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A62923	The Northern star, The British monarchy, or, The northern the fourth universal monarchy Charles II, and his successors, the founders of the northern, last, fourth and most happy monarchy : being a collection of many choice ancient and modern prophecies ; wherein also the fates of the Roman, French, and Spanish monarchies are occasionally set out.	Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1879; ESTC R2950	71,870	88

and Family must extinguish by the lustre of that Reformation the Superstitions and Idolatries of Rome and give that blow with a Stone cut out without Hands from the Mountain on the feet of the last Supporter of Satan's Kingdom the Roman Monarchy being also the basest and worst constituted of incoherent Iron and Clay and grind it to Dust and disperse the Remnants of it to all the Winds as Daniel prophesies § 39. There being the same reason for us to look out for some new Kingdom in these Northern parts to which these Stars were perpendicular as there was for those Wise Men in the East to look for a King born in Judea by the Star they saw in the East Nor doth the moveableness of that and fixedness of these make as to our purpose any considerable difference for it was necessary that those Eastern Magi who sought one particular Person should be guided by a Star so moveable that its perpendicular Rays might point out Bethlehem and our Blessed Saviour's Person to them that they might bring to him their Gold and other Treasures But to discover to our Wise Men in the North the Kingdom to which the Honour is reserved in this last and worst Age to reform the Religion and Manners of the whole World according to Christ's Rule both for Spirituals and Civils it sufficed that such new Stars did appear unto them fixed in the Starry Orb as by their motion therewith might describe a Circle wherein at the time of their appearance that Reformation and Kingdom did first rise and appear Now if we enquire what Reformation did appear in the World about the time of the appearance of the Star in Cassiopaea's Chair near the Circle its direct Rays did describe upon the Globe on the Earth we shall find that of Queen Elizabeth and no other And again if we seek what Kingdom did arise about that time the Star first appeared in the Swans Neck within the Northern Circle described by its perpendicular Beams we shall find no other than the Monarchy of Great Britain then founded by King James and transmitted from him to our present Soveraign Charles the II the first of English Birth who sway'd the Scepter Allowing what those ancient Prophecies here subscribed § 40. Bruti Posteritas Albanis associata Anglica Regna premet peste labore nece Consurgent Britones Albanae Gentis amici Antiquum nomen Insula tota feret Ut profert Aquila veteri de Turre loquuta Gum Scotis Britones Regna Paterna gerent Long time the British and the Scotish Race The English Realm with War Plague Toyle deface Till a Friend rise to Scots of British Stem Then British Scots their Father's Diadem Resume and all the Isles its ancient Name Thus did the Eagle from th' old Tower proclaim § 41. And to cherish our hopes the Motto's of this Monarchy and its Impressures fixed on its Coin and elsewhere do happily conspire Namely That Motto of the first Christian Emperour Constantine the Great our Countryman In hoc Signo vinces referred by the Cross to Christ's Death And that other of like import Duce Auspice Christo That Kingdom prosper and subdue all must Whose Standard Christ's Cross is Christ guide and trust § 42. A King of British Blood in Cradle Crown'd With Lion markt shall joyn all British Ground So Sir William Maurice of North-Wales repeated in English Merlin's Prophecy of 600 Years standing CHAP. V. Thomas Pugh British Prophecies out of Maxwel 's Prophecies Sect. 16. Fol. 84. c. § 43. ACcording to the Confession of the Italian Jesuit Hieronimus Platus in the 2d Book of the Religious Life and 30th Chapter England hath been more fertile of Converters of Countries and Nations to the Christian Faith than any other Land whatsoever else So is it not unlikely but that God will have the same Country to be more fertile of many Reformers and other corrupt Churches especially that of Rome than any other Land whatsoever and to reclaim Rome and her Daughters from their Abuses and Corruption and to restore unto them their Primitive Purity and Integrity such as it was in the days of Constantine the Great Born in Great Britain § 44. So Nostradamus predicts That Rome shall be ruled by the Britanish Head In his first Century he saith that the new King that joyns the lower and Northern Countries of Europe shall be the Instrument of loss to the Church of Rome And that the Bishop of Rome together with his Clergy except they shew themselves willing to be reformed shall be made to spit Blood when the Rose shall flourish He promiseth in his 5th Century that of the Trojan Blood shall spring a Prince of a doughty Dutch Heart who shall attain to so high a Degree that he shall chase far away the Arabick or Mahometan multitudes and likewise return to the Church her ancient Eminency and Sincerity § 45. Out of the Library of St. Victor cited by the Abbot of Cluny it 's said Abbot Joakim said That the Red Rose should send forth the sweet Water that shall purifie and cleanse the Church from her Corruption Paracelsus Amongst the Roses shall spring up one who shall change the Sandy Foundation into a Rock § 46. Mr. George Maxwel from Sir George Norroy King at Arms Jessae Rosa sanguis Bruti Portat crucem Jesu Christi Christ's Cross displayed in England's Standard shows From British Blood must spring the Jessean Rose § 47. It seems that from the Rose of England shall proceed or spring the Reformation or Purgation of the Church of Rome Likewise the same City and Empire received from the same Country the first Authorized Profession of the Christian Faith by the blessed means of Constantine the Great a Britain born at York Grebner The Lion having the Rose and Lillies in his Arms shall utterly destroy the Pope so that there shall be none at that time § 48. Brithwald Bishop of Winchester in the Confessor's time saw in a Vision * NB. That the Kingdom of the English is the Kingdom of God and that it is as well by the gentle sweetness of its Yoake and Government like that of Christ as in other respects And by this we may understand how vainly the Antichristian Enemies pretend a right to it by this Prophecy and seek by force to Conquer it from Christ's Kingdom and to subdue it to their own Tyrany Regnum Anglorum est Regnum Dei Thus far my Author § 49. I shall only as to these Prophecies on what ground soever they proceed add this Observation for the Readers consideration That God whose Providence as is manifest by his Word is very uniform in his Justice upon the cruel Enemies of his People seems to have given warning to Rome and her Antichristian Confederates that as the Northern People raised up by his Spirit revenged the Blood of his Primitive Saints spilt by the Roman persecuting Heathen Empire on that Red Dragon so the League of Northern

the English should unjustly detain as Enemies what they now protect from the French as Friends If they can hold the United Provinces in security under the Prince of Orange so nearly Allied to the British Crown it is enough and that I think cannot be denied to be fairly promised in these Predictions § 60. Grebner 69 Banner is thus inscribed in that Family In comitum Imperii Liones cum Principis Gulielmi Uraniae silio Mauricio felici Heroi socianti se alicui Daniae de stirpe § 61. And subscribed thus Hoc vexillum de fratribus quoque Uraniae Principis corum posteris Illustrissimis intelligendum His words of them are these Leones nostri audaces in prima acie fremunt unde nobis potentia crescit Gloria Fama augescit I know not whether formerly the Family of Orange did Intermarry with any Descendent from a Daughter of Denmark as here is intimated it is sufficiently known this Princess was by her Great Grand-mother Queen Ann of that Family And if the Prince of Orange as he here predicts must lead the Forelorn of the Northern Army as he manifestly musters them with the Auxilaries of England their growing Estate and Honour must be by their Aid and so shews who is to be the Leading Monarch § 62. To these let me add one out of Drabritius who is otherwise thought partial too much unto the French but perhaps his mistake was that he attributed that to the French King which indeed belonged to the King of Great Britain who is indubitably right Heir and King of France and of the Ancient Royal Line as is manifest by his Gift of Healing c. But of this more largely in the next Part. § 63. Anno. 1657. May 31. Pag. 473. This Enthusiast hath these words Papae capiti coronam posui testaceum similemque imponam Hispano cum delaceravero Regnum ejus Cujus partem accipient Augli etiam fideles mei quod cogitare nec ipsi poterant nec Mundus I think nothing could be said more true than what he here pretends to be spoken by Christ himself that the English were and are so far from any desire to rend the Spanish Monarchy that their greatest Ambition testified in Parliament at this Day is to preserve it and the World will bear them Witness that never any such thoughts entered their Minds If they hold as Cautions for their and their own Peace and that of Christendom some Ports for convenience of transmitting Aids to them it will content them and fulfil this Prediction Cottor 1622. Anno. Christi Aug. 12 13 15 16 17. § 64. Who this Cotter was and what some Learned Men have judged of his Visions and Prophecies is set down at the end of his 6th Chapter Amongst his Visions in that daied as above I find these following words which manifestly related to Esdras's Lion out of the Wood and are to me an Indication that what Spirit soever did dictate this the foregoing and following Prophecies they are for the substance of them only ecchoes to Esdras and indeed considering what Esdras the Syhils some holy Men in several Ages former and latter have predicted according to Scripture Prophecies and what I have observed of the state of Europe below since Luther's Reformation it could not be difficult for an humane Spirit contemplating in some rapture of Meditation and in some sort out of the Body God's Justice Mens Wickedness Romes Bloodiness the Protestants Revolt Situation Resolution Liberty Necessity Weapons Spiritual Rational natural Success under their Zisca's in Bohemia Piedmont Holland and elsewhere the Roman Clergies Rage Jesuits busie Incitation of States to Tumults Ambition of France Weakness of Spain to see darkly and guess at such Generalities of great Actions as they for the most part do contain nor is it hard to presage the Event of the present Associations with or against France on the same Grounds § 65. Those words of Cotter I find thus rendred out of his own Mother into the Latine Tongue Leo autem ex Sylva septentrionali audacter p●rsiliet Quamvis pedibus suis Lunae insistat Luna tamen non semper manebit demidiata sed plenum lumen cito recipiet● ista Luna image est Ecclesiae Per Leonem Deus Pater redemit sibi Ecclesiam Per Leonem Ecclesiae fideli opem victoriam paraturus est But a Lion saith he shall boldly leap out from a Northern Wood and though the Moon on which his Feet stand be at present only half full it shall quickly attain a full Light This Moon is the Image of the Church By a Lion the Father redeemed a Church to himself By a Lion he will prepare help and victory to his faithful Church Cotter 1624. Sept. 24. Pag. 140. § 66 67. Sed Jehova convocat Reges ab Aquilone contra munitissimam Urb●m c. God shall call together the Kings from the North against a most excellently fortified City § 68. Idem 1622. Aug. 28. Pag. 35. The White Lion shall seize on a great part of the City The Red Lion resembling the Morning Red shall be assistant to the Lovers of the Gospel he shall also seize on a part of the great City The least of all the Azure Innocent Lion shall be endued with Strength Glory and Forces from God a Triple Crown with a potent Hand by the interposition of the Lion from the East and North. § 69. Idem 1923. Apr. 23. Pag. 39. Those of the South and West are dissipated those of the East and North obtain Victory § 70. Christiana Ponatovia hath these Visions of the Northern Lious See who she was at the end of the Chap. 1628. Jan. 17. Pag. 241. Hah what is it Behold from the North these are late Lions Then the Lions departing from one another she said very clearly God bless them A wonderful thing Now they bid one another farewel Now they depart the one this and the other that way § 71. Ead. 1628. Jan. 20. Pag. 247. The Battel shall endure till few of them from the North survive § 72. Ead. Ib. Pag. 248. There shall come forth seven Principal Persons and many Inferiours by whom the Northern Armies shall be led 1628. Jan. 13. Pag. 224. She names them in this order Hungarians Turks Venetians Saxons Tartars Swedes Danes Hollanders English French c. § 73. Drabricius of whom see below in his Vision 1653. March 2. Pag. 355. The Northern Cloud now arises whence terrible Thunders shall proceed for it shall bring with it the Whale from beyond Sea upon the Sons of Babylon This Whale seems to be the Emblem of some mighty Fleet. Daniel threatens Antichrist with the Naval Force of his Enemies Ships of Kedar § 74. A learned Mans Judgment of these Enthusiasts Si Prophetiae non sunt Prodigiae certe maxime vocalia sunt cum mirifice invicim consentiat Cotterus simplicissimus Idiota Poniatovia infans puella Drabricius sencx delirus Nunquam ita locutus est Homo

29. And whereas thou sawest two under Wings that went off towards the Head which was on the right side this is the inpretation 30. These are they whom the most High hath preserved for their end whose Kingdom is little and full of trouble as thou sawest 31. And the Lion which thou sawest rising up out of the Wood and roaring and speaking to the Eagle and rebuking her for Unrighteousness with all the words which thou hast heard 32. This is the Wind which the most High hath kept for them for their Wickedness unto the end and he shall reprove them and cast before them their Spoils 33. For he shall set them alive in the Judgment and shall rebuke them and correct them 34. For he shall deliver the residue of my People by Affliction which are preserved upon my Borders and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the Day of Judgment whereof I have spoken unto thee from the beginning 35. This is the Dream that thou sawest and these are the interpretations Thus far the Angel Uriel to Esdras CHAP. XIII 1. ANd it came to pass after seven days I dreamed a Dream by Night 2. And lo there arose a Wind from the Sea that it moved all the Waves thereof 3. And I beheld and lo that Man waxed strong with the thousands of Heaven 25. This is the meaning of the Vision Whereas thou sawest a Man coming up from the midst of the Sea 26. The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season which by his own self shall deliver his Creature and he shall order them that are left behind 29. Behold the days come when the most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the Earth 30. And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the Earth 31. And one shall undertake to fight against another one City against another one Place against another one People against another and one Realm against another 32. And the time shall be when these Things shall come to pass and the Signs shall happen which I shewed thee before and then shall my Son be declared whom thou sawest as a Man ascending 33. And when all the People hear his Voice every Man shall in their own Land leave the Battel they have one against another 34. And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together as thou sawest them willing to come and to overcome him by fighting 35. But he shall stand upon the top of the Mount of Sion 36. And Sion shall come and shall be shewed to all Men being prepared and builded like as thou sawest the Hill graven without Hands 39. And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable Multitude un-unto him 40. Those are the ten Tribes NB. That in the famous Book by some called the Baby Prophecy sometimes in the custody of the Earl of Marlborough or a Copy of it seen and remembred by several Persons of Honour yet alive and for the most part fulfilled in innumerable Particulars * Generosa Nobilitas non sinet ei fieri malum The Nobles and Gentry shall suffer no Wrong to be done to the King nor his Crown the present King of England survives the last great Battel And as here the end of all those Prophecies is the Conversion of the Eastern Jews for their Habits mistaken for Turks I would not any much should trust or fear Such Prophecies but when Events appear To answer unto that which was foretold Wise Men should make what use of them they could And so direct their Actions that Hell's Charms And Cheating Riddles may not do them harms i. e. By Justice and Mercy towards Men and Piety to God Anonymous future History of Europe SECT 11. § THe two Books of Esdras are thought and that by none of the least Learned St. Augustine St. Ambrose Tostatus Scaliger the Elder Melancthon Arias Montanus Bucer and Bibliander to be Canonical because of the most eminent fulfilling of many Predictions in them contained In the 11th Chapter of the second of those Books there is under the Type of an Eagle a manifest Prophecy both of the Roman Heathenish Empire as likewise of the Papacy with her chief Leaguers to this present Time throughout the whole Chapter This Eagle is the Roman Heathenish Empire her twelve Feathered Wings are the twelve first Emperours from Julius Caesar to Nerva The three Heads are the Kingdoms of France Spain and Germany preordained of God to maintain the power of her Pride when all her Wings her Heathenish and Tyrannical Caesars should fail her Nevertheless under her twelve first Caesars are comprehended in general all the Emperours which Reigned in her from Julius Caesar who first crackt the strings of her Liberty to Augustulus Momyllus her last Roman Caesar for the space of 474 Years Her eight contrary Feathers are the eight terrible Inundations of several Nations from the North God's Scourges which overwhelmed her fairest Provinces sunk her State in Blood and by Fire and Sword humbled her as low as the Dust she trod on viz. 1. Alaricus and his West Goths 2. Attilas and his Huns. 3. Gensericus and his Vandals 4. Odoacer 5. Theodoricus and his East Goths 6. Totilas and his Spaniards 7. Alboinus and his Longobards who deposed her Diminutive Gaesar Augustulus Momyllus 8. And lastly The intestine Home-bred Faction and Conspiracy which proved more Pernitious than the rest as all intestine Diseases are the worst which in the Reigns of Otho the Great Otho the III and Frederick the II so often strove to eradicate the Papal Superiority and re-edifie her S. P. Q. R. buried so many Ages ago out of the Ruines of the City The Head in the midst is the German Empire begun A. C. 801 on Christmas Day by Charles the Great which though v. 32. it long did and yet doth put the Earth in great fear yet v. 33. must vanish in an instant as did the Wings and come to nought The German Empire thus destroyed v. 35. The Head on the right side the Kingdom of Spain must devour the Head on the left side the Kingdom of France Therefore it is manifest that the Kingdom of France though now it flourisheth in what Glory and Magnificence the Earth can afford must ere long be humbled by the Power of Spain with many Discomfitures and brought to doleful Straits and great Perplexities I my self have observed how that Year in which the Figures of the Golden Number were equal to the Figures of the Year of Christ hath ever proved Fatal to that Monarchy It was so with them from 1570 to 1576 In all which seven Years the Guisian Faction made lamentable Havock of the Church of God and the Kingdom So shall it be in that Year in which the final Tragedy of that Kingdom shall be acted six Years after which France shall be no more But when that shall be no sign of Europe shall remain nor remembrance where the Walls of Rome stood §

Christian Princes who shall in God's time acknowledg his Truth and defend their Subjects from the Persecution and Tyranny of the Romanists shall at length revenge the Blood of his Modern Saints much more profusely shed by that bloody and merciless People who like the old Heathen Romans are filled with all Unrighteousness Fornication Wickedness Covetousness Maliciousness full of Envy Murder Debate Deceipt Malignity Whisperers Backbiters haters of God despightful proud Boasters inventers of evil Things disobedient to Parents without Understanding Covenant-breakers without natural Affection Implacable Unmerciful as that Apple Paul describes them Rom. 1.29 30 31. And which is worse than these Heathens could possibly be charged with they not only know the Judgments of God due to such Practices but seek to colour palliate and defend them against his Justice by Rules and Religious Pretexts destroying and making void all principles of Justice Right Honesty and Morality as well as Divinity and publick Polity and thereby reduce all Mankind into an Anarchical Brutish more than Barbarian irrational unreducible Confusion by their Tradition § 50. And that the Northern Kings shall be the Executioners of God's Wrath upon the Whore and false Prophet the Pope and City of Rome as they were on the Red Dragon the persecuting Roman Empire hath been more than probable by their Actions ever since Luther's time they first and still oppose Her whilst the more Southerly and Neighbour Princes submit serve and protect Her POST-SCRIPT § 51. JOhn Ursinus in his Roman Conclave Printed in London in 4o. 1600. Pag. 142. in the Chapter of Charles the 5th upon the Decease of Maximilian the first Emperour of Germany Charles the 5th afterwards Emperour and Francis King of France were Competitors for the Imperial Diadem Leo the 10th then Pope in Bar of Charles pleaded That Charles by no obscure prediction and lineamental discription of Face and disposition resembled the Man foretold in certain Verses of an ancient Prophet who arising in the North should be the mover of grievous Alterations to fall upon Italy but especially upon the Roman Sea This Prophecy had some weak Descriptions it seems of the Person expected from the North to make such great Alterations in Italy and the Roman Sea and Charles the 5th some resemblance of that Person And my Author by his Note in the Margent allowing the Prophecy to be truer than the Pope was aware thereby intimates that the Alterations wrought in Charles the Fifths time had some agreement to the scope of the Prophecy But the Reader if he well consider the words of the Prophet as here related may very easily conclude That Charles who was rather a Southern than Northern Man and made no such grievous Alterations neither in Italy nor the Roman Sea it self as the Prophet foretold and the Pope feared was not the Man of whom the Prophet spoke and that this Prophecy may therefore be very well added upon the Popes Testimony against his own Sea to the foregoing to shew that a Northern Prince will rise and make more grievous Alterations there than those of Charles the Fifths time Nor do they fear the Reformation Luther then began in Germany so much as what the Northern Monarchy will make in Italy it self § 52. Romano Imperio omne malum venit ex Aquilone Omne malum nobis ex Babylone venit Romanam Ecclesiam omne malum ex Aquilone minatur A Roma nostras ergo caveto malum Nostras ferro ferrum Romanoque viro Vir Gedere nescit sed tu Anglia ab Arte cave Imprecor arma armis contraria ignibus Ignes Romanique aequos Artibus Artificies § 53. By Northern Powers the Roman Empire fell To us all Mischief comes by Rome from Hell The Roman Church their Fall from hence presage Let our Church then provide against their Rage The Northern Men and Iron far excel Roman England let not their Craft thee quel Their Swords with Swords and Fires with Fires I pray Thou may'st and all their Arts with Arts repay CHAP. VI. Modern Predictions of Grebner Cotter c. § 54. HAving I doubt wearied the Reader with the former I shall be brief in these I begin with Grebner his Vexillum 52. De sorte Leonis Angliae Hic Burgandicus Leo deglutitus absorptus est nihil restat horam nisi Terra vasta dispersi populi quos ego mei confederati subjugavimus nostris dentibus gutturibus detinemus ac mordicus reservamus Hoc est opus meum Meorumque praesidio Divino c. Id. Vexill 223. Angliae plus ultra § 55. Sum Anglicus truculentus Leo modo rugiens fremens immane saeviens animosu faelix Victoriosus contra omnes meos hostes Patriae meae fideliter auxilio venio praesidio ac clementi meae Reginae asporto pretiosum cimelion Margaritam dictam Belgicas Hispanicas ditiones unde Regina mea tempore vitae suae certo magnifice gloriose Triumphat § 56. Vexill 60. In Leonem Luneburgicum Quae mihi hoc Globo fortunae uti animoso Germanico exercituum ductore ab Anglis futuro magno capite seu summo principe Manarcha Germaniae pacta decernuntur de his haeres meus gaudito Idem excitatio Germaniae writen 1652. Terra Jubila Jubila canta exulta quod vidisti exoptatum diem Ruinae excidii Antichristi quod ductu auspicio faelici Anglorum Gallorum Danorum Germanorum Scotorum Suecorum praesidio dextrae numinis altipotentis fiet Where the English are preferr'd before the French in Romes Ruine and set in the Head and Front of the League § 57. What he hath here foretold of the damage done to the Crown of Spain by the English and their Confederates where he places them in the Front before the French was long since fulfilled of which Dunkirk and Jamaica and Portugal are sufficient Testimonies For what he foretold of Queen Elizabeth's obtaining the Low-countries We know she held Towns there as long as she lived and had she not refused them the whole Netherlands would have cast themselves into her Lap and to her assistance given them And France it self against Spain the first declination of that Monarchy must be attributed and how deadly Blows the English have since given it to their own prejudice and that of Christendom is largely show'd by a late Pen in his Paper entituled The World deceived in Oliver Cromwel § 58. This indeed Grebner did not foresee that I can perceive in his Book that the Spaniard himself should yield up Flanders or any part of it to the English to be protected against the Enemies of his Crown and it sounds as unlikely as what that odd Rime imported Believe this true when as you see A Spaniard Protestant to be § 59. But I have been either misinformed or this is not the first time that Flanders hath been offered to the Protection of the English nor will it need to fulfil this Prophecy that