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A77422	A brief description of the future history of Europe, from Anno 1650 to An. 1710. Treating principally of those grand and famous mutations yet expected in the world, as, the ruine of the Popish hierarchy, the final annihilation of the Turkish Empire, the conversion of the eastern and western Jews, and their restauration to their ancient inheritance in the Holy Land, and the Fifth Monarchie of the universall reign of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth. With principal passages upon every of these, out of that famous manuscript of Paul Grebner, extant in Trinity-Colledge Library in Cambridge. Composed upon the occasion of the young Kings arrival into Scotland, to shew what will in probability be the event of the present affairs in England and Scotland.	Grebner, Paul.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4570; Thomason E616_13; ESTC R9126	47,993	51

men have made me at length after a long time of silence put Pen to Paper and through the intricate Labyrinth of those portions of Scripture which never Commentator yet ever medled with I mean the twelve last Chapters of Ezekiel the three last of the Revelation the last of Daniel with some passages in Hosea and Zechary to descry when We People of England with all Protestants in Europe shall see an end of these our Warres and Tumults what shall be the Estate of our Churches Stares and Kingdomes from this present year 1650 to the beginning of the Fifth and last universall MONARCHY of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth which shall begin in the year of our Lord 1710 and in what year we may expect the downfals of the Beast of Rome the Red Dragon of Constantinople the totall Conversion and restauration both of the Eastern and Western Jews within their holy Land of Jury all which must most certainly be falfilled before the end of the World Of these high Points and Mysteries I finde nothing in any Commentator upon the last of Daniel and the Revelations save only Brightman who being acquainted in Leiden with Joseph Scaliger got some but those very imperfect notes of Grebner concerning those Numbers in Ezekiel and Daniel But that excellent Manuscript which Johannes Baudensis writ of the Life and Writings of Grebner declareth all these things most plainly and punctually how that greater Troubles fearfuller Combustions direfuller Devastations shall come upon the Western Kingdomes of Europe then yet ever did before they can expect the downfall either of Turk or Pope or the universall Monarchy of the Gospel of Christ upon Earth In which incomparable Work the Learned Astrologer bringeth Divine and Heavenly Reasons why Europe for the space of thirty seven years after that fearfull blazing Comet in 1618. should with amazed eyes behold the infinite and sudden mutations and downfals of flourishing States and potent Kingdomes the deformity of Empires and mournfull faces of Commonwealths as is lately happened in England Portugall Swethland Bohemia and Denmark the Devastations of whole Kingdoms at a clap and burning six or seven Nations at once in their ashes and cinders as of late in Germany not to make them ask whether there be a God Heaven and Providence or not or whether Empires and States depend wholly upon the will and power of man or upon secret and hidden causes beyond the thoughts and expectations of the World but to praise God for his paternall corrections seeing by this they know he remembreth them and that through this Fire and Water of Affliction he will bring his Church to a finall Conquest over her Enemies and both the Congregations of Jews and Gentiles to an universall Monarchy over the face of the whole Earth Severall passages of which Manuscript I will insert here and there in this ensuing Discourse as Method and Matter shall require III. The Confutation of the wicked Opinions of the Millenaries of the Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth after An. 1700. Since the spirituall sword was sheathed in England which lopt off the serpentine Heads of Heresie and Schisme while they were yet growing it is a wonder to see how all Sects and Schismaticall Opinions in the world have like devouring Weed overgrown and choked the seed of the Word Above the rest the Millenaries have exalted themselves whose abominable Pamphlets have flown abroad like Atomes wherein they dream of a Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth how he shall descent from Heaven An. 1666 destroy all the works of darknesse in every corner of the Earth make an easie passage to men from Earth to Heaven so that they may ascend into Heaven and leap down to Earth again as oft as they list how he shall keep a Quarter Sessions or Goal-delivery in his own Person upon Mount Olivet call all Nations before him rebuke them of sin face to face and shall cut out of them their stony hearts and shall sew in their bellies hearts of flesh in stead thereof that An. Dom. 1700 shall be the day of Judgement and that the Judgement shall last other 1700 years because otherwise the glorious Attributes of Christ's Mercy and Justice cannot be sufficiently explained to the World and the Consciences of men All which Fopperies with many mo too horrid to relate are contained in M. Archers Personall Reign of Christ upon Earth Rich. Stirreys Kingdome of King Jesus and in A.R. his Caelestis Hierusalem Printed A. 1642 1644 and 1645. Now having unmasked the vanity of this Error ut contraria juxtà se posita magis elucescant I will epitomize in this Section the truth of the future estate of the World from this time to the end which afterward I intend God willing further to dilate and prosecute in this Treatise This year 1650 all Europe are in civil Warres These civill warres shall not cease till they have mustered out a great Army of the true worshippers of God to ruine Rome which shall be about Anno 1666. Rome thus destroyed the Western Jews shall begin to learn the waies of God and believe his Gospel which they cannot do so long as Rome standeth and shall Anno 1683. enter upon the conversion of their Eastern brethren the 10. Tribes now invisibly hid in Tartaria and India and they two none else shall ruine the Mahumetan Empire about An. 1698. and so shall be restored to the holy Land to reinhabit Jerusalem Then must begin a comparative felicity of the Church of God upon earth because after these times both Turk and Pope shall be destroyed Neverthelesse this felicity must be mingled with internall troubles and persecutions within the bowels of the Church because the Church shall never be wholly at rest while the world standeth Lo here the difference betwixt Truth and Heresie betwixt the opinions of the Millenaries and right sense of Scriptures The Millenaries say Christ must descend personally feom heaven The Scriptures on the contrary say he shall not come from Heaven personally till the last day when he shall descend with his holy Angels in flaming fire to judge the quick and the dead He shall send power and strength from heaven to his true Worshipppers as he hath done hitherto to destroy Turk and Pope from Heaven he shall give power to his ancient people the Jews to regain their ancient Land of Judea and not by his corporeall presence upon Earth from Heaven about An. 1700. he shall transferre his Gospel from Europe as he hath done from Asia and raise up and inspire godly Ministers after his own will who shall implant his holy word in all and every of the Kingdomes and Provinces of America and in all countries of the Southern and Eastern India China Tartaria and in all the regions of the North unto the worlds end and make it shine in as great purity and glory as ever it hath done in England or Germany This is the felicity of the Church the fifth Monarchy

Anno Mundi 5618 Anno Christi 1684 A great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo The Jews converted in the West prepare to unite with their Brethren in the East and raise a Combination to propagate the Gospel and destroy the Headless-Turks Anno Mundi 5622 Anno Christi 1687 Praise our God all ye his Saints and Servants and ye that fear him both small and great And I heard the voice of a great multitude both small and great as it were the sound of many Waters and as the voice of strong thundrings saying Hallelujah for the Lord our God reigneth Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made her self ready Rev 19. 5 6 7. Anno Mundi 5633 Anno Christi 1698 The dreadfull and terrible Battell of the Jews with the enraged Turks in the land of Judea where the Turks are destroyed with an eternall destruction Ezech. 38. 39. chap. all Gog and Magog viz. Turks and Tartarians gather themselves together to battell whose Number is as the sand of the Sea and they went up into the plain of the Earth and incompassed the Tents of the Saints about even the beloved City but fire came down from God out of Heaven and destroyed them Revelat. 20. 8 9. Anno Mundi 5635 Anno Christi 1700 THE FIFTH MONARCHY Anno Mundi 5645 Anno Christi 1710 ANd I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea The new Jerusalem came down from God out of heaven trimmed like a Bride to meet her husband And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the Glory and Tabernacle of God with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be their God with them and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow neither crying neither shall there be any more pain for the first things are passed away Rev. 21. 1 2 3 4 c. Anno Mundi 5698 Anno Christi 1763 No more Germany no more any Western Empire or any footstep thereof for God hath now transplanted his Gospel from Europe unto a more gratefull and pregnant soyl which will bring forth the fruits thereof in due season Anno Mundi 5699 Anno Christi 1764 Jam nova Progenies coelo demittitur alto Exoriturque atris Lucifer albus equis Anno Mundi 5702 Anno Christi 1767 The holy Temple restored at Jerusalem the holy utensils prepared the glory of God filseth the house God lovingly upbraideth the Israelites for their infidelity and Idolatry for which they were Vagabonds in all Coasts of the World 2400 years without King Law Priest and Temple and rehearseth their blessed and joyfull estate now being converted and victorious over all their enemies Ezech. 12. last chap. per tot Anno Mundi 5705 Anno Christi 1770 Behold I make all things new Rev. 21. 5. Anno Mundi 5728 Anno Christi 1793 The Jewish Magistrates and Ministers labour in the Conversion of the World to the Gospel of God Ezech. 46. per tot Anno Mundi 5765 Anno Christi 1830 The seventh Viall powred out And now are all things fulfilled which are contained in the Scriptures After which all Nations may expect the comming of the great Judge to render to every man according to his works Thus farre reacheth the Observations of Grebner and Baudensis VI A true Explication of that Number in Rev. 20. 8. BEfore I come to comment upon this Chronologicall Index it will not be amisse to deliver that saying Revel. 20. 8. And the Saints shall reign with Christ a thousand years from all those false Interpretations which have been fastned upon it by Papias Bucholcherus Scaliger Brightman Alsted and others and declare the true sense of it as remotest from Innovation and coming nearest the intention of the H. Ghost There is in this 20 Chap. two severall Epoches of a 1000 years which are two severall waies to be interpreted The first is in vers. 2. of Satan being bound for a 1000 years which must begin either at the Instant of our Saviours Incarnation and end at An. 1000 in the 2d year of the Popedome of Sylvester II that infamous Sodomite Necromancer and Conjurer under whom the filthinesse and Idolatry of the Romish Church was brought to the height or rather they must begin at the Destruction of the 2d Temple by Titus which was An. 71 and end in An. 1071 in the Popedome of Gregory VII aliàs Hildebrand who first broke bonds of Allegiance with Henry the Emperour excommunicated him set the Gospel in a totall Eclipse and Europe in the mournfull Flames of a civil Warre but of this in the Chronology But this in the 8 vers. of the Saints reigning with Christ a 1000 years Alsted Bucholcherus and others expound of a Comparative Felicity of the Church on this Earth for a 1000 years beginning An. 1694 when they say all visible Enemies of the Church shall be overthrown and must end An. Ch. 2694. after which shall be the Warre of Gog and Magog against the Church which shall be prevented by the coming of Christ to judgement But in this Alsted is wide from the right mark for this number must begin An. 1072 at the expiration of the former and must be interpreted for all that time that the World shall last after the aforesaid An. 1072. And the holy Ghost doth term this indefinite and unlimited time by the Number of a 1000 years for three speciall Reasons 1 Because a 1000 years are the Number of Perfection and of Eternity and doth most aptly serve to expresse the End of these Earthly Troubles and the beginning of that Time which never shall have end 2 Because those things which the holy Ghost in the Scriptures affirmeth are yet to come must not be plenarily accomplished till after An. 1830 it may please God that the glorious and flourishing estate of the Church and Gospel here upon Earth may continue much of 200 years longer to increase the number of them who shall be saved and to amplifie more the heavenly Attributes of Gods Mercy Righteousnesse Truth Holinesse and Omnipotency in the Salvation of the Just and his Equity Judgement and Uprightnesse in the firebrands of destruction 3 Because a vicissitudinary time of Affliction and Ease Persecution and rest pure Doctrine and Heresies is signified to be the whole continuance or most part of a 1000 years wherein those who are to suffer for the Testimony of the Word of God and the truth of Jesus Christ shall have their reward after the expiration of that time which cannot be till after the last generall Judgement The fearfull and terrible Warre of Gog and Magog viz. the bloudy Warre of Turks and Tartarians with the Jews newly converted in the Land of Jury in which the very

name of Turks shall be rooted from off the Earth must be before the beginning of this glorious Estate and Felicity of the Church of God here upon Earth and therefore the 7 8 9 and 10 verses are in order of time before the 5 and the 6. The Devil and Antichristianity must be chained up in the dungeon of Hell for the space of a 1000 years after the Incarnation of Christ An. 1000 must the Devil and Romish Idolatry by the Popedome of Sylvester the second be let loose to range upon Earth and tyrannize over the Church for the most part of another 1000 ever till An. 1698 numorus completus being put here pro incompleto before an happy and comfortable Estate of the Gospel can be brought forth to the World Therefore all Christendome from this year 1650 must expect very sad and wofull daies much persecution bloodshed and savadge tyranny in every Kingdom of Europe especially in France Spain Italy Swethland Germany and England untill An. 1698. Some of thoseKingdoms which have abandoned the superstition of the beast shall by subtle allurements be perswaded to readmit and reestablish the same Wofull and unsupportable Afflictions shall besall both the European Jews which are the two Tribes of Benjamin and Judah now resident in Christendom and Turkie as likewise the ten Tribes the Kingdom of Israel who shall insensibly and miraculously arise out of the bowels of Tartaria and India about An. 1669. who neverthelesse shall be so extraordinarily supported by God that they shall stand in little or no need at all of the Christians Because from this time of the Conversion of the Israelites for the space of 30 years these 12 Tribes shall suffer much trouble Heathens Papists and Mahometans shall strive to eradicate their name from under heaven and yet all in vain for an illustrious and heroick Prince è Tribu Nephtali oriundus shall be their valiant and fortunate Commander called Michael not proprio nomine but because he Dan. 12. 1. shall stand up and shew himself the Assertor and Protector of their Religion and Liberty In which time shall be such troubles as never were no nor ever shall be to the end of the world For like as the Christians had rest 30. years from the Ascension of Christ and now have endured the fiery triall almost these 1600. years since that time from the Heathen Emperors and the Beast so the Israelites which shall 1600. years till Anno 1668. live without Prince Law Temple Sacrifice and true Religion as Hosea prophesied ch. 3. v. 4 5. beginning now to be converted to Christ shall have savage times of affliction and Butcheries for other 30. years to welcome their conversion withall till Anno 1698. when God shall grant rest from their enemies and begin a peaceable estate of the Church VII Certain remarkable Nambers in Scripture whereby the Epoch's of the ruine of Turk Pope and the corversion of the Iews are more fully strengthned Entring at length upon my Notes on the afore-said Chronology I think it meet first to strengthen the former Epoch's of the ruine of Rome downfall of the Turk and Tartar and the Conversion of the Jews by the Conduct of certain memorable Numbers in holy Scriptures Grave and judicious Authours have with wonder and admiration observed the heavenly and inimitable Method of holy Scrjptures how all the Mysteries and memorable Occurrences in the same are comprized in Numbers how within the compasse of such a Quantity of years God alwayes divulged his Counsels and manifested what he purposed should be wrought among the children of men So that in considering the admirable consent and agreement of Times by things past we may probably conjecture of things to come From the Creation to the Floud was 1656 years the Floud was a sign of the Consummation of all those things which are to be fulfilled before the conclusion of time Anno Christi 1656 let the Church of God expect with joy and comfort the acting of the first Scene of the Tragedies of all those European Kingdoms which have been implacable Persecutours of the Gospel of Christ The whole Government of Moses who was a second Noah to the Church is a shadow of the Kingdom of Christ The Law continued in force 1529 years to the Passion of Christ But 1598 years to the Destruction of the Temple by Titus The Destruction of the Temple by Titus was according to the accompt of Dionyfius Exiguus A. C. 69. From thence reckon the Number of 1598 years and you come to A. 1667 which is the year which shall smoke with the ascending up of the Flames which consume the Kingdom of the Beast From the Nativity of Christ to his Re-nativity in the preaching of his Gospel by Luther and other eminent Ministers are 1517 years And from the beginning of the Reign of the Maccabees untill the Birth of Christ are 169 years Put these two sums together and you come to Anno 1686 in which God having 18 years before enlightned the eyes of those who for almost 2000 years have sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and having laid the Kingdom of the Beast and the false Prophet in the lowest dust shall bring that people into the bosome of the true Church which within 13 years after shall deliver his children from all adversity From the universal Deluge of man-kinde by the Floud to the beginning of the universal Captivity of the Church under Nebuchadnezzar beleaguering Jerusalem are numbered 1698 years So likewise from the Birth of the King of Kings unto the final Consummation of the Miseries and restauration of the Felicity of the Church by the Destruction of Gog and Magog shall be reckoned the very same Number of 1698 years From the Confusion of the Tower of Babel to the return of the Jews from Babel are 1666 years and from prophane Pompey's spoiling of the Temple at Jerusalem when the Kingdom was taken from the house of David and Superstition and Gentilism began to spring up amongst the Jews to the Birth of of Antichrist and Apostasie in the Church of God are 666 years from thence reckon a 1000 years wherein the Saints must suffer Persecution and Martyrdom for the Testimony of Jesus Christ and the truth of a good Conscience Revel. 20. 4. and you come to A. 1666 in which shall be fulfilled all those things which are mentioned Revel. 18 and the 19 Chapter So likewise from the Departure out of Aegypt untill the Death of Christ are numbered 1542 years to these adde those 169 years which are from the beginning of the Reign of the Assomonaei or Macchabees to the Birth of Christ and you come to Anno 1711 which year shall be wonderfull and terrible to all the world because that in the year next going before viz. Anno 1710. the abominable Names and mention of Papists Turks and Tartars being eradicated from the memories of men the glorious Estate of the Gospel and the terrestial Felicity of the