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A08238	Chronologia sacra By the high ... Doctor Phil. Nicolai. lib. 2. de regno Christi. Shortly collected and augmented by Neils Michelsone. Cum priuilegio S. R. Maj. Newly translated out of the Germans and Dence tongue into English, by David Forbes. Pervsed, and accompanied with a short treatise and exhortation tending to repentance; Chronologia sacra. English	Nicolai, Philipp, 1556-1608.; Michelsone, Neils, ed. and trans.; Forbes, David, of Edinburgh.; Arthus, Gotthard, b. 1568.	1630 (1630)	STC 18572; ESTC S106265	30,699	106

the which tyme that Carolostadius wakned vp that great vprore with storming of images from whence proceeded in the Churches diversities of opinions Fourthly In the Revelation chap. 11. we reade of the two witnesses clothed in sackcloth who prophecied 1260 dayes and when 1260 dayes endeth then they shall bee killed by the beast and three dayes and an halfe ly vnburied but thereafter shall haue lyfe of the Spirit and ascend to the clowdes of Heaven and the enemies of the Evangell shall behold it then shall there be a great Earthquake which shall continue an houre in the which Earthquake the tenth part of Babylon shall fall By the two witnesses is vnderstood the old and new Testament which beareth witnesse of the trueth in murning weede and sackcloth that is vnder croces and persecution If wee will adde and lay together with this three and an halfe dayes or three and an halfe commoun yeares the heavenly houre namely 41 an and half yeares then is the summe 1305 then followeth it the beginning of this 1305 to bee Anno Christi 365 on the which tyme that Damasius Vrsicinus did contend to Rome for the Popedome which of them should bee Pope who carried a bloody warre in the holy house against others And then hath this sonne of perdition gotten his kingdome consecrated and anoynted vnto him by murther and shedding of much blood When wee begin from the foresaid yeare Anno Christi 365 to reckon to the 1260 then end they just Anno Christi 1625. Now how those two witnesse the Old and New Testament with all true preachers who hath holden with those two witnesses hath beene killed and rent it is eneugh knowne vnto all men for not onlie Papists but all other sects rent so on those two witnesse and so killeth them everie one to turne and revert them vnto his owne hereticall meaning which is eneugh knowne vnto everie true Christian but now most of all those two witnesses are now killed with their confederats in this 3 and an halfe yeares Namely from Anno 1625 vntill Anno Christi 1629. whereof the well learned man Master Meynelaus Poulsone Preacher to the Castell of Copemanhaven hath set out on our Dens tongue the foresaid Philippi Nicolai his words which likewise I will rehearse following in this manner Comment de regno CHRISTI lib. 2. capit 2. fol. 6. 196. sequent SEing now the holy BIBLE is translated in English French Dutch Dence and other tongues and languages and is vsed and reade with all diligence both of learned and vnlearned So vnderstandeth the Pope that Scotish English Fleames Dence Norwish Swedens Poles Bohemish and Vngarish with no deceate or subtilitie can bee brought againe vnder his power so long as the bookes of the old and new Testament haue the vpper hand and therefore he shall striue after also to take from these two witnesses all their prerogatiue and bring so to passe that they may haue no place in the Roman Church but to losse their shine altogether and by the permission of GOD seing Godlinesse is verie rare besides vs so can it lightly event that the Romish Antichrist shall haue once successe This proud and divelish victorie will continue three yeares and an half which is from the yeere 1625. vntill 1629 so long shall the Christian Kirk indure this persecution and shed her blood in great quantitie for confessing of the trueth and together in these tymes men shall see the bookes of the old and new Testament to be whole contemned and to ly as dead bodies in the streetes and they shall bee troade with feete yet some godly compassioners and the Evangelish true confessors shall not suffer them to be whole buried But thereafter from anno 1629 vntill anno 1670 the whole heavenly houre or fourtie one yeares and a halfe so shall kyth it selfe that the holy Scripture and holy minister calling with the two witnesses which is the old and new Testament shall powerfully come before againe and with great jubileren and especiall joyfull crying compasse about the godly and ascend vp into the clowdes of Heaven Apoc. 11. ver 12. this shall bee a great honour and glory and can not bee hindered This the Papists shall see and over all measure therethrough bee terrified seing they can not troade more the holy Bible vnder their feete neither turne the people with their anathemata or curse and cruell persecution from the diligent reading and godly meditation yea there shall be such a great Earthquake so that the tenth part of the great citie Apocal. 11. ver 13 that is the ten Kingdomes of the Papisticall dominions shall condiscend together namely the Germanians Hungarians Bohemians Polonians Swedens Dence Norwish English Scottish and French who shall be moved and shall knit themselues together and wholly denunce themselues off from the Papists yea they shall hold together with such a speciall zeale and that for the cruell persecution of the Christians as likewise for the cause of the vntolerable pride of the Romane Antichrist And shall fall in Italie or Welshland with mightie power and burne vp with fire that great Citie Rome great Babylon Revel 18. verse 8. That Babylons whoore can bee payed and get her right rewarde who tyrannouslie hath persecuted the spirituall members of Christs bodie Revel 17. verse 6. and drunke her selfe drunke with the blood of Saincts and blood of the Martyres of IESVS And that there can come such a reward vpon her as on Ierusalem who slew CHRIST IESUS himselfe and is come since the beginning on all persecuters of CHRISTS Church After this tyme is the heavenly houre 41 and an halfe yeares whose end are fulfilled anno Christi 1670. Heerewith it aggreeth with that which our foresaid author setteth in his exposition of the 12. chapter of Daniel lib. 2. de regno Christi pag. 121. saying It may bee that Anno Christi 1625. will come vp some new Motus and tumult that the Christistian Church will suffer cruell sorrowfull tempests againe but how it shall bee Daniel cleareth not except that which hee heareth of the Angel blessed are they that waiteth thereafter that is who are patient as yet vntill the 45 yeare are past Now everie one knoweth that patience is no wayes without crosses and sorrowes whereby may bee judged that Anno 1625 there will burst out a hole on a divelish and pestilentious byle which now Anno Christi 1596 when Philip Nicolai wrote this booke the enemies of the true Christians are making rype in their secret counsels and concealed pratickes that the Elect may be weary of those troublous times Wherefore of this ineluctabilis and future tyme of sorrows shall come on that tyme vntill the which wee haue as yet from this yeare 1579 28 yeare then should the soules of true Christians after the counsell of Daniel prepare theselues to patience and heerewith remember this cruell persecution shall not for ever indure but shall vndergoe within a short space and come to an

end within few yeares And therefore especially should wee pray GOD that hee from Heaven will send vs the strength of his spirit that wee could grow in true faith and stand constant in the revelation of the trueth V. And moreover this vndoubtedly agrieth well namely this last tyme of the new Testament with the tymes that proceeded before the flood came seing that CHRIST prophecieth hereof himselfe Math. 24. Luk 17. That right as it was in the world before the flood the people gaue themselues to drunkennesse filthinesse and lustes of the flesh and that vntill the same day that Noah entred into the Arke So likewise the people should giue themselues secure vnto such vices against the last tymes Seing there is now reckoned from the worlds beginning vnto the flood 1657 yeares substract 1657 from 1670 so hast thou againe 13 yeares when CHRIST was 12 yeares and in his 13 when hee disputed with the learned in the Temple of Ierusalem Lay now together the first Adam with the second and then the earthly with the Heavenly 1. The first had earthly Paradice the other the Temple of Hierusalem and that after the commandement of his Heavenly Father Shall I not be about my Fathers businesse Luke 2. ver 49. 2. As Adam shew obedience vnto GOD in Paradice so did the other in the Temple 3. Adam was counselled of the woman that hee should eate of the tree of the forbidden fruite CHRIST could not be counselled of his mother to desist from that which was his Fathers 4. As from Adams fall vntill the flood proceeded 1657 yeares likewayes from Christs actiue obedience obedientiae activae specimine example which he shew in the Temple when he was 12 yeares full and in his 13 vntil the only end and revelation of tyme will proceede 1657 yeares adde heerevnto the 13 yeares of his age so falleth in the end anno Christi 1670. V. And for the last it is neither to dis-allow betweene the agreement of the yeares of Christs age that he lived conversed visibly in this world with so many of the New Testaments jubile every commoun jubile yeare reckoned to 49 Levit. 25. ver 8. for 7 tymes 7 maketh 49. the next following 50 yeare was both a jubile yeare and the first yeare to begin in in the next following jubile yeares reckning Now is Christ dead risen and ascended in the 34 yeares of his age begin now to tell these jubile yeares from the 29 yeare of CHRISTS age for then began Iohn the Baptist to sounde with the trumpet of the new Testament so falleth in this 34. this new Testaments jubile yeares beginning Anno Christi 1646 from this to 1670 is about 25 yeare an halfe jubile yeare because CHRIST liued not out his 34 yeares Now to a conclusion of this little booke I will bring in two prophecies of our Authors I. Of the diminishing of CHRISTS Church against the worlds end Pag. 223. THIS may well bee that as Christ did not show himselfe after his resurrection to the vnthankfull Iewes preists and Scribes in Ierusalem but remoued North vnto Galile and there revealed himselfe before his disciples so in like manner that the cleare learning of the Evangel which once is driven from some parts in Dutchland and Romish dominions shall not come their againe in the same places but make his dwelling away North in Germanie and in other Northlandish places in Scotland Norway Sweden Iseland c. And as CHRIST after his resurrection preached not and learned publictly in Hierusalem where he was crucified but secreetly revealed himselfe to his disciples who were gathered within locked doores for feare of the Iewes so that in like manner before the ●ast day the Heavenly sinceere doctrine ●n Churchs and schooles from whence she is banished not more there to haue such successe but shall sound quietly within some poore folkes doores who shall reade the holy BIBLE in their ●ouses with Luthers Catechisme and E●istles and other writings of true ●earned teachers and with their house●old profite themselues in the exercise of true religion What successe Spaine hath to exspect heere in the Sownd pag. 99. lib. 1. circa finem cap. 2. IF Spaine out of ambition for augmenting of his kingdome come in our seas and will stay or hinder the handling and merchandise of the English Dence Swedens and Muscoviters vnto the damnage of the Norwish dominions then it shall not prosper with him he may try much but carrie nothing home but shame and discommoditie with him This is now briefly set foorth and extracted by the honourable and inlightned Doctor Philip Nicolaus which is taken out of his second booke of the Kingdome of IESUS CHRIST concerning a prophecie of the worlds end If any heereby will conclude that the last day precisly should fall in this 1670 and thinke heereby that I should presume more than the holy Scripture giveth place Therevnto I answere saith the Author in this manner Of that day and houre no man knoweth yea not the Angels in Heaven saith CHRIST Math. 24.42 Mark 13.32 For this cause I protest heere and doe witnesse that I Philip Nicolaus will know nothing of the mysteriall things which GOD hath preserved only for himselfe in secreete and will haue no man to know it neither decree this nor deny this it may well bee that the last day giue himselfe to know in the same 1670 yeares it may likewayes bee thereafter as the people least thinke of and living in their fleshly lustes and appetites that the same day stealeth suddenly over them it may well bee that the last day commeth sooner for the cause of the elect who fervently and heartfully think long thereafter that they could once atteine an happie end of all sinne and of all their sorrow which both the world and the Divell afflicteth them with for that which GOD hath preserved in secreete for himselfe it becommeth vs not to search therein and therefore I abyde alone by the revealed word and the holy propheticall and Apostolicall writings what the events are on the last day is found written after GODS owne commandement Revel 11. ver 11. and ver 19. and chap. 10. ver 11. which I in the feare of GOD red with great diligence and deepe meditation heerewith praying the Almightie GOD who hath spoken by his holy Prophets and Apostles mouth that hee for his godly goodnesse mercifully will assist some of his true Christians to reveile and cleare the secret mysterie of tymes that are written in Ezekiel Daniel and Revelation Therefore when I see narrowlie vnto the Heavenly Evangelicall harvest the Heavenly houre and heavenly Stadia or furlongs then I can not otherwayes as precislie consider meditate of the revealed times if wee will reckone over the involued things which are infolded in the holy BYBLE yet nowayes concluded heereby what shall follow heereafter Where fore this that I write heere I set them not as Articles of beleefe but onely as the thing that