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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59398	Phænomena quædam apocalyptica ad aspectum novi orbis configurata, or, Some few lines towards a description of the new heaven as it makes to those who stand upon the new earth by Samuel Sewall ...	Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.	1697 (1697)	Wing S2821; ESTC R8014	63,652	68

millions of their subjects unto whom both defensive offensive Iron was unknown which made the deadly impressions of their Enemies weapons and the inefficacy of their own surprising to amazement It is to be noted that the Pots wherein they boiled their fish and flesh c. were made of earth as also innumerable other vessels most were enjoind to use no other By this means the Potters trade was in principal demand among them which renders this Metaphor very agreeable In the computation of Time made by the Mexican Nation their greatest Period consisted of Fifty two Years which they call'd a VVheel Upon the last night of every Wheel they used to break all their Vessels and stuff and put out their fire saying that the World should end at the finishing of one of these Wheels and it might be at that time Upon this conceipt they passed the night in great fear and watched very carefully for the day But when they saw the day begin to break they presently beat many Drumms sounded Cornets Flutes and other Instruments of Joy saying that God did yet prolong the time with another Age. And then began another Wheel on the first day whereof they went to the high priest and took new fire and bought new Vessels Joseph Accsta lib. 6. cap. 2. When the Spaniards came they took these miserable Potters themselves and dash'd them in pieces one against another Holy Hilary in his Exposition of the second Psalm is exceedingly concernd lest there should be any imputation of Ingratitude to our LORD upon the account of his seising upon his Inheritance in such a manner as presently to break it in pieces with an iron Rod. But he quiets himself in this that it is in order to Restauration and Reformation Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling Kiss the Son c. They who will not take warning by Beishazzar and Motezuma and will not learn in all their Administrations to glorifie the God in whose hand their breath is and whose are all their ways they must expect to come to worse ends than they did Great Motezuma who laboured to be worshiped as a god No plebeian might look him in the face if he did he was punished with death He did never set his soot on the ground but was always carried on the shoulders of Noblemen and if he lighted they laid rich Tapestry whereon he might go When he made any Voyage he and the Noblemen went as it were in a Park compassed in for the nonce and the rest of the people went without the Park He never put on a Garment twice nor did eat or drink in one Vessel or Dish above once all must be new He used to be attended by Noblemen barefoot This Motezuma of whose bloody Pride and Luxury he knew no bounds was at last imprisoned in his own Palace by his unwelcom Guests was hated by his subjects covertly and basely slain so that t is yet controverted whether Spaniards or Indians were the authors of his death But howsoever Motezuma died miserably and paid his deserts to the just judgment of our Lord of heaven for his Pride and Tyranny His body falling into the Indians power they would make him no Obsequies of a King no not of an ordinary person but cast it away in great disdain and rage A servant of his having pity of this king's misery made a fire thereof put the ashes in a contemptible place Acosta lib. 7. cap. 22 26. Some judicious and learned Divines have conjectured that America is prophesied of in the thirty seventh of Ezekiel under the denomination of a Valley Certainly no part of the habitable World can shew more Bones or bones more dry than these vast Regions do Mr. Downam thinks that Mr. Eliot's taking his Text from thence when he first preached to the Indians has its weight His Appendix to the Letters from New-England is well worth the reading The Prophet is said to be carried out in the spirit and for ought I know he might be carried beyond the limits of the then known World Dan. 11.45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy Mountain yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him The complexion of this portion of Scripture is such as constrains me to imagin that the place designed by the Holy Spirit is no other than America Every word almost has an emphasis carrying in it to me the perswasion of this sence They who remove from one Land to another there to dwell that settlement of theirs is call'd a Plantation Especially when a Land before rude and unfurnish'd is by the New-comers replenished with usefull Arts Vegetables Animals Thus when in the year 1492. Christopher Columbus had opened the way the Spaniards planted themselves in the spatious Regions of America and too much planted Antichristianisme in the room of Heathenisme Tabernacles So called from the movableness of their condition and shortness of their continuance As Tents they were lately set up and notwithstanding all their Praemunitions so far as they are Antichristian they shall be taken down before it be long by the immovable Counsel and Providence of God Palace The Extent Riches and Pomp of the Mexican and Peruvian Empires are very great Bellarmin 〈◊〉 notis Ecclesi ad Notam Quartam ● Nonam Insomuch that when the Church of Rome met with Losses in Europe they pleased themselves with their Gains in the New-World They glory in the many Churches they have planted there which are they say without all mixture of Hereticks If with Mr. Nicholas Fuller Miscel sacr lib. 5. cap. 18. we take this word to signifie Equile Regium Horse Guards It will still look upon America The Reputation the Spaniards Horses gave them did much contribute towards their prodigious Conquests And after above threescore dangerous battels Mexico was at last taken upon Hippolytus day August 13. 1521. Since which time Horses that were never seen there before are one of the four Fair Things of that Citie Between the Seas The middle Provinces of the New World governed by the Vice Roys of Mexico and Peru are known to lye between two of the most wide and famous Seas of the whole World The American Inhmus respecting its own narrowness and the bold approaches of the huge Ocean on either side does command the title of Nonsuch America it self and they who pass thether are so much concernd with the Sea that Peter Martyr stiled his History Decads of the Ocean And in the general History of Spain part of the King's Title is The Islands and firm Land of the Ocean Sea Grimeston p. 1234. in the glerious holy Mountain Ingenious Joseph Accsta lib. 3. cap. 19. speaking of New-Spain hath these words Which without douct is the best Province the Sun doth circle And Mr. Gage in his faithfull Relations cap. 12. p. 134 speaks of