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A08559	The coniectures of the ende of the worlde, translated by George Ioye; Conjecturae de ultimis temporibus ac de fini mundi, ex Sacris literis. English	Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.; Joye, George, d. 1553.	1548 (1548)	STC 18877; ESTC S120761	47,723	118

to ma ke them sure They be iiij cōiectures for wherfor shuld I not tell them forthe by tale as treasure which nowe orderlye I will reherse THe first coniecture is taken out of Elie the Prophete which the Iewes recite as out of the mouth of God spoken in diuerse places of theyr bokes called Thalmude For they be writen in theyr boke called Abodazara in the i. Cha. in theyr boke called ●aichedrim in y ● laste Cha. and also in other places on thys maner The house or scole of Elie hath affirmed and left it thus writen Elye hath sayd that sixe thousande yeares shal the world stand ●r endure Two thousande voyde of anye lawe written two thousande vnder the lawe writen two thousande vnder the dayes of Messias Hytherto Elias afterward the rabbins added these wordes But for our sin nes which be great and many the fyfte thousande and an halfe be thus past and yet is not Messias comen But yet is this doutles an oracle worthy to be beleued for many causes although it be not expressed in the scriptures For fyrst to begyn therewith this oracle is susteyned with the wordes of Moyses in the Psal. after the Hebrewe rekenynge xc to which Saynt Peter cleaueth in hys ij Epistle iij Cap. saying That a thousand yeares with the Lord be but as one day Also hereof it foloweth That as god cre ated all thynges in vi dayes rested in the. vij Euen so shal he sixe thousand yeares gouerne the world subiect to generacyon and corruptyon and in the seuēth thousand bryng in that euerlasting rest of which Thapostle so plainely speketh Hebre. iiij that he semeth to shewe the selfe same misterye as it were with hys fynger ☞ Besides this it consenteth ryght well with all the other coniectures folowyng and it is constantly celebrated and hyghly estemed of the Iewes as the assewered oracle of the Prophete and yet it fighteth plainly agaynst them selues theyr infidelitie whiche may not be beter confounded then in y t they be cōpelled by theyrowne sainges of Elias to graunt y ● Messias shuld raygne the hole laste two thousande yeares yet contrary to their sayng they still loke for him as thoughe he were not comē For by this clause added That for theyr synnes God differreth Messias birthe theyr selues confesse frely and plainly the time of christes birthe not to hauehad bē yet past in this last age of late but rather then whā theyr bo ke of thalmude was publyshed euen about y e yeare of our Lord. CCCC xxxvi Wherof it is manifelt that thei haue wai ted more then these eleuen hondred yeres for a nother messias then our Lord Christ and al in vayne The cause whereof they falsely impute it to their own sinnes For Christ was in so certain a prediffined tyme promised to vs thē that neyther for theyr sinnes must he haue had ben borne y e later nor yet for theyr good liuig haue comen the soner of y ● which thing more peraduēture shalbe spokē in another pla ce Although some of our religyon wold contend to drawe this litle clause of Chri stes birthe now paste vnto thend of the worlde as thoughe for our synnes there shuld wāte muche of these sixe thousande yeares so that they be not fulfylled But thys sence although it maketh well for our purpose yet the Hebrew wordes receyue it not Wherfor this is the meanig of the oracle That the world frō the time wherof Moses said The earth was emp tye grosse and void dured two thousand before the lawe of circumcision with her adpertinences was geuen to Abrahā of which it is writtē Gen. 26 27. That al nacyons shalbe blessed in thy sead And from the time of delyueraunce of circum cision to Abraham vnto Christes birthe there dured also other two thousand yea res which thyng syth it is proued manyfestly so to haue come to passe for Christ was born suffred about the four thousand yeares frō y e creacion nedes muste the rest of y e oracle also be true y ● frōchrist to the ende of the worlde there shalbe no more peraduenture much lesse then two thousande euē as Elias sayd But in that as certain yeres of the laste two myllenaryes be paste and yet Christ be not come as y e Iewes dreame because of their sinnes as they wold seme to excuse theyr vnbeleue with another synne of vnbelief they be vtterly deceiued For after this oracle Christ is verely comen so y t about fower thousand yeares from the creacyō he was crucifyed rose agayn frō death ascended to heauen and in the ende of the world thence to come to iudge the quicke and deade And where the Iewes fro the creacyon hither to reken CC. yeres lesse then we the cause is that emong manye of theyr errours this is one great ouer-fight For they reken dariū Hystaspis or Longimane vnder whom the tēple was redifyed and Darium that was ouer comen of greate Alexander bothe for one Kynge of the Medys and Persyans to haue reigned but vi yeares whē there canne betwixt them after Ptoleme Cxcij yeares which thyng we shal discusse diligently in our cronicle This coniecture is also holpen by Henoch and Elie hymselfe which bothe were translated quick out of thys miserable lyfe to that blessed immortalitie death neuer tasted For as the sixe fyrst generacyons that is to say Adā Seth Enos Lainam Mahalaleel Iared dyed and the seuenth generac●on euen Hen●ch hym selfe whom Iudas in hys Epistle mētioned not without a cau se to be the seuenth is immortal Euen so thorow these vi millenaries of the world shall death raygne and in the seuenthe shal floresh that blessed immortalite And as the fyrste vi ages of men from Adam to Elie were subiect to death and the seuenth which is Elie obieyned immortali tie For Elias was rapt vp aly●e in the charet of fyer euen so thorow these vimillenaryes shall the mortall lyfe dure And in the beginnyng of the seuenth shal we be taken vp to mete Christ comynge downe to iudgement Adā lyued to Mathusalem Mathusalem to Sem Sem to Iacob Iacob to Amrā Amram to Ahiā the Silonite Ahias to Elias which was trāslated These cōiectures also vsed Ioā picus Meradulane in y e yere of our Lord ●● ccc lxxxvi did put vp this one amōg hys disputable 90. conclusions sayng yf there be any humane coniecture of y ● last tyme we may serche and fynde it by the muste secrete way of Cabbalist the end of the world to come hense of 514. yeres Netheles for right gret causes as we haue sayd to fore we coniecture that the sixt millenarie shall not be fulfylled For as in the lawe the sixt daye was not hole graunted to worke therein to the full end as to the midnyght but a good part therof was anticipated and cut of added to the Sabboth daye euen so shall not the sixt

not longe dure Wherfor let vs hear them all thre seuerally spekyng of bothe these dominions and first daniel of the former but so that if nede be some what be spoken by interloquncion bothe to interprete it y ● clearer and to admonish the the beter and to stere the vp to hear the attentyuelyer for such maner of interlocucion by the way of a dialoge conduceth very much bothe for breuitie and clearnes After this maner writeth Daniel I sawe in my vysiō in the mydnight and lo the. iiij windes of heauen faught in a great sea and. iiij great beastis ascēded out of y e sea diuerse and cōtrary among them selues Osiander The Angell in the Apoca. saith vnto Ioan. The waters which y u sawest where the whore sitteth ar peple folke and tongues Wherfore the great sea is the fowl canell or stinking donghill of all the peple of the hole worlde out of whom be sprongen vp the. iiij Kingdoms in this worlde Daniel The fyrst is lyke a lie●es and she had the winges of an egle I behelde tyll hyr wynges were pluckt frō hyr but hyr hert was geuen her Osiander This is the Babylonik Kingdom Dani. And beholde ther was another beast like a bere stonding aparte hauing iij. peces in hys mouthe betwixt hys tethe to whō they said thus arise eatvp much flesh Osi. This is the Kingdom of the Medis Persis Dani. Aftirwardis I lo ked about lo there stode a notherlike a leopard hauīg iiij suift winges vpō him and .iiij. headis were in the least pow● was geuen him ▪ Osi. This is the Grekis Kingdome Da. aftir this I behold and loked in my vision in the night and lo y ● fowrth b●ast terryble and meruellous stronge excedingly Osi. This is the Romane monarchie And here Christen reader consider dilygently expende and take hede to the noumber of the name of this best Da ▪ he had tethe of yerne and that very great eatinge and brekynge all to poulder Osi. For it was clear mighty in batayll Da. The leauyngs he trode vnder his fete Osi. For them whom she ouercome in batayll she oppressed tyrānosly Da. But she was vnlyke the other beastis whych I sawe before hir for she had .x. hornes Osi. As in y ● ▪ vin of Dan ▪ he sayth he sawe the myghty he gote hauing a meruelous great horne betwixt his eyes whiche broken of there sprang vp .iiij. hornes vnder it signifying that af ter great Alexander iiij Kynges at one tyme shuld aryse and raygne eche one in his place that is to say Antygonus in Asia Seleucus in Siria Ptolomeus in Egipt and Antipater in grece Euen so here by these x. hornes he signifyeth y ● .x. prouinces ruled by the counsel of the empyre of Rome euery prouince anoynted to hyr counseller being president ouer the same wyth the molt highe impery And that the Romane impery was dyuyded into .x. prouinces gouerned of so many counsellers nether into mo nor lesse both the story wryters in sondry places and Strabo in the end of his deserypeyon of the erthe clerely teltifyeth Da. I conside red the hornes and so there sprang vp an other lytle horne out of the middys of them and ▪ iij. of his fyrst hornes were smyten of from his face Osi. Thys sytle horne was C. Iulius Cesar which being a counseller and one of the .x. hornes whilis he was in france setting althings prosperosly in order seruyng the comon weale thought that the counsell at home in Rome shuld haue had a consideracion of hys necessary absence and so to haue done nothyng at home wythout his consent and counsell whyche iuste request hys ennemyes of enuy at home deuyed it hym and wyth stode his desier Wherfore hys vocacyon in france where he nowe was lefte he made bataill ayenst his countrie of Rome and ouercame thē and became a new horne but yet but alitle one whiche anone begane to were great and grewe into their head hauing mouth and eyes as we shal declare hym hereaftir And thus by that ciuil batayl among themselues iij. hornes that is to weet iij. great rulers in most high gouernāce with their hoste ●edforth ageinst Iulium Ce. that is to saye two of the coū sellers and Pompeius were smyten of from y ● face of the Romane imperie that is were ouercomen but not so that the. iij. hornes were vtterly roted out and but vij onely to remayne but as the Angel aftirwarde interpreteth it they were hūbled and laid down For there abode still x. hornes Da. and lo there were eyes lyke the eyes of a man in this horne and a mouth speking stought thinges Osi. Thys is that I sayd this lytle horne anon to be made great and to be changed into an head For by Iulius Cesar the monarchie of themprours was brought in which monarchie was not one of the x. hornes but one of the. vij headis of whom we shall hear clerelier out of the apoca I knowe certain men of great name from whose iugement I dissent not gladly without a cause to think this lytle horne to haue ben that wyked Mahumete and pope but because this Roma ne Kingdom wherof Da. here speketh was vtterly destroid before Mahumete was borne and pope to bere grete rule And because Mahumete ne pope was neuer member of the Romane empire nether the Apoca. in hir .x. later hornes maketh mencion of Mahumete I dout not their sentence by their fauor I speke it plainly to be refused Da. I beheld tyll the iudgement seatis were sette and the olde aged sitten downe Osi. The old aged is God the father and Christ which sitteth yet in iudgement and dampneth those iiij great Kingdoms because they wold not obay Christe but repelled his word slaying hys Apostles Christ also wyth many thousand martyrs Thys hyd partyclare iudgement of GOD in Chryst the worlde yet seeth not the father saying to Chryst. Sitte one my right hand whyles I laye thyue enemyes vnder thy fote Da. hys vesture was as whyght as snowe and the heares of hys head lyke woll hys trone lyke the flame of fyer the whelys therof smyt forthe beames of fyer a fyery floude rāne forth with vyolence proceding from hys face thousand thousands ministred to hym and ten hondred thousand assysted hym the iudgement was sette and the bokis opened Osi. Not only God the father in Chryste sitteth in thys dayly iudgement but also be present the Angels and the spirytes of the faythtfull slayne for Chri stes sake And the bokes in whyche were wryten the horryble crymes of these beastis or Kyngdomes for the whyche they ar and shalbe dampned and vtterly roted out ar opened and red Da. I loked for the voyce of hys stought wordys whyche thys horne spake Osi. Thys horne is the monarchie of themprours brought in thus fyrlte by Iulius Cesar whiche Monarchie blasphemed Christe and hys doctryne did setforth publyke proclamacions ayenst the Chrystyans slewe