the Gospel can be brought forth to the World Therefore all Christendome from this year 1650 must expect very sad and wofull daies much persecution bloodshed and savadge tyranny in every Kingdom of Europe especially in France Spain Italy Swethland Germany and England untill An. 1698. Some of thoseKingdoms which have abandoned the superstition of the beast shall by subtle allurements be perswaded to readmit and reestablish the same Wofull and unsupportable Afflictions shall besall both the European Jews which are the two Tribes of Benjamin and Judah now resident in Christendom and Turkie as likewise the ten Tribes the Kingdom of Israel who shall insensibly and miraculously arise out of the bowels of Tartaria and India about An. 1669. who neverthelesse shall be so extraordinarily supported by God that they shall stand in little or no need at all of the Christians Because from this time of the Conversion of the Israelites for the space of 30 years these 12 Tribes shall suffer much trouble Heathens Papists and Mahometans shall strive to eradicate their name from under heaven and yet all in vain for an illustrious and heroick Prince è Tribu Nephtali oriundus shall be their valiant and fortunate Commander called Michael not proprio nomine but because he Dan. 12. 1. shall stand up and shew himself the Assertor and Protector of their Religion and Liberty In which time shall be such troubles as never were no nor ever shall be to the end of the world For like as the Christians had rest 30. years from the Ascension of Christ and now have endured the fiery triall almost these 1600. years since that time from the Heathen Emperors and the Beast so the Israelites which shall 1600. years till Anno 1668. live without Prince Law Temple Sacrifice and true Religion as Hosea prophesied ch. 3. v. 4 5. beginning now to be converted to Christ shall have savage times of affliction and Butcheries for other 30. years to welcome their conversion withall till Anno 1698. when God shall grant rest from their enemies and begin a peaceable estate of the Church VII Certain remarkable Nambers in Scripture whereby the Epoch's of the ruine of Turk Pope and the corversion of the Iews are more fully strengthned Entring at length upon my Notes on the afore-said Chronology I think it meet first to strengthen the former Epoch's of the ruine of Rome downfall of the Turk and Tartar and the Conversion of the Jews by the Conduct of certain memorable Numbers in holy Scriptures Grave and judicious Authours have with wonder and admiration observed the heavenly and inimitable Method of holy Scrjptures how all the Mysteries and memorable Occurrences in the same are comprized in Numbers how within the compasse of such a Quantity of years God alwayes divulged his Counsels and manifested what he purposed should be wrought among the children of men So that in considering the admirable consent and agreement of Times by things past we may probably conjecture of things to come From the Creation to the Floud was 1656 years the Floud was a sign of the Consummation of all those things which are to be fulfilled before the conclusion of time Anno Christi 1656 let the Church of God expect with joy and comfort the acting of the first Scene of the Tragedies of all those European Kingdoms which have been implacable Persecutours of the Gospel of Christ The whole Government of Moses who was a second Noah to the Church is a shadow of the Kingdom of Christ The Law continued in force 1529 years to the Passion of Christ But 1598 years to the Destruction of the Temple by Titus The Destruction of the Temple by Titus was according to the accompt of Dionyfius Exiguus A. C. 69. From thence reckon the Number of 1598 years and you come to A. 1667 which is the year which shall smoke with the ascending up of the Flames which consume the Kingdom of the Beast From the Nativity of Christ to his Re-nativity in the preaching of his Gospel by Luther and other eminent Ministers are 1517 years And from the beginning of the Reign of the Maccabees untill the Birth of Christ are 169 years Put these two sums together and you come to Anno 1686 in which God having 18 years before enlightned the eyes of those who for almost 2000 years have sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and having laid the Kingdom of the Beast and the false Prophet in the lowest dust shall bring that people into the bosome of the true Church which within 13 years after shall deliver his children from all adversity From the universal Deluge of man-kinde by the Floud to the beginning of the universal Captivity of the Church under Nebuchadnezzar beleaguering Jerusalem are numbered 1698 years So likewise from the Birth of the King of Kings unto the final Consummation of the Miseries and restauration of the Felicity of the Church by the Destruction of Gog and Magog shall be reckoned the very same Number of 1698 years From the Confusion of the Tower of Babel to the return of the Jews from Babel are 1666 years and from prophane Pompey's spoiling of the Temple at Jerusalem when the Kingdom was taken from the house of David and Superstition and Gentilism began to spring up amongst the Jews to the Birth of of Antichrist and Apostasie in the Church of God are 666 years from thence reckon a 1000 years wherein the Saints must suffer Persecution and Martyrdom for the Testimony of Jesus Christ and the truth of a good Conscience Revel. 20. 4. and you come to A. 1666 in which shall be fulfilled all those things which are mentioned Revel. 18 and the 19 Chapter So likewise from the Departure out of Aegypt untill the Death of Christ are numbered 1542 years to these adde those 169 years which are from the beginning of the Reign of the Assomonaei or Macchabees to the Birth of Christ and you come to Anno 1711 which year shall be wonderfull and terrible to all the world because that in the year next going before viz. Anno 1710. the abominable Names and mention of Papists Turks and Tartars being eradicated from the memories of men the glorious Estate of the Gospel and the terrestial Felicity of the
Priests Temple Levites the City and the Princes secondarily repeated in the 45 46 47 and the last Chapters evidently declare the undoubted certainty and verity of this wonderfull mystery that the Jews shall repossesse their antient possessions and severall inheritances in the Land of Judea how devout pious and chearfull they shall be in the worship and service of God intimated by the frequent performing of spirituall Sacrifices and Oblations how potent and spatious their Church shall be how great and infinite the Priviledges and never decreasing Graces of God shall be to it signified by the depth and latitude of the spiritual waters of Life Thirdly Daniel in the end of his 11 Chap. doth above all other most plainly and specifiquely picture the two grand preparations to this spirituall Monarchy of Christs Church in the end of the World viz. 1 the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the enemies of God and 2. the Conversion of the Jews For in the 40 41 42 and 43 verses of the said 11 Chapter declaring first what Victories the Saracens should get over the Roman Empire by saying that the King of the South should push at him viz. the Saracens should invade the Emperour and secondly what lamentable havock the Turk should make of the Roman Monarchy by conquering and subduing from them all the Eastern Empire of Constantinople in these words And the King of the North shall come against him like a whirlwinde with charets and horsemen and many ships and shall enter into the Countries and shall overflow and passe thorow which was verified in the Turks conquering all Greece Scythia Moldavia Servia Asia Syria Mesopotamia and the Isles of the Aegean sea And he shall enter into the pleasant Land and many Countries shall be overthrown but these shall escape out of his hands Edom and Moab and the chief of the Children of Ammon which also came to passe when Selimus I. invaded Egypt slew Tomumbey the Sultan thereof eradicated the very name of the Mamalucks and so got all the wealth and treasures of Memphis and Grand-Cairo and added also Judca as a member of Egypt to the Turkish Empire An. 1517. His son Solymon the Magnificent awed India and Ethiopia and his Grandchilde Selimus II. conquered Tunis and Algiers in Afrique yet neither of them medled with the Arabians Edomites or Moabites as thinking them a people not worth conquering In the 44 verse Daniel saith But tydings out of the East and West shall trouble him the conversion of the Eastern and Western Jews shall so inrage the Turke that he shall levy innumerable Forces and march forth in great fury to destroy and root them out And he shall pitch the Tabernacle of his Palace between the seas in the glorious and holy Mountain shall fight a most terrible and bloudy pitcht Field with them in their own Land of Jury and yet shall he come to his end his power by God's Providence shall be overthrown and totally eradicated by them from off the Earth and none shall help him Lastly S. John in Revel. 9. 15. setteth down in plain and evident numbers the very beginning increase and downfall of this hellish generation For in saying the Turkish Armies shall be prepared at an hour a day a moneth and a year he analogically declareth the very time of their birth and the year when they shall come to a finall annihilation Here a Day is to be taken prophetically for a year a Moneth for 31 daies which likewise make so many years and a year for the daies of a bissextile Julian year which are 366 making in the same manner as many propheticall years as in the former Epoch's of Daniel and Ezekiel So the sum's of 366 31 and 1 make a compleat Product of 398 years which added to An. 1300 the year in which the Ottoman Empire first saw light in the world plainly demonstrates that as the Turkish Empire began An. Christi 1300 so in An. 1698 shall be the fatall end and finall downfall of the same Thus it is evident that as the downfall and captivity of the Jewish Nation fell in the building and birth of that City which was afterward the fourth Monarchy so in the buriall and ruine of the same City and Monarchy shall be their conversion to the Gospel of truth and the institution of the Fifth Monarchy in which all power and earthly magnificence must submit to the Kingdom of the Saints of God and all Sccpters bow to the Authority of the Church of Christ VIII The cōmon Objection of Divines against the V Monarchy and the universall kingdom of the Gospel here upon Earth crawn from the badnesse of the Times Answered Against these former Assertions it is thus objected That these are but the Dreams of idle headedmen considering the sad Method of the World in the continuall increase of sin and wickednesse and degeneration of all sublunary things daily more and more to worse and because our Saviour said at his second coming he should scarce finde faith upon Earth But to this I answer No time is God's time for the propogation of the Gospel and enlargement of his Church but in the Deluge of sin and inundation of impiety then is his Power most manifest when man is weakest his Decrees most effectible when-we think him the furthest off and his Providence nearest execution then when the world is most irregular and incapable of a Reformation When the Abominations and Paganismes of the old World had destroyed all true worship of God and an 120 years of repentance did no good then was God's time to separate the Wheat from the Chaffe and by saying of Noahs family to preserve a seed for the implantation of a new So in the new World when Idolatry had overspread all the Judgement and Mercy of God most appeared-in Abrahams Vocation by selecting his Church from the rest of mankinde and continuing it above 2000 years in the House of Heber the true Heir to Grace and Salvation Thus was it in the destruction of Sodome and Gomorrha in the Babylonish Captivity in the Reformation by Luther when all the world were become Apostates God's Providence shone out brightest and was most conspicuous in propagating Religion maugre all the opposition the devil and the world could invent or devise So shall it be in this prefixed time though the world must degenerate more and more in civility and humanity Christianity be eclipsed in a higher measure and the true Worshippers of God decrease above what ever yet hath been done though Protestantisme in many Coasts and Kingdoms shall be totally swallowed up of Popery and Mahumetanisme more lamentable Warres and fearfull Massacres rage through England Germany France Spain Italy and all European Monarchies then we have yet beheld and though some of these Kingdoms wholly revolt to Popery others be luke-warm and at a stand untill An. 1686 yet all these shall but make way for the finall Eradication of the enemies of the Church
incorporate with any so seldom is he conjoyned but in natural Antipathy with all Nations Adde hereunto the austerity and unpleasantnesse of his Government chusing rather to domineer over subdued Countries by rapine and cruelty than to govern them by Love and Piety And lastly his Governours in every Province aim at their own ends pilling and squeezing the Subjects so that his Name and Government is every where abominated no Province continuing loyal any longer then they can get arms and stoutly rebel The injustice of which hath caused Portugal to be rent from him which while the world standeth shall never be his again And moreover the Oracle tels him that Naples Navar his reconciled Provinces in Belgia with his Indian Plantations the best Jewels he hath shall be pluckt within 30 years to come from his ambitious Crown never to be recovered again Secondly The Swede cannot be Paramount in this Monarchy because of the various Sects and Schisms he is pestered with so inveterate and so predominant that no Reformation can purge him of them The male Line of that Royal Pedegree is extinct and only a weak young Princess surviving the whole Kingdom shared and governed by factious Nobles and covetous Generals and while every one sucks from the veins of the Body Politique to cram his own it will be soon evacuated both of life and nourishment Besides it hath been since prophesied to Sweden that he shall not be so much as a tributary Kingdom to this great Soveraignty but shall be the first that shall be made a slave to that famous Northern Lion who shall wear the Crown of that transcendent Monarchy As for France Denmark England and the free Cantons of Germany they make account for the present they do valiantly if they can well husband what is got already And for England in particular if it chance that she make war upon any neighbour Enemy and enlarge their Dominions by Conquest it is more to secure her self and prevent the Invasion of the great Eagle and her chief feathers then any grecdinesse of extending her Bounders by the Conquest and ruine of others If she keep her ancient soil and possessions in those times it is as much as heaven hath ordained her and more she shall not have Who then must be Lord of this Monarchy Or what people shall be parts and members thereof Even a Nation which at this day is hid invisibly within the bowels of Europe which seeing are not seen and living are not known Which shall by a miraculous Resurrection like the Jews from India and Tartaria be raised to destroy all Idolatry and abomination out of every corner of the North with the weapons of an holy warfare tending to the glory of God and the Honour of their King His Sword shall be Religion and his Ensigns Righteousnesse and Piety All the godly in every Kingdom and State in Europe the converted Jews conjoyned and united with them in spirit and habitation shall as I said before root out all names of Iniquity and be this Monarchy which shall only consist of and subsist by Holinesse and an unquenchable desire of propagating the Glory and Gospel of God according to that of Daniel Chap. 7. ver. 27. And the Kingdom and Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him The first preparation to the Birth of which was that ominous and fatal Starre which appeared in the head of Cassiopea An. 1572 the effects of which shall begin to operate upon Europe and the Eastern Coasts of America An. 1699 in bringing a Mystery to light which all the sons of Adam are not able to effect Of this fatal and ominous Starre or Comet chuse you whether I finde several Tractates written One Nuntius Propheticus in Print Magell de quintâ Monarchiâ Openheims Ephemeris Caelica both Manuscripts both excellently discoursing of the Effects thereof How that Quo tempore accidet septima ultima-maxima superiorum Planetarum Conjunctio princeps erit Monarchia prima quae caput ex ruinis quarti Imperii erexerit Currus Lunae Zodiacum perturbabit Cauda Draconis coget Plciades in fletum prorumpere dorsum Delphini ascendet flores Virgineos obfuscabit continuaeturbae seditiones bella civilia strages panolethriae luctuosissimae omnia illa regua illustres Familias persequentur ex quibus ista Monarchia orta est aut ei ullo modo obviabunt Burgundiae domus finera accipiet Silesiae libertas Gallico Neroni prostituetur Belgarum Ordinespotentiae Aristocratiae suae finem videbunt c. Openheim fol. 86. But Magel is most plain above all three fol. 67. col 8. Fatcor majorum Lumiuarium deliquia sine insigni hominnm pernicie pecorumque strage nunquam extitisse Regnorum mutationes etiam populorum clades regum funera bella incendia in ipsorum Deliquiorum Aâ—ticulis aut paulò post evidentèr apparuisse Fateor etiam superiorum erronum coitum malorum ut plurimùm Iliadc comitari atque hanc stellam quae hoc An. 1572 in vertice Cassiopeae illuxit suprà omnem elementarem regionem collocatam novi Imperij Revolutionem Dominiumque significasse Quae tamen effecta haec aetas nostra minimè perspiciet reservanda nihil-ominùs in gentem quandam etiamnum invisibilem cujus magnitudinis radij in universum caeli terraeque ambitum extendentur At what time the 7th the last and greatest Conjunction of the chief Planets shall happen the first Monarchy shall reign which shall lift up her head out of the ruines of the IV Empire The Chariot of the Moon shall disturb the Zodiack The Tail of the Dragon shall force the Pleiades to break out into weeping shall ascend the back of the Dolphin and shall darken the lustre of the Virgin Daily troubles seditions civil wars slaughters and most lamentable universal Destructions shall vex all those Kingdoms and eminent Families from whence that Monarchy sprang or which shall any way crosse it The house of Burgundie shall be at an End the Liberty of Silesia shall be prostituted to a French Nero The Estates of Belgia shall see an end of their Power and Aristocracy I confesse Eclipses of the great Luminaries never hapned without the notable Destruction of men and slaughter of Cattel the Changes also of Kingdoms the Deaths of People Funerals of Kings Wars and fires have broke forth either in the very time of their Eclipses or within a little after I confesse also the Conjunction of the higher wandring Starres is for the most part attended with an Iliad of mischiefs and that this Star which this year 1572 appeared on the top of Cassiopaea being placed above the whole Elementary Region did signifie the Revolution and Dominion of a new Empire Which effects shall not yet be seen by this our age
in Nebuchadnezzars Image the ministeriall not personall Reign and Kingdom of Christ upon Earth which must not endure for ever as Archer would have it nor for a 1000 years as Alsted dreams but for a very short time that all Nations none excepted may professe Gods worship and none plead ignorance before his Tribunall presently after which the dissolution of the world shall come after which time shall be no more IV. A Declaration of the effects of the blaving Comet Anno 1618. This Digression made I return to my purposed method That fearfull and ominous Night-torch which prognosticated all that misery to Germany and great Brittain which they have now suffered was the forerunner of all our evils This Comet Longomontanus and D. Bambridge say appeared but 28. dayes indeed it was neither observed in Denmark nor at London before Novemb. 18. or 21. but Erycius Puteanus observed it Novemb. 11. the first time as he testifies in the first book of his learned Paradoxologie pag. 33. 38. so it appeared for the space of 37. or 38. dayes foreshewing that first Germany Livonia Swethland with other North-parts of Europe then Scotland England and Ireland should feel the terrible effects thereof in warre and famine for the space of 37. or 38. years even from An. 1618. till An. 1656. This Comet was strengthned by a fearfull conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter An. 1616. July 18. The effects of both which were not to be confined in those terrible concomitants of war perpetrated in Germany which L.B. and D. Vincent so pathetically delineate but were to end in the judgements of God upon Europe for neglecting the downfall of Antichrist ruine of Rome annihilation of the Sodomiticall Order of the Society of Jesuites and in the extirpation of all Kingdoms and free States of Papists to make way for the Lion of the North to erect his FIFTH MONARCHIE in the ashes of Germany wherein shall be established the eternall felicity of the Church by the conversion of the Jews and fulnesse of the Gentiles M. Shirley Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge once shewed me a Letter from his learned friend Buxtorf dared An. 1624. May 3. wherein was contained a Prognostique Prophecy of the before-mentioned Comet and Conjunction sent him from that incomparable Astrologer Johannes Baudensis Nephew to Paul Grebner which for the strangenesse and rarity of it I will here insert Caeterùm quòd de patriae nostrae afflictissimae statu consilesco indignaris nihil profectò seribendum nunc habeo nisi omnia ut Poetae verhis utor in pejus ruere retrò sublapsa referri Tam'Danus quà m Caesar enixè laborant ut miseram Germaniam quamprimùm pessum iri spectent Nec milites utriusqùe quiâ—quam aliud meditantur nisi strages vastitatem Accepi nudiustertius à Johanne Baudensi amico mihi multimodis charissimo sententias nostratium Astrologorum de horribili illo Cometà qui Anno 1618. apparuit nuperrimâ Saturni Jovis Conjunctione En tibi vaticinium si non Apostolicum at longè ni fallor plusquà m Astrologicum Surrexit Deus gladium eduxit Clades magnorum Imperatorum strages populorum regum funera rerum-publicarum eversiones monarchiarum mutâ—â—iones assassinationes principum ducum illustriorum vivienta superba consiâ—ia proditiones rebelliones inter Subditos in hoc coelo nostro Europico exorientur Experientur religiosi à potentioribus Legum institutorum Ecclesiasticorum mutationem à plebeijs novarum rerum inexplebilem cupiditatem Boreales Europae partes ferro morbo peste laborabunt depauperabuntur divites Principes Dominijs exuti erunt exulabunt patres filij post longum turbarum inter capedinem in integrum restituentur Hie quoque Cometa terribilem Romae ruinam singulisque Europae civitatibus incendia minitatur Clerici Papicolae praecipuè Cardinales de gradibus siâ—is dejicientur Lowlistae ubique ad mortem rapientur nec Gallis aut Hispanis animus erit carnificum laqueos evitare Quinimò cernimus etiam in terrâ sanct a à veteribus incolis oriturum Regnum quod erit Christianis miraculum Orbi terriculâ—mentum Novique Imperij Revolutio istis succedet sub quo generale gaudium laetitia voluptas humano generi subministrabitur improbis ubique de medio sublatis Haec omnia per Regem quendam Borealem peragentur qui pacem Religionem Securitatem per totum Orbem miraculosè stabilibit Whereas you are angry that I keep silence concerning the estate of our most distressed Countrey Truly I have nothing now to write but that all things that I may use the words of the Poet grow worse and woese As well the King of Denmark as the Emperour earnestly endeavour to see miserable Germany destroyed as soon as may be neither do the souldiers of either of them think of any other thing then slaughter and desolation I received the other day from my dear Friend John Baudensis the opinions of our Astrologers concerning that terrible Comet which appeared Anno 1618 and about the later Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Behold thou then a Prophecie if not Apostolical yet if I mistake not far beyond Astrological GOD hath arisen and drawn his sword There shall happen in these our European Regions the destruction of great Emperours the slaughter of people Funerals of Kings subversions of Common-wealths mutations of Monarchies massacres of Princes and illustrious Commanders violent and proud Counsels Treasons and Rebellions amongst Subjects Clergie-men shall finde a change of Laws and Ecclesiastical Constitutions by those of greater power and an insatiable desire of new things amongst common people The Northern parts of Europe shall be greatly oppressed with Warre Sicknesse and Pestilence Rich men shall be impoverished Princes cast out of their Dominions The fathers shall be banished and after a long space of trouble their children shall be restored to their former condition This Comet also threatneth the terrible ruine of Rome and burnings in all the Cities of Europe The Papistical Clergy especially the Cardinals shall be cast down from their Dignities the Jesuites every where shall be drawn to death neither shall the French-men or Spaniards have courage to save their necks from the halters Furthermore We discern a Kingdom to arise of the most ancient Inhabitants in the holy Land which to Christians shall be a Miracle and to the World a terrour and these shall obtain the Revolution of a new Empire under which shall be administred universal Gladnesse Joy and Delight to mankinde the wicked being every where taken away All these things shall be effected by a certain Northern King who shall miraculously establish Peace Religion and Security throughout the whole world Thus far the words of this Letter And how punctually all these things are come to passe let the world judge We in England have felt the misery of the one and are ready stript to suffer the calamities of the other having for
the present lost what is impossible to be regained and seeing a new storm of Devastations hanging over our heads by the young Kings late arrival in Scotland where he is received as absolute Soveraign which fils mens hearts with pensive thoughts and doubtings what will be the end of these wofull beginnings For my part I am a zealous adoret of a Parliament nor deserve I to censure the Actions of our Representatives yet will I not promise the Term of an Age to our novel Government but think verily a change to the old Model is nigh at hand It is casual to the best Kingdoms to have Interregnums but as we stand now we shall neither be for six years together a Body Politique nor a true Church of God That excellent Astrologer of Misnia Paul Grebner was more then an Inquisitour into the Effects of Starres being questionlesse indued from above with a Prophetick spirit not to be desired much lesse expected of all He plainly affirms That as England ever was a Monarchy within it self since it was discovered by the Romans so shall it so continue and remain even then when all other Kingdoms and States in Europe are swallowed up of the FIFTH MONARCHIE of the Lion of the North His Prophecie of our Civil Wars of the Fate of our late King and the Restauration of his Son to his Fathers Dominions runneth thus in Ban 72. Per idem tempus Rex quidam Borealis nomine Carolus Mariam ex Papisticâ religione fibi assumptam in matrimonium conjunxerit ex quo evadet regum infelicissimus Unde populus ejus ipso abdicato Comitem quendam perantiquae Familiae regno praeponet qui tres annos aut circitèr durabit hoc quoque remoto Equitem quendam bellicosum in ejus locum assumet qui paulo ampliùs regnabit Post hunc eliget nullum Interea unus è stirpe Caroli in littore regni patres sui cum Gallicis Suevicis Danicis Hollandicis Burgurdicis Germanicis auxiliis stabit omnes inimicos suos cruentissimo praelio superabit posteà regnum suum felicissimè administrabit eritque Cerolo magno major And in Ban 74. he saith Circà Anno 1663 Brittaniarum Rex antiquum cum Belgarum Ordinibus foedus amicitiam rumpet ob ereptas sibi ab ipsorum piratis naviculas quasdam qui pertrepidi ad novum Danorum Regem nomine Christiernum confugient qui utrosque primò compositissimis orationibus deinde muneribus in concordiam alliciet About the same time a certain Northern King named Charles who shall marry Mary of the Popish Religion to his great unhappinesse so that his people rejecting him shall set up an Earl of a very ancient Family who shall continue three years or thereabouts he dying they shall elect in his stead a warlike Knight who shall rule a little longer after him they elect none But in the mean one of Charles his Stock shall land on the Sea-coasts of his Fathers Kingdom and with French Swedish Danish Hollandian Burgonian and German Forces in a most cruel battell shall vanquish all his Enemies and afterward most happily govern his Kingdom and be greater then Charls the Great And about the year 1663 the King of the most ancient Brittains for the losse of some Ships at Sea shall break his League and Amity with the States of Holland who fearing shall to the new King of Danes named Christiernus for succour and he by fair Intreaties and large Gifts shall win either side to Agreement Nor ever doth he speak of England in all that famous Manuscript but as of the most warlike and potent Kingdome in Europe Therefore all good Christians ought to wish the new Warre were concluded rather by an happy Agreement and Composition then by Sword and Musket and the King placed on his Throne rather with the hands of his loving and and rejoyce all Subjects than with the swords of Forreigners For if the beginning of his Restauration be in bloud and tumbling of garments in bloud the Accomplishment of it will be with burning and fuel of fire That this future History of Europe may be more fully and clearly understood I intend to set it down by way of Chronology upon the principall passages in Ezekiel and the Revelations as I lately collected it out of the two M S S. of Grebner and Ioannes Baudensis and afterward subscribed certain Notes and Animadversions upon the same Anno Christi 1 Anno Mundi 3947 THe woman travelleth viz. The Jewish Synagogue bringeth forth Christ whereupon ensueth the battel between Michael and the Dragon Christ and the Devil Christ being persecuted of the Devil by Herod in his Infancy flieth into Aegypt Anno Christi 34 Anno Mundi 3981 in his appointed time of 34 years suffereth and ascendeth into Heaven Anno Christi 65 Anno Mundi 4012 The Devil enraged that he could no more persecute Christ raiseth persecutions against the Primitive Church by Nero and others Revel. 12. per tot Anno Christi 70 Anno Mundi 4017 The first Seal opened The white Horse and his Rider with the crowned Bow signifieth the purity of the Gospel in the Primitive Church Revel. 6. 2. Anno Christi 71 Anno Mundi 4018 Satan is bound for a 1000 years from raging against the Church Pevel 20. 2. 8. Anno Christi 65 Anno Mundi 4020 The second Seal opened The red Horse is the massacre of Christians in the ten general Persecutions about Anno 65 to An. 330. Revel. 6. 3 4. Anno Christi 104 Anno Mundi 4051 The third Seal opened Simon Magus Ebion and Cerinthus trouble the Church with damnable and infectious Heresies Revel. 6. 5 6. Anno Christi 173 Anno Mundi 4120 The fourth Seal opened Horrid Famine devouring Pestilences and outragious Wars waste and depopulate the Roman Empire for cruelty to Christians Revel. 6. 7 8. Anno Christi 194 Anno Mundi 4141 The fifth Seal opened Mutual Massacres of the wretched Caesars beginning at Pertinax and ending at Licinius slain by Constantine the Great Revel. 6. 9 10 11. Anno Christi 288 Anno Mundi 4235 The sixth Seal opened Dioclesian and Maximilian give over their Caesarships because they could not eradicate Christianity Constantine strengthened with their Armies and Provinces warreth upon Licinius slayeth him destroyeth the Pretorian-Camp abolisheth Heathenism and setteth up the true Worship of God Revel. 6. 12. to the end Anno Mundi 4255 Anno Christi 308 The seventh Seal opened And silence in Heaven for half an hour viz. The Church enjoyeth rest thirty years all the time that Constantine the Great reigned Revel. 8. 1. Anno Mundi 4286 Anno Christi 339 Yet clouds of persecution arise in the interim in the sky of the Church and the seven Angels prepare themselves to blow the seven Trumpets for the space of 23 years even all the reign of Constantines three sons Revel. 8. 2 3. Anno Mundi 4310 Anno Christi 363 Julian that wretched Apostata