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A11370	A wounderfull prophecie or pronosticatio[n] begynnynge from the yere of oure Lorde M.D.XXXI. to the lawde and prayse of the moost victoryous Emperowre Charles the fyfthe of that name borne within the triumpha[n]t towne of Gandt, in the golden yere .M.D. vppo[n] the .xxiiij. daye of February, whiche daye is neyther named nor no[m]bred, because it was in the leapeyere pronostycate by Master Salomon the Jewe, [and] physician greatly soundynge to the honour of God and lawde of the famous towne of Gandt.	Salomon, Dr., of Ruhrmond.	1543 (1543)	STC 21629; ESTC S106795	14,545	33

of God to be vnfallable / in as moch as it procedeth frō the bosome of the father And here do I bothe earnestly and playnly admonysshe the Germanies bothe hyghe lowe to ioyne them selues vnto the Egle / For elles there shall aryse amongest them / soche warre discorde that it shal not easely be apeaced For the Turke shall with great violence go about to destroye the landes of Meyssen / Duryngen Hesse / as Merlyn dothe ꝓphecye / whiche sayth by soche meanes the Emperours maiestye myght come to some mysfortune of hys body / by reason of the cōiunction of Iouis beynge in Scorpio Also other princes lordes of the Romayne Empyre / shal be some thynge troubled of their subiectes / notwithstandinge it shall not longe contynewe And after that the Emperours maiestie hathe taken great payne trouble in trauaylinge frō one contrey to an other / with moche disquietnes small reste / aswell by lande as by sea / then shall the spyrituall swerde not be so longe / The spirituall swerde shall be made shorter so brode / nor yet so sharpe / to cut with soche violēce as it hath done in tymes paste And in thys tyme shall the sonne lose hyr lyght .iij. poyntes and a halfe great / which shal be vppon a Frydaye after S. Bartholemews daye at one of the clocke in the after none or ther vppō / because Leo hauinge the ascēdent / signifyeth to vs many fearful warres great shedinge of bloude Whiche as wel they of the lande of Austriche shal perceaue and feale as many other straunge nacions Austriche ys vnder the dominion of Ferdinādo kyng of Hōgary For Merlyn sayeth that the Turke wythe great power purposeth to destroye the fore named landes of Meyssen / Duringen and Hesse Therfore let not this Godly admonission and plage / whiche hangeth ouer youre heades good Christen mē be forgotten / but rather let it be closed within youre hartes / seynge it is none other wyse lyke / thē so to come to passe For as truely as the Lorde lyueth / great sorowes troubles are at hande in whiche the holy prophecies shal be fulfylled / and the true Christen churche shall sore decaye / euen lyke as it chaunced vnto the congregacyons of the Iewes / beynge in great prosperytie / felycytie pryde / Hearynge the wounderfull thynges wroughte aboue in heauē / perceyuyng one lyke a vallyaunt Captayne / beyng in a fyery charret and syttyng in a stoole of golde / hauinge in his hande a sharpe speare / and a voice hearde in the entrynge in of the temple / which sayed within a very shorte tyme we will depart hence / which sygnifyed the mercye of God to be withdrawen from the generacyon of the Iewes / and it so came to passe / as it appered mooste manyfestlye by the distruccyō of Ierusalē / all this not withstandinge nor nothynge at all regardynge these visyons thei mocked and derided thē / as thinges mooste false and vntrue And I feare me that as many of the dowchelande / dothe esteyme and iuge these admonicyons of the prophetes as fables / euen so dothe other landes and nacions / whiche will neuer repente / vntill the tyme that those thinges happē to thē / as did to the Iewes for theyr dissobediēce Apoca. xviij Esa xij But heare what S. Ihon sayeth in the apocalips / of them whiche ioyne them selues vnto the Babilonical strompet Babilon that great cytie is fallen / whiche hathe poysoned all nacions / causyng them to dryncke of the wyne of her stinking fornicacion Iere. li. That myghty and great cytie Babilon sayeth he is fallē / and become the habitacyon of deuels And why bycause the Kinges of the earthe haue committed fornicacion with her Apoco xiiij And her marchantes are waxen ryche with the haboundaunce of her pleasures / yet in one houre o thou Babilō is thy iugement come Esaie xiij Ieremy xiiij Ezechi xxxiiij Thy sheaperdes haue distroyed and scatered my flocke a brode sayeth the Lorde / feadinge them selues / and not my people Therfore sayeth he I will vpon them / and requyer my shepe oute of theyr handes / will feade them myn owne selfe For howe manye is there at this daye which for the inwarde zeale which thei beare vnto the heade of that cytie of Babilon / take an occasyon after the ensample of Herod to make inquisycion for fylthye lucres sake / Mat. i. for the pore innocēt lambes of Chryst neuer leauing of vntill thei haue shed their bloude / thynkinge therby their lordeshippes and Kyngdomes lōger to endure And it is seine at this presente daye in some places / that althoughe the name of the heade of the Babilonicall cytie be abolished / yet were his lawes neuer more auaunced / nor his ministers and adherentes had in more hygher estimacion I wolde there were some man that coulde make the spiritualty to vnderstāde this lesson of Christe wel / where he saieth / mat xx that the Princes and Lordes of the heathen / haue power ouer the heathen people / but it shulde not be so amōgest his disciples / Nowe then / if they wolde harken to this doctryne / and graunte them selues to be Christes disciples / then can they not loke to haue soche rule in the worlde / ouer Dukedomes / Erledomes / Cyties and townes / in soche ample wise / that worldly princes / in a maner be nothyng to be compared vnto them / or at the leaste withoute them I speake not this in disprayse of the superyour powers / for euē the same Gospel whiche taketh worldelye promocion from the spirituall powers / dothe agayn restore the same to the Ciuyle Maiestrates / the which oughte to be obeyed as well of the spiritualtie / Roma xiij as of the temperaltye / seinge it is thordenaunces of God him selfe / for the punisshemente of them that be euell / and maynteyninge of the good So that who so euer withstandeth them / withstandeth the ordenaunce of god / seinge thei be his mynistres for oure wealthe and profyt / vnder whose subiection / God hathe instituted all creatures For he sayeth clerely / Omnis anima / here is no mā excepted / nether spiritual nor tēporall Roma xiij For where this order is not in the church of Christe / there muste the Lorde nedes sende downe his plages and punisshemētes / accordinge to the prophecie of Hyldegardus / whiche sayeth / the time shall come / that the moone shall lose her light / that is to saye .iiij. poyntes / whiche shal be apon a monday after vincula Petri / at .xij. of the clocke at mydnighte / the ascendent beinge in Aquario .xviij. degrees in Libra / whiche vndoutedly dothe signify vnto vs / that many godly ordenaunces and statutes / which haue bene made for the setting forwarde of gods honour and the publyke wealth / shall be disanulled and broken / and other wicked and