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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07082	A breefe coniecturall discourse, vpon the hierographicall letters & caracters fovnd upon fower fishes taken neere Marstrand in the kingdome of Denmarke, the 28. of Nouember 1587. Treating by considerations poligraphicall, theologicall, Thalmudicall & cabalisticall. Seene and allowed.		1589 (1589)	STC 17488.7; ESTC S107024	10,553	20

Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes wherfore as our most bright glorious Sonne of righteousnes at his firste entrye into this Zodiake discouered him selfe by the voice of Angells in the feelde vnto Shepheards as it were in Ariete the firste signe so he seemeth vnto me now hauing in a manner finished the course of his Zodiake and being realy to bring vs into the eternall sabaoth to warne vs by diuine caracters shewed ●t Sea in fish vnto fishers as it were in Piscibus the last signe therof And that Christe is likened vnto the Sunne hath beene obserued by diuers learned men and especiallye by that most famous and learned Gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula in the 4. chap. of his seauenth book of his Heptaphis or exposition vpon the firste of Genesis his woordes are these Si numerus quaternarius plenitudo est numerorum nonne erit dies quartus plenitudo dierum videte igitur quid nobis afferat quartꝰ dies Coelum secundo die firmatum id est lex sine sole luna ac stellis erat capax quidem futurae lucis sed obscurum adhuc nec insigni aliquo lumine illustratum aduenit dies quartꝰ quo sol Dominus firmamenti id est Christꝰ Dominus legis lunaris ecclesia Christi compar sponsa qui multos ad iustitiam erudirent Apostolici doctores in firmamento vti stellae in perpetuas aeternitates elucescerent ad aeternam scilicet vitam mundum vocantes Of the same minde were the auncient Hebrewes and Thalmudistes who holde it as a principle that the sixe daies of the creation betokened the sixe thousand yeeres of the worlde so that the first day should prefigure thinges to be doone in the firste thousand yeere the second day the euentes of the second thousand yeere and in like sorte the rest of the dayes the rest of the other thousand yeeres as hath beene obserued among the Hebrewes by Moses Gerundinensis a Deuine with thē of great account among the learned Fathers by S. Hierom. in the exposition of the Psal attributed to Moses among the late writers by Stelco a Germaine in his booke of the second comming of Christe and very worthilye to be noted are the woordes of the Earle of Mirandula to the Iewes Quid caecisolem expectatis adest sol lucet sed lucet in tenebris tenebrae vestrae illum non comprehendunt preteriit dies quartus quo ortus est sol qui non dissoluit legemsed perfecit siout neque sol firmamentum destruit sed exornat sed perficit sed illustrat probauimus ex or dine quarti diei tempore aduentus Christi qui in fine quarti millenarii quasi quarti diei advenerit intelligenda de eo quae his dicuntur quiaper nullam aliam rem imaginari Christum congruentius possumus quam per solem Nam in sole posuit tabernaculum suum exiit de tribu Iuda cuius signum est Leo Solare animal cum solem in republica Plato visibilem filium dei appellet cur non intelligamus nos imaginem esse inuisibilis filii Qui si lux vera est illuminans omnem mentem expressissimum habet simulachrum hunc solem qui est lux imaginaria illuminans omne corpus sed quid alia quaerimus ipsum solem interrogemus qui patiente Christo aduersa luna deficiens consensum nobis suae naturae euidenter ostendit vt iure optimo nos ne tanquam altiorem causam diem quam vocant mathematici Solis diem Domini vocauerimus illius cultui totam mancipauerimus Vel huic ostendentes non esse cur amplius corporeum solem vt olim gentes colamus quasi reg●●● caeli Dominum postquam sol innisibilis coaeternus patri coaequalis ●er quem coelum terra condita su●● sedentes in ●mbra mortis homines illuminauit Moreouer the Thalmudists by a tradition from Helias attribute the time of Christes comming to the ende of the fourth thousand yeere and the world after to continue for two thousand but thereof some yeeres they saye shall be abridged for the iniquitie that in those dayes shall raigne The woordes are these c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THe Sonnes or Schollers of Helias said the world shall continue sixe thousand yeeres two thousand void two thousand the Lawe two thousand Christ and for our sins which are many those yeeres are cut off that are cut off Most blinde therfore and peruerse are the Iewes that see not this most bright resplendent and euer glorious Sunne shining in the firmament of his church and with no lesse blindenesse are the Papists striken who acknowledge not the woordes of Esdras in this age to be perfourmed where he prophesieth that after the third trumpet the Sonne that is Christe by his gospell and trueth shall sodainlye shine againe in the night which after the third fiue hundred yeeres after Christes firste comming we see accomplished Of the errour and ignoraunce of former times what can be plainer then his woordes preceeding which are these Beholde the time shall come that they whi●● dwell vpon the earth shal be taken in a great number and the way of the trueth shall be hid and the land shall be barren from faith and iniquitie shall be increased more then thou hast seene now or hast heard in time past and it shall come to passe that one shall set in foote and thou shalt see the land desolate which now raigneth That is Antichrist shall put in foot with his spirituall Babilon and the other Babilon which then raigned should be desolate Yea if God graunt thee to liue thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the Sunne shall sodenlye shine againe in the night and the Moone three times a day Which manifestlye sheweth that the gospell and doctrine of Christe shal be republished vpon earth and giue vnto the church after long darkenes wonderfull illumination which also he sheweth in his 2. book chap. 7. For my sonne Iesus shall appeere with those that be with him and they that remaine shall reioyce within foure hundred yeeres Which was performed by the peace and prosperitie of the church after Constantine the Great in whose time the cruell persecution of the church by the Romaine Emperours did cease after the same yeeres or the same number of yeeres shall my Sonne Christ dye and all men that haue life that is the trueth of the doctrine shal be extinguished and the faithfull teachers shal vtterly decay by the end of the like number of yeeres the world shal be turned into the olde silence for seauen daies as in the former iudgmentes so that no man shal remain that is for seauen hundred yeeres the world shall returne to ignorance superstition grosse idolatrie as in the time of Paganisme so that no man shall remaine sound and sincere in the trueth But after seauen daies the world that is yet a sleep shal be raised vp and