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A49486	The prophecyes of the incomparable Dr. Martin Luther concerning the downfall of the Pope of Rome, and the subversion of the German Empire, to be over-run by the armies of the Turks, together with the many reasons that he giveth for it : as also, the remarkable prophecy of the learned and reverend Mvscvlvs, to the same effect / collected by R.C. M.A.	R. C., M.A.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3513; ESTC R23003	35,433	50

the advancement of the Church but onely to purchase Wealth and to overcome Kingdomes and Countries Therefore the Legal and Just proceedings of God will fall upon the Pope and his Retinue as already it hath begun for against him the three first Petitions in the Lords Prayer may justly be inverted Blasphemed and Accursed be the name of the Pope his Kingdome be destroyed and thrown down his will be disappointed and confounded I hope saith Luther the numbers of his Fryers and of his Nuns shall no more increase when the Popes feet are chopt off then he must creep Page 307 for he cannot stand long as he now standeth Again the Pope must fall for he can neither be Primate nor chief Head in Christendome and no ways possibly can visite and govern all the Churches no not although he were Elias Elisha Peter or Paul Meloncthon put a question to Luther and said In case the Emperour should give over all his Right and Interest to the Pope whether ought we to shew obedience to the Pope or not Whereupon Luther replyed The Emperour as an ordained Governour hath no power to resign over his Interests to the Pope who is no Magist are nor Governour For the Pope is a thing which standeth upon no ground neither could it be called a Resignation to turn over the Emperours Right and Titles to the Pope but it would be rather a Devastation whereby the Empire would be lessened and extenuated The Emperour hath neither Right nor Power to do it for the Empire is not his own it is not Successive but Elective To conclude when it is denyed that the Pope is a Governour as in truth he is not then is he bereaved of all for whatsoever he hath he hath it not by Right but hath Stolen and usurped it When it is spoken therefore that the Emperour received the Empire of the Pope Page 309. it is of no valve for he could never give that which he never had And it is a meer Fable that either Constantine the Emperour or Charles the Great gave to the Pope such great Possessions as is boasted off It was the Avarice of the Popes and not any great Donations of the Emperours by which the Popes have acquired such great Possessions In former times the Popes were not Lords over Emperours and Kings but the Popes were instituted and ordained by Emperours Pride again must have a fall and so undoubtedly must the Pope The Pope in one day said Luther made thirty Cardinalls which on the other side of the River of Tiber were Mett and Received by a gallant Body of Horse whereat all the Cannons in the City of Rome were discharged and the Acclamations and the Joyes of the People did strive to out-voice the Thunders of the Cannons at the last the Pope himself came into the Field at which the Great Guns in Rome were all discharged and what with the noyse of the Cannons and the hurry of the People the Confusion begat a Terrour and a Trepidation which was so great in the City that the Temples also were sensible of it insomuch that in one of the Churches the Child fell out of the armes of the Blessed Virgin and if we may believe Pasquil he ascended up into heaven fearing that amongst the rest he also should be made a Cardinal On the same day and at the same time a Priest saying Masse at the Altar did drop the consecrated Host and for fear spilled the Cup which being brought on the next day to the care of the Pope he said that one of those whom he had Created a Cardinall would prove a Plague to the Church of Rome which not long afterwards did fall out accordingly not long afterward the Gospel began to be Revealed again and brought to light by the Pen and by the Preaching of Martin Luther some time after that when the Positions of Martin Luther concerning the Popes Indulgences were brought unto the Pope He said A Drunken Dutch man wrote them and when be hath taken a good Nap and is sober again he will then be of another minde no more did he valve that Blow from Luthers Hand which hath made his Chaire to totter ever since I would willingly saith Luther fall upon the Popes Decrees and Canons no name or stile is bad enough for him his Wickednesse cannot be Sounded or Expressed therefore Christ in one word sheweth it and calleth him an Abomination of Dessolation that standeth on the Holy Mount St. Paul nameth him An Opposer or Adversary that exalteth himself above all that is called God Daniel also Prophecyeth the same and saith He shall be proud and not regard the God of his Fathers The Pope his accomplices relying on their great Power The Pope falling in Luthers time p. 314. and presumption that they shal never fal do thereby Confound themselves the Idolatry and Superstition in Popery had for a time great Power and Operation For Daniel touching Antichrist said And he shall prosper till the Indignation is now near accomplished for the Pope in Gods good time will most undoubtedly fall God will overthrow him and suddenly if our own Secureness and the contempt of Gods Word doth give no hinderance to it Let us pray that even the same misfortune may light upon Their Heads which They intend ogainst Us and that They may fall into that Pit which They have digged for Us. We have humbled our selves and suffered enough They have Burned Hanged Drowned and Banished those that were amongst Us. They will no wayes suffer themselves to be recalled from their Devilish Practises But we have one Remedy Christ Jesus the Son of GOD and of the Blessed Virgin It is he who is by GOD Annointed King He will and shall stand fast to defend his own Cause in spite of all Opposition He hath Overcome and Destroyed many Great Kings and laid them in the Dust For my part I will hold with Him and fight under his Banners rather then joyn with the Turk with the Emperour or the whole Universall World The sighes of GODS People do cry up unto Heaven against the Pope as Jesus the Son of Sirach saith The Tears of the Destressed do fall downwards yet nevertheless they do ascend upwards Another Reason and a Great one too of the Infallible Fall of the Pope is Page 319. the wilfull and obstinate Darknesse on which the very Foundation of Popery is laid and the wicked Superstition reared I know not what saith Luther to think of it but onely by the words of St. Paul where he saith 2 Thessal 2. Because they Received not the love of the Truth that they may be Saved GOD will send them strong delusions that they shall believe a Lye The Pope hath two Pillars on which the greatest part of his strength doth lean The one is Whatsover you shall bind on Earth the same also shall be bound in Heaven And the other the command which our Saviour gave to Peter Feed my

this for it is nothing else to be Justified but to be Redeemed from our Sins Goods works do follow our Faith as the Effects and Fruits thereof This Doctrine do I Teach in this will I persist Amen Amen Not long before Luther confuted Nicholas Storke Thomas Muncer and other Phanatick persons who called themselves Prophets and broaching new Doctrines pretended Evangelical Revelations and Conferences with God himself These were they who denyed the Baptisme of Infants and thereby sowed the seed of Anabaptisme and were powerfully and Victoriously opposed by Luther Some few years afterwards the Anabaptists finding Wittenbergh too hot for them did spread themselves over all Helvetia and other parts of Germany and began to broach their Fancies at Antwerp whereupon Luther by an Epistle full of Christian Direction did Advertise the Reformed Church at Antwerp to take heed of such Erronious Spirits Luther Tom. 4. Jen. p. 461. who had very much afflicted him In the same Letter he recited the Impostures of false Spirits in Popery and of other seducing Spirits of the present times And in another Letter he again described the Erronious Articles of the Tumultuous Spirits at Antwerp and clearly opened the Inconstancy boldness and secret Pride lurking in that profession and intreating them to abandon the Question concerning Gods Hidden Will he desired them to attend unto and to follow the necessary precepts set before them by GOD himself in his own word The Articles of the Anabaptists were these 1. That every Man hath the Spririt 2. That the Spirit was nothing else but our Reason and Understanding 3. That every man believeth 4. That there was no place of Torment for men soules but that the Body onely was condemned 5. That every Soul should be saved 6. But even by the Law of Nature we are taught to do good to our Neighbors as we would they should do unto us and that this Will in us was Faith 7. That we sin not against the Law by desiring any thing if our Will consent not to our Desires and Lusts 8. That he who hath not the Spirit hath not Sin because he wanteth Reason which Reason these Anabaptists do call the Holy Ghost Luther wrote a Letter of Consolation to John Hessius of Breshaw to vindicate himself from the Scandal raised by the Heretick and the Sectaries and they fighting against the Articles of the True Faith Hitherto saith Luther The Dispute hath been about the Pope and Purgatory and the like being all about differences not grounded on the Scriptures but now we come to more serious matters now we shall see the Draggon fighting or rather we shall combate with the Draggon Michael being our Captain in these Heavenly Fights Now when the Draggon doth endeavour to pull down the third part of the starrs with his Tayle to the Earth now the Cause will call for our strength in Christ now you shall see what manner of a Warrier and how strong a Champion Satan is whom yet we have not tryed nor have had sufficient Evidence of him but the Foundation of God standeth firm having this Seal that God knoweth who are his and in this let us be confident to prevaile against the Gates of Hell The wicked desires of some of the Reformed Ministers in Germany and others who rather then endure the Papists desired the yoak of the Turk declared against by Luther Tom. 4. Epist Jon. It is very Remarkable that some Preachers of the Reformed Churches in the difficulty of their times proceeded to that height of Folly that they desired that the Turk might come and lay his yoak upon them which they conceived would be more easie then the Burden of the Pope and other Pastors vainly perswading the People that Warr was not to be Weighed against the Turk Luther at the same time did put forth a Book against the Turk in the German Tongue the Turks being then with a great Army before Vienna the chief City of the Empire In this Book Luther spake words of Consolation to the Emperour and by way of Prophecy did assure him That the Turk should not at that time prevaile against that great City which shortly after to the great improvement of the Estimation of Luther did come to pisse In the Year One thousand five hundred and thirty there was held a Solemn and a Numerous Assemby before the Emperour and the States of the Empire at which Melancihon knowing the Rage of the Papists and the Threats of the Emperour did seem to be very Solicitous Luther having notice of it desired him to be Resolute and Secure for the Protestant Cause because he was assured that it was Just and True and that it was the Cause of God and Christ and not stained with the least Sin If we fall saith Luther Christ the Lord and the Ruler of the World falleth with us and suppose the Cause of Christ doth fall I had rather saith Luther fall with Christ Psal 55. Psal 27. then stand with Caesar I intreat you therefore not to forget Gods promises Cast thy Care upon the LORD Have thy Fyes fixed on him play the Man let thy Heart be Comforted and in the Gospel of St. John Be of good Comfort for I have overcome the World if Christ be the Conquerer of the World why should we fear it ar if it would overcome us I extreamly dislike your excessive cares with which you say you are consumed that these Sorrows prevaile so much upon you is not from the Weaknesse of our Cause but from the Greatnesse of your Incredulity for there were more grounds of Fear and of Trepidation in John Hus his time then ours But grant that there be a great cause of Doubt God who is the Agent and the chief mover in it is of greater power for it is not our cause but his Why then do you afflict your self If the cause be faulty let us revoke it but if it be good why do we make God a Lyer who hath made us so great promises saying Cast thy Care upon the Lord the Lord is near unto all who being of a troubled Heart do call upon him Is it possible for you to effect any thing with your unprofitable Fears and Jeloufies I pray you tell me What can the Devill do more unto us then kill us I beseech you seeing in all other things you are a good Christian Souldier The Christian Resolution of Luther that you would endeavour to overcome your self as being your self your Greatest Enemy nor proside any Armour to arme Satan againg your self Christ dyed once for sin but for a Just and true Cause he shall never dye but live and reign in triumph Tell me then what fear is there for the truth if Christ reign if it be cast down by the wrath of God let us be cast down with it but let it not be done by our selves He who is become our father will become the father of all those that put their trust in him God