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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

will bee haply some Novices and Tycho-carpers to whom a man so great will seeme exceeding rash yea halfe a Heretick and his prophetick words an old Wives dotage and with one foot at the least to enter on the threshold of herefie They saying with S. Pauls Antagonists Acts 17.19 May we not know what this now Doctrine whereof thou speakest is And with the wrested words of Saint Ierom Whosoever thou art that maintainest new decrees I pray thee why after foure hundred yeares a thousand and six hundred doest thou ondeavour to teach us what we knew not before Why doest thou publish what Peter and Paul would not utter the Christian world hath subsisted to this day without that Doctrine of yours wee being old will hold that beliefe wherein being children we were born To these I answer that surely this Doctrine of the Millenary felicity is not new yesterday or of a very late invention but worthy of reverence for the very ancientnesse thereof forasmuch as it flourished a thousand and foure or five hundred yeares sithence and almost in the very first beginnings of the rising Church And truly m most holy and learned men in the next Ages after the birth of Christ have taught things not only consonant or agreeable with those of Brahe but also some things somewhat hard and more unpleasing to the eares of common Divines without any filth or staine of Heresie or of declining from uprightnesse of beliefe touching the Sabbatisme or time of rest to come upon the earth n Others have taught a double resurrection first a particular resurrection of some faithfull people especially Martyrs and Confessors secondly an universall resurrection which the Catholick Church do firmly beleeve as a principall Article of Christianity and have judged it to be between either of the golden Ages of 1000 yeeres read gentle Reader and perpend or diligently consider Apoc. 5.10 and 20.4.5.6 where these things by my Interpretation are written as in the beames of the Sunne Neither is there any cause that the said Resurrection of some whom God peculiarly segregated to receive such reward may make any one doubtfull seeing such particular Resurrection happened when Christ the lover of mankinde suffered or which by the sacred History seemeth unto me more likely to betrue when he rose againe At which time there arose together with him our first Parents the holy Patriarchs and Matriarchs o pious Kings and divine Prophets that is to say Adam Eve Noah Abraham with Sarah Isaac Iacob Iob Moses David or at least as others are of opinion Iohn the Baptist Zachary Elizabeth Simeon o Ioseph the Husband of the blessed Virgin together with others that saw Christ in the flesh p For seeing these were known to Christs Disciples they could therefore the better testifie of his Resurrection Moreover others of the elders and chiefe Doctors of the Church have taught that Christ himselfe from the first Resurrection to the second shall remaine on the earth and raign there 1000 years with his Saints and Elect in very great peace and with incredible felicitie of all delights abounding every where That eloquent and fluent writer worthy to be compared with Cicero alone the most eloquent of Romulus his Nephews according to the judgement of Heinsius in his Oration Pro Biblioth 3. pag. 29 may speak for all The Sonne of the highest and greatest God shall come to judge the living and the dead He shall converse with men 1000 years and shall rule them with most upright government and then they shall bee living in their bodies and not die but through the same 1000. years they shall beget an infinite multitude and their Of-spring shall be holy and deare unto God p And those that shall be raised from beneath shall bee as Judges to the being And after a few things inserted hee addeth The Moone shall receive the lustre of the Sunne and shall bee no more diminished and the Sunne shall be seven times brighter then now it is And the Earth shall open her fruitfulnesse and shall of her owne accord bring forth most plentifull fruits the rocks of the mountaines shall sweat houey wines shall run downe in rivers and floods with milke shall abound And presently after There shall be in all this time no bloody beasts no birds of prey but all things shall be peaceable and pleasant Lions and Calves shall stand together at the stall the Wolfe shall not prey on the Lambe the Dogge shall not hunt Hawks and Eagles shall not hurt Infants shall play with Serpents To conclude then shall come to passe those things which the Poets declared to be done in the goldentimes Saturne reigning Afterwards he added to the former things thirteene Verses of Virgil. out of the fourth Eclogue but their order changed after this manner 38.39.40.41.28.29.30.42.43.44.45.21.22 Therefore men shall live a most peaceable and plentifull life and shall likewise reigne with God And the Kings of the Gentiles shall come from the borders of the Earth with gifts and presents to adore and honour the great King c. This is the doctrine of the holy Prophets which we Christians doe follow this is Christian wisedome Such things Lactantius lib. 7. Div. Instit doth recite wherein some sayings at the first sight specious but more deeply looked into except as the sayings of man to use the words of Paul I cannot approve Neverthelesse with a gratefull and benigne affection I judge the Authour to be excused for the great number of illustrious Writers both of the East and West Churches which before him seemed as it were to give their authority unto this opinion q But why should I cite the Name or Words of Lactantius for confirmation of this opinion Papias the Bishop S. Iohns Disciple Irenaus and Iustine Martyr most neare the Apostles times and almost even with those Tortullian and Hilary and though more sparingly Saint Augustin and Ierom his Contemporary good God how great men have with eloquent and openwords almost confirmed the same opinion r Yea further this opinion of the Thousands not only increaseth but waxeth strong with the moderne to passe over the middle Divines of greatest name namely Piscator a notable Commentator of the holy Bible Coelius secundus a man of great knowledge Alph. Conradus Matthias Cotterius have fully yeelded to the same though in certaine small things here and there they vary amongst themselves And above all Advocates Card. Gallus in his Clavis Prophetica Mr. Mede our Countrey-man past all exception in his Clavis Apoc. Mr. Archer of the personall Reigne of Christ published in English Anno 1641 and lastly that Henry Alsted most conversant in the Apocalyps most full of most deepe senses and high mysteries in his truly golden work inscribed Diatribe of the thousand Apocalyptick yeares which is a little Booke but of great sedulity and diligence doe manfully and solidly defend the same opinion Forasmuch as he taking away all scruple of doubting in this matter as one who liketh and hath a

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