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A75276	The worlds proceeding woes and succeeding joyes. 1. In cruell warres and vehement plagues. 2. In happy peace and unity amongst all living creatures. Or, the triple presage of Henry Alsted, (a man every way most learned) depending as well on the oracles of heaven, as on the opinions of the greatest astrologers. With an addition of the fiery conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter, this instant February; denouncing many calamities to the world, or certaine regions thereof. In which discourse, is discovered the opinions of many learned men concerning Christs personall reign upon earth, and confirmed by the most comfortable prophecie of Tycho Brahe, touching the most blessed age even now at hand.	Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.	1643 (1643)	Wing A2927; Wing W3591; Thomason E89_20; ESTC R2034	10,277	15

care of these divine secrets worthy to be knowne translated the same most worthy to be wished out of the Latine into the English tongue Neither should it seeme wonderfull that the most able part of the Ministers of the holy word otherwise very studious of the truth in this most learned age doth not so suddenly assent seeing the contrary opinion from the time of Saint Ierom even to ours for the most part hath prevailed For as in other Arts of inferiour degrees so also in Divinity many great men suffer themselves very hardly to be moved from the opinions which at first they learned Notably and to the purpose saith Tycho Brahe himselfe s Men otherwise not unlearned doeso religiously observe those things which they have received by inveterate authority of their Ancestors that although plainly and by themselves without a Monitor they observe those things to bee 〈◊〉 they account it a haynous offence and impute it to lightnesse to depart from their opinion long approved and by diuturnall use con●●●●●● And therefore it is now no more marvell that men do so contend in matter of Religion for their Ancestors opinions howsoever the holy Sereptures may openly enough sometimes evince the contrary t And agreeably to this elsewhere Such is the nature of mankinde that they may not presently desist from their long received and approved opinions though erroneous but a commutation or change by little and little if not otherwise may be made from darknesse to light even as wee see in the appearing morne those things which the light of the day not suddenly but by degrees doth minister unto us untill the Sunne it selfe risen drives away all darknesse Some such thing also in matter of Religion appeares to be done and it is to be hoped even as the morning doth never suffer a Relapse into nocturnall darknesse howsoever sometimes her progresse is obscured by thicker Clouds So also that the truth it selfe whether Theologicall or Philosophicall shall not suffer a Retrocesse or going backwards but successively by little and little put forth it selfe out of the darknesse wherewith it is over-clouded Thus farre goes Tycho Brahe whom we so often before have very honourably mentioned Lastly in what yeare this new world and halfe-heavenly condition of mortall men shall happen and the Church militant if I may so speak shall beginne to triumph it is a matter very disputable Some doe assigne one yeare some another yet they all agree in one full voice that it is neare and even at our doores Alsted the Standard-bearer of millenaries in our age appointeth the yeare of Grace 1694. to be the first of this most wished age Others say it is most uncertaine whose judgement I hold to bee the most certaine I wish and wish againe that this millenary Kingdome if God shall bee so pleased may happen in our dayes I will close up this pleasing contemplation which hath refreshed again as I hope Those whom the terrifying premises dismaid with the words of Saint Iohn the Divine or rather of the holy Ghost guiding his pen Apoc. 20.6 Blessed is he that hath part in the first Resurrection Grant O Lord that we may be partakers thereof FINIS The Annotations whereunto you are respectively directed by the Alphabeticall Letter in this precedent Work a The great Revolutions or which is even as the greatest Conjunctions of Saturne and Iupiter have happened almost in the yeares shewne in this Table Revol From the beginning of the world Before Christ Notable Persons 0 000 4000 Adam 1 800 3200 Enoch 2 1600 2400 Noah 3 2400 1600 Moses 4 3200 800 Elias     After   5 4000 Christ Iesus Chr. 6 4800 800 Char. Gr. 7 5600 1600 K. Iames. b God speaks with men not only by the mouthes of his holy Prophets but sometimes by the Elements composed into divers Formes and Images for their Terrour c Our chiefe Antiquary hath very well noted that the Conjunctions and Oppositions of Saturne and Iupiter have been mortall to us of England For mine owne part I have observed the English Sweat or sweating sicknesse hath gone thrice over all this Kingdome First in Anno 1485. a little after the great Conjunction in Scorp Againe but more mildely yet accompanied with a plague in Anno 1518. after the opposition of Saturne and Iupiter in Scorpio and Taurus Lastly in Anno 1551. when another Conjunction of Saturne and Iupiter did execute her powers d The false Astrologers in their most frivolous Prognostications use to prescribe indifferently to All borne even under a different Thema of Heaven on what day it is good or bad to cut a veine purge the body with a medicine draw forth blood with Cupping Glasses or leeches travell into a strange Countrey shave the head or the beard or paire their nailes Also warres the death of Princes dearnesse of Victuals and I know not what with a shamelesse brow they blush not to foretell e One to try the truth of this Art forthwith in the beginning of the yeare took his Kalender and where the Authour had set downe raine he writ faire weather where calme winde where cleare cloudy And at the end of the yeare having summed up the Predictions on either part he found himselfe a better and more certaine Astrologer by many parts then the Almanack maker I. H. f Bee advised by those delightfull and also grave Sermons which are studiously read almost of all men made by the Bishop of Winchester fol. 719. g If there be any omen in Ecclipses surely very much evill will be brought by that horrid Ecclipse of the Sunne and the greatest of all that we Brittaines have seene in many ages Aug. 2. 1654. For the whole Luminary about ten of the Clock in the forenoone the Moone being darkened shall lie hid halfe a quarter of an houre whereby deep darknesse shall possesse London and the neighbouring places chiefly Kingstone unlesse a grosse circumsolar ayre doe bring it reliefe h Iesus the Brother of Ananias a husbandman seven yeares and a halfe continually cried Woe to Ierusalem At length he added woe also to me and at the same words being stricken from a sling he gave up the Ghost Gesep lib. 5. of the Destruction of Ierusalem Chap. 44. i The first Trigonick Restitution was finished in Enoch and the flourishing estate of the Church The third in Moses and the deliverance of the people out of the Bondage of Egypt The fifth in Christ and the reparation of humane salvation k The Ancient Patrons of this opinion touching the future felicity of the Church in this life confirmed it out of Mar. 10.30 see Maldenat in this place out of Matth. 5.5 D. Hart Conc. fol. 291 Chiefly out of the Revelation 5.10 and 20. vers 4.5.6 whereunto adde 66 places which Alsted out of V. and N. T. alleadgeth in his Diatr de mille annis Apocal. l Note that Cerinthus and his followers called Millenaries were condemned by that name of open heresie because they most pleasantly dreamed or supposed that this Earth should be not so much a paradise of spirituall delights as a stewes of most filthy voluptuousnesse Euseb lib. 3. chap. 25. Aug. of Heresie chap. 8. And the same opinion is held not only by the circumcised Iewes but also by our re-baptized Anabaptists m Many Ecclesiasticall men and Martyrs have said these things Ierom lib. 4. upon Ieremy n The first Resurrection seemeth to be due unto the Martys and Confessors as their prerogatives because they glorified Chirst before others here in their bodies nothing terrified with the cruell threats and torments of men for it is just faith Tertul. with God to exalt his servants when they are afflicted in his name Lib. 3. Contra Marc. Many have many things of these first fruits of the Resurrection Vir. Pineda Salian Annals tom 6. fol. 422. 433. Bi. Bilson fol. 217. and Wil. Comm. upon Gen. 256. Lorin upon Acts 7. pag. 29. and abundantly D. Kellet in his Miscellany part 2. and here and there in page 12. and 240. o Gerson is of opinion that Ioseph then rose and appeared to his most honoured spouse and comforted her Barrards Evang. Hist. tom● pag. 311. p The Poets dreame of the golden age arose from hence because the Prophets doe so deliver and declate many things as even finished For Visious by Gods Spirit were obiected to their eyes and they saw those things in their sight as to be done and ended when same had by little and little divulged their prophesies they thought that all those things were compleat in the old times Lact. q S. Ierom in his Book De virisillustrib doth recite a numerous Catalogue of the ancient Fathers that were of this opinion r D. Hakwill in his Apology edition the second pag. 476. commendeth many of his time vehemently giving their suffrages to the Army of the foresaid reverend Antiquity contending for the Millenary Kingdom s Tycho Brahe Astron progymn tom pag. 541. 512. t Though the greater part of our fresh Divines borne away with the violence of the common torrent think otherwise neverthelesse it is nothing prejudic all to this most divulged and most received opinion in the prime ages of the Church FINIS

The Triple Presage OF HENRY ALSTED FIrst From the year 1603. to the year 1642. The universall Orbe shall finde a very great alteration for in the space of those fourty yeeres the seventh Revolution of the Planets runs to end a and the numbers in Daniel and the Apocalyps doe confirme the same Thus saith he nor unadvisedly in his Speculum Mundi inserted in his Chronoligie between the pages 482. and 483. The like to these he brings forth in his Encycl published in folio Anno 1630 page 46. Because saith hee the seventh Revolution of the Planets doth fall upon the sixth Millenary the universall and that indeed very great alteration of this world is portended from the yeere 1604. even to the yeere 1642. For this seventh Revolution being finished the Planets doe return to their Beginnings from whence the end of the Kingdoms of the world is collected by men skilfull in Astronomy Observe here that our Author took these things at the first unlesse I be greatly deceived out of Tycho Brahe himselfe whose name neverthelesse he purposely concealeth Let us therefore if it please you hear Ticho speaking in his own stile this seventh Restitution of the Trigons which began Anno 1603 from the creation of the world into their former estate obtaineth a certain hidden consideration of Sabbatisme of Rest and denounceth something peculiar above others and of great moment c. Secondly From this year current 1603. to 1694. shall be a Protasis or Preparation to the thousand Apocalyptick years which being over past the warre of Gog and Magog shad begin and this shall bee concluded by that glorious comming of the Lord to Judgement which when it shall be he only knoweth We know this only by the Scriptures that a thousand years and the Warre of Gog and Magog as it is called shall precede or goe before the last Iudgement Thirdly In Anno 1642. to wit in Feb. 1642. and 1643. shall happen the Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in Aries the Ram a signe of siery Triplicity which portendeth the Revolution of some new Government or Empire These are the words of Alsted or peradventure some other skilfull in Astrologie out of whom as his custome was he transcribed the same For my part I will not rashly interpose my small Iudgement of the decrees of this combination much lesse foretell what sorrow thereby may be signified unto us even now instant from above I am no Caldean neither know I the Celestiall Signes Those that suppose God openly signifies his pleasure unto men by Letters written in Heaven or that the Changes of Common-wealths and Religions are described in the most excellent Regiment of the celestiall motions may reape this Harvest take the charge upon them and with my consent attribute unto themselves the gift of Prophesie Surely I giving small credit which I ingenuously confesse to Astronomantick doctrine have determined wholly to forbeare all explication of Significations Neverthelesse I doe wish that all and every one whatsoever doe expect that saving and most glorious day of our Lord Christs appearance to be warned by this most ominous Aspect that they awaking from security wherein the greatest part of mankind under this last age of the decayed world lyes buried would forthwith reforme their Christian lives and so prepare themselves as if they were even now to entertaine the Lord Christ And so much concerning these things And now I will somewhat more briefly touch the said meeting or conjunction threatning most cruell and horrid warres most vehement plagues and other poysoning diseases in the yeare enfuing Ecquid portendat terris Deus ille Deorum Norit oftendent tempore fata suo What it portends to mankinde God doth know And in their time the firme decrees will show An Addition of the fiery Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in the yeare 1642. 1643. which denounceth many calamities to the World or certaine Regions thereof PTolomy Cardan c. And all the Astrologers of the meaner sort doe maintain that the most ponderous conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter portendeth terrible wars decayes of Kingdoms translations of Governments mortal plagues and the most prodigious of prodigious things of that kinde c On the other side almost all our Divines as also many Astronomers of the best rank do exceedingly deride those things only as melancholy dreames and their great volumnes do judge meer hodge-podges of most frivolous toyes as the judgements of Haly the conjunctions of Albuma and the Aphorismes of Cardanus most worthy to feel the fire and be charmed with the smoak I am not he that will interpose my selle an Areopagite or a Palaemon between so many and so great men most courageously contending neither is it my office to compound so great controversies agitated with such fervor on either fide sith my nature hath alwayes hitherto abhorred to foretell events from the Starres I confesse that the supercelestiall Bodies according to their Aspects and divers Angles beholding doe prevaile over these subcelestiall bodies I confesse also that the meeting of the superiour Planets which the Annalls of all Ages doe restifie are accompanied for the most part with an Iliad of evils and consequently have much efficacy and portent but that whatsoever it is with Ticho Brahe in the like matter I suppose is placed out of mans knowledge and determination wherefore sith my minde doth waver in the ballance inclining both wayes I am resolved to supersede or omit if any thing should be attributed to conjunctions the most dire prediction whatsoever it be of the effects of this presaging conjunction I am not as a little before I signified of their Tribe that doe boldly pronounce things to come of the Starres or of those that feigning divine inspiration would be accounted Prophets by the credulous superstitious common people though by men that have more wit and learning they be esteemed Impostors Briefly here is no need indeed of my Coniectures d the Belgick Compilers of Prognostications I well know in their divinations from yeare to yeare by occasion hereof doe interweave certaine Prophecies or rather fooleries whereby they immodestly cast no light blemish aswell on the Art as on themselves The French Almanack makers also a Gods name as so many Interpreters of Heaven and the Starres Chamber-fellowes doe set before your eyes and as it were with the finger shew in their yearly shootings forth all the evills and more described in the fatall Tables of Heaven In the interim I much marvell that both of them doe finde those on whom they may put them seeing to speak as the case is it skilleth no more what those raw unlearned fellows shall iudge of this unluckie Aspect or other placing of the Starres then if the blinde or bleer-eyed should iudge of colours which they cannot readily discerne For such Prognosticators use to heap together in one medley without election or exquisite iudgement many and vaine things out of many Astronomers futilitie or foolish babbling And so it comes