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A69640	An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.	Bromhall, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4885; ESTC R15515	377,577	402

another Verse which was written in these words Ye Romane enemies if ye will drive away the impostume which commeth from far Nations I Judge playes are to be vowed to Apollo the which let them be faithfully done every year to Apollo when the people shall give a part in publique let private persons prepare to use them for them and theirs Over these sports the Praetor or Major shall be chief he who shall administer the greatest right to the people and the multitude And let the ten chief men or Decemviri after the custome of the Greeks perform holy things by sacrifice These things if ye shall rightly do ye shall alwayes rejoyce and your affairs shall wax better for that God shall put out the stubborn enemy which feedeth pleasantly on your fields This verse being openly interpreted sports were vowed to Apollo and solemnized in a Circle Sabellic book 4. Ennead 5. PRocopius the Tyrant being slain by Valens the Emperour the Walls of Chalcedon because the Citizens of that City had favoured Procopius his party were made equal with the ground The which while it was done they found a table of stone in their foundations on which these words were written When Nymphs shall nigh the holy City dance And wayes adorn'd with garlands and by chance After the wretched walls for placing baths Shall be converted burning in maddish wrathes A thousand shapes of men for greedy prey From divers Nations thou shalt see I say With forces strong alas to go beyond The Istrian and Cimmerian Sea-ey bond Then Scythick people then the Maesian Land Shall be destroy'd with slaughter's bitter hand When at the length unto the Men of Thrace The covetous lust of gain leading a Trace The cruel barbarism shall make a breach It shall be quenched by lot's partial reach This Prophecy was not then understood but was afterward fulfilled when Valens had built a conveyance for water and had brought abundance of waters to the City For the walls being overthrown he made use of the stones for the conveyance of the water which he called Valense by his own name that he might gratifie the Townesmen and the baths might be holpen by this bringing of water although some called them Constantius his baths At length Clearch Governour of the City in a place whose name is Taurus afterward called The street of Theodosius built Nymphaeam or a washing-place that he might shew the grace and pleasantnesse of the water brought in By these buildings the stony tabl●s signified the coming even now of the Barbarians who in Thrace it self after destructions or robbings of the people made were all slain Cuspinian in Valens IN the sixth year of Justine the Great the City Edessa was miserably defiled with uncleannesse and of the River Scirtus and in the bank of the River a Table of stone found written on in Hieroglyphical or mystical Aegyptian letters to this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is The River Scirtus shall dance or leap for the mischief of the Citizens Cedrenus UNto Alexander the Great going out of India to Babylon Nearchus Admiral of the Navy who had returned from the Ocean being carried into Euphrates sheweth him that certain Chaldeans had gathered themselves together who warned him that he should abstain from Babylon He being nothing moved went forward notwithstanding where he perished Plutarch in Alexander WHen L. Vitellius for the favour of Herod the Tetrarch would lead an Army against the Arabians they report Aretas King of the Arabians news being received of the dispatch of Vitellius to have gathered by sooth-sayings that it was impossible for that Army to have come to the rock For one of the Captains was first to dye either he which may prepare the War or he by whose command it may be provided or him against whom it is to be moved Neither was the divination vain For when Vitellius was as yet at Jerusalem a message being brought concerning Tiberius Caesar his death he made the Expedition void Josephus book 18. chap. 7. APollonius an Aegyptian foretold the death of Caius Caligula Emperour of the Romans who for that cause being sent to Rome was brought to Cuius that day in which he was to dye the death Xiphiline the abbreviatour of Dio in Caligula APollonius the Tyanean the son of Jupiter foretold That Cilix a certain man beyond measure lascivious should be killed on the third day and that so fell out Philostratus in his life LArginus Proclus foretold openly in Germany That Domitian Emperour of the Romans was to dye the death on which day he departed out of life And when for this cause by him who was chief over the Province he was sent to Rome he then also affirmed it should be so Therefore he was condemned for a capital matter But Domitian nevertheless could not escape the danger of life because on the same day he was killed Xiphiline JUlian Emperour moving against Constance pierced Illyricum daily espying the intrails of beasts and birds that he might contemplate of the issue At which time a certain Souldier lifting up the intrails with his hand being fallen flat on the ground he cryed out many hearing him The Trojane was fallen Constance should dye with the Mopsocrenians in Cilicia The which he saith should be by and by verified from Ambassadours Cuspinian ALexander Severus Emperour when as he spake unto his Army in France desiring to begin his speech from a lucky word fortune brought a contrary one the which was received as an evil token for he began Heliogabalus the Emperour being slain begining his speech from the Emperours death But when from thence he went unto the Persian War an outragious woman spake these words in the French tongue Go thy way neither promise victory to thy self neither rely thy self on the faithfulnesse of thy Souldiers That which was rightly told the event taught he himself not long after being killed by his Souldiers Fulgosus in book 1. chap. 3. A Certain woman meeting the two Maximines in the Julian Market-place when they came against the Senate with an Army with her hair spread abroad and a black garment calling on the Maximines with a great voyce fell down dead before their feet After a few dayes the Army slew the Maxinines in the same place WHen Dioclesian as yet warring in lesser places stayed at Tungrim in France in a certain Tavern and had familiar company with Druys a certain woman and she blamed the niggardlinesse of the man he is reported to have answered in jest not in earnest Then he would be liberal when he should be Emperour To these words she saith Do not jest O Dioclesian plainly thou shalt be Emperour and also thou shalt kill a Boar. Which word indeed of the woman he taking in the room of a-fore token began diligently to follow wild Boars in hunting not understanding to wit the riddle of the Prophecies which the issue afterward declared For Numerian Emperour had been slain by the faction of Arrius Aper which

Sepulchre and there sacrificed her Soon after the Battle began wherein the Lacedemonians received that memorable overthrow of Leuctria by Boeotarchus and Pelopidas Plutarchus in Pelopida WHen Gennadius the Chief of Constantinople under Leo the Great Emperour was by night standing at the Altar and praying to God for the world a certain evil spirit appeared to him which being by him forc't away by his making a crosse answered him thus in the voyce of a man That as long as he liv'd indeed he would avoid and be at quiet but afterward he would leave no way unattempted to trouble the Church of God Nicephorus lib. 15. cap. 23. Suidas Cedrenus A Little before that Henry the seventh Emperour dyed and the slaughter of the chief Rulers of the Nation as Musatus Patavinus and Franciscus Petrarcha do history it the Inhabitants of Mediolanum in the house-floor of Matthaeus the chief Governour who also merited the name af Matthaeus the Great when Sun was set an armed horseman appear'd to him far bigger then the shape of man when many for an hours space had beheld it it then vanish'd away with great terrour to the beholders Likewise three dayes after at the third hour in the very same place two horsemen in the like shape being seen skirmishing between themselves vanished also Sabellicus libro 1. cap. 4. TWo famous Merchants going into France through the groves near the Alpes in Italy they met a man bigger then the ordinary size of men he calling them suddenly charged them thus Speak to my Brother Ludovicus Sfortia and give him these Letters from me They being amazed and enquiring Who he was he replyed That he was Galeacius Sfortia and straightway he vanished from their sight They returned in all haste to Mediolanum from thence to Viglevanus where Maurus lived They present their l●tters to the Prince the Courtiers scoff at them but they standing stiff in their errand were cast into prison and being put upon the wrack they shewed by their constancy that there was no fraud in them In the mean while with great fear and ostonishment they deliberated about opening the Letters All the rest making doubt what to do one Galeacius a Commander in chief feared not The letter was folded up like a Bishops Writ as they term it very long fastened with small instruments of brasse The words whereof were these O O O Ludovicus take heed to thy self For the Venetians and the French have conspired to ruine thee and thy off-spring But if you will give me a thousand nobles I will endeavour to reconcile their high spirits and to turn away your ill fortune and I doubt not to accomplish it if you do not stubbornly refuse me Farewell The subscription was The spirit of Galeacius thy Brother Here some being astonished at the strangenesse of the thing others laughing at the device and most averring he must put money into his hands yet lest he should make himself a laughing-stock the Prince refrain'd this superstitious prodigality and sent home the Merchants again But in a short while after he was unthron'd by Ludovicus the Twelfth King of the French and carried away prisoner Artunus Section 1. historiae Medionens oculatus testis THe Father of Ludovicus Alodisius who was possessour of all the wealth of the City Imola a little after he went from hence appeared in a private place to the man in his journey whom his sonne Ludovicus sent to a City in Italy called Ferraria sitting on horseback with a hawk as 't was his manner in hawking to hold him and spake to him although in great fear to bid his sonne to come that very next day into the same place for he would tell him of a businesse of great consequence Hearing that Ludovicus both because he was incredulous thereof and was also afraid of some treachery sent another in his stead That same ghost meeting him which appeared before was very sad that his son came not for he said he would tell him many more things But at that time he bad him tell him onely this That twelve years being expired and one moneth the day likewise being particularly set down he should be no longer Governour of that City which he had The time which the Ghost had foretold of was come with great diligence in that very same night which his Fathers evil Angels suspected Philippus his Souldiers Captain of the City Mediolanum with whom he had made a Covenant and therefore fear'd him not the trenches being hard frozen scaled the Walls and with ladders took the City and its Governour Sabeb lib. 1. cap. 4. Exempl WHen Constantinople was besieged by the savage Turks both by Land and Sea There was seen at Come a City near adjoyning to France a great company of doggs whirried up and down in the Ayr and after them flocks of divers kinds of beasts and as it were many footmen first of a slender harnesse then pikemen and other weapon'd men followed after and horsemen followed them divided into Troops with a great Army set in battle array They seemed for the space almost of three hours to be an Army at hand At length a huge and formidable Man of a high stature such as cannot be expressed as General of the Army sitting upon a dreadfull horse advanced and some other vain Apparitions the forerunners of great mischiefs till night drawing on whatsoever they saw vanished away Which Wonders every body thought did foretell ruine destruction and misery to follow after which the fates had necessitated and so it came to passe Alexander lib. 3. cap. 15. AS Sigebertus reports in his Chronicle Antiochus by a Divine hand of Judgment was overturned and cast down in the second year of Mauritius A certain Citizen of the place a man of singular piety and full of charity and liberall in his Alms saw an old man all in white with two more with him standing in the midst of the City with a handkerchief in his hand with which striking the middle part of the City it suddenly was overturned houses men and all And his two companions had much ado to perswade him to spare the rest of the City that stood so when he had used many comfortable speeches to this good man they appeared no more IN the year of our Lord 1536. a certain Factor of Sicilia journying from Catana to Messana upon the 21 day of March took up his lodging at Taurominium thence next morning travelling on his way not far from the Town he met 10 Pargettors as they seemed to be carrying with them their tools he asking whither they were bound They answered To Aetna commonly called the Mountain Gibellus And soon after ten more of them who being asked whither they all went returned the same answer That their Master Workman had sent them to build a certain Edifice at Aetna and being asked who their Master was they said He came a little after them And suddenly he met a man exceedingly taller then any ordinary man with a

the hands of his Kinsmen And presently after Italy was punished with great slaughter And lest that any should think this thing fabulous and commentitious the Author of it is Cornelius Balbus one of Caesar's Favourites Suetonius TItus the Emperour had this of the Oracle He should dye in the same manner that Ulysses perished and dyed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Sea Ulysses was slain by his son Telegonus by a Wray-spear that is by a weapon of that fishe's bones instead of an Arrow And so Titus was kill'd by his brother Domitian with the poyson of a Sea-Hare Coelius lib. 26. cap. 30. JUstinianus the Roman Emperour about the year of our Lord 533 sent one Mundus a Captain into Dalmatia against the Ostrogoths who inhabited Salonas And when he went out with his son Mauritius to behold the Camp he was slain by the Goths and so fulfilled the Oracle and freed many from their fear But there were some who said That there were some Prophetical Verses pronounced by one of the Sybills whose opinion was that Mundus was to perish with his issue where at length Africk was to be taken by the Romans But then Justinian did restore Africk to the tame Vandals This Prophecie of Sybill did much perplex and affright many men who did expect that there would a suddain destruction come upon the whole World But the event death and end of this Captain Mundus and his son did shew that such like Prophecies were obscure and ambiguous and how fallacious the Artificers of Magick were Aventinus lib. 3. Annal. Bojorum et Johan Magnus lib. 10. cap. 14. MAnuel Comnenus hoping that the thred of his life should be extended did put himself into a Monasticall habit so that he ended both his life and his reign together who had reigned eight and thirty years excepting three moneths to which continuance of the Empire that old Oracle seemed to allude Tui prehendet te Postrema nominis viz. The last part or syllable of thy name will put Finis to thy life For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the last syllable of the name of Manuel with the Greeks doth comprehend or compleat that number Nicetas lib. 7. XErxes beginning War with the Grecians when he was vanquished and overcome at Salamina he constituted Mardonius that he should prosecute the Warr in his name But when he little availed and prospered at the Plateas when he fought and flew his fame began to be mute Mardonius left a great Treasure in the Tent which he had buried in the ground Polycrates the Theban enticed with hope of it did buy the field But when he had a long time made scrutiny and search for the Treasure and yet did not find it he consulted Apollo's Oracle at Delphos by what means he might find the Treasure Apollo answered him in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Turn every stone And when he did so it is said that he found great store of gold Erasmus in Chiliadibus AFter that twelve Kings had created Setho to be King of Aegypt and making a strict covenant between themselves that they should not entrench one upon another and so by a sure conspiration did rule Aegypt but in the mean while it was known by the Oracle that he that should sacrifice or offer in an Iron vessell should only obtain the Egyptian Empire Not very long after it came to passe that when by chance when all the Kings stood in Vulcans Temple in the manner of sacrificers the chief Priest of the Temple numbring each of them except Psammetichus who stood in the last place took the Phiall and offered and he being compelled by necessity took off his Helmet and sacrificed therewith then he bore his Censer as the rest of the Kings did the thing being minded and observed incontinently they that stood by remembred the Oracle and consulting together they judged Psammetichus to be worthy of death But by chance it happened to be known The greatest part of the Kingdome being shaken off the other Kings did relegate and dismisse by their Law another part of them into the fenny part of Aegypt and that the rest should abstain from that Psammetichus did take very ill that ignominy and underhand took private counsell how he should revenge that contumely therefore in the interim it was told by the Oracle out of Latone which was in the Buti City accounted the truest of all those that the Aegyptians had that he should use the help and aid of the brazen men that should issue out of the Sea and that they should vindicate Psammetichus and inthrone him in great dignity Not much time was spent ere that the Jonians mixt with the Carian viewing all the Sea-cost thereabouts that they might rob thereabouts and being driven by Storms and Tempests did voluntarily steer their course into Aegypt therefore one of the inhabitants seeing them land and come on shore affrighted at the uncouthnesse and strangenesse of the thing being full of fear related it to Psammetichus that the brazen men were come For the Aegyptians untill that time had never seen an harnessed Souldier then he perceived that the fatall time was come and quickly he entered in league with the Jonians and with their companions and got them on his side for the appointed war with many promises and Psammetichus aided with these helps quickly destroyed the Kings by whom he was relegated and dismissed and all the Countrey was yielded to him Sabellicus lib. 4. Ennead 2. ex Herodoti lib. 2. MAnuel Comnenus Emperour having a Son born that he might make his birth-day more famous did entertain his noblest Citizens as the custome was with a sumptuous feast carrying boughs in their hands and called his Son Alexius not onely that he might honour him with his Grandfathers name but for the Oracles sake who by ambages and doubtfull speeches gave answer that so long the stock of the Comnenian family should endure as the name did comprehend the letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per A. Alexius per J. Johannes per M. and A. Manuel and his son Alexius not obscurely did signify Nicetas lib. 5. THe Countrey of Baeotia being spoiled and devastated by the sury violence and war of the Thracians they who over-lived the slaughter went into the innermost concavest den where the Oracle was That there they should take up their seats where they should see the white Crows By and by in Thessaly near the Pagaeatican promontory when they were objected there to their sights there were discovered to be white Crowes which being wet in Wine the boyes sent out de-albifyed and anointed with brine or plaister Coelius lib. 57. cap. 11. WHen the Teu●ri-Cretensians sought themselves out new habitations and asking advice of the Oracle received this answer That they should there fix their station and inhabit where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc est terrae ●ilii eos adorirentur where the sons of the Earth should set upon them They wandring about Mysta and Cili●ia