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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

A PROPHESIE THAT HATH LYEN HID ABOVE 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 Caesar 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 concerning GERMANY FRANCE and SPAINE With the inuasion of the Kings of the EAST LONDON Printed for NATHANIEL FOSBROOKE and are to be solde at the West-end of Paules Neere to the Bishop of Londons gate 1610. To the Reader DEere Christian Reader thinke it not strange I pray thee that Esdras the Scribe and Prophet of the Lord in the principallest of his bookes should be so little regarded Dani. 12.6.7.8 9.10 for Daniel the Prophet prophecying of these times foretelling the wonders that shold come to passe in them sayeth Esdras 12 37.38 That none of the wicked should haue vnderstanding but the wise shall vnderstand And therefore was Esdras commaunded to wright those vision which he saw in a Booke and hide them teach them the wise of the people whose hearts he knew were able to cōprehend the wayes of the highest for as god himself doth not shew his secrets to the vnwise Psal 25.14 so no more would he haue the wise to whome he sheweth thē to teach them but to the wise least the vnwise not being capable should spurne and barke against it wherefore he sayeth Math. 7 6. giue not holy things to dogges neither cast ye your pearles before the Swine c. And as wisedome is iustified of her Children Math. 11.19 only because it is wisedome and for no other respecte so the vnwise resist it because their tongues cannot taste it nor their stomackes digest it 1. Cor. 2 14.15 it being heauenly and they earthly who iudge things by earthly reason Therefore hath God seene it good to lock vp and hide his treasures and richest iewels in most secret places that the dilligent searchers for wisedome might onely finde them out and that fooles might be fooles as they please to be Prou. 2.3.4.5 though wise in their owne conceits The Booke of Wisedome which hath it name according to it nature who knoweth not with what vehemency it is resisted although it be the very flood of Salomons wisdome If Iohn The greatest that was borne of women Math. 11 and Christ his Lord the bridegroome were iudged of the vnwise children to be possest of diuels what maruell though Salomon and Esdras with other prophets and righteous men be blasphemously delt withall But the principall cause pretended is for that it was not found compiled with other scriptures in the Hebrew tongue for which cause they may aswell exclude some part of Daniel and the greatest part of the new Testament but they say it is full of lyes and was neuer cannonized darst thou say so Because the wisedome of the vnwise neuer cannonis'd it did the children of wisedome therefore neuer approue it If all be current that hath bene cannonized Then many deuils shall goe to heauen much falsehood shall stand for truth and if all be lyes that is not cannonized then much truth shall perish and many Saints goe to hell For some of the Epistles of the Apostles As the second Epistle of Peter and the two last Epistles of Iohn Iames and Iudes Epistles were for a long time not receiued generally and many hundred Saints were neuer cannonized By the Church of Rome wheras many vncleane lyers and murth erers were and darest thou blaspheme the truth and accuse it of lies for these causes If Charity did rule thy heart and wisdome gouerne thy minde thou wouldest labour to reconcile it with the other scriptures which if men be so disposed they may also cauill against But let men take heede what they doe let them not condemne that they know not nor call that a lye which they vnderstand not If I should say Saint Iohn spake vnaduisedly when he sayeth Iohn 21.25 There are also many things that Iesus did which if they had bene all written I suppose the world could not containe the bookes did I not belye the holy Apostle If time prooue that to be of God which I in my ignorant boldnes blaspheme and speake against shall I escape vnpunished by that truth let me therefore take heede and feare and as I may not take vpon me to affirm that I know not so let me take heede that I condemne not that which I conceiue not especially such holy writings wherein such great wisedome doth consist least for a words sake that I vnderstand not I depriue my selfe of a great benefit that I might enioy For if time prooue it to be of God as sure it will what shall I then excuse my selfe withall was not the Reuelation of Saint Iohn doubted of by many a great while is it not now receiued as a most deuine Prophecy So shal it be f●●nd in time that none of al the Prophets of ould did excell this Prophet Esdras nor see more secrets nor prophecie more plainely of Iesus Christ and of the misteries of the Gospell then he And also greater wisedome is not to be found in all Salomons writings then is in the book of Wisedome so much condemned why should we not iustifie the truth for it owne sake and not shake it off and take it vp vpon such colde and weake occasions If the maiesty and truth of the other Scriptures did not plead for it selfe Time also bringing foorth all the Hebrues Grecians Latinists and Cannonisers in the world could neuer make it good therfore let truth speake and wisdome vtter her voyce and let time bring foorth as they haue euer done and forbid them not and if thou be one of wisedomes children receiue it And although there be too many that dooth take vpon them to discouer prophecies whose falsehoods time will discouer yet there is a worke which is of God and that shall stand mauger the spight of all it enemies and let them that dare so boldly rage and rayle against it knowe that when the day doth declare it they shall be ashamed and wish they had held their tongues Thus I thought good to aduertise thee by the way least at the first sight of enuied Esdras thou shouldst be dismayed Enuied I say by enuious spirits but approued of God and of his holy ones I will say no more for him at this time he is at hand let him now speake for himselfe FINIS The contents of the Prophecie 1 THe liues and deaths of the Emperors 2. The rysing of the Ecclesiasticall Monarchie 3. The storie of the greatest enemies of them both with their principall actions and of their ouerthrow and ends 4. Of the three kingdomes

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