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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

the victorie the thirteenth of September the fourteenth of September Sultan Syliman dyed before Segett and the seuenteenth the towne was taken the day following Sigismund the father of Augustus king of Polonia put to flight the armie of the Muscouits the day after Iames the king of Scots was slaine with many of his Nobilitie by the English in battayle He reciteth many moe examples besides which we may reade in the fourth booke of his De Republica where hee likewise affirmeth that there haue been many great Princes who haue dyed in that moneth and there he reciteth at least twentie But me thinkes as one well noteth that this should giue too much credit to the moneth of September to the preiudice of the other in that it hath force to change estates and that these curiosities are not to bee admitted of vs but to bee referred rather to the historicall Calender then to bee reputed a matter of sounde doctrine for what moneth is there which may not be authorised with like examples At least it is changed from his former naturall force in respect of that time present for the greatest alterations and change of states at this day and especially in the kingdome of France haue happened betwixt December and August The same may I alleadge likewise of the death of the greatest Lordes of France who dyed in other moneths and that the moneth of September hath almost lost his prerogatiue since For concerning the Princes which haue dyed of late in France and which haue brought notable change with them as we may see at this day we shal finde none which dyed in the moneth of September Mouns●ier Duke of Alenson and brother of the late King dyed in Iune 1584. and the tenth of that moneth The Prince of Orange whose death can neuer be sufficiently lamented nor the manner hated and abhorred likewise dyed the same day of Iuly following whose death was violent and practised by the Spanish treason in that manner that neuer historie in respect of the proscription hath made mention of the like vnlesse it be of Pyrats Robbers by sea and such who according to the lawes of nations haue euer been excluded from the benefit of faith trueth and loyaltie and consequently from all saftie for as Tullie writeth Pyrata non est ex perduellium numero definitus sed communis hostis omnium alioqui ius etiam bellicum fidesque iurisiurandi saepe cum hoste seruanda For instance we haue the memorable proscription of Crocotas the arch pyrat of whom Augustus the Emperor caused proclamation to be made by the sounde of his trumpet that whosoeuer would take him should haue a hundred twentie thousand crownes I onely alleadge this in respect of the most detestable murder of the worthie and vertuous Prince of Orange not long after the death of these two great personages followed the fatall ruines of the Lowe Countrey In one worde Catherine of Medices the Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall the King of France last slayne by that false Iacobin a murther written in Tymes forhead by the pen of aeternitie to astonish all posteritie these all happened from December to August and therefore mee thinkes September hath small vertue to induce vs to respect it But of all rules which I knowe worth the marking to iudge by of the falles of kingdomes Common wealths I finde none more renounced by Master Bodin then the numbers of seuen and nine and those which arise from the multiplication of these two and the perfect number of 496. which first is obserued by him and he saith the reason is because of the infinite wisdome of God who hath so disposed all things by number that kingdomes themselues after certaine yeres haue ordinarilie come to ende and that humane things fall not out by chance I confesse indeede concerning the criticall dayes whereof the seauenth day is called the King by Galen that from thēce are drawne strange meruailes of numbers applyed to weekes moneths yeares ages worlds and so to townes Common wealths and Kingdomes whereunto all that may bee referred which we haue spoken before of the periods of 500. of 250. of 700. yeares although I finde such contrarietie in the examples alleadged by Master Bodin for the confirming of these numbers that they are not firmly to be relied on as vndoubtedly true For to the intēt to haue them established more stronglie he alleadgeth the Romane fasts who as he sayth can neither faile nor lye But on the contrarie Onuphrius who hath corrected them iustly maketh a doubt And as Master Augier sayth he likewise would relye vpon the annales of Fabius pictor And in the first place the better to confirme his Square being the roote of the fatall number composed of twelue Twelues multiplied by 12. he saith that the Monarchie of Rome continued a hundred and fortie yeares which by the consent of all authors continued 244. yeares or thereabout and I finde another which saith it endured longer namely 245. yeares which cannot serue to fulfil the Cube of the fatall number but it is an exceeding fault to slippe a hundred yeares Furthermore to confirme one of the perfect numbers namely that of 196. and to shew the effect of it he sayth that since Augustus vnto Augustulus the last Emperour of the Romanes the one whereof he calleth by the name of Conquering the other of Diminishing there was 496. yeares where the Histories and Chronicles mention fiue hundred On the other side to the intent the better to ground his opinion of nūbers as likewise to shewe their force he alleadgeth that in holie scripture the law of GOD hath nothing so often as the 7. number be it either in the solemne feasts of the Sabboth or the seauenth moneth be it for the freeing of seruants and leauing the ground without tilth the seauenth yeare which was the yeare of Iubile But some doe reproue this for as much as that the places out of scripture implie naturally a rest or Sabboth whereas on the contrarie the seauenth alleadged for the fall and change of kingdomes is full of troubles depending on humane actions which number can neither be drawne out of the law of God either in plaine tearmes or by way of necessarie consequent yet for all this he confesseth that of those aboue named rules indifferently obserued of diuers authors there is none of necessitie whereupon wee may so iustly relye our selues as to set down a certaine iudgement of things to come seeing that the greatest part of those who haue been willing to iudge of the meanes rules surely touching the foresayd changes they haue oftē stayed themselues vpon Astronomie supposing that change of Kingdomes chieflie to depende vpon starres and celestiall causes whereunto God hath sometimes as it were tyed himselfe for the shewing of things to come wherein Satan as the Prince of the ayre maketh

the Poets song Claudianus O nimium dilecta Deo cui militat aether Et coniurati veniunt ad classica venti On the other side GOD reuealeth sometimes the truth of things to come by the meanes of some men who are of good life and fearing God wherein the dreame of Mardocay concerning Queene Esther his Neece of Aman as it is written in the booke of Hester shall serue vs for example In like manner the dreame of Anthonie the Hermit who dreamed that he sawe hogs which pulled down the Altars with their feet and awaking sayd that the Church of God should come to bee spoyled and wasted by whoremasters adulterers c. as afterward it came to passe Philip Melanchton noteth this prophesie against the voluptuous life of the Monks Priests Many such like dreames may be found out in the course of histories Now these dreames whereof wee haue spoken and all such as are of the same sort are acknowledged for good by the conformitie which they haue to the will of GOD and to the trueth of the dreame as God himselfe hath taught vs in the 23. of Ieremie saying The Prophet that hath a dreame let him tell a dreame and he that hath my word let him speake my word faithfully c. Furthermore the histories of all ages do teach vs that God manifesteth sometimes the trueth of some things by the meanes of inspiration onely without dreame which fashion of prophesying is put in the second degree of prophesies and this he doth when as one perceiueth waking somthing which entreth into his soule which he may vtter to the praise of God and his workes wherein God vseth such persons as it pleaseth him And although it may seeme needles to haue many prophecies by reason that by many visions and diuine reuelations continued in the holy Scripture wee are alreadie assured of Gods trueth and good pleasure yet notwithstanding histories besides experience haue declared vnto vs that we haue such daylie and that God neuer ceaseth to send aduertisements to men bee it by dreame vision or any other meanes to make them knowe his will to the intent to guide and gouerne them according to the same as well for the preseruing of Empires as of his people and his owne Church Then for example of such aduertisements and diuine inspirations whereof wee now speake wee haue that of the Christian Schoolemaster in Antioch with Lybianus the Sophister when as Iulian the Emperor and also the Apostata went against the Persians who demaunded what thinkest thou that the carpenters sonne doth The other answered him the Creator of all thinges whome thou scornefully callest the Carpenters sonne is making a Cofin to intombe Iulian and soone after the newes came that Iulian was slaine The most admirable foresight of the Philosopher Cratippus although he were a heathen deserueth to be accounted amongst diuine predictions who then when as Pompey demaunded of him if he were vanquisht in a iust cause and a farre better one then his enemies answered that a state and common wealth vitious and corrupt required a gouernour to bee a Monarch and that so the periods of Empires were fatall that the Common wealth of the Romans should change at that instant as afterward it happened to an absolute Monarchie The prediction of Saint Iohn the Euangelist is not amisse for this purpose who being in Ephesus and going to the Bathes founde in the same place Cerinthus the Sophister blaspheming the name of God hee hearing it said vnto his companions Let vs goe hence for this house will presently fall vpon the blasphemer and his auditors hee was no sooner gone but the house fell to the grounde vpon Cerinthus and his company We reade also in Iosephus that in the time of Herode there was a number of Pharisies who refused to sweare to the Emperor for that cause they weare constrayned to paye a great summe of money as a recompence which was payed for them by the wife of one Pheroras in recompence thereof one amongst them reuealed a certaine secret vnto her which hee said was inspired vnto him from God namelie that God had determined in his secret counsell to roote out Herode and all his race and that the end of his kingdome was at hand as afterward it happened But it cost the Pharisies deare to haue foretolde the death of Herode for hee made them al to be put to death before Like examples to these may easilie bee founde besides in histories heere and there in holy Scriptures which I omitte for breuitie sake The late Chronicles testifie of Iohn Husse Martyr that hee tolde before his death that the kingdome of the Pope should by little and little come to ruine and vtter decaye and that out of his ashes and cynders there should rise a Swan which should not bee rosted in the same sorte as that Goose was rosted speaking of himselfe for the worde Husse in the Bohemian tongue signifieth a Goose. He foretold also that his aduersaries a hundred yeares after his death should come to answer both God and him M. Peucer speaking of the same prediction saith that the effect followed for after the Synod of Constance till the beginning of the disputatiōs of M. Luther were counted a hundred yeares At the selfe same time was fulfilled the third and last period of the 500. yeares then that darknes of errors wherewith Gods Church had been dimmed began to be dispersed and vanish away The trueth of such like inspirations are knowne by their endes as the Prophet Ieremie testifieth saying The Prophet that shall foretell of peace when his speech shall come to passe then such a Prophet shall be knowne that the Lord sent him In truth principally then when it is perceiued by diuerse circumstances that the effect wholly dependeth vpon the will of God by reason of the changing of matters of importance which we see to happen likewise wee see that God serueth himselfe with whom it pleaseth him guiding and gouerning their spirites for the execution of his works according to his good pleasure For example of our times there is extant the prediction of one Paule Greber which hee made of the estates Common wealths of Europe of the house of Burgonie and of the Lowe Countries who amongst other things which he foretold whereof many haue come to passe he named the succession of the King of Nauarre to the Crowne of France in the yeare 1589. and proceeding further in the course of that matter hee promiseth greater things to the King of Nauarre and of the good successe which hee shall haue in his affaires and of the Lowe Countries that they shall speedilie bee deliuered from the tyrannie of Spaine in one worde as the prouerbe is Halcionia promittit But comming to the yeare 1590. hee telleth of the death of a great and mightie king enemy to the former