of September 1682. there will first be a Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and upon the Twelfth Day of the same Month in the aforesaid Year there will be another Conjunction of Tory Mars with Saturn in the Seventeenth Degree of the same Sign and again in December following there happens a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter also in or near Twenty Degrees thereof and both swift motion Then matters Treasons Consultations Treachery of Subjects against their Superiors are Plotting Contriving or Agitating some Years before this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is Celebrated Those pretending to Religion or such as are Famous for Schisms Haeresies or of different Judgments from the Profession of that Religion which is establisht by Authority will for some Years grumble and repine for Restriction of their Consciences as the will term it and the nearer the time of the Conjunction it self or a little after we fear greater disturbances of those Nations and the Princes they live under disquieting their Governours and this for Conscience-sake as they pretend But in some Nations Breach of the Peoples just Priviledges Ancient Customs and former enjoy'd Rights will animate the Generality to a strong and sturdy Rebellion and countenance that Translation of Monarchy mentioned by Trithemius Certainly you Princes of Italy as also the Roman Pontisex or Conclave of Cardinals of the See of Rome will all of you find great and most grievous distempers in your Governments near the time limited So will many People and Nations subject to the Fiery Triplicity and this Evil will be the more aggravated to those Kingdoms or Governments subject to the Signs Taurus Leo Scorpio and Aquary Many believe the last Age of the World is at hand we verily conjecture that a troublesome and vexatious time is approaching upon most Nations of Europe wherein those pretending to Religion whether Papists or Protestants will shew little mercy or compassion to those persons whose unhappiness it will be to fall under their subjection The Coadunation of so many Planets in the Sign Leo in the Year 1682. gives very rational grounds to predict the appearance of another Comet very strange Apparitions in the Air or some Prodigious Meteors either preceding that Conjunction or subsequent in a short time after And we also are fearful that some more than ordinary Fire or Fires may afflict or do considerable damage to many Cities of Europe God keep this Judgment â—om the City of London and Bless her Inhabitants with much Health and Prosperity and â—eliver her from another Plague or Pestilenâ—al distemper in those Years Thus Lilly divers Years since wherein his â—rediction of a Comet in 82. which exactly â—appened in August last being visible both morning and evening for many Nights his mentioning the Word Tory which when he wrote was not in use though since the occasion of many Animosities his Menaces of more mischief by Fire sadly felt by the poor Inhabitants of Wapping near London on the Nineteenth of November this present Year 1682. whereby about 1000 houses were consumed are very remarkable and how far the rest may answer Truth time may shew A Prophecy found in the Library of Salizarius of Heidelburg in Germany almost 200 years since THere shall a King arise out of the Nation of the most Illustrious Lilly having a long Forehead high Brows great Eyes and an Eagles Nose He shall gather a great Army and destroy all the Tyrants of his Kingdom and â—ay all that fly into Mountains and Caves from his Face for Righteousness shall be joyned unto him as the Bridegroom unto the Bride With them he shall wage War even unto the Fortieth year bringing into subjection the â—landers Spaniards and Italians Rome and Florence he shall destroy and burn with fire so as Salt may be sowed â—n that Land The greatest Clergy-men who have Invaded Peter's Seat he shall put to death and in the same year obtain a double Crown At last going over-Sea with A great Army he shall enter Greece and be named King of the Greeks The Turks and Barbarians he shall subdue making an Edict That every one shall die the Death that worshippeth not the crucified One and none shall be found able to resist him because an Holy Arm from the Lord shall alwayâ— be with him and he shall be with him and he shall possess the Dominions of the Earth These things being done hâ— shall be called The Rest of the Holy Christians The Apocalyptical Interpreters adventuring to sail in the vast Ocean of Futurity have most-most-timeS ship-wrackt their judgment and credit do the Rocks of Presumption yeâ— I shall presume here to add the words of that Reverend French Divine Peter du Moulin in his Book Intituled The Accomplishment of Prophecies Translated into English Anno 1613 Page 411. as follows As for the time of three days and an half during which the Bodies of the faithful Witnesses shall be cast out through all the Quarters of the Roman Church It is manifest that S. John doth hereby shew us how long the Persecution of the Church under the Roman Hierarchy must continue For to know how long this time shall endure and to how much the Three Days and an half will amount unto we are to note that Three Days and an half make half a Week which gives us to understand that the Holy Ghost here under the name of a Week doth comprehend the whole time of the Beast's Reign and doth advertise us that the Persecution shall last half the time of this Reign Since therefore he shall Reign 1260 years as we have shewed before it followeth that the Roman Hierarchy shall persecute the Faithful 630 years Now I do not find that the Church of Rome did begin to persecute and is use cruelty in general against all that did withstand her Doctrine till the time of Berengarius whom Pope Nicholas the Second compelled to Recant by force in the year 1059 and ever since the Popes have persecuted such as have maintained the same Doctrine If then you add the 630 years to 1059 years you shall find that the persecution of the Church under the Pope shall have an end in the year of our Lord 1689. This Term once expired the Truth that was oppressed shall lift up her head afresh and the faithful Witnesses shall be seen to stand up again who shall astonish the Church of Rome The Prediction of the most Learned and pious Archbishop Vsher is very remarkable as it was printed above a years ago with Licence and the Truth of the matter of Fact therein delivered never that I know of denied out confirmed by many which in short was thus That the year before this holy Primate died who was buried in the Abbey at Westminister 17 of April 1656. The Vsurper Cromwel allowing 200 l. towards his Funeral so great his Worth that it even charmed that Tyrant otherwise far from being a Friend to any of his Profeâ—sson An intimate Friend of the Archbishop's asking him amongst other
the Planets Eclipses Conjunctions Comets c. to foretell future Accidents or as one very significantly defines it Astrologia est Doctrina quae ostendit vires Stellarum cognitas Perpetua Experientia et Qualitates Temperamenta et Inclinationes in Elementis et Corporibus Hominum ortas a Luce Motu et Influentiis Stellarum Quibus Qualitatibus Temperamentis et Inclinationibus Respondent suae quaedam Actiones nisi aut Divinitus aut aliis Causis Fortioribus Impediantur Astrology is a sort of Learning which shews the Force and Vertues of the Stars known by perpetual Experience and the Qualities Temperaments and Inclinations arising from the Light Motion and Influencies of the Stars in the Elements and Bodies of men Answerable to which Qualities Temperaments and Inclinations are their Actions unless hindred by Divine power or some other stronger Causes This Art I cannot say is unlawful but I take it to be but Conjectural and by Ignonorant Pretenders much abused strange things have been and frequently are thereby foretold and prove true when a skillful Artist hath the handling of the matter but many times fall out otherwise sometimes from the Ignorance of him that undertakes the Judgment otherwhile from the Influence of some of the fixed Stars which being seldom taken notice of may cross or hinder what may otherwise be signifyed Or 3dly from the want of a sufficient Treasure of Observations by which Judgment ought to be given The same posture of the Heavens having never twice hapen'd alike in every circumstance since the Creation and by that means leaving the World destitute of stable means whereon to build their Judgment since what can be rationally said in that kind must proceed from the Comparing of Events which have happened under such and such Configurations with what are like to be when the same fall out again Or lastly by reason of the care of the party himself who may by his own Industry prevent what from the Influence of the Stars would have been his Destiny for they at most do not Necessitate but Incline and by the Providence and over-ruling Power of God and the Wisdom of Man are sometimes diverted III. A Third sort is a Geomantical or Terrestrial Divination in which from certain voluntary Pricks or Points made by the hand at Adventure certain Figures are raised From the first four of which called Fathers are produced other four called Daughters These Eight bring forth four Grand Children from them come out Two Witnesses from those a Judge and the Judgment upon this sort of Divination is not much unlike that of Astrology But the Foundation of all this seems to be laid upon a false Supposition That the Soul of man knoweth things to come but is hindred by the dulness of the Organs of the Body And therefore in the practice of it a great sedateness of mind is required a freedom from all noise that may disturb it and such like Circumstances Which he that hath a mind to fool a way time may find in Cattan Flood and H. de Pisis But this kind of Divination I take to be idle vain and superstitious as not built upon any stable Foundation of Reason or supported by any thing but Fancy IV. A Fourth sort is by framing certain Figures of Stone or Metal underneath such Constellations and placing them either in some Conspicuous Place or Town or sometimes Under-Ground by which some have pretended to do strange Feats These are called Talismans of which as also the Language of the Stars with an Alphabetical Table and how from That words are framed which shall declare the Event of things to come according to the Nature of the Question Gaffarel a Learned French-man hath largly written in his Book of Vnheard-of Curiosities and such no doubt they will prove to him that spends much time in the study of them V. A Fifth sort if indeed there be any such thing may be by Communication with Angels and Spirits For many have pretended to such a Converse I do not mean by the Black-Art Conjuring Negromancy or having to do with Devils but with good Angels who out of Charity Love and Compassion to their Fellow Creatures are said often to be willing to forewarn them of impending dangers and discover to good men what may be of advantage Thus the Learned Brown in his Religio Medici sticks not to declare his opinion to be That Mankind owes the Invention of many of our excellent and profitable Arts to the Courteous Revelation of Spirits VI. Lastly There is Enthusiasm or Illumination an Enlightning of the whole Soul either from a certain unusual Crasis or an over-poize of Complexion or strength of purer Spirits or else by some unknown supernatural means as the Possession or Inspiration of some Spirit either good or bad Aristotle tells of one Maracus of Siracuse a Poet who never made so good Verses as when he was mad and immediately before that Story hath these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Many because that Heat is near the seat of the mind are taken with sundry Frantick and Enthusiastick Fits from whence they become Sybills Bachides or inspired not from any Disease but a Natural Temperament So that it seems in the sense of Aristotle much of this kind of Illumination proceeds from an Exaltation of the mind by some Ecstatick operation of the Soul and great Examples in all Ages might be produced out of the Observations of Physitians to this purpose some whereof have been meer Cheats to gain Credit to such as should Cure or Exorcise them Others true and natural where some Melancholy Heat or strong Imagination or lastly through Custom and use the persons affected have brought upon themselves such an Habit that fancy prevailing over their Judgment and Understanding they have pretended to Prophesy and sometimes what they have spoken hath proved true Of these several sorts of foretelling as touching the Astrological Predictions or such as are gtounded on that Art we have briefly shewn whence they may pretend to Credit having in themselves a natural ground as Effects are foreseen in their Causes But as touching the Common Abstruse Indications of great Accidents Wars death of particular men Casualties to Cities c. usually stiled Prophecies from what spring to derive them or to what Cause they ought to be attributed is difficult to be determined To deny that any things have been so foretold or that because some pretending thereunto were either Cheats or Hypochondraique That therefore all were so is to give the Lie to the experiences of all Ages and in many of them the very great time between the Predictions and the fulfilling of them doth sufficiently Evince that they came from an higher Cause than a Melancholy Heat For where that is predominant I have ever observed that between the Prophesie and the time alotted for the Accomplishment there is rarely or never more than a score of years sometimes not so many Moneths I. Concerning the Sybils not
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 â—hither for the Knowledge of Nature and the Acquisition of those Sciences which rendred them so famous But the Egyptian Priests â—nto whom it belonged to teach did never â—ivulge their Doctrines without a Shadow or some dark Representation sufficient and very â—pt in it self to denote the matter they intendâ—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 Proâ—â—nation Especially those which related to â—â—eir Gods and Nature were wrapt up in certain visible Shapes and Forms of Creatures those Inclinations and Dispositions did lead â—o the knowledge of the Truths intended or Instruction and they by a peculiar name â—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 anâ— choicest Secrets were comprehended in thesâ— ingenious Characters Nor were they only Contriv'd to hinder the sublime knowledge of Philosophy froâ— being profaned But also that they migâ—â— 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 Immortalâ— for which purpose they did Ingrave them upon Obelisks and Pillars of Marble and thiâ— 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 Niltâ— called Papyri moistned with the glutinouâ— 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 â—ondum flumineos Memphis contexere Libros â—overat in Saxis tantum Volucresque feraeque â—ulptaque Servabunt Magicas Animalia Linguas â—emphis yet knew not how with Reeds to frame â—or Books but Birds and Beasts Letters became â—nd Animals Engrav'd on lasting stone â—ith Magick Tongues Learning preserv'd aâ—one Nor did they only express particular â—ngs and some Secret Knowledge by â—eir Hieroglyphicks but also whole Sentences â—riting all their Rules and Precepts relaâ—â—g to the Worship of their Gods or to the â—â—vernment of the Kingdom in this manner â—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