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A11372	Wonderfull prophecies from the beginning of the monarchy of this land hidden vnder the parables of: Three young noble-men in a fiary fornace. A chast wife, and two old fornicators. The idol Belus and his dragon. Daniel in a den amid lyons. Their agreement with canonical prophecies: also in temperate defence of the apocryphals annexed to the canon of the Scriptures. Together with an essay touching the late prodigious comete; how farre forth the præsages thereof doe accord with such prophecies, as are found to pertaine to these our times. By all which, the discrete and wise in heart may gather touching things to come, what is forewarned vnto men; as for the general and publique, so also for their priuate and particular. By Robert Salter.	Salter, Robert, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21630; ESTC S112138	36,819	56

study wholy for the outward beauty and graciousnesse of the body as if with the Epicure they made the pleasure and contentment thereof their Summum bonum and onely end And so did the Gentiles lay to the charge of the Christians that vnder pretence of their religious meetings they gaue themselues wholly to Anarchy Sensuality and carnall liberty which must breed a reiection of all good Gouernment Order and care of the common good And on the other side whereas to the Iew is adscribed this kinde of Holme-Tree whose beryes as I shewed before yeeld that precious dye which pertaines onely to the Princes and great states-men of the world to bee attired in So the accusations which these men brought against the Christians were altogether or for the most part matters of Ambition Treason and Innouation as if they aspired to a worldly Power and Souerainty And this they charged them with thereby to make them odious to the Gentiles in whose hand the state then was And if either of these hapned to change into the others Arguments it proceeded of the lyding they bare either towards other against these Christians whom they had set vp for the Common enemie to them both and not of their owne Apprehensions But Daniel the iudgement of God steping forth in the mouth of sundry learned men Iustinus Aristides Athenagoras Tertullian Vid. Euseb which were notwithstanding but Priuate and as it were vnder age in order as to the State by their Discrete and just Apologies doe make manifest both to Princes and People the Innocency and holinesse of conuersation among the Christians and so their cause being heard they are acquieted and those false Iudges the Heathen and the Iewish Lawes exautorate as condemned to death and the Trewth of God in the Christians generally approued and receiued The last Circumstance is of the great reputation that vpon his judgement giuen the young Prophet groweth vnto among the people For after that the Integrity of the Christians was made thoroughly knowne Sella in Curali struma Nonius sedet Per consulatum peierat Vatinius Catul. they increased dayly in number and power the Doctrine of Christ obtaining the more credit by meanes that men did looke into the intolerable mischiefes and furies of the impious when they were in Authority and the fearefull plagues and punishments sent by God among them which were Defenders of Idolatrie and Superstition And so this Period is continued from the Determination of the Mosaical Church where the former Period ended for so long time as the Primitiue Church Christian is in Priuate estate and not receiued into place of Soueraine Gouernment as is represented both by the Sex and Order of a wife and the childhood of the Prophet Namely the times of the Church as they are by Saint John typed vnder the Ephesine Smyrnaean and Pergamine Churches The visions of the opening of the Seales of the Queene of Heauen in trauel and the King of Heauen and earth borne which was vntil by Publique Edict the Crowne was set vpon the Head of Christ and the Kingdomes were acknowlaged the Lords and the bynding power to pertaine alonely to Christ and to his Lawes The third Period is of an Jdolatrous Culture AN entrance is made into this Passage by a solemne Preface for preparation taken from the time when it is to be obserued to haue beginning Namely after the change of the Imperial state Now in this Preamble first is to be noted When King Asly ages was laide with his Fathers Cyrus the Persiā receiued his Kingdome that Literally it seemeth a manifest absurdity vnworthy the spirit of Prophecie to make mention of Astyages as pertaining to the State of Babilon For albeit that trew it is that Cyrus succeeded Astyages in his Kingdome yet this taken as I say according to the letter is altogether impertinent to the matters of Babilon For Astyages was King of the Medes and Persians and not of Babilon And the succession of Cyrus vnto him was in his owne right of inheritance to the Crowne of Media and Persia for hee was the sonne of Cambyses a Persian and Maudane the onely daughter of the saide Astyages Thereof was Cyrus by the Oracle called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Mule becaus he had a Persian to Father a Mede to Mother Gen. 10. Gen. 7. who was a Mede by birth so that hee could by no meanes make title to the Crowne of Babilon not from the very first dispersion of peoples vnto their seuerall seates For Babilon came of Cham But the Medes from Iaphet and the Persians from Shem and from these two later as is shewed came Cyrus So that in this translation of the Empire of Babilon to the Medes and Persians is no relation to humane right that Astyages should bee mentioned But in it is first accomplished the blessing of Noah vpon his two elder sonnes and his curse vpon the younger And secondly the burden vpon Babilon from God in the mouth of his Prophets personally calling forth Cyrus to the performance of it Isa 44. 45. In the second place therefore the spiritual sense of this Introduction yeeldeth more Grace For the name Astyages duely searched into signifieth One that not so by Iustice and right as by crafty Policy and violent Tyranny hath the rule of the People Astyages Tyrannus And such were those that had the Empire of the world and of the Kingdomes of the Heathen in the time of their ignorance concerning Christ vntil it pleased God to send and set ouer them Cyrus the Substitute of his Heire as the name beareth Cyrus Pro-haeres Psa 2. And Daniel did eate at the Kings table and was honored aboue al his friends namely Christian Princes the Lieutenants of Christ Iesus the Heire Apparant and Lord Paraumont of Heauen and Earth which as they acknowlage to Reigne by God so they conforme the whole Reason of their Gouernment to the Plat-forme of his Law Knowing that wherein so euer their Lawes are not Regulated by it their Rules are Tyrannicall and inordinate how faire a shew soeuer they make otherwise And in this sort is Daniel taken into presence and conuersation with the King and State in Babilon Thus then by this Preface we are prepared to vnderstand when this Idolatrous Culture is timed to be in Babilon Namely after the change of the Empire thereof from vnder the Curse to pertaine to the Promise that is to say from Heathenish Idolatry to the Confession of the liueing God in Christ and yet the seate of the Empire continueth still in Babilon which because it was not found in the old Babilon for it was vtterly ruined and desolated and so continueth euen to this day in order as to Impery as appeareth by that which hath beene saide before Therefore it must of necessity bee verified in the NEW and this Idolatry spoken of it not as it was before Ethnique But as it is now become Christian and had