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A11372	Wonderfull prophecies from the beginning of the monarchy of this land hidden vnder the parables of: Three young noble-men in a fiary fornace. A chast wife, and two old fornicators. The idol Belus and his dragon. Daniel in a den amid lyons. Their agreement with canonical prophecies: also in temperate defence of the apocryphals annexed to the canon of the Scriptures. Together with an essay touching the late prodigious comete; how farre forth the præsages thereof doe accord with such prophecies, as are found to pertaine to these our times. By all which, the discrete and wise in heart may gather touching things to come, what is forewarned vnto men; as for the general and publique, so also for their priuate and particular. By Robert Salter.	Salter, Robert, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21630; ESTC S112138	36,819	56

wil not be contented with the vnderstanding of this Number of Seuen after the for me of Prophetical speech wherein a Definite Number is vsually put for an Indefinite as it is found in many places of the Canon of Holy writs both Old and New seeme to presse a Nominal designation of them And so reckon France Spaine the Empire Italy Bohemia and Poland for sixe of them In some of which may bee perhaps some doubt But for the seuenth I cannot neither doe I thinke any other will make doubt of And that is A home party in the bosome of the Church and of all them of the trew Relligion which must needes bee the most dangerous by how much the greatnesse thereof is not possibly to bee discouered By this wee may perceiue what is to be exspected by the trew Professors from all those that are at the Babilonians becke specially the last of the seuen named Lyons The home party Let them otherwise make what shew they will of society and common Countrey their bridle is the onely power of God without any disposition to peace in any of them And it is a very dangerous Security in men to set so light as they doe of that Tenent of theirs How that it is a principal case of conscience in them Fides non habēda cū Haereticis not to keepe faith with Heretiques For so consequently it is to them a meritorious worke to purchase credit with the faithful that so they may bee deceiued and by their credulity vtterly cut off by these Infidels Yea and a sinne inexpiable for them to enter into any such faith of league and society with the trew Professors which they doe not before hand purpose and practise to breake when soeuer they shall see their best time to doe most mischiefe thereby so that it is lesse perilous to trust a Viper in the bosome then these men vpon any termes For that is felt at his first wounding and so may the venime bee encountred and expelled But these are not felt to sting till the wound bee past recouery Howbeit for all this God hath not forsaken his people but so soone as they turne and call to him he will heare them Ps 46. Habaqquq Affectionately embraceing and that right early as hee doth our Prophet in the den by the reliefe of Habaqquq that is to say such as shall louingly embrace them in the acknowlagement of the trewth they professe Specially those old Confessors the Jewes Iehudah Confessing or ●raysing who with new prayses in their mouthes that is to say by their conuersion vnto Christ their Messiah shall either come themselues with that irresistible speed and vnperceiued secrecy as if they were borne in the Aire ●gelus messenger or ●ssage by Angels aboue the reach of mans sight Or else as the name of Angel doth import by message of comfort from them no lesse speedy then secret of their mature assistance and confederacy But when shall this bee say some vnto whom it is answered that it shall be so soone as we begin to hunger and thirst after righteousnesse as Daniel is to be vnderstood to doe for natural foode according to the long time of his stay in the Den. Yea and that by the special worke of God who otherwise could as wel haue preserued him without feeling hunger as hee did Moses in the Mount and Elijah in his journey 〈◊〉 34. 34. ●●g 19. But this was disposed by God after this manner to the end it might bee to the Prophet a corporal and natural signe incurring into the senses for the strengthening of his faith as the message of the conuersion of the Iewes shall be to the true Professors of Christ in the middest of their Terrors And herevpon is it that no sooner doth hee pray but euen before the prayer is past his lippes Isa 38. Act. 10. hee as Hezekiah and Cornelius receiueth answer of grace and graunt of his demand by an Angelical message in the hand of a louing and louely Prophet namely Hebrewe conuerts confessing Christ Which tidings brought shall amaze the Babilonians 2. Reg. 19. Ap. 17. as the tidings of the approach of the Aethiopians did Sennacherib and shall turne the hearts of these Nations against the Babilonians as the flames were turned against the fewellers in the first Period and as the Beasts vnto whom the Christians were cast forth to be deuoured in the second Period Euseb Isa 66. were turned against those that prouoked them and shall destroy them the Saints of God looking on and reioycing Thus in this Period is contained the warres of Gog and Magog and the vision of the New Ierusalem Ap. 20. Ap. 21. Ap. 3. and of the Philadelphian and Laodiecian Churches That is to say the distresses of the Church by an Anarchical Apostacy and the causes thereof with the time of the endurance and meanes of deliuery the calling and conuersion of the Iewes and their vnion vnto the trew Professors of Christ whereby shall be purchased Triumphant daies Namely Num. 28. Vpon the seuenth day the King went to bewayle Daniel the double sacrifice due to the Sabbath which is the sacrifice of both Iew and Gentile with one heart and mouth praysing God And this Sabbath neuer did the Church yet enjoy but at length must for a preparation to the end Which time hasten ô Lord thou which art the trew and Aeternal High Priest in whom thy Church doth celebrate a perpetual Sabbath offering themselues vp a Holy Rom. 12. Liuely and Gracious Sacrifice by their not Brutish but Reasonable and Intelligent seruice of God Euen so Lord IESV come quickly Amen The first Corollary IN the meane space the Light that this Parabolical Prophecie doth illuminate vs with is That all the members of the Church of God generally and euery one seuerally bee hereby informed to a due consideration of the state wherein they presently stand either for their spirit of their inmost conscience or for the priuate of their worldly state or for the publique of the politique society wherein they liue And that they doe accordingly dispose of themselues First whether suffering Period 1 in the fornace of Gods tryals that they abide constant rather to dye then to fall from their hope Secondly Period 2 whether brought into vndeserued Obloquy that they pacify themselues out of the testimony of a cleere conscience Period 3 Thirdly whether in Authority that in the first place they aduance the honor of God that hath aduanced them vnto honor aboue others Or lastly whether in the Period 4 midst of a Brute-hearted generation that they bee not any way dismayed but cheere themselues in assurance that the power of their Aduersaries is limited and shall not bee able to stretch it selfe farther then shall bee for the honour of God and good of his faithfull seruants Remembring this withal that so long as wee giue our selues ouer to the Pursuite of our priuate ends

into the Lyons Den. Thirdly the sixe daies or weekes-worke of the Prophets imprisonment is a terme of time in which Professors of trew Relligion shall notwithstanding be giuen ouer to be drawne into brutish and prophane courses and waies and to the compassing of earthly ends as worldly minded men doe in the weeke dayes to the labors and cares of flesh and bloud without any reference of their workes to the setting forth of Gods glory Vpon the seuenth day the King went to bewayle Daniel But on the seuenth that is the Sabbath day namely so soone as they settle to a serious reformation of themselues in the seruice of God according to his will and ordinance they shall bee released and rewarded for that they haue suffered with double honor according to the rites of the Sabbatical Culture Fourthly the shutting of the Lyons mouths is the louing care of the Almighty ouer them that feare him and trust in him When he came nigh the Den hee looked in behold Daniel sat in the midst of the Lyons Num. 24. whereby notwithstanding their many Errors and wrenches betwixt God and them yet are they by his holy hand holden ouer them safe amidst those furious people and that in recompence whereunto these people are guided by God as Balaam was to blesse the Israelites for the inuitation they had by them to the acknowlagement of Gods glory and power in the first Period There was in Iewry a Prophet called Habaq Fifthly the foode miraculously brought by the Prophet may bee taken for the Succors that by Gods Prouidence shall come vnexpectedly to the faithful from farre and very swifty and strongly Or else it may bee according to a moral vnderstanding taken for an admonition to the faithful that they make recourse to the gracious meditations deliuered by that Prophet literally to the Iewes but Mystically pertaining to all faithfull Christians in that case as vnto the spiritual foode of their soules the word of God therein Namely that albeit God doth chastise his Children by the rod of the wicked as here in the Person of Daniel yet they should not therefore fall from their hope as here hee may bee saide to speake vnto Daniel But that the godly and iust shall liue by their faith and contraryly the Impious Oppressors Habaq 2. 4. Idolaters and Tyrants shall perish in their sinnes And this is the summe of that gracious Prophecie which how fitly wee may perceiue it to appertaine to this state of the Church wherein Daniel is now made to bee euery good Christian may see Sixthly Daniel deliuered He drew him out of the Den and cast them that were t e cause of his destruction into the Den and they were deuoured in a moment before his face and Lyons deuouring the Babilonians is the turning of those peoples hearts and forces against those Babilonians that had stirred them vp to destroy the trew seruants of God which when these faithfull ones shall behold they shall tryumph and giue God the praise Seuenthly and lastly one thing is to be added which is not in the Text. For though it be not expressed yet is it of necessity to bee vnderstood And that is how our Prophet spent all this time of his Bondage with the Lyons which out of Decency and Analogy with other Saints of God in like cases as Manasses in the Dungeon 2. Chro. 33. Iona. 2. Dan. 3. 2. Cor. 11. Ionah in the Whailes belly Paul in the depth of the Sea and the Young men in the Fornace as in our first Period must be vnderstood to haue beene first in Reconcilement to God as touching former delicts considered in this place not altogether so much in respect of himselfe but specially in the Person of his Nation as hee doth also elsewhere Secondly Dan. 9. in thanksgiuing for his present preseruation and Petition of reliefe and comfort to bee continued And thirdly in Prophetical exultation vpon stedfast assurance that hee shall be in good time deliuered and his Enemies taken in the Pit they haue made for others And many meditations doe wee finde of this kinde both in the booke of the Psalmes and otherwhere Psa 3. 4. dispersed through the whole volume of the Holy Records The Accomplishment VVHo so will enter into an accurate and discrete search of the proceedings of these Babilonians and compare their practises of these daies with thoe of former times shal easily finde how tenderly they take the late Entryes made vpon the freehold of their Conclaue as well in word as in writing King Iames in his Praemonitory Epistle c. Novus homo by sundry worthy Agents in the cause of the Church Specially a New man which hath ex professo debated and proued out of their owne mouths euen by the Rules and Lawes of that their Conclaue that there is not now nor for long time past since hath beene any Regularly made neither Pope nor Cardinal wherefore from thence forth they haue not dealt as they were wont before by a shew of Legal proceedings as by Excomunications Interdicts Jndulgences Dispensations and such like formalities But now they plainly declare themselues by Assasinats Leagues Proscriptions Inuasions Breaches of promise and faith Treasons vniuersal and particular Vid. Cancel Hispan as is discouered by their owne letters and Remonstrances one to another which they hoped should neuer haue come to light in Testimony against them Deut. 29.17 O King bee not deceiued for this is but clay within and brasse without and did neuer eate ought And hereby they shew what reckoning they make and euer did of their Dunguy Belas Namely no more then according to the matter whereof hee is made Nehustan a piece of brasse or a lumpe of clay But the Dragon in the Cage is that which so long as they could beare the world in hand of the life and strength of it they held themselues safe enough And now at length they proclayme fire and sword against Daniel and all the Kings and Princes that call him to counsel against their Heathenish Idolatry and Dragonly Policy The King is become a ●●w for he hath destroyed Bel c. and they are to them Iewes and worse that presume to moue or to bee seene in it Wherefore they haue stirred vp an Heptarchy of Nations Classicum Belli sacri that is to say a full and competent power of sundry Kingdomes which as Lyons kept in dennes are at their command to set vpon Daniel and his followers the sincere Professors of Gods trewth who seeme to bee thereby vtterly forsaken by all their friends and assailed on all sides by Aduersaries in such ineuitable distresse as farre as man may discerne by the eye of flesh and bloud as if they were in a dungeon among deuouring Beasts But they that behold them with spiritual eyes Period 1. doe contrarily see them as safe as they were before in the fornace Those that out of much curiosity

so long shall wee bee left to the danger of these our Brutish Enemies But so soone as the Day-starre of the Lords Sabbath shall arise in our Hearts and wee by the conduct thereof seeke his face leaueing our owne selfe wranglings Psa 148. Isa 60. Ap. 21. The whole creature shall ioyne with vs vnto a perfect celebration thereof And of that Sabbath day shall be no Sun-set for Christ our righteousnesse shall euer more and more lighten vs vnto Triumph 1. Cor. 15. and treading downe of our Enemies Death and all vnder our feete in him and by him Amen But Paulo maiora Here is in this Quadripartite Parable described vnto vs a fourefold state of the man in Christ The first is the state of Nature Natural Propagation originally deriued vnto him from his Parents touching which are the the words of the Prophet In iniquity was I formed and conceiued in sin Out of the remembrance whereof Psal 51. so long as hee beholdeth himselfe as in that state The fyary fornace he findeth nothing in himselfe but fights of his owne guilty conscience within and feares of the whole Creature calling for Iustice against the Man for his abuse of them without Thus euery where bearing about in the body the dying of our Lord Iesus Christ by his afflicted spirit 2 Cor. 4. Onely the zeale of his inward LOVE the feruor whereof is farre more mightie then to be inuaded by outward and Elementish considerations maketh him a freshure as vnto these young men in the midst of the flammes in the first Period The second is Adoption and Spiritual Regeration the state of his Adoption and Childhood in Christ through Grace By the meanes whereof euen in his greatest weakenesse hee saluteth as it were a farre of the louely Reuelations of God vnto him in such liberal manner as hee is ouercome and in feare to bee puffed vp by them And therefore it is good for him The false Iudges yet to indure the buffetings of Satan 2 Cor. 12. whereby the Testimony is sealed vnto him that the grace of Christ is sufficient for him as the Chast wife doth in the second Period The third is Man-hood and Strength his full growth and strength of manhood in Christ whereby hee is able with all Saints to comprehend what is the bredth length depth and height Eph. 3. and to know the loue of Christ which passeth all knowlage And therefore from the former Period of being able to Suffer hee is now growne to bee able to Doe Namely to cast downe Belus Imaginations 2 Cor. 10. and euery high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowlage of God and to bring into captiuity the Dragon and euery thought to the obedience of Christ So that by times euen at his first comming into the entertainment of Cyrus Christ risen Belus and his Dragon ascended and reigning in him hee taketh away all the vngodly out of the Land and doth cut of all the wicked doers from the City of the Lord. Psal 101. And this Citie is not onely his outward ranke in the world but the inward man of him as hee is the Temple of the Holy Ghost and those wicked ones are the many bayts suggestions excesses and wants as well within him as round about him In all which hee now can say with the Apostle Phil. 4. I can doe all things by him that strengthneth mee as wee finde it the part of all Daniels to doe in the third Period Perfection The fourth is the glory of the mans consumation By the which although hee doe yet walke in the flesh assayled on euery side with the spurres thereof as with so many Lyons 2 Cor. 10. notwithstanding hee doth not warre after the flesh that hee should stand in feare of them The Den of Lyons or bee annoyed by them because hee liueth in Christ And for as much as hee is able in the brightnesse of a good conscience to beare witnesse to himselfe with the Apostle I haue kept the faith 2 Tim 4. therefore doth hee conclude that neither tribulation Rom. 8. nor distresse nor persecution nor famine nor nakednesse nor peril nor sword shall seperate betwixt Christ and him For in all these wee are more then conquerors as wee finde Daniel amidst the Lyons in the fourth Period And euen this very Mysterie is it that a right learned and vertuous * Mr. Edmund Spencer The great contentment I sometimes enioyed by his Sweete society suffereth not this to passe me without Respectiue mention of so trew a friend Sine nomine Corpus The young men in the fyar Gentleman hath so liuely decyphered in his Legend of the Patron of trew holinesse the Knight of the Red-Crosse whereby and by the rest of those his louely Raptures hee hath justly purchased the Lawrel of honorable memory while the Pilgrimage of those his worthies are to indure Hee there hath brought forth our Noble Saint George at the first onely in the state of a Swayne before his Glorious Queene cast downe on the ground Vncouth vnkest Vnacknowne vncared off as a dead trunke and onely fit for the fire as in our first Period But when hee had arrayed himselfe in the Armor of his Dying Lord his presence is then become Gracious The Chast wife accused and freed and his Person promising great things as one for sad incounters fit Belus and his Priests suppressed Which hee first Passiuely as in our second Period and after Actiuely as in our third Period doth so victoriously passe through and finish that at the length as in our fourth Period hee is become altogether Impassible Daniel amids the Lyons vntouched whether of Assalts of the fraylety of Nature within or Affronts of Aduersaries without as being fully possessed of that Kingdome against which there is none to stand vp The second Corollary BY that which hath beene saide is made manifest how exactly these Apocryphal Prophecies of Daniel doe agree First with the Prophecies Sacra Scriptura dum narrat gestum trodit Mysterium Parables and Prophetical Histories of the Canonical Scriptures Secondly with the gracious Speculations and Obseruations of the Religiously learned Thirdly with the Accomplishments of them all from time to time And so according to the Law that In the mouth of two or three witnesses the trewth be stablished how worthily they haue to chalenge to themselues Deut. 19.5 their ancient place and right Namely if not to goe promiscuè with the Sacred Scriptures as they formerly did yet to hold their attendance on them inseperable aboue all other writings whatsoeuer And how dangerously any shall presume to diuorce them which haue beene found yoaked and drawing together so many ages of the Church of God inconstant and vn-interrupted succession Whereby their coupling together may be judged to haue beene the worke of God and not of man But for farther confirmation of a