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A08698 The varietie of memorable and worthy matters. By Walter Owsolde Owsolde, Walter. 1605 (1605) STC 19001; ESTC S113804 16,833 30

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into Latine by Saint Austine Lib. 18 and 23 de ciuitate dei the substance whereof followeth The earth shall sweate signe of iudgement from heauen shall come a King which shall raigne for euer that is to say in humaine flesh to the end that by his presence he iudge the world so the vnfaithfull aswell as the faithfull shall see God with their eies aloft among his Saints and in the end of the world the soules of men with their bodies shall appeare whom hee shall iudge when the roundnesse of the earth vntilled shall be full of clods of earth and grasse men shall cast away their idols and all their precious Iewels the world shall be consumed with fire hee shall pierce the inferiour parts and breake the gates of darke hell then to the flesh of Saints shall be giuen free and cleere light and the euill shall be burned with eternall fire all secrets shall be opened and euery one shall knowe the secret of his neighbour and God shall discouer the consciences and harts of all men then shall there be lamentation and gnashing of teeth the Sunne and Starres shall loose their light the firmament shall be dessolued the Moone shall be darkened the mountaines shall be throwne downe and the valeis shall bee made equall with them there shall bee nothing in the world higher or lower then another mountaines and valleis shall be made plaine all things shall cease the earth shall be dryed vnto pouder and dust the fountaines and riuers shall be burned likewise then shall a trumpet sound from heauen in wofull horrible manner and the opening of the earth shall discouer confused and darke hell with the torments and paines of the miserable condemned and heere before the iudge shall come euery King a riuer of fire brimstone shal fall from heauen Diuers other things were prophecied by this Sibylle and because they were obscure and therefore not to be comprehended by the Gentiles before they came to passe she sayed of her selfe these words They shall thinke me a false and blind Prophetisse but when they shall see these things come to passe they will remember me call me no more a false Prophetisse but a Prophetisse of the almighty God The sixt was called Samia borne in the I le of Samos which said Hee beeing rich shall be borne of a poore mayde the creatures of the earth shall adore him and praise him for euer The seauenth was called Cumana because shee prophecied at Cumas a towne of Campania in Italie shee prophecied that he should come from heauen and raigne heere in pouerty hee should rule in silence and be borne of a virgen The eight was called Helespontica borne at Marmise in the territorie of Troy A woman shall descend of the Iewes called Marie and of her shall be borne the sonne of God named Iesus and that without carnall copulation for shee shall be a Virgen before and after his birth he shall be both God and man he shall fulfill the lawes of the Iewes and shall adde his owne lawe thereunto and his kingdome shall remaine for euer The ninth was of Frigia and prophecied in the towne of Ancire one of her sayings were The Highest shall come frō heauen and shall confirme the counsaile in heauen and a virgen shall be shewed in the valleis of the deserts The tenth was Albunea surnamed Tiburtina because she was borne at Tiber 15 mile from Rome The inuisible Word shall be borne of a virgin hee shall conuerse among sinners and shall of them be despised Lactantius Firmianus reherseth diuerse of their prophecies without making any particular mention of them they are to be referred specially notwithstanding as it should seeme vnto Sybilla Samberta who wrote 24 Bookes in verse chiefely intreating of the cōming miracles and life of Christ whereunto the sayings of all the other Sibylles are conformable S. Austine likewise in the 23 chapter of his 18 booke De ciuitate Dei reciteth those prophecies as followeth Then hee shall be taken by the wicked hands of the Infidels and they shall giue him buffets on his face with theyr sacriledge hands and they shall spit vppon him with theyr foule and cursed mouthes Hee shall turne vnto them his shoulders suffering them to be whipped yea hee shall holde his peace without speaking ere a word to the end that none shall knowe from whence his words proceedeth He shal also be crowned vvith thornes they shall giue him gall to eate vineger to drinke behold the feast that they shall make him in so much that thou ignorant and blind people shall not know thy God conuersing among men but thou shalt crowne him with thornes mingling for him gal and vineger Then the vaile of the temple shal rend and at midde day it shal be darke night for the space of three houres So the iust shal die the death and his death or sleepe shall continue three dayes and when he shall haue been in the bowels of the earth hee shal resuscit and returne to life Lactantius moreouer lib. 4. chap. 15. reherseth these prophecies of them Hee shal raise the dead the impotent and lame shall goe and runne nimbly the deafe shall heare the blind shal see the dumbe shall speake freely And a little before that sayeth with fiue loaues and two fishes he shal nourish in the Deserts 5000 men and the fragments thereof shall be sufficient to satisfie many more Many other thinges were foretold by these Sibyls as well of the ruines of great States as of Christ. The twelue Apostles with theyr martyrdome IAmes the sonne of Zebedee called maior for that hee vvas chosen to be an Apostle was sent to conuert Spayne from whence by reason of the obstinacie of the people for he conuerted in all but nine persons hee returned shortly againe to preach in Iudea Where by the enuy of a Iewish Bishop called Abiathar he was accused and beheadded by the consent of Herod Agrippa His body was conuaied by his disciples first to Ierusalem and from thence to Spayne where it yet remaineth in Compostella a famous pilgrimage Iames the sonne of Alphey called minor for that hee vvas last chosen hee was the first Bishop of Ierusalem and that by the space of thirty yeeres and then as he was preaching in the Temple hee was throwne headlong downe by the Pharises and by them stoned to death He was buried by the Temple Simon by Christ called Peter through the indignation of Nero because he had ouercome Simon Magus was crucified with his head downeward according as he desired Saul after his conuersion called Paul after hee had endured and escaped many dangers and torments as beating with rods and put in the stocks by Philippus stoned in Listria deliuered to wilde beasts in Ephesis bound and beaten in Ierusalem and many others lastly came to Rome whereby the commaundment of Nero hee was beheaded because hee was a Romaine borne the same day that Peter was crucified Paule in