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A34097	A generall table of Europe, representing the present and future state thereof viz. the present governments, languages, religions, foundations, and revolutions both of governments and religions, the future mutations, revolutions, government, and religion of christendom and of the world &c. / from the prophecies of the three late German prophets, Kotterus, Christina, and Drabricius, &c., all collected out of the originals, for the common use and information of the English.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing C5507A; ESTC R24277	200,382	315

King had his Sphere of Glass in imitation of the Coelestial Orbs wherein he could sit and see all their Motions transparent and Archimedes also had his Sphere Ferdinand the Emperor had no less his of Silver which he sent to the Great Turk carried by twelve men and unframed and reframed in the Grand Segnior's presence by the Maker who likewise presented him with a Book of the mystery of using it Nor may we smother nor forget ingrately The Heaven of Silver that was sent but lately From Ferdinando as a famous Work Unto Bizantium to the greatest Turk Wherein a Spirit still moving to and fro Made all the Engine orderly to go And though th' one Sphear did alwayes slowly slide And contrary the other swiftly glide Yet still their Stars kept all the Courses even With the true Courses of the Stars of Heaven The Sun there shifting in the Zodiack His shining Houses never did forsake His pointed Path. There is a Month his Sister Fulfill'd her Course and changing of her Luster And Form of Face now larger lesser soon Follow'd the Changes of the other Moon Idem Stevinius had his Sayling Coaches in the Netherlands of incredible swiftness so that they have been seen to Sayl thirty Leagues in a day which Grotius affirms he would never have believed had he not seen with his own eyes Ships for the Sea first Typhis did invent Jove Sayling Chariots for the Firmament But for the Land Stevinius alone For neither Jove nor Typhis this will own Grotius We might instance in rare and wonderful Clocks Watches and Pendulums Wind-guns c. In our wonderful Telescopes Microscopes Thermometers Barometers Air-Pumps Pneumatick and Hydraulick i. e. Air and Water Engines Perpetuum Mobile's c. and infinite other Mathematick and Mechanick Musick Optick and Architectonick Instruments Engines Machines and Devices whereof the Antients had nothing like and all the other Arts and Sciences whether Mental or Manual if it were not beside the present business of these Tables in this place and wherein we have been too long and digressed too far already but that we could not well avoid it by reason of the many new appearances of things on the present Stage of Learning in our dayes We will onely hear the Poet once more on the curious contriv'd Clock and Dial at Stratsburgh in short thus But who would think that mortal hands could mould New Heavens new Stars whose rowling courses should With constant windings though contrary wayes Mark the true Monds of Years and Months and Dayes Yet 't is a story that hath oft been heard And by an hundred Witnesses aver'd Dubart The business of Experiments i. e. Their Study and Practice was never so far prosecuted and advanced by the Antients as in our dayes Nor did they ever conspire into such universal and comprehensive Societies and Assemblies of Men of all Qualities and Conditions for all possible advancement of Learning both in recovering the lost Arts perfecting the old and finding out of all manner of new which alone is that which above all things else lifts up Europe at this present above all the World and all preceding Ages Was it ever known before that Gentlemen Nobles Kings and Princes did combine into such Glorious Assemblies Or when did they ever turn Philosophers Experimenters and Operators and as I may say Mechanicks before The Academies of Italy those of France and Germany and above all the Royal Society of England are beyond all president of other times We might instance further in her Riches and Commerce her Shipping and Navigation and shew how she exceeds all the rest in these advantages insomuch that for one Egyptian or Persian that comes into Europe there passes into Egypt and Persia an hundred English an hundred French an hundred Spaniards an hundred Italians an hundred Germains and an hundred Dutch and an hundred times more for one American The Phoenicians and the Carthagintans the Tyrians and the Sidonians were renowned of old for great Navigators and Merchants yet they only Coasted it about the Inland and Midland Seas but durst never venture to cross the main Ocean Into what a narrow compass then was their Knowledge and Commerce confin'd The Antients ingrav'd Non ultra upon Hercules's Pillars at the Mouth of the Streights and a greater part than all the other three of the known World besides was wholly Terra Incognita to them They were beholden to the Lights of Heaven for a Guide in a dark night and to grope by Star-light were lost in a Mist and feign to ply it up and down the Shores only whereas now they are able to cross it from the North Pole to the South Pole from the Rising to the Setting of the Sun from Nova Zemblia to Magellanica and from India beyond Ganges to America and the Western Indies The prodigious advance of Shipping of our dayes is eminently seen in the Hollanders who are said to build a thousand Vessels every year fit for Navigation and Commerce whereof the least for matter and making besides Tackling stands them in no less than two thousand Crowns And many times as Pontanus affirm'd long since arrive at Amsterdam as many Ships in a day as there are dayes in the year The English and the French come not much behind and many other Nations in their proportion The Fleets that enter the Thames and the Texel the Guadelquivir at Sevil and the Tage at Lisbone the Seine and the Lloir in France are ample testimonies of her abundance and preheminence It must not be denied That Europe receives more from other parts of the World than she repales But in this very thing it is That her Commerce becomes glorious to her since she knows how to make it so to her advantage She parts with a little of her Brandies or Aqua Vitaes and Draperies or at best a little Coral and Amber But she has not Magazines enough to hold all her precious stores that come to her from the Indies and Persia from Barbary and Egypt from New France and New Spain from Brasil and Peru besides what is done within her self and her own bounds Hence come our Sugars from Canary Isles From Candy Currans Muscadels and Oyls From the Molucco's Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia com From India Gums rich Drugs and Ivory From Syria Mummy Black Red Ebony From Burning Chus From Peru Pearls and Gold From Russia Furrs to keep the Rich from Cold. From Florence Silks From Spain Fruit Saffron Sacks From Denmark Amber Cordage Firr and Flax. From France and Flanders Linnen Woad and Wine From Holland Hops Horse from the Banks of Rhine From England Wooll All Lands as God distributes To the Worlds Treasure pay their sundry Tributes Dubart It would trouble Arithmetick many times to find Numbers to answer the quantity of pounds of Sugar of Peppers of Cinamons of Cloves of Mace of Nutmegs and all other Riches from abroad To say nothing of Pearls and Precious Stones of Silks nor of

6. Horrible and desperate temptations of the Devil overcome vanquish'd wonderfully by the Divine Power and Presence with her in her Visions or Extasies in more then an ordinary manner 7. Something inflicted by Gods immediate hand in a Vision to remain all the dayes of her life to humble her but she discovered not what it was 8. Her wonderful Death and indeed Resurrection as we may say All which her Tutour Comenius was an Eye witness of This last we will give you more fully and particularly for the confirmation of all The Virgin struck with an Apoplexy and forwarned by divers Signs of imminent Death On the second of Jan. 1629. at break of day desiring to rise from her Bed she beheld a Woman all in Mourning Habit with a Vail covering her face all over standing by With which sight affrighted she leapt out of Bed and her Chamber and told not till three dayes after upon occasion what she had seen Eight dayes after she was warned by an Angel of an Apoplexy to befal her speedily Which Dream having wrote down as all her former she declared to none At night rising from supper she fell down suddenly struck with a Dead Palsie on her Tongue Right Hand and Foot c. Next day at night calling for her Tutor Comenius she declared to him her approaching death by an Apoplexy She also heard strange knocking 's and as it were strikings of a Clock for several hours At last one of the company a Senatour and Magistrate of the City said I have counted the strokes now twice they are thirteen Then they all counted and found just so many six several times over Afterwards it sounded three times four and one besides By and by four times three and one again six times two and one and then two times six and one Infine the same number thirteen repeated eighteen times over and then ceased They all then began to presage her death thirteen dayes after The next day also in the presence of much company was heard a noise preceeding intimating that it was about to strike It struck then twelve nine times The next day only eleven four times And ceased till the day before her death which happened just thirteen days after accordingly A Certain Pastour coming and speaking to comfort and prepare her against approaching Death She said when he was gone to her Tutour Comenius That good old man little thinks that he must first of all the Pastors pass into the Eternal Country Being asked How she knew I was now with the Lord said she And I saw Pastors who live here coming one after another of whom he was first Comenius asked what Pastors she reckoned up several even Stadius a lusty strong and healfull man and younger then all the rest Comenius then asked concerning himself I saw not you said she and therefore I asked the Lord who answered he cannot come yet For he have some yet to reconcile It fell out accordingly The said Minister went first and one after another even Stadius himself at last in the fourtieth year of his age An. 1634. and Comenius yet lives now fourty years since who testifies all these things to be true as in the sight of God whose Testimony the world knows too well to be slighted But to return to her Several Students desiring some written remembrance from her she not only wrote her own name but also places of Scripture and with her left hand though never before as well as ever with her right And on the very day of her death she gave to her Tutour Comenius her Bohemian Psalter and wrote in the Frontispeece an excellent Valedictory Ejaculation as it yet remains to be seen Bring back Jehova our Captives like streams into a dry Land c. And underneath This I have written for a Remembrance to my Nursing and Beloved Father in Christ J. A. Comenius Christina Poniatovia The night before her death several present One knocked at the Gate They open'd and saw no body So that they were all aston shed Then presently they heard knocking 's by her Bed side two several times All present rising up amazed strokes were heard upon the Table whereat they all sat before five several times After Singing Psalmes c. She desired all to depart and leave her a light that she should pass that night waking and ordered Pen Ink and Paper to be brought her and wrote with her left hand 1. Her Will 2. An Epistle to her Lady where she resided and 3. The forementioned Valediction to her Tutour and spent the rest of her time in reading and prayer After midnight she heard knocking again and a Voice Come come come Next morning she said she waited for five a clock at night and bid farewel to all that came to visit her About three a clock the Superintendents of the Bohemian Church with some other Pastors thought good to examine her of her Faith Hope and Conscience specially in the business of her Visions Whether she did yet assert to have them truly from God whether that was certain whether she was sufficiently assured That she would confess now being about to go into the presence of the Eternal Judge what ever she was Conscious to her self of She answered as truly as God is God so truly are these Revelations his Work Which God will make your Eyes to see Being asked had she then written and sealed what she had revealed to her in good Faith and Truth She answered whatsoever I have heard and was commanded to be written is all written not one tittle omited added or altered And for the things I saw in Visions I have expressed as well as I could in my own words but with no fraud or counterfetting God knows Then she blessed them c. Her Death and Resurrection Half an hour before five she would be lifted up out of her Bed And then cryed out Lord Jesus have Mercy upon me and put an end to my pains About five she bad her last farewel to all with her left hand being not able with her right c. And after prayers of all present she fell into a fit and so quietly departed But after some time all went away save two Ladies and Comenius with the Nurses and when her feet and hands were quite grown cold and stiff like any dead person's Then those Ladies and Comenius also departed leaving the Nurses to lay her out But whilst they were yet going out of the door one of the Nurses cryes out They looking back saw her risen straight upright upon the Bed and asking for her cloaths Comenius intreats them to leave her and went down with them full of fear and trembling All leaving only their attendants to relate what was done Comenius returns goes into his Study But Behold She was now dressed and stood at the Wather-cistern washing her Hands and Face and his Wife with two other Nurses looking on Comenius stood astonished My Christina what is the matter In the

5th of July in the year of Christ 1664. which is of my Age the 76th of my Ministry the 48th of my Exile the 36th of the beginning of Revelations made unto me from the Lord the 26th A PRAYER Written by Command of the Lord and my God in the year 1653. April 18. and in the year 1664. June 30. commanded to be put for a close of my Revelations O Eternal God! Holy Father Incomprehensible in VVisdom Judgment Counsel Grace and Justice Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier Father Son and holy Spirit Thou Holy One of Israel who from the beginning hast founded the Earth and the Heaven of Heavens are the work of thy Hands VVho sittest on the Throne of inestable Glory in the midst of thy innumerable Hosts Cherubims and Seraphims and Men triumphing through Martyrdoms ministring to Thee day and night and singing Holy Holy Holy Jehovah Zebaoth Behold amongst them me also praising thee O God! Acknowledging thee to be the Lord with all the Earth worshipping Thee the Father everlasting For that Thou hast form'd me a frail mass or lump of Clay for a small Vessel of thy grace and hast call'd me forth by my own proper Name out of my Mothers womb and hast written my Name in the Lambs Book of Life And in these last days of the World in a Nation which hath known thy Name and heard the Voice of thy Trumpet going forth from thy Throne hast set me upon the Walls of thy Jerusalem thy beloved Church for a Witness and Watchman and for a Voice of one crying to the Nations That openly in the sight of all Nations I might declare the Day of Vengeance to the Worshippers of Idols and to all false Worships of those to do not rightly acknowledge Thee the Tri-Une God who livest eternally And again The Day of Grace to the Nations of the Earth to acknowledge in the true Light interior and exterior Thee the living God and thy pure and chaste Worship Such as the Angels perform unto thee in Heaven and thou wouldst have perform'd to thee without Idolatrous Errors on Earth out of a pure Heart and good Conscience and Faith unfeigned in Body Soul and Spirit unanimously and humbly in simplicity of Heart Behold me thy pitiful little VVorm and most inconsiderable Dust Refuse or Off-scouring at the Threshold of thy House thy beloved Church and of that small Portion which thou hast gathered to thy self under the Name of the Brethren of Bohemia Behold me in the days of its cruel Persecution and sad Exile in another Land the Hungarian burdened and hanging down my Head with the very Disease of Old Age I did hear thy voice of thee the living God speaking unto me I know not how but speaking I know what For intelligibly I did perceive thy Voices and clearly apprehended the sence yea and moreover I my self did speak unto thee the Invisible I did ask Questions and make Answers All things with the unconfused and undisturbed Powers and Forces of my Mind And my eyes saw the whole World in thy hand as a little Globe and I heard thee explaining those Mysteries how thy hand contains all things And those other things which would never have come into my mind nor were suggested by any of Mortals I did receive from thee alone my God! with fear day and night and did imprint them in my Memory or also through the● commanding in Tables and Papers But thy face I a man of poluted lips never saw save onely thy hand pierced through with a Nail once extended towards me and put under my left Arm-pit when thou swaredst That thou wouldst neither leave thy Cause nor me thy Servant And thou hast kept faith O faithful One In the sight of mine Enemies Domestick and Forreign And that in sleep I beheld thee my beloved Saviour in thy diffrent Age and Habit with Joy and Tears acknowledging mine indignity and with covered face throwing my self down at thy feet and kissing them and perceiving the Taste of Eternal Life with Sweetnesses unutterable by me For thou madest me to see even the Joys of the Elect in Heaven as also the Torments of the Damned in Hell and what things in the world also in respect both of Church and State should be hereafter till even thy illustrious Return to Judgement Which things I faithfully without any fraud in simplicity of heart with groans to thee whether thou hadst commanded by night or by day did refer and put down into writings Adding nothing of my own and respecting nothing of my own nor any other thing besides thy Glory And bearing many Prejudices Reproaches Cavils Twenty six whole Years and Ten Months and Three Days Till now in this Year 1664. an end being put unto thy work thou my Lord and my God hast commanded to close and shut up all these things with this Prayer Hear therefore O Heavens and perceive with your ears O Earth Behold I conclude dutifully I conclude with weeping Falling down at thy feet Lord Jesus Kissing thy Wounds and Marks and pouring out my Soul before thee I ask humbly I ask confidently First that thou wouldst leave thy Holy Spirit for a Guide Counsellor and Comforter unto me even until Death and through him wouldst pour out a plentiful shower of Benediction upon all thy Speeches which thy mouth hath brought forth in these last days of the World by me thy sorry Servant which I receiving from thy mouth have sealed up by thy Command and by a Man whom thou hast adjoyned to me for an help have made known first indeed to the Hungarian Nation then afterwards to other Nations also Grant O holy God! That all to whom the sound of thy Trumpet shall reach may acknowledge that they have come forth from thee that thou mayest be glorified in all Nations of the Earth All which sanctifie O God! in thy Truth to acknowledge thy word through all Nations and Tongues and thy Self to be the Truth the Way and the Life Cause O God! That Kings Princes Subjects and Doctors or Teachers of the Gospel with their Hearers and Parents with Children may be one in thee and the truth of thy Word and may know thee the One onely God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent by whom all things were made and without whom nothing was made in the Unity of the holy Spirit God undivided in Power Wisdom Goodness Majesty and Glory blessed for ever I ask O God! I ask That all the Islands of the Sea may now wax silent before thee that all the Ends of the Earth may be afraid and fly to thee May assume new strength may be carried with Wings as Eagles and may run and not be weary with us to thee the Fountain of Salvation who speakest Righteousness and art sufficient to save nor art delighted with the death of a Sinner O Shepherd of Men Convey over but even now in the last days all Nations under thy Pastoral Rod that they may be brought into the Bond

Catholick Doctrine the Supream Lord the most Holy Father I HELENA considering my self an humble Daughter that is of low estate and degree of this China Empire I am ashamed to abide in the Palace of the Emperour Heretofore I onely knew the observance of the Privy-Chambers I was ignorant of the Law of Forreign Lands It happened that a Man of the Society of Jesus Father Andrew Xavier did stay in our Court or Pallace promulging the holy Doctrine By relation of others I began to know him And behold I believed and with a Reverent Heart received from him the Holy Baptism I caused that Mary the Queen Mother of the Emperour Anne the Queen his lawful Wife and Constantine Son of the Emperour Prince and Heir being withal instructed did also receive the Holy Water it is now the third year since Now although I ought with blood dropping that is with drops of Blood to dissolve the Marrow of my Soul yet I attain not to answer and satisfie no not in the least It continually comes into my mind with Reverence to go unto the Throne of the Most Holy Father that in presence I may receive the Holy Documents onely I fear the difficult passages to so most remote a Kingdom Therefore I am frustrate of my Desire In the mean while with profound bowing even to the Ground We beseech You the Most Holy Father That You would be led before the Presence of the Divine Majesty and out of Pious Affection toward Us who are obnoxious to Sins and at the hour of Our departure out of this World You would vouchsafe to Indulge to Us intire remission of the punishment of Sins Withall we beseech You the Most Holy Father that with the Holy and Universal Church You would deprecate the Supreme Lord for Us That He would confirm Our Empire help and establish it being once restored with Peace and withall would grant that this Eighteenth Emperour of our Imperia House who is the Twelfth Grandchild from the first Founder of the Empire and Family namely That Himself as Lord and all his subjects together also may acknowledge and own the true Lord Jesus Finally We ask You the Most Holy Father That You would send very many Men of the Society of JESUS who far and near may divulge the Holy Faith These Things indulg'd to Us will be Monuments of Your Pious Affections toward Us. But other Things which are in our Desires We are not sufficient to explain in Words Onely a man of the Society of Jesus Father Michael Boym knows the Businesses of our Empire We command him to return Legate into the Great West to propound Our Speech before the Most Holy Father He can particularly relate Our humble Will We trust in the time of Peace to send Chineses Themselves Legates who may present Our Duty at the Altar of the Saints PETER and PAUL and offer Reverence With Heads bowed down to Your Feet We hope the Most Holy Father will kindly look upon these Senses of a rude Mind This onely the Speech In the year Yum Lie the fourth of the tenth Moon the eleventh day which was of the year from Christ 1650. the fourth day of November The place of the Seal wherein after the China Custom for they do not use to prescribe their Names otherwise are these words engraved The Seal of the most Intire most Wise most Clement Venerable Empress Here follow the Letters Responsory from Alexander VII Priest Best and Greatest Dated both to the Queen and to the Supreme Director of the Kingdom To our most Dear Daughter in Christ Helena Taminga Queen of China ALEXANDER VII POPE To Our most Dear Daughter in Christ Health and Apostolick Benediction VVE have known from Your Majesties Letter how great was the Goodness and Clemency whereby the God of gods brought You wrapt up in blind Errors and lying Superstition out of the Power of Darkness to the knowledge of Light and Truth He does not forget to shew Pity nor retains His Mercy in Wrath. For when You was a Daughter of This yet the Omnipotent Lord looked down upon You who would rather be called The Father of Mercy than The God of Vengeances and Revenges Now who can search out His Powerfulnesses Or find out the Way of His Counsels Immense and vast Lands whereof We have scarce heard any thing with Our Ears the Old Enemy hath possessed with his Frauds and Fallacies It was but like a Fable this mighty Kingdom no less for the Desarts and almost infinite distances of Places betwixt than because the false Religion and Worship hath took up all things possessed all over-spread all What access for Truth through so many Seas wandrings of Journeys almost another Heaven and Stars when they were prohibited from all the Shoars who desired a commutation of this precious Pearl before Gold and rich Merchandize And lastly when they were defended by the impiety of the Mountains continuedly adjoyning to the Ocean and by Laws and most strict Guards The study of promoting the true Faith broke through and overcame all these things By which so many Dangers and Difficulties Your Salvation hath been sought Whereby so much the more attentively Daughter in Christ You are to recall into Your Mind the Memory of so Great a Benefit and make known these things to Your Children that they may put their Hope and Confidence in GOD and not forget the Works of GOD and may enquire into his Commandments Although also to the sum of Joy which was brought Us neither was this wanting That Others also insisted on Your Example And the Royal Child Constantine does no more grow into the hopes of the Kingdom than of overturning Superstition Him truly as together also All We Fatherly embrace and most lovingly bestow upon Your Majesty the Benediction which You ask and ardently pray God to make Your most Dis-joyned Kingdom One with Us both in Affection and Faith Given at Rome at or with Saint Peter under the Ring of the Fisher the 18th day of December 1655. the First Year of Our Popedom NATALIS RONDININUS To Our Beloved Son Pan Achilleus Eunuch of the King of China Captain General by Sea and Land Beloved Son Health and Apostolick Benediction YOur Letter brought Us great Joy For from the Rising and Setting of the Sun from the North and from the Sea God hath dealt Mercy to Us And He who heretofore on a sudden illustrated with the Water and Grace of Baptism the Royal Eunuch mighty in much Treasure and Riches now hath called you Beloved Son intangled with the Cares of this Kingdom and the World among which never scarce is found place for the Doctrine of Christ which is counted foolishness by the Men of this World into the Light of his Son that is into an Immortal and neverto-perish Inheritance of another and true Kingdom The Greatness of which Benefit as it hath affected Our Heart with great Joy so you will plainly understand what is due from you therefore if you look unto Him continually who was made unto Us for an Example of his own Discipline But endeavour and co-work diligently that this Work may be consummated which is begun in this most ample Kingdom That there may be your Praise also in the Gospel For there ought to be no Vastness nor Longitude of Lands so great as to withstand that Faith which removes Mountains or Charity which never fails endures and works all things By this we admit you into Our Bosom whose Flame towards you and these Nations shall not be extinguish'd no not by the multitude of Waters which pass between Us nor ever wax cold by any Difficulties But the Benediction which you ask for your Self We most lovingly bestow upon you Given at Rome at or with St. Peter under the Ring c. NATALIS RONDININUS Since these Transactions the Emperour hath thought fit within these few years to send the Jesuites out of his Countreys and Dominions whether for their Good Deeds or Bad Deeds God knows For indeed the Jesuites are like some sorts of Persons The more you know them the worse you like them And it were well if the Western Kings and Princes would do so too If Kings would think upon 't there might be no Pope since if Popes could well help it there should be no Kings Doctor Sherman in his late Account of Faith against the Papists For if there be any honest Jesuites in the World we have little reason to think them at this End thereof For here whatever they are elsewhere they are grown so mischievous that every good Christian especially Englishman cannot chuse but be ready to help them to that which their Arms a Bow and Arrow have so long lack'd notwithstanding they Themselves too have so well deserv'd it A String FINIS * For the Law of Nature is Retaliation and the Law of Arms and Nations is Give and take Quarter * Interpreter * Since from divers other places * The Rock * tricks