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A48496	Catastrophe mundi, or, Merlin reviv'd in a discourse of prophecies and predictions and their remarkable accomplishment : with Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut, and notes and observations thereon as also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies that are extant touching the grand revolutions like to happen in these latter ages / by a learned pen.	Learned pen.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681. Monarchy or no monarchy.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2214; ESTC R32469	37,157	144

dreadful plague or mortal Contagion amongst the Greeks a considerable time before it began to rage Did not Thales Milesius inrich himself by foreseeing a Scarcity of Olives in the Milesian Fields and buying up a great quantity before hand Did not Socrates foretell the death of Crito Sulla the Death of Caligula The Caldeans the Death and Parricide of Aggripina the Empress by her own Son Nero when he should come to be Emperour and yet so possess'd she was with the Devil of Ambition that she cry'd out Occidat modo Imperet I say with all my Heart Let him kill mee provided he may but Raign Alexander the Great was foretold his Fate by Calanits and Indian and that if he Entred Babylon it would prove fatal and he would dye there which came to pass accordingly Caesar had fair notice given him by Spurina to beware of the Ides of March and fell a sacrifice to his own Incredulity or Negligence in not observing that Caution Ascletarion the Mathematician being accused that he had predicted the Death of the Emperour Domitian The Emperor demanded of him whether he had so done or not And confessing that he had Then quoth the Emperor Pray Sir you that are so Skillful in finding out other Peoples Fate tell me what shall be your own To which he answered That he should very shortly be torn to pieces by Doggs Dominitian resolves as he thought utterly to spoil this Prediction and therefore having order'd him forthwith to be put to Death Causes his body to be laid in a very deep ditch and a great heap of Earth to be laid thereon that no Dogs should come near it But mighty Rains happening washt away the new unsetled Earth and Dogs did accordingly tear his Body And soon after Domitian's Death confirmed the residue of his Prediction Rantzovivus a Noble and Learned Dame p. 99. tells us That the Astrologer of the Emperour Frederiek the Second being question'd by him why he paid so much respect to Rodolphus Earl of Haspurgh than but a poor Retainer to the Court Answered Because all thy Sons being Dead and the Emperour at that time had no fewer than 10 alive He and his Posterity shall come to and Enjoy those Kingdomes whieh now your Majesty does possess Which was answered with a punctual Success Rodolphus being Elected King of the Romans by the Germans Anno 1273. And page 97. he Relates That one Master Christian an Astrologer of Prague Admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by a Priest that belonged to him Anno 1434. That he should beware of Death that year for that many Planets were then Conjoin'd and there would be an Ecclipse of the Moon under the Earth and accordingly the same year he was Lodg'd in his Grave In the same page he gives that Remarkable Instance of the Incomparably Learned Johannes Picus Mirandula having written and Published a very smart Treatise against Astrology several Artists viz. Bellantius of Sena Antonius Sirigatus a Florentine and Angelus de Catastiris a Carmelite That they might demonstrate the Truth of their Art and Convince him of his Mistake positively told him in their publick Writings That he himself should not Escape or Survive the 33d year of his Age by reason of the Direction of the Ascendant in his Nativity to the Body of Mars who flattering himself with a false Conceit As if he could wrangle away Death or elude the Significations of his Stars by Writing against Astrology indeavouring to prove the Art vain his Death concurring exactly which the Time predicted Confirmed the same Art to be true and more actually Confuted all that he had written against it Than if all the World besides had Conspired to Answer him Fulgosius Lib. 8. Ca. 11. Records the wondrous exploits perform'd by Guido Bonatus the Astrologer at Forly in Italy at what time that City was close Besiedg'd For he Elected or fortold a Lucky Day for Guido Earl of Montferrat wherein if he would make a Sally he should rout his Enemies and obtain over them a Compleat Victory but not without receiving a slight wound in the Knee And that the Earl might be more assured of what he so foretold Bonatus would needs march out along with him and carryed Towe and Eggs and other Necessaries for dressing his wound And in the Engagement the Enemy was vanquisht and the Earl wounded punctually in the place foretold Regiomontanus a little before his death at Rome viz. in the year 1475. One hundred and Thirteen yares before it came pointed out the year 1588. as a time of most signal Revolutions and grand Transactions in the world And to the same purpose there was a Prophecy publisht in High Dutch as followeth Tansen funfhundert achtzitchtacht Das ist das iar das ich betracht Geth in dem de weltnixt under Geschicht doth groz merklich wunder Which I have found thus paraphras'd into Latine Post mille expletos a partu Virginis Annos Et post Quingentos rursus ab Orbe datos Octogesimus Octavus mirabilis Annus Ingruet is secum tristia Fata feret Si non hoc Anno totus malus occidet Orbis Si non in Nihilum terra fretumque ruet Cuncta tamen mundi Sursum ibunt atque retrorsum Imperia Luctus undique grandis erit And may bee thus English From Christo Birth count a Thousand Years compleat And add five hundred more with Eighty Eight That year approaching all men will affright With wofull Terrors which on them will light If the whole world to ruin do not run Or into nothing Land and Seas bee done At least most Realms shall Topsy Turvy turn And men on all sides Lamentably mourn Now if wee examine our Chronicles wee shall find most memorable passages in diverse parts of the world to have happend in that year Was it not unusual and strange That Poland this year should have three Kings assuming the Title whilst the Fourth viz. Stephen Battori was yet unburied Namely Sigismund the Swede Maximilian the Emperors Brother and Henry Valois of France Of which three Maximiliam in the begining of this year was taken prisoner his Army Cut in pieces and by means there of many thousands of men women and Children carryed away Captives by the Tartars That Suedeland in the mean tyme was all in a Combustion which Tumults and lost severall strong Places to the Muscovite The Muscovite himself ran madd and lost his witts The King of Denmark Frederick the Second dyed In France there happend The Barricado of Paris The flight of the King from thence The slaughter of the great Duke of Guise and his brother the Cardinal of Lorrain The Death of the Queen Mother The poisoning of the Prince of Condee and the Overthrow which the King of Navarre gave unto Duke Mercoeurs All which gave that Kingdome sufficient Cause to think 88. a year Extraordinary At the same tyme the Duke of Savoy prepared his Army and surprized the French Kings cheif Magazine in Saluze The Sophy of

Persia dyed The Turks suffered great Defeats in Hungary And in Constantinople by reason of false moneys paid to the Janizaries they fell into a Mutiny Compell'd the Grand Seignior to deliver up his cheifest Favourites to bee put to Death set fire on the Jews Houses and spoiled their goods by which means above 12 thousand Houses were burnt down to the Ground in that City And nearer home did not the world with wonder behold the Spanish Armado which they foolishly called Invincible shatter'd to pieces by the valour of the English A loss that the Spanish Monarchy has not recovered to this day In a word saith Gallo Belgicus Ortu solis usque ad occasum nullus ferme remansit locus in quo non miratu dignum aliquid hoc Anno contigerit From the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof there was scarce any place in which something wonderful did not happen 'T is a very odd Story which is credibly related of King James how he was premonisht of his death by a Dream wherein his old Master Buchanan appeared unto him in his sleep and gave him these two Verses Sexte verere Deum tibi vitae Terminus instat Cum tua cadenti flagrat Carbunculus igne Sixth James see thou to God do humbly turn Thy Fate draws near and men thy death shall mourn When in the Fire thy Carbuncle shall Burn. King James was the sixth of that name of Scotland and next morning he told his Bed-chamber-men and several of the Lords repeating the verses and averring that he did not make them The success was this The King had a very large and fair Carbuncle Stone usually set in his Hat and sitting by the Fire not long after this great Carbuncle fell off into the Fire and a Scotish Lord took it up and 't was observed the King sickened and dyed very shortly after I shall conclude with that most positive prediction of Michael Nostradamus of St. Remy in France Physitian to the King and a great Mathematician and Astrologer who dyed the second of July 1566. In his Book of Quadrins in French Printed 1555. wherein he very plainly foretells the horrid and detestable Murther of King Charles the First by his own Subjects before his own Palace And in Quadrin 51. thus evidently forespeaks the Burning of London and expresses the very year 66. in these words Le Langue du Juste a Londres fera faut Bruslez par Foudres de vingt trois les six La Dame Antique cherra de place haut De mesme Seicle plusieurs serront Occis Which may thus be Englisht For th' Blood o' th Just a London spilt the same In Sixty Six shall all be in a Flame That Antient Dame shall in the Dust complain And many of the same Sect shall be slain But we are affraid we have already wearied the Reader with these past Stories and therefore now proceed to gratify such whose Curiosity delights in such matters with Mr. Lillies Hieroglyphicks as they were by him publisht 1651. with only this following Preface Mr. Lillies Account of his Hieroglyphicks HAd the Courtesie of the present times deserved it at my hands thou hadst seen an Explanation of the following Pages which in Aenigmatical Types Forms Figures Shapes doth perfectly represent the future Condition of the English Nation for many hundred of years yet to come I have borrowed so much time from my Morning-sleep as hath brought forth these Conceptions You that Read these Lines must know I do no new thing I do herein but imitate the Antients who so often as they resolved to conceal their Intentions from prophane Hands used Hieroglyphicks Images c. The Egyptian Priests were herein excellent and their Judgment commendable Our Saviour also himself commendeth Ne detur sacrum Canibus If Providence shall hereafter assign me a quiet life and prolong my years I may then perhaps leave unto the Sons of Art the several Changes of every Kingdom and Commonwealth in Europe in such-like Characters as these which now follow Notes or Observations on the foregoing Figures and the Nature of Hieroglyphicks in General EGypt the fruitful Parent of so many Miracles has alwayes boasted her self one of the most Early Nurses of Learning The Grecians in the Days of Solon Pythagoras Herodotus and Plato Travel'd ●hither for the Knowledge of Nature and the Acquisition of those Sciences which rendred them so famous But the Egyptian Priests ●nto whom it belonged to teach did never ●ivulge their Doctrines without a Shadow or some dark Representation sufficient and very ●pt in it self to denote the matter they intend●d many times more significantly than many words could do yet not so obvious to be understood by the vulgar whereby they Imagined they kept their Mysteries from Pro●●nation Especially those which related to ●●eir Gods and Nature were wrapt up in certain visible Shapes and Forms of Creatures those Inclinations and Dispositions did lead ●o the knowledge of the Truths intended or Instruction and they by a peculiar name ●ere called Hieroglyphicks derived from the Two Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sacred an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Ingrave as much as to say a Holy Inscription or Sacred Engravement Because all their Divinity Philosophy an● choicest Secrets were comprehended in thes● ingenious Characters Nor were they only Contriv'd to hinder the sublime knowledge of Philosophy fro● being profaned But also that they mig●● Abbreviate the diffused Notions of that Science and fit them for a more easy Comprehension and better Retention in their Memories Every Name is an Abreviation of a Thing but it is not able to give such a perfect Idea of the Properties and hidden Qualities of the things intimated as the Picture of them in a witty Hieroglyphick And further the Egyptians by these Inventions had a design to render their Knowledge Immortal● for which purpose they did Ingrave them upon Obelisks and Pillars of Marble and thi● long before the use of Paper an Invention originally too of the same Country being composed at first of the Flakes of certain Sedgie Reeds growing on the Banks of the Nilt● called Papyri moistned with the glutinou● water of the River then press'd together and afterwards dry'd in the Sun as is Evident from those Verses of the lofty Luccan ●ondum flumineos Memphis contexere Libros ●overat in Saxis tantum Volucresque feraeque ●ulptaque Servabunt Magicas Animalia Linguas ●emphis yet knew not how with Reeds to frame ●or Books but Birds and Beasts Letters became ●nd Animals Engrav'd on lasting stone ●ith Magick Tongues Learning preserv'd a●one Nor did they only express particular ●ngs and some Secret Knowledge by ●eir Hieroglyphicks but also whole Sentences ●riting all their Rules and Precepts rela●●g to the Worship of their Gods or to the ●●vernment of the Kingdom in this manner ●ich will not appear strange or incredible such as have Convers'd in the East-Indies to t is known that there to this day there three or four

of September 1682. there will first be a Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and upon the Twelfth Day of the same Month in the aforesaid Year there will be another Conjunction of Tory Mars with Saturn in the Seventeenth Degree of the same Sign and again in December following there happens a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter also in or near Twenty Degrees thereof and both swift motion Then matters Treasons Consultations Treachery of Subjects against their Superiors are Plotting Contriving or Agitating some Years before this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is Celebrated Those pretending to Religion or such as are Famous for Schisms Haeresies or of different Judgments from the Profession of that Religion which is establisht by Authority will for some Years grumble and repine for Restriction of their Consciences as the will term it and the nearer the time of the Conjunction it self or a little after we fear greater disturbances of those Nations and the Princes they live under disquieting their Governours and this for Conscience-sake as they pretend But in some Nations Breach of the Peoples just Priviledges Ancient Customs and former enjoy'd Rights will animate the Generality to a strong and sturdy Rebellion and countenance that Translation of Monarchy mentioned by Trithemius Certainly you Princes of Italy as also the Roman Pontisex or Conclave of Cardinals of the See of Rome will all of you find great and most grievous distempers in your Governments near the time limited So will many People and Nations subject to the Fiery Triplicity and this Evil will be the more aggravated to those Kingdoms or Governments subject to the Signs Taurus Leo Scorpio and Aquary Many believe the last Age of the World is at hand we verily conjecture that a troublesome and vexatious time is approaching upon most Nations of Europe wherein those pretending to Religion whether Papists or Protestants will shew little mercy or compassion to those persons whose unhappiness it will be to fall under their subjection The Coadunation of so many Planets in the Sign Leo in the Year 1682. gives very rational grounds to predict the appearance of another Comet very strange Apparitions in the Air or some Prodigious Meteors either preceding that Conjunction or subsequent in a short time after And we also are fearful that some more than ordinary Fire or Fires may afflict or do considerable damage to many Cities of Europe God keep this Judgment ●om the City of London and Bless her Inhabitants with much Health and Prosperity and ●eliver her from another Plague or Pestilen●al distemper in those Years Thus Lilly divers Years since wherein his ●rediction of a Comet in 82. which exactly ●appened in August last being visible both morning and evening for many Nights his mentioning the Word Tory which when he wrote was not in use though since the occasion of many Animosities his Menaces of more mischief by Fire sadly felt by the poor Inhabitants of Wapping near London on the Nineteenth of November this present Year 1682. whereby about 1000 houses were consumed are very remarkable and how far the rest may answer Truth time may shew A Prophecy found in the Library of Salizarius of Heidelburg in Germany almost 200 years since THere shall a King arise out of the Nation of the most Illustrious Lilly having a long Forehead high Brows great Eyes and an Eagles Nose He shall gather a great Army and destroy all the Tyrants of his Kingdom and ●ay all that fly into Mountains and Caves from his Face for Righteousness shall be joyned unto him as the Bridegroom unto the Bride With them he shall wage War even unto the Fortieth year bringing into subjection the ●landers Spaniards and Italians Rome and Florence he shall destroy and burn with fire so as Salt may be sowed ●n that Land The greatest Clergy-men who have Invaded Peter's Seat he shall put to death and in the same year obtain a double Crown At last going over-Sea with A great Army he shall enter Greece and be named King of the Greeks The Turks and Barbarians he shall subdue making an Edict That every one shall die the Death that worshippeth not the crucified One and none shall be found able to resist him because an Holy Arm from the Lord shall alway● be with him and he shall be with him and he shall possess the Dominions of the Earth These things being done h● shall be called The Rest of the Holy Christians The Apocalyptical Interpreters adventuring to sail in the vast Ocean of Futurity have most-timeS ship-wrackt their judgment and credit do the Rocks of Presumption ye● I shall presume here to add the words of that Reverend French Divine Peter du Moulin in his Book Intituled The Accomplishment of Prophecies Translated into English Anno 1613 Page 411. as follows As for the time of three days and an half during which the Bodies of the faithful Witnesses shall be cast out through all the Quarters of the Roman Church It is manifest that S. John doth hereby shew us how long the Persecution of the Church under the Roman Hierarchy must continue For to know how long this time shall endure and to how much the Three Days and an half will amount unto we are to note that Three Days and an half make half a Week which gives us to understand that the Holy Ghost here under the name of a Week doth comprehend the whole time of the Beast's Reign and doth advertise us that the Persecution shall last half the time of this Reign Since therefore he shall Reign 1260 years as we have shewed before it followeth that the Roman Hierarchy shall persecute the Faithful 630 years Now I do not find that the Church of Rome did begin to persecute and is use cruelty in general against all that did withstand her Doctrine till the time of Berengarius whom Pope Nicholas the Second compelled to Recant by force in the year 1059 and ever since the Popes have persecuted such as have maintained the same Doctrine If then you add the 630 years to 1059 years you shall find that the persecution of the Church under the Pope shall have an end in the year of our Lord 1689. This Term once expired the Truth that was oppressed shall lift up her head afresh and the faithful Witnesses shall be seen to stand up again who shall astonish the Church of Rome The Prediction of the most Learned and pious Archbishop Vsher is very remarkable as it was printed above a years ago with Licence and the Truth of the matter of Fact therein delivered never that I know of denied out confirmed by many which in short was thus That the year before this holy Primate died who was buried in the Abbey at Westminister 17 of April 1656. The Vsurper Cromwel allowing 200 l. towards his Funeral so great his Worth that it even charmed that Tyrant otherwise far from being a Friend to any of his Profe●sson An intimate Friend of the Archbishop's asking him amongst other