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A55667 Predictions of the sudden and total destruction of the Turkish empire, and religion of Mahomet according to the opinions of the Lord Tycho Brahe of Denmark, and many others of the best astronomers of this later age; collected and humbly dedicated to all Christendom by a lover of Christianity. Lover of Christianity. 1684 (1684) Wing P3210; ESTC R221824 4,621 4

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PREDICTIONS Of the Sudden and Total Destruction of The Turkish Empire AND Religion of Mahomet According to the Opinions of the Lord Tycho Brahe of Denmark and many Others of the Best Astronomers of this Later Age Collected and Humbly Dedicated to all Christendom by a Lover of Christianity THE present War of the Turks upon the Christian Empire of Germany and indeed upon all the Eastern part of Christendom Russia only excepted Begun without any pretence of a just Cause or other Provocation than meer Conquest sufficiently demonstrates that the Ambition of that Empire if it were possible aims at nothing else then to bring the whole Earth under its Slavery Bondage and Vassalage which she might soon Acquire could she make her self Mystriss of the Remaining part of Europe of which She hath already Gained so great a Share as may be Compared not Inferiout to either of the Mighty Empires of Germany or France and Naturally much more Pleasant and Fertile then Either The Sweets as she Gathers thence tempt Her upon the Reduction of the Whole And the frequent Distractions and Warrs which Happen amongst Christian Princes and States do point out to her own Greatness an Opportunity of being much Greater by the weak and distracted Condition Christendom is almost continually in and consequently not able to withstand any of Her though never so unjust Demands Last Years Attempt upon the Imperial Christian City of Vienna may sufficiently convince any Man that the Attaque of the Turks upon that place if God Almighty had not wonderfully preserved and defended it would have brought inevitable destruction and desolation upon the whole Empire of Germany And it is hard to judge in Humane Prudence how they could possibly have bin forced to quit such a Conquest where the Treasure they would have made Themselves Masters of in the Enterprize might sufficiently without any domestick Tax enabled them to carry on the War against and totally to subdue the greatest Part of Christendom But Almighty God which putteth Bounds to the Sea and saith Hitherto shal● thou Go and no further Also Boundeth and Changeth Empires and Kingdoms and setteth up Emperors and Kings as seemeth good to Himself of which the Histories of all Past Ages do furnish us with plenty of Instances The Jewes were always of Opinion That every Person and Place hath a certain Guardian-Angel set over it And many Doctors of the Christian-Church seem to Agree with them in that Particular upon the Warrant they have from the Holy Prophet Dan. 10.11 Where mention is made of an Angel-Governour over Persia and over Greece Rulers and Potentates or as our English Translation hath it Principalities and Powers And the Learned in all Ages have Observed That God hash Set Intervals and Periods of Times to all Empires and Governments in the World Amongst which Periods the 500. and 700. are Accounted the most Fatal as you may see in Bodin Lib. 4. cap. 2 The Natural Reasons of which is for that in the said Spaces of Time there Elapseth so many Generations of Men which abateth off and more and more declineth from the Simplicity Strength and Fortitude whereby Kingdoms are Acquired Preserved and Propagated It is also Observed That no extraordinary Change has ever hapned but has been Attended with or fore-boded by strange Comets or Apparitions in the Heavens as Gods Monitors pointing to us the Judgements threatned A Comet Appeared in the Year 603. about a Year before the pretended Prophet Mahomets Birth And another Comet Appeared in the Shape of a Fiery Sword at Noon day and continued the space of one whole Month at his Death Rendring it no less prodigious then the Course of his Life or the Success that has since Attended his Religion and Empire to this very day of which see Jos phus Bell. Jud lib 7. cap. 12. That God hath Appointed fatal Bounds and Limits of Time to Empires none will deny so hath he the like Bounds and Limits to other particular Places And when any Change of an Empire is imminent he commonly Raiseth up some Great Heroes whom he useth as Organs to Punish or Amend Them yet first revealeth such future Changes by certain Signes and Prodigies as St. Augustin lib. de Vrb excid Tom. 9. Speaks of a Great Comet that Appeared about the Year 396 over Constantinople according to the Revelation first made thereof to a Souldier and by him to a Bishop who thereupon exhorted the People to Repentance c. He hath these very words Volens siquidens Deus terrere Civitatem terrendo emendare terrendo convertere terrendo mundare terrendo mutare servo suo fideli viro ut dicitur Militaris c. God being pleased to terrifie the City by terrifying to convert it by terrifying to cleanse it by terrifying to change it he Revealed as is reported to a Soldier his faithful Servant And a little further Noct is initio tenebrantes c. In the Beginning of the Night whilst Darkness Covered the Earth there Appeared a Fiery cloud in the East at first but a little one Afterwards by degrees as it Approached the City it so increased till being mighty big it Hovered terribly over all the City there was seen a horrible Flame which descended from it neither was there a Sulphurous Smell wanting all the People fled to Church the Place contained not the Multitude every O●e wrested Baptism from whom he could the Sacrament was Exposed not only in the Church but also through the Houses Lanes and Streets to Avoid the present as well as future wrath of God Thus far St. Augustine What strange Revolutions have since befel that City all ●hristendom and the greatest part of the Intelligible World can sufficiently Witness And to the purpose intended by this Paper which is to shew by the many strange Comets which have Appeared of late Years not only in Sight of the same Constantinople but even of all Christendom as Fore-runners of the Great Alterations and Changes which shall Happen and particularly on the Turkish Empire whose Grand fatal Year is Proclaimed by the Heavens to be so near at Hand as has been long since Observed by Learned Men by the Cause of the Suns Eccentricity described of Copernicus cap. 20. lib. 3. Revol By a Motion of a little Circle having the Eccentrick of its Center in its Circumference Georgius Johannis Rhetius call'd this Circle The Wheel of Fortune By whose Revolutions saith he the Monarchies of the World received their Commencements and Changes for like as the Roman Empire obtained its highest dignity when the Eccentricity was greatest so the same Decreased is very much Empaired and almost at the brink of Destruction But the Turkish Empire began in the first Quadrant with the Law of Mahomet and hath been most swiftly Augmented proportionably according to the Motion thereof being at this day wherein the Eccentricity is at the least in a flourishing estate but shall henceforward be diminished until the other Quadrant and alike