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A29512	Brightmans predictions and prophecies vvritten 46 yeares since : concerning the three churches of Germanie, England, and Scotland : fore-telling the miserie of Germanie, the fall of the pride of bishops in England by the assistance of the Scottish Kirk : all which should happen, as he foretold, between the yeares of 36 and 41, &c.	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607. Apocalypsis Apocalypseos.; Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607. Judgement or prophesies, what shall befall Germany, Scotland, Holland, and the churches adhering to them.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4690; ESTC R10614	4,712	9

Brightmans PREDICTIONS AND PROPHESIES VVritten 46. yeares since Concerning the three Churches of Germanie England and Scotland Fore-telling the miserie of Germanie the fall of the pride of Bishops in England by the assistance of the Scottish Kirk All which should happen as he foretold between the yeares of 36. and 41. c. Printed in the yeare 1641. Predictions and Prophesies of these times written fortie sixe yeares since c. DIvers and sundry Predictions and Prophesies have bin made by our ancient Prophets Bards and fatidicall Vaticinators which in their due times have futurely both punctually and exactly come to passe as of the Sybills so often and frequently alledged by the Fathers who many years before predicted of the Incarnation of our blessed Saviour The like did Merlin Ambrosins that famous Cambrian Prophet who flourished in the time of Vortiger King of Britaine whose South-saies for so they called them in old time have proved true even to these latter dayes which is made plenally apparent in a Book not long since published by the Title of Merlins life and Prophesies which whosoever shall read may be amply satisfied what prevalence his prenotions had all of them in the processe of time being seasonably and maturely accomplished But to leave others and insist only upon Mr. Brightmans stupendious Revelations a zealous Divine who in his learned Sermons preached in the later end of Queene Elizabeths days of most blessed memorie about the three and foure and fortieth yeare of her reigne which was immediately before the comming in of K. Iames father to our Royall Soveraigne K. Charles of like sacred memorie with the former His Predictions were out of the 3. and 4. Chapters of the Revelations in which there is mention made of 7. Epistles sent to the 7. Churches of Asia which were Types of 7. other succeeding Churches to come The 7. Asian Churches as you shall finde there mentioned were Ephesus Smyrna Pergamus Thyatira Sardis Philadelphia and Laodicea in three of which he figured the state at that time and that should hereafter be of the three Churches of Germanie of Scotland and of England making the Church of Germanie a counterpaine of Sardis the Church of Scotland a type of Philadelphia the Church of England represented in Laodicea The Church of Germanie had its initiation or beginning in Martin Luther of Wittenburg a Towne in Saxonie in the yeare of grace 1517. Now as Mr. Brightman vatically observeth the Church of Thyatira was much blamed for suffering the woman Iezabel who cals her selfe a Prophetesse to teach deceive Christs servants and commit fornication by which is meant Idolatrie c. But this the Church of Sardis reformed notwithstanding which she still retained many errors as Consubstantiation of the Lords Supper and about free-will justification good works c. by which he foreseeing the miserie since come upon them admonished the Germans to consider of it before hand and to prevent these impending judgements by reformation and timely repentance grounding his Conjectures upon the words of the Text which are these But if thou wilt not watch I will come upon thee as a thiefe that is suddenly and unexpected now these judgements are thus fatidically delivered His prediction of the Church of Germanie Like to a whirle-wind shall destruction come Sword fire and famine wasting all and some Cities be turn'd to Townes and Townes converted To villages forsaken and deserted The people of all comfort quite bereft And scarce one hundred of a thousand left Fire with the sword shall strive for soveraigne power And when they spare the plague and pest devoure And such as their sterne furie shall evade A more sad prey be unto famine made Forc't shall they be to eate of Snailes and Frogs The long dead Carkasses of Rats and Dogs Mothers their babes shall without mercie kill And cook their limbes their starved guts to fill The like have brothers to their sisters done Sights that at noone-day have eclipst the Sun And that which all beliefe seems to exceed Dig Corses from their graves and thereon feed Nor cease the judgements thus as if they had Their period here to death they tortures add Exquisite tortures fitting to deplore Being a Nation never slav'd before For what is it the foe will not devise To force them tell where all their treasure lies To pierce and cut with bodkins and with knives Their skinne and flesh indangering so their lives Draw strings and wyers through all their brawnie parts Of thighes and armes some stabbing to the hearts Others into hot Ovens they shall thrust And stop them up till they be dry'd to dust By lingring fires roast some on wooden spits Basted with Lard what i' st their savage wits Cannot devise here men new strangled lie There others stifled with wet stubble die Others being gag'd they downe their throats will powre All puddle trash with Vrine stale and sower Till their guts break their miseries transcend Of which for many yeares shall be no end c. Of all which and how punctually they have happened whosoever would be fully satisfied I referre them the better to confirm their truth to divers letters sent out of Germanie bewayling their sad and lamentable estate and are to be read in print one sent from Swebrugden the 14. of November 1636. by the Ministers of Germanie to the Dutch Church in London another written by a worthy Minister of Messenbeim upon the edge of the lower Palatinate the first of Februarie 1637. And a third also sent from Worms and written by a godly Minister the tenth of Febr. in the same year all which you may find in a book called the Lamentations of Germanie To which may be added namely to the premisses what happened to a learned and a godly Preacher of especiall note and remark at the taking in of Magdenburg who was dragged from the Church unto his owne house where having seen his wife and daughters ravished before his face and his yong infants torne from their Mothers armes and pitcht upon the tops of Pikes when his eyes were blood-shot with these savage and brutish objects they led him bound to the Market-place and having tied him to a stake pill'd all his books about him of which setting fire they burnt them with his bodie to ashes God Almighty in great mercie avert the like judgements from us As concerning the Church of Scotland in which he likewise includeth the two Churches of Geneva and Holland which he saith were truely figured in the Asian Philadelphia of them he saith that in no place of Christendome The Doctrine of Christ soundeth more purely the worship of God is exercised more incorruptly nor the diligence of Pastors and Teachers is performed more faithfully c. To which he also addeth that the Philadelphians meaning the Churches of Scotland Geneva and Holland shall continue till the appearance of the new Ierusalem and that they shall bee joyned with it in covenant and so●ietie proceeding with this encouragement