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A34097	A generall table of Europe, representing the present and future state thereof viz. the present governments, languages, religions, foundations, and revolutions both of governments and religions, the future mutations, revolutions, government, and religion of christendom and of the world &c. / from the prophecies of the three late German prophets, Kotterus, Christina, and Drabricius, &c., all collected out of the originals, for the common use and information of the English.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing C5507A; ESTC R24277	200,382	315

Eternal Word After to the Sacraments by him appointed for the remedy of Sin and so of all the other Articles of Faith from first to last and when they are well tinctured with these they then innitiate them to a more perfect course of the Christian Life And this is the manner how they propound the Christian Mysteries to the Gentiles and Idolaters beginning first with the principal Articles of the One and True God and the reward of the just and unjust c. as in this Catechism Besides this they published innumerable excellent Spiritual Books and Books of Practical Divinity and Moral Philosophy to which the Chineses are much devoted and endeavour'd to add to all rare specimens of an innocent spiritual and divine Life if we may believe their own Testimony which I confess Protestants in this end of the World have little reason to do For the Ignatians of Europe for the generality of them are more excellent at Fire Works then any thing else here and the works of the Devil then to work the Works of God But it 's like they were better there being likewise at the beginning of their Order more Spiritual and Religious then ever since the World hath found them especially England And yet we have a taste of their true Spirit in their obstructions of the Hollanders Embassy there Their first great Disciple was Paul the great Colao or Governor of the Chineses and propagator of Christianity among them Riccius put forth many admirable Books in the China Language viz. several Mathematical Books of Euclid Clavius c. Universal Geography and History of the World with Globes Maps c. Natural Philosophy the Art of Dialling Books of Astrolabes and Astronomick Instruments of Musick Musical Instruments and Organs Moral Philosophy about Friendship moderating the Passions and to live according to the dictates of right Reason and the rule of a good and happy life For the Chinois were much given to moral Philosophy and the study of virtue and happiness And Ten Paradoxes Moral and Spiritual a Book famous through all China and in great esteem and admiration among them and illustrated with Comments and high Encomiums by the most excellent of all their learn'd Leo and Paul young Convert Colao's But that which wrought unexpressible compunction of heart in them for their ill past life as they say not only among the common people but the greatest and most learned of their Monarchy viz. the Mandarins and Colao's and Eunuchs of the Kings Pallace was the Catechism of Bellarmine translated by the said Riccius The fame of which Book spread so that they were fain to print it a new several times whereby the Christian Light and Knowledge shone into every corner of the Land With several other Books for the use of others that should come thither out of Europe The next famous was Trigautius Procurator of the China expedition who return'd from China 1612. and return'd thither again with all manner of Rarities and wrote several Books for the use chiefly of the Europeans Next Father Rho Professor of Mathematicks in the Jesuites Colledge at Milan who in a short time spoke and wrote their Language like any Native and wrote several Books for the use of young Converts and with Father Schall mentioned in the first part laboured in Mathematicks for the benefit of the Chinois Who both by common and joynt study put forth above an hundred Books and especially in emendation of their Calender he was founder of a Church in the Kingdom of Sciamsi Vagnonius followed who found in the Province of Chianceu only after his return thither again from Banishment 8000 Christians and of those the chief Learned and Mandarines and afterwards died in Chianceu Anno 1640. and wrote many Books Divers others also wrote innumerable Books for the European● help so that there were Books written by them in the China Language by the Year 1636. to the number of 340. The Mandarines and Colao's also wrote Comments on their Books c. Also when their Converts began to be too numerous for the present Fathers they began an Institution of Chatechists from amongst them to initiate persons into the Christian Mysteries These Catechists were persons much and long vers'd in the Mysteries of Religion and the Christian Law and of a very divine Life better then themselves 't is like by far and such as were inflamed with servour of the Apostolick Spirit and Zeal for the Conversion of others and they were not easily admitted unto this Office but after long experience first had of them c. Their work was to go up and down the streets and on all occasions by word and example to bring the rude and ignorant to the knowledge of the True God And as they have opportunity to sprinkle Infants and Children with Holy Water to communicate Spiritual Books to those that lack'd to resolve Doubts and Questions c. And at a certain time of the day when the Gentiles flock to their Churches out of curiosity to wait there and to explain the first Principles and Elements of the Christian Faith which were wrote or engraven in fair and large Tables and Characters hung up and down upon the Walls and by their splendid Altars to any that were desirous or curious and to shew the vanity of the false Godds And moreover to invite them home for farther instruction And by these means they got many Proselytes daily They are obliged also every day to give an account to the Fathers that are Superiors in those places what they have done that day The number of Christians in Pekin was about fourscore thousand about 1655. And though this be short of the Apostolick way of Preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles yet they seem herein to out-do the Protestants and in industry labours and zeal and more abundant then they to propagate the Faith Look here you Zealous Protestants look with shame From hated Jesuites learn to spread Christs Name And Heathens form their Idols to reclaim Things proving thus prosperous they likewise had procured the Royal Patent for Power and Liberty to divulge the Gospel through all the Empire by the favour of the Grandees of the Court and Kingdom But the irruption of the Tartars about 1647. interrupted all Which hapned by reason of the Civil Wars of the Chinois among themselves which invited the Tartars to take the opportunity to break into China through the Portal of their great Wall once more as they had done formerly before in the Year 1256. which they held for above 200 years during nine Kings reigns but were at last beat and kept out again by the Chinois till this last sudden and violent return But now they over-ran it like a flood and subjected all China to their Empire the King of China was reduced to such streights that finding no way to escape from his own rebelling Subjects and so great a Monarch forsaken of all rather desirous to die then live to see worse ended his

King had his Sphere of Glass in imitation of the Coelestial Orbs wherein he could sit and see all their Motions transparent and Archimedes also had his Sphere Ferdinand the Emperor had no less his of Silver which he sent to the Great Turk carried by twelve men and unframed and reframed in the Grand Segnior's presence by the Maker who likewise presented him with a Book of the mystery of using it Nor may we smother nor forget ingrately The Heaven of Silver that was sent but lately From Ferdinando as a famous Work Unto Bizantium to the greatest Turk Wherein a Spirit still moving to and fro Made all the Engine orderly to go And though th' one Sphear did alwayes slowly slide And contrary the other swiftly glide Yet still their Stars kept all the Courses even With the true Courses of the Stars of Heaven The Sun there shifting in the Zodiack His shining Houses never did forsake His pointed Path. There is a Month his Sister Fulfill'd her Course and changing of her Luster And Form of Face now larger lesser soon Follow'd the Changes of the other Moon Idem Stevinius had his Sayling Coaches in the Netherlands of incredible swiftness so that they have been seen to Sayl thirty Leagues in a day which Grotius affirms he would never have believed had he not seen with his own eyes Ships for the Sea first Typhis did invent Jove Sayling Chariots for the Firmament But for the Land Stevinius alone For neither Jove nor Typhis this will own Grotius We might instance in rare and wonderful Clocks Watches and Pendulums Wind-guns c. In our wonderful Telescopes Microscopes Thermometers Barometers Air-Pumps Pneumatick and Hydraulick i. e. Air and Water Engines Perpetuum Mobile's c. and infinite other Mathematick and Mechanick Musick Optick and Architectonick Instruments Engines Machines and Devices whereof the Antients had nothing like and all the other Arts and Sciences whether Mental or Manual if it were not beside the present business of these Tables in this place and wherein we have been too long and digressed too far already but that we could not well avoid it by reason of the many new appearances of things on the present Stage of Learning in our dayes We will onely hear the Poet once more on the curious contriv'd Clock and Dial at Stratsburgh in short thus But who would think that mortal hands could mould New Heavens new Stars whose rowling courses should With constant windings though contrary wayes Mark the true Monds of Years and Months and Dayes Yet 't is a story that hath oft been heard And by an hundred Witnesses aver'd Dubart The business of Experiments i. e. Their Study and Practice was never so far prosecuted and advanced by the Antients as in our dayes Nor did they ever conspire into such universal and comprehensive Societies and Assemblies of Men of all Qualities and Conditions for all possible advancement of Learning both in recovering the lost Arts perfecting the old and finding out of all manner of new which alone is that which above all things else lifts up Europe at this present above all the World and all preceding Ages Was it ever known before that Gentlemen Nobles Kings and Princes did combine into such Glorious Assemblies Or when did they ever turn Philosophers Experimenters and Operators and as I may say Mechanicks before The Academies of Italy those of France and Germany and above all the Royal Society of England are beyond all president of other times We might instance further in her Riches and Commerce her Shipping and Navigation and shew how she exceeds all the rest in these advantages insomuch that for one Egyptian or Persian that comes into Europe there passes into Egypt and Persia an hundred English an hundred French an hundred Spaniards an hundred Italians an hundred Germains and an hundred Dutch and an hundred times more for one American The Phoenicians and the Carthagintans the Tyrians and the Sidonians were renowned of old for great Navigators and Merchants yet they only Coasted it about the Inland and Midland Seas but durst never venture to cross the main Ocean Into what a narrow compass then was their Knowledge and Commerce confin'd The Antients ingrav'd Non ultra upon Hercules's Pillars at the Mouth of the Streights and a greater part than all the other three of the known World besides was wholly Terra Incognita to them They were beholden to the Lights of Heaven for a Guide in a dark night and to grope by Star-light were lost in a Mist and feign to ply it up and down the Shores only whereas now they are able to cross it from the North Pole to the South Pole from the Rising to the Setting of the Sun from Nova Zemblia to Magellanica and from India beyond Ganges to America and the Western Indies The prodigious advance of Shipping of our dayes is eminently seen in the Hollanders who are said to build a thousand Vessels every year fit for Navigation and Commerce whereof the least for matter and making besides Tackling stands them in no less than two thousand Crowns And many times as Pontanus affirm'd long since arrive at Amsterdam as many Ships in a day as there are dayes in the year The English and the French come not much behind and many other Nations in their proportion The Fleets that enter the Thames and the Texel the Guadelquivir at Sevil and the Tage at Lisbone the Seine and the Lloir in France are ample testimonies of her abundance and preheminence It must not be denied That Europe receives more from other parts of the World than she repales But in this very thing it is That her Commerce becomes glorious to her since she knows how to make it so to her advantage She parts with a little of her Brandies or Aqua Vitaes and Draperies or at best a little Coral and Amber But she has not Magazines enough to hold all her precious stores that come to her from the Indies and Persia from Barbary and Egypt from New France and New Spain from Brasil and Peru besides what is done within her self and her own bounds Hence come our Sugars from Canary Isles From Candy Currans Muscadels and Oyls From the Molucco's Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia com From India Gums rich Drugs and Ivory From Syria Mummy Black Red Ebony From Burning Chus From Peru Pearls and Gold From Russia Furrs to keep the Rich from Cold. From Florence Silks From Spain Fruit Saffron Sacks From Denmark Amber Cordage Firr and Flax. From France and Flanders Linnen Woad and Wine From Holland Hops Horse from the Banks of Rhine From England Wooll All Lands as God distributes To the Worlds Treasure pay their sundry Tributes Dubart It would trouble Arithmetick many times to find Numbers to answer the quantity of pounds of Sugar of Peppers of Cinamons of Cloves of Mace of Nutmegs and all other Riches from abroad To say nothing of Pearls and Precious Stones of Silks nor of

Name of the living God tell me She I live you see And goes on to wash again Comenius again For Gods sake what is the matter may we believe our own Eyes She I live And your hand and foot whole and perfect Perfectly said she But what has been done She I was now with my Lord but am commanded to return to injoy his goodness in the Land of the Living Ask no more now to morrow I will note down the whole business So they sat down to supper and she with them very chearful and well But eat nothing Many Friends and Neighbours came in c. Afterwards she sung Psalms c. and next day wrote down all for a close of her Revelations which you have afterwards Of the whole Comenius sayes this is certain that it seemed a true and real death in our eyes and that she could not in a moment be restored to life health and full strength without the special and immediate Power of God intervening All other Divines also after various and different apprehensions of the thing yet were all at length inclined to think it a true Miracle c. And not long after there was a strict and solemn examination of her Visions and all these things in an Assembly of Divines where they could not consent to give their Judgment absolutly But only decreed silence to avoid all offence and scandal to the Church till God and time should discover further c. Also some years after another assembly met when events seemed not answerable to predictions where yet they could not condemn the thing but commit it yet unto God She lived after this fifteen years married twelve had two Sons and three Daughters one Son and one Daughter yet alive The brief Series of the remarkable Vicissitudes of her life added to her Funeral Sermon was this Christina Poniatovia was born of Noble Parents at Lescina in Prussia An. 1610. And with the same Parents suffering Persecution in their Country for the Gospel came into Bohemia An. 1615. Whence being again driven away with them by the storm of Persecutions and going into Moravia she was commited to some Noble Matrons to be bred up in Services and the exercises of virtue and at length the last time removed with others into Banishment She lost her Mother An. 1626. her Father 1628. She began to be admitted to that extraordary and miraculous work of God An. 1627. which ceased in the recalling of her dead in the Eyes of men into life An. 1626. at Lesna in Poland where three years after by the will of God and her Tutors she was married c. She underwent several examinations first of her Father a solid Divine and most violent opposer of Neoterick Revelations who endeavoured both by Letters dehortations obtestations and severe threatnings to stop her till by all her answers and his own Eyes he apprehended the error to be in himself and gave glory to God The next was of Divines Politicians Physitians inquiring most curiously into all things but could find nothing but the Finger of God c. Then by the Pastors and Elders of the Church at the hour of her death as before And the worst of all was of the Devil both at the beginning and afterwards several times undergoing horrible temptations c. Besides all the Divine Tryals and Testimonies c. Very remarkable also was the Devils Mock-Games that he played about this time by raising other false extasies in some Whereof Comenius mentions two First of a Virgin undergoing Extasies in a Village which Christina's Father passed through with a throng of people about her An. 1628. Speaking wonderful things in her Fits foretelling Persecutions of the Church exhorting to repentance and perswading to constancy in the Faith c. Hereby it was thought that God had raised up others in like manner to confirm the same things But after strict inquiry all appeared to be nothing but a few frivolous Dreams of one sick or at least slight Mockings of Satan But more cunningly the Devil plaid his part at Geneva the same year whereby the Learned there were for a time prejudiced against these Revelations when as before both Diodat Vedelius and others by letters approved them But the Devil at last smelt of Hell and the truth of these thereby more appeared The story in short this The Son of a Senator twelve years old was seized with a Disease by and by began to speak unusual things at length asserts that he was that very Spirit which had shewn Lions Men and other wonderful Visions that should certainly come to pass to Christina a Virgin of Poland c. which things at first though they seemed to hang together well enough and further confirmed the Divines so that they wrote letters thereof Yet when by degrees he at length swarved unto frivolous matters and at last things manifestly absurd in the presence of two Divines one of them said I see the finger of Satan c. Which mockages continuing for some dayes made all suspected So that after solemn prayers and fasting of the Senate Pastors and the Church during which the unclean Juglar began strange postures and to be troublesome c. amongst other things saying They will not beleive that I am a good Angel sent of God But I will prove it by a Miracle And snatching some way or other a Knife thrust it into his Breast and drew it out again unhurt and fell upon the ground crying Behold a Miracle At last the unclean spirit seeing he must be gone out wreath divers wayes the youths body belching out of his mouth Blasphemous and obscene words till he was forced to give place to the prayers of the Church and the Power of God But the youth was conscious of nothing c. More cunning yet was that to invalidate Drabricius's Visions of a Souldier in 1659. who falling sick got leave to return home and languishing away seemed to dye and was ready to be buried but when the Neighbors came to his burial they felt his Breast to be something warm and defer'd it till the Morrow and then the next day for eight dayes no other sign of life appearing But he the Night before Burtal rises up declares that he had special Commands to Prince Ragotzi under whom he had served requires admission into his Castle two miles off Is admitted the Chancellor and Master of the Hall and others present relates his Commands from God That the Prince take Arms Couragiously against the Turk that God would raise up the Emperor of Mosco to help him who should come and besiege Constantinople with an huge Army At the same time that the Prince go against Buda the Metropolis of Hungary at Whitsontide to take it Rehearsing these things on his bended knees he arose praysing God that he had granted him to fulfil his Commands These things could not but seem contrary to Drabricius's The Prince it should seem believed him for he acted according to these things

Apostles Yea and to boast and set off himself for thee Antichrist for Christ But we alas are too slow and heartless to apprehend his so many Impostures unless thou comest in to relieve O Helper He will confound subvert overturn all things But where shall remain thy Elogium O Son of God! that thou appearedst to destroy the works of the Devil Appear therefore O appear unto us also in the present decision and danger we now suffer from Satan sowing among us Tares of scandalous Doctrine and Life and of false prophets or else false zeal against them Ah! suffer us not to be befooled this or that or the other way for thy Holy Names sake Let the Father of Lies execute and perform the work of Seduction and lying wonders in them that perish who have not believed the Truth We thy humble Flock who have chosen to adhere to thy Word Let thy holy Spirit preserve us from the seduction of Errors Or if it please thee to try us yet let it not be as to our souls Whether as to Goods Health or Life it self as to Job Paul and the Sons and Daughters of Job thy Will be done But deliver not our Souls to his power we beseech thee to wit an Understanding and Will to befool puzzle and pervert us That we may neither receive the works of Satan for Gods as Ahab or abominate the Work of God for Satans as the Pharisees who deluded by Satan execrated Christ as Satan by it thereby blaspheming God himself Behold behold he goes on to sow the Tares of so many scandals amongst us also who suffer for thy Name Also false Prophesies as we fear or false Lights to discern whether truly Divine and from thee But thou O Lord with whom is light and who alone seest all things and alone knowest to distinguish Error from Truth Why hold hold'st thou thy peace at these things Why hold'st thou thy peace so long so many years Is now thy Zeal or Fire wanting to thy Clouds to consume those that bring strange fire into thy Presence or to shew who is thy true Prophet or not in the sight of all thy People Is there wanting a Sword to restrain Paschur the Smiter of thy Jeremiah's or a blow to strike Hananias the false Prophet dead This year thou shalt die and he did so Jer. 28. 16 17. Or captivity to lead away Amazias the Informer against thy Amos. O Lord the Dominator If any Crafts-master and Contriver of Cheats have befooled any one amongst us so as to reckon his sad trifling Songs or mournful Ditties for true Revelations Divine and to vent them to others deceiving and being deceived Succour him succour the rest of us that we may be as thy Mouth separating the precious from the vile But now if any one of us willingly and knowingly give up himself as an Instrument to Satan and in thy Name exercises impostures Lord make it manifest and set forth such a Messenger of Satan for an Example to the World Thou sparedst not the Angels that proudly sinned neither spare these who imitating Satanical pride draw away themselves and others into Precipices of destruction On the other side forsake not thy holy Jeremiahs or Michea's that are bruised with a petulant Tongue or Hand or thrust into Prison But all Paschurs their Smiters fill with fear on every side every where that their eyes may see the truth of thy Words And indeed accordingly God begins to speak for himself so that there is no need for man to speak for him more But where and how First in the very Act of Drabricius 's Oath For there was this Dilemma If I have not spoken thy Words O God! smite me in pieoes in the sight of all If thine shew that they are thine by fulfilling their truth But behold he doth not yet sinite him but suffer him to live very old and on the contrary hath smote several of his Adversaries with death according to the threatnings of God by him and particularly one of the Pastors a new one among those Exiles who became a new Adversary to him Therefore he gives testimony that they are not others words Secondly In the Events themselves much fulfilled or daily fulfilling c. Therefore what need of more words c. But to leave all to God who alwayes accomplishes his words first or last in his own time and his own way And thus we have at length brought a long-boding preamble to an end which hath exceeded indeed the bounds due to this place But being in we knew not how to give of nor forbear such material passages for the gaining greater credit to the ensuing Relations and which was almost absolutely necessary to prevent prejudice and offence against things of so strange a nature That so the Courteous Reader might the better take in good part the History what ever heed he give to the Prophesie For we divine full well that most will but look upon them as the Dreams or Ravings of two old doting Seniors now going down with their gray Hairs in sorrow to the grave But be they of God Man or the Devil they are the strangest things that ever yet appeared on the Stage of the World And for that end only we relate them here as observable History and matter of Fact and thereby if they prove true the future State of Europe And have further thought fit to represent the chief and most material Things that Comenius has recorded in behalf of their Truth and Verity or wrote by way of Apology for them Which having done we leave it to Time and Providence to discover and prove them either Verities or Delusions But however whether one or the other most Remarkable And yet one would think multitude of years should teach wisdom and make the experienced past all such dotages Comenius is aged learned sober and godly known of all men hath had above forty years knowledge and tryal of these matters as has been said before And has observed and delivered more convincing Arguments for their Divinity than any has or can against them Has had the Testimony of the most illuminated Divines of Christendom Has found none to convince or condemn them of Imposture upon fair tryal and examination which most reasonable request is all that is desired in the face of all the Christian World and ought not in justice be denyed them Till which let all men be silent before God For 't is better to suspend Judgment than pass it rashly None of these things have been done clandestinely or managed inconsiderately They stand ready for the Bar of Mans Tribunal and in the mean while appeal to God If they must needs be reproached for these things sayes Comenius and that Christian People will sin against God and their own Souls for their parts they will like Jeremy appeal to God and Men. First And above all things to God the Supream Witness Judge and Avenger of this Cause and then to those who

scattered by him and so those things come to pass which have been foretold thee I answered thereunto Lord thou knowest that thy Eternal Delights are sweeter to me then all those things which thou revealest unto me But he rebuked my impatience dehorting me from weariness so he went away from me Now all the following year 1628 He made no mention of my life or death except in the last Vision Moreover that I was to undergoe also one disease Then in 1629. January the 9 th It was declared unto me by an Angel that I should be visited from the Lord in a Dream with a Disease by name the Apoplexy which also came the same day in the evening I therefore because the year was now gone the Visions had now ceased believed that the very time was now approaching which the Lord had spoke concerning And that I should not now escape this Disease I therefore prepared my self in mind and conscience and my desire was to be dissolved and to be with Christ Which hope certain antecedent signs also did strengthen As were certain knocking 's or beatings under my Bed and under the next Table four several evenings many that visited me being present and hearing so iterated that each day the number was less by one stroak At length on the 26 th of January it sounded one and afterwards five which having heard I believed as also the rest That one only day of my life was now remaining and an end to be to morrow evening at five a clock Therefore watching all that night and praying and meditating on eternal life and this blessed departure I decreed to pass hence But hearing by night a certain voice as it were of a man three times Come come come Unusual Joy being shed abroad through my Soul I slept a little But Saturday morning at break of day when more vehement pains oppressed me I could not but interpret that Voice to have been a Divine Call I bad farewel therefore to my beloved Friends visiting me all that day And I was alwayes worse and worse till evening approaching my Sight Hearing Memory Speech and at length my Spirit failed me And I felt my self to go forth with my Spirit and to be carried into Heaven where surrounded with a great shining I saw an huge company cloathed in White And the Lord stepping forth took me in his imbrace saying The Lord hath done whatsoever he would in Heaven and in Earth For the Majesty of his Power is exalted and there is no counsel of his Will nor does it admit any For who hath known the mind of the Lord and who hath been his Counsellor Return therefore unto the place from whence thou art come forth and the breath of the most High shall vivify thee Arise walk farewel to thy Disease and behold the goodness of Jehovah in the Land of the Living exulting in his virtue For the dead shall not praise Jehovah nor admire his Works when they go down into the place of Silence but the living the living shall bless thee from this time and for ever God Jehovah dwells on high and hath exalted his Right Hand over all Nations And does wonderful things as it pleases him at all times He is the God of the living who also draws forth out of death and who gives life even for ever Therefore sadded with these things I begged that he would signifie unto me How many the dayes of my life should be But he said Thy times are in the hand of the Lord. He has measured thy years and hid thy term from thee Live therefore and injoy the goodness of God upon the Earth amongst his Saints But sanctifie thy years to God thy Creator and live righteously But thy reward and thy portion shall not wither away nor perish but thou shalt find it and shalt rejoyce concerning it and in it unto eternity That also which the most High does with thee accept gratefully and go not contrary to thy Creator by thy impatience Go thy wayes now and return for it is Jehovah who doth good to thee and hath a care of thee Therefore offer unto him the sacrifice of praise and render thy Vows to the most High giving thanks also unto him that he works the Work of Salvation in thee and will still work even until he shall blessedly finish it unto the praise of his Grace but unto thy Honour I wish use thee no more unto my works neither will I come unto thee Now therefore glorifie God in thy Body and Spirit which he hath given thee Acquiesce now in Heart and Conscience and give honour to God who doth all these things to the praise of his glorious Grace My Peace be with thee After he had said these things I falling down worshipped him And together also returned into life Sad indeed yet restored that very moment to full vigor and health and strength To this great God be Honour Praise and Empire unto Ages of Ages for ever Amen Come we next to Drabricius's Dedication of all to Christ which he was commanded to prefix before his Prophesies together with his last Protestation and Prayer c. To the most Serene most Invincible King of Kings and Lord of Lords JESUS CHRIST the Eternal and only begotten Son of God and the Virgin Mary who is the Alpha and Omega the first Born from the Dead whose Name is Wonderful Counsellor the Mighty God the Everlasting Father who hath loved us and given us good hope through Grace To whom only is due all Kingdom Power and Empire unto all everlasting Ages Amen! Hallelujah ALL Nations of the Earth hear All Inhabitants of the World attend Small and Great Rich and Poor I Nicholas Drabricius by Countrey a Strasnian by Nation a Moravian by the destinate Counsel of God chosen and called to the Ministry of the Church of God and to Preach the Gospel of Christ and lawfully ordained in the year 1616. But then afterwards in the year 1628 with many other Godly Persons keeping Faith to God to Conscience and to the Church driven into Exile by Ferdinand the 2 d Roman Emperor for the Verity of the same Gospel and for the Testimony of Jesus Christ So that leaving my Countrey and the Inheritance of my Parents and plundred moreover by the Spanish Souldery onely my Wife and Children escaping and wandring in exile unto the Land of Hungary in the territories of the most Illustrious Lord the Lord George Ragotzi Prince of Transylvania the first of this Name I took up my Seat under the Castle of the Town Ledvitz And there with many other Families of pious fellow-exiles amidst extream miseries and sorrows of poverty yet humbly and patiently I served my Christ for fifteen years But here in the year I say 1643. Jan. 23. it pleased God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ by virtue of the Holy Spirit of God according to the chosen good-pleasure of his Counsel to admit me his little Worm so far and to