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A04970	A prophesie that hath lyen hid, aboue these 2000. yeares Wherein is declared all the most principall matters that hath fallen out, in, and about the ciuill and ecclesiasticall monarchie of Rome, from the rising of Iulius Cæsar, to this present: and which are to be done from hence to the distruction of it, and what shall ensue after that. As the liues and deaths of the emperors. The rising of the ecclesiasticall monarchie. The storie of the greatest enemies of them both with manie other notable accurrences [sic] concerning Germany, France, and Spaine. With the inuasion of the kings of the East.; Babylon is fallen	T. L., fl. 1595.; Legate, Thomas, d. ca. 1607, attributed name.	1610 (1610)	STC 15111.3; ESTC S108178	20,639	60

Germanie France and Spaine Roomes long approoned trusty friends and their seuerall ends destruction 5. And how that Roome shall be burnt with fire and when 6. The earth refreshed and Israell restored to life 7. The comming downe of the Turke and his Army vpon Christendome till fire come downe from heauen vpon them Ierem 20.10 For I haue heard the raylings of many and how they watch for my halting saying it may be that he is deceiued A DISCOVERYE OF A PROPHESIE Esdras 4. Chap 11. Then I sawe a dreame Verse 1 AFTER this the Prophet saw a vision concerning the beginning continuance fall of th' Empire and supremacie of Rome And this vision was shewed him in the dayes of Artaxerxes King of Persia about 400. yeares before the first stone of her Empire was laide Iu. Cesar And behold there arose from the Sea an Eagle And there arose among the Nations the fierce and fearefull Kingdome and Empire of Rome seene in vision by the Prophet Daniel some few yeares before Which had 12. feathered winges Wherein should arise and reigne 12. Emperors which should spred their power like winges ouer all the earth in great feare sitting on it And it seemed good vnto the Prophet to touch by an intellection these 12. only both for they are a Iewrye sufficient to argue the whole suite of Emperors which did arise raigne in her as also because they only were natiue Romans descended of the Iulij Seruij Saluij Flauij c. vnlike therein vnto the rest which were all or almost all like changeable stuffe of diuers colours so of diuers Nations Their rising continuance and end is toucht in their proper place And three heads Her three heads are three Kingdomes fore-ordained to vpholde and maintaine the power of her pride when all her winges and feathers should faile her And are reserued to execute her last will and finishe her funerals as shal be hereafter more at full declared Verse 2 And I saw and beholde she spread her winges ouer all the earth all the winds of the ayre gathered themselues and blew on her By the windes are meant her prosperous and happie successe in all her proceedings And of necessitie it must goe well with her whom euery winde doth blowe to good Witnes the limits of her territories from Ganges to Gades and from the Scythian Sea vnto the Cape of Hope as testifieth one of her own which saith that she extended her tents to the borders of the Ocean and the feare of her name vnto the heauens Verse 3 And I saw that out of her fethers grew vp other contrarie fethers but they became litle fethers and small And the Prophet saw that among the Princes and gouernors which ruled in her there arose and grew vp certain Kings which were contrary vnto her marking such as intended to roote vp the crown and dignitie of her Empire to plant themselues therin their house for euer But their thoughts preuailed not for as the verse concludeth their power waned and they perished like the rest what those contrary Kings were their number names attempts and end shal be deliuered in their place Verse 4 But her heads rested and the head in the midst was greater thē th' other heads yet rested it with them But the three kingdomes fore-apointed t' accomplish finish the wickednes of this great Citie were quiet and at rest as not yet during the reigne of her fethers conceaued and brought forth And the Prophet obserued that th'oue of those Kings was greater in power then both his fellowes yet rested it with them Concerning these three Kings their names their greatnes and al that appertaineth shal be spoken in due place Verse 5 Then I saw and behold the Eagle flew with her fethers and reigned vpon earth and ouer them that dvvelt therin Verse 6 And I savv that all things vnder heauen vvere subiect vnto her and no man spake against her no not one creature vpon earth And the Prophet beheld that this proud citie flew with her Emperors and Legions ouer all her neighbors subiecting all the dwellers on earth vnder her in such sort as there was not a Natiō or People to be found vnder heauen that was not either rooted out by her or inforced to receiue their Gouernors from her Verse 7 And I savv that the Eagle stood vp vpon her clavves and spake to her feathers saying Verse 8 VVatch not altogether sleep euery one in his ovvn place and vvatch by course Verse 9 But let the heads be preserued for the last And the Prophet obserued that this powerful Citie in the daies wherein ouergorged with pride she stood vpon terms of her counsell and armes tooke such order for in euill she was very methodicall that her Kings and Kaysers should neither sleep nor watch that is neither perish nor rule all at once but rise in a successiue course as in the verses following is manifested And she further commanded that the three last Kingdomes ordained to conclude the number of her sinnes should take their ease and not awake till their time appointed Verse 10 Neuerthelesse I savve that the voice vvent not out of her heads but from the middest of her bodye As hee that vndertakes a dangerous leape doth first retire the better to aduance his strength so to bound fairlye ouer the dacke vnderstanding of these words we must of necessitie looke backe carry before vs the true birth and perfect nature of this Empire which the Prophet Daniel in his vision designeth vnder the forme of a ten-horned beast signifying thereby that it should be a power vpheld by a succession of many Kinges for the hornes betoken Kings and the number of 10. comprehends all be they neuer so many as all numbers are contained vnder 10. or made of their reduplication be they neuer so infinit And addeth further that his teeth were of iron his nails of brasse inferring therby the vnresistable force of his legions and Leaders And proceding saith that there arose amongst his Kings one of an exceeding strange nature signifying by that one a strange race and succession of Princes far differing in shape and forme of regiment from al their predecessors obtaining dominion not by iron teeth and brasen nails as did th' Emperors which arose before them but by disceit and by a mouth which spake presumptuous things against the most High blaspheming his name his Tabernacle them that dwel in heauen who by a hidden vnknown force should subdue the third part of the world meaning al Europe with her Princes By which deliniation it is euident that the holy-Ghost accounteth the chalenged prerogatiue supremacie of Rome all one power all one Empire whether it obtaine the spoile by force or by fraud that is by power of Emperors or crast of Popes Cha. 7.24 who should be far vnlike them as Daniel himselfe saith And he shall be vnlike to the first Meaning in forme of claiming obteining

maintaining Iurisdiction not in pride purpose and determination So as we may beholde such an vnlikely likenes betweene them as was betweene the two Sisters of whome it is said facies non omnibus vna nec diuersa tamen qualem decet esse Sororum And thus much concerning the Prophet Daniels description of the Empire of Rome whence we note that the same power which Daniel there describeth by a beast with horns teeth and nails our Prophet here doth deliniate by an Eagle with wings fethers and heads whose imperiall winges after they were so clipt as she could no longer fly ouer all in her proper colours and stile of Roma triomfante deuised how by disceit she might vphold her throne for to be high was all her care and found nothing so fit as to disguise her selfe chalenge prelation vnder the maske of Roma la Santa And this is it which this Verse teacheth that when the sinfull Citie saw her feathers so pluckt as the feare of her armes and forces might no longer flye into al kingdoms commanding them vnder the paine of Imperium Romanum Lying by meanes of this distres verye weake and in danger of falling her counsell and bodie politique deuised by lyes and witch-crafte wherein was all her pleasure from her youth to restore the supremacye and honor of her name vnder the colour of Ecclesia Dei Wherin this race of presumptuous horns excelled the sinne of all the hornes that foretime ruled in her for they as in whom Satan dwelt but literally did but in open hostilitie fight against the highest setting before him a god made of a wicked man whose fathers bloud cryeth out for vengeance night and daye whose bedfellow was Soror cōiux and whose wife was id quod dicere nolo But this race of presumptuous and deceitfull Kinges as in whome Satan dwelleth spirituallye in a hidden treasure of blasphemy sets vp the Highest against himselfe and vnder the visar of the Church and the name of God blasphemeth his Sanctuary and the Lord thereof No meruaile then tho she and Syon be at ods for as golde can bodye it selfe with any mettall liquifiable latten excepted which notwithstanding in outward face and shew of all mettals is most like vnto it so no Church is more capitall enemie to the true Church then shee who in outward gesture grace and countenance is likest like the chast and virgin spouse and is indeed a whore Verse 11 Then I numbred her contrary fethers and behold they were eight of them In the third verse of this Chapter the Prophet made mention of these contrary fethers which in their thoughts conspirde to raise their house with the ruins of Rome And heere proceedeth more perticularly to declare their number foretelling there should be eight of them whom we will heere call out by name that if occasion serue wee maye the better knowe them The first were Mestgothes vnder the leading of Alaricus The second Hunns whose King was Attalas The third Vandals their head Genserick The fourth Odoacer The fift East-gothes their chiefe Theodorick The sixt Totilas bred in Spaine with such followers as for those times that Country yelded The seuenth Longobards with their guid Alboinus The eight and last a home conspiracie more to be fear'd as all included diseases are most dangerous then all the rest And altho many others besides these as Radagaise the Alani now called Almans the Burgonians conducted by Gundibald the Vngers Saracens c. were all in their time as costly enemies to the Empire as some of these yet none did humble the great Citie the mother of wickednes but these eight only And therefore the rest may not be allowed to sit at this table but may serue to iustifie the iudgement of the Beast which was thus wounded againe and stricken of all as she had wounded and stricken all And if in reading doubt arise how these eight fethers may be contrary to the Eagle that is resisters of her power and dominion and yet be fethers of the Eagle that is mainteiners of the same The answer is that they were aduersaries and contrary vnto her as she stood vpon termes of Imperium orbis terrae but after she had changed her coppie and claimed supremacie vnder the cloake of Mater Ecclesia they were for the most mainteiners of her pride and became drunke also with her worship as other Kings and Princes of th' earth And thus much for their number and names their seuerall attempts their prosperities and ende shal be presented in their place Verse 12 After this I saw and beholde vpon the right side there arose one fether and raigned ouer all the earth This fether here described is the first of the twelue namely Iulius Caesar who like an ill interpreter translated Senatum Populumque Romanum into Caesarem Augustum Whose Image which in this verse is so liuely resembled consisteth of 2. features the first sheweth the manner of his rising in these words And behold vpon the right side there arose one feather Which serue in stead of art to discouer the very true lines and cast of his happines For the house of Cornelij was as eloquent as he and Marius doubtles as good a leader as he and Catilin as nobly borne as he and all these arose t' inuade the common-wealth and to translate it into a Kingdome as well as he but none of them rose on the right side but he And thus much for the manner of this speech so we take this with-all that these words right side in their naturall and proper intent do signifie as through all this Chapter the surest and strongest side The second feature in this resemblance to be obserued is his power set forth in these words And he reigned ouer all the earth For after he had subdued France broken the heart of Germany made his name knowē to England be returned into Italie ouerthrew the great Protector of the libertie Sr. Pompey and his host in the fields of Pharsalie And like the fire of heauen as one of her Pocts saith with such celeritie drew after the reliques of that stricken faction both in Africa Spaine that in two yeares space he brought to pas that nether citie nor creature durst open against him which done he ascended into Italie and tooke vpon him as Lord thereof triumphing in the spoiles of the world and the blood of his Country And knowing that the name of a King which he so much affected was odious to the quality and nature of that People inuaded the gouernment vnder the maske of a perpetual Dictator preseruing therunder for he was wise aboue all the fethers some hope of recouering their late slaine liberty but indeed establishing a kingdome from which it could neuer redeeme it selfe againe Verse 13 And when it had reigned the end of it came and the place thereof appeered no more But this new-borne prosperitie as is the nature of all this worldes felicitie lasted but

to the liken of them And in this difference this head shall die ne shall this difference be exempted from paine Verse 34 But the two heads remained vvhich also reigned ouer the earth and ouer the inhabitants thereof And when the power of this great head which is now so little like a tale that 's told shal be cleane ended yet the feare of th' other two shall still remaine and haue dominion ouer the earth and those that dwell therein till the fulnes of their malice and tiranny be accomplisht also which may not long be vn-fulfild for beholde in the verie next verse their distruction commeth Verse 35 And I savve and behelde whilst the head on the right side deuoured that which was on the left By the right head is ment as through all this prophesie the strongest so as the Prophet implyeth that the sworde of Spaine shall deuide the strength of France that her pride by deuision made lesse may at the last as euery deuided kingdome doth returne to nothing Nether shall the prosperitie of this right-head be long free from like retaliation but as the truth foresaith Esd 4.12 He that deuideth with the sword shall perish by the sword For how may the sword for euer escape him whom heauen hateth and earth doth persecute and of whom may be truly said which was spoken of Ismael Manus corum contra omnes omnium contra illos And thus shall these heads perish and hast the faster to their end because the iudgment of the Beast is nigh in the very next verses attending to come in Verse 36 Then I heard a voice vvhich said looke before thee and consider the things vvhich thou seest Verse 37 So I saw and behold as it were a Lyon came hastily out of the wood roaring and I saw that he sent out a mans voyce vnto the Eagle and spake saying Verse 38 Heare thou and I shall tell thee what the most High doth say vnto thee The roaring of the Lyon is the breath of the Highest which shall rebuke th'Egle for her vnrighteousnes and cast before her al her spoiles and set her aliue in iudgement and with the spirit of his mouth rise vp against her and lay vnto her charge as in the text followeth Verse 39 Art not thou he which of the foure Beastes remainest whome I made to reigne in my world that by them th' end of thinges might come Verse 40 And the fourth is come and hath ouercome all the Beasts that were past and obtained povver ouer the vvorld vvith great fearfulnes and ouer the whole compasse of the earth vvith extreame oppression and hath possessed so long time all the vvorlde vvith deceit Verse 41 For thou hast not iudged the earth vvith truth Verse 42 But hast troubled the meek and hurt the peacefull and thou hast loued lyers and destroyed the dwellings of them which brought foorth fruit and hast cast dovvne the vvalls of such as did thee no harme Verse 43 So as thy vniust dealing is ascended to the most High and thy pride vnto the mighty Verse 44 And therefore he that is Highest hath beheld the proud times and beholde they are ended and their abhominations are finished And if thou plead not guilty hereunto beholde a thousand witnesses shall rise vp against thee and proue th'inditement true that the iust iudgment which hath so long attended for thee may at the length be pronounced against thee in forme as in the text followeth Verse 45 Therefore appeere no more thou Egle nor thy fearful vvings nor thy vvicked feathers nor thy malitious heads nor thy cruell clavves nor thy vaine bodie And least in thy drunkennes thou maist thinke thy sinne may ouer-shoot this iudgment to come and in thy madnes glorifie thy selfe as thou hast euer done perswading thy selfe thou shalt euer be because thou hast bin king long and like a foole hast not considered the more thy yeares the nigher thy graue beholde thus saith the truth in the yeare which shal be 1666. Reuel 13 18. this iudgment here pronounced shall lay hands on thee And as all thy fearefull winges and fethers be already descended and blowen downe so before that day which is so nigh at hand the tyrannie of thy malitious heads and cruell clawes shal be consumed and brought to nought And in that day thy vaine body shall be burnt with fire and shall so cleane be cut of from the land of the liuing that neither sonne nor nephew as the Prophet saith Esay 14.22 nor branche nor remnant of thy name shall be found vpon the earth For as it is purposed Esay 14.24 so shall it come to pas and as it is consulted it shall stand Goe to now take counsell of thy Seers and call thy inchanters about thee build thy deuises as high as heauen lay their foundations low as hell yet shal they not deliuer thee from the day appointed but as Salmanazar destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battell wherein the mother with the children was dasht in peeces or like the milstone which the mightie Angell did cast into the Sea with such violence shalt thou be throwen downe and be found no more And all hell shal be moued at thy comming and prepare it selfe and raise by all her dead against that day to meet thee and all the Princes and Kings of Nations whom thou hast slaine with the cup of thy fornication shall rise out of their torments against thy cōming and at thy sight shall wonder and cry Esay 14.10 and say vnto thee Art thou become weake also as we art thou become like one of vs Is thy pompe bowed downe vnto the graue and are thy pleasures departed like ours and is the worme spred vnder thee and do the wormes couer thee also how art thou falen from heauē O Lucifer sonne of the morning which hast cast lots vpon the Nations and saidst in thine heart I will ascend into heauen and exalt my throne aboue besides the starres of God and I will sit vpon the mount euen the holy mount of his Sanctuarie and Congregation I will ascend aboue the height of the clouds and will be like the most High And all hell which once did wonder worship and kisse thy feet beholding now thy nakednes thy shame and iudgement shall die for greefe of mind Esay 14. and dying shall say Is this the man that made the earth to tremble and with his worde did shake the Kingdomes that made the world a wildernes and a wast of the Cities thereof Then shalt thou lying in torment death gnawing on thee answere Wisd 5. them and say We haue erred from the way of truth and the light of righteousnes hath not shined vpon vs nor hath the Sonne of vnderstanding risen ouer vs. We haue wearied our felues in the wates of wickednes and we haue gone through dangerous pathes but the way of the Lord we haue not knowen What hath pride profited vs or what profit hath the pompe of riches brought vs all these things are vanished like a shadow and as a poste that passeth by And casting vp thy eye to heauen shalt see the righteous stand in great boldnes before thee and before the face of such as tormented thē and tooke away their labours and thou shalt ware exceedinglie at the sight of them and be amased at their wonderfull deliuerance and die for greefe of minde and dying shalt say Wisd 5. These are they whome we sometime had in derision and in a parable of reproche wee fooles thought their life madnes and their end without honor But how are they counted among the children of God and their portion among the Saintes Verse 46 That all the earth may be refreshed and come againe as one deliuered from thy violence that she may hope for the iudgement mercy of him that made her And thy death shall comfort and refresh the earth and deliuer Syon from her great and violent oppression but their prosperities may not longendure as testifieth the Prophet Daniel Chap. 12.12 For may Israel dwell safe and the Kings of th' east not know it Nay verily they shall arise Ezec. 39. and come down like a storme and like a cloud shall couer the earth and compas round the tents of the Saintes Reuel 20.9 and the beloued Citie till fire disceud from God out of heauen as it is written and deuout them And in those daies shall be finished the mistery of God fore-declared to his seruants the Prophets and witnessed by the mighty Angell which came downe from heauen and stood vpon the Sea and vpon the earth and raysed vp his hand and voice to heauen and sware by him that liueth for euer and euer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reuel 10. Beholde it is come and it is done saith the Lord Ezec. 39. this is the day whereof I haue spoken For the hope of which day the stones of Syon die day by day tho little esteeming seuen thousand deaths in regarde of the preeious assurance ingrauen in their brests that they shall then and in that day beholde the Lo●● hath so mercifully gathered them from among the Nations That hath so wonderfully preserued them from the sorcerie of Babylon which hath destroyed all the earth That dayly leadeth them in and out before the scorners the couetous and foolishwise of this world so prudently and so inuisibly that they seeing are not seene and lyuing are not knowen That hath bestowed on them a thousand treasures more then these so secretly as no man suspecteth but they that haue them That hath so surely and fully perswaded them that tho they now goe on their way weeping yet they shall then returne againe with ioy and bring the sheafes with them and all the earth shall then knowe which now is hid howe much the Lord their Redeemer loued them and night and day shall praise and magnifie the iuste iudgement and mercie of him that hath done all things for them Which day in due time He that is Highest shall manifest to all He that is Prince an 〈…〉 ●boue all who only hath immo●●●● 〈…〉 ●elleth in the light which none 〈…〉 whome no man euer sawe nor can see vnto whome be all ho●●ur and power euerlasting Amen Zachar. Saue thy selfe O Syon thou that dwellest with the daugher of Sebel

as by experience hath bin proued first from France then from diuers kingdomes and parts of Germany where it still remaineth And that the feare and power of this head hath bin greater then any other Christian King or Kingdome whatsoeuer is it not sufficiently read in the particular registers of euery Nation Verse 30 And I sawe that the two heades were ioyned therewith By the two heads are shadowed the two Kingdomes of France and Spaine whose vnhalowed leage the Prophet fore-seeing saith they shuld be ioyned with this middle-head and like three parts in one accord and agree together to humble themselues their authoritie and power before the Beast and for their Idol-shepheard should fight against the Highest till by the breath of his mouth they be scattered like the dust which the winde disperseth And these ar the 3. heads mentioned in the first fourth and ninth verses of this chapter and are therefore said to finish and determine the last end and wickednes of the whore because tho all other Kingdomes hate her and make her desolate and naked and eat her flesh as England and others haue done yet these three heads shall loue her still and to their dying day shall burne in delight with her but when those three and euery of them shall also forsake her ther shall not be found ether kingdome or creature vnder heauen that shall fall down and worship her Verse 31 And behold the middle head was turned with them that were turned with it and did eat vp the two vnder winges vvhich thought to reigne And the Prophet saw this middle head the head of euill impart his felowship to all Princes and Kingdomes which desired to be in leage with it But my taske which hasteth to an end will not suffer me now and here to sound this gulfe of Santa Liega suffiseth that for Syons sake the Prophet passing by doth point therat And the Prophet beheld that this middle head did deuoure eat vp the vnder winges namely the power of the Longobards and the intestine faction which thought also to reigne The first by the sword of Charles surnamed for his exceeding power the great who at the command of Babylon his god ascended into Italie took her King Desiderius prisoner and led him capture into France and gaue his Kingdome to an other And thus vanished this seuenth contrarye feather after it had humbled the whore and spred it selfe ouer all her quarters 200. and 4. yeares and the feare thereof discended and it appeared no more Th' other first began in the daies of Cono the Emperor who hauing an action of contrary opinion against Gregory the second for so the Beast was then called followed it so hotly that he brought his holines into such disgrace as that he kindled a desire in the hearts of many to change their Prelat for a Prince and to edifie their first and antient forme of gouernment againe This desire thus begun by time as naturally all conspiration doth gathered strength and aduentured but some-what to yong to check the Beast who by reason he was so well guarded by his foresaid head and champion Charles easily neckt it Notwithstanding some 100. and 50. yeares after this vleer now growen to a riper head vnder the practise of one Alberique and Octauian his sonne brake out a new and charged the Beast in so sharp a manner as without dout he had receaued the mate had not his head in the midest auoided it once againe whose name was now changed from Charles the great to Otho the great who as being by oth deuoted came to Rome banisht her new risen Consuls hanged her Tribuns and mounted her Prefectus vrbis Mr. of misrule naked on an Asse crouned and attended through the citie with great derision from thence committed to prison and ther executed with exquisite torments And by this means the heat of this defection was so assuaged that it appeered not for 7. yeares after but then vnder the leading of one Cincius flamed out a new in so furious a sort as it had doutles fyr'd the Beast out of all his holds had not his middle head Otho the second hasted into Italie to quench the same who knowing how much it imported to punish exemplarly so dangerous an euill prepared in the Vatican a sumptuous feast inuited therto all the nobilitie and chiefe of the citie when all were come saluted and set caused forth-with to be proclaimed that no man on pain of death should either speake or moue at any thing that should be seene or heard presently entred armed men and compassed the place round where the guests were wherat whilst euery one amased doubting what this first course ment this middle head drew forth a paper and whose names were therein written cōmanded to be drawen from the table and in presence of all there to be slaine The rest were curteously entertained and were as merrie as the feare of so cruell a feaste would giue them leaue Ne yet for all this the feuer so lefte these patients but that they fell some 162. yeares after into relapse againe but Frederique the firste for so was now this head called with the blood of a 1000. and the wounds and imprisonment of as many more so branded this Hydra which had bin so often headed as it could neuer after recouer head againe but her breath departed and her purpose vanished and appeered no more Verse 32 And this head did put the vvhole earth in feare and ruled therein and ouer the dvvellers thereof vvith much labor and it held the gouernment of the vvorld more then all the vvings that had bin That this head and his fellowes haue more mainteined aduanced the rage and blasphemie of the Beast then all the fethers that arose before them and made more diligent and cunning inquisition after the blood of Sion then they is it not eternally cronicled in the registers of euery perticular Nation And therefore they are called the heads of the Eagle and who knoweth not that heads are more able in euil then fethers And the Prophet beheld that this head continued longer and held the gouernment of the world more then all the fethers that had bin for from the rising of the first fether Iulius Caesar to the end and expiration of Momyllus Augustulus the last were not 560. yeares whereas this head arose in the yeare 801. and hath alreadie continued aboue 800. and yet still continueth and shall till he that now is be taken away Verse 33 And after this I savv and beholde this middle head sodenlie vanished as did the vvinges In that the Prophet saw this middle head sodenly vanish as did the winges he signifieth that it shall not be rooted out by force or sword of any but depart quietlye and die as it were in bed but yet as the truth fore-saith in the chapter following not without paine meaning that the Electors shall not chuse to the liking of the Beast nor the Beast consecrate