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A11372	Wonderfull prophecies from the beginning of the monarchy of this land hidden vnder the parables of: Three young noble-men in a fiary fornace. A chast wife, and two old fornicators. The idol Belus and his dragon. Daniel in a den amid lyons. Their agreement with canonical prophecies: also in temperate defence of the apocryphals annexed to the canon of the Scriptures. Together with an essay touching the late prodigious comete; how farre forth the præsages thereof doe accord with such prophecies, as are found to pertaine to these our times. By all which, the discrete and wise in heart may gather touching things to come, what is forewarned vnto men; as for the general and publique, so also for their priuate and particular. By Robert Salter.	Salter, Robert, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21630; ESTC S112138	36,819	56

Sauiour Bee yee not called Rabbi Math. 23. for one is your Master euen Christ goeth on thus Nec alius docuit Mosen c. Neither was there saith hee any other that taught Moses by Iethro nor Cornelius by Peter his Elder nor Peter by Paul his younger For by whom soeuer Truth is spoken it is deliuered by the guift of him who is the Truth it selfe And this same also and almost in the same words doth he repeate in his second booke and 18. Chapter touching the Doctrine of Christianity affirming that it is the dutie of euery good Christian to know that wheresoeuer Trueth is found as well in Profane Authors as in Sacred yet it is to bee referred to the breath of our Lord and Maister Christ Iesus from whose alone spirit all Trueth doth proceede And so when in these Truth is to bee found whether after the Letter or in the Mystery then in respect of the fountaine whence it springeth it is to bee receiued for Certaine without any Conditionate Admission of Magis Minus more or lesse trueth in the one of them then in the other Secondly I say that Trueth being so found in them it is not to bee beleeued Vnius cuiusque linguae par est et eadem virtus m●do par sit eadem pietas Cor. Agrip. de Cabala that the Spirit of God hath so confined it selfe to any one Language of the Man more then other that the Aire of the words being but Signes should bring any credit to the Trueth of the Things signified Or if any will needes haue that it doth why then may wee not rather beleeue that for as much as the things of Trueth deliuered in these Apocryphals pertaining principally to the Church of Christians from that time shortly approaching and not to the Mosaical now declining were by the speciall instinct of Gods Spirit dictated in the Mouth of the Pen-men in such language of the Gentiles as was ordeined to bee the instrument of conueighing the Doctrine of Christ at hand to bee reuealed to all the world Isa 28.11 1. Cor. 14.21 Therein to the very Letter fulfilling the Prophecie as the Apostle rendreth it with other tongues and with other lippes will I speake vnto this people And euen in that it selfe intimating to the people of the Iewes that as they were now by the pleasure of God made subject to the Gentiles in body so they should in minde submit themselues to bee ruled by that forme of Doctrine which was in the Gentiles language to bee made Authentical vnto them And this may wee bee the rather induced to beleeue in that wee finde the first miraculous confirmation of the Euangelical Doctrine of Christ Act. 2. after his full Glorification to bee in this same kinde namely the Sanctification and Consecration of Languages vnto that Ministery Yet notwithstanding all that hath beene saide in defence of these Apocryphals I doe neuerthelesse humbly desire so to bee vnderstood that it is farre from mee so much as in the least shadow of my thoughts separately to parallel them to the Holy Scriptures which haue from the beginning and euermore beene by the whole Church acknowledged Canonicall and Authentique whether for Measure of spirit or Light of iudgement or Authoritie of bynding power 2. Tim. 3. or finally for sufficiencie of Doctrine to make the man of God perfect c. Yet may it bee no disparagement to those pure fires of Holy Scriptures that these Apocryphals be to them taken Coniunctim as the Golden Pot Exod. 16. to the Manna laide vp therein or as the Vehicula which Physicians doe vse in the applying of their Medicines whereby their richest Antidotes are brought to a more vniuersall benefite for the whole body of the Man or as the steely Armour of the Lode-stone which is altogether impotent of its owne seperate strength to worke Magneticall Attraction Howbeit fitted duely to that inualuably precious Gem doth by copulation multiply the virtues thereof to dispart it selfe into a much greater Orbe and with more powerfull rayes How justly this that hath beene saide is applyable to these Apocryphals I leaue to the Aestimate of their deserts which haue laboured in some parts of them not vnthriftily their worke is their crowne and the Sterres thereof shall be multiplyed dayly vnto the day of Consummate Retribution The Apocryphals of Daniel THat which by mee hath hitherto beene saide serueth first to remoue the Obiections which praeiudice had laide to the charge of those Mysticall writings which doubtlesse had neuer beene so Constantly Reuerently and Relligiously preserued in one and the same closet with the Sacred Scriptures had not the Diuine Prouidence specially wrought and beene pleased to shine forth therein And so in the second place this serueth also to purchase a respectiue Attention to that which is therein contained and that we labour and vse meanes that the same may be Reuealed vnto vs in regard of the great benefite resulting The speciall part I haue chosen for the present to speake vnto is the Auctary of Daniel Which appeareth to me whether for the necessity of knowledge of the Trewth implyed in it either for the Amplitude of th' Extent of it or lastly or the Height of the Spirit by which it was dictated to aduow vnto it selfe place in the former ranke First therefore whereas wee finde the Name of Daniel adfixed vnto it whether it be literally after the Author thereof the Pen-man of the Canonicall Prophecie Certainly the matter therein contained doth acquite it selfe not vnworthy the name of so Glorious a Prophet Or if it bee Parabolically according to the Resemblance of the Subiect to that of the former The Communion of the Name and Adiection of it vnto that other doth no way impaire the Honour and selfe-sufficiencie of that Gracious Canonical Prophecie As will appeare by that which followeth But what if in a Mystery we vnderstand the Name of Daniel giuen vnto it from the Abstract of the Name it selfe without any Reference to any person in Concrete And so the Name intimating the Manner of Gods working in his iudgements Daniel 1. The iudgement of God Or God is iudge according to those times in the which the Seueral parts of this Prophecy were to be fulfilled In trewth when I behold the gracious vnity in Spirit betwixt the workes of God of this kinde in the times before this Prophecy Deut. 32. Iud. 2. 2 Sam. 24. Psa 90.106 Ioel. 2. Iona. 2. Luc. 18. 2. Pet. 2. 1. Tim. 1. as Moses speaketh of them The Lord will iudge his People and be compassionate over his Seruants And as we finde it often repeated by the Prophets successiuely and in the times as they ensued after this Prophecy as they are spoken of by our Sauiour himselfe and his Apostles after him I am wholly possessed with Persuasion and ample Assurance that this Name of Daniel giuen to this Auctary is Principally according to the letter Apocryphal

Apostle Peter maketh mention Originally poynting to the words of Moses His law to them was a fire which for their tryal the faithfull were to passe that they might come forth precious vessels for their Lords seruice whose comming to Bridals by his Incarnation and Humiliation did now hasten and they earnestly wish and waite for Deut. 33.2 The Kings seruants that had cast them in ceased not to make the ouen hot with Naptha c. The third Circumstance is the Materials of the fire Naptha Pitch Tow and Vine-twigs which doe designe vnto vs that the Countrey where these were found most kindly breed and manured were to bee the most proper places of these Tryals and Combustions and those were Babilonia Persia Chaldaea Syria Phaenicia Asia minor and Aegypt The Angel of the Lord sm●t the flame of the fire out of the fornace Gen. 3. The fourth Circumstance is of the flame beaten forth of the Fornace which is the Combustions that the world was then shortly to bee cast into which as it was in the Beginning a Seraphim to the Tree of Life separating betwixt it and The Man fallen from his Perfection so now was to as many as by faith were restored to their first Estate Ex. 13. Deut. 1. made a Partition as the Pillar to the Israelites in their departure out of Aegypt a Lode-starre of Direction as it was to them in the wildernesse to as many as will rejoyce in the Light thereof but a sword consuming the vnbeleeuers as was that from Heauen vpon Sedom Gen. 19. 2. Reg. 1. and that vpon the two Captaines and their troupes that came against Elijah while in the meane space the seruants of God in the midst of these Combustions walke Inuisible to the world as the Aire by Inflammation is made Intransparent Not to be seen through Zac. 2. God making it to them a fiery wall of Infinite extent for the Receptacle of his Church an impregnable Rampart against them that are without and a Gracious Communion of his Holynesse and Glory by his constant presence among them Thus to them is it a fire not to burne but to Illuminate Purge and sanctifie them but to the others consuming and destroying The fifth Circumstance is of the XLIX The flame went out of the fornace 49 cubits And it brake forth burnt those Chaldeans that it found by the fornace Dan. 9. A Decade is the number of ten as we vse to say A couple or a brace for two or a leash for three Cubits of the fires rage which is the Period of those outragious times either answering to the LXX weekes of the Canonical Prophecie euery Cubit fulfilling a Decade of yeares from the time of the commandement giuen for the returne out of Captiuity as the Prophet had limited Either else it is a Decade of Iubilies in the end whereof the trew Iubilie whereof all the former were but Types should bee celebrated by the grant of Liberty from the Rigor of the Mosaical Law and Ceremonies and from Sin Death and Hell vnto which onely Enemies the man was obnoxious And this Liberty and Manumission to bee graunted Indefinitely and without Limitation to as many as did content themselues in the sober and patient expectation and salutation of it yet so far off That the Jubile is called the fiftieth yeare Leuit. 25. will make no difference For the computation of Iewes and other those Easterly Nations being Inclusiuè accompting both the termes as is the manner of Physitians in their Paroxysmes of sharpe diseases whereby appeareth from whence they are to acknowledge the Propagation of that Learning And the computation of the Greekes in whose tongue this our Prophecie is found written being Exclusiuè leauing out one of the Termes it falleth out that one and the same yeare in the Compute of Time commeth to bee the fiftieth yeare vnto the Iewes which vnto the Grecians and other Western Nations is but the fortie ninth As appeareth by this Diagram IVBILE A figure of seuen sides euery side conteining seuen yeares for the Iehudean Sabbath of yeares which maketh forty nine yeares In sort that the first of the first Babbath being reckoned also for the last of the Iubilean Period as it is Leuit. 25. maketh vp the full number of fiftie for the yeare of Iubile vnto the former and the first yeare of the Sabbath following The Accomplishment FOr from the time of the Returne vpon the Going forth of the word vnto the Consummation determined for the ouerspreading Abomination were troublous times through the whole world As the Harmony of Annals do shew In the which God did notwithstanding raise vp from time to time for the Comfort of his Church a competent number of witnesses to his Trewth This word was not that giuen by Cyrus Ezra 1.1 This Note though not all so proper in the matter I could not omit for loue of the gracious meditation it ocasioneth which was about the 29. yeare of the Epocha or Style of the Persian Monarchy and the 222. yeare of the Building of Rome which fel in the time of Tarquinius Superbus the last King of Rome about 530. yeares before the word became Man But the Going forth of the word Daniel 9 25. by the Ministery of Haggai and Zachariah the Prophets vnder Darius Nothus otherwise called Syrus which was aboue 100. yeares after the former Namely about the 137. yeare of the Persian Aera the 330. yeare of Rome built 420. yeares before Messiah the Prince and about the first Reducing of this our Albion into a Monarchy by the Great Mulmutius father to the valiant Belinus and Bremus where we haue to obserue that the Foundation of the Politique State of this our Land beginneth with the Foundation of the Second Temple the Type of the calling of the Gentiles laid by our Prophets aboue praised As afterward the full comming in of the Gentiles and Submission to the Gospell of Christ by Publique Consense was first of all Nations begun by the Politique State of this Land vnder our Christian King Lucius before the first generall Conuersion of the Romane Empire vnder their Emperour Constantine neere 130 yeares First among the Iewes As of Rulers such were Zerubbabel Tirshatha the valiant Maccabees c. As of Priests such were Ezra Iehoschuah Iadduah that turned the Heart of Alexander the Great from demollishing Ierusalem Eleazarus to whom Ptolome sent for interpreters Simon the Just Onias the Holy c. As of Prophets Matth. 1. Luc. 3. such were Haggar Zachary Malachy and that Sterry Streame from Zerubbabel to the Virgin Mother as the Euangelists doe record them Secondly among the Gentiles as of pious Proselites and Proficients such as were those noble Pythagoreans Sybills Tit. 1. Sages of Greece and other Phylosophers Hystorians and Prophets so doth the Apostle call their Poets And those not inferior in learning to the best of them Druides of this our Heauen-named Albion I weigh not fables