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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 people turneth not unto him that smiteth them neyther doe they seek the Lord of hosts Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tayle branch and root in one day Even thus saith Luther they were dipersed accordingly towards the East towards the West and the South All Histories do shew that by God they were expelled and now ●o live without Christ and Comfort because they gave so little a regard to the prophecies The Germans for their sins to be dispersed as the Jews page 535. and Doctrine of the Prophets and the Apostles Even so will it go with Us Germans likewise who now at last are called and invited to the supper of the All-saving Gospel because we acknowledge not the time of our Visitation God of his infinite mercy preserve us from the same Amen Alas I fear the Gospel will too too soon be removed from us Germans for how should peace and quiet and Religion be there where licentiousness and prophaneness raineth and vvhere all are mortall Enemies to the Gospel Of the Turkish preparations LEt us truly repent said Luther let us pray and attend the will of God for Humane Help and Assistance is too weak Some years since the Emperour was well able to resist the Turk and to make a war upon them but then he would not and therefore many good people as sheep in the shambles were lamentably butchered and slaughtered by the Turks I fear all things go not right The Turks proclamtion this prophecy came to passe this last yeare for our own pride and tyranny will give us over to the Turks and make us subject to them If the Turk shall cause Proclamation to be made that every man shall be free from Taxations and tributes for the space of three years then the common people with joy will surrender themselves unto him But when he hath once gotten them into his clawes he will then make use of his tyranny as his custome is for he taketh the third son from every man He is always the Father of the third Child Truly this is a great tyranny which cheifly concerneth the Princes of the Empire themselves I ever held the Emperour suspected he can deeply dissemble Let us call upon God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ let us pray it is high time Sigismund the Emperour was in a manner captivated by the Pope and Papists they had him in their power and he was constrained to do what they pleased he was compelled by them to put on and to wear a Deacons coat and in Christ-mass Holidays to read the Gospel to the Pope Insomuch that every Emperour since is a Deacon of the Romish Church and the King of the Romans is a Sub-deacon and he is to read the Epistle before the Pope so that the Emperour and the King are both the Popes Mass-servants This is remarkeable Luthers page 412 The Emperour after he had performed this Ceremony to the Pope had never any good success against the Turks in Germany the Kingdome of Bohemia is fallen which was before a very fair Kingdome This is the sum of Luthers Prophecies in relation to the Downfall of the Pope and of the Empire of Germany I shall conclude with his prophecy on himself which is in these words Those who in my life do resuse the kernell of my Doctrine will after my death be glad to enjoy the shell if they can get it Let every one in time prepare himself to reap whiles it is yet harvest for as Christ saith He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness John 8. Luther was often heard to deplore the ungodly Invocation or praying unto Saints departed and said There were many Reasons why that Invocation was execreable and this was one namely that by that prophane Custome the Testimony of Christs Divinity was obscured to whom alone the writings of the Prophets and Apostles attribute the Honor of invocation Invocation of Saints the Idol that whetteth the barbarous sword of the Turk to cut our throats Melanthon Tom. 6. These are the Idols which sharpen the barbarous sword of the Turk to cut our throats except in a more speedy and Godly manner these things be reformed for how wicked and how impious are these Hymus which are dayly sung in the popes Chappell O Mary thou Mother of Grace defend us from our Enemyes and in the hour of Death receive us And these Hymnes Saint Dorothy create a new Heart within us and Saint Catherine translate us from the troublesome sea of this world to the pleasure of paradise Open paradise for us It being brought to Luthers eare how much the Gospell began to flourish for all the malicc of the Pope and the vain indeavours of the princes to suppress it and that the Papists and the Emperor himself were so violent against him that they sought to take away his life I had rather said Luther dye by the hands of the Pope and would by no means if I could help it that the Emperour or any of his Counsellors should interpose themselves in putting me to death I know what misery befell the Emperour Sigismund after the Martyrdom of John Hus at Constance and that nothing prospered afterwards with him how he dyed without Issue Male and how his daughters Son Ladislaus also dyed and how in one Age he had his Name quite extinguished and how his Empress Barbara by name became a dishonour to the Royal Throne That Kings and Princes rage against Christ or the Anointed of God I esteem it as a good sign and think it much better then if they flattered for thereupon it comes to pass that he that dwelleth in Heaven laugheth them to scorn And when our Lord and King laughes I see no reason that we should weep before their faces he laugheth not for his own sake but for ours that we trusting in him and nothing else might laugh at their vain Designes so much need is there of Faith that the Cause of Faith may not be looked upon without Faith It was he vvho began this work of Refotmation without our Contrivance or our Counsell and he himself will advance it and accomplish it without our Assistance The Pope saith Luther makes use of the Mass even for souls departed He hath gone with his Masse not onely into all Corners of the World The Prophecy of the learned Musculus that Rome shall be taken by the Turk pag. 378. but even into purgatory it self His Indulgence-Mongers are his purse thrashers and he winnoweth good mony out of that chaffe most excellent is the speech and prophecy of the Reverend and learned Musculus which to conclude this Discourse I will exhibite to you in his own words Magnis Indulgentiis coarceuerunt Insinitos thesauros praetextu fabricarum Ecclesias ticarum presertim sancti Petri quae sic aedisicatur Romae ut ad plenum aedificata sit nunquam citiusque destruenda sit a Turcis quam ad finem structurae perducenda a Romanis With great Indulgences they have amassed into one Banke infinite summes of money under the pretence of the building of Churches especially the Church of Saint Peter which is so builded at Rome that it will never be fully finished and vvill sooner be destroyed by the Turks then be brought by the Romans to the perfection of its structure It is observeable that the late Arch-bishop of Canterbury who was beheaded on Tower-Hill having heard of the transla●●on of this Book of Luther into the English tongue had a great desire to see it in the manuscript and it being sent unto him he some few dayes afterwards commanded his Chaplin Doctor Bray to give the Gentleman a Visit and to acquaint him that he had never read a more excellent Divine work which was worthy of eternal Memory At that time he sent the Gentleman that translated it ten pound in gold And about a year afterwards having had the leisure fully to peruse the work he returned it back with this Approbation that he would make known unto his Majesty what an excellent work he had rendred into English and that he would have it printed and dispersed throughout the whole Kingdome Luther Col. loq ment in the Epistle Dedicatory And in token of his respect unto the Gentleman he presented him at that time with forty pound in gold by the same Chaplain whom before he had sent unto him FINIS

bandyed up and down with Animosity it gave Luther the occasion more strictly to examine some other Corruptions in the Church of Rome which he did with so much vigour that Pope Gregory the 13th understanding what great hurt and prejudice he received from it and fearing it might bring a further Contempt upon him he did exasperate Rodolphus the second at that time Empire that all the Books of Martin Luther should be burned and that it should be Death for any man to keep them in his House which Edict was not onely suddainly put in Execution by himself but it was continued also by Ferdinand the second who was a severe Enemy and a Persecutor of the Protestant Religion Luther long before this had Esponsed a Virgin whose Name was Katherine Bora she had sometimes entred hen self into a Cloyster of the Nuns but disliking many abuses she found therein before her year of Probation was expired she relinquished it This gave an occasion to the Monks and Friars to exclaime against Luther as having broken the Vow of Chastity Luthers Colloqua 445. but Luther had abandoned the Office of a Friar before neverthelesse he thus far declared himself That a Preacher of the Gospel being orderly called thereunto ought above all things to purify himself before he teacheth others and if he be able with a good Conscience to live unmarried it is his safest course to continue so but in case he cannot abstain and live chastly he is then to marry and to take a wife for God hath provided such a Remedy for that Infirmity I could here insert Luther's own Prayer before his Marriage Vide Luth. colloq 452. and the Reason why he took a Wife which was as he himself said to upbraid the Devil and to confound the filthy incontinent life in Popery which was so odious and abominable that Pope Leo himself was taken out of the World at that time when he was committing Buggery with a Prostituted Boy I could here also insert the lamentable Fruits of an unmarried Life in Priests and Nuns which have been so notorious that not onely in Rome and Germany but in England also and many other Places there have been found in Ponds and Cellars many thousand heads of Infants who thus desperately have been thrown away to preserve the Reputation of the Chastity of the Nuns and Friars But I must returne from whence a little I have digressed Luther's Name growing Famous in Germany for the great overthrows which he gave to many of the chiefest Professors of the Church of Rome and to the Supremacy of the Pope himself he was summoned by the Emperour to appear at the Imperial Diet at Worms which when the Prince Electour of Saxony understood he did earnestly disswade him from it alleaging that he should have the whole Christian world against him and although he was ready and willing to defend him yet Luther and he being but two persons they were unable to oppose so great a Multitude he there advised him not to undertake so dangerous a Journey but to be warned by the example of John Hus who although he had the Emperours Letters of safe Conduct to preserve him yet he was surprized there and consumed by fire to ashes Luther having heard the Elector to give him this council made answer to him that he must confesse Luthers Colloqu 433. that as the case now stood he was too weak to defend him neverthelesse he was resolved to go and to defend the Elector for although said he there be in Worms as many Devils as there be Tiles on all the Houses of the City yet I am resolved to go thither and to maintain what I have done and undertaken Many more such examples may be given of his Courage and his Confidence at the last when he saw that by his endeavours the Gospel began to flourish and to be preached not onely in Germany but other Countryes and that he had reaped the comfert of his Industry and his Study it pleased God to visite him with sicknesse at which time giving thanks unto God who had delivered him from so many Deceits and Assaults of his Merciless Enemies he composed these following Verses in Latine Quaesitus toties toties tibi Roma petitus Ille ego per Christum vivo Lutherus adhuc Vna mihi spes est quâ non fraudabor Jesus Hunc mihi dum teneam perfida Roma cave Which are thus in English Behold through Christ I Luther yet do live By Rome so often sought but I believe Christ Jesus is my onely hope by whom Whilest I do live take heed perfidious Rome Being a little recovered he was advised to take the Ayre which accordingly he did Luthers Prophecy on his own Death on the sixteenth of February in the year 1546. at what time he said when I come again to Wittembergh I will be lodged in a Coffin and will surrender to the Worms a sat Luther to feed upon and so it fell out for two days afterwards he was translated from this life unto a better and perceiving himself to grow fainter and draw near unto his end he called for Pen Inke and Paper and wrote this verse following to lye as it were an Epitaph upon his own Tomb. Pestis eram viven moriens ero mors tua Papa Living I was a Plague to thee Dying O! Pope thy Death I 'le be Which by Philip Melancthon was rendred in a Distich much after the same sence and manner Quidum vixit erat tua pestis Papa Lutherus Hic tibi causa suo funere mortis erit Luther who living was thy Plague he shall Cause by his death O Pope thy utter fall He lived sixty and three years and was buried at Isleben where he was born on the 19th of February 1546. Having given you this Account of his life we shall now passe unto his Prophecyes The Prophecies of Luther And above all His Prophecy conceining the Turk page 518. this is most remarkable The Turk saith he shall give a great Clap to Germany Me thinks I see him Marching through and through the whole Body of the Empire who so liveth one hundred years and upwards will see the same accomplished I oftentimes do contemplate thereupon and thinking on the great misery which will insue upon the Empire I do sweat thereat Neverthelesse Germany goeth on in sin and refuseth to be helped No humane power or potentate can beat the Turk but onely that Man who is named Christ as for the Emperour King Ferdimand and the Princes they can accomplish nothing It is observable that although Luther had Prophecied this of the Turk yet he had no good opinion of him How the Turk maketh War and prevaileth in it Luthers Colloq 519. for there being a great Commotion at that time in Germany concerning Religion the Turk desired to know what manner of man Luther was and of what years when it was told him that he was a Corpulent man and of about