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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05370	Ravvleigh his ghost. Or a feigned apparition of Syr VValter Rawleigh to a friend of his, for the translating into English, the booke of Leonard Lessius (that most learned man) entituled, De prouidentia numinis, & animi immortalitate: written against atheists, and polititians of these dayes. Translated by A. B.; De providentia numinis, et animi immortalitate. English	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Knott, Edward, 1582-1656.; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1631 (1631)	STC 15523; ESTC S102372	201,300	468

Ieroboam incensed frankinsence to the Idols a certaine Prophet thus exclaymed forth Altare Altare c. O Altar Altar thus ●●●th the lord behold a child shal be borne vnto the house of Dauid Iosias by name vpon thee shal ●e sacrifice the Priests of the high places that burnt ●●●●nse vpon thee and they shall burne bones vpon thee All which things were accomplished ●●ter as appeareth out of the fourth of the Kings c. 23. 〈◊〉 ●ome 3●● yeares after for as Iosephus wryteth in the tenth booke of his Antiquities c. ● so many yeares passed betwene that prediction and the accomplishment of ● In the 45. chapter of Isay the kingdome of Cyrus who was to be b●●ne some two hundred yeares after is prophesyed his name being expresly set downe as also his power warres victories spoyles riches and his beneficence towards the Iewes are in sinuated which very place of Scripture when the Iewes had shewed to Cyrus he wonderfully admyred the diuination of the Prophet and being incensed with the desire of performing such things as he had there read conferred great benefits vpon the Iewes as Iosephus recordeth in his eleuenth booke of Antiquities c. 1. I omit innumerable other prophesyes which are to be found of Isay In Daniel we fynd many stupendious predictions and interpretations of most difficult things In the second chapter wheras a certaine strange dreame was shewed to the King of the Chaldeans and the King forgetting the same Daniel distinctly opened the vision to him to wit that there appeared to the King in his sleepe a great terrible statua or Image whose head was made of gold his breast and armes of siluer his belly and thighes of brasse his legs of Iron ending in ●eet which were partly of clay and partly of iron Furthermore he told the King that he saw a stone cut out of a mountaine without hands and that it did strike the statua vpon the feete which being broken and shiuered asunder the statua fell downe and was turned into dust and that the sto●e ●●d increase into a great mountaine which filled the whole earth This being thus expressed Daniel further gau●●he interpretation thereof to wit that by the statua were figured foure Monarchies of the which the first was thē in being the other three should succeed one after other in their due reuolution of tymes For the head of gold did signify the Empyre of the Chaldeans which thē was most ample opulent and rich The breast of siluer designed the monarchy of the Persians and the Medes which succeeded the former consisting of two kingdomes as of two legs The belly and thighes of brasse did specify the monarchy of the Grecians the legs of Iron did prefigure the most powerfull monarcy of the Romanes diuided into the Empire of the East and the west The feete being made partly of clay and partly of Iron did signify the monarchy of the Romanes to be partly strong and partly weake The stone cut out of the mountaine without the help of handes did demonstrate Christ our Lord who without any endeauour of man was borne of the most holy pure and immaculate Virgin and proceeded from the prog●ny of Abraham who increased into a great mountaine in that his kingdome was to replenish possesse the whole earth who in the end of the world was to destroy all other kingdomes himselfe only possessing an eternall kingdome Now in shewing and interpreting of this dreame the power wisedome and prouidence of God so clearly shyned that the proud King prostrated himselfe vpon his face before Daniel his seruant and worshipped him and openly confessed the maiesty power of God The foresaid foure Monarchyes which were to succeed in order and the conditions states and proprieties of euery one of them were fore shewed to Daniel by another wonderful vision in the seauenth Chapter vnder the forme and shew of foure beasts then after was signifyed to him the kingdome of the Saints which after all the kingdomes of the world were extinguished should continue and florish eternally For thus doth the Angell interprete this vision vnto Daniel He quatuor be●●iae c. These foure great beasts are foure Kingdomes which shall arise ou of the earth and they shall take the kingdom of the Saints of the most highest and they shall possesse the kingdome for euer euen for euer and euer that is for all eternity And now seing we haue obserued by experience all those things to be accomplished concerning the foure Monarchyes which were shewed to Daniel in the former vision we therefore ought to assure our selues and not to fluctuate in any vncertainty of beliefe but such things as there were prophesyed to him of the kingdome of the Saints shal also be fulfilled in their due tyme. Againe in the eight Chapter as yet the monarchy of the Chaldeans florishing that other monarchyes should succed to the former was also foreshewed to the said Daniel to wit the monarchy of the Medes and Persiās vnder the forme of a R●m with two hornes the monarchy of the Grecians also of a g●a● with one horne as also was foreshewed the manner how the first Monarch was to be destroyed by this other and that this after the first king thereof should be deuided among foure kings out of the posterity of which kings one shall come to wit Antiochus Epiphanes who from a small state becoming great shall after persecute and afflict the Iewes shall profane the sanctuary shal take away the daily sacrifice and shall force al vnto Idolatry for the space of 23000. dayes which is for six yeares three moneths and twenty dayes who in the end without any machination or endeauour of Man shall euen by Gods reuenge only be extinguished All which particulers to be fulfilled in the persecutiō of Antiochus is euidēt euen out of the bookes of the Machabees at least 400 and eight yeares after this prediction of Daniel as Iosephus Antiquit. c. 11. relateth who in his ●● booke c. 8. further sheweth that this prophecy of Daniel touching the King of the Grecians ouerthrowing the Empire of the Persians was related by the Prophets to Alexander then be●●g in Ierusalem and that Alexander reioyced much therat as interpreting this was to be performed by himselfe to wit that he was that Grecian King as indeed he was who should arryue to the Empyre of the Persians In the eleuenth chapter of Daniel many things are in like sort prophesyed first the progresse and good successe of the Persian Empire Secondly the expedition of Xe●xe● against the Grecians Thirdly that the empyre of Alexander the great should succed the Persian empyre fourthly the diuision of the Grecian Empyre into foure kingdomes Fiftly that most bloudly warres should fal out betwene two successours of Alexander to wit betwene the kings of Syria and Egipt during which violent conflict I●●●a as being seated betwene them both should be most miserably afflicted Moreouer in the foresaid chapter are foreshewed the