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A48496	Catastrophe mundi, or, Merlin reviv'd in a discourse of prophecies and predictions and their remarkable accomplishment : with Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut, and notes and observations thereon as also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies that are extant touching the grand revolutions like to happen in these latter ages / by a learned pen.	Learned pen.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681. Monarchy or no monarchy.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2214; ESTC R32469	37,157	144

brought down to the Dust And the Son Man with the Eagle shall be exalted And there shall be an Universal Peace over all the World And the Son of Man shall receive a wonderful sign And there shall be great plenty of all Fruits of the Earth And he shall go into the Land of the Cross The Prophecy of Malachy a Popish Saint declaring the Number and some marks of all the Popes that shall be hereafter together with the final destruction both of Popery and the City of Rome THis Malachy was Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and of the Cistertian Order of Monks a Contemporary with St. Bernard and very intimate with him about the year 1140 He pretending to the gift of Foresight undertook by certain Hieroglyphical descriptions to give an account of all and every the Popes that should be from his time to the Worlds end or at least until the utter subversion of the Papacy All which I find both recited and as far as then was accomplisht explained and by application found to be very true and significant in an Appendix to a Book Intituled Flores Historici written by Johannes de Bussieres a French Jesuit abbout the year 1655. To recite all the old Ones from the year 1143 would be both tedious and impertinent being so long past those that are curious may find them in the Author just now cited Only to give the Reader a Taste that he may the better apprehend the Humour of this Irish Pope-fortune-teller I shall give you his Symbols and their Explications for above One hundred years past and also all those that are to come and I will begin at the year 1550. The Propecy Popes Names The year of our Lord and Explanation De Corona Montana the Mountain and Crown Julius the Third An. 1550. He was called before he came to the Popedom John of the Mountain and his Arms were Mountains and Crowns of Laurel Frumentum Floccidum Bread-corn suddenly perishing Marcellus Second 1555. He had a blade of Wheat in his Arms therefore said to be suddenly perishing because he continued a very little while in the Popedom De Fide Petri Of the Faith of Peter Paul the Fourth 1555. His name was Peter de Carafe which signifies as much as Peter Of the dear Faith Aesculapii Pharmacum The Medicine of the Physician Pius the Fourth 1560. He was before called Johannes Medicus John the Physician Angelus Nemorosus the Angel of the Wood. Pius the Fifth 1560. Call'd before Michael Boschi Michael Wood. Medium Corpus pilarum a middle body of Balls Gregory the Thirteenth 1572. His Arms the middle of a Dragon and was made Cardinal by Pius the 4th who had the Balls in his Arms. Axis in Medietate signi the Axle-tree in the midst of a Sign Sixtus the Fifth 1583. His Arms an Axle-tree in the midst of Leo. De Rore Coeli from Heavens Dew Vrban the Seventh 1590. He was Archbishop in Calabria where Manna is gathered Ex Antiquitate Vrbis from a City of Antiquity Gregory the Fourteen 1590. Of Millain Pia Civitas in Bello a City pious in War Innocent the Ninth 1590. Of Bononia Crux Romulea the Roman Cross Clement the Eighth 1592. His Arms a triple oblique Papal Cross Vndosus vir A man gone as soon as a Wave Leo the Eleventh 1605. He continued but Four and twenty days Gens perversa a perverse people Paul the Fifth 1605. In his days the Bobemians rose against the House of Austria whom our Author will have to be the perverse Nation but why not rather the Venetians with whom this Pope had great Broils In tribulatione Pacis in the work of Peace Gregory the Fifth 1621. As soon as he was made Cardinal he was sent by Paul 5th Legate to Sav●y concluded a peace between the Duke and the King of Spain and soon after was chosen Pope Lilium a Rosa the Lilly and Rose Vrban the Eighth 1623. A Florentine which City is so called from Flowers and has a Rose in is Arms. Jucunditas Crucis the joy of the Cross Innocent the Tenth 1644. Montium Custos the Keeper of the Mountains Alexander the 7th   Sidus Olorum the Constellation of Swans Clement the 9th Rospigliosi he had the Star and Swan in his Arms. De Flumine magno of the great River Clement the 10th Altieri born at the time of a great Inundation of the River Tyber Bellua insatiabilis an insatiable Beast Innocent 11th Odischalchi the present Pope called an insatiable Beast because of his great covetousness The Symbols or Hieroglyphicks of all the Popes in order that shall be hereafter POenitentia gloriosa A glorious Penitent Rastrum in Porta A rake in the Gate Flores circumdati Flowers encompassing De bona Religione Of a good Religion I wish we might see such a Pope once Miles in Bello A Souldier in War Cobumna excelsa A lofty Pillar Animal rurale A rural Animal Rosa Vmbriae A Rose of Vmbria Visus velox A quick sight Peregrinus Apostolicus An Apostolical Pilgrim Aquila rapax A ravenous Eagle Canis Coluber A Dog and a Snake Vir Religiosus A Religious man De Balneis Hetruria From the Baths of Tuscany Crux de Cruce Cross of Cross Lumen de Coelo A light from Heaven Ignis ardens A flaming fire Religio depopulata Religion laid waste Fides intrepida Faith fearless Pastor Angelicus An Angelick Pastor Pastor Nauta Both Shepherd and Sailer Flos florum The Flower of Flowers De mediteate Lunae Half the Moon De labore Solis The labour of the Sun or an eclipse Gloria Olivae The Glory of the Olive After which our Irish Prophet concludes with this sad O hone hone In persecutione extrema Sacrae Romanae Ecclesiae sedebit Petrus Romanus qui pascet Oves in multis Tribulationibus quibus transactis Civitas Sep●…icollis diruetur judex tremendus judicabit populum In English thus In the last Persecution of the Holy Roman Church one Peter a Roman shall possess the Chair and feed the Sheep in many Tribulations which being accomplished the Seven-hill'd City shall be destroyed and the dreadful Judge shall call the people to Judgment Hitherto the words translated out of the before-mentioned Jesuite's Flosculi Historici There being according to this man's reckoning Twenty six of their Vnholinesses behind if we shall allow according to our usual Estimate of a man's life seven years to each it will amount to 182 years that is to the year of our Lord 1865 before the final destruction of the Papacy and that bloody City shall be compleated But the Prayers of the faithful and the Cries of the Martyrs from under the Altar may 't is like sooner draw down and accelerate the just Judgments threatned to this Babylon and spiritual Sodom Quod faxit Deus A very ancient Prophecy of Gildas the Scot recited by Archbishop Vsher in his Book Intituled De Britanicarum Ecclesiarum Primoraiis Page 680. FAta ducis celebris super omnia Scotia flebit

Persia dyed The Turks suffered great Defeats in Hungary And in Constantinople by reason of false moneys paid to the Janizaries they fell into a Mutiny Compell'd the Grand Seignior to deliver up his cheifest Favourites to bee put to Death set fire on the Jews Houses and spoiled their goods by which means above 12 thousand Houses were burnt down to the Ground in that City And nearer home did not the world with wonder behold the Spanish Armado which they foolishly called Invincible shatter'd to pieces by the valour of the English A loss that the Spanish Monarchy has not recovered to this day In a word saith Gallo Belgicus Ortu solis usque ad occasum nullus ferme remansit locus in quo non miratu dignum aliquid hoc Anno contigerit From the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof there was scarce any place in which something wonderful did not happen 'T is a very odd Story which is credibly related of King James how he was premonisht of his death by a Dream wherein his old Master Buchanan appeared unto him in his sleep and gave him these two Verses Sexte verere Deum tibi vitae Terminus instat Cum tua cadenti flagrat Carbunculus igne Sixth James see thou to God do humbly turn Thy Fate draws near and men thy death shall mourn When in the Fire thy Carbuncle shall Burn. King James was the sixth of that name of Scotland and next morning he told his Bed-chamber-men and several of the Lords repeating the verses and averring that he did not make them The success was this The King had a very large and fair Carbuncle Stone usually set in his Hat and sitting by the Fire not long after this great Carbuncle fell off into the Fire and a Scotish Lord took it up and 't was observed the King sickened and dyed very shortly after I shall conclude with that most positive prediction of Michael Nostradamus of St. Remy in France Physitian to the King and a great Mathematician and Astrologer who dyed the second of July 1566. In his Book of Quadrins in French Printed 1555. wherein he very plainly foretells the horrid and detestable Murther of King Charles the First by his own Subjects before his own Palace And in Quadrin 51. thus evidently forespeaks the Burning of London and expresses the very year 66. in these words Le Langue du Juste a Londres fera faut Bruslez par Foudres de vingt trois les six La Dame Antique cherra de place haut De mesme Seicle plusieurs serront Occis Which may thus be Englisht For th' Blood o' th Just a London spilt the same In Sixty Six shall all be in a Flame That Antient Dame shall in the Dust complain And many of the same Sect shall be slain But we are affraid we have already wearied the Reader with these past Stories and therefore now proceed to gratify such whose Curiosity delights in such matters with Mr. Lillies Hieroglyphicks as they were by him publisht 1651. with only this following Preface Mr. Lillies Account of his Hieroglyphicks HAd the Courtesie of the present times deserved it at my hands thou hadst seen an Explanation of the following Pages which in Aenigmatical Types Forms Figures Shapes doth perfectly represent the future Condition of the English Nation for many hundred of years yet to come I have borrowed so much time from my Morning-sleep as hath brought forth these Conceptions You that Read these Lines must know I do no new thing I do herein but imitate the Antients who so often as they resolved to conceal their Intentions from prophane Hands used Hieroglyphicks Images c. The Egyptian Priests were herein excellent and their Judgment commendable Our Saviour also himself commendeth Ne detur sacrum Canibus If Providence shall hereafter assign me a quiet life and prolong my years I may then perhaps leave unto the Sons of Art the several Changes of every Kingdom and Commonwealth in Europe in such-like Characters as these which now follow Notes or Observations on the foregoing Figures and the Nature of Hieroglyphicks in General EGypt the fruitful Parent of so many Miracles has alwayes boasted her self one of the most Early Nurses of Learning The Grecians in the Days of Solon Pythagoras Herodotus and Plato Travel'd ●hither for the Knowledge of Nature and the Acquisition of those Sciences which rendred them so famous But the Egyptian Priests ●nto whom it belonged to teach did never ●ivulge their Doctrines without a Shadow or some dark Representation sufficient and very ●pt in it self to denote the matter they intend●d many times more significantly than many words could do yet not so obvious to be understood by the vulgar whereby they Imagined they kept their Mysteries from Pro●●nation Especially those which related to ●●eir Gods and Nature were wrapt up in certain visible Shapes and Forms of Creatures those Inclinations and Dispositions did lead ●o the knowledge of the Truths intended or Instruction and they by a peculiar name ●ere called Hieroglyphicks derived from the Two Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacred an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Ingrave as much as to say a Holy Inscription or Sacred Engravement Because all their Divinity Philosophy an● choicest Secrets were comprehended in thes● ingenious Characters Nor were they only Contriv'd to hinder the sublime knowledge of Philosophy fro● being profaned But also that they mig●● Abbreviate the diffused Notions of that Science and fit them for a more easy Comprehension and better Retention in their Memories Every Name is an Abreviation of a Thing but it is not able to give such a perfect Idea of the Properties and hidden Qualities of the things intimated as the Picture of them in a witty Hieroglyphick And further the Egyptians by these Inventions had a design to render their Knowledge Immortal● for which purpose they did Ingrave them upon Obelisks and Pillars of Marble and thi● long before the use of Paper an Invention originally too of the same Country being composed at first of the Flakes of certain Sedgie Reeds growing on the Banks of the Nilt● called Papyri moistned with the glutinou● water of the River then press'd together and afterwards dry'd in the Sun as is Evident from those Verses of the lofty Luccan ●ondum flumineos Memphis contexere Libros ●overat in Saxis tantum Volucresque feraeque ●ulptaque Servabunt Magicas Animalia Linguas ●emphis yet knew not how with Reeds to frame ●or Books but Birds and Beasts Letters became ●nd Animals Engrav'd on lasting stone ●ith Magick Tongues Learning preserv'd a●one Nor did they only express particular ●ngs and some Secret Knowledge by ●eir Hieroglyphicks but also whole Sentences ●riting all their Rules and Precepts rela●●g to the Worship of their Gods or to the ●●vernment of the Kingdom in this manner ●ich will not appear strange or incredible such as have Convers'd in the East-Indies to t is known that there to this day there three or four

the Evident Truth as appears in this very Case and will help us to fish out the meaning of those last words of this Prophecy But for our Sins which are many the years of that Number are over-pass'd which are over-pass'd Which words seem to be added to the Prophecy it self by some latter Rabbins for you must note That the Hierusalem-Talmud being composed above 200 years after Christ and the Babylonian-Talmud 400 years after Christ in both which this Prophecy is mentioned The Authors thereof finding the Term limited already expired added this Clause to solve the business and perswade their People that the reason why the Messias was not yet come according to this Prediction was the Multitude of their Sins which retarded his appearance and this they give out to be the Cause thereof to this day Note that Talmud signifies as much as Doctrinale The Book of Doctrine and the Books so called do contain Traditions and Observations which they pretend to have been delivered by God to Moses besides the Law written and from him to have been brought down from hand to hand amongst the Rabbins just as the Papists set up their Traditions as of equal Authority with the Scriptures Agreeable to this Cabbalistical Prophecy or Tradition some Learned men supposing that by the six days of Creation mentioned in the first of Genesis The whole Age of the World containing 6000 years was Mystically and Allegorically shadowed out To be Interpreted or Deciphered in such sort that the first days work should import or prefigure a certain Resemblance or Type of such future matters and Events as were performed in the first Thousand years of the World The second days work of such as should consequently happen in the Second Thousand years and so forth of the residue even to the Accomplishment of 6000 years At which period the Eternal Requies or Sabbath of the Lord should finally ensue and gloriously appear even as after six days Work God stayed or rested at the first and as now our weekly Sabbath which is a reverend figure of that great Everlasting Sabbath doth after every 6 days successively approach Pursuant I say hereunto they have distributed the several Millenaries as in this Table Days Millenaries Years Governours of each Millenary Monday 1. 1000. ADAM who died in the Year 930. Tuesday 2. 2000. NOAH who died in the Year 2005. Wensday 3. 3000. DAVID who died in the Year 2929. Thursday 4. 4000. CHRIST who was Born Anno Mundi 3962. Friday 5. 5000. The POPE who in this period grew to his height if we may extend it unto Hildebrand who came to the Chair about 1074. Saturday 6. 6000. The MARTYRS Millions having suffeted by Antic Sunday 7. 7000. ETERNITY If therefore this Rabbinical Reckoning be to be regarded let us see about what Year of the World we are in at this present and how much may be wanting of this Sum Total 6000. The Birth of our Lord Christ is placed By Chryteaeus In the Year of the World 3962. By Mich. Butherus In the Year of the World 3962. By Reniholdus In the Year of the World 3962. By Schubertus In the Year of the World 3962. By Cunmannus In the Year of the World 3962. By Funccius In the Year of the World 3963 By Luther In the Year of the World 3960 By Beroaldus In the Year of the World 3928 By Mereator In the Year of the World 3966 By Bucholzer In the Year of the World 3970 By Bibliander In the Year of the World 3979 By Card. Bellarmine In the Year of the World 3984 So that there is not above 22 years difference amongst them all except Beroaldus Let us therefore suppose it to be with Beucholzer Anno Mundi 3970 adding thereunto 1683 makes 5653 years from the Creation so that according to this Compute there should remain but 347 years to the final Conflagration viz. in the year of our Lord 2030. But That day and hour knoweth no man And For the Elects sake those days shall be shortned To this we think it not improper to add That Prophecy or remarkable Description of the End of the World some Thousands of years since delivered in Greek Acrostick Verses the Initial Letters making up these words JESUS CHRIST SON OF GOD THE SAVIOUR delivered by Sibylla Erythrea and recited by St. Augustine in the 4th Book and 23d Chapter of his Treatise de Civitate Dei which I shall give you in the words of Him who many years since Translated that excellent Book into English as followeth Jn Sign of Doomsday the whole Earth shall sweat Ever to Reign a King in Heavenly Seat Shall come to judge all Flesh The Faithful and Unfaithful too before this God shall stand Corporal shall he sit and thence extend His Doom in Souls The Earth shall quite lye wast Ruin'd oregrown with Thorns and men shall cast Idols away and Treasure Searching Fire Shall burn the ground and rage with fatal Ire Through Seas and Skyes and break Hells blackest Gate So shall free Light Salute the Blessed State Of Saints The Guilty lasting Flames shall burn No Act so hid but thence to Light shall turn Nor breast so close but God shall open wide Each where shall Cries be heard and noise betide Of gnashing Teeth The Sun shall from the Sky Fly forth and Stars no more move orderly Great Heav'n shall be dissolv'd The Moon depriv'd Of all her Light places at Height arriv'd Depress'd and Vallies mounted to their Seat There shall be Nought to Mortals High or great Hills shall be Level'd with the Plains The Sea Endure no Burthen and the Earth as They Shall perish cleft with Lightning every spring And River burn The fatal Trump shall bring Vnto the world from Heav'n a dismal Blast Including plagues to come for ill deeds past Old Chaos through the Scatter'd Mass appears Unto this Barr all Kings come Prisoners Rivers of flaming Brimstone drown their Tears The Learned ALSTEDIUS his SPECULUM MUNDI and CHRONOLIGY of the Prophetick Numbers 1. God alone hath reserv'd to himself the exact knowledge of future Things as the incommunicable Prerogative of his Divine Majesty Therefore 't is impossible any man though never so clear-sighted should compile an accurate Chronology for Time to come or define the punctual Moments of Futurity yet is not therefore the Explanation of Prophetick Numbers to be omitted for since God hath expressed certain Numbers in the Histories and Prophecies of his Word it would be too great both Sloth and Ingratitude not to weigh and with reverence and the fear of the Lor denquire into them 2. In observing the great Conjunctions or Revolutions of the Planets as Superstition and over-scrupulous Diligence is not to be approved so neither is Negligence or Contempt thereof to be allow'd 3. The Twelfth Chapter of Daniel ought to be our Pole-Star in explaining Prophetick Numbers for there we are led as by the hand from the building of the second Temple to its Destruction And from