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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

fifty years of age the Turk replyed I could wish he were younger for he shall have of me a gracious Lord which when it was brought to Luthers eare by the Prince Elector of Saxony God preserve me said Luther from such a gracious Lord as the Emperour of Turkey is for the Turk is a Crafty and Subtile Enemy who maketh War not onely with great Courage The Turk able to maintain a yearly Army of two hundred thousand men which amounteth to above 15. millions Luth. Col. page 5198. and a Formidable Number of Souldiers but also he manageth it with many Stratagems and much Craft and Sub tilty he is alwayes beating up the Quarters of his Enemies and by that means makes them faint and weary he keepeth them waking with often Skirmishing and seldome ingageth with the whole Body of his Army unlesse he be assured of the Victory He is ready to take all advantages His Power is great being able in Luthers Time to maintain and pay yearly two hundred thousand Souldiers which at the least amounteth to fifteen Millions of Rix Dollars By Degrees the Turk suppressed the Sarazens who before were Conquerours and Lords of all in Syria Asia and Jerusalem and in the Land of Promise and hath also great Dominions in Africa and Greece Much about thirty years before Luthers time he utterly over-threw the whole Army of the Sarazens and killed the Soldan in that Battel The German Princes said Luther ought to be well Quallified and Armed to incounter with so powerfull an Enemy as the Turks The Princes themselves ought in their own Person to advance into the field and not encounter the Turk with any inconsiderable number for the Turke is an Enemy that ought not to be Undervalued or Contemned The Prophet Daniel saith It is given unto him to go against the Saints of God Dan. 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And therefore his Fortunes and his Victories are so great He maketh three Thrones or Seats in his Religion In the midst he placeth God himself and Christ on his left Hand and Mahomet on the right He taketh his Oath by God who Created Heaven and Earth by Mahomet his Servant The Turks Oath Luther 520. and by the Foure score and foure Prophets sent from Heaven I am afraid said Luther it will go with Germany which is one of the best Countries in the World as heretofore it went with Troy Fuit Ilium ingens Gloria Teucrorum saith the Poet Heretofore there was a Troy and great was the Glory of the Trojans So heretofore there was a Germany and great was the Glory of the Germans but now a short time will see it brought into streights and Devastation The great Overthrows which the Turks shall give to the Forces of the Emperour The overthrow which the Turks will give the Emperour foretold by the Prophet Daniel page 520. was not onely foretold by the Prophet Daniel said Luther but also it was delivered in the Revelation of St. John to the end that Godly and Upright Christians should not be affrighted at his great Power and Tyranny Daniel excelleth in his Prophecies which shall continue to the end of the World He most clearly describeth the Kingdomes of Antichrist and the Turk in the Revelation of St. John Chap. 13. It is Written That it was given unto him to make War with the Saints and to overcome them which words are expresly spoken of the Turk and not of the Pope for the Saints overcome not by their Sanctity but by their Patience and in their overcoming by Faith when their Bodies are Murdered The Prophet Daniel proceedeth further and saith It shall be for a Time Times and half a Time If Time signifieth a Year as peradventure it may then this Prophecy was first of all fulfilled in Antiochus who Tyrannized three Years and an halfe over the Nation of Israel after which time he miserably rotted and most lamentably died in such an intolerable stench occasioned by his Disease that not any were able to indure the most noysomesavour of it or to remain about him Luther would oftentimes complain of the great negligence of the Emperour Charles in giving an Advantage to the Turk alwayes to overcome him and to taxe in one Town after another whereas the Emperour should alwaies have kept a Gallant and a Resolute Army in the Field or to have them in a readinesse in their Winter Quarters to be drawn forth into the Field upon the Emergencies of any Advantage or Opposition for this is the vigilant Custome of the Turks in all his Enterprises whose Ja●izaries the most Resolute and most Experienced of all his Souldiers are always ready at the beat of a Drum for any Enterprize Mahomet began to Appear in the World in the Year Six hundred and thirty after the Incarnation of our Saviour which is now above one thousand years agoe The Turks saith Luther do swell as much with their Lies as with their Victories they acknowledge that Isaac was the first and the True Son of the Promise but when he should be Sacrisiced he conveyed himself away from his Fathers sight pretending that he would go and fetch a Knife and other Utensils for the Sacrifice whereupon Ishmael came and of his own Accord did offer up himself to be Sacrisiced upon which Account he became the Child of the Promise This said Luther is as grosse a lye as that of the Papists concerning the Administration only under one kind in the Sacrament And as Antiochus above mentioned was struck by God with a loathsome Disease and killed without hands Even so said Luther shall it go with the Pope He shall fall and be destroyed without any Blow of the sword or without any Hands to mannage a Sword he shall Famish himself for he hath never used any great or powerfull Armies whereby to Defend or Inlarge his Dominions The Pope to fall without any blow of the Sword Luther pag 520. but hath subsisted onely by Lying and Superstition and pretended Scripture to maintain him in his Falshoods as in one place Thou art Peter and in another Feed my Lambs Upon such deceitful grounds he hath Increased and so shall he fall again Therefore this Prophecy in the Scriptures He shall fall without Power belongeth properly to the Pope For all other Potentates and Tyrants proceed with Power and Force Neverthelesse this prophecy saith Luther in some manner may reflect as well upon the Turk as upon the Pope for they began both of them almost at one time under the Emperour Phocas for then Mahomet began to show his Blasphemous Tongue and the Pope to Rule Spititually But the Popes Temporall Kingdome saith Luther hath scarce continued three hundred Years since he began to Rule over Kings and Emperours Luthers Admonition to the Germans how they ought to make War against the Turks LVther understanding that the Emperour Charles had sent eighteen thousand Spaniards into Austria to defend the same against the Turks He sighed and said These are strange