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A77422	A brief description of the future history of Europe, from Anno 1650 to An. 1710. Treating principally of those grand and famous mutations yet expected in the world, as, the ruine of the Popish hierarchy, the final annihilation of the Turkish Empire, the conversion of the eastern and western Jews, and their restauration to their ancient inheritance in the Holy Land, and the Fifth Monarchie of the universall reign of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth. With principal passages upon every of these, out of that famous manuscript of Paul Grebner, extant in Trinity-Colledge Library in Cambridge. Composed upon the occasion of the young Kings arrival into Scotland, to shew what will in probability be the event of the present affairs in England and Scotland.	Grebner, Paul.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4570; Thomason E616_13; ESTC R9126	47,993	51

other signs and things was to be in the fourth Monarchy so their conversion and remission into the Church and the glorious estate of the Gospel upon earth must be in another fifth Monarchy which is yet to come Reasons of the V. Monarchy II Secondly So many Empires as are comprized in Nebuchadnezzars Image Dan. 2. must come to passe before the end of the World But five Monarchies are comprehended in that Image Ergò The major is manifest The minor is thus proved Nebuchadnezzar himself was the Golden Head of this Image as he was in another respect the Feet of the old decrepit Assyrian Monarchy which by his Chaldean Empire and the ruine thereof which was approaching should totally be annihilated The Armes and Brests of Silver are the Empire of the Medes and Persians The Belly of brasse is the Empire of the Grecians by Alexander the Great Lastly the Iron Leggs and the Clay Toes depictured the Roman Empire with the present declining House of Austria and the breathlesse Papacy Therefore the Stone cut without Hands which brake this Image in pieces and became a Mountain and filled the Earth must be understood as I touched before of a Fifth Monarchy yet to come in which by the Conversion of the Jews and fulnesse of the Gentiles the Gospel shall shine in majesty over all Kingdoms upon Earth Reasons of the V. Monarchy III Thirdly If the rejection and dispersion of the Jews were to be in the fourth Monarchy as is apparent by Gen. 49. 10. and Numb. 24. 24. then was their conversion not to be till the beginning of the fifth and towards the end of the World as is manifest by the Apostle Rom. 11. 25. But the first is true and therefore the latter also Reasons of the V. Monarchy IV Fourthly the conversion and restauration of the Jews to their antient Inheritances in the holy Land which Ezekiel hath so largely described in his twelve last Chapters and the glorious felicity of the Gospel of Christ proceeding from their conversion must either be in the fourth Monarchy or not untill the fifth But in the fourth Monarchy it cannot be for among the Turks the Jews are kept in extream slavery Idolatry and ignorance and under the Papacy they are not permitted to use the new Testament by which only they must be saved and besides they are so inraged against Christianity by the Papists Image-worship that there is a flat impossibility much lesse any hopes of their conversion so long as either the Turkish Empire or the Papacy stands in force Ergò their conversion and restauration cannot be till both Turk and Pope eternally be destroyed and so the fourth Monarchy finally ended Thus having delivered the reasons of a fifth Monarchy I come to describe the LION of the North as I finde it in an antient Prophecie of the true Merlin and by Grebner First of Merlin Many Scholars have often disputed what Merlin should be who he was what time he lived in whether those Prophecies be true and his which go under his name or not how he came by them and lastly what reckoning is to be made of them Of every of which somewhat It hath fared with Merlin as with Tostatus in Spain and many Learned in our times who for the eminency of their Learning and approbation of their writings became so famous that Pedlar Authors father'd bastar'd ware upon them in every corner for easier vent Merlins there were severall of old one a Welsh-man in the daies of Edgar the Monarch of an austere living and Monkish conversation He lived for the most part in the Isle of Anglesey where he had familiarity and acquaintance with the Bards and Druides then not wholly extinct who had incomparable skill in Divination by Birds and other kinde of Magique He was an excellent Astrologer and a great Chymist so that many think those Prophecies that are like his to be deducted from no more then naturall reason All those Prophecies which I have seen of his some of which I have I cannot see how they smell any whit of a prophetique spirit they speak him a great Scholar in Astrology but no Prophet But there was living in K. Lucius daies another Merlin called the first a Scottish man and he is the true Merlin and if any Prophecies could be found of his great credit was to be given to them He was a great friend of K. Lucius himself and his daily companion Of his there is but one Prophecie extant which I found in that antient Chronicle of Nennius of Bangor of the Saxons who yet lives in Manuscript K. Lucius being as yet unconverted from Paganisme to Christianity would needs joyn in confederacy with Santoline a King of the Scutti now Scots to raise warre against the Roman Emperour to which purpose he asked councel of Merlin what he should do in this matter who earnestly dehorted him from his purpose and in the end prevailed Merlin prophesied to him That within lesse then a sesquidecumane period of time the Eagles head should be cloven in two one part whereof Agar should burn with fire and Japhet the other after the grand revolution of daies Mark O King saith he and consider Samothea shall be quickly overflown with a vagabond Army of an unknown Originall spued out of a land toward the East which a floud from the North shall quickly possesse I know thy thoughts and the intents of thy heart thou seekest Friendship from a people whose weaknesse shall be thy glory and their greatnesse thy ruine A squadron of Fishers are risen up from the East which shall ascend unarmed upon the world without spear and shield to whom all Nations shall in time obey They shall destroy the Temples of thy Gods O Lucius and convert them to the service of their eternall King who only can rescue from the grave and deliver from the snares of death Behold I see a great Sun arise insensibly upon us Brittanes But woe is me what black seas of darknesse and rivers of bloud pursue after it Hast thou not heard of the valiant Angles of barbarous Neustria of yonder terrible Picts thy perfidious enemies These shall overflow thy Land and possess the Cities thereof till the old age of Empires and Government shall flow upon the world Ill is autem temporibus revolutis Cauda Virginis Leonem intrabit Sagittarii dorsum Scorpius ascendet Borealia Regna à Mossoribus obterentur Australes Principatus in statum pulvereum desinent insulanarum Monarchiarum potestates sine fraeno aut milite ephippiabuntur bella atrocia vent is dissipabuntur pessum ibunt judiciali grandine quae per baculum ortum habuerunt per spurios juventutem Sol ipse tympanizabit miniato clamyde indutus Luna cineritiis cothurnis ad nundinas tolutabit Rides O Rex At quibus haec supervenient luctu maerore contabescent Haec omnia vix plenè peragentur quùm Princeps regali origine coronatus ex Borealibus

the present lost what is impossible to be regained and seeing a new storm of Devastations hanging over our heads by the young Kings late arrival in Scotland where he is received as absolute Soveraign which fils mens hearts with pensive thoughts and doubtings what will be the end of these wofull beginnings For my part I am a zealous adoret of a Parliament nor deserve I to censure the Actions of our Representatives yet will I not promise the Term of an Age to our novel Government but think verily a change to the old Model is nigh at hand It is casual to the best Kingdoms to have Interregnums but as we stand now we shall neither be for six years together a Body Politique nor a true Church of God That excellent Astrologer of Misnia Paul Grebner was more then an Inquisitour into the Effects of Starres being questionlesse indued from above with a Prophetick spirit not to be desired much lesse expected of all He plainly affirms That as England ever was a Monarchy within it self since it was discovered by the Romans so shall it so continue and remain even then when all other Kingdoms and States in Europe are swallowed up of the FIFTH MONARCHIE of the Lion of the North His Prophecie of our Civil Wars of the Fate of our late King and the Restauration of his Son to his Fathers Dominions runneth thus in Ban 72. Per idem tempus Rex quidam Borealis nomine Carolus Mariam ex Papisticâ religione fibi assumptam in matrimonium conjunxerit ex quo evadet regum infelicissimus Unde populus ejus ipso abdicato Comitem quendam perantiquae Familiae regno praeponet qui tres annos aut circitèr durabit hoc quoque remoto Equitem quendam bellicosum in ejus locum assumet qui paulo ampliùs regnabit Post hunc eliget nullum Interea unus è stirpe Caroli in littore regni patres sui cum Gallicis Suevicis Danicis Hollandicis Burgurdicis Germanicis auxiliis stabit omnes inimicos suos cruentissimo praelio superabit posteà regnum suum felicissimè administrabit eritque Cerolo magno major And in Ban 74. he saith Circà Anno 1663 Brittaniarum Rex antiquum cum Belgarum Ordinibus foedus amicitiam rumpet ob ereptas sibi ab ipsorum piratis naviculas quasdam qui pertrepidi ad novum Danorum Regem nomine Christiernum confugient qui utrosque primò compositissimis orationibus deinde muneribus in concordiam alliciet About the same time a certain Northern King named Charles who shall marry Mary of the Popish Religion to his great unhappinesse so that his people rejecting him shall set up an Earl of a very ancient Family who shall continue three years or thereabouts he dying they shall elect in his stead a warlike Knight who shall rule a little longer after him they elect none But in the mean one of Charles his Stock shall land on the Sea-coasts of his Fathers Kingdom and with French Swedish Danish Hollandian Burgonian and German Forces in a most cruel battell shall vanquish all his Enemies and afterward most happily govern his Kingdom and be greater then Charls the Great And about the year 1663 the King of the most ancient Brittains for the losse of some Ships at Sea shall break his League and Amity with the States of Holland who fearing shall to the new King of Danes named Christiernus for succour and he by fair Intreaties and large Gifts shall win either side to Agreement Nor ever doth he speak of England in all that famous Manuscript but as of the most warlike and potent Kingdome in Europe Therefore all good Christians ought to wish the new Warre were concluded rather by an happy Agreement and Composition then by Sword and Musket and the King placed on his Throne rather with the hands of his loving and and rejoyce all Subjects than with the swords of Forreigners For if the beginning of his Restauration be in bloud and tumbling of garments in bloud the Accomplishment of it will be with burning and fuel of fire That this future History of Europe may be more fully and clearly understood I intend to set it down by way of Chronology upon the principall passages in Ezekiel and the Revelations as I lately collected it out of the two M S S. of Grebner and Ioannes Baudensis and afterward subscribed certain Notes and Animadversions upon the same Anno Christi 1 Anno Mundi 3947 THe woman travelleth viz. The Jewish Synagogue bringeth forth Christ whereupon ensueth the battel between Michael and the Dragon Christ and the Devil Christ being persecuted of the Devil by Herod in his Infancy flieth into Aegypt Anno Christi 34 Anno Mundi 3981 in his appointed time of 34 years suffereth and ascendeth into Heaven Anno Christi 65 Anno Mundi 4012 The Devil enraged that he could no more persecute Christ raiseth persecutions against the Primitive Church by Nero and others Revel. 12. per tot Anno Christi 70 Anno Mundi 4017 The first Seal opened The white Horse and his Rider with the crowned Bow signifieth the purity of the Gospel in the Primitive Church Revel. 6. 2. Anno Christi 71 Anno Mundi 4018 Satan is bound for a 1000 years from raging against the Church Pevel 20. 2. 8. Anno Christi 65 Anno Mundi 4020 The second Seal opened The red Horse is the massacre of Christians in the ten general Persecutions about Anno 65 to An. 330. Revel. 6. 3 4. Anno Christi 104 Anno Mundi 4051 The third Seal opened Simon Magus Ebion and Cerinthus trouble the Church with damnable and infectious Heresies Revel. 6. 5 6. Anno Christi 173 Anno Mundi 4120 The fourth Seal opened Horrid Famine devouring Pestilences and outragious Wars waste and depopulate the Roman Empire for cruelty to Christians Revel. 6. 7 8. Anno Christi 194 Anno Mundi 4141 The fifth Seal opened Mutual Massacres of the wretched Caesars beginning at Pertinax and ending at Licinius slain by Constantine the Great Revel. 6. 9 10 11. Anno Christi 288 Anno Mundi 4235 The sixth Seal opened Dioclesian and Maximilian give over their Caesarships because they could not eradicate Christianity Constantine strengthened with their Armies and Provinces warreth upon Licinius slayeth him destroyeth the Pretorian-Camp abolisheth Heathenism and setteth up the true Worship of God Revel. 6. 12. to the end Anno Mundi 4255 Anno Christi 308 The seventh Seal opened And silence in Heaven for half an hour viz. The Church enjoyeth rest thirty years all the time that Constantine the Great reigned Revel. 8. 1. Anno Mundi 4286 Anno Christi 339 Yet clouds of persecution arise in the interim in the sky of the Church and the seven Angels prepare themselves to blow the seven Trumpets for the space of 23 years even all the reign of Constantines three sons Revel. 8. 2 3. Anno Mundi 4310 Anno Christi 363 Julian that wretched Apostata