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A56265	Brittish and out-landish prophesies most of above a 1000 years antiquity, the rest very antient; fore-telling the several revolutions which hath and shall befall the scepter of England; the coming in of the Normans, continuance and extirpation; the late warrs; the late Kings death; his Highness's conquest and arrival to the scepter, sovereigntie and government of Great Brittain; the fall of the Turk, Pope, Emperour of Germany, and most of the great princes of the world by their particular names; and that his Highness that now is shall conquer most of them: also, his Highness's lineal descent from the antient princes of Brittain, clearly manifesting that hee is the conquerour they so long prophesied of. Also, a short account of the late kings original; published in Welsh and English for the satisfaction of the intelligent in either tongue. By Thomas Pugh, Gentleman.	Pugh, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing P4188; ESTC R40720	110,340	207

of a Charles Now followeth the Judgwents of learned and famous Divines Astrologers and Astronomers touching a great change in the world amongst Ki●gs Princes and Emperours at certain times and yeares probably to fall out In the year of the World 3665 Ptolomaeus Ph●ladelphus reigning in Egypt some 469 yeares after the building of Rome there lived one Hiparchus a famous Astrologer who reports That in his time the Starr commonly called Stella Polaris which is in the Tayle of the lesser Bear was 12 degrees and 2 firsts distant from the Poles of the Equator This Starr from age hath insensibly still crept nearer to the Pole whence it appears that the Poles of the Equator are moveable It was not in the time of Peter du Moulin the observer hereof past 3 degrees distant from the Poses of the Equator When this Starr therefore shall come to touch the Pole there being no further space left for it to go forward which may well enough come to passe within 5 or 600 yeares it seemeth that then there shall be a great change of things and that this time is the period which God hath prefixed to Nature Du Moulin in his accomplishment of Prophesies fol. 251. Learned Brightman in his exposition of the 12th Chapter of Daniel ver 12. concludes That the two grand enemies of Christ viz. the Turk and the Pope shall be destroyed and the dispersed Jews called in to the Christian faith with a flourishing time of Christianity by the year of Christ 1 Henricus Alstedius concludes these happy and desired events together with Christs personal reign on earth in Anno 1694 Nicholas Culpepper his Annotations and Predictions upon the ecclipse of the Sun March 29. 1652. It is a remarkable thing the two superiour bodies Saturn and Jupiter who alwaies use to make a Conjunction in one and the same triplicity should the last time anticipate and make the third in the watry triplicity having made but two in the fiery their last being in the weakest and meanest signe of the Z●d●ack This I can neither reade nor believe they did since the creation of the world until these our daies for we are brought forth to live in those daies in which the kingdomes of the world shall become the kingdomes of our God and of our Lord Christ blessed be his holy name for it However by this conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter God manifesteth by the book of the Scripture That hee will pu●l down the lofty and exalt the humble and meek and this you may reade in them and the time when without a pair of Spectacles if you are of the nu●ber of the men of Issachar 1 Chron. 12. or of their spirit to annoint your spiritual David King who had skill to teach Israel what to do I tell you and I tell you but the trueth the year 1655 shall not passe over your heads but you shall acknowledg one knowing man of Issachar to be of more worth then all Sion Colledg and King Henries the Seventh Chappel to boot Yea so indulgent is the great God of heaven and earth over p●oud insulting and domineering Kings and Priests that he will give them more significations then one or two by the book of the Creatures even those great Ecclipses of the Sun this I now handle and that other An. 1654 upon the second of August then which to our eyes nor the eyes of our Fathers Grandfathers nor great Grandfath●rs never saw gr●ater nor more terrible Johannes Henricus Alstedius taking occasion to speak of the last conjunction of Saturn and Jup●t●r saith It would bring a new Government into the world d●fferent from Kingly Government prognosticating the ruine of Kings Princes all Governors even from the Emperour to the Constable G●neral of Armes c. and that all the Princes of Europe nay all those of the world are threatened by it Hitherto you have heard by sundry Prophesies both forreign and domestick how that the Turk and Pope shall come to their end as well as the rest of the Kings Princes and Emperours of the earth and that by pow●r of the sword Now you shall have learned Brightmans judgment of the last period of the Turkish Empire Brightmans Commentary on chap. 9. Apoc. fol. 104. How long time this power that is here given to the Turks should last it is declared in the n●xt words which were prepared at an hour and a day a moneth and a year the which so exquisite a description serveth to comfort the godly to whom the holy Ghost would have it known that this most grievous calamity hath his appointed termes and limits even to the last moment beyond which it should not be prolonged the which sp●ce seemeth to be for 396 years every day being taken for a year after that manner as we did interpret the moneths before Now a year here put simply is understood to be a vulgar and usual Julian year that consists of 365 dayes and some houres all which time being numbred from the year 1300 shall expire at last about the year 1696 which is the last term of the Turkish name as other Scriptures also do prove with a marvellous consent in the mean time wee must know that the strength of the Turks shall not stand entire and unshaken during this term but shall ●o●ter and waxe towards the ruine thereof about 40 years before that their utter destruct on shall come Now followeth a Prophesie of St Hildegard a devout and religious Abbatesse uttered about the year of Christ 1146 60 years before the begging Fryars were born clearly fore-telling their manifold abuses yea so l●vely as if shee had lived in their daies You shall have it verbitim out of the Commentary of learned Brightman on Dan. 9. fol. 101. The preamble of learned Brightman I have a good minde saith he to adde to all that hath been said in stead of a conclusion the Prophesie of Hildegard the Abbatesse both because I have often made mention of it as also because I think it is not easily come by and it doth serve to give much light to the matter in hand That worthy man John Fox and Countrey-man of blessed memory hath set this same down in his book of the Acts and Monuments of the Church The Prophesie In those daies there shall rise up a sort of blockish fellowes proud covetous perfidious and crafty that shall eat up the sins of the common people carrying a certain shew of foolish superstion under a feigned coverture of beggery preferring themselves before all other men by reason of a counterfeit religion Men of an arrogant disposition and feigned holiness void of all shame or fear of God in inventing many new mischiefs strong and stout but all prudent men and faithfull Christians shall curse this pestilent order Men who will shun labour and give themselves holy to idlenesse rather choosing to get their living by flattery and beggery and that will bend themselvs with all t●eir might every way they can perversly

the Church from her corruptions To which agreeth another prophesie of Paracelsus fore-telling how that among the Roses should spring up one who should change the sandy foundation into a Rock a thing saith he that shal make many a one to wonder Agreeable to the same is a certain prognostical verse found in an old manuscrips imparted to Mr Iames Maxwell by Mr S. George Norrey King at Armes Iesse Rosa sanguis Bruti Portat crucem Iesv Christi That is to say The Rose of England beareth and b●ingeth the Crosse of Christ to forraign Lands Hereunto likewise may be referred that voice as William of Malmsbury affirmeth in his second book of the Kings which was uttered in a Vision to holy Brithwald Bishop of Winchester who lived in the Confessors daies saying Regnum Anglorum est Dei the kingdome of England is Gods meaning that th● Kingdom Countrey of England should prove a chief instrument of the propagation of the Gospel and faith of Christ unto forraign Lands So that by that which hath been said it would seem that from the Rose of England shall proceed or spring the reformation and purgation of the Church of Rome like as the same City once received from the same Countrey the first authoriz●d profession of the Christian saith by the blessed means of Constantine the Great a Britain born Paulus secundus Grebnerus the Germane Astrologian in his seritum mundi filum delivers That the Lyon having the Rose and Lilies in his Armes shall utterly destroy the Pope so that there shall be none after that time The holy Bishop and Martyr S. Methodius in his book entituled Of the last times hath fore-told that God shall punish the corrupters of his Church purge his house and restore her purity For in the last Age of the world that is saith he in the last thousand of six the sons of Ishma●l shall come forth out of the desart and their coming shall be chastisement without measure and without mercy and God shall g●ve over into their hands all the kingdoms of the wicked and further saith That Spain shall perish by the sword and that the Inhabitants thereof shall be led Captive Philippus Boskierus a learned Franciscan Friar in his 9 Phil●pp●ck for the holy Land writeth That the kingdome of Spain is in great danger of desolation and destruction at the hands of the Turks and Moors for their cruelty used against the Americans Likewise Nostrodamus in divers of his predictions fore-telleth that the Turks shall over-run Hungary and Italy yea saith Antonius Torquatus France shal not be free from the Turkish fury nor yet Germanie and Reynardus Lolardus saith that the Agarens shall yet once again gather themselves together and come out of the desarts in troops into Germany and that they shall obtain the land of the Moon for the space of eight years they shall subvert Kingdoms and Cities kill the Priests in the holy places prof●ne the holy vess●l d●fl●ur Christian women turn the Chu●che● in●o Stables a●d tye their Steeds to the monuments of the Saints because of the wickedness of Christian people in th●se d●●e● an● in end th●y shall be destroyed near unto the golden Appl● of Agr●pp●ne when as there shall be few Christian Pri●ces left to make resistance and almost none al●●● saving a cer●ain most inv●ncible King of Spain who in th●se daies shall k●ll the last Successor of the Mahometane Duglossius So shall the lofty pr●de of the Turks have a fall their Kingdomes shall b● brough● to the Church the Turkish Empire of Trapezond shall be br●ught back again to the Patrimony or Empire of our crucified Lord by the hands of the Cross bearing servants and souldiers and then shall the Church grow again into a new sta●e of everlasting Charity Concord and Peace for there shall be a reformation a new kinde of l●w or religion better t●an the old together with honesty of conversation both in Clergy and Laytie And again saith Reynardus if the Princes of Germany do not agree with the great Eagle but fall to the kindling of civil warrs amongst themselves Duglossius ●heir shall not fail to come even the fifteenth branch of the Turkish tyrannical tree and waste Poland M●sia Thuring Hesse Pruten P●cardie Braban● Flanders and surp●●sse farre in cru●lty and rage the fiercest beasts against the Christians of the North W●st but hee shall be killed b●sides the golden Apple of Agrippine according to the prediction of Merl●n Out of his 8 section from the Prophesie of St VINCENT Then there shall enter into Italy three ●ost puiss●nt Armies one from the West another from th● East and the third from the North which shall fight to get her and there shall be such blood sh●d as the l●ke hath not been seen in Ital● si●c● the world began and then the Eagle shall tak● the counterfeit King and all things sha●lbe subdued and made obedient unto him and there shall be a new reformation in the world but wo and wo again shall be then to the shaven Order for the sect of divisers and attempters shall cease Again saith the same St Vincent because the understanding of holy Scripture hath borrowed a strange colour from Philosophers for the most part of preachers now adayes preach not the simplicity of the Gosp●l but the subtilty of Aristotle in which words the holy man t●xeth the nice and subtile kinde of divinity devised by the School-men Wee have likewise saith he drunk water for money that is to say we have been made to buy with our money the holy Sacraments which are the instruments of Gods free grace signified by the water for now all our Priests are guilty of Simony Out of his 10 section fol. 44. S. Brigide foretelleth how that out of the Western part of the world shall spring a Lily which shall grow to a thousand thousands in the Virgin land and shall be strong●r than the Cedar and recover the things that are lost and with his odour or sweet smell perfume and as it were bewater the infected and poisoned parts of the world S. Cataldus Finius likewise fore-telleth that among the Lilies shall arise a comely Prince having a near name amongst the Kings of that Countrey and whose nature and nation shall have a resemblance with his name unto whom the whole world shall do homage when the high O●e is fallen and when he hath stricken down the prickly Bear meaning the Turk happy and blest shall his years be from the West to the East from the East to the cold Quarter and from the North to the warme South This flourishing or flowery Prince bearing the new name shall plant the Vine of our Saviour unto whom all Nations shal submit themselves and the Crown of the East shall be given him to keep Out of his 12 secti●n fol. 55. S. Methodius fore-told that the Ish●aelite● shall possesse from East to West and from South to North their yoke shall be heavy upon the neck of all Nations