in the East and raise a Combination to propagate the Gospel and destroy the Headless Turks Anno Mundi 5622 Praise our God all ye his Saints and Servants and ye that fear Anno Christi 1687 him both small and great And I heard the voice of a great multitude both small and great as it were the sound of many Waters and as the voice of strong thundrings saying Hallelujah for the Lord our God reigneth Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath Anno Mundi 5633 made her self ready Rev. 19.5 6 7. The dreadfull and terrible Battell of the Jews with the enraged Anno Christi 1698 Turks in the land of Judea where the Turks are destroyed with an eternall destruction Ezech. 38. 39. chap. all Gog and Magog viz. Turks and Tartarians gather themselves together to battell whose Number is as the sand of the Sea and they went up into the plain of the Earth and incompassed the Tents of the Saints aboâ—t even the beloved City but fire came down from God out of Heaven and destroyed them Revelat. 20.8 9. Anno Mundi 5635 THE FIFTH MONARCHY Anno Christi 1700 Anno Mundi 5645 ANd I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven Anno Christi 1710 and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea The new Jerusalem came down from God out of heaven trimmed like a Bride to meet her husband And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the Glory and Tabernacle of God with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be their God with them and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow neither crying neither shall there be any more pain for the first things are passed away Rev. 21.1 2 3 4 c. Anno Mundi 5698 No more Germany no more any Western Empire or any footstep Anno Christi 1763 thereof for God hath now transplanted his Gospel from Europe unto a more gratefull and pregnant soyl which will bring forth the fruits thereof in due season Anno Mundi 5699 Iam nova Progenies coelo demittitur alto Anno Christi 1764 Exoriturque atris Lucifer albus equis Anno Mundi 5702 The holy Temple restored at Jerusalem the holy utensils prepared Anno Christi 1767 the glory of God filâ—eth the house God lovingly upbraideth the Israelites for their infidelity and Idolatry for which they were Vagabonds in all Coasts of the World 2400 years without King Law Priest and Temple and rehearseth their blessed and joyfull estate now being converted and victorious over all their enemies Ezech. 12. last chap. per tot Anno Mundi 5705 Behold I make all things new Rev. 21.5 Anno Christi 1770 Anno Mundi 5728 The Jewish Magistrates and Ministers labour in the Conversion Anno Christi 1793 of the World to the Gospel of God Ezech. 46. per. tot Anno Mundi 5765 The seventh Viall powred out And now are all things fulfilled Anno Christi 1830 which are contained in the Scriptures After which all Nations may expect the comming of the great Judge to render to every man according to his works Thus farre reacheth the Observations of Grebner and Baudensis VI. BEfore I come to comment upon this Chronologicall Index it will not be amisse to deliver that saying Revel 20.8 And the Saints shall reign with Christ a thousand years from all those false Interpretations which have been fastned upon it by Papias Bucholcherus Scaliger Brightman Alsted and others and declare the true sense of it as remotest from Innovation and coming nearest the intention of the H. Ghost There is in this 20 Chap. two severall Epoches of a 1000 years which are two severall waies to be interpreted The first is in vers 2. of Satan being bound for a 1000 years which must begin either at the Instant of our Saviours Incarnation and end at An. 1000 in the 2â— year of the Popedome of Sylvester II that infamous Sodomite Necromancer and Conjurer under whom the filthinesse and Idolatry of the Romish Church was brought to the height or rather they must begin at the Destruction of the 2 d Temple by Titus which was An. 71 and end in An. 1071 in the Popedome of Gregory VII alià s Hildebrand who first broke bonds of Allegiance with Henry the Emperour excommunicated him set the Gospel in a totall Eclipse and Europe in the mournfull Flames of a civil Warre but of this in the Chronology But this in the 8 vers of the Saints reigning with Christ a 1000 years Alsted Bucholcherus and others expound of a Comparative Felicity of the Church on this Earth for a 1000 years beginning An. 1694 when they say all visible Enemies of the Church shall be overthrown and must end An. Ch. 2694. after which shall be the Warre of Gog and Magog against the Church which shall be prevented by the coming of Christ to judgement But in this Alsted is wide from the right mark for this number must begin An. 1072 at the expiration of the former and must be interpreted for all that time that the World shall last after the aforesaid An. 1072. And the holy Ghost doth term this indefinite and unlimited time by the Number of a 1000 years for three speciall Reasons 1 Because a 1000 years are the Number of Perfection and of Eternity and doth most aptly serve to expresse the End of these Earthly Troubles and the beginning of that Time which never shall have end 2 Because those things which the holy Ghost in the Scriptures affirmeth are yet to come must not be plenarily accomplished till after An. 1830 it may please God that the glorious and flourishing estate of the Church and Gospel here upon Earth may continue much of 200 years longer to increase the number of them who shall be saved and to amplifie more the heavenly Attributes of Gods Mercy Righteousnesse Truth Holinesse and Omnipotency in the Salvation of the Just and his Equity Judgement and Uprightnesse in the firebrands of destruction 3 Because a vicissitudinary time of Affliction and Ease Persecution and rest pure Doctrine and Heresies is signified to be the whole continuance or most part of a 1000 years wherein those who are to suffer for the Testimony of the Word of God and the truth of Jesus Christ shall have their reward after the expiration of that time which cannot be till after the last generall Judgement The fearfull and â—errible Warre of Gog and Magog viz. the bloudy Warre of Turks and Tartarians with the Jews newly converted in the Land of Iury in which the very 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
This year the Turkish hatefull race shall rue Rome shall a fable be not true Then shall be tost all Kingdoms of the World And into a new Kingdom hurl'd That into all coasts Christ his Word may spred And be alone the Peoples Head XI The two Books of Esdras are thought and that by none of the least learned as Augustine Hierome Ambrose Tostatus Scaliger the elder Melanâ—thon Arrias Montanus Bucer and Bibliander to be Canonicall because of the most evident fulfilling of many predictions in them contained In the 11 chap. of the second of those Books there is under the type of an Eagle a manifest prophecie both of the Roman Heathenish Empire as likewise of the Papacy with her chief Leagurers to this present time throughout the whole Chapter This Eagle is that Roman Heathenish Empire her twelve feathered wings are the twelve first Emperours from Iulius Cesar to Nerva Cocceius The three Heads are the three Kingdoms of France Spain and Germany preordained of God to uphold and maintain the power of her pride when all her wings her heathenish and tyrannicall Cesars should fail her Neverthelesse under her 12 first Cesars are comprehended in generall all the Emperours which reigned in her from Iulius Cesar who first crackt the strings of her liberty to Augustulus Momyllus her last Roman Cesar for the space of 474 years Her 8 contrary feathers are the 8 terrible Inundations of severall Nations from the North God's scourges which overwhelmed her fairest Provinces sunk her State in bloud and by fire and sword humbled her as low as the dust she trod on viz. 1 Alaricus and his West-Gothes 2 Attilas and his Hunnes 3 Gensericus and his Vandals 4 Odoacer 5 Theodoricus and his East-Goths 6 Totilas and his Spaniards 7 Alboinus and his Longobards who deposed her diminitive Cesar Augustulus Momyllus 8 and lastly the intestine homebred Faction and Conspiracy which proved more pernitious then the rest as all included diseases are the worst which in the reigns of Otho the Great Otho III and Frederique II so often strove to eradicate the Papall Superiority and reedifie her S.P.Q.R. buried so many ages ago out of the ruines of the City The Head in the midst is the Germane Empire begun An. 801 on Christmas day by Charles the Great which though vers 32. it long did and yet doth put the Earth in great fear yet vers 33. must vanish in an instant as did the Wings and come to nought The Germane Empire thus destroied vers 35. The Head on the right side the Kingdom of Spain must devour the Head on the left side which is the Kingdom of France Therefore it is manifest That the Kingdom of France though now it flourisheth in what Glory and Magnificence Earth can afford must ere long be humbled by the power of Spain with many Discomfitures and brought to dolefull streights and great perplexities I my self have observed one remarkable Adjunct of that Kingdome in particular how that year in which the Figures of the Golden Number were equall to the Figures of the year of Christ hath ever proved fatall to that Monarchy for Warre Bloudshed Pestilence and Famine It was so with them from An. 1570 to An. 1576. in all which seven years the Guisian faction made lamentable havock of the Church of God and the Kingdom so shall it be in that year in which the finall Tragedy of that Kingdom shall be acted six years after which France shall be no more But when that shall be no sign of Europe shall remain nor remembrance where the wals of Rome stood The LION which vers 37. and chap. 12. v. 31. came roaring out of the Wood speaking to the Eagle and rebuking her for her wickednesse is the WIND which the most high God hath kept for Rome and her wickednesse till the end even the LION OF THE NORTH of which you shall hear anon a Prophesie of the true Merlin which shall reprove the Roman Empire and cast before her her spoils he shall set her alive in Judgement rebuke and correct her and deliver the residue of Gods people by Afflicton which are preserved upon his borders and make them joyfull untill the day of Judgement In the 13 Chapter Esdras beholds a vision of a man rising out of the Sea and devouring the multitudes of fighters that came against him neither with sword spear nor any instrument of Warre but only with the fire and storm that came out of his mouth which is Christ the son of man who through a sea of bloudy persecutions and tribulations propagated his Gospel over the Earth confounding and devouring the multitudinous Pagans and Idolaters fighting against Christians by the invincible force of the Gospel After a long time of the obstinate wilfulnesse and fulnesse of the Gentiles he shall call to himself another peaceable multitude vers 12 40. even the whole Nation of the Jews out of Armenia Tartaria and the Eastern India whom God shall defend and convert to the Gospel when he shall destroy all other Nations upon Earth These are called the peaceable People because after the conversion of the Jews shall come that Ministeriall Monarchy of the Church over the whole World that peaceable and still Time when all Kingdoms under heaven shall forget fighting one against another Warres shall cease in all the World and swords and spears shall be beaten into Plowshares and pruning hooks When the seventh Angel blew the Trumpet Luther began his Reformation then it is when the Multitude stood before the Lamb and sung the new song of Moses and then neverthelesse is but the vail only of the Tabernacle opened in heaven and a great cloud and smoak covered that Glory But it must be 180 years after when the Kingdomes of this World become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and those be destroyed that destroyed the Earth For then and not till then shall the Temple of God be fully opened in Heaven and the Ark of his Testament the very same modell which God shewed to Moses in the Mount shall be seen in Ierusalem not in a Tabernacle but in that Temple which the power of God shall make Then shall lastly the four Beasts the Elders with all the Angels of Heaven and all the creatures of Heaven and Earth and of the Sea and under the Earth fall down before the Throne and give glory honour blessing and praise unto him that sitteth on the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and the four Beasts shall say Amen XII I have heard many Jews discoursing of this their glorious Restauration and Religion to come They say they never possessed no not in the time of David and Solomon when their Kingdom was largest an half of that which God promised in Deuteronomy and Ioshua Indeed it is said in Ioshua No good thing failed of what God promised but this is to be understood of their peaceable settlement in what Ioshua then conquer'd not of the utmost boundders
there be no decay no leading into Captivity nor complaining in their streets II. 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 Ezâ—kiel the three last of the Revelation the last of Daniel with some passages in Hosea and Zechâ—ry 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 States 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 Iury all which must moâ—t certainly be fulfilled 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 Ioseph Scaliger got some but those very imperfect notes of Grebner concerning those Numbers in Ezekiel and Daniel But that excellent Manuscript which Iohannes Baudenâ—is writ of the Life and Writings of Grebner declareth all these things most plainly and punctually how that greater Troubles feâ—rfulleâ— 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 oveâ— 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. 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 descend 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 from 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 Tuâ—k 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
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 The first Trumpet blown Fire and hail war and bloudshed Anno Christi 426 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 The second Trumpet blown Boniface that Mountain of fiery Anno Christi 606 Combustions obtaineth of Phocas the Popish Supremacy Hence wars betwixt the Emperours and Popes Revel 8.8 9. Anno Mundi 4613 The third Trumpet blown The Romish Bishop the great Anno Christi 666 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 The fourth Trumpet blown The Pope fallen from Piety Anno Christi 999 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 Satan loosed out of prison beginneth to rage by Gregory VII Anno Christi 1071 against the Gospel of Christ Revel 20.4 Anno Mundi 5140 The fifth Trumpet blown The Vicar of Christ with his Anno Christi 1195 Keyes openeth hel's mouth to let out his Cloister-fiends and satanical Locusts to overspread the Earth of Christendome described by Iohn most graphically Revel 9.9 to 13. Anno Mundi 5245 The sixth Trumpet blown The Ottoman Empire ariseth invadeth Anno Christi 1300 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 downâ—al of the same Anno Mundi 5462 The last Trumpet is blown The Thrones Principalities and Anno Christi 1517 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 The first Vial poured out England Scotland and Ireland by Anno Christi 1559 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 The second Vial poured out Martin Chemnitius and others pronounce Anno Christi 1572 the vengeance of God against the mortiferous Sea of the Councel of Trent Revel 18.3 Anno Mundi 5528 The third Vial poured out The stinking Waters of the Papacy Anno Christi 1583 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 The fourth Vial poured out The Protestant Champions Pareus Anno Christi 1605 Polanus Whitakers Perkins Andrews King Iames 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 The fifth Vial is now pouring out The Swedes in Germany Anno Christi 1630 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 The sixth Vial beginneth to be poured out Three barbarous Anno Christi 1659 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 The faithfull and true Warriour riding upon a white Horse Anno Christi 1660 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 brimstone c. Ibid. 19 20. Anno Mundi 5601 Vrbs antiqua ruit multos dominata per annos Anno Christi 1666 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 Rome being destroyed Jews dwell amongst Protestants and begin Anno Christi 1679 to search into the Scriptures and learn the waies of God Anno Mundi 5618 A gâ—eat Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in Leo. The Jews Anno Christi 1684 converted in the West prepare to unite with their Brethren
which shall cover the Earth For as it shall be in the end of the World this old decrepit and corrupt world must be purged and refined with the fire of the Lord before there can be placed in stead thereof a new Heaven and a new Earth So in the finall Conclusion of the troubles of the Church warres Apostasies alterations and changes in Kingdoms and States the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Gog and Magog and all the enemies of Christ the amputation of unprofitable Trees and eradication of noxious Weeds out of the Garden of the Church shall facilitate and prepare the way for the ingresse of the Monarchy of the Gospel into the eyes of the world Far wide therefore is the Surmise of those Christians how this doctrine of the universall Regiment of the Church upon earth is a vain-glorious and fantastick dream considering the hopes of it now are small and like to be lesser because charity and devotion daily decreaseth Nay rather this is the most evident sign that it speedily approacheth because the malice of the devil with the corruption of mankinde hourly augmenteth and strives to stifle and prevent it If God be known to be God by bringing light out of darknesse and manifesting his power in weaknesse then certainly shall these warres and schismes among Christians the barbarous invasions â—nd conquests of Turks and Tartars the encreasing Idolatry of the Western and Eastern Indians be an Axe in the hand of God to lop off all superfluous branches from his Vine to make it overspread with nourishing fruit the Globe of the whole Earth IX And that these are no novell Opinions these following Testimonies may give sufficient evidence Petrus Damiani flourished Anno 1060. a laborious Divine an acute Philosopher and a witty Poet. Gesner and other Bibliothecaries say nothing of him is extant Yet I have seen in the Library of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge certain Latine Epigrams of his Of the conversion of the Jews Of the destruction of the world by fire in the last day Of the ruine of Rome and Of the last Judgement which Latine Epigrams I finde translated into English Stanza's in an old Manuscript of L. B. intituled The Dove 1. Of the Burning of the world by fire Primum foedavit mundum scelcrata libido Cujus quà m ad coelum flammea massa venit Diluvium immissum est immensumque obruit orbem Vt mala tanta pijs eluerentur aquis O dira Ebrietas mundi faex prima secundi Te opposita interiment atque elementa prement Iustitiam Domini in cunctis sic cernimus actis Vnda lavat venerem pocula flamma bibet Thus Englished As the first world did first by lust offend Whose burning rage to such a height did win That God to quench the same a Floud did send O Drunkennesse the second world's first sin The course of Vice that Element must end Which is opposed to that which did begin In every thing Gods justice we may spie As Flouds drown Lust Flames Drunkennesse must dry 2. Of the ruine of Rome Effuge Grex Christi peccati à Gurgite diro Cui meretrix odio est atque corona triplex Effuge dum Tempus datur fera praelia cessane Ne ut tu delitias sic sua damna feras Quum jam funestos Agnus superaverit hostes Pingue gregique epulum militibusque dabit Se mentem metet haec meretrix quam sevit eandem Iam Sathanae sedes quae Domina orbis erat Thus Englished Fly Faithfull Christians from that Sea of sin Who hate the Whore and the two-horned Beast Fly fly in time before their griefs begin Lest as their pleasures so their plagues you taste When once the Lamb the victory doth win He of fat things will make his Flock a Feast Who as she sowed so shall she reap those evils Once the worlds Mistresse now a Cage of devils 3. Of the conversion of the Jews Postquam Evangelium toto narretur in orbe Fulget ignotis nostris genitoribus oris Quum Gentes Christum agnoscunt generalitâ—r 〈◊〉 Quâ—s Deus aeterâ—â—im aetherea dignabitur aulaÌ„ Tunc amplectetur verum Solynaea propago Quod priùs invidid tam aversabatur iniquaÌ„ Vltima Evangelium Legem quae prima recepit Quos dâ—cuit primos postremos Christus habebit Thus Englished The Gospel once being preacht in every placeâ— To lands of which our Fathers could not tell And when the Gentiles all are drawn to Grace Which in the new Jerusalem should dwell Then shall the stubborn Jews the Truth embraceâ— From which with such disdain they did rebell Who first the Law last shall the Gospel have Christ whom he first did call shall last receivâ— 4. Of the last judgement Indictum Tempus quod totum territet orbem Per praedicta homines signa monere solet Praelia Evangelium mundo vulgatur adorant Iudaei Christum cognita jam meretrix Zelus hebet Stellaeque cadunt fera crimina regnant Aegra fides languet Daemonis ira furit Vltima jam genus omne malorum buccina clangit Supremamque diem signa tremenda notant Thus Englished That threatned time which must the world appall Is that all may amend by signs foreshown Wars rumor'd are the Gospel preach'd o're all The Jews convert the Antichrist is known Devils rage Vice reigns Zeal cools Faith fails Stars fall All sorts of plagues hath the last Trumpet blown And by prodigious signs 't may plain appear That of the Son of man the time draws near Thus by this great Divine living in the mistiest times of Popery it may plain appear that it was a received opinion that the total destruction of Rome the conversion of the Jews and the fifth Monarchy should precede the end of the world And this is also confirmed by Hieronymus Savanarola who died a Martyr at Florence A. 1498. whose Prophesies are extant in the works of Franciscus Mirandula That in the last times Jews Turks and Moors should be converted to Christ a man like Cyrus with a numerous Army of true professors should come over the Alpes and destroy Rome and ruinate all the Kingdoms and States of Italy That grievous Wars Bloud-sheddings and Massacres should arise in the world by a Northern King for a happy Reformation who should carry the Gospel out of Europe into a vast and unknown world in the end of time That an Eastern King should blow the Trumpet of God from Tartaria which should reform all the Islands of the Indian Infidels He likewise prophesied in particular of Iulio the second of the troubles of the Duke of Mirandula Of Luthers Reformation Of the Persecutions of Merindol Chabriers Angrogne the Valtolinâ— and other places of France all which most evidently came to passe Thirdly A Prophecie of the estate and condition of the times unto the end of the world was found written in Hebrew under the Foundation of the Church of S. Denis in France A. 1616. by the Sexton of the place as he
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 Iupiter in the fiery triplicity K. Iames 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 bâ— 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 â—ejoyced and desired to see and yet could not see them For now Revel 22.1 â—hall 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 â—ion cry day by day though little esteeming seven thousand deaths in regard of that precious assurance gâ—aven 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 befâ—re 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 Daniel 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 Macedonian 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 innâ—cency 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 instruct the people in the knowledge of the truth 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 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 Iudea how devout pious and chearfull they shall be in the worship and service of God intimated by
of what they were to possesse towards the end of Time From Euphrates to the red Sea all the Coasts on the West to the great Mediterranean Sea with Tyrus and Sydon on the North Hemath and Celâ—syria even in length from Lâ—banon to Egypt was to be the confines of this sacred Commonwealth Now if we consider what a Moity of this was possessed by Lot Ammon Esau the Kings of Tyrus and Sidon the Philistines with Syria we may plainly see that more then an half was never their own of what God promised In confidence of possessing which and all the world beside in time to come in their great Hosanna they shake Palmes in their hands in triumph towards the four coasts of heaven to intimate that in their universall Empire every tree of the wood shall clap hands and sing for joy It is strange and makes me give more credit to Esdras then otherwise I would to see how pat he goes with our Saviour Christ in affirming the second Captivity of the Jews to be long and that their return should be about the ruine of the Roman Empire He relates how the ten Tribes soon after their Captivity by Salmanasser travelled through a great River or strait perhaps the Streits of Anian in a long journey of many moneths or years to a Country not inhabited Yea many good Authors who write of the Histories of America relate how the Maxicans have a Tradition delivered from father to son time out of minde of a great multitude coming a great journey into those parts with an Ark carried before them on mens shoulders with their God inclosed therein These people certainly were Jews from whom they learned Circumcision which our travellers finde in most of their Coasts with other Rites of Tribes Heads of Tribes and Families with some handsome Ceremonies of Marriages Funerals and Washings directly the same with the Jews or Israelites But to prove that the Israelites were first placed in Media and Carmania and from thence removed into India let us return a little back and survey Scriptures and some approved Authors When Salmanasser King of Assyria carried the ten Tribes into Captivity in the fifth year of the reign of Hezekiah King of Iudah he was a Prince of spacious Dominions and invincible forces as comprizing within his Empire all Media and Persia Mesepotamia Assyria all Arabia and Ethiopia inferiour to the confines of Egypt all Syria and Palestine save only the poor exhausted Kingdom of Iudah and lastly Armenia with all the Coasts bordering upon the Caspian and Euxine sea as farre as Tartaria By this it will be hard to define in which Province of his Empire he placed them out of his Dominions we may well think he would not abandon them In the 2 King 17.6 it is said that he placed them in Hala and Habor by the River of Gozan and in the Cities of the Medes Which Hala or rather Chala and Habor by affinity of pronuntiation can be no other then Colâ—hies and Iberia two Provinces of Armenia the first bordering upon the Euxine the latter upon the Caspian sea and the confines of the Tartars East of Armenia lies Media in the Cities of which a great part of the Israelites were likewise placed to inhabit North of Armenia is the entrance into those immense and indiscoverable Nations of Muscovites and Tartars the utmost limits of whose Kingdoms were never yet fully known The chief River of which Countries arising farre beyond the Hyperborian Territories after a wearisome travel through many Nations and Provinces disburthens it self at last into the Caspian sea at the very entrance into Armenia where it is called Zolga though our Mariners call it Wolga which is nothing else but a Metathesis or a bad pronunciation of the word Gozan So that that saying of Ben-Gorion is true if that Manuscript be his which Gallo-Belgicus fathers upon him yet visible in Bibliothecâ Florentinâ Salbumadzar saith he rex Assyrius exciso Samariae regno decem illas Tribus quae à divino cultu tandiu ante desciverant ad Idololatriam abductas in Captivitatem conlocavit in Fasso Alvati Loride Bascapante civitatibus Colchidos Iberiae Armâ—nicarum provinciarum in Ecbatanâ— Bocchu urbibus Mediae juxta Pontum Euxinum mare Caspium Thus by the testimony of this great Rabbi it is manifest that the Opinion of those men is fond who think the ten Tribes to be utterly lost thus likewise is it plain that the Jews Conversion must first aâ—ise out of the East and that Fassum Alvatis Loris and Bascapan Cities of Colchis and Iberia and Ecbatana and Bocchu Cities of Media were the places where Salmanasser called here Salbumadzar placed these Israelites in name but Pagans in nature And Iohn Lunclay in his Pandects of the Turkish History fol. 769. writes how there are certain Hoords Troops or Families of people near the more Northern parts of Tartaria which retain the names of Dan Zâ—bulun and Nepthali and in the vicinity of Rega there is a certain barbarous Nation of Letti which for three moneths in the year perpetually wander up and down the fields having these words Iure-shelâ—-mashalom continually in their mouth as a kinde of lamentable tune or mournfull Ditty by which words Authours credibly suppose are meant Jerusalem and Damascus the two head cities of Judah and Israel He that diligenâ—ly reades the history of these X. Tribes in Scripture after their revolt from the house of David and combination with Iâ—roboam in erecting Idolatry may see that they were a Nation quickly overgrown with Heathenism cruelty and barbarousnesse wholly become abominable Pagans in nature manners life condition and conversations as if they had had Numa Pomphilius to their Father and not Abraham the faithfull they only kept Circumcision and the names of their Progenitors in remembrance but had quite forgotten the Stories of their religion and piety thence it came to passe that in this their Captivity being transported and implanted among those Nations they quickly conjoyned and counited with them in marriage and affinity being already long before coupled with them in Idolatry and so ceased to be called Israelites but being now all one people were called by the names of Armenians and Medes That these Israeltes likewise inhabited part of Tartaria and from thence spread into India and the East and that they likewise possessed a part of the Caucasian Mountains mingled with a people which Herodotus calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word not unakin to Turks is manifest by these undeniable Reasons 1. Because the Colchians Iberians and a great part of Tartaria used Circumcision in most ancient times long before the building of Rome which they could not have received from any people else but from these Israelites who 30. years before the foundation of Rome were sent to inhabit among them 2. The Crim-Tartars derive their Progeny from Sampson hence so many of them have been called Camson an obscure Notion of Sampson and in imitation
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 dâ— 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 greâ—dinesse 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 fatâ—l and ominous Starre or Comet chuse you whether I finde several Tractates written One Nuntius Propheticus in Print Magell de quintà 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 Plâ—iades in fletum prorumpere dorsum Delphini ascendet flores Virgineos obfuscabit continuae turbae seditiones bella civilia strages panolethriae luctuosissimae omnia illa regna illustres Familias persequentur ex quibus ista Monarchia orta est aut ei ullo modo obviabunt Burgundiae domus fiâ—em accipiet Sileâ—iae libertas Gallico Neroni prostituetur Belgarum Ordines potentiae Aristocratiae suae finem videbunt c. Openheim fol. 86. But Magel is most plain above all three fol. 67. col 8. Fateor majorum Luminarium deliquia sine insigni hominum pernicie pecorumque strage nunquam extitisse Regnorum mutationes etiam populorum clades regum funâ—ra bella incendia in ipsorum Deliquiorum Articulis aut paulò post evidentèr apparuisse Fateor etiam superiorum erronum coitum malorum ut plurimùm Iliade 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 nihilominùs in gentem quandam etiamnum inviâ—ibilem cujus magnitudinis radij in universum caeli terraeque ambitum extendeâ—tur At what time the 7 th 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 Caâ—â—iopaea 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 yet are they reserved for a certain Nation as yet invisible the beams of whose greatness shall be extended through the whole verge of Heaven and Earth In that same year shall the kingdomâ— of salvation be preached by the Ministry of the Saints the most High to those immense and unknown American Coasts to whom as yet the Name of Christ was never yet revealed And that peopleâ— who from the Creation till that time were the Empire of Satan shall be called the specious and spacious Church of God The gates of which shall be open continually neither day nor night shall they be shut that men may bring unto them the riches of the Gentiles and the treasures of the Kings of the Earth All Nations and Kingdoms that will not serve her shall perish and be destroyed for ever Within whose land shall be heard no violence nor destruction nor desolation within her Borders but Salvation shall be her wals and praise her gates Her Government shall be peace and her Exaactors Righteousnesse Hâ—r Sun shall never go down nor her Moon ever be hid for the Lord shall be her everlasting light and the dayes of her sorrow shall be ended The people within her shall be all righteous for ever shall they possesse their proper inheritances for God shall make them an everlasting Glory and a Ioy from Generation to Generation Therefore ought no man to be sorrowfull for the Calamities of Europe or the afflictions of the times nor grieved with the mutations and Downfals of Kingdoms and Empires neither should