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A34097	A generall table of Europe, representing the present and future state thereof viz. the present governments, languages, religions, foundations, and revolutions both of governments and religions, the future mutations, revolutions, government, and religion of christendom and of the world &c. / from the prophecies of the three late German prophets, Kotterus, Christina, and Drabricius, &c., all collected out of the originals, for the common use and information of the English.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing C5507A; ESTC R24277	200,382	315

corruption of manners which make the whole Creation of Church and State groan for ease and deliverance from such heavy burdens all these things I say seem to forspeak or intimate some dreadful matter drawing neer Methinks one may hear as the sounding of the Hoofs of Horses at hand and that all things will not continue still as to this day for ever The sixth day or thousandth year of the world is drawing on towards Evening and the Sabbath of the world to begin c. The number of the Beast 666. almost reckoned If we expect the number of years from the Birth and Death of Christ Behold 1666 is the number of this Age. 〈◊〉 the number of a man some more curious and witty parhaps then wise and prudent would have spelt it out of the last Popes Name Office or Title thus ALeXanDer EpIsCopVs RoMae which is 1666. or out of all his Names only viz. Christian Name Sirnam and added Name thus FabIVs ChIsIVs ALeXanDer which makes 666. the number of a Mans name Then some have added thereto VII viz. Alexander VII which makes 666. or 1666. and VII over which VII if you add to the VII of Alexanders name make XIV and shews the XIV chapter of the Revelations where first is shewn Babylon is fallen is fallen And they have observed it as ominous also in the present King of France's Name LVDoVICVs XIV Behold 666 and XIV over And because these are past parhaps the same francyful wits may rove still upon the XIV over c. And so there will be no end of such imaginations c. And therefore we pass by all such witty conceits as to unworthy of so great a Mystery more solid is that of a Prophet amongst our selves reckoning 1666 from the death of Christ whereby he got the Victory over all his Enemies rather then from his Birth though the foundation was laid there Further of the year 1670. I know not why Philip Nicholai wrote That if it did not bring the end of the world yet it should bring some wonderful and unexpected alteration of things But we pass over these and such like things c. and come to Revelations truly divine or which to be sure are most strange if not true Judge nothing before the time But first by the way we will entertain our Reader with the proud Sultans defiance of Christendom who first in disdain of the Emperor and all Christian Princes had struck off eight hundered Prisoners Heads before the Emperors Embassador himself Though indeed notwithstanding a fickle Peace has since been patch'd up and his power bent only against the Venetians c. The Great Turkes Letter of Defiance to the Emperor upon his last Incursion into Hungary with an Army of 250000. men besides his Tartarian Hirelings after the year 1660. Mahomet Son of the Emperor Son of God thrice Heavenly and thrice known by the renowned Emperor of the Turks King of Greece Macedonia and Moldavia King in Samaria and Hungaria King of Great and Lesser Egypt King of all the inhabitans of the Earth and the earthly Paradise Gaurdian of the Sepulchre of thy God Lord of the Tree of Life Lord of all the Emperors of the World from the east even to the west King of all Kings grand Persecutor of the Christians and all the wicked the Joy of the flourishing Tree the Chieftain and Gaurdian of thy Crucified God Lord of the Hope of thy Nation WE send greeting to thee Emperor Leopold if thou wilt be our Friend and submit to our Domination then we will that thy Greatness be Ample Since these times thou hast violated and shunned our freindship without having ever been offended either by War or the fighting of God Thou hast taken secret designs with other Kings and other Confederates in envy to shake of our yoak in which thou hast done imprudently This is it for which thou and thy People ought to live in fear to have no other hope but death for which cause thou hast prepared thy self But we tell thee that we will go forth and be thy Conquerour and we will pursue thee from the East even to the West and will make thee know our Majesty even to the utmost confines of the Earth thou shalt know our effects to thy great damage of which we assure thee and will have thee to expect our Greatness Thy hope shall melt away which thou hast in thy Cities and Fortresses We resolve absolutely to beat down and raze all that appeareth any thing considerable to thine Eyes And thou shouldst not expect any other thing or friendship and shouldst not put confidence in thy strong Walls for we have set up a resolution to destroy thee without remedy It pleaseth us to forrage Germany and to leave it behind us to the memory of our Bloudy Sword to the end all these things may be manifest to all It pleaseth us to establish our Religion and root out thy crucifi'd God And we fear no colours neither can there be any succour for thee that thou mayst escape our hands It pleaseth us also to condemn to the Chain thy holy Priests and to deliver to the Dogs and other Savage Beasts the dugs of thy Women Therefore thou shalt do very wisely if thou renounce thy Religion Otherwayes we do order and appoint that all be delivered to the fire This which is said may satisfie thee and thou mayst comprehend by this if thou wilt what our will is and the things concerning which we have discover'd the disposition of our suspition towards thee Then besieging Newhausal his General sends this proud Summons I that through the Grace of God and through the Miracles of our Prophet who is the Son of both Worlds and by whom there is Happiness and Glory I that am the first of the Council and General of the most mighty Emperor of the Turks that is the King of all Kings upon Earth to you Adam Forgats that are the cheif among the Nobility of Hungary do make known that through the command of my gracious Lord I am come with his forces before Newhausel to reduce it to his obedience Wherefore if you shall deliver up the place to us you shall have liberty to march out with what belongs to you from the Highest to the Lowest and to what place you please And he that will rather stay shall keep his goods and Estate But if you will not yeeld we will take it by force every man of ye from the Highest to the Lowest shall be put to the Sword If the Hungarians did but know the good intentions of the mighty Emperor they and their Childern would Bless God for them Peace be to the Obedient But to the business namely Debricius's Revelations But we must indeavour briefly first to prevent all occasion of prejudice and rash and indiscreet judgment and sensures of the impenitent unbeleiving and erring World By telling how they have been approved of as truly from God by most Godly

6. Horrible and desperate temptations of the Devil overcome vanquish'd wonderfully by the Divine Power and Presence with her in her Visions or Extasies in more then an ordinary manner 7. Something inflicted by Gods immediate hand in a Vision to remain all the dayes of her life to humble her but she discovered not what it was 8. Her wonderful Death and indeed Resurrection as we may say All which her Tutour Comenius was an Eye witness of This last we will give you more fully and particularly for the confirmation of all The Virgin struck with an Apoplexy and forwarned by divers Signs of imminent Death On the second of Jan. 1629. at break of day desiring to rise from her Bed she beheld a Woman all in Mourning Habit with a Vail covering her face all over standing by With which sight affrighted she leapt out of Bed and her Chamber and told not till three dayes after upon occasion what she had seen Eight dayes after she was warned by an Angel of an Apoplexy to befal her speedily Which Dream having wrote down as all her former she declared to none At night rising from supper she fell down suddenly struck with a Dead Palsie on her Tongue Right Hand and Foot c. Next day at night calling for her Tutor Comenius she declared to him her approaching death by an Apoplexy She also heard strange knocking 's and as it were strikings of a Clock for several hours At last one of the company a Senatour and Magistrate of the City said I have counted the strokes now twice they are thirteen Then they all counted and found just so many six several times over Afterwards it sounded three times four and one besides By and by four times three and one again six times two and one and then two times six and one Infine the same number thirteen repeated eighteen times over and then ceased They all then began to presage her death thirteen dayes after The next day also in the presence of much company was heard a noise preceeding intimating that it was about to strike It struck then twelve nine times The next day only eleven four times And ceased till the day before her death which happened just thirteen days after accordingly A Certain Pastour coming and speaking to comfort and prepare her against approaching Death She said when he was gone to her Tutour Comenius That good old man little thinks that he must first of all the Pastors pass into the Eternal Country Being asked How she knew I was now with the Lord said she And I saw Pastors who live here coming one after another of whom he was first Comenius asked what Pastors she reckoned up several even Stadius a lusty strong and healfull man and younger then all the rest Comenius then asked concerning himself I saw not you said she and therefore I asked the Lord who answered he cannot come yet For he have some yet to reconcile It fell out accordingly The said Minister went first and one after another even Stadius himself at last in the fourtieth year of his age An. 1634. and Comenius yet lives now fourty years since who testifies all these things to be true as in the sight of God whose Testimony the world knows too well to be slighted But to return to her Several Students desiring some written remembrance from her she not only wrote her own name but also places of Scripture and with her left hand though never before as well as ever with her right And on the very day of her death she gave to her Tutour Comenius her Bohemian Psalter and wrote in the Frontispeece an excellent Valedictory Ejaculation as it yet remains to be seen Bring back Jehova our Captives like streams into a dry Land c. And underneath This I have written for a Remembrance to my Nursing and Beloved Father in Christ J. A. Comenius Christina Poniatovia The night before her death several present One knocked at the Gate They open'd and saw no body So that they were all aston shed Then presently they heard knocking 's by her Bed side two several times All present rising up amazed strokes were heard upon the Table whereat they all sat before five several times After Singing Psalmes c. She desired all to depart and leave her a light that she should pass that night waking and ordered Pen Ink and Paper to be brought her and wrote with her left hand 1. Her Will 2. An Epistle to her Lady where she resided and 3. The forementioned Valediction to her Tutour and spent the rest of her time in reading and prayer After midnight she heard knocking again and a Voice Come come come Next morning she said she waited for five a clock at night and bid farewel to all that came to visit her About three a clock the Superintendents of the Bohemian Church with some other Pastors thought good to examine her of her Faith Hope and Conscience specially in the business of her Visions Whether she did yet assert to have them truly from God whether that was certain whether she was sufficiently assured That she would confess now being about to go into the presence of the Eternal Judge what ever she was Conscious to her self of She answered as truly as God is God so truly are these Revelations his Work Which God will make your Eyes to see Being asked had she then written and sealed what she had revealed to her in good Faith and Truth She answered whatsoever I have heard and was commanded to be written is all written not one tittle omited added or altered And for the things I saw in Visions I have expressed as well as I could in my own words but with no fraud or counterfetting God knows Then she blessed them c. Her Death and Resurrection Half an hour before five she would be lifted up out of her Bed And then cryed out Lord Jesus have Mercy upon me and put an end to my pains About five she bad her last farewel to all with her left hand being not able with her right c. And after prayers of all present she fell into a fit and so quietly departed But after some time all went away save two Ladies and Comenius with the Nurses and when her feet and hands were quite grown cold and stiff like any dead person's Then those Ladies and Comenius also departed leaving the Nurses to lay her out But whilst they were yet going out of the door one of the Nurses cryes out They looking back saw her risen straight upright upon the Bed and asking for her cloaths Comenius intreats them to leave her and went down with them full of fear and trembling All leaving only their attendants to relate what was done Comenius returns goes into his Study But Behold She was now dressed and stood at the Wather-cistern washing her Hands and Face and his Wife with two other Nurses looking on Comenius stood astonished My Christina what is the matter In the

these things Let it suffice I say and serve for a caution I if it shall please the Lord to call me hence will seal it with my Death that I have forwarned that the Church no more offend in this kind And that not one or two or three usurp power to determine of such matters which regard the judgement to the whole Church and so of Posterity it self also Yea and if any one dare commit this Book to the fire such a one as he I cite to the Tribunal of Christ there to give an account of his inordinate passion and affection I wrote these things with mine owne hand so dictating an Heart full of the fear of God J. A. Comenius And yet further before we end this long preface which so mainly concerns the validity of all that follows and is for an Apology Those that do not must know that our Authour Comenius is the only surviving Superintendent or Bishop of the Bohemian Church now in Exile fourty years and over A man of universal knowledge and learning of a large and delusive spirit and of a sincere and single heart as all Christendom can bear witness of A true Virtuoso of all Divine and Humane Science and Experiance A man given to no fancies and whimsies nor self-ends and designs But of vast and universal Aims and desires for the universal good of Mankind the World and the Church and one that hath sore travalled for the promoting of universal Knowledge Literature Art Sience and Virtue both Humane and Divine as appears by the Janua Linguarum and his other labours and more particularly his late Treatise for the spreading of Light Knowledg universally dedicated to the Royal Society of Englands Virtuoso's And lastly one that most severely rebuked Drabricius for still persisting in his wild Fancies and Dreams as he then thought till he was at length convinced of the Finger of God therein as appears by the concertation he had with him as follows Drabricius in his Visions had promised him an Associate called his Adjunct to help carry on this work of God in the World which was this Comenius And indeed who so sit And first he was commanded by the Lord to inform Comenius of his first Visions and to send them to him which accordingly he did about An. 1644. And this was all that ever Comenius had to do concerning them till 1650. when after that the General Peace of Munster seemed to defeat all their hopes and expectations Comenius was by Providence unexpectedly brought into those Parts again about Affairs of the Church There Drabricius was urgent with him to go to the Prince He replyed What do you hear my Brother Are not you awake yet out of your Dreams Condemning as well as others all of Vanity Because they did not reach the prophetick gravity of Stile like Cotterus's and Christina's and the events seemed to answer much less You first offer'd the Crown to the Father and now deluded of that Hope you would go to the Son In the name of God see what you do and desist to delude your self and others The man shed Tears and lifting up his Eyes and Hands I could twice wash my self with my Tears sayes he As much as has already been powred forth of them that God would spare me miserable man But I cannot obtain Have you then Visions yet said Comenius It is a bove a year said he that I have had none yet I know that there is not an end of them How do you know The Lord told me sayes he and commanded that they should be sealed and kept for your coming and delivered to you For that you should come into this Land Behold Here I deliver them and besought him to read them Do not you faigne this I pray said Comenius He calls God to witness Comenius asked when did you hear that concerning my coming hither Three years since said he presently after the Princes death when through impatience of these mockeries I would have burnt those But the Lord forbad you will find it there written Comenius upon Meditation Prayer and Conference with Friends found his mind changed So many causes offering themselves for taking a Journey to the Prince which before he had not observed And calling his Brethren to pray together he did accordingly c. And so afterwards the Visions returned to Drabricius again more solemn then before and ever since to this time In which at diveres times Comenius was commanded from the Lord to write them to translate them into the Latin Tongue to divulge them speedily through all publick places and streets of the World to translate the Bible into the Turkish Language to communicate them to Kings and Princes and all Orders of men and being backward and wavering was still commanded pressed and threatned to go on to write and publish them and to invocate and to cry aloud upon all Nations of the Earth in order to the accomplishment and execution of these things c. All which this Adjunct of the Lords Prophet not daring to tergiversate or be disobedient to Gods call has done as well as he could or is about to do and durst not but do Accordingly therefore this excellent Man begins with the dedication and consecration of the whole to Christ Jesus himself and an appeal to him The Eternal Word Wisdom and Truth c. Hear us King of Glory now crying unto thee for thy Glory sake and thou who art our Sun shew us clearly to all under the Sun as the clear Sun doth all things visible at noon day what there is in these leaves whether it be thy Light and Truth or the frauds of thy black Enemy Amen! Amen! Amen! O Light of the World we appeal in exposing this thy Cause to the publick view of men against the Prince of Darkness we appeal from the Darkness to the Light from the prejudice of fools to the judgement of the wise from the rashness of the prophane to the reverence of the Godly from the ill informed to the better informed finally from every humane Tribunal to thy Tribunal it self Thou King of Kings in whose hands are the hearts of King as Rivers of Water to turn them which way thou wilt give unto all that shall go about to judge of these things a teachable heart like Solomons to judge rightly of things and to discern between good and evil He that reads let him understand The next Dedication is to all Kings and Powers all Crowned Heads and Vice-Gods of the Christian World c. If any thing yet remain to be done seriously about these things this one thing is it By an accurate and solemn Inquisition to examine whether these things be truly so or no or whether humane figments only cover'd with the Cloak of divine Revelations and that then if any fraud be detected the false witnesses to be punished according to the Laws of God and man We fly therefore to your Tribunal O Kings for such a scruting

scattered by him and so those things come to pass which have been foretold thee I answered thereunto Lord thou knowest that thy Eternal Delights are sweeter to me then all those things which thou revealest unto me But he rebuked my impatience dehorting me from weariness so he went away from me Now all the following year 1628 He made no mention of my life or death except in the last Vision Moreover that I was to undergoe also one disease Then in 1629. January the 9 th It was declared unto me by an Angel that I should be visited from the Lord in a Dream with a Disease by name the Apoplexy which also came the same day in the evening I therefore because the year was now gone the Visions had now ceased believed that the very time was now approaching which the Lord had spoke concerning And that I should not now escape this Disease I therefore prepared my self in mind and conscience and my desire was to be dissolved and to be with Christ Which hope certain antecedent signs also did strengthen As were certain knocking 's or beatings under my Bed and under the next Table four several evenings many that visited me being present and hearing so iterated that each day the number was less by one stroak At length on the 26 th of January it sounded one and afterwards five which having heard I believed as also the rest That one only day of my life was now remaining and an end to be to morrow evening at five a clock Therefore watching all that night and praying and meditating on eternal life and this blessed departure I decreed to pass hence But hearing by night a certain voice as it were of a man three times Come come come Unusual Joy being shed abroad through my Soul I slept a little But Saturday morning at break of day when more vehement pains oppressed me I could not but interpret that Voice to have been a Divine Call I bad farewel therefore to my beloved Friends visiting me all that day And I was alwayes worse and worse till evening approaching my Sight Hearing Memory Speech and at length my Spirit failed me And I felt my self to go forth with my Spirit and to be carried into Heaven where surrounded with a great shining I saw an huge company cloathed in White And the Lord stepping forth took me in his imbrace saying The Lord hath done whatsoever he would in Heaven and in Earth For the Majesty of his Power is exalted and there is no counsel of his Will nor does it admit any For who hath known the mind of the Lord and who hath been his Counsellor Return therefore unto the place from whence thou art come forth and the breath of the most High shall vivify thee Arise walk farewel to thy Disease and behold the goodness of Jehovah in the Land of the Living exulting in his virtue For the dead shall not praise Jehovah nor admire his Works when they go down into the place of Silence but the living the living shall bless thee from this time and for ever God Jehovah dwells on high and hath exalted his Right Hand over all Nations And does wonderful things as it pleases him at all times He is the God of the living who also draws forth out of death and who gives life even for ever Therefore sadded with these things I begged that he would signifie unto me How many the dayes of my life should be But he said Thy times are in the hand of the Lord. He has measured thy years and hid thy term from thee Live therefore and injoy the goodness of God upon the Earth amongst his Saints But sanctifie thy years to God thy Creator and live righteously But thy reward and thy portion shall not wither away nor perish but thou shalt find it and shalt rejoyce concerning it and in it unto eternity That also which the most High does with thee accept gratefully and go not contrary to thy Creator by thy impatience Go thy wayes now and return for it is Jehovah who doth good to thee and hath a care of thee Therefore offer unto him the sacrifice of praise and render thy Vows to the most High giving thanks also unto him that he works the Work of Salvation in thee and will still work even until he shall blessedly finish it unto the praise of his Grace but unto thy Honour I wish use thee no more unto my works neither will I come unto thee Now therefore glorifie God in thy Body and Spirit which he hath given thee Acquiesce now in Heart and Conscience and give honour to God who doth all these things to the praise of his glorious Grace My Peace be with thee After he had said these things I falling down worshipped him And together also returned into life Sad indeed yet restored that very moment to full vigor and health and strength To this great God be Honour Praise and Empire unto Ages of Ages for ever Amen Come we next to Drabricius's Dedication of all to Christ which he was commanded to prefix before his Prophesies together with his last Protestation and Prayer c. To the most Serene most Invincible King of Kings and Lord of Lords JESUS CHRIST the Eternal and only begotten Son of God and the Virgin Mary who is the Alpha and Omega the first Born from the Dead whose Name is Wonderful Counsellor the Mighty God the Everlasting Father who hath loved us and given us good hope through Grace To whom only is due all Kingdom Power and Empire unto all everlasting Ages Amen! Hallelujah ALL Nations of the Earth hear All Inhabitants of the World attend Small and Great Rich and Poor I Nicholas Drabricius by Countrey a Strasnian by Nation a Moravian by the destinate Counsel of God chosen and called to the Ministry of the Church of God and to Preach the Gospel of Christ and lawfully ordained in the year 1616. But then afterwards in the year 1628 with many other Godly Persons keeping Faith to God to Conscience and to the Church driven into Exile by Ferdinand the 2 d Roman Emperor for the Verity of the same Gospel and for the Testimony of Jesus Christ So that leaving my Countrey and the Inheritance of my Parents and plundred moreover by the Spanish Souldery onely my Wife and Children escaping and wandring in exile unto the Land of Hungary in the territories of the most Illustrious Lord the Lord George Ragotzi Prince of Transylvania the first of this Name I took up my Seat under the Castle of the Town Ledvitz And there with many other Families of pious fellow-exiles amidst extream miseries and sorrows of poverty yet humbly and patiently I served my Christ for fifteen years But here in the year I say 1643. Jan. 23. it pleased God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ by virtue of the Holy Spirit of God according to the chosen good-pleasure of his Counsel to admit me his little Worm so far and to

upbraiding me with the wounds that were given me wholly innocent in the year 1635. by a drunken Fellow Martin Stuniak furiously meeting me on the High-way For which things this man having suffered Judgement of the Equestrian Order of the County of Trencinia ought to have lost his Life but that at the Intercession of the Lords the Judges I freely granted him his Life and permitted him to remain quiet with a Pecuniary Mulct Whosoever therefore thou art that shalt read these and the like slanders of this Calumniator especially where he derides the Threatnings of God made by me unto him also as vain I beseech you suffer not your selves to be carried away for the sake of a Fool who saith in his heart There is no God Psa 14. 1. for to taunt at the slow Judgments of God Which is not mine Admonition it is the Apostles That we must not judge before the time till the Lord come who will inlighten the hidden things of Darkness 1 Cor. 4. 5. For he saith who testifieth these things Behold I come quickly Amen! Come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 20. Come now also and shew the Verity of thy Speeches pronounc'd heretofore by John but lately by Kotter Christina and Me thy unworthy Vessels That the Church on Earth may now make Responsals in singing to the Angels in Heaven Babylon is fallen is fallen Although not according to our times and the terms of days and years which our foolish Reason is wont to fix unto thy Work O God! but according to thine own measuring with whom one day is equivalent to a thousand years 2 Pet. 3. 8. For the Lord is not slack concerning his Promises as some men do count slackness and among those my blasphemous Slanderer But is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance v. 9. The impatience of the Bethulians did tempt or try to prescribe unto God Bounds of their Deliverance But they are greatly checkt of Judith because God receives not counsel from men Chap. 7. and 8. And what was there could seem more equal in the eyes of men than that Moses as being faithful in all the House of God and through so great Labours of forty years with hardship passed through should introduce his People into that desired Land of Promise Yet the Lord for one onely mistake denied him although he earnestly prayed committing this Charge unto another And he must acquiesce For who may say unto him Why doest thou thus What did Jonas's Murmurs that God had forgiven to the Ninivites the destruction denounc'd by his preaching Prophet avail Contend therefore thou also Veterine or whosoever is like thee with God that he does not fulfill all things promis'd or denounc'd by Threatnings But does he not fulfil Does not so many Commotions of the Nations and initial Desolations every where testifie VVould to God the words of God may not be fulfilled on thee and those like unto thee VVo unto you who are wise in your own Eyes and prudent in your own sights Isa 5. 21. Contend therefore not with me but with the Lord who hath commanded me to write these things that are written But I am not better than Jeremiah the Prophet unto whom proud men cast in his teeth as thou Veterine lately to me Thou speakest a Lye The Lord our God hath not sent thee Jer. 43. 2. VVhen yet I may even as confidently as Jeremiah say of a truth The Lord hath sent me to speak and write all these words Jer. 26. 15. But my God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath not left me without Consolations against you so often promising me protection against you and a demonstration of the Verity of his words in the very work or deed it self And the Destruction of Unbelievers and those that devise evil things against me And behold How faithful is God! He hath preserv'd me hitherto and preserves me in the midst of my Enemies But my Detractors where now are they Sapor Effron Felinus and others As every one fill'd up the measure of his virulency so he was snatched away hence Nor let others expect any other thing even intire Nations according to those words of the Lord Out of my Mouth hath proceeded this which I have declared to thee decreed in my Eternal Counsel concerning those things which I will have done in the last days of the World When I will with punishments refrain the Blasphemies of the Nations wherewith they injure me and my Name The Earth shall tremble and they that dwell therein For the burning of my Zeal hath fallen like the Sun upon those who will not know me Rev. 211. And elsewhere Whoever speakes unto you otherwise than I by my faithful and true Witnesses let him be Anathema Rev. 250. Again Let my Contemners expect no other thing than Plagues for Plagues and Contempt for Contempt For with me there is not another Way nor to me another Door beside Obedience Faith Love and Patience with fear of my Judgements Rev. 257. All which things I would to God my Detractors would read Perhaps they would return to themselves acknowledging the Truth and Severity of God in has Threatnings Concluding this my Speech I Nicholas Drabricius will say with Job O that my Petition might come from the God of my Salvation That God would grant me the thing that I expect That he would break me in Pieces when he begins if falseness be in my mouth Job 6. 8 9. VVhy therefore have ye detracted from the Speeches of Truth seeing there is none among you who can reprove me v. 25. Seeing 't is God alone who revealeth deep things out of darkness and bringeth out to light the shadows of Death who multiplieth the Nations and destroyeth them and when they are overthrown restores them intirely again C. 12. 22 23. Last of all I the abovesaid confess That the Speeches which I have written but my Adjunct publish'd are not the Speeches of an Angel otherwise always present with me and carrying my Prayers to the Throne of God Much less mine a sinful man's but are the Speeches of my very Lord Jesus Christ himself who is the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End of all things proceeded from his Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding and the Spirit of Counsel and Strength and of the fear of the Lord Who hath form'd me also from the Womb for his Servant to bring back Jacob again to him and that Israel may be gathered unto him and I was glorified in the eyes of the Lord and my God is become my strength Isa 49. 5. who said also unto me In an acceptable time will I hear thee and in a day of Salvation will I help thee v. 8. To whom alone the Omnipotent VVise God as it was in the beginning so for ever world without end Be Honour and Power and Glory Amen! Amen! Hallelujah Hallelujah I have ended by the help of God the