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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

satisfaction for sin and that by that means they do purchase Grace is to make our best works to be of God utterly rejected Wherefore Christ saith In vain do they serve me teaching such Doctrines which are the Commandements of Men and St. Paul saith If either we or any Angel from Heaven preach any other Doctrine to you then that which we have preached let him be accursed Antichrist must fall and it plainly and clearly appeareth saith Luther The Pope true Antichrist and must fall page 312. that the Pope is true Antichrist those that transgresse his Decrees and Statutes are farr more severely and diligently punished then those who offend the Laws and the word of God In such a sort doth the Pope exalt himself over and above God and he is therefore most properly called Antichrist in regard that he sitteth in the Temple and in the Church of God and boasteth himself above all that is called God The Turk is not this Antichrist saith Luther for the sitteth not in Gods Church he is but the Battle-Axe of God whereby he executeth his Vengeance upon the Nations he is a wicked Beast out of Gods Church there is no Antichrist now the Pope sitteth in the Holy Church and taketh unto him that Honour and Worship which is due unto God onely therefore the Pope must be the true Antichrist It is but a cold and an idle dream of the Papists that Antichrist should be a single and an unattended person that should govern in a wilde way by suborning and scattering of moneys in the streets and that he should do Minacles and carry about him a fiery Oven and that he should destroy the Saints Eliah and Enoch There are too many said Luther who complain and think I am too fierce and too violent against the Pope when alas I conceive my self to be too milde I do wish that I could breath out thunder-bolts against the Pope and Popery and that every word were a clap of Thunder I do believe saith Luther that the Pope out osspecial consideration ordained and appointed the Feasts of St. Silvester and of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury to be Celebrated eight days after the Nativity of our Saviour in regard that St. Thomas of Canterbury brought unto the Pope the Kingdom of England and St. Silvester the Empire of Rome In the year one thousand five hundred and thirty in the Raign of Henry the eighth the Pope endeavoured by money to corrupt some of the Kings Counsellours and promised one of them who was of the Blood-Royal and near unto the Kings Person that he would give that Kingdom unto him The Pope boasted in Luthers days that he was Heir to the Kingdome of England page 310. The Pope boasted that he himself was Heir unto that Kingdome by reason it was held as from him per feodum but the Popes pride is so great that he must fall and it is no great wonder saith Luther that even in his time the Majesty of the Pope was already fallen All Monarchs Emperours Kings and Princes before Luthers time did ever tremble at the Majesty and the Power of the Pope none durst mutter so much as one word against him This great god is now fallen his own creatures the Monks and Fryers do begin to be his Enemies and they onely adhear unto him for their Lucres sake Popery must needs be brought to the stake and pay for all the Pope shall be devoured by Monks and Friers which are his own Vermine and Creatures It is they who do shake and make loose the fairest Monarchy of Popery which with great Advice and Consideration was erected He hath forbidden them to enter into the State of Matrimony when notwithstanding he hath commanded the same to be observed as a Sacrament but if Matrimony be a Sacrament saith Luther then it cannot be observed by the Heathen for the Unbelieving Gentiles who are the Heathen have nothing to doe with the Sacraments The Pope saith Luther must and shall fall Another Reason of the Popes Fall the blindnesse of the Papists is great and horrible and is much to be admired because in the Reconciliation for the living and the and though they would pretend it is a Sacrisice of Thanksgiving yet all their Cannonists and School-Divines and their Preachers in their Pulpits do apparently disprove it you may observe the impudence of some Popelins that go about to prove this horrible Errour every Lievetenant say they hath the same full and compleat power as his Lord and Master Peter was Christs Lievetenant therefore he hath the same power that Christ had and because Christ saith To me is given all power in Heaven and in Earth therefore they conclude that the Pope who is Peters Lievetenant hath the same Power as Christ himself To this Luther answers That suppose it be granted that Peter was Christs Lievetenant here on Earth so long as he demeaned himself according to Christs word yet it doth not hereupon follow that Peter is Christs Lievetenant in Heaven for Christ that said unto him what thou bindest on Earth doth not say unto him what thou shalt binde in Heaven He saith unto Peter follow me feed my sheep my kingdome is not of this World that is to say it is not gotten by humane strength and power neither will it be maintained thereby The Pope therefore saith Luther is a Right Jew who boasteth to enjoy by Christ a temporal Kingdome he alone will have all the Power Authority he will Rule and Determine all Councels and Encroach upon them under the Name of God If one should have defloured the Virgin Mary or have crucisied Christ yet the Pope for money could pardon and forgive the same therefore his Dominion is but short Page 306. and will be brought to Confusion in the year 666. according to the Number of the Beast in the thirteenth Chapter of the Revelations Again Popedome saith Luther must fall Another reason of the Popes Fall It hath been alwayes managed by wicked persons and Correspondent to their Doctrine for as the Creator is such is also his Creature Pope Alezander was a Moran that is to say a Baptised Jew he believed nothing at all he had a Concubine called Lucretia to whom he afterwards espoused his own Pon the Pope that succeeded him was so great an enemy to him that he caused all the Gates Doors and Windows on which his Name was Written or his Armes Pourtrayed to be broken down and defaced when God speaketh the word Jerusalem fall Rome be destroyed and lye in the Ashes Pope come down from your Throne the word of God will be obeyed and must be accomplished immediately Pope Julius the second Page 302. celebrated a faire Masse to the Devil upon Easter day in the morning at which time he made a lamentable Slaughter and Massacre with the French in which twenty thousand Christians were slain The Pope and his accomplices saith Luther strive not for the benefit or

Mosaical washings and bathings even so the Pope staineth the right use of Baptisme and of the Sacrament of the Altar In the like manner the Pope shall be destroyed without hands and shall die in himself for he began his Kingdome in Superstition and external shinings and the prerended Authority of Scripture This is the ground on which Popery is builded and through which it is fallen and every day will fall more and more It is therefore spoken in the Prophecy of Daniel that he shall be broken without hands and this aymeth directly at the Pope for all other Tyrants and Monarchs do use Temporall power and strength But why saith Luther doth the Pope name himself an Earthly God as though the true onely and Almighty God in Heaven were not also a God on Earth Truly saith Luther The Popes Kingdome is a horrible wrath of God an abomination of dessolation which standeth in the Holy place as Christ speaking directly of it saith Who so reddeth let him understand Mat. 24. It must indeed be a great wrath of God that a humane Creature dares presume Christ being come and revealed in the flesh to exalt himself in the throne of God if it had been done amongst the Gentiles before the comming of Christ it had not been so great a wonder And although the Trophet Daniel St. Paul and St Peter and Christ himself have given us warning of this Beast yet we Christians have been still so foolish as to adore and worship all his Idolatries and to believe that he is a Lord over the universall world under the Name and title of the successor of St. Peter when as neither Peter nor Christ himself left any Dominion pon Earth To conclude the Pope is the last blaze in the lamp which ere it be long will go out and be extinguished He is the last Instrument of darkness who lighteneth and thundreth with sword and Bull who maketh and maintaineth war through the power and the strength of others It hath heretofore been said The Pope in one finger hath more power then all the princes in Germany but he beginneth now to be no more regarded He is powerfull but not in his own strength saith Daniel He beginneth every day to lose his estimation which no Emperour with sword and power had been able to accomplish when he is struck with Gods word the Pope is turned to a puppet But who is he said Luther who about thirty years ago durst so much as to have had such a thought of the Pope for in those dayes the Pope would have cast whom he pleased head long into hell let him fetch himself out again as well as he could The pope The horrible insolence of the Pope page 301. saith Luther hath done his worst and although he falleth not all together yet every day he will decrease more and more He boasteth in his decretals that he hath power and Authority over all Rule and Government both in Heaven and Earth and that he is a Lord over all Lords How dares any humane Creature speak in this manner surely saith Luther neither God nor King can indure it He must undoubtedly fall His Tyranny hath climbed up too high he hath presumed to tread Kings and Emperors under his feet with such powerfull errours God hath so blinded the world untill the Indignation be accomplished Any thing is lawfull at Rome In England saith Luther was a Cardinall Cardinall Woolsy I beleive who was the son of a Butcher concerning whom a merry person said God be praysed we have got such a Cardinall who when he commeth to be Pope we may cat flesh freely in lent and on other forbidden days for St. Peter being a fisher he forbade eating of flesh to the end that he might sell his fish at a higher rate but this Cardinall being a Butchers son will he give us a dispensation for flesh to gain more mony thereby Pope Adrian caused two Cityes to be painted on his table the one was the City in which he was born the other was the City of Lovain where he commenced Master of Arts page 305. neer unto the side of the City of his Nativity he wrote these words I have planted and close by the other he wrote these words I have wattered under the two Cityes the Emperour was pictured with these words but J gave the blessing thereunto whereupon another wrote underneath God did nothing heer And indeed what may be expected from a place where God is not but ruin and confusion and utter desolation The Pope is full of hell and damnation as the promises of God are full of mercy How the Pope doth play with the Church of Christ we ought not to doubt saith Luther nor to dispair of such a sinner that repenteth and is sorry for his sins and confesseth them and desireth forgivenes for them allthough he sall continually into sin again But we must have reguard unto this that if such a one dyeth in his sin then his case is doubtfull and dangerous In the yeere 1539 on the eighth day of January a Comet was seen at Wittenbergh about six of the Clock in the evening it shot its threantning trayn from the West to the North and towards che East The comet was beheld by Philip Melanncthon by Instus Ionas and Martin Luther and others Whereupon Luther said I will prophecy over Germany Luthers prophecy against Germany 522. not out of the planets or this dreadful comet but I will decare unto her the Anger of God out of his own word for it is impossible that Germany should escape unpunished she must recive a great scourge there is no remedy for God is daily prouoked to destroy her the Godly with the ungodly must be visited and both of them tast of the rod. Germany is like unto a gallant horse that is high of mettall and well fed but wanteth a good rider now as astrong and fiery horse will not obey the bridle but driveth on forward and beares down all before him except he hath an expecienced rider to command him so for want of a head and good governour Germany will betray her self and leave her self open to the Incursions of her Eni●nyes the Turks who in formidable numbers will come in like a deluge upon them to overwhelm them And ancient Minister who supped with Lnther spake all the tiwe he was at supper very much of Rome whereupon Luther demaunded of him how often he had bin there he answrered foure times and why so often said Luther he replyed first I sought a knave there at my second iourny to Rome I found him on my third iourney I brought him from thence and in my last iourney I carryed him thither again and placed him behind Saint Peters Altar We find God rejected the Nation of the Iewes becavse they resused to hearken to Moses and the prophets nor would receive them insomuch the same was uerisyed of them of which the prophet Isaiah speakteh Chap 9.