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Christian valor encouraged, or, The Turk's downfal and, probably, (out of many prophecies) / by Whom.
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Women Historians of the Midwest.
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1684
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Wing C3951; ESTC R40810
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Christian Valor ENCOURAGED OR THE Turk's Downfal And Probably Out of many PROPHECIES By WHOM Turca cadat Gallus Lunaria Cornua rumpat Ac Orientalem Divina dote Coronam Constantinopoli Sacratus rite resumat Down Turk May Great French Lewis break thy Horn And let Constantine's Crown his Head adorn LONDON Printed by John Leake and are to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1684. THE Turks Downfal And probably out of many Prophecies by Whom EVery Historian knows the Pretensions of the French to the Empire And as to the Low-Countries there was a Book Printed in the Savoy 1667. Translated out of French whose Title was A Dialogue concerning the Rights of Her most Christian Majesty To which I shall only add That at that very Time when Robert Earl of Flanders died sans Issue whereby the said Earldom according to Tenure fell into the French King's Hands he by Consent of the Lords of the Country was put into Peaceable Possession thereof But if this King had no Title yet some think he does not amiss to make himself some Amends for the Surprizal of Navarre And if Navarre his Grand-Father's Native Kingdom and Paternal Inheritance were restor'd and Flanders then suffer'd to be quiet it would be well for the Kings and People of those Countries King David made choice of Pestilence rather than War Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi When Kings self-will'd Designs pursue Th' unhappy Vassals must it rue As to the Pretensions to the Empire The Designs and Actions succeeding and pursuant to them have made a great Noise and Stir But the Raising the Siege of Vienna evidently shews That God per quem Reges regunt Prov. 8.16 has Establish'd it where it is And if in the Time of Charles the Simple the Francones and Saxones were distasted with the French and chose an Emperor of their own Blood Henricus Auceps certainly the German Nation after so long an Establishment will be very loth to change their accustomed and usual Succession Romanum Imperium Germana corona tenebit Transferri Gallis non voluere Dii The Roman Rule with Germans shall remain The Gods deny the French it to attain We read in Holy Writ of a Time and Season when Kings go out to Battle This Great Louis goes not to War upon such Customary Account His Inclination to Arms is Sidereal and Natural Chaucer in his Tale of the Wife of Bath says I followed ay mine Inclination By vertue of my Constellation If then he must be doing for so it is What Happiness would redound to Europe if he turn'd his Inclination Endeavour and Arms against the Turk No Prince fitter or abler to cope with him than he Pieter van den Broeck in his Voyages and Travels compares the King of Spain and the Great Turk together Says he In macht zyn dese Malcanderen seer gelyck In Power these Two are very much alike But as the Roman Empire according to the Prophecy of the Druids Transalpinis Gentibus portenditur is transferr'd to the Transalpine Nations so the Potentia Hispanica Pyreneos transivit Montes Gallis transfertur the Spanish Greatness is got over the Pyrenean Hills and resides in the French Tents But to return He hath in this kind the Precedent of his Predecessors Philip the First Lewis the Seventh that went to the Holy-Land in Person against the Saracens and Turks Philip the Second Lewis the Ninth I have mentioned before this Great King hath asserted his Title to Flanders He may be pleased then to remember That Baldwin Earl of Flanders his Predecessor as to that Province was Anno 1194. chosen Emperor of Constantinople and that Charles the Eighth had that Title confer'd upon him by Pope Alexander the Sixth An Empire certainly easier to be attain'd than that of Germany being so strongly guarded with so many Princely Satellites for Interest sake On the contrary the Other must stand per se having so many Enemies round about the Curse and Maledictions of so many oppressed Vassals and no Christian Prince though lying remote but would contribute Men and Money to so Universal a Good were it set on foot If this Empire be not attainable in Toto yet certainly in Part and some goodly Limbs thereof it is attainable and atchievable 1. There is Cyprus a wonderful Antient Kingdom even as old as the Destruction of Troy and was in the French Hands Two hundred thirty and odd Years An Island commodious for Shipping See Heylin and Favine in his Theatre of Honour speaking of the House of Lusignan and the Military Order of the Sword in that Island 2. Crete or Candy a brave Island and also commodious for Shipping which was in the Power of the Emperor Baldwin aforesaid who gave it to Boniface of Montferrat It hath one Haven called Suda capable of One thousand Ships This Great Prince being Master of This or Cyprus being so Potent in Shipping as he is of late become What might he not be able to do in the Levant having already Marseilles and Thoulon famous Retraicts for a Navy against the Barbarous Turks Heylin tells us The Florentine Duke with a Fleet of Six Sail over-aw'd the Turk in the Mediterranean 3. There is also Morea or Peloponnesus Six hundred Miles in compass The most pleasant Country of all Greece abounding in all things necessary for the Life of Man and in such also as do serve for Delicacy and Content adorned with many goodly Plains swelled with Fruitful Hills well stored with Ports and Havens on all Sides thereof A Place easie to be fortified into the Quality and Circumstances of an Island by Immuring the Isthmus being but Six Miles in length done by the Venetians in Fifteen Days Historians tell us That Demetrius King of Macedon Julius Caesar and Caligula attempted to cut through the Isthmus and make it a perfect Island By none more eagerly pursued than by the Emperor Nero who took Spade in hand to hearten on his Souldiers Yet at last the Souldiers being frighted with the Blood which abundantly broke forth with the Groans and Roarings which they continually heard and with the Spirits and Furies always in their Sights perswaded the Emperor to desist Who knows but that Great Lewis that hath not long since cut a Navigable River quite through his Famous Kingdom à Mari usque ad Mare from Sea to Sea may be the Man that shall effect what Heaven denied to the forenamed Princes Faxit Deus 4. Mount Athos in Greece standing in a Peninsula The Isthmus of which being once cut through by Xerxes but since closed again gives a Probability of what I mention as to Morea The Hill many Miles in Circuit Three Days Journey long as says Heylin 5. The foresaid Morea and also Achaia have been in the Hands of Princes of the House of France So also Athens as we find it confirmed to us by Saint Marthe's Genealogick History of France pag. 1162 1167 c. Memento and Incouragement enough to stir up