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A62923	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.	Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1879; ESTC R2950	71,870	88

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

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

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