29. And whereas thou sawest two under Wings that went off towards the Head which was on the right side this is the inpretation 30. These are they whom the most High hath preserved for their end whose Kingdom is little and full of trouble as thou sawest 31. And the Lion which thou sawest rising up out of the Wood and roaring and speaking to the Eagle and rebuking her for Unrighteousness with all the words which thou hast heard 32. This is the Wind which the most High hath kept for them for their Wickedness unto the end and he shall reprove them and cast before them their Spoils 33. For he shall set them alive in the Judgment and shall rebuke them and correct them 34. For he shall deliver the residue of my People by Affliction which are preserved upon my Borders and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the Day of Judgment whereof I have spoken unto thee from the beginning 35. This is the Dream that thou sawest and these are the interpretations Thus far the Angel Uriel to Esdras CHAP. XIII 1. ANd it came to pass after seven days I dreamed a Dream by Night 2. And lo there arose a Wind from the Sea that it moved all the Waves thereof 3. And I beheld and lo that Man waxed strong with the thousands of Heaven 25. This is the meaning of the Vision Whereas thou sawest a Man coming up from the midst of the Sea 26. The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season which by his own self shall deliver his Creature and he shall order them that are left behind 29. Behold the days come when the most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the Earth 30. And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the Earth 31. And one shall undertake to fight against another one City against another one Place against another one People against another and one Realm against another 32. And the time shall be when these Things shall come to pass and the Signs shall happen which I shewed thee before and then shall my Son be declared whom thou sawest as a Man ascending 33. And when all the People hear his Voice every Man shall in their own Land leave the Battel they have one against another 34. And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together as thou sawest them willing to come and to overcome him by fighting 35. But he shall stand upon the top of the Mount of Sion 36. And Sion shall come and shall be shewed to all Men being prepared and builded like as thou sawest the Hill graven without Hands 39. And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable Multitude un-unto him 40. Those are the ten Tribes NB. That in the famous Book by some called the Baby Prophecy sometimes in the custody of the Earl of Marlborough or a Copy of it seen and remembred by several Persons of Honour yet alive and for the most part fulfilled in innumerable Particulars * Generosa Nobilitas non sinet ei fieri malum The Nobles and Gentry shall suffer no Wrong to be done to the King nor his Crown the present King of England survives the last great Battel And as here the end of all those Prophecies is the Conversion of the Eastern Jews for their Habits mistaken for Turks I would not any much should trust or fear Such Prophecies but when Events appear To answer unto that which was foretold Wise Men should make what use of them they could And so direct their Actions that Hell's Charms And Cheating Riddles may not do them harms i. e. By Justice and Mercy towards Men and Piety to God Anonymous future History of Europe SECT 11. § THe two Books of Esdras are thought and that by none of the least Learned St. Augustine St. Ambrose Tostatus Scaliger the Elder Melancthon Arias Montanus Bucer and Bibliander to be Canonical because of the most eminent fulfilling of many Predictions in them contained In the 11th Chapter of the second of those Books there is under the Type of an Eagle a manifest Prophecy both of the Roman Heathenish Empire as likewise of the Papacy with her chief Leaguers to this present Time throughout the whole Chapter This Eagle is the Roman Heathenish Empire her twelve Feathered Wings are the twelve first Emperours from Julius Caesar to Nerva The three Heads are the Kingdoms of France Spain and Germany preordained of God to maintain the power of her Pride when all her Wings her Heathenish and Tyrannical Caesars should fail her Nevertheless under her twelve first Caesars are comprehended in general all the Emperours which Reigned in her from Julius Caesar who first crackt the strings of her Liberty to Augustulus Momyllus her last Roman Caesar for the space of 474 Years Her eight contrary Feathers are the eight terrible Inundations of several Nations from the North God's Scourges which overwhelmed her fairest Provinces sunk her State in Blood and by Fire and Sword humbled her as low as the Dust she trod on viz. 1. Alaricus and his West Goths 2. Attilas and his Huns. 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 Diminutive Gaesar Augustulus Momyllus 8. And lastly The intestine Home-bred Faction and Conspiracy which proved more Pernitious than the rest as all intestine Diseases are the worst which in the Reigns of Otho the Great Otho the III and Frederick the II so often strove to eradicate the Papal Superiority and re-edifie her S. P. Q. R. buried so many Ages ago out of the Ruines of the City The Head in the midst is the German Empire begun A. C. 801 on Christmas Day by Charles the Great which though v. 32. it long did and yet doth put the Earth in great fear yet v. 33. must vanish in an instant as did the Wings and come to nought The German Empire thus destroyed v. 35. The Head on the right side the Kingdom of Spain must devour the Head on the left side the Kingdom of France Therefore it is manifest that the Kingdom of France though now it flourisheth in what Glory and Magnificence the Earth can afford must ere long be humbled by the Power of Spain with many Discomfitures and brought to doleful Straits and great Perplexities I my self have observed how that Year in which the Figures of the Golden Number were equal to the Figures of the Year of Christ hath ever proved Fatal to that Monarchy It was so with them from 1570 to 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 final 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 Walls of Rome stood §
when it had reigned the end of it came and the place thereof appeared no more so the next stood up and reigned it continued a long time 14. And when it had reigned the end of it came also and as the first so it appeared no more 15. Then there came a Voice unto it and said 16. Hear thou that hast kept the Earth so long this I say unto thee before thou beginst to appear no more 17. There shall none after thee attain to thy time nor to the half thereof 18. Then arose the third and reigned as the other afore and it appeared no more also 19. So it came to all the others one after another so that every one reigned and then appeared no more 20. Then I looked and behold in process of time the Feathers that followed stood upon the right side that they might rule also and some of them ruled but within a while they appeared no more 21. For some of them were set up but ruled not 22. After this I looked and the twelve Feathers appeared no more nor the two Wings 23. And there was no more on the Eagle's body but two Heads that rested and six Wings 24. Then saw I also that two Wings divided themselves from the six and remained under the Head that was on the right side for the four continued in their place 25. So I looked and behold the under Wings thought to set up themselves and to have the Rule 26. Then was there one set up but shortly it appeared no more 27. And the second was sooner gone than the first 28. Then I beheld and lo the two that remained thought also in themselves to Reign 29. And when they so thought behold there awaked one of the Heads that was at rest which was in the midst for that was greater than the two 30. And I saw that two Heads were joyned therewith 31. And behold the Head was turned with them that were with it and did eat up the under two Wings that would have Reigned 32. But the Head put the whole Earth in fear and bear Rule in it over all those that dwelt upon Earth with much Labour and it had the Government of the World more than all the Wings that had been 33. After this I looked and beheld the Head that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more as did the Wings 34. But the two Heads remained which also Ruled likewise upon the Earth and over those that dwelt therein 35. And I beheld and lo the Head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side 36. Then I heard a Voice which said unto me Look before thee and consider the thing that thou seest 37. So I saw and behold as it were a Lion that roareth running hastily out of the Wood and I saw that he sent out a Mans Voice unto the Eagle and said 38. Hear thou I will talk unto thee and the most High shall say unto thee 39. Art not thou that who of the four Beasts remainest whom I made to Reign in my World that by them the end of Times might come 40. And the fourth is come and hath overcome all the Beasts that were past and hath power over the World with great fearfulness and over the whole compass of the Earth with most wicked Oppression and that dwelleth so long time in all the World with Deceipt 41. For thou hast not judged the Earth with Truth 42. Seeing thou hast troubled the Meek thou hast hurt the Peaceable and thou hast loved the Lyars and destroyed the Dwellings of those that brought forth fruit and hast cast down the Walls of such as did thee no harm 43. Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the most High and thy pride unto the Mighty 44. The most High also hath looked upon the proud Times and behold they are ended and their abominations are fulfilled 45. Therefore appear no more thou Eagle nor thy horrible Wings nor thy wicked Feathers nor thy malicious Heads and thy wicked Claws nor all thy vain Body 46. That all the Earth may be refreshed and come again as one delivered from thy Violence and that she may hope for the Judgment and Mercy of him that made her CHAP. xii 1. ANd when the Lion spake these words to the Eagle I saw 2. And behold the Head that had the upper hand appeared no more neither did the four Wings appear any more that came to it and set up themselves to Reign whose Kingdom was small and full of Uproars 3. And I saw and behold they appeared no more and the whole body of the Eagle was burnt so that the Earth was in great fear Then I awaked out of the trouble and trance of my Mind and from the great fear c. 10. Then said he unto me this is he interpretation of this Vision 11. The Eagle which thou sawest come up from the Sea is the Kingdom which was seen in the Vision of thy Brother Daniel 12. But it was not expounded unto him therefore I declare it unto thee 13. Behold the days come that there shall arise up a Kingdom upon the Earth and it shall be feared above all Kingdoms that were before it 14. In it shall twelve Kings Reign one after another 15. Whereof the second shall begin to Reign and shall have more time than the twelve 16. And this do the twelve Wings signifie which thou sawest 17. As for the Voice which thou heardst spake and that thou sawest not go out of the Heads but from the midst of the body thereof this is the interpretation 18. That after the time of that Kingdome there shall arise great strife and it shall be in danger to fall but it shall not then fall but it shall be restored again to its beginning 19. Concerning the eight under Wings which thou sawest hang under her Wings this is the interpretation 20. In it shall rise eight Kings whose Times shall be but small and their Years swift and two of them shall perish 21. But when the mid-time cometh there shall be four kept a time whilst his time beginneth to come that it may be ended but two shall be kept to the end 22. And whereas thou sawest three Heads resting this is the interpretation 23. In her last days shall the most High raise up three Kingdoms and shall call again many things unto them and they shall have the Dominion of the Earth 24. And of those that dwell therein with much grief above all those that were before them therefore they are called the Heads of the Eagle 25. For they shall accomplish its wickedness and shall finish its last end 26. And whereas thou sawest that the great Head appeared no more it signified that one of them shall die upon his Bed and yet with pain 27. For the two that remain the Sword shall devour them 28. For the Sword of the one shall devour the other but at the last he shall fall by the Sword himself
in England and Germany Yea did not that new star in Casiopaea 1572 and that remarkable Comet 1577 plainly from Heaven remonstrate That howsoever the Evangelical Churches of France by the Massacres there and the Low-Countries by Fire Sword and Halter must be for a time grievously afflicted yet maugre Satan and all his Hellish Furies they should at length Flourish and Triumph over all their cruel Adversaries Besides these Regions of Europe a blessed Light hath in this Age shined to another World which did long sit in most fearful Darkness I mean the East and west Indies I am verily persuaded that the new Star which appeared so long from September 1604 till January 1606 about two Years and four Months in the foot of Serpentarius having coincidence with the great Conjunction of the three superiour Planets and that other so many Years in Cygnus doth promise being with this present Comet 1618 conformed a more clear illustration of those remote Regions with the resplendent Light of Salvation And a little farther he saith These Stars give us hope that his other gracious Promise of the Calling of the Jews he means as appears in his Margent shall be shortly accomplished And Jerusalem be trodden down by the Gentiles till the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled Which certainly saith the Doctor shall precede the second Coming of our Blessed Saviour fore-runner whereof he Christ saith shall be signs in the Sun Moon and Stars To draw nearer Home continues our Doctor not by the Rules of Vulgar Astrology whose Precepts I esteem no better than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phantastick Dreams but directed by these Caelestial Hierogliphicks in which I may say as the Poet long ago Sapientibus per ambages fata Eloqui Fatuis Magistrum prorsus esse inultilem The Fates by winding Riddles Wise Men teach In vain to Fools though ne're so plain you Preach Thus far Dr. Bambridg who wrote this Treatise at London and dated it December ult 16.8 § 30. Before I had read these Passages in Dr. Bainbridg in whose phrase you see what the temper of these Times of King James's Reign were I thought fit to make some Observations on Magel's words concerning the Star seen in Cusiopaea's Chair only which since I thought better to set down here together with what I think remarkable on the other two and his Comment on them and the Châ—â—ets 〈◊〉 Observ 1. First then when he contrary to all Prognosticators and 〈…〉 the Event which followed upon the Comet of the Year 1618 predict 〈…〉 but good to be expected from Comets and new Stars and particularly good success unto the Gospel and relief unto the true Professors thereof It must here be diligently noted That the Affairs of the World and its Kingdoms stand on quite different Foundations and are acted and governed by quite different Rules and Principles from those of the Kingdom of Christ and the Gospel It must not therefore seem Contradictory if from the same Stars great Confusions Distractions and Destruction be signified to the Kingdoms of the World or some of them and yet quite contrary Settlement Order and encrease of Power to the Gospel the Kingdom of Christ in the same Confusions from the same Stars for the things of this World being founded on the fickle Purposes Designs and Counsels of inconstant and mortal Men all Shakings and Confusions do disorder and confound them but the things of God and true Religion depending on more solid Principles the general Good of Mankind and the Glory and Counsel of God they found Settlement and Establishment by God's Providence and Blessing in the most unsettled Times like those Trees that gather faster Rooting by stormy Winds § 32. Observ 2. Whatever may be condluded of Astrological Rules this seems by our Experience in the effects of the aforesaid Comet to be most certain that the time and place of the appearance and motion of Comets shew the place and time of their expected effects these new Stars therefore as they are Northern must have signification of some Northern Monarchy § 33. Observ 3. It seems at least to Heathens and Unbelievers who by Astrology have made a Language of the Stars to themselves according to which they guess at or believe they understand Affairs to come God in Mercy or Judgment wonderfully condescends to give such Men warnings according to their Capacities who heed not his Word nor the Prophecies of holy Men which would therefore be sent in vain unto them These Warnings therefore he sends them sometimes by extraordinary Stars as at Christ's Birth to the Wise Men of the East sometimes by extraordinary Inspirations as by Balaam sometimes by Visions as to Balaam sometimes by Astrologers as in this case of these new Stars But here as I observed above if Astrologers would conclude by those they call Malevolent Aspects c. that the Affairs of Good Holy and Heroick Princes would be Unsuccessful they should mightily mistake For in their Concerns in whom God his Glory and Kingdom is concern'd that is Infallible Astra regunt Homines sed regit Astra Deus The Stars some Men command But Stars are in God's Hand § 34. Observ 4. From these Considerations I hope I may be partly authorized to conclude that the Stars in Cassiopaea's Chair and others fore-mentioned so observed by the great Tycho Brahe and other Astronomers his Scholars and Contemporaries and Followers and by those our Northern Wise Men so interpreted as above may without any great Absurdity be said to hold some Analogy to that Star which appeared to the Wise Men of the East at the time of our Saviour's Birth That the significator of his Life on Earth was moveable these the Precursors of his Reign fixt because they were to signifie that Kingdom to be Born Risen again or Revived in the World and particularly according to their Situation in Heaven in these Northern parts of the World about the Year 1572 or 1600 which must prevail over the whole World and abide till the end of it § 35. Observ 5. I farther commend to Observation from our learned Doctor and Astronomer's Discourse That if Comets and new Stars do so certainly and precisely operate according to their Place Appearance Time and Motion and the latter co-operate as more particular causes with the Northern fixed Stars as more general causes than the late frequent Comets and the Commotions they signifie to those that understand give credit to them and are under their Dominion and not exempt by some special Providence do also strongly co-operate to the raising or preparing Matter for the Fourth Monarchy which we expect and not the petty designs of the private Ambition of any Prince King or French or other how formidable soever they may seem at present whatsoever their Confederacy be or whoever combine with them Nor need any Christian's Heart fail because of them their Leagues or Unions or whatever Confusions we see feel or fear to be brought by them for all these little
and Family must extinguish by the lustre of that Reformation the Superstitions and Idolatries of Rome and give that blow with a Stone cut out without Hands from the Mountain on the feet of the last Supporter of Satan's Kingdom the Roman Monarchy being also the basest and worst constituted of incoherent Iron and Clay and grind it to Dust and disperse the Remnants of it to all the Winds as Daniel prophesies § 39. There being the same reason for us to look out for some new Kingdom in these Northern parts to which these Stars were perpendicular as there was for those Wise Men in the East to look for a King born in Judea by the Star they saw in the East Nor doth the moveableness of that and fixedness of these make as to our purpose any considerable difference for it was necessary that those Eastern Magi who sought one particular Person should be guided by a Star so moveable that its perpendicular Rays might point out Bethlehem and our Blessed Saviour's Person to them that they might bring to him their Gold and other Treasures But to discover to our Wise Men in the North the Kingdom to which the Honour is reserved in this last and worst Age to reform the Religion and Manners of the whole World according to Christ's Rule both for Spirituals and Civils it sufficed that such new Stars did appear unto them fixed in the Starry Orb as by their motion therewith might describe a Circle wherein at the time of their appearance that Reformation and Kingdom did first rise and appear Now if we enquire what Reformation did appear in the World about the time of the appearance of the Star in Cassiopaea's Chair near the Circle its direct Rays did describe upon the Globe on the Earth we shall find that of Queen Elizabeth and no other And again if we seek what Kingdom did arise about that time the Star first appeared in the Swans Neck within the Northern Circle described by its perpendicular Beams we shall find no other than the Monarchy of Great Britain then founded by King James and transmitted from him to our present Soveraign Charles the II the first of English Birth who sway'd the Scepter Allowing what those ancient Prophecies here subscribed § 40. Bruti Posteritas Albanis associata Anglica Regna premet peste labore nece Consurgent Britones Albanae Gentis amici Antiquum nomen Insula tota feret Ut profert Aquila veteri de Turre loquuta Gum Scotis Britones Regna Paterna gerent Long time the British and the Scotish Race The English Realm with War Plague Toyle deface Till a Friend rise to Scots of British Stem Then British Scots their Father's Diadem Resume and all the Isles its ancient Name Thus did the Eagle from th' old Tower proclaim § 41. And to cherish our hopes the Motto's of this Monarchy and its Impressures fixed on its Coin and elsewhere do happily conspire Namely That Motto of the first Christian Emperour Constantine the Great our Countryman In hoc Signo vinces referred by the Cross to Christ's Death And that other of like import Duce Auspice Christo That Kingdom prosper and subdue all must Whose Standard Christ's Cross is Christ guide and trust § 42. A King of British Blood in Cradle Crown'd With Lion markt shall joyn all British Ground So Sir William Maurice of North-Wales repeated in English Merlin's Prophecy of 600 Years standing CHAP. V. Thomas Pugh British Prophecies out of Maxwel 's Prophecies Sect. 16. Fol. 84. c. § 43. ACcording to the Confession of the Italian Jesuit Hieronimus Platus in the 2d Book of the Religious Life and 30th Chapter England hath been more fertile of Converters of Countries and Nations to the Christian Faith than any other Land whatsoever else So is it not unlikely but that God will have the same Country to be more fertile of many Reformers and other corrupt Churches especially that of Rome than any other Land whatsoever and to reclaim Rome and her Daughters from their Abuses and Corruption and to restore unto them their Primitive Purity and Integrity such as it was in the days of Constantine the Great Born in Great Britain § 44. So Nostradamus predicts That Rome shall be ruled by the Britanish Head In his first Century he saith that the new King that joyns the lower and Northern Countries of Europe shall be the Instrument of loss to the Church of Rome And that the Bishop of Rome together with his Clergy except they shew themselves willing to be reformed shall be made to spit Blood when the Rose shall flourish He promiseth in his 5th Century that of the Trojan Blood shall spring a Prince of a doughty Dutch Heart who shall attain to so high a Degree that he shall chase far away the Arabick or Mahometan multitudes and likewise return to the Church her ancient Eminency and Sincerity § 45. Out of the Library of St. Victor cited by the Abbot of Cluny it 's said Abbot Joakim said That the Red Rose should send forth the sweet Water that shall purifie and cleanse the Church from her Corruption Paracelsus Amongst the Roses shall spring up one who shall change the Sandy Foundation into a Rock § 46. Mr. George Maxwel from Sir George Norroy King at Arms Jessae Rosa sanguis Bruti Portat crucem Jesu Christi Christ's Cross displayed in England's Standard shows From British Blood must spring the Jessean Rose § 47. It seems that from the Rose of England shall proceed or spring the Reformation or Purgation of the Church of Rome Likewise the same City and Empire received from the same Country the first Authorized Profession of the Christian Faith by the blessed means of Constantine the Great a Britain born at York Grebner The Lion having the Rose and Lillies in his Arms shall utterly destroy the Pope so that there shall be none at that time § 48. Brithwald Bishop of Winchester in the Confessor's time saw in a Vision * NB. That the Kingdom of the English is the Kingdom of God and that it is as well by the gentle sweetness of its Yoake and Government like that of Christ as in other respects And by this we may understand how vainly the Antichristian Enemies pretend a right to it by this Prophecy and seek by force to Conquer it from Christ's Kingdom and to subdue it to their own Tyrany Regnum Anglorum est Regnum Dei Thus far my Author § 49. I shall only as to these Prophecies on what ground soever they proceed add this Observation for the Readers consideration That God whose Providence as is manifest by his Word is very uniform in his Justice upon the cruel Enemies of his People seems to have given warning to Rome and her Antichristian Confederates that as the Northern People raised up by his Spirit revenged the Blood of his Primitive Saints spilt by the Roman persecuting Heathen Empire on that Red Dragon so the League of Northern
The Northern Star The British Monarchy OR The Northern the Fourth Universal Monarchy CHARLES II and his Successors the Founders of the Northern Last Fourth and most Happy Monarchy BEING A Collection of many choice Ancient and Modern PROPHECIES Wherein also the Fates of the Roman French and Spanish Monarchies are occasionally set out 1678. Inclitus exurget factis Princeps 1678. This Year doth a brave Prince up-rouze For great Atchievments Glorious See the Heart Prophecy below Chap. x. A Carolo Carolus Borealibus editus oris Siqua fides magno major erit Carolo. Grebner Charles Son of Charles greater than Charles the Great Born North there sets the Fourth Monarchick Seat Et prodesse volunt dilectare Prophetae The intent of these Prophecies Is both to profit and to please LONDON Printed by J. D. and are to be sold by most Booksellers 1680. The Publisher's Admonition to the Reader concerning the Contents of this Book and the Authors intents in the present Publication of these Prophecies THe Author of this Collection as is manifest was a Faithful and a Loyal Subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain a Friend to their Friends and an Enemy to their Popish Enemies About the time he Collected these they in their Mock Parliament at the White-Horse and Wild-House had Condemned and Appointed his Majesty to Death according to their Irish Prophecy Plowed up by some Irish Heifer in a Copper Plate as they pretend in these words Principe magnanimo tellus viduata remansit Annis bis senis mensibus atque tribus Gallica quem peperit Gazis ubi Regna replevit Proh dolor heu facinus Fratris ab ense cadit And to accelerate this Execution they hired innumerable Assassins to fulfil this Prophecy hoping if they could then have taken Him off to have had the Army then raised at their command and reformed to their Minds to destroy first our Laws and Liberties and then our Religion Their friend Gadbury hath to sharpen and quicken their Malice let them understand that this Blow is to be struck now or never according to the following Chronogram by which his Majesty may be minded to take care of himself 1679. CaroLe te AngLIa heU genUIt sIC GaLLICa Mater HeI faCInUs LaesI * Jesuits Monks Friars are all Vowed and Sworn Brethren in this Iniquity Why are we so slow in our Resolves against them fratrIs ab ense rUIs Trust not thy Life dear Prince to their false word Who bare thy Throat to the fierce Jesuits Sword It is known that in the Fire of London the King was to be Assassinated And what hindred them then since one tried at the Old-Baily for foretelling it had nothing done to him In 1678 all Places full of the News as by Letters appeared from Virginia to Poland then Coniers laid his 100 Pounds of it Shortly after their Wild-House Consult they bargained also for this Collector's Life What he then designed appears in his Dedicatory to the King and in the Epistle and Postscript to the Reader He in his present Publication intends to provide such Antidote as is in his Power to their Traiterous Prognostications And to encourage his Majesties Guards and all his Countrymen vigilantly to oppose their malicious Designs against his Majesty's Life which God preserve and continue as he hath hitherto miraculously to the good of his People and ruine of all his Enemies Amen To the Imperial Majesty of CHARLES the Great of Great Britain France and Ireland King Lord of Carolina Virginia Jamaica the Isles and Plantations of the East Soveraign of both the Seas Defender of the True Ancient Catholick and Apostolick Faith Duke of Normandy c. Most High and Mighty Prince IT hath been the Wisdom of the most Couragious Powerful and Happy Kings to make use of Oracles and Prophecies to the advancement of their most glorious Designs These sometimes afforded them good Directions and always gave their Followers considerable Encouragements The Examples of all Histories Sacred and Prophane and of our Adversaries commend this Practice to our Imitation wherein we are incouraged by many great Advantages which we have over them The sacred Oracles are all for us that our Divines have demonstrated beyond all Contradiction Esdras whom some have recommended as Canonical Savanarola whom our Authors extol to the degree of Martyrdom and the Roman wise Historian and learned Philosophers advance to the eminence of a Saint and Prophet Tycho Brahe Grebner Baudensis and other reputed Astrologers with whom our Modern Foreign as well as Domestick Visions and Prophecies consent do all with one Voice promise admirable Success to that Northern Prince who Heads the Protestant League and Protects their Liberties That Star from Casiopaea's glorious Chair which gave light to all the World A. C. 1572 to observe the then new-born English Reformation those from the Swans Neck and Serpentarius Foot which illustrated the Access of your Royal Grand-Father to the British Monarchy whereof that in Cygnus An. 1600 ushered it and that in Ophiuchus An. 1604 attended it All three together give full and undeniable Testimony that this Honour is reserved to your Crown and Family And that most refulgent appearance of the most serene and beauteous Light of Heaven which exhilerated your Subjects at your happy Birth as it pointed out your Person to them so it gave utterance to their Joys in hopeful Predictions made all your People Prophets and turned their Prayers into Blessings and Prophecies Nor may your Imperial Name your Royal Emblems Impresa's Mottoes or Coyns be here forgotten wherein whilst you own Christ for your Guide and Hope and his Cross for your Standard your Kingdom must needs be the Kingdom of God and his Christ Your George is St. Michael as your Angel-Gold well interprets it and the Dragon whom he combats and treads under his Horse's Feet is the Head of that Kingdom which opposes Yours and seeks by the Serpentine snares of his Tail more than the open force of his Teeth to overthrow your Horse and his Rider It is the Finger of God which in that wonderful Agate which I have described at the foot of this Book hath distinguished his Kingdom and the Princes of our Faith from the Papacy and the rest of the World and thereby taught us to know who are with him and who against him Had you no other just Call or cause to gird on your Sword and go out as another Joshua Captain of the Lord's Hosts against his Enemies the publick Voice of your People who are the People of God sounding so long and loud in your Ears the Cries and Groans of the Oppressed through all Europe applying and appealing to your Throne as under God the only hopeful Protector of their Crowns Dignities Lives and Liberties bring you an undeniable Commission if I may not say a Command from Heaven Here if ever vox Populi is vox Dei The Voice of many Nations compared to the Roaring of many Waters is the
most wicked and thy Heads malignant and thy Tallons most wicked and all thy Body vain 46. That all the Earth may be refreshed and may return delivered from thy violence and may hope for his Judgment and Mercy that made it Esdras iv Chap. xii 1. ANd it came to pass while the Lion spake these words to the Eagle I saw 2. And behold the Head that overcame and those four Wings appeared not which passed to him and were set up to Reign and their Reign was small and full of Tumult 3. And I saw and behold they appeared not and all the body of the Eagle was burnt and the Earth was afraid exceedingly 10. This is the interpretation of this Vision 11. The Eagle which thou sawest coming up from the Sea this is the Kingdom which was seen in a Vision to Daniel thy Brother Marg. Dan. vii 7. 12. But it was not interpreted to him therefore I do now interpret it to thee 13. Behold the day is come and there shall arise a Kingdom upon Earth and the fear shall be more terrible than all the Kingdoms that were before it 14. And there shall twelve Kings Reign in it one after another 15. For the second shall begin to Reign and he shall continue more time than the rest of the twelve 16. This is the interpretation of the twelve Wings which thou sawest 17. And the Voice that spake which thou heardest not coming forth from her Heads but from the middle of her Body 18. This is the interpretation That after the time of that Kingdom shall rise no small Contentions and it shall be in danger to fall and it shall not fall then but shall be Constituted again according to the beginning thereof 19. And whereas thou sawest the eight under Wings cleaving to the Wings thereof 20. This is the interpretation Eight Kings shall rise in it whose Times shall be light and Years swift and two of them shall perish 21. But when the midst time approacheth it shall be kept till a time when the time thereof shall begin to approach to be ended yet two shall be kept to the end 22. And whereas thou fawest three Heads resting 23. This is the interpretation In her last days the Highest will raise up three Kingdoms and will call back many things to them and they shall rule over the Earth 24. And them that dwell in it with much labour above all them that were before them for this cause they are called the Heads of the Eagle 25. For these shall be they that shall recapitulate her Impieties and that shall accomplish her last things 26. And whereas thou sawest a greater Head not appearing this is the interpretation thereof That one of them shall die upon his Bed and yet with Torments 27. For the two that shall remain the Sword shall eat them 28. For the Sword of the one shall devour him that is with him but yet this also at the last shall fall by the Sword 29. And whereas thou sawest two under Wings passing over the Head which is on the right side 30. This is the interpretation thereof These are they whom the Highest hath kept to their end this is a small Kingdom and full of trouble 31. As thou sawest the Liou also whom thou sawest awaking out of the Wood and roaring and speaking unto the Eagle and rebuking her and his injustices by all his words as thou hast heard 32. This is the Wind which the Highest hath kept to the end for them and their Impieties and shall rebuke them and shall cast in their spoils before them 33. For he shall set them in Judgment alive and it shall be when he hath reproved them then shall he chastise them 34. For the rest of my People he shall deliver with misery them that are saved upon my Borders and he shall make them joyful till the end shall come the Day of Judgment whereof I have spoken to thee from the beginning 35. This is the Dream which thou sawest and these be the interpretations CHAP. XIII 1. ANd it came to pass after seven days and I dreamed a Dream in the Night 2. And behold there arose a Wind from the Sea that troubled all the Waves thereof 3. And behold that Man grew strong with thousands of Heaven 25. These are the interpretations of the Vision Whereas thou sawest a Man coming from the heart of the Sea 26. The same is he whom the Highest preserveth much time which by himself shall deliver his Creature and he shall dispose them that are left 29. Behold the days come when the Highest shall begin to deliver them that are upon the Earth 30. And he shall come in excess of mind upon them that inhabit the Earth 31. And one shall think to overthrow another One City another City one Place another Place and Nation against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom 32. And it shall be when these Things shall come to pass and the Signs shall happen which I shewed thee before And then shall my Son be revealed whom thou sawest as a Man coming up 33. And it shall be when all Nations shall hear his Voice And every one in his Country shall leave their War that they have towards each other 34. And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered in one as willing to come to overthrow him 35. But he shall stand upon the top of Mount Sion 36. And Sion shall come and it shall be shewed to all prepared and builded as thou sawest the Mountain to be graven without Hands 39. And whereas thou sawest him gather to him another peaceable Multitude 40. Those are the ten Tribes English Esdras xi 1. THen I saw a Dream and behold there came up from the Sea an Eagle which had twelve feathered Wings and three Heads 2. And I saw and behold she spread her Wings over all the Earth and all the Winds of the Air blew on her and gathered themselves 3. And I beheld and out of her Feathers grew out other contrary Feathers and they became little Feathers and small 4. But her Heads remained still and the Head in the midst was greater than the other Heads yet rested it with them 5. Moreover I saw that the Eagle flew with her Feathers and reigned upon the Earth and over them that dwell therein 6. And I saw that all things under Heaven were subject unto her and no Man spoke against her no not one Creature upon Earth 7. I saw also that the Eagle stood upon her Claws and spake to her Feathers saying 8. Watch not altogether sleep every one in his own place and watch by course 9. But let the Heads be preserved for the last 10. Nevertheless I saw that the Voice went not out of her Heads but from the midst of her Body 11. Then I 〈◊〉 her country Feathers and behold there were eight of them 12. And I looked and behold on the right side there arose one Feather and reigned over all the Earth 13. And
2. The Lion which ver 37 and Chap. 12. ver 31. came roaring out of the Wood speaking to the Eagle and rebuking her for her Wickedness is the Wind which the most High God hath kept for Rome and her Wickedness till the end even the Lion of the North of which you shall hear a Prophecy anon of the true Merlin which shall reprove the Roman Empire and cast before her her Spoils he shall set her alive in Judgment Rebuke and Correct her and deliver the rest of God's People from Affliction which are preserved on his Borders and make them joyful to the Day of Judgment § 3. In the 13th Chapter Esdras beholds a Vision of a Man rising out of the Sea and devouring the multitude of Fighters that came against him neither with Sword Spear nor any Instrument of War 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 Bloody Persecutions and Tribulations propagated the 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 wilfulness of the Western Jews and fulness of the Gentiles he shall call to himself another peaceable Multitude 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 Ministerial Monarchy of the Church over the whole World that peaceable and still time when all the Nations of the Earth shall forget Fighting one against another Wars shall cease in all the World and Swords and Spears shall be beaten into Plow-Shares and Pruning-Hooks § 4. When the seventh Angel blew his Trumpet Luther began his Reformation then it was when the Multitude stood before the Lamb and sung the new Song of Moses and that nevertheless is but the Vail of the Tabernacle opened in Heaven and a great Cloud and Smoke covered that Glory But it must be 180 Years after when the Kingdoms of this World become the Kingdoms of our Lord and 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 Testimony the very same Model which God shewed to Moses in the Mount shall be seen at Jerusalem 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 Earth and 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 Thus far that Anonymus in his brief Exposition on Esdras § 5. If this find kind Acceptation a fuller and more particular Exposition of this Prophecy will be Published which is now Collected out of several learned Commentators If any think it improbable that the middle Head the Roman Empire can be determined and die in Torment but not by Blood and Conquest but as it were in its Bed as is here foretold Esdras iv Chap. 12. ver 26. On the contrary nothing seems to me more probable than that the German Princes to extricate themselves from the Troubles the House of Austria have brought on them first by Civil Wars and now by the Emulation that is risen betwixt it and France should after this Emperours Death that they might not offend France forbear to choose a King of the Romans and be thence-forth governed by a Vicar or the Diet Parliament or Common Council of the Empire And it is also very agreeable to Daniel's Prophecy from whence we may expect that there will be daily more and more Breaches made of the Western Empire into smaller Divisions but no Coalition into one Head or Empire till it be throughly Reformed Our Author here as some others takes it for granted as the Presumptions of those Times he lived in gave him confidence to believe that Spain was the right Head and would destroy France the left whereas the contrary is in our Times much more probable To us the matter is not worth disputing whether shall first perish since both must CHAP. II. Merlins Prophecy of the Lion of the North. THe Northern Kingdoms shall be wasted by Reapers The Southern Principalities shall end in Dust Cruel Wars shall be scattered by the Winds their growth and continuance by Bastards All these things shall hardly be accomplished when a Prince of Royal Stock shall come forth crowned from the Northern Parts as to his own People unexpected but desired by Foraiguers who because he shall bear a Rampant Lion shall therefore be called a Lion He shall not rest till after he hath called a Synod and after dissolved it by Threats he shall advance his Conquering Arms against his Enemies and by woful Success shall harrass the Territories of Neighbour Princes He shall exceed Alexander the Great in Valour and Cyrus in Success He shall cross the Seas and be saluted Emperour by many Kings a certain ancient City shall he lay even with the Ground In the interim a warlike powerful Prince from the East shall provoke him to Battel against whom the Lion shall march with all his Forces and pitching his Camp on this side Euphrates shall expect him § 7. If the Prince shall come over the River the Lion shall be overcome but he shall pass his Army over the River and give his Enemy a bloody Defeat and be Master of all the East Whilst these things are in Action divers Petty Kings from India shall break into Syria with mighty Armies and provided for Battel shall wait for the Lion about the Valley of Jehosaphat where they shall by him be wholly cut off Not long after shall the Lion himself decease after that with eminent Piety he shall have established the Kingdom of the Fugitives i. e. Perhaps banished Jews § 8. There was living in King Lucius's days Merlin the first a Scot he is the true Merlin if any Prophecies of his could be found great Credit were to be given to them He was a great Friend of King Lucius and his daily Companion Of his there is but one Prophecy extant which is found in that Ancient Prophecy of Ninius of Bangor who yet lives in MS. King Lucius the first Christian King but yet unconverted from Paganism to him Merlin Prophesied That within less than a Sequi-decumane period of Time 1500 Years the Eagle's Head should be cloven in two one part whereof Agar i. the Agarens the Turks shall burn with Fire and Japhet the Northern Nations the Isles of the Gentiles the other after the grand Revolution of Days c. See The Future History of
of Antichrist Ruine of Rome and Annihilation of the Sodomitical Order of the society of Jesus and in the Extirpation of all Kingdoms and free Estates of Papists adhering to them to make way for the Lion of the North to erect his Fifth our Fourth Monarchy in the Ashes of Germany wherein shall be established the eternal Felicity of the Church by the Conversion of the Jews and Fulness of the Gentiles This he calls in the same Page the Ministerial not Personal Reign of Christ on Earth § 15. Pag. 10. Out of Buxtorfs Letter to Mr. Shirley Fellow of Trinity Colledg dated May 3. 1624. he brings in these words of Baudensis concerning the same Comet and Conjunction according to the Opinion of the Northern Astrologers Behold thou then a Prophecy if not Apostolical far beyond Astrological if I mistake not God hath arisen and drawn out his Sword there shall happen in these our European Regions the Slaughter of People Funerals of Kings Subversions of Common-wealths Mutations of Monarchies Massacres of Princes and Illustrious Commanders violent proud Councils Treasons Rebellions and in Northern parts of Europe War Sickness Pestilence Princes cast out of their Dominions Fathers banished Children after a long time restored This Comet also threatens the terrible Ruine of Rome and Burnings in all the Cities of Europe The Papistical Clergy and especially the Cardinals shall be cast down from their Dignities the Jesuits shall be every where drawn out to Death neither shall the French nor Spaniards have Courage to save their Necks from the Halters Futhermore we discern a Kingdom to arise in the Holy Land of its most ancient Inhabitants which to Christians shall be a Miracle and to the World a Terror And these shall succeed in the Revolution into a new Empire under which shall be administred Universal Gladness Joy and Delight to Mankind 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 So far Buxtorf in his Letter from Baudensis and the Northern Astrologers § 16. The same Anonymous pag. 12 13. Paul Grebner of Misnia was more than an Inquisitor into the effects of Stars being questionless endued from above with a Prophetick Spirit He plainly affirms that as England was ever a Monarchy within it self since it was discovered by the Romans so shall it in like manner continue and remain even then when all other Kingdoms and States in Europe are swallowed up of the Fourth Monarchy of the Lion of the North. And saith that Grebner never speaks of England in all his famous Manuscripts but as the most Warlike and Potent Kingdom of Europe Pag. 25. He saith i. Baudensis from his Unkle Grebner as it seems that the Eclipses happening two Years before or after 1660 portend the Mutations of all the several States of Austria Silesia Hungary Holland France and Portugal and that the Revolution of Times is come wherein they must give place to the Lion of the North whose Scepter shall bruise their Power to nothing and his Gauntlet lay their Forces prostrate at his Feet § 17. Note well If all other Kingdoms be swallowed up by this Northern Lion save England only neither France nor Holland being excepted then without doubt the English Monarchy will be too much concerned and too nearly to stand still and consequently must be either the Head or some Confederate Limb of this Lion at least and that will yet more clearly appear by the mournful Ditty as he calls it which he puts into Europe's Mouth to sing at that time which by its Character seems to be a Fragment of the ancient Sibyline Oracles for he tells not whence he or his Author had it § 18. Heu mala Progenies Fatis servata nefandis Gens nefandarum Domitrix altrixque ferarum Quid fueras quid sisque vide Tua prima propago Bella gerit Sobolemque petit lues atra secundam At Leo terribilis Borealibus editus oris Flammi feram ex * Orco pelagi plangentibus undis Educens aciem pecudes urbesque virosque Sternet antiquis Solem Lunamque movebit Sedibus ille etiam patrio jure infima summa Reddet occasum sub Legis mittet inermem Thus Englished § 19. Alas ill race to dismal Fates reserved By whom dire Beasts are tamed and preserved See what thou wert and art Thy first issue Inclines to War Plague doth the next subdue Thus Sibyl or what ever other Author Penn'd this Prophecy thus far doth very mystically and yet learnedly and aptly depaint to us the City and Empire of Rome in her Heathen estate taming and nourishing all sorts of wild Beasts to be brought forth in their Theaters for their Sport and above any other Nation addicted to and flourishing in Wars but in her latter declining and degenerated Christian Estate subject unto the Pestilential Chair of the Papacy But a fierce Lion sprung from the Northern Shore Shall bring from deepest * Hell and Waves that roar A blazing Army he shall Men ore-run Cities and Cattel yea the Moon and Sun Remove shall he and Father like the least Make Highest and give Laws to the weak West The word Orcus * translated Hell here is properly to be understood of Great Britain supposed by the Ancients to be the Fortunate Islands in whose most Northern parts Hell was thought to be as in the most Southern the ever-green Elizian Fields And there to those names Thule Scotia Orcades do manifestly alude as the Learned know Thule in the Phaenecian Tongue as Scotos in the Greek signifie Night and Obscurity See our Historians Camden Ailef c. § 20. Thus far our said Anonymus out of Grebner and Baudensis his Nephew I will next transcribe hither Grebner's own words out of 72 and 73 Banners and translate them only omitting for brevity sake in the first Quae animus meminisse horret The Predictions of our late Confusions known to be too truly described by him and published by others Banner 72. Per id tempus Rex quidam Borcalis nomine Carolus c. post hunc eleget nullum Interea unus è stirpe Caroli in littore Regni Pattis sui cum Gallicis Suevicis Danicis Hollandicis Burgundicis Germanicis auxilliis stabit omnes inimicos suos cruentissimo prelio superabit postea Regnum suum felicissime administrabit eritque Carolo Magno Major In English About that time a certain Northern King shall marry Mary c. after him they Elect none But in the mean time one of Charls's Line shall stand and with Auxiliary French Swedish Danish Hollandian Burgundian German Forces shall fight a most cruel Battel at the Shore of his Father's Kingdom vanquish all his Enemies and afterwards most happily Govern his Kingdom and shall be greater than Charles the Great § 21. Banner 73. Europae labes imbecillitas singulorum ejusdem Regnorum sedem mirabiliter struet quintae
Monarchiae quae sub tempus exitii Romani Imperii ad terrorem totius Mundi ex ruinis Germaniae refulgebit Haec triennii spacio caetera Europae Regna aut vi perdomitabit aut belli metu ad societatem propellet quo universalem Ligam unionem omnium Protestantium efficiet c. In English The Corruption of Europe and the Weakness of her several Kingdoms shall strangely make way for the Fifth or Fourth Monarchy which about the time of the fall of the Roman Empire shall to the Terrour of the whole World appear and shine out gloriously from the Ruines of Germany This shall within three Years subdue by force the rest of the Kingdoms of Europe or for fear of War shall force them to League with it whereby it shall bring all the Protestants into an universal Union and Confederacy c. By this latter Passage it appears that the great and bloody Victory the Lion of the North shall attain by the assistance of French Swedish Danish Hollandian Burgundian German Forces must be understood to be obtained by the Protestants of those Parts And that if he find any to oppose and fight with him in his own Kingdoms they can be none but Papists § 22. To Grebner and his Nephew Baudensis I will add one or two Astrological Testimonies more which perhaps will be of no less weight and give greater satisfaction to our Reader The first is Magel as I find his Manuscript quoted by my Anonymus Pag. 55. in these words Magel in his Fifth i. or Fourth Monarchy is most plain This Star saith he which this Year 1572 appeared upon Casiopaea's Chair being placed above the whole Elementary Region did signifie the Revolution and Dominion of a new Empire Which effects shall not yet be seen in 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 § 23. The Astrologer writes only of that Star which was seen at that time when he wrote this Manuscript but William Johnson a Scholar of the Illustrious Astronomer Ticho Brahe in his lesser Globes dedicated to Maurice Prince of Nassaw tells us of this in Casiopaea and another in the Swans brest Of this new Star in Casiopaea he speaks thus Stella nobilis quae insolito prae aliis fulgore Anno. 1572. per annum trientem Circa Casiopaea sedem fuit conspicua A noble Star Anno. 1572. for a whole Year and four Months was with unusual brightness conspicuous in the Chair of Casiopaea § 24. Upon that in the Swans Brest he hath these words Novam illam Stellam quae Anno. 1600. primum in pectore Cygni apparuit atque etiamum immota manet ex diligenti nostra ad caudae lyrae lucidae observationem Longit. ♒ 16.15 Latitud Boreal 55.30 habere comperimus I observed saith he that new Star which first appeared in the Brest of the Swan in the Year 1600 and abides there unmoved unto this day this Year 1603 and found its Latitude to be ♒ 16.15 Northern Latitude 55.30 CHAP. IV. The Confession of the Rosie Cross c. § 25. WHoever he was that wrote the Fame and Confession of the Society of the Rosie Cross he in the 47th Page of the English Translation professes to have the same notion of these Stars with Magel the Astrologer fore-quoted and mentions a third in Serpentarius over and above the two former His words there are these The Lord sent before certain Messengers which should testifie his Will to wit some new Stars which do appear and are seen in the Firmament in Serpentarius and Cygnus which signifie and give themselves to be known to every one as powerful signacula of great and weighty Matters So here are three Heavenly Messengers or Witnesses § 26. In the same Book Pag. 17. They tell you what those great and and weighty Matters are namely The Lion of the North and his Monarchy that is our Fourth Monarchy in these Words They tell you Europe is with Child and shall bring forth a strong Child the Lion of the North who shall need a great God-Father's Gift and there they also express what that Gift is and promise it him in these words We do promise more Gold than both the Indies bring c. Now if you would know what is the Name of the God-Father and consequently of the God-Son on whom this great Gift will be bestowed you may learn there also in that Book that his Name which is also the Seal of the said Society is C. R. and that all the aforesaid Treasure was laid up by C. R. the Father of the Rosie Crucian Society for his God-Son G. R. the Lion of the North. § 27. To these I will joyn Dr. John Bainbridg Astronomy Professor in the University of Oxon who concurs in his Opinion with these learned Men in his Astronomical Description of the Comet 1618 London 1619. Moral Prognostic Pag. 30 31. he writes thus Novit Deus omnia Solus Quae sunt quaefuerint quae mox ventura trahuntur God only knows and none but He What is what was and what shall be § 28. Yet to descend lower than Universalities That blessed Star which conducted the Magi to Christ's poor but sacred Nursery of whose Incarnation and Happiness to Mankind that Star was an Heavenly Harbinger doth enforce me often to think that these many new Stars and Comets which have been more this last Century of the World than in many Ages before did amongst other things signifie that glorious Light of the Gospel which hath lately illuminated the whole World About the Preaching of Luther were at least five Comets in ten Years so the Doctor proceeds after which follows the happy departure of Germany and England and many other Northern Parts from the Spiritual Babylon This new Comet doth give us hope that the rest of Christendom before long will follow and so at length shall be verified the Prophecy of Sibyl upon occasion of these new Stars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rome shall become again a Forlorn or Desert Village or Sheepcoat Before I proceed farther with our Doctors Text I will insert what I find to this purpose Translated by my Lord Napier in his Discovery of the Revelation Pag. 374. out of the 8th Book of the Sibyline Oracles Then ends the World then comes the latter Light Then God shall come to Judge his Folk aright But first shall fall on Rome by resistance Of God's fierce Wrath the direful Vengeance A woful Life a Bloody Time shall be Oh People rude Oh Land of Cruelty Thou little lookst nor dost regard aright How poor and bear thou first came in the Light That to the like again thou should return And last before a dreadful Judge shalt Mourn So Napier I return to my learned Doctor § 29. Did not our Fathers find saith he the Comet in 1588. to be a sign of much Happiness to the Persecuted Protestants
nunquam ante ita locutus est Satan Certe in Angelum lucis magno judicio si non misericordia conversus If these be not Prophecies saith he they be wonderful loud crying Prodigies So admirable is their consent Cotter a most simple Idiot Poniatovia a childish Girl Drabicius an old Dotard Never did any meer Man speak as these nor ever any Devil till now If he be thus turned as into an Angel of Light it is in great Wrath if not for Mercy CHAP. VII Some more Modern and Domestick Visions and Prophecies § 75. THere are some pious Souls amongst us who have seen Visions and dreamed Prophetick Dreams of the heroick Actions and Success of our Lion in the East as well as Western Empire but their Modesty hath in a great part suppressed them and I have no warrant to Publish them imperfect according to the notices I have of them Therefore I will conclude these Predictions of the Fourth Monarchy promised to the Northern Lion with a Relation I had from a Learned and Pious Friend lately deceased which was this That some Months before the death of Oliver Cromwel or shortly after a Servant of his nearly related to him saw in a Night Vision in a Room not unlike the Banqueting-House at White-Hall the Crown Imperial of England on a fair Table covered with a rich Carpet to which placed at the upper end of the Table Richard Cromwel approached but instead of taking it up in his Hand and placing it on his Head as the Spectator hoped he put it down from the Table with his Head upon which his Father suddenly drawing aside the Curtain at the upper end of the Room which covered him and the Throne erected there from Observation reproaching his Son for his folly and stamping at him with great Indignation for losing three Crowns which he had so fairly as he said procured for him vanished away and his Son with him Shortly after his Majesty that now is Charles the II entered the Room took up the Crown and having placed it on his Head sat down upon the Throne to whom an audable Voice was sent from above in these words Do Justice and shew Mercy and thou shalt Reign till Shiloe come This may also serve for an Introduction to those Prophecies which do favour not only the North but the Kingdom of Great Britain or England in hopes of erecting this Fourth Universal Monarchy See Christiana Ponatovia who puts the English before the French § 76. I will here take liberty for the Readers refreshment to Transcribe a few Lines out of an English Rimer who hath the Reputation with some both of a Poet and Prophet in his Speculum Speculativum Printed 1660 he saith There will to thwart your hopes a new Stare blaze Within the West that shall the World amaze And influences through the Universe So quickly and prodigiously disperse That aided by concurrent Constellations It shall have some effects upon all Nations And cause such Changes as shall make a stand In their Attempts which they have now in hand In another Paper Page 33. Then from the buried Ox will forth arise A swarm of thrifty Hony-making Flies That shall with Sweetness and with Plenty store These Islands from the middle to the Shore And spread their floating Hives on all the Seas 'Twixt both the Tropicks to th' Antipodes To make Preparatives for that which brings Into one Body all dispersed things For all those Kingdoms and those Empiries Throughout the World which their beginning took By humane Craft Fraud Force or Tyranny Shall pass away and vanish into Smoke An Army whereof here 's yet little hope Shall wrest their Scepters from both Turk and Pope § 77. In his Vox Pacifica exhorting the Parliament to restore the King he hath these Prophetick Lines Take likewise heed you no just means neglect Whereby the King may be recall'd and won God's Honour with your safety to respect And do the Duties he hath lest undone For by rejecting him how just soe're The Cause may seem you shall delay that Peace Which is desired and make the Quarrels here With much more difficulty to decrease And if your Prudence shall so win him Home And he return sincerely to his Charge It shall a Blessing to these Isles become Your Honour and your Joy it shall enlarge And as Christ's Viceroy he shall sit upon A Righteous and an everlasting Throne § 78. For this Isles Constitution 's such the encrease Of Wealth and Honour settlement of Peace And freedom from Oppression whatsoe're Some Dream shall never be enjoyed here In any Government so perfectly As in our English well-pois'd Monarchy So the same Author in another place I have not this Writers other Pieces at hand I might otherwise have thence transcribed more to this purpose predicting highest Successes and Felicity to the British Monarchy § 79. To the same intent he introduces the Genius of Great Britain prophesying the Confusions of the Usurpers and their Destruction who thus concludes with a Prophecy of the King's Return and of the admirable Happiness and Glory of his Monarchy which shall follow upon his Restauration When they with Jars and Janglings have desac'd Your Triple Building and themselves nigh worn Into Contempt they of one Cup shall taste And into their first Elements return And out of their Corruption rise there shall A true Supreme acknowledged of all In which the Pow'r of all the Five shall be With Unity made visible in Three Priest People Parliament Prelates and Peers Shall be a while your Emulous Grandees Make a confused Pantarchie some Years And leave off their distinct Claims by degrees And then shall Righteousness ascend the Throne Then Faith and Reason shall agree in one Then Love and Peace and Truth re-enter shall And all the Vertues to their Counsel cail Then timely out of all these shall arise That Kingdom and that happy Government Which is the scope of all those Prophecies That future Truths obscurely represent But how this will be done few Men shall see For wrought in Clouds and Darkness it will be § 80. The Cities Wealth her Poverty shall cause The Laws corruption shall reform the Laws And Bullocks of the largest Northern breed Shall fatted be where now Sheep scarce can feed And elsewhere he brings Britains Genius intimating that on the fall or rising of our late King and his Family the greatest Affairs of Europe were depending in these words For at the present upon him depends The fortune of his House and there withal Shall many * Royal Families other either stand or fall Whose Fates are yet by very few discerned To be in his well-doing much concerned Yea thereupon dependeth ‖ Spain ruined the European Ballance broke thereby greater Things Than are the Risings and the Falls of Kings § 81. He means the Fourth Universal Monarchy and the Propagation of the Gospel thereby into all the parts of the World known as well as yet unknown and undiscovered
House of Charles and it seemed to me a glorious day and about two in the Afternoon on a sudden my Brother was gone This he interprets to be Christ's departing and absenting himself for a season I know not how nor where and as I lifted up my Eyes the Sun by degrees became dark so that the Stars appeared about it By appearance of Sun and Stars in darkness he understands the destruction of the King and Nobles Pag. 73. At which darkness the Sheep did cry and run to seek shelter as they use to do in those parts when a Darkness comes before a Storm in the holes of the Rocks Pag. 74. He calls it Graig wen i. the White Rock because its Stones are white And the foot of it Gale ronnw i. they will give Light and saith that over this was the Sun when it became dark upon it these Sheep he interprets to be God's People that adhered to God and the King And all the Light of Heaven was taken away that it became so dark as Pitch then appeared by a Mad-man's House that lived there when I was a Boy a great Bon-fire and People making Merry about it This Mad-mans House was under y Graig goch i. the Red Rock on the South side of Sunny-Day River the Stones thereof are red like Blood he interprets it to stand for the South part of England Pag. 74. And them at the Mad-mans House that made themselves a Bon-fire to signifie an adverse Power set up without God's Approbation Standing directly opposite on the contrary side of the Sunny-Day River to Bringrugog the dry Hill whence Relief came to restore the King i. Scotland as he shews afterwards But as I still waited and looked for some Light above I espied a little white Cloud breaking forth in the North-east This North-east Hill from whence this glorious Appearance came was Kadder û du ruse i. Arise the House of Charles the highest Hill in Britain and as he supposes in all the World in which Hill is the ever-running Bishops Well whence the Sunny-Day River hath its head source Pag. 73. After that the Skie appeared and on it the King's Arms as it is upon Blew in some Churches and it rid upon the Heavens very terribly towards the South-west The appearance from the North-east did signify the King 's Rising again and coming upon his Enemies from that Coast Pag. 73. Now the South-west against which the King's Arms rode upon the Heavens so terribly he interpreteth Pag. 74 to be the Red Rock on the South side of the River aforesaid where the Bon-fire was kindled and North but more Westward Moil-dunkyra i. Baal kindle Fire and stands for Ireland And as the Light appeared abundance of Water sprung out of a dry Hill Northward Pag. 74. He interprets this dry Hill from whence he saw the Springs of Water gush out on the North side of the River Sunny-Day and opposite to the Southern Red Rock and House of the Mad-man and Bon-sire with them that rejoyced at the destruction of the King and Nobles by the name of Bringrugog i. Gogs strong Hill to be Scotland for Gog saith he is the chief Prince of the Gentiles quoting Gen. 10.2 3 4 5. Ezek. 38.2 3 6. 2 Esdras 13.5 6 7. § 87. This Vision seen in Aug. 1635. when he was a Prisoner for his Testimony of God's Justice upon these Kingdoms for their Sins so long before the Irish kindled the Fire or the Scots or South of England combined against the King and when there was no appearance by any humane Sagacity that the Gold Streamers as they were called under General Monk from Scotland should encrease to such strength mingling with the Sunny-Day River from Bishops Well i. the Royal Party as to build what they had overthrown deserves in my apprehension not only to be received as a Voice from Heaven by what Spirit or Instrument soever ministred or uttered but is to me a Pledg and Earnest that what hath been acted here in Great Britain the little World will in God's time and probably very shortly be acted over again and perfectly fulfilled on the Stage of Christendom first and consequently in the Universal World and that the Monarchs of Great Britain shall be as remarkable in that grand as in this lesser Revolution This brief account I am contented to give the Reader of this Vision here that I might not too much trespass upon his Patience I purpose in the following Discourse to set down this Vision in the Author's words and the Exposition thereof at large and my Thoughts of it and a Comparison of it with the other most remarkable Prophecies here above collected who have the same Notions of the North South and West as Evans § 88. Another Vision which he saw in the Gate-House whilst he was God's Witness and Prisoner there An. 1637. being the third in number he sets down Pag. 76. in these words It seemed to me that I was in a very little white Chamber alone and as I looked about me the Chamber grew bigger and bigger until at last it became a great Garden that contained all the World and I could see no end of it c. Pag. 77. He interprets this Vision thus Now the little Chamber and the growth of it signifies the Kingdom of Christ growing from hence until it contain the World From hence i. Great Britain His meaning is more plainly set out by him Pag. 50 51. where reproving England then a State for its Sins he hath these Passages Their Valour speaking of the Army being found so that no Sword could overcome them until the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God Ephes 6.17 came against them to which Sword they suddenly and willingly submit And I see by the Word of God as I have manifestly proved that we of this State are the greatest Sinners that ever were But where Sin aboundeth Grace aboundeth much more Rom. 5.20 21. That as Sin hath abounded unto Death Enmity and Division amongst us so now the Grace of Repentance in this state and submission unto the Lord 's Anointed understand him first to Christ and to the King for Christ's sake might bring us to Love and Union and to act in Righteousness unto Eternal Life by the Power of God and our Lord Jesus Christ in us And whereas it is said of this State Dan. viii 23. That it shall be broken without hands 2 Thess ii 8. And the Lord shall consume it with the Spirit of his Mouth Understand him of what ever is Antichristian in it It is only to shew as like sayings Isa xi 4. Dan. xi 45. what mercy and grace of Repentance this State shall have offered to them but Mercy being refused Judgment followeth to avenge the injury done to Mercy in refusing it and Mercy rejoyceth against Judgment Jam. ii 13. It follows And ye Pope Turk and Spaniards that keep out the Word of God lest it should discover your Sins know for a truth
to the Ingenious Readers excuse my boldness in proposing it to them as an Emblem of the World and its Contents and the opposite Parties divided and strugling in its Bowels as Esau and Jacob in their Mother's Womb emblems of these for the Birth-right the Supreme Dominion in matters Spiritual and Civil annext to the double portion of the First-born in Christ's Family that is his Church Jerusalem above the Mother of us all and her Nursing Fathers § 97. 5. Lastly If in a Transient Vision or Dream in some Prophet's Head or in some prodigious Appearance in the Air there had been exposed to publick view on one side the Pope and with him the Emperour French King and all the rest of the Mahometan Heathenish and other opposite Powers known Enemies to the Protestant Reformation and Persecutors thereof and on the contrary part in Heaven a glorious Angel as here in our Stone and none with him but the present King of Great Britain and some one most remarkable British Captain-General compleatly Armed the Chief or only Protectors of that Reformation None could have refused me liberty to have interpreted and applied such a Vision or Prodigy as I have done those in this Stone no less Admirable I think then I may with more rather than less Reason expect favourable Construction and interpretation of my Application of those Appearances not transient but permanent and to be seen of all at such a time as this the vileness and smalness of the Stone not tending to the diminishing but advancing our attention and his Honour who chuses such small and contemptible things to teach yea to confound the Greatest and most Glorious and sends the Foolish to learn Knowledg from Brutes Insects and Inanimate Creatures Here I can allow Pictures Laymens Books In est sua gratia parvis § 98. On the wonderful Prophetick Stone brought by Mr. Martin Eylers from Hambrough wherein after it had been about seventy Years kept in his Family the small Face formerly unknown was about twelve Years since discovered to be that of Pope Alexander the 7th and under his Figure those of the present King Lewis the 14th and Dolphin of France Leopoldus Emperour of Germany John Casimire King of Poland and several Mahometan and other Modern Princes by those who know them on the one side and on the other side Charles the 1st and Oliver Cromwel alone HAd Rome's Impostors who at their high Mass Made airy shades for their blest Saviour's pass And be ador'd and by their Prelates care In circular Letters pedled that false Ware About their France known how by subtile Art Or Nature's Pencil such forms as these t' impart To any rich Materials at their will Long had the World of Wonders had its fill Witness those Bloody Crosses wherewith these Stained their Faith more than the Japan Trees And that false Spanish Egge upon whose white False Knaves false Ink false Sense false spell'd did write Through its unstained Shell to justifie Th' Immaculate Conception of Mary Had Rome the skill such Pictures to command Such Laymens Books in every Nich should stand Their Foes in Hell damn'd in Effigie Our Princes given to Satan we should see We have a surer Word of Prophecy We need no teaching Stones to verify That our Kings rest under th' Almighty Wing Of Heaven's Protection and need fear nothing No faithful Israel but a faithless Breed Of Bastards call for Signs and Wonders need The faithful Flock only know hear rejoyce In the sweet Accents of Christ's Heavenly Voice When to Mad Prophets God doth condescend To shew his Angels Sword it makes attend But converts not New Stars Comets that blaze Wonders in Heaven Stones harder Hearts raise Dreams Visions Prophecies fulfill'd astonish Plagues Fires and bloody Swords fright admonish But Lazarus return'd or Hell on Earth Cannot prepare that Soul for a new Birth Who mingles not the Sacred Word he hears With Faith A Prodigie that Man appears Of Folly who in the clear shining Sun To shew the way lights his dim Torch at Noon And would persuade Men follow ' gainst Sense Eyes And Faith for Gospel Light Romes Vanities Who th' Emblems of the Sacred Writ dispise Less regard Dreams Visions or Prophecies The Faithless see the evil and run thereon The Faithful see and scape destruction By the same Notice ev'n by Scripture Light Who see not Michael and the Dragon fight Cannot learn how on a dim Agats side Heav'n from the World its Kingdom doth divide On this Amphisbene Leviathan Whilst the Mogul Persian Tartarian Thick pil'd like Scales do lie and here do lurk The Pole Russ and the less and greater Turk At opposite Extremes A Wonder strange In one Popes head so many Monarchs range Themselves and fight in such diversity ' Gainst Christ and single Christianity Now Austria now France Triumphant draws Unsettled Multitudes to Roman Laws A Martyr'd Prince under a Cherubs Wing None but Christ's white Bands to his part can bring Who by the Eye of Faith discern the Stone Cut without Hands a Spiritual Force alone Dividing Britain Holland Germany Denmark Sweden and Switze from Italy Spain Austria Poland and the rest at Trent Whilst Rome was with its wisest Clerks intent To settle its new Creed to them nor Ston Nor Star nor Dream nor Sight nor Vision Are needful That Finger which doth make here These mighty Monarchs like small Motes appear Which their Seats Motions and Designs doth bound After his Will in the Worlds greater round Suffices to direct them who observe His Works and Words so they shall never swerve Our Guardian Angel's not withdrawn he 's near He doth to prove our Faith but disappear Whilst we our grosser Senses seek to fill Our Faith we foil and our Devotions spill Who in the dark pressing their Father's Hand Strength and direction thence seek firmest stand If this check the Presumptuous make-attent The weak to better Lights I 've my intent Der Wunder-Stein spricht § 99. BIn ich nicht sage mir ein wunder volles wesen Ich bin bey jederman ein unbekanter stein Doch Kenn ' ich alle welt Dis kanstu klarlich lesen Wixt nur wie sichs gebuhrt dein Auge fleisig seyn Ich bin ein kleiner stein doch ubergros zu nennen◠Pabst Keyser Konige die Haubter dieser welt Sich gegen mir verpflicht erzeigen und erkennen In dem dem leven nach sle seint in mir gestelt Ich bin in meiner arth vor seht gering zu sehatzen Doch wan man mit bedacht mich umb und umb betracht So bin ich uber Golt und alle ding zusetzen In mir hat die natur ihr Meister-stuck vol-bracht Ich sag ' ihr Meister-stuck was kan sie bessers machen Nichts ist in dieser welt so kunst-und-wondervoll Besihe stuck vor stuck von allen ihren sachen Nicht eines findestu dem ich nach geben soll Dis ist kein wunderwerck wan sie was macht volkommen und bildet dis und das durch eine
sahmens-kraft Hie solche grosse hulff ihr ganzlich war benommen Vnd dennoch hat sie mich gemacht nach Bildungspracht Was da volkommen ist das wirt nichts umb sich leiden Es will es soll es mus allein und eintzig seyn Das einewirt gechwint sich von dem andren sheiden Sie Kommen nimmermehr volkommen uber ein Hie kommen uber ein volkommene Gesichter Gesichter Welches viel die uberal bekant In welchen freund und feind dick shacten werckund Lichter Zu sammen seint verknuft mit einem schonen band Was meinstu Das da sey die uhrsach diser sachen Das sie mit solchem fleiss gezieret diesen stein Sie wolte das der stein den oft die weisen machen Nicht solte uber sie wie bisher meister seyn These German Verses made by Johannes Segerus a Weidenfeld may be thus rendred into English The Wonderful Stone speaks § 100. TEll me am I not Wonderful A Stone That know the whole World yet am known to none And this thou here thy self mayst clearly see If as need is thy Eye observant be I a small Stone oblige and entertain Th' Pope Emp'rours Kings who round the whole World Reign This they know and acknowledg whilst that I Shew them to th' Life in strange Brachygraphy In my kind I am not much worth yet may If well considered Gold and Pearls out-weigh Nature in me her Master-piece did play And set her rest now she can nothing make To excel me in Art or Wonder take All her Works them piece by piece attend You nought shall find that you may more commend What Nature perfect Paints by help of Seed Is no great wonder where she most did need That forming Pow'r she to Seed nothing owes Without its help the rules of Paint out-does In Minuture What hath perfection No mixture brooks it must be one alone That quickly separates which force hath mixt With perfect things nor can with them be fixt Because not perfectly united But Here perfect Faces are with perfect put And known to all do perfectly agree In the same place we Friends and Foes do see Darkness and Light here are together found And not confus'd in one nice swathing bound Tell me what think'st may Natures reason be With so much diligence to beautifie A Stone 'T is that the wise Philosopher In 's Stone may boast no Mast'ry over her CHAP. X. The Heart Prophecy § 101. THe Heart Prophecy quoted in the Title Page written in Hebrew on Parchment and wrapped up in Lead in the form of a Heart was found under the Foundation of St. Denis Church in France by the Sexton of the place as he digged for the erecting of a Monument for the Lord Teligni Anno. Chr. 1616. He gave it to the Pope's Nuncio who rewarded him with 200 Dollars It was translated into Latine by John Barmarino Secretary to the Cardinal of Bruges who had it from the Nuncio and presented it to the young King Lewis the 13th Obruit Italiam saevo Mars impiuus ense Unica sunt Christi Pascua campus oves Totum operit Mundum terror ira Dei. Pauci JEHOVAM veruntur Inclytus exurgit factis * 1661. 1665. 1666. 1667. 1678. 1686. 1693. 1699. 1700. 1710. Heros Europa tremit Asiam urget metus Generalis Terra motus erit Agnoscant omnes Gentes Deum Flumina siccentur ubique Pastor Ecclesia unica In English thus Translated The heat of War doth Italy surround Christs Pasture is but one his Sheep and Ground God's wrath and terror doth the World confound They are few who God Reverence * 1661. 1665. 1666. 1667. 1678. 1686. 1693. 1699. 1700. 1710. A Prince shall rise of Eminence Asia doth tremble Europe shake Now is a general Earthquake All Nations Gods knowledg partake Rivers are dried every where Pastor Church only one are § 102. Anonymus Pag. 35. NB. I need not specifie what Heroe it is that rouses himself and sends out his Forces to Action this Year nor how Signally upon his first Appearance Sicily is returned to her Obedience c. whilst I am writing this April 1678. POST-SCRIPT § 103. IF we expound that Line of this Heart Prophecy which predicts the Rising up of some Illustrious Prince in the Year 1678 in these words Inclytus exurget factis Princeps Which we have rendred thus in English This Year doth a brave Prince up-rouse For great Atchievements Glorious And understand it after the usual manner of interpreting such Prophecies By Princes and their Names sometime their Families sometime the Kingdoms and Dominions they govern then in this latter sence also this Prophecy hath been remarkably verified amongst us For in no Year nor Age hath such a Spirit been raised in the Representative Body of any Kingdom or any Reformed Nation as hath been moved in the Parliament and People of England on so just weighty and unremoveable grounds against Rome and all its Agents Instruments and Favourers nor can it ever be possibly laid but must necessarily exert its vigour in great Actions under some Prince as God shall be pleased to move or direct them against his and their Enemies January 1679. The news of our Defensive League concluded with Holland which is now come after I had written this Post-script is a farther Verification of this Prophecy and an Introduction to that League which brings on what is Predicted in the following Lines and Years of this Heart Prophecy I conclude with the German Copies of a sudden happy Year Pag. 220. Judicium de L. in T. consequens diuturni belli beata tempora VII Sperandum est intra istos 14 Annos ab Anno 1666. i. ad Annum Christi 1680. aedificatum iri novam Hierosolimam reductis in Ecclesiae gremium Gentibus populis Blessed Times will follow after a tedious War VII It is to be hoped that within this 14 Years computed from the Year 1666. i. About the Year 1680 the New Jerusalem will be built and the Gentiles will be Reduced into the Bosom of the Church This the Heart Prophecy resers to 1699. CHAP. XI William Postellus his Mystical Key § 104. NAture endured 1656 Years until the Flood Scripture comprising 800 Years of Law intercalate 1503. Grace 1546. Therefore Judgment is at hand for Babel's Ruine drying up Euphrates building New Jerusalem by Spirit and Fire R Nature H Natural M God Mundus World Oriens East Merides South Occidens West Aquilo North    Year Spring Summer Autum Winter    Man Child Youth Manhood Old-Age    Elements Earth Water Air Fire O Law O Rational E Father Patriarch Adam Moses Messias Elihuh    Law Obedience Charity Faith Concord    Book Genesis Ol. Test N. Test Revelation    Sense Literal Moral Alegorical Anagogical T Gospel M Spiritual N Son Evangelist Matthew Mark Luke John    Cherub Man Ox Lion Eagle    Mystery Incarnation
supercilia alta Oculos longos nasumque aquilinum Is congregabit exercitum magnum omnes Tyrannos Regni sui destruet Et morte percutiet omnes fugientes in montibus cavernis sese abscondentes a facie ejus Nam ut sponsus sponsae ita erit Justitia ei associata Gum illis usque ad 40 Annos deducet bellum subjugando Insulanos Hispanos Italos Romam Florentiam destruet igne comburet poteritque Sal seminari super terram illam Supremos Clericos qui sedem Petri invaserunt morte percutiet eodemque Anno duplicem Coronam obtinebit Postremò Mare transiens cum Exercitu magno intrabit Graeciam Rex Graecorum nominabitur Turcas Barbaros subjugabit faciendo edictum quicunque Crucifixum non adoraverit morte morietur Et non erit qui resistere poterit ei quia Brachium Sanctum a Domino semper cum eo erit Et Dominium Terrae possidebit His factis Sanctorum requies Christianorum vocabitur c. Hactenus Prophetia I will here saith he by the way in favour of my Reader transcribe a Prophecy from a very ancient Manuscript found in the House of the Provest of Salez lately sent unto me To which every Man may give what Credit he pleases certainly it is not much discrepant from this present Oracle as to what concerns the destruction of Rome It runs thus A King shall arise out of the Nation of the most illustrious Son Lilly having a long Fore-head lofty Eye-brows long Eyes an Hawk Nose He shall draw together a great Army and shall destroy all the Tyrants of his Kingdom And shall slay all those that shall fly from his Face and hide themselves in Mountains and Caves For he shall be Married unto Justice as the Bridegroom to the Bride He shall continue War against them for 40 Years subduing the Islanders Spaniards and Italians He shall destroy and burn with Fire Rome and Florence and Salt may be sown upon that Land He shall put to death the highest Prelates of the Clergy who have usurped Peter's Seat the same Year he shall obtain a double Crown Lastly He shall cross the Sea and enter into Greece with a mighty Army and shall be called the King of the Greeks He shall subdue the Turks and Barbarians and put out an Edict that whosoever will not worship him who was Crucified shall die the Death And none shall be able to resist him because an holy Arm from the Lord shall always be with him And he shall possess the Dominion of the whole World After he hath atchieved these things he shall be called the Repose of holy Christians c. So this Prophecy § 115. I suppose the word Filii is mistaken for Lilii both from the Sence and from the Context the Nation of the most Illustrious Son unless you would understand it of the Son of God and so of the Jews I know not how to interpret That the Author meant some King of France or one that is allied to and bears the French Lillies is manifest because the Kingdoms he devotes to destruction are the known Enemies of France and to whose Conquest he seems most propense and adapted And by the Islands I understand those of the Mediterranean with which it is most probable he may begin to facilitate his Conquest of Italy after Spain which he hath in his Power already Here is no mention of the German Empire as if that were already Extinct or the Princes of it at his Devotion The English seem to be of his Confederacy being not named amongst his Conquests and too considerable especially in their Naval Force and proper to assist him to be wholly forgotten unless united with him Thus far the Analogy holds well with our expected Northern Monarchy but his forcing the Christian Religion on the Barbarians by the terrours of present Death is not agreeable to that Kingdom of Christ whose Scepter is Love and which must certainly swallow up all other Powers Nor must I dissemble that this Conquerour's War of 40 Years is not consistent with the ruine of Turk and Pope in the Year 1698 unless the late and former German Wars must be reckoned into our French Conquest and he only be here described who must put the last blow to the Work § 116. The most Critical Trial by which the Spirits of our Modern Prophets and Enthusiasts are best discerned are the limitations of the Times assigned by them for fulfilling their Prophecies in which I find Cotter as the rest staggering and clashing For instance in his Vision of May 10. 1621. Frederick he means the Protestants of Germany whose Head Frederick Count Palatine sometime was shall recover by Aid from the North a great Army From the East he means Turks Transilvanians c. 6001111 shall come The first second or third 49 or Jubilee that is either in the Year 1670 1719 or 1768 if we must accompt from the date of his Vision § 117. Fredericus recuperabit per auxilium a Septentrione Magnum exercitum Ab Oriente venient 6001111. 1º 49. 2º 49. vel 3º 49. The first of these terms is expired neither of the two latter accord with the Prediction fixed on 1688 nor the Heart Prophecy Times and Seasons are certainly limited only by the Divine Power to particular Persons and their smallest as well as to Kingdoms and their greatest Actions It 's little better than Atheism to pretend to open that Cabinet by any Picklock of Geomancy Astrology or the like curious and vain Art I know who said once that one of seven Nativities were not true and a more learned Artist than he much more positively affirmed that one of a hundred horary Questions were not of any certain signification unless some unseen Power brought and wrought the Agents and Patients well chosen and fitted which they call Radical Questions Perhaps some will offer me to try before I censure which is to me the same kindness as to direct me try at the Delphick Oracle whether God will suffer the Devil first to curse me and then to execute his Curse upon me by Persons as Godless as they who believe not his Providence nor just Judgment who gives them strong Infatuations who believe not the Truth to trust in Lies CHAP. XIII § 119. NOtwithstanding all that can be said I expect not to persuade our Adversaries to desist from their Treasonable Designs against our King Kingdom Religion and Laws involving our Liberties And as they hope for a Day so I must not deny but that our most favourable Writers do allow them an Hour and therein a power of Darkning or Eclipsing our Sun by the interposition of their Lunary opacous Body To this therefore I shall speak a few words before I dismiss my Reader § 120. The nameless Author of the Future History of Europe Pag. 30. Answers to an Objection made against his History in these words Though the World must degenerate more and more in Civility and Humanity