Catastrophe Mundi: OR, MERLIN REVIVED, In a DISCOURSE of PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS, And their Remarkable Accomplishment.  
With Mr. lily's Hieroglyphics EXACTLY CUT; And Notes and Observations thereon.  
AS ALSO A COLLECTION Of all the Ancient (Reputed) PROPHECIES That are Extant, Touching the Grand Revolutions like to happen in these Latter Ages.  
By a Learned Pen.  
LONDON: Printed and are to be Sold by John How at the Seven Stars at the South west Corner of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, and Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry. 1683.   

The PREFACE.  
IT has been (Scandalously) reflected by Foreigners, That Englishmen always carry an old Prophecy in their Pockets (see Fuller's Church-History, Lib. 16.) yet to do our Nation Right, we may modestly a●…ow, That we are no more Addicted to those Cu●…osities than our Neighbours. 'tis well known ●…w fond the French are of their Nostradamus'; ●he Prediction touching a Redhaired Assassi●…te hath not wanted its Impressions on one of the greatest Spirits in Europe; Nor is there scarce Cardinal at Rome, but is in Fee with an A●…rologer to advertise him of his Fate, and when ●…e luckily Hitt of the Infallible Chair will fall his share. It must not he denied, That many ●ve rendered themselves Ridiculous in Publish●…g, and more been Befooled in Crediting the fanciful or Knavish Prognostics of some En●…usiastical or Designing Heads; whence the wisdom of our Ancestors has thought fit to re●…ain and chastise with Penalties, such as pre●…me to publish false and Fantastical Prophe●…s, to the Intent thereby to make any Rebel●…on, Insurrection, Dissension, loss of life, or other Disturbance in the Realm, Stat. 5. Eliz Cap. 15.  
This small Treatise is Chaste from any such lewd Design, rather aiming at the direct contrary; For understanding that certain Pictures formerly Emitted by Mr. William Lilly have much been talked of and admired, (perhaps for their being scarce and unknown (Omne enim Ignotum habetur pro Magnifico) and that the same have lately been Republisht by one, That not only pretends so shrewdly to understand them, That he ha● adventured to place them in a new Order, bu● also has added others of his own Invention, and fathers the former (though we think without any grounds) on Nostradamus'; adding likewise several further odd Prognostications, wherein 'tis probable present Confidence is all the Hope of future Verity: we conceived it could be no offence to gratify the Curious, truly with thos● Emblems, just as they were set forth by Mr. Lilly now six and twenty years ago; Which as Aristotle said of some of his works, are so published, ●… not to be public; Because I think, scarce Intelligible to any, till Time (the best Expositor 〈◊〉 Oracles) shall unlock the Mystery. At least, tho●… that expect the fulfilling of them All in this o●… Age, (nay, or in that of our grandchildren) m●… find themselves as grossly mistaken as those w●… were so confident of the final Destruction of Rom● and the Papacy in 66; since Mr. Lilly himse●… tells us, That therein is Represented the fu, +ture Condition of this Nation, For many hundred of years yet to come.  
As for the rest of the Prophecies (for we use ●he vulgar stile) hereunto annexed, all the Learned World knows they are none of our Devising, but have long since been vouched by many Learned Authors; And as we undertake not to Justify ●heir Authority, so neither do we presume to give ●heir Interpretation. All we had to do, was to recite them Faithfully, and give the Reader ●he most certain Account we could of their Original, withal rectifying divers gross mistakes, ●ith which (through the Negligence of Transcri●ers, Ignorance of Translators, or Errors of the ●ress) most Copies of them formerly did abound; and so they are left to the Censure of the Reader, ●nd Posterity, which more justly by the Event ●ill know, what Value to put upon them.  
What ever success they shall have, or whether ●orthy of Regnard or Contempt, we shall here ●nclude with an Infallible Prophecy, that for ●er concerns all the Nations of the World in ●eneral, and each person in particular, and which we are certain shall come to pass, for the Youth of Eternal Truth hath spoken it:— If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the ●ice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to all his Commandments, That then the ●●rd will set thee on high above all Nations of the Earth. Blessed shalt thou be in the City, and Blessed shalt thou be in the Field.— The Lord shall cause thine Enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face, and all that thou settest thine hand unto shall prosper.— But if thou wilt not hearken to the Lord thy God, to observe and do his Commanments and his Statutes, Curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee: The Lord shall send upon thee Vexation and Rebuke, until thou be destroyed: And shall smite the with Madness and Blindness, and Astonishment of Heart, and thou shalt grope at Noon days as the Blin● gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper, but be oppressed and spoiled, and no ma● shall save thee. Deut. 28.  

Dicamus bona verba; Deus regit Astra; ferunt●  
Illius Arbitrio Sydera, Terra, fretum.  
Sed Heu, quam nostra malis deliret moribus Aeta●  
Ipsa etiam videas Sydera moest a queri.   

God moves the Heavens, and his Mighty Ha●  
Both Planets, Earth, and Ocean doth Command  
But we alas! are now so wicked grown  
That Threatening Stars our vileness does bemoan  
And with our weighty sins both Heaven an● Earth do groan.    

Of Prophecies, Predictions, and Divinations in General.  
And many Remarkable Instances of Things foretold, that came to pass.  
AS 'tis not our purpose to speak of Sacred Prophecies or those Divine Revelations Contained in the Holy Scriptures, which alone are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of infallible Credit and Authority; so neither shall we run through all those Follies and wicked Extravagancies whereby the Heathen pretended to discover things to come. As their Auguries, Aruspicies, Sortileges, etc. But only to raise some few Remarks on some of the Celebrated Methods whereby things are thought to be predicted or foreknown, and frequently come to pass accordingly. Of this sort are,  
I. That of Wise Prudent and Learned men, who from their Observations out of History, Their knowledge of the Nature of men, and the Constitutions of Governments, and comparing times passed, with the present, and concluding from like Causes, like Effects, when they see the same things come again upon the stage of the World, as have formerly been, and then considering all Circumstances of Agreement and difference, are able to give a very probable Conjecture, which seldom fails, of what is like to come to pass. Which sort of Predictions are not only lawful, but worthy of much Commendation, being oftimes conducible to the good of Kingdoms, by Premonishing and Preventing Inconveniences like to come upon them.  
II. Astrological Predictions, when the Artist undertakes from the Positions of the Heavens, the Configurations of the Planets, Eclipses, Conjunctions, Comets &c. to foretell future Accidents, or as one very significantly defines it.— Astrologia est Doctrina quae ostendit vires Stellarum cognitas Perpetua Experientia, et Qualitates, Temperamenta et Inclinationes in Elementis et Corporibus Hominum, ortas a Luce, Motu, et Influentiis Stellarum; Quibus Qualitatibus, Temperamentis et Inclinationibus, Respondent suae quaedam Actiones, nisi aut Divinitus, aut aliis Causis Fortioribus Impediantur.— Astrology is a sort of Learning which shows the Force and Virtues of the Stars, known by perpetual Experience, and the Qualities, Temperaments and Inclinations arising from the Light, Motion and Influences of the Stars, in the Elements and Bodies of men; Answerable to which Qualities Temperaments and Inclinations are their Actions, unless hindered by Divine power, or some other stronger Causes.  
This Art I cannot say is unlawful, but I take it to be but Conjectural, and by Ignonorant Pretenders much abused: strange things have been, and frequently are thereby foretold, and prove true, when a skilful Artist hath the handling of the matter; but many times fall out otherwise: sometimes from the Ignorance of him that undertakes the Judgement, otherwhile from the Influence of some of the fixed Stars; which being seldom taken notice of, may cross or hinder what may otherwise be signified; Or 3dly, from the want of a sufficient Treasure of Observations, by which Judgement ought to be given; The same posture of the Heavens having never twice happened alike in every circumstance since the Creation, and by that means leaving the World destitute of stable means whereon to build their Judgement; since what can be rationally said in that kind must proceed from the Comparing of Events which have happened under such and such Configurations, with what are like to be when the same fall out again; Or lastly, by reason of the care of the party himself, who may by his own Industry prevent what from the Influence of the Stars would have been his Destiny, for they at most do not Necessitate, but Incline, and by the Providence and overruling Power of God, and the Wisdom of Man, are sometimes diverted.  
III. A Third sort is a Geomantical or Terrestrial Divination, in which from certain voluntary Pricks or Points made by the hand at Adventure, certain Figures are raised; From the first four of which, called Fathers, are produced other four, called Daughters; These Eight bring forth four Grand Children, from them come out Two Witnesses, from those a Judge; and the Judgement upon this sort of Divination is not much unlike that of Astrology. But the Foundation of all this seems to be laid upon a false Supposition, That the Soul of man knoweth things to come, but is hindered by the dulness of the Organs of the Body. And therefore in the practice of it, a great sedateness of mind is required, a freedom from all noise that may disturb it, and such like Circumstances; Which he that hath a mind to fool a way time, may find in Cattan, Flood, and H. de Pisis. But this kind of Divination I take to be idle, vain and superstitious, as not built upon any stable Foundation of Reason, or supported by any thing but Fancy.  
iv A Fourth sort is by framing certain Figures of Stone or Metal underneath such Constellations, and placing them either in some Conspicuous Place or Town, or sometimes Underground, by which some have pretended to do strange Feats; These are called Talismans', of which, (as also the Language of the Stars, with an Alphabetical Table, and how from That, words are framed which shall declare the Event of things to come, according to the Nature of the Question) Gaffarel, a Learned Frenchman, hath largely written in his Book of Unheard-of Curiosities; and such no doubt they will prove to him that spends much time in the study of them.  
V A Fifth sort (if indeed there be any such thing) may be by Communication with Angels and Spirits; For many have pretended to such a Converse; I do not mean by the Black-Art, Conjuring, Negromancy or having to do with Devils; but with good Angels, who out of Charity, Love and Compassion to their Fellow Creatures, are said often to be willing to forewarn them of impending dangers, and discover to good men what may be of advantage. Thus the Learned Brown in his Religio Medici sticks not to declare his opinion to be, That Mankind owes the Invention of many of our excellent and profitable Arts to the Courteous Revelation of Spirits.  
VI Lastly, There is Enthusiasm, or Illumination, an Enlightening of the whole Soul, either from a certain unusual Crasis, or an overpoize of Complexion, or strength of purer Spirits, or else by some unknown supernatural means, as the Possession or Inspiration of some Spirit, either good or bad. Aristotle tells of one Maracus of Siracuse, a Poet, who never made so good Verses as when he was mad; and immediately before that Story hath these words, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc. Many because that Heat is near the seat of the mind, are taken with sundry Frantic and Enthusiastic Fits, from whence they become Sibyls, Bachides, or inspired, not from any Disease, but a Natural Temperament— So that it seems in the sense, of Aristotle much of this kind of Illumination proceeds from an Exaltation of the mind by some Ecstatick operation of the Soul; and great Examples in all Ages, might be produced out of the Observations of Physicians to this purpose; some whereof have been mere Cheats to gain Credit to such as should Cure or Exorcise them; Others true and natural, where some Melancholy Heat, or strong Imagination, or lastly, through Custom and use, the persons affected have brought upon themselves such an Habit, that fancy prevailing over their Judgement and Understanding, they have pretended to Prophecy; and sometimes what they have spoken, hath proved true.  
Of these several sorts of foretelling, as touching the Astrological Predictions, or such as are gtounded on that Art, we have briefly shown whence they may pretend to Credit, having in themselves a natural ground, as Effects are foreseen in their Causes. But as touching the Common Abstruse Indications of great Accidents, Wars, death of particular men, Casualties to Cities, etc. usually styled Prophecies, from what spring to derive them, or to what Cause they ought to be attributed, is difficult to be determined.  
To deny that any things have been so foretold, or that because some pretending thereunto, were either Cheats, or Hypochondraique, That therefore all were so, is to give the Lie to the experiences of all Ages, and in many of them the very great time between the Predictions, and the fulfilling of them, doth sufficiently Evince that they came from an higher Cause than a Melancholy Heat: For where that is predominant, I have ever observed, that between the Prophecy, and the time allotted for the Accomplishment, there is rarely or never more than a score of years, sometimes not so many Months.  
I. Concerning the Sibyls, not only the Heathen paid a great veneration to their Verses, but the most Eminent Ancient Doctors of the Christian Church have made great and good use of them (in that kind of way which Logicians call Argumentum ad hominem) to Convince their Pagan opposers of the verity of our Religion, since they gave so clear a Testimony to the Birth and other Circumstances of the Blessed Jesus, long before his Incarnation. But whether all or any of them were endued with the Holy Spirit of God, I dare not affirm. This difference I observe to be between them and the true Prophets, that the later were never during their Prophecy deprived of their Wits, Senses or Understanding; For if at any time they have been surprised with Consternation or Astonishment upon the Appearance of an Angel, or the like, they have been by the Power of God soon restored to a Temper fit to understand and deliver the Message wherewith they were Entrusted. Nay they have generally been further able to Confirm by a Miracle, that they were really sent from God, when it stood with his Glory to have it so, and the distrust of the people required it; whereas these Sibyls are never reputed to have done any other Miracle, save that of truly foretelling things to come. 'Tis indeed in the 18th of Deutrenomy, made the Mark of a Prophet, not sent by God, if the things foretold come not to pass, and this is undoubtedly true. But it follows not Convertibly, that whatever things foretold come to pass, the person foretelling them must needs be sent by God; except meant permissively; For we know the Oracles of the Heathen Idols, gave often true Answers, suffered so to do indeed by God, but inspired by the Devil. And Balaam though he were a Magitan and wicked person, yet he foretold several excellent Truths.  
I am not Ignorant, That many times, as appears from History, false Prophecies and Predictions have been promoted by crafty Knaves to deceive credulous Fools, and advance their own Designs, and many that have vainly trusted in them, have been deceived and brought to Destruction by their overfondness. At such time as Brittanicus waited for the great Lot of the Roman Empire, by the Encouragement of a vain ginger, ●e lost both Hopes and Life by the Rigour of a Bloody Tyrant. Seneca by a pretty fan●y, brings in Mercury persuading with the Gods that they would abridge the Life of Claudius, if not for any other Cause, yet out of very Pity and Compassion to the poor Astrologers, who had already been taken with so many Lies about it. That Wily Fox, Trajanus (as Dion tells us) by the practice and Assistance of Astrologers conveyed a panic fear into the Head of Tiberius, That Germanicus aspired to the Empire, whereas in the mean time he only pushed forwards his own Design: Existimans se cum Juvenem sustulisset, Facile in Manu Senem Habiturum; Concluding it would be easy to get the old man into his Clutches, if he could but get rid of the Young One. So Richard Duke of Gloucester finding that so long as his Brother George of Clarence stood between him and the Goal, he could never win the Prize on which he had fixed his Ambitious Thoughts, caused a certain Prophecy to be suggested to the King his elder Brother, That G. should one day wear the Crown. During the Civil Wars between Caesar and Pompey, neither party wanted Prophets, which both gave them Encouragement to Proceed, and hope to prevail. And in like manner in our Domestic Broils between York and Lancaster, The Books of Beasts and Babies were exceeding rife and currant in every Corner of the Realm, either Party Applying and Interpreting as they were Affected to the Title. Don John de Barbuda, a Nobleman of Castilé, of greater Courage ●han Judgement, being persuaded by the Predictions of an old silly Hermit, that without the loss of one man's Life, he should recover the Kingdom of Granada from the Moors, undertook the Enterprise against the Advice and Persuasions of the King of Castille, with no greater force than 1000 Foot and 300 horse, who were together with himself all Cut in pieces.  
Remarkable is that Story of Bassianus Cavacala, who during his War in Mesopotamia, ordered one of his Counsellors at Rome called Maternianus to procure a Meeting of all the Prophets, Astrologers and Conjurers, to discover if any Plot or Designs were in hand against his person or Authority; and Maternianus finding by their Universal Verdict that one Macrinus a Colonel, who had a charge in the Field at that very instant, under the Emperor, should bereave him of his Life, sent Advertisement thereof by the next dispatch; which Post happening to arrive at a time when the Emperor was exceeding earnest and attentive at his Sport, he commanded this very Macrinus, who (as Fate would have it) was next at hand, to break up the Packet and inform him of the contents at the time of Council. By this means Macrinus perceiving the drift and his own danger (though before never no thought of Disloyalty, much less murder of his Prince, came into his head) finding there was no middle Course to be taken, but that either Caracalla, before he should receive further Advertisement thereof, or to be sure he himself soon after, must die for it, made Choice of a desperate Russian that Commanded a Company of foot under him, To Stab his Master, as he withdrew from Company to Ease Nature; and so strangely solved the Credit of the South-Sayers.  
In the time whilst Popery and Monkery bore sway in England, There was a great Loobily Image in Wales called Darvel Gathern, of which an old Prophecy went, That it should burn a Forest, and on that Account was beheld by the Ignorant with much Veneration. But the Event was thus: At the time of the Dissolution of Abbeys under K. Hen. 8 it was brought up to London, and burnt at the Gallows in Smithfield with the Bowels of one Friar Forrest, executed for a Traitor.  
Another Prophecy was current in the Abbey of Glassenbury, That a Whiting should Swim on the Top of the Torr thereof, (which is a steep Hill hard by,) and the Credulous Country People understood it of an Inruption of the Sea, which they suspected accordingly. But it happened, that Abbot Whiteing, the last of that Character at Glassenbury, was hanged thereon for his Recusancy to surrender the Abbey and denying the King's Supremacy, so swimming in Air and not Water, and waved with the wind in the place, made good the Prophecy, though very unexpectedly.  
Did not Anaximander of old foretell the Lacedæmonians of a dangerous and grievous Earthquake imminent, advising to prevent the Peril and Terror thereof by forsaking their Houses and avoiding the City, to remain till its fury was over in the open Field●? which Earthquake shortly after burst out in so violent manner That the whole City was utterly ruinated, and a great part of the Mountain Tagetus horribly overwhelmed? did not the Prince of Physicians, Hypocrates, foresee a dreadful plague, or mortal Contagion amongst the Greeks, a considerable time before it began to rage? Did not Thales Milesius enrich himself by foreseeing a Scarcity of Olives in the Milesian Fields, and buying up a great quantity before hand? Did not Socrates foretell the death of Crito? Silvius the Death of Caligula? The Chaldeans the Death and Parricide of Aggripina the Empress by her own Son Nero, when he should come to be Emperor? and yet so possessed she was with the Devil of Ambition, that she cried out Occidat modo Imperet— I say with all my Heart, Let him kill me, provided he may but Reign.  
Alexander the Great was foretold his Fate by Calanits and Indian, and that if he Entered Babylon it would prove fatal, and he would die there; which came to pass accordingly. Caesar had fair notice given him by Spurina to beware of the Ideses of March, and fell a sacrifice to his own Incredulity or Negligence, in not observing that Caution.  
Ascletarion the Mathematician, being accused that he had predicted the Death of the Emperor Domitian; The Emperor demanded of him whether he had so done, or not? And confessing that he had, Then (quoth the Emperor) Pray Sir, you that are so Skilful in finding out other People's Fate, tell me what shall be your own: To which he answered, That he should very shortly be torn to pieces by Dogs. Dominitian resolves (as he thought) utterly to spoil this Prediction, and therefore having ordered him forthwith to be put to Death, Causes his body to be laid in a very deep ditch and a great heap of Earth to be laid thereon, that no Dogs should come near it; But mighty Rains happening, washed away the new unsettled Earth, and Dogs did accordingly tear his Body; And soon after Domitian's Death confirmed the residue of his Prediction.  
Rantzovivus a Noble and Learned Dame, p. 99 tells us, That the ginger of the Emperor Frederiek the Second, being questioned by him, why he paid so much respect to Rodolphus Earl of Haspurgh, than but a poor Retainer to the Court, Answered; Because all thy Sons being Dead, (and the Emperor at that time had no fewer than 10 alive) He and his Posterity shall come to and Enjoy those Kingdom's whieh now your Majesty does possess; Which was answered with a punctual Success, Rodolphus being Elected King of the Romans by the Germans, Anno 1273. And page 97. he Relates, That one Master Christian an ginger of Prague, Admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by a Priest that belonged to him, Anno 1434. That he should beware of Death that year, for that many Planets were then Conjoined, and there would be an Eclipse of the Moon under the Earth, and accordingly the same year he was Lodged in his Grave.  
In the same page, he gives that Remarkable Instance of the Incomparably Learned Johannes Picus Mirandula, having written and Published a very smart Treatise against Astrology, several Artists, viz. Bellantius of Sena, Antonius Sirigatus a Florentine, and Angelus de Catastiris a Carmelite, That they might demonstrate the Truth of their Art and Convince him of his Mistake, positively told him in their public Writings, That he himself should not Escape or Survive the 33d year of his Age, by reason of the Direction of the Ascendant in his Nativity to the Body of Mars; who flattering himself with a false Conceit, As if he could wrangle away Death, or elude the Significations of his Stars by Writing against Astrology, endeavouring to prove the Art vain, his Death concurring exactly which the Time predicted, Confirmed the same Art to be true, and more actually Confuted all that he had written against it, Than if all the World besides had Conspired to Answer him.  
Fulgosius, Lib. 8. Ca 11. Records the wondrous exploits performed by Guido Bonatus the ginger at Forly in Italy, at what time that City was close Besieged; For he Elected or foretold a Lucky Day, for Guido Earl of Montferrat, wherein if he would make a Sally he should rout his Enemies and obtain over them a Complete Victory, but not without receiving a slight wound in the Knee. And that the Earl might be more assured of what he so foretold, Bonatus would needs march out along with him, and carried Tow and Eggs and other Necessaries for dressing his wound. And in the Engagement the Enemy was vanquished, and the Earl wounded punctually in the place foretold.  
Regiomontanus, a little before his death at Rome, viz. in the year 1475. (One hundred and Thirteen yares before it came) pointed out the year 1588. as a time of most signal Revolutions and grand Transactions in the world. And to the same purpose there was a Prophecy published in High Dutch, as followeth.  
Tansen funfhundert achtzitchtacht  
Das ist das jar, das ich betracht  
Geth in dem de weltnixt under  
Geschicht doth groz merklich wonder.  
Which I have found thus paraphrased into Latin.  
Post mille expletos a partu Virginis Annos  
Et post Quingentos rursus ab Orbe datos  
Octogesimus Octavus mirabilis Annus  
Ingruet, is secum tristia Fata feret  
Si non hoc Anno, totus malus occidet Orbis  
Si non in Nihilum terra, fretumque ruet:  
Cuncta tamen mundi Sursum ibunt atque retrorsum  
Imperia: & Luctus undique grandis erit.  
And may be thus English.  
From Christo Birth count a Thousand Years complete,  
And add five hundred more with Eighty Eight  
That year approaching, all men will affright  
With woeful Terrors, which on them will light  
If the whole world to ruin do not run,  
Or into nothing Land and Seas be done:  
At least most Realms shall Topsy Turvy turn,  
And men on all sides Lamentably mourn.  
Now if we examine our Chronicles, we shall find most memorable passages in divers parts of the world to have happened in that year. Was it not unusual and strange, That Poland this year should have three Kings assuming the Title, whilst the Fourth, viz. Stephen Battori was yet unburied? Namely, Sigismond the Swede, Maximilian the Emperor's Brother, and Henry Valois of France. Of which three, Maximiliam in the beginning of this year was taken prisoner, his Army Cut in pieces, and by means there of many thousands of men women and Children carried away Captives by the Tartars. That Suedeland in the mean time was all in a Combustion which Tumults, and lost several strong Places to the Muscovite. The Muscovite himself ran mad, and lost his wits. The King of Denmark Frederick the Second died. In France there happened The Barricado of Paris, The flight of the King from thence, The slaughter of the great Duke of Guise, and his brother the Cardinal of Lorraine: The Death of the Queen Mother, The poisoning of the Prince of Condee, and the Overthrow which the King of Navarre gave unto Duke Mercoeurs; All which gave that Kingdom sufficient Cause to think 88 a year Extraordinary. At the same time the Duke of Savoy prepared his Army and surprised the French Kings chief Magazine in Saluze. The Sophy of Persia died, The Turks suffered great Defeats in Hungary. And in Constantinople by reason of false moneys paid to the Janissaries, they fell into a Mutiny, Compelled the Grand Signior to deliver up his chiefest Favourites to be put to Death, set fire on the Jews Houses, and spoiled their goods, by which means above 12 thousand Houses were burnt down to the Ground in that City.  
And nearer home, did not the world with wonder behold the Spanish Armado (which they foolishly called Invincible) shattered to pieces by the valour, of the English; A loss that the Spanish Monarchy has not recovered to this day. In a word, (saith Gallo Belgicus) Ortu solis usque ad occasum, nullus ferme remansit locus in quo non miratu dignum aliquid hoc Anno contigerit. From the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof, there was scarce any place, in which something wonderful did not happen.  
'Tis a very odd Story, which is credibly related of King James, how he was premonished of his death by a Dream, wherein his old Master Buchanan appeared unto him in his sleep, and gave him these two Verses: 

Sexte verere Deum tibi vitae Terminus instat  
Cum tua cadenti flagrat Carbunculus igne.   

Sixth James! see thou to God do humbly turn  
Thy Fate draws near, and men thy death shall mourn  
When in the Fire thy Carbuncle shall Burn.    
King James was the sixth of that name of Scotland; and next morning he told his Bed-chamber-men and several of the Lords, repeating the verses, and averring that he did not make them. The success was this: The King had a very large and fair Carbuncle Stone usually set in his Hat, and sitting by the Fire not long after, this great Carbuncle fell off into the Fire, and a Scotish Lord took it up, and 'twas observed the King sickened and died very shortly after.  
I shall conclude with that most positive prediction of Michael Nostradamus' of St. Remy in France, Physician to the King, and a great Mathematician and ginger, who died the second of July 1566. In his Book of Quadrins in French, Printed 1555. wherein he very plainly foretells the horrid and detestable Murder of King Charles the First by his own Subjects before his own Palace. And in Quadrin 51. thus evidently forespeaks the Burning of London, and expresses the very year 66. in these words.  
Le Langue du Juste a Londres fera faut  
Bruslez par Foudres, de vingt trois, les six  
La Dame Antique cherra de place haut  
De mesme Seicle plusieurs serront Occis.  
Which may thus be Englisht.  
For th' Blood o'th' Just a London spilt, the same  
In Sixty Six shall all be in a Flame;  
That Ancient Dame shall in the Dust complain  
And many of the same Sect shall be slain.  
But we are afraid we have already wearied the Reader with these past Stories; and therefore now proceed to gratify such whose Curiosity delights in such matters, with Mr. Lilies Hieroglyphics as they were by him published 1651. with (only) this following Preface.   

Mr. Lilies Account of his Hieroglyphics.  
HAd the Courtesy of the present times deserved it at my hands, thou hadst seen an Explanation of the following Pages, which in Enigmatical Types, Forms, Figures, Shapes, doth perfectly represent the future Condition of the English Nation for many hundred of years yet to come. I have borrowed so much time from my Morning-sleep as hath brought forth these Conceptions. You that Read these Lines must know I do no new thing: I do herein but imitate the Ancients, who so often as they resolved to conceal their Intentions from profane Hands, used Hieroglyphics, Images, etc. The Egyptian Priests were herein excellent, and their Judgement commendable: Our Saviour also himself commendeth; Ne detur sacrum Canibus. If Providence shall hereafter assign me a quiet life, and prolong my years, I may then perhaps leave unto the Sons of Art the several Changes of every Kingdom and Commonwealth in Europe▪ in suchlike Characters as these which now follow.  
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Notes or Observations on the foregoing Figures, and the Nature of Hieroglyphics in General.  
EGypt (the fruitful Parent of so many Miracles) has always boasted herself one of the most Early Nurses of Learning: The Grecians in the Days of Solon, Pythagoras, Herodotus and Plato, Travelled ●hither for the Knowledge of Nature, and the Acquisition of those Sciences, which rendered them so famous. But the Egyptian Priests, ●nto whom it belonged to teach, did never divulge their Doctrines without a Shadow, or some dark Representation sufficient and very ●pt in itself to denote the matter they intended, many times more significantly than many words could do, yet not so obvious to be understood by the vulgar; whereby they Imagined they kept their Mysteries from Pro●●nation: Especially those which related to ●●eir Gods and Nature, were wrapped up in certain visible Shapes and Forms of Creatures, those Inclinations and Dispositions did lead ●o the knowledge of the Truths, intended or Instruction; and they by a peculiar name ●ere called Hieroglyphics, derived from the Two Greek words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Sacred; an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Ingrave; as much as to say, a Holy Inscription, or Sacred Engravement. Because all their Divinity, Philosophy, an● choicest Secrets, were comprehended in these ingenious Characters.  
Nor were they only Contrived to hinder the sublime knowledge of Philosophy fro● being profaned; But also that they mig●● Abbreviate the diffused Notions of that Science, and fit them for a more easy Comprehension and better Retention in their Memories. Every Name is an Abreviation of a Thing, but it is not able to give such a perfect Idea of the Properties and hidden Qualities of the things intimated, as the Picture of them in a witty Hieroglyphic. And further the Egyptians by these Inventions had a design to render their Knowledge Immortals for which purpose they did Ingrave them upon Obelisks and Pillars of Marble, and thi● long before the use of Paper, (an Invention originally too of the same Country, being composed at first of the Flakes of certain Sedgy Reeds growing on the Banks of the Nilt● called Papyri, moistened with the glutinous water of the River, then pressed together and afterwards dried in the Sun) as is Evident from those Verses of the lofty Luccan.  
●ondum flumineos Memphis contexere Libros, ●overat, in Saxis tantum Volucresque feraeque,  
●ulptaque Servabunt Magicas Animalia Linguas.  
●emphis yet knew not how with Reeds to frame ●or Books, but Birds and Beasts Letters became, ●nd Animals Engraved on lasting stone ●ith Magic Tongues, Learning preserved a●one.  
Nor did they only express particular ings and some Secret Knowledge by ●eir Hieroglyphics, but also whole Sentences, writing all their Rules and Precepts rela●●g to the Worship of their Gods, or to the government of the Kingdom in this manner; ●ich will not appear strange or incredible such as have Conversed in the East-Indies, to 'tis known that there to this day, there three or four Nations whose Languages as remote and different as Hebrew and ●ek, or Latin and Welsh, who yet under●●●nd one another's Writings. So that what ●● writes in one Language, the other can ●d their own, which could not be but by ●ain Hieroglyphics, or Universal Chara●●s (an Art commendably attempted of late amongst us, by the Reverend and Lea●ed Wilkins, in his Book on that Subject) Representing the shapes of things, which a known to men of all Nations and Tong● A writing of which Nature was sent to ● Learned Bochartus from an Eminent per● of the Court of France, for him to Interpret.  
But to give the Reader a Taste of this ki●● of Egyptian Mystery, Take these few distances.  
They Represented the Providence of ● by a Basilisk, with an Hawks Head and Ey● because there is no other Creatures fu● of Spirits and Vigour, or more quick-sig●ed.  
The Power of God they did express by Body and three Heads, (by which one wo●● almost have thought they had some notice the Trinity) but without either Hands Feet; because Almighty God governs things only by his Wisdom and good pleasure, and needs no visible Members to p●●duce his wonders.  
To signify the Effects of God's power Nature, they painted a man with a Multitude of Hands, stretching them out upon t●… World.  
The World was sometimes represented a round Temple, because Divine Majesty ha●● Created it for his own Glory, to receive therein the Adoration and Homage of all Creatures; because it appears like a large and Beautiful Edifice, excellently well adorned, supported by God's Power, Covered with the Heavens, and distinguished into several Apartments. But it's Ordinary Hieroglyphic was a Globe, in which were drawn the Circles of the Zodiac, with the Signs in it, and round about a Multitude of Stars. This Globe was supported on the back of a man upon his knees, which were Covered with his long Garment, to show how the World is upheld by God's Providence, which seems to be Covered to the lower Ranks of Creatures with divers Emblems and dark Shadows.  
When they intended to point out the continual Mutation of Creatures, and the Change of one Being into another in the World, they used to put a Snake representing an Orb, biting and devouring its Tail, because the World feeds upon its self, and receives from its self a continual supply of those things that Time Consumes. The same was also an Emblem of the Year, because it doth run round; and where the Old Year ends, the New one gins.  
Wisdom, was painted as a Beautiful Woman with four Ears and four Hands, but with one Tongue, which was hid within her Lips, that were shut Close.  
Unity was represented by the Sun and its Beautiful Beams; Peace and Worldly Felicity by the fruitful Olive-Tree; Liberty and Pleasure by the Vine; Chastity by Beams; and a Plentiful Increase, by Mustardseed, which grows up into many and large Branches.  
The Relation between Heaven and Earth was signified by a man, with hands tied with a Chain, that was let down from the Clouds, for there is nothing here below either so great or powerful but it is held by a Secret Chain, by which the Divine Providence can turn and wind it at pleasure.  
A furious man, was intimated by a Lion eating up his Prey; A Religious man by a Lion running from a Cock. A Whore by a Lion with a Woman's head, because her Countenance is fair, her Speech most pleasant, and her Allurements powerful, but her Nature fierce and cruel, and she intends only to prey upon both Body and Estate. A Merciful man, was painted having Compassion on a Lamb lying at his Feet.  
A cunning Selfish  was expressed by an Hedgehog, because this Creature wraps himself up in his own Warm Down, and turns out Prickles to all the World besides; and also because it hath always two or three holes where it retreats, and when the wind is cold and boisterous at one hole, it creeps to the other, and thus it changeth its dwelling with the Wether.  
A man proud of his Natural or acquired Abilities, was signified by a Peacock with beautiful Plumes, in a posture of admiring them, and exposing them to the Sunbeams.  
A Grasshopper was the Hieroglyphic of an Egyptian Priest learned in the Mysteries of Heaven: For as the Grasshopper deserved their Admiration, because it sings so well without a Tongue; so these men that attained to such excellent perfections as the knowledge of God and the Superior Being's, by dark Hieroglyphics and significant Shadows, did no less require their Wonder and Esteem.  
The Chameleon denoted an Hypocrite that studies to please the times in which he lives, and that can be of any Religion, and take any Impression that will serve his present ●orn; for it is reported of this Animal that ●t can change itself into any colour but White and Red.  
A Prophet, or Prophecy was expressed by ● Mole, a Creature that is without eyes, to ●ew that man is naturally blind, and can have ●o clear foresight of the time to come, with●●t a Divine Revelation, and then the intricate Events of the future, do appear unto us with many doubts and dark shadows, which hinder us from a perfect and clear Discovery.  
Revenge, was intimated by a Tiger devouring an Horse; a good Eyesight, by a Lynx, which is a Beast near of Kin to a Wolf.  
A Lampray with an Eel was the Hieroglyphic of Adulterers, for the Lampray is a Fish that seeks the Company of other Fishes of the same shape, for which reason some say that they are venomous, because they join themselves with Snakes and other Water-Serpents.  
The Head of a man signifies sound Judgement and Wisdom: His Hair cut off, violent Grief or Bondage; If growing, Liberty. The Forehead is the seat of Pride and Impudence. The Eye wide open, the token of Wisdom and Justice, the seat of Contempt, the Throne of Love, and discoverer of other passions of the Soul. The Nose being large, a Mark of quickness of Apprehension, and the Excellency of our Understanding. The Mouth was the Hieroglyphic of Modesty; The Heart of Sincerity; Shoulders, of Strength; The washe● Hands, of Innocency; The Right-hand, of Power, Fidelity, and Favour. The Knee express Humility and Compassion; The Ha● Freedom; a Crown, Dignity; a Sceptre Power; a Buckler, Defence; an Arrow, Speed; a Spear, War or Valour; a pair of Balances, Equity; a Sword, Revenge or Cruelty; A sitting posture intimates Security; an Answer, Hope; The Palm and Laurel, Emblems of Victory and Honour; The Myrtle, of Pleasure; The Cedar, of Eternity; The Oak, of Strength; the Olive, of Fruitfulness; the Lily, of Beauty, etc.  
But to come nearer our present subject— 'Tis not infrequent in the Holy Scriptures to express Persons, Kingdoms, Judgements, and other things to come, after this manner, Hieroglyphically, by the names of Beasts, Birds, etc. So Judah was prophesied of, by the name of a Lion: Issachar, of an Ass: Dan, of a Serpent: Napthali, of an Hind: and Benjamin, of a Wolf, Gen. 49. from the 3d to the 28th verse. And the Babylonian Monarchy, both Heathenish and Mystical Babylon, was Prophesied of by the name of an Eagle, by several of the Prophets, as Jer. 48.40. and 49. Hos. 8.1. Obad. 4. and Hab. 1. and Esdras did Prophesy of it by that name, about 300 years before ever the Eagle was portrayed in the Roman Ensigns, and became the Badge or Arms of that Empire. Which was first given by Marius, because being a Child, he found an eagle's Nest and seven young ones therein; whereupon in his second Consulship, going against the Cinbri (the Ancient Inhabitants of Denmark and Hostein) he caused an Eagle to be pictured in his Standard; Which was afterwards peculiarly affirmed by the Roman Legions, to show that they would with as great Courage fall upon and engage the Enemy, as the Eagle on his Prey.  
The Holy Books of Daniel, and the Apocalypse, or Revelations of St. John the Divine, do also afford us several Instances of Monarchies, Kingdoms, and Calamities, represented by several Beasts, Vials, Seals Trumpets.  
We mention not these Sacred Authors, as intending to compare or Rank these Hieroglyphics here before set down in the several Figures, with those Divine Prophecies: far be it from us to advance any such bold and irreverent Blasphemies; we recite them only to show, that the shadowing out of future Events in such a way, and under such mysterious Figures, is no novel or upstart Invention, but has long been used in the world.  
As to these present Hieroglyphics, we call them Mr. Lilies, because by him they were first made public in the year 1651. But whether by him originally devised, we cannot determine; for as I remember, Mr. Lily himself about 10 years ago, told me, he borrowed them, and was not the first Inventor, but said he knew the right Key or Signification of them, and that he doubted not but Posterity, when Fate should think fit to disclose its Mystic Book, and reduce the matters thereby intended to be prefigured, into Act, would be well assured of their Verity. But that they are, or ever were, or aught to be accoun●●● the Hieroglyphics of Nostradamus', I said no Authority or proof, though it had pleased a late Author so to call them.  
Nor shall I undertake to decip●●● th●● obscure Hieroglyphics, or pretend to acquaint the world with the meaning thereof or when each particular is to be fulfiled. The Burning of London seems very plainly to 〈◊〉 been one of those Accidents here inter●… and indeed there are two figures that may seem to have respect hereunto; but I am apt to believe one of them, viz. that where the Twins (London's Celestial Ascendent, according to Astrologers) are tumbling down headlong into the Flames, aught to be understood Metaphorically, as of Heats and Animosities industriously spread amongst her inhabitants by ill men, to put them into a Combustion, and this I am the rather inclined ●o judge, observing two Persons pictured pouring in Jars of Oil to increase the Flames.  
As touching the Moles which you will find in many of the Figures very busy; the common opinion is, that they signify the Jesuits, Popish Priests, and other Emissaries of the See of Rome, aptly Emblem'd by the Mole, as being carried on with a blind Zeal, and managing their mischievous Intrigues underground, in Masquerade, and without owning publicly their hellish Designs.  
I have heard, that Mr. Lily, the more to obscure the Signification, Transposed several of the Figures, and did not set them in that Order of place, as they were to fall out in respect of Time. However we thought fit, punctually to observe his Copy: And so thou hast them just as he first published them, without Addition, Diminution, or Alteration.  
In the next place, we shall subjoin several ancient Predictions, which so long have obtained the name of PROPHECIES, that they may now seem to plead Prescription for that Title; Which be pleassed to take as follows.    


The Prophecy of Rabbi Elias, touching the End of the World.  
THe words in the Original, as they are delivered in the Talmudical Books, and and particularly in the Treatise or Section entitled Havoda Zara, Cap. 1. are these in Hebrew:  
Tana able Elihau seseth Alaphim sana have Haolam: Seine Alaphim Tohu: Vsne Alaphim Thora: Vsne Alaphim jemoth hamas sihi uba Havenothema Serabu jashu meon Mascias.  
In English thus, verbatim.  
Thus said the Sons (or Disciples) of Elias: The World consisteth of Six Thousand Years; Two Thousand years Void, Two Thousand the Law, Two Thousand the Messiah: But for our sins, which are many, those years of that number are over-passed, which are over-passed.  
Whether by this Elias they would have us understand the Divine Tishbite of that Name, who after so many Miracles, recorded in Sacred Scripture, done on Earth, was taken up visibly into Heaven; or whether they intent by it some Latter Rabbin, may be questioned, but I the rather think the last: Though 'tis certain this Prophecy, or if you please Declaration, or Division of the Continuance and several Ages of the World, has been all along of great esteem not only amongst the Jews, but also with the most Learned and Famous Doctors of the Christian Church; For both Lactantius, Hierom, Hillary, Ambrose, and St. Augustine of the Ancient Fathers, and also Melancthon, Peucer, Postellus, Reslyn, and many other Modern Learned Men, mention it with respect.  
The meaning of the first part of the words seem very plain, That the Duration of the World shall be the Term of Six Thousand years, which should be divided into three Grand, Intervals, Spaces, Periods, viz. Two Thousand years from the Creation to the giving of the Law, (which space of time is here called Tohu, void, because the World was then without the written Law, and without the External Ceremonies, which were afterwards Enjoined.) Two Thousand years more, under the Law; and the other Two Thousand under the Messiah. Not that this is to be understood exactly to a year, in each, but 2000, a round Number, is used for the Number punctual and Certain; and indeed agrees very well with the Truth of Chronology; For from the Creation, to the time of the Institution of Circumcision, (from whence we may properly enough Date the time of the Law, though not fully delivered till divers years after) there were 2047 years, as may be made appear from Scripture-Calculation. And from thence to our Saviour's Incarnation above 19 hundred years, or very near 2000 But since this Prophecy is Jewish, and in so high an Esteem with that Nation, and does so clearly point out the coming of the Messiah to be about the year of the World 4000, and that 'tis notorious, the same is so many ages since past, it may be wondered, why even from hence they should not be Convinced both that the Messiah is long since come, and that our Lord Christ must needs be Herald But such is the obstinate Blindness of that People, that they resolve to persist in their Error and Infidelity, and will rather invent any Evasions than acknowledge the Evident Truth, as appears in this very Case, and will help us to fish out the meaning of those last words of this Prophecy— But for our Sins, which are many, the years of that Number are overpassed which are overpassed. Which words seem to be added to the Prophecy itself, by some latter Rabbins; for you must note, That the Hierusalem-Talmud being composed above 200 years after Christ, and the Babylonian-Talmud 400 years after Christ, in both which this Prophecy is mentioned, The Authors thereof, finding the Term limited already expired, added this Clause to solve the business, and persuade their People that the reason why the Messiah was not yet come according to this Prediction, was the Multitude of their Sins which retarded his appearance, and this they give out to be the Cause thereof to this day. Note that Talmud signifies as much as Doctrinale, The Book of Doctrine; and the Books so called, do contain, Traditions and Observations, which they pretend to have been delivered by God to Moses, besides the Law written, and from him to have been brought down from hand to hand amongst the Rabbins, just as the Papists set up their Traditions as of equal Authority with the Scriptures.  
Agreeable to this Cabbalistical Prophecy or Tradition, some Learned men, supposing that by the six days of Creation, mentioned in the first of Genesis, The whole Age of the World containing 6000 years, was Mystically and Allegorically shadowed out, To be Interpreted or Deciphered in such sort, that the first days work should import or prefigure a certain Resemblance or Type of such future matters and Events, as were performed in the first Thousand years of the World; The second days work of such as should consequently happen in the Second Thousand years, and so forth of the residue, even to the Accomplishment of 6000 years, At which period the Eternal Requies, or Sabbath of the Lord should finally ensue, and gloriously appear; even as after six days Work God stayed or rested at the first, and as now our weekly Sabbath (which is a reverend figure of that great Everlasting Sabbath) doth after every 6 days successively approach. Pursuant, I say, hereunto, they have distributed the several Millenaries, as in this Table.  
Days. Millenaries. Years. Governors of each Millenary Monday. 1. 1000 ADAM, who died in the Year 930. Tuesday. 2. 2000 NOAH, who died in the Year 2005. Wednesday. 3. 3000. DAVID, who died in the Year 2929. Thursday. 4. 4000 CHRIST, who was Born Anno Mundi 3962. Friday. 5. 5000. The POPE, who in this period grew to his height, if we may extend it unto Hildebrand, who came to the Chair about 1074. Saturday. 6. 6000. The MARTYRS, Millions having suffeted by Antic. Sunday. 7. 7000. ETERNITY.  
If therefore this Rabbinical Reckoning be to be regarded, let us see about what Year of the World we are in at this present, and how much may be wanting of this Sum Total 6000.  
The Birth of our Lord Christ, is placed 

By Chryteaeus In the Year of the World— 3962.  
By Mich. Butherus In the Year of the World— 3962.  
By Reniholdus In the Year of the World— 3962.  
By Schubertus In the Year of the World— 3962.  
By & Cunmannus In the Year of the World— 3962.   

By Funccius In the Year of the World 3963  
By Luther In the Year of the World 3960  
By Beroaldus In the Year of the World 3928  
By Mereator In the Year of the World 3966  
By Bucholzer In the Year of the World 3970  
By Bibliander In the Year of the World 3979  
By Card. Bellarmine In the Year of the World 3984   So that there is not above 22 years' difference amongst them all, except Beroaldus: Let us therefore suppose it to be with Beucholzer, Anno Mundi 3970, adding thereunto 1683, makes 5653 years from the Creation; so that according to this Compute, there should remain but 347 years to the final Conflagration; viz. in the year of our Lord 2030.— But— That day and hour knoweth not man. And For the Elects sake those days shall be shortened.   

To this we think it not improper to add, That Prophecy or remarkable Description of the End of the World, some Thousands of years since delivered in Greek Acrostic Verses, the Initial Letters making up these words, JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD THE SAVIOUR, delivered by Sibylla Erythrea, and recited by St. Augustine in the 4th Book, and 23d. Chapter of his Treatise de Civitate Dei, which I shall give you in the words of Him who many years since Translated that excellent Book into English, as followeth.  

In Sign of Doomsday the whole Earth shall sweat,  
Ever to Reign a King in Heavenly Seat  
Shall come to judge all Flesh: The Faithful and  
Unfaithful too before this God shall stand.   

Corporal shall he sit, and thence extend  
His Doom in Souls, The Earth shall quite lie waste  
Ruined, oregrown with Thorns, and men shall cast  
Idols away, and Treasure; Searching Fire  
Shall burn the ground, and rage with fatal Ire  
Through Seas and Skies, and break Hell's blackest Gate;   

So shall free Light Salute the Blessed State  
Of Saints; The Guilty lasting Flames shall burn;  
No Act so hid but thence to Light shall turn;  
Nor breast so close, but God shall open wide;  
Each where shall Cries be heard, and noise betid   

Of gnashing Teeth, The Sun shall from the Sky  
Fly forth, and Stars no more move orderly.   

Great Heaven shall be dissolved; The Moon deprived  
Of all her Light: places at Height arrived  
Depressed, and Valleys mounted to their Seat,   

There shall be Nought to Mortals High or great  
Hills shall be Levelled with the Plains; The Sea  
Endure no Burden; and the Earth as They   

Shall perish, cleft with Lightning, every spring  
And River burn: The fatal Trump shall bring  
Unto the world from Heaven a dismal Blast,  
Including plague's to come for ill deeds past.  
Old Chaos through the Scattered Mass appears  
Unto this Bar all Kings come Prisoners  
Rivers of flaming Brimstone drown their Tears.    

The Learned ALSTEDIUS, his SPECULUM MUNDI, and CHRONOLIGY of the Prophetic Numbers.  
1. God alone hath reserved to himself the exact knowledge of future Things; as the incommunicable Prerogative of his Divine Majesty: Therefore, 'tis impossible any man though never so clearsighted, should compile an accurate Chronology for Time to come, or define the punctual Moment's of Futurity; yet is not therefore the Explanation of Prophetic Numbers to be omitted, for since God hath expressed certain Numbers in the Histories and Prophecies of his Word, it would be too great both Sloth and Ingratitude not to weigh, and with reverence and the fear of the Lord, denquire into them.  
2. In observing the great Conjunctions or Revolutions of the Planets, as Superstition and over-scrupulous Diligence is not to be approved, so neither is Negligence or Contempt thereof to be allowed.  
3. The Twelfth Chapter of Daniel ought to be our Polestar in explaining Prophetic Numbers, for there we are led, as by the hand, from the building of the second Temple, to its Destruction: And from the Destruction thereof, which was Anno Christi 69. by a term of Days he numbers first 1290, and then 1335; that is in all (with the 69 years which were elapsed from Christ's Birth, to the overthrow of the Temple) 2694 years: From which if we deduct the 1000 years, Rev. 20.2. we shall be brought to the year of our Lord 1694. whence we may gather, that the seven Vials are to be poured forth at or before that time, or their significations to continue no longer.  
4. The most eminent Mutations from the year 1600 to 1700, may be gathered from the Planetary Conjuctions, compared with the Apocalyptical Numbers, which point out the years— 1622, 1625, 1636, 1642, 1683, and 1694.  
5. The Comparing of Histories one with another, the observation of the Stars, and a diligent Inspection into the manners of men, do much conduce towards our predicting of the Catastrophe's of humane things.  
6. Those Philosophers that are more skilful in Astronomy, reckon four Monarchies, not according to the Prevalency of Kingdoms, but according to the four Coasts of the World. The first was of the East, being the Assyrians: The second Southern, that of the Persians and Greeks: The third Western, of the Romans: The fourth of the North, which God shall shortly set up in the Norrhern-parts by the Lion of the North, to the great Amazement of those who slight the Divine Apocalypse, and that Harmony which here we are pointing at.  
7. The 1000 years mentioned in the Twentieth Chapter of the Revelations, shall begin about the year 1694, and end 2694; during which time Satan shall be bound, but afterward being let lose for a small time, he shall stir up Gog and Magog; that is, the professed Enemies of the Church, against the Saints; But shall be suddenly overcome, and then our Lord Christ shall come in Glory to put an end to this World.   

Annus Mundi Mirabilis; Or, A Prediction of the last Ages of the World: Enigmatically delivered in 12 Months, representing so many notable Periods, or Catastrophe's, which shall certainly happen in those times. Published many Years ago, by LILLY.  
JANVARY. 
A shower of Blood shall rain continually for one hours' space, in a certain Land of Europe; That Region, or the People thereof, shall first come to destruction.  FEBRVARY. 
All Nations troubled with rumours of Wars, every Region preparing Armies, and Mustering Men, Traffic generally prohibited or obstructed, by Land and Sea, each Country being enforced to live of their own stock and commodities.  MARCH. 
The main Sea shall hugely swell with mighty Tempests and Winds, so that the Banks being overthrown, the Waves shall in many places overflow their accustomed bounds, and cause Universal Inundations. One Island shall be quite overflown with the Sea, where the double Cross hath Government, the sins of the Prince or Rulers thereof being so extreme high against the Majesty of God.  APRIL. 
A terrible Sea-fight, such as hath not been before, occasioning the water to look more red than the Red Sea, the water all turned to Blood. England! thou wilt have a share in this Fight, God of his great goodness make thee victorious; After a hard Fight thou shalt overcome.  MAY. 
Warr and Bloodshed over all the Earth: A certain Nation shall send so many Men to the Wars, that it shall for a time be even desolate of Men, so that twelve Women shall be glad of one Man: Nay, hardly procure one Youngman for them all.  JUNE. 
In the Eastern parts of the World, a whole Nation shall Fight a great Battle in a wrong cause, and defend an Evil Man; but the vengeance of God will rain down a shower of Fire from the Throne of Heaven, and consume that Army wholly with all their Wealth and Treasures, even as they lie in their Tents, etc.  JULY. 
So great a drought, so great a want of water will appear, that multitudes of People shall die in many places for mere want of water, Soldiers shall not be able for heat to carry their Arms; The Earth shall be so dry and so parched with the Sun's hot beams, that it shall yield no fruit to feed Cattle.  AUGUST. 
Great Plagues and Mortality will cover the whole Face of the Earth, and so destroy Mankind, that there will not be sufficient Labourers to get in Harvest, or the Fruits of the Earth. In this Month such swarms of noisome Fowls and Flies shall come from the East, as they shall devour the Corn on the Ground, the Fruit on Trees, that all shall be barren: Men living in those times and in this Month, shall have more sorrow, and more woes, and more famine, and distress, than was in Jerusalem, when Titus besieged it.  SEPTEMBER. 
The season of this Month will be so unnatural and the Earth so unfit for Tillage, that all manner of Cattle will rot on the ground, which will breed such store of Flies and Vermin, that the Earth will be empoisoned, and receive no fruit to increase.  OCTOBER. 
A great Famine and Dearth of Corn will overspread most Nations of Europe, so that the Child shall starve at the Mother's Breasts, the Mother having no food to nourish herself or Child.  NOVEMBER. 
One appears suddenly and unexpectedly a great Conqueror, the World filled with the Fame of this Man, who suddenly like Augustus, gives Peace unto the whole Earth.  DECEMBER. 
All Wars end, Religion truly Preached Universally over the World, a General Peace, no more Treason or Rebellion. Not long after the Trumpet Sounds, and Christ appears.    

An Ancient Prophecy of Sybella Tiburtina, found in the Year 1520. in the Bowels of the Mountain Taurus in Switzerland, after a great Inundation of waters which broke down part of that Mountain, and left discovered in the Ruins, the following words, fairly Engraven upon a large Marble Stone, in very Old Latin Characters and Style, as follows:  
ORietour sydous in Europa soupra Iberos, ad magnam septentrionis Domum; cojus Radij orbem terrarum ex improviso illoustrabunt.  
Hoc vero erit tempore desideratissimo, quo Mortalis positis Armeis pacem Onanimeis complectantor. Certabitor quidem varieis per dioutourni Interregni occasionem studies, cui Imperii habenae tradantor. Sed vincet tandem aviti sanguinas propago, quae eousque Armorumvi progredietor, donec fata contraria fatis obstiterint. Nam eodem fere tempore hoc demorso Sydere, covum quoddam ejous Loumen longe ardentioribus mavortis ignibous exardescens, Antepodum finibus occludet Imperium.  
At prius hovic Soumittet cervices Gallia. Ad ejous genova Soupplex adnatabit classibus Britannia; Italia eager ad ardua Sceptra respirans, ●lli languentem portendet dexteram. Verum bocce joubar ante diem ingenti mortalium desiderio se divum non bibous condet.  
Quo extincto, post deiras & sanguinolentas, Cometas, ignivomasque caeli facies, nihil amplious toutum, Saloutareve erit, Osque animantibous coeli Firmamentum pugnantibusque planetieis, & contrarieiss corsibous labefactabitor; concurrent orbibous orbeis, Fixae cursu antevertent erratitas, aequabunt aequora montes; Hec omnia denique erunt Nox, Interitus, Rovina, Dampnatio, ac ceternai Tenebrai.  
In English, Thus:  
A Star shall arise in Europe over the Iberians, towards the great House of the North, whose Beams shall unexpectedly enlighten the whole World.  
This shall be in a most desired time, when Mortals wearied with Wars shall Unanimously desire Peace. They shall strive indeed by occasion of a Long-lasting Interregnum, with various studies which shall obtain the Reigns of Empire. But at last, the Offspring of the Ancient Blood shall overcome, and proceed victoriously by force of Arms, until resisted by contrary Fates. For about the same time, this Star being set, another Coeval Light blazing with more Ardent Flames of War, shall spread his Empire even to the Coasts of the Antipodes.  
But first, France shall submit her Neck to his Yoke, and Britain suppliant in Ships, shall cast herself at his Feet; Italy faintly breathing towards Sceptres so high, shall stretch out to him her Languishing Hand. But this bright Beam before his time, shall, with the vast desire of men abscond himself in the Clouds of the Gods.  
Who being extinct, after direful and bloody Comets, and flashings of Fire seen in the Heavens, there shall remain nothing for the future safe or healthy amongst Men: The Firmament of Heaven shall be dissolved, and the Planets be opposed in contrary courses, the Spheres shall justle one amongst another, and the fixed Stars move faster than the Planets; The Seas swell as high as the Mountains, and nothing remain but Night, Destruction, Ruin, Damnation, and Eternal Misery.  
This ancient Prophecy is recited by Cornelius Gemma, in his Treatise of Supernatural Apparitions, and taken notice of by several other good Authors; As particularly by the Imcomparably-Learned Tycho Brahe, in his discourse on the New Star that appeared Anno 1572. who thus expresses his Judgement of it.— There were (saith he) divers Expositions of this Prophecy, at the time when it was first found out, some interpreting it of Charles the Fifth, others drew the meaning of it to Philip King of Spain, and some thought the King of France was meant thereby; but I think that it doth rather point out those Iberi, who inhabit Northward toward Muscovia. So that this Oracle of Sibylla Tiburtina, did not denote the Spaniards, but those Iberians, which are near unto the Muscovites; especially when she useth these words, Supra Iberos ad Magnam Septentrionis Domum; Over the Iberi towards the great House of the North. And truly Muscovia, Scythia, and Tartary, do make a great part of Europe, so that it may well be called the great House of the North; And therefore, since this unusual Star did cast is Perpendicular Beams and Influences on the Country of Muscovia, it is not to be doubted but that this Star, together with that Tract of Land, doth agree with the Sybilline Oracle.  
Thus that Noble Dane, a Person so Famous, that our King James at his Being in Denmark, went to his Castle of Vraniberg, to visit him, and made these Verses in his Commendation.  
Quod temere est ausus Phaeton, vel praestat Apollo  
qui regit Ignivomus Aethere anhelus equos:  
Plus Tycho, cuncta Astra regis, tibi cedit Apollo,  
Charus & Uraniae es Hospes, Alumnus, Amor.  JACOBUS REX. 
What Phaeton dared, or what's by Phoebus done,  
to Rule the Fiery Horses of the Sun?  
More Tycho doth, he Rules the Stars above;  
and is Vrania's Favourite and Love.  
This same Tycho in the Treatise before cited, hath also some Expressions, which we may call Prophetic; As having spoken of a Glorious and Happy Age to be in the end portended by that Star, and having started an Objection, that some might say, That the Light of the Gospel and Purity of Religion, doth now shine out clearly, having already overcome the darkness of (Papal) Error. He shapes an Answer thereunto, in these words,—  
If it were so, whence then are those Controversies, and varieties of Opinions defended by Learned Men, insomuch that the War of Pens, is more dangerous than that of Swords? Truly (saith he) it is rather to be feared, lest we take this Dawning and Break of Day, to be the clear Noon-light. Therefore, I suppose that this Star doth signify, that there shall be a new change, both in Religion, and the Estate of Humane Affairs; of which we may say,— Ventum ad supremum est, patiuntur summa Ruinam; Qui Deus in Coelis regit, & reget omnia Terris.  
We are come now to the highest perfection, the power of Antichrist and the Pope shall decay, and be brought to ruin; And God who ruleth in Heaven, shall also rule all things on Earth.  
But if any do object, That the end of the World is at hand, and that therefore there will not be sufficient time to bring about a new change. I Answer, That St. Paul doth assure us, That the Jews shall again be engrafted into the Church before the final Consummation of the World, which (by Humane Conjecture) must needs require some time before, they being scattered over the whole Face of the Earth, shall be gathered into one Nation. And impossible it is, to limit and set forth a certain time for the Consummation of the World, which only dependeth upon the good will and pleasure of God, and is not revealed to the Angels: and therefore, cannot be known by any Humane Prescience.  
But if some do suppose, that the Tract of Land to which this Star was Vertical, is Ominous above the rest, as if from thence the occasion and Author of so great Mutations are to be expected, we must then choose out those parts of the Earth, which had the New Star in their Meridian at the time of the New Moon, next following; which fell out (accounting the time by our Meridian) upon the 15th. of November, 7 hour 13 minutes, post meridiem. To which, i● we apply the Latitude or distance from the Equinoctial agreeable to the declination o● the Star, which was in 61¾ the place on the Earth answerable thereunto, must needs be Russia or Muscovia, especially that part there of, which is joined unto Finland; For i● that Tract of Earth, this New Star in th● New Moon following, was in their Zenith just over their Heads, where it stood equally distant from the Horrizon, and with Right-Angled Aspect, beheld this Country Therefore, if this Position of the Sta● do point out the place of the Earth, from whence these events shall arise, Muscov● seems especially to be designed, before an● other Regions, which are situated toward the North, to whom this New Star was every day Vertical; whether therefore, the first occasions of so great disturbances and mutations shall arise from hence, which afterward shall be sowed and dispersed into other parts of the World, I leave to be peremptorily decided by others. But verily, that Gogus, whereof mention is made in the 38 Chap. of Ezekiel, and to whom Isaiah Ca 17.56. and Chap. 5. doth allude, and with whom Magog is named in the Revelations Ca 20. may be rightly understood of the Muscovite, as Castellio hath interpreted it on the 38 and 39 of Ezekiel; That Gog should be the Leader of the Muscovites and Iberians, because the Old Translation reads it, That he should be the Prince of Mosoch and Thubal, for seeing the Hebrews read it Mesech, and the Greeks and Latin Interpreters do read it Mosoch, it is probable that the Muscovites are signified hereby, or else by this name, the whole Northern Tract of Land is included.  
So that 'tis very likely, that Muscovia is Principally denoted by this Star, and Gogus their Leader, of whom it is foretold by the Sacred Prophets, and the Revelation, That having made great slaughter in Europe, he, at last with his whole Army shall be overthrown, and so the Earth disburdened of her wicked Inhabitants; For it is probable, That there must be a great cleansing and extirpation of all Earthly Impurities, before that peaceable and happy Age (whereof the Prophets have spoken) shall happen.  
Thus far the words of that Great and Judicious Astronomer.   

The Prophecy of Paul Grebnar of Snebergh in Misnia, delivered by him with other things in Manuscript, to Queen Elizabeth, in the Year 1582. Obtained from her by Dr. Nevil, Clerk of the Closet, and presented to Trinity College Library, where to this day it remains. This being an Attested Copy out of that Original.  
ROmano Sceptro & diademate ab Austriaca, Domo Fatali Necessitate deposito & ablato, eaque a Germanis & exteris Gallis, Anglis, Danis, & Suecis, hinc inde confluentibus oppressa, horribilis inde cruenta ac aterrima pugna exorietur, qua Vniversa Europa gravissime concussa contremiscet, &  dilaterata, & vastata insignibus mutationibus obnoxia erit.  
Ad eam pugnam & ad faciendas Irruptiones in Pomeranorum, Megapolensium, & Danorum, Provincias hujus temporis Rex Sueciae invitabitur, Scriptis atrocium Romanae sedis Legatorum, quibus si ille obtemparaverit, socius belli sed male & inauspicate fit, ipsi propinquitate conjunctissimus. Quamobrem Suadeo Suetiam in eo statu quo eam acceperit, relinquat; Sic ipse, stirps, & posteri ejus tranquille pace & quiet fruentur, suis contenti quibus imperant ditionibus, gentem & subditos suos reservabunt, & sibi divinctos in Officio retinebunt. Si vero secum corde suo constituet populum suum persuadere, ac in devia abducere, Dominus eum e medio tollet. Et sic e Carolo Magnus, Carolus Regnans fit, qui Magno Successu & Fortuna, Septentrionalibus Populis dominabitur. Et feliciter Classe sua contra Hispanicam potentiam & Tyrannidem, ac eorum Classem seu Armadam, ut Hostis pugnabit. Et una cum Christianis junctibus viribus fortiter & acriter dimicabit; Deus autem Regis conjugem positam ex hac vita evocat, unde pontifex Romanus Magnum concipit, terrorem, qui postea Magis in gra●escet cum Carolus Rex ipse Antichristo sese opponit, eique adversatur, Et Germanorum ac Vicinorum manui & Robori suas copias conjungit, & oppugnat Hispanicum Diadema. Et tunc Suecus felecissimo Successu, Class & suo Populo terra marique in Hostem utitur.  
The English.  
A Fatal Necessity having taken or torn away from the House Austria, The Roman Sceptre and Diadem, and after an Oppression of the same Austrian House, as well by the Germans, as by Foreigners, French, English, Danes, and Sweeds, making their Incursions on every side; there shall arise an horrid bloody and sharp Contest, wherewith all Europe shall shake and tremble, and being several ways divided, torn in pieces, and laid waste, shall be Obnoxious to many Signal Mutations.  
A Sweedish King then Reigning, shall, by the Writings of the Wicked Emissaries of the See of Rome, be invited and stirred up to that quarrel, and to break in upon Pomerane, Mechlenburg, and some Provinces belonging to Denmark; Whereunto if he hearken, he unseasonably and very unfortunately becomes involved as an Ally or Confederate in a War with one that is very nearly related to him. And therefore, I advise him to leave Sweeden in the same State he found it; So shall He, and his Family, and Posterity, in peace and quietness enjoy those Dominions, over which contented they Reign, and preserve in good Order the Kingdom, and retain his Subjects devoted to his Interests in due Obedience. But if he shall imagine in his mind to pervert his People, and lead them aside out of the way, the Lord shall cut him off by Death. And then Charles of Charles, or from a Charles, a great Charles comes to Reign; who with great Success and Prosperity, shall govern the Northern parts of the World. And shall, with his Fleet, happily oppose the Power and Tyranny of the Spaniard, and engage their Navy or Armado; And after a Conjunction of his Forces with the States of Christendom, he shall win a difficult cruel Battle.  
But God doth take out of this Life, the Popish Wife of the King, whence the Pope of Rome shall be much troubled; whose Terror shall afterwards increase, when King Charles himself shall set himself against Antichrist, and prove a professed Adversary unto him, and joining his forces with the Germane Troops, and others of his Neighbours, shall pull down the Spanish Diadem. In those days shall the Sweed be very successful against the Enemy, both by Sea and Land.   

Another Prophecy of the same Author, Vexillum. 238.  
BOhemia doth feel Tumults and Warlike noises, with a great falling away of her People; and at that time the last Caesar of the House of Austria, shall put on the Nose of the Elector of Saxony, Spanish deceitful and treacherous Spectacles; The Nature of which at last he knows, and by experience is taught, That these Spectacles of the House of Austria are vain encouragments, or flattering glozing words, wicked and treacherous practices. If he goes on further to give credit to them, he shall cast headlong himself, wife, and children, and all Christendom, into pernicious destruction, whence the People of Rome shall rejoice, and fall into a loud laughter.  
But the Lord doth raise up an Elector, which shall throw down and root out the Roman Antichrist in his Dominions, with all her Members and Abbetters: In this violent, precipitate, tumult raging, like the Sea in a tempest, and in the despair of the Roman Caesar, the Exiles of all the Kings and Princes of Europe, the Bavarians, Bohemians, Burgundians, the French, and the Portugals, shall be restored to their former Estates and Liberties, and a Noble stout Bohemian Lord doth possess and recover his Jurisdictions, by the meeting together of Armies, and their Dissipation; These being expelled shall seek their recovery, and their Heirs contend and labour, that by the bounty of the new Emperor of Germany, they may be set again in the place of their Ancestors.  
There arises a new Fortunate Bohemian Zisca, who shall break the Heads of the Jesuits in Germany, and drive them out of Austria; who shall subdue to himself the Bohemians, & all the Tract through Austria, and Pannonia, even as far as Constantinople itself. Therefore, 'tis meet and requisite, that a glittering precious Diadem be set upon the head of this Teutonik Zisca; who is the head of the stock, a great and valiant Warrior, that comes of the stock of Mars the Sixth. He shall rule victoriously, and do these famous things, happily finishing them with his other Tribunes and Captains.  
After these Revolutions, a subtle exercised Interpreter of the Revelation of St. John, may more easily be understood, and better decipher the same; The Nineties being passed by little and little, between the Six Hundred and Six Years. Then shall be a most lively Explanation of those things which Ezekiel and Daniel have Prophesied of the last Act of the Old Age of the World.   

A Prophecy recited by Mr. LILLY, in the Year 1651. relating to the French Nation.  
A Certain Prince, as Religious as a Turk, shall overspread that People's most fruitful Territories, and Wars and Dissolations will be occasioned by the unruly Nobility, who by their Civil Dissensions, shall occasion the ruin of the French Monarchy. And if you will know near the time of this great Mutation, It shall be when a certain King, called Henry, is twice made a King, and a Duke of Florence turned Protestant.  
Rex Franciae depelleter a suis finibus, a propriis subditis, exercebit enim in eos Tyrannidem in Gentem, & contra Ecclesiam Christi, instigatus ab Episcopis & Pontificibus, qui proditorie aperta pecuma oppugnati, eum seducent & tradent: Ipse vero videbitur hoc facere ingratiam Affinium. Verum cum fuerit amotus & falsus solus relinquetur in auxilio, ab his in quibus erat confisus, Infine autem. Secundi Incursus hoc fiet, sic Pendet Clipeus in stipite.  
The French King shall be driven out by his own People, For he will exercise very great Tyranny both against his Subjects, and the Church of Christ, being instigated or stirred up thereunto by the Bishops and Romanists: who being bribed with money, shall Traitorously seduce and betray him. This he shall seem to do in favour of his Kingdom or Allies, but when he shall be removed and deceived, he shall be left all alone in banishment, abandoned by those that he confided in; This shall happen towards the end of the second Incurse, so the Shield hangs on ●he Firebrand.  
The Mahometans very near that time ●…hall possess Venice, and the Northern Eagle ●luck down the Nests of Monks and Friars in Germany, and the Hollander be brought to Repentance, their Country at once drowned with Water, Blood, and Tears.   

A Prophecy of the Downfall of the Turkish Empire, delivered by some of their own Diviners, in the Persian Language, as followeth:  
PAtissahomoz ghelur: ciaferum memleketi alur, kenzul almai alur; Kapzeiler jediy ladeigh giaur keleci esikmasse, on ikiyladegh ou●aron. Beghlig eder, eusi japar, baghi dikers, bahusai baghlur, oglikezi olur. Onichi yldensora Hristrianon keleci osichar, ol Yurchi gheredine tus chure.  
The English.  
OUr Monarch shall come, He shall dispossess the Unbelieving Prince of his Kingdom: He shall subdue the Red Apple, and make it yield to his Government. And if happily the Christian Sword prevail not unto the Seventh Year, he shall overrule them unto the Twelfth Year: He shall build Castles, plant Vineyards, and fortify his Gardens with Walls: He shall increase in issue: But after the aforesaid Twelfth Year, the Sword of the Christians shall approach, which shall put the Turks to flight, utterly vanquishing and destroying them.  
This Prophecy I find recited in a Treatise, Entitled, A discursive Problem concerning Prophecies, by John Harvey, Physician of Kings-Lyn in Norfolk, (who appears by that work to have been a very Learned and Great-read Man) Published in the Year 1588. But when or by whom, the same was Originally Communicated to the World, I have not been able to learn.   

Truswell's Prophecy.  
THe following Prophecy is ancient, but who was the certain Author, I am no more able to assure, than what will be the certain event. However, let this suffice, That 'tis credibly reported to have been found in the Ruins of a Religious House, at or near Lincoln, and given to one Mr. Truswell, at that time Recorder of that City, from whom it now borrows the Name, and goes under the Title of Mr. Truswells Prophecy, ●he Recorder of Lincoln. It was Writ in an Obscure and Barbarous Latin, which does in ●ome measure show the Antiquity of it, and ●hat it was penned in those Ages, when Learning was at so low an Ebb, that the High Water-mark of it did not run above a sor● of gothish Latin; All beyond which was the Hercules Pillars, as they thought, with the ●e plus ultra Inscribed upon them, of Graecum ●●t non potest legi.  
The Prophecy.  LIlium manebit in meliori parte, & movebitur contra Semen Leonis. Et stabit ex ●●a parte inter spinas Regni sui, cujus Regnum ● in Terra Lunae, per totum Orbem tremendum. Et veniet Filius hominis, ferens feras in Bra●…iis, cum multitudine Populi, transibit multas ●…quas, & veniet in Terram Leonis, auxilium ●…arens a Bestiis terrae suae. Veniet Aquila ex Oriente, aliis expansis Radiis filii hominis. Et hoc anno Castra super Thamesin peribunt, & magnus erit Timor in toto Orb, & in quadam parte Terrae. Magna praelia erunt inter multos Reges. Et in illo die erit pugna cruenta in qua ●ilium per det Coronam suam; de qua Coronabi●ur filius hominis. Et quarto anno multa erunt to Fide certamina; Caput mundi erit ad Ter●am. Filius hominis & Aquila elevabuntur: Et tunc erit pax in Terris Vniversalis. Et acc●piet filius hominis mirabile signum. Et e● magna frugum abundantia, & ibi in terram Cr●cis. 
The English. THe Lily shall remain in the better par● and he shall be moved against the Se● of the Lyon. And he shall stand on one pa● amongst the Thorns of his Kingdom, who Kingdom is the Land of the Moon, which is be dreaded throughout the World. An● there shall come the Son of Man, bearing th● Wild Beasts in his Arms, with a Multitude People. He shall pass many Waters, a● shall come to the Land of the Lion, looking for help from the Beasts of his own Countr● Then shall there come an Eagle out of 〈◊〉 the East, and his Wings spread with t●… Beams of the Son of Man. And in that Ye● shall be destroyed Castles upon the Tham●… and there shall be great fear over all the wor● and especially in one part of the Land. The● shall be great Battles amongst many Kin● In that day shall be the Bloody Field, in wh● the Lily shall lose his Crown, wherewith ● Son of Man shall be Crowned, and in the 14 Year, many Battles shall be fought for ● Faith. The Head of the World shall brought down to the Dust. And the Son Man with the Eagle shall be exalted. And there shall be an Universal Peace over all the World. And the Son of Man shall receive a wonderful sign. And there shall be great plenty of all Fruits of the Earth. And he shall go into the Land of the Cross.   

The Prophecy of Malachy (a Popish Saint) declaring the Number, and some marks of all the Popes that shall be hereafter, together with the final destruction both of Popery, and the City of Rome.  
THis Malachy was Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland, and of the Cistertian Order of Monks, a Contemporary with St. Bernard, and very intimate with him about the year 1140: He pretending to the gift of Foresight, undertook by certain Hieroglyphical descriptions, to give an account of all and every the Popes that should be from his time to the World's end: or at least until the utter subversion of the Papacy. All which I find both recited, and as far as then was accomplished, explained, and by application found to be very true and significant, in an Appendix to a Book, Entitled, Flores Historici, written by Johannes de Bussieres, a French Jesuit, abbout the year 1655.  
To recite all the old Ones from the year 1143, would be both tedious and impertinent, being so long passed; those that are curious may find them in the Author just now cited: Only to give the Reader a Taste, that he may the better apprehend the Humour of this Irish Pope-fortune-teller, I shall give you his Symbols, and their Explications, for above One hundred years past, and also all those that are to come; and I will begin at the year 1550.  
The Propecy. Pope's Names. The year of our Lord and Explanation. De Corona Montana, the Mountain and Crown, Julius the Third. An. 1550. He was called before he came to the Popedom, John of the Mountain, and his Arms were Mountains and Crowns of Laurel. Frumentum Floccidum, Breadcorn suddenly perishing. Marcellus Second. 1555. He had a blade of Wheat in his Arms, therefore said to be suddenly perishing, because he continued a very little while in the Popedom. De Fide Petri, Of the Faith of Peter. Paul the Fourth. 1555. His name was Peter de Carafe, which signifies as much as Peter, Of the dear Faith. Aesculapii Pharmacum, The Medicine of the Physician. Pius the Fourth. 1560. He was before called Johannes Medicus, John the Physician. Angelus Nemorosus, the Angel of the Wood Pius the Fifth. 1560. Called before Michael Boschi, Michael Wood Medium Corpus pilarum, a middle body of Balls. Gregory the Thirteenth 1572. His Arms, the middle of a Dragon, and was made Cardinal by Pius the 4th, who had the Balls in his Arms. Axis in Medietate signi, the Axletree in the midst of a Sign. Sixtus the Fifth. 1583. His Arms an Axletree in the midst of Leo. De Roar Coeli, from Heaven's Dew. Vrban the Seventh. 1590. He was Archbishop in Calabria, where Manna is gathered. Ex Antiquitate Vrbis, from a City of Antiquity. Gregory the Fourteen. 1590. Of Milan. Pia Civitas in Bello, a City pious in War. Innocent the Ninth. 1590. Of Bononia. Crux Romulea, the Roman Cross. Clement the Eighth. 1592. His Arms a triple obliqne Papal Cross. Vndosus vir, A man gone as soon as a Wave. Leo the Eleventh. 1605. He continued but Four and twenty days. Gens perversa, a perverse people. Paul the Fifth. 1605. In his days the Bobemians risen against the House of Austria, whom our Author will have to be the perverse Nation; but why not rather the Venetians, with whom this Pope had great Broils. In tribulatione Pacis, in the work of Peace. Gregory the Fifth. 1621. As soon as he was made Cardinal he was sent by Paul 5th. Legate to Sav●y, & concluded a peace between the Duke and the King of Spain, and soon after was chosen Pope. Lilium a Rosa, the Lily and Rose. Vrban the Eighth. 1623. A Florentine, which City is so called from Flowers, and has a Rose in is Arms. Jucunditas Crucis, the joy of the Cross. Innocent the Tenth. 1644. Montium Custos, the Keeper of the Mountains. Alexander the 7th.  Sidus Olorum, the Constellation of Swans. Clement the 9th. Rospigliosi, he had the Star and Swan in his Arms. De Flumine magno, of the great River. Clement the 10th. Altieri, born at the time of a great Inundation of the River Tiber. Bellua insatiabilis, an insatiable Beast. Innocent 11th. Odischalchi the present Pope, called an insatiable Beast, because of his great covetousness.  


The Symbols or Hieroglyphics of all the Popes in order that shall be hereafter.  
POenitentia gloriosa, A glorious Penitent.  
Rastrum in Porta, A rake in the Gate.  
Flores circumdati, Flowers encompassing  
De bona Religione, Of a good Religion. [I wish we might see such a Pope once!]  
Miles in Bello, A Soldier in War.  
Cobumna excelsa, A lofty Pillar.  
Animal rurale, A rural Animal.  
Rosa Vmbriae, A Rose of Vmbria.  
Visus velox, A quick sight.  
Peregrinus Apostolicus, An Apostolical Pilgrim.  
Aquila rapax, A ravenous Eagle.  
Canis & Coluber, A Dog and a Snake.  
Vir Religiosus, A Religious man.  
De Balneis Hetruria, From the Baths of Tuscany.  
Crux de Cruse, Cross of Cross.  
Lumen de Coelo, A light from Heaven.  
Ignis arden's, A flaming fire.  
Religio depopulata, Religion laid waste.  
Fides intrepida, Faith fearless.  
Pastor Angelicus, An Angelic Pastor.  
Pastor & Nauta, Both Shepherd and Sailer.  
Flos florum, The Flower of Flowers.  
De mediteate Lunae, Half the Moon.  
De labour Solis, The labour of the Sun, or an eclipse.  
Gloria Olivae, The Glory of the Olive.    
After which our Irish Prophet concludes with this sad O hone! hone!— In persecutione extrema Sacrae Romanae Ecclesiae sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet Oves in multis Tribulationibus quibus transactis Civitas Sep●…icollis diruetur, & judex tremendus judicabit populum.  
In English thus.  
In the last Persecution of the Holy Roman Church, one Peter a Roman shall possess the Chair, and feed the Sheep in many Tribulations; which being accomplished, the Seven-hilled City shall be destroyed, and the dreadful Judge shall call the people to Judgement. Hitherto the words translated out of the  Jesuite's Flosculi Historici.  
There being according to this man's reckoning, Twenty six of their Vnholinesses behind, if we shall allow (according to our usual Estimate of a man's life) seven years to each, it will amount to 182 years, that is, to the year of our Lord 1865, before the final destruction of the Papacy, and that bloody City shall be completed: But the Prayers of the faithful, and the Cries of the Martyrs from under the Altar, may, 'tis like, sooner draw down and accelerate the just Judgements threatened to this Babylon and spiritual Sodom; Quod faxit Deus.   

A very ancient Prophecy of Gildas the Scot, recited by Archbishop Usher, in his Book, Entitled, De Britanicarum Ecclesiarum Primoraiis, Page 680.  
FAta ducis celebris super omnia Scotia flebit,  
Qui loca Septa Salo junget ubique sibi.  
Principe magnifico Tellus viduata vacabit  
Annis bis Ternis, mensibus atque novem.  
Antiquos Reges, justos, fortes, Locupletes  
Largos, Famosos, Scotia maesta luget;  
 Merlinus ait, post Reges victoriosus  
Regis more carens Regia Sceptra Reget.  
Vae canet Albaniae tantis praesaga Ruims  
Totaque Gens propria fraude perempta jacet,  
Quod respirabit, post funus Regis avari  
Versibus antiquis prisca sibylla canit.  
Candidus Albanus Patriotis causa Ruinae  
Traditione sua Scotica Regna teret;  
Rex borealis enim numerosa Classe potitus  
Affliget Scotos ense, furore, fame.  
Extera gens tandem Sociorum fraude peribit  
In bello Princeps Noricus ense cadet.  
Gallica quem gignet, qui Gazis Regna replebit,  
O dolour! O Gemitus! Fratris ab ense cadet.  
Tristia cessabunt, quae prospera fine sequuntur  
Pacis & adveniat Tempore grata quies  
Historiae veteris Gildas luculentus Amator  
Haec retulit parvo Carmine, plura notans.  
Which as near the Sense as I can, to make i● Verse, I thus English; Those that can Translate it more exactly, let them.  
SCotland 'bove all shall her brave Chief bemoan,  
Who all the Sea-girt places Rules alone;  
The Widowed Land of bounteous Prince bereavest,  
Shall Twice Three Years, and Nine long Months be left.  
Sad Scotland mourns her Old Just valiant Kings,  
But Merlin says, after them up their Springs  
One that shall not in Kingly manner sway  
The Royal Sceptre, yet makes them obey.  
To Albany presaging Ruin flows,  
By their own fraud undone, more than their Foes.  
Yet Old Sibyl in Ancient Rhimes has told  
She shall revive, when one that dotes on Gold  
Is laid to rest. The White Albanion then  
By Treachery, undoes his Countrymen:  
A Northern Prince with numerous Ships shall vex  
The Scot; whom Fury, Sword, and Death perplex.  
The Foreigner by fraud of his Allies  
Is lost, and in disastrous Battle Dies.  
Th' French-womans' Bearn, who shall his Kingdoms fill  
With Wealth; Alas! A Brother's Sword shall kill.  
Soon after, sorrows cease, and joys appear,  
And Welcome Peace salutes our Hemisphere,  
This Gildas in story well-read foreshows,  
Whose Verse, thouth brief, much matter may disclose.   

The words of Mr. Lilly (Printed with Licence) in his Almanac, 1677.  
AS to the time of Manifestation when these so wonderful Mutations or Revolutions shall be effected or visibly declared, or put into Action; We say, That although in part some break out there are in esse at present, yet the most violent Actions, or dreadful Concerments, shall not have full Manifestation, or perfect appearance, until Three times Ten Years added to 1669. do come, which will be 1699.— Weighty matters require many Years for their performances, yet in the mean time the powerful Configurations of the Superior Planets, the remaining Influences of the Comet, or Comets in 1664, 1665. and also of that 1673. have in some measure begun those Effects which will in convenient time be more apparent, long before the Year 1699.  
In the Year 1682. and Month of October, (Viz.) the Twentieth Day, there will be a Conjunction of the two Superior Planets, Saturn and Jupiter, in the Twentieth degree of that Regal Sign Leo, which is the Terms of Jupiter, and wherein he and the Sun have their Triplicity. It will be the Fifth time of their meeting in the Fiery Triplicity, since their Conjunction in 1603. at what time they changed one Triplicity, and entered into another: which usually (if we may credit Antiquity, Experience, or History,) hath not happened without considerable Revolutions and Changes in the World; (Viz.) according to the Nature and Sign of the Planet most Essentially fortified.— We have observed, That those Conjunctions which have happened in the Year 1603. and since succeeded in the Fiety Trygon, have not been accompanied with Propitious Successes unto England, or the City of London. At the entrance of those Planets into the Fiery Trygon, Queen Elizabeth died. In 1603. a great Plague was in London, and in the Year 1623. the Second Conjunction of the Superior Planets fell in the Seventh Degree of Leo. Not long after King James (a Peaceable and Wise Prince) died; Again, in the Year 1625. at least 50000 Persons died of the Plague in London. In short time after follows the unfortunate business or attempt of the Isle of Rhee in France, the Murder of Buckingham, etc. and during all that time a general murmuring and repining of the Common People, especially amongst those of different Judgements, which gave encouragement to and occasion of our late unhappy Troubles and Intestine Wars.  
In the Year 1642/3;. the Third Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, was celebrated in Twenty Six Degrees of Pisces; but the Effects most concerned those People subject to the Sign Aries. Upon this Conjunction our late unhappy Calamities began, which more or less continued until the Year 1652. In that Intestine and Bloody War, many Thousand Persons of all Degrees and Qualities miserably suffered, and the City of London especially in her Trade and Commerce. What is most remarkable after the Year 1663.; was, That in 1665, (Viz.) the greatest Plague that ever happened in London, wherein 'tis credibly reported, that near One Hundred Thousand People perished. And besides, in the Year 1666. that terrible and never to be forgotten Fire, which destroyed the greatest part of that Famous and Flourishing City: and these Calamities followed the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, in the Sign Sagittary, of the Fiery Trygon, Anno. 1663.— But what manner of accidents shall precede or follow this next Conjunction of the Superiors in the Kingly Sign Leo, Anno 1682. which will be One Hundred Years and Ten, after the Mock-star of 1572. and Seventy Nine Years after the great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, 1603. and Seventeen Years after the appearance of the Comet in 1665, whose tail extended Fiery and large towards the East part of Heaven, The Effects whereof we Judge are not yet in being, but will in part be put forward in or about the Year 1682. or something later: with an heavy vengeance or judgement on those People and Nations, Providence shall dispose the Effects to fall upon; by Wars, Famine, Death of Cattle, several Mortality's, barrenness of the Earth, and cruel destruction of Mankind.— It portends great Rents and Schisms amongst the Religious Odrers of Monks, Friars, Jesuits, as also amongst those of different Judgements, call them by what Name you please; And this Judgement is the more aggravated, in regard these Two Superior Planets, Saturn and Jupiter, do also meet again in the Sign Leo, in May 1683. (as appears by Calculation, and also by the Ephemerideses of Argol.) And hence I conclude this Conjunction to be the Prodromus of every Prodigious Effects,— which we may not live to see transacted.  
There will be some preceding differences (perhaps Verbal) which will begin to break forth at first clandestinely before those great Deluges of Affairs are transacted. For we find, that upon the Fifth Day of September, 1682. there will first be a Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter, and upon the Twelfth Day of the same Month in the aforesaid Year, there will be another Conjunction of Tory Mars with Saturn, in the Seventeenth Degree of the same Sign; and again, in December following, there happens a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter also, in or near Twenty Degrees thereof, and both swift motion. Then matters, Treasons, Consultations, Treachery of Subjects against their Superiors, are Plotting, Contriving, or Agitating, some Years before this Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is Celebrated.  
Those pretending to Religion, or such as are Famous for Schisms, Heresies, or of different Judgements from the Profession of that Religion which is established by Authority, will for some Years grumble and repine for Restriction of their Consciences (as the will term it) and the nearer the time of the Conjunction itself, or a little after, we fear greater disturbances of those Nations, and the Princes they live under, disquieting their Governors: and this for Conscience-sake, as they pretend. But in some Nations, Breach of the People's just Privileges, Ancient Customs and former enjoyed Rights, will animate the Generality to a strong and sturdy Rebellion and countenance that Translation of Monarchy, mentioned by Trithemius.— Certainly you Princes of Italy, as also the Roman Pontisex, or Conclave of Cardinals of the See of Rome, will all of you find great and most grievous distempers in your Governments, near the time limited: So will many People and Nations subject to the Fiery Triplicity, and this Evil will be the more aggravated to those Kingdoms or Governments subject to the Signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquary.  
Many believe the last Age of the World is at hand, we verily conjecture that a troublesome and vexatious time is approaching upon most Nations of Europe, wherein those pretending to Religion, whether Papists or Protestants, will show little mercy or compassion to those persons whose unhappiness it will be to fall under their subjection.— The Coadunation of so many Planets in the Sign Leo, in the Year 1682. gives very rational grounds to predict the appearance of another Comet, very strange Apparitions in the Air, or some Prodigious Meteors, either preceding that Conjunction, or subsequent in a short time after: And we also are fearful that some more than ordinary Fire or Fires may afflict or do considerable damage to many Cities of Europe; God keep this Judgement ●om the City of London, and Bless her Inhabitants with much Health and Prosperity, and ●eliver her from another Plague or Pestilen●al distemper in those Years.  
Thus Lily divers Years since, wherein his prediction of a Comet in 82. which exactly ●appened in August last, being visible both morning and evening for many Nights; his mentioning the Word Tory, which when he wrote was not in use, though since the occasion of many Animosities, his Menaces of more mischief by Fire, sadly felt by the poor Inhabitants of Wapping near London, on the Nineteenth of November, this present Year 1682. whereby about 1000 houses were consumed, are very remarkable, and how far the rest may answer Truth, time may show.   

A Prophecy found in the Library of Salizarius of Heidelburg in Germany, almost 200 years since.  THere shall a King arise out of the Nation of the most Illustrious Lily, having a long Forehead, high Brows, great Eyes, and an eagle's Nose; He shall gather a great Army, and destroy all the Tyrants of his Kingdom, and ●ay all that fly into Mountains and Caves from his Face; for Righteousness shall be joined unto him, as the Bridegroom unto the Bride. With them he shall wage War even unto the Fortieth year, bringing into subjection the ●landers, Spaniards and Italians; Rome and Florence he shall destroy and burn with fire, so as Salt may be sowed ●n that Land. The greatest Clergymen who have Invaded Peter's Seat, he shall put to death, and in the same year obtain a double Crown. At last, going over-Sea with A great Army, he shall enter Greece, and be named King of the Greeks. The Turks and Barbarians he shall subdue making an Edict, That every one shall die the Death, that worshippeth not the crucified One, and none shall be found able to resist him, because an Holy Arm from the Lord shall always be with him, and he shall be with him, and he shall possess the Dominions of the Earth. These things being done, h● shall be called, The Rest of the Holy Christians.  

The Apocalyptical Interpreters adventuring to sail in the vast Ocean of Futurity, have most-timeS shipwrecked their judgement and credit do the Rocks of Presumption; ye● I shall presume here to add the words of that Reverend French Divine Peter du Moulin, in his Book Entitled, The Accomplishment of Prophecies, (Translated into English, Anno 1613 Page 411. as follows:  As for the time of three days and an half, during which the Bodies of the faithful Witnesses shall be cast out through all the Quarters of the Roman Church: It is manifest, that S. John doth hereby show us how long the Persecution of the Church under the Roman Hierarchy, must continue. For to know how long this time shall endure, and to how much the Three Days and an half will amount unto; we are to note, that Three Days and an half, make half a Week, which gives us to understand, that the Holy Ghost here under the name of a Week, doth comprehend the whole time of the Beast's Reign, and doth advertise us, that the Persecution shall last half the time of this Reign. Since therefore he shall Reign 1260 years (as we have showed before) it followeth that the Roman Hierarchy shall persecute the Faithful 630 years. Now I do not find, that the Church of Rome did begin to persecute and is use cruelty in general against all that did withstand her Doctrine till the time of Berengarius whom Pope Nicholas the Second compelled to Recant by force, in the year 1059; and ever since the Popes have persecuted such as have maintained the same Doctrine. If then you add the 630 years to 1059 years, you shall find that the persecution of the Church under the Pope, shall have an end in the year of our Lord 1689. This Term once expired, the Truth that was oppressed shall lift up her head afresh, and the faithful Witnesses shall be seen to stand up again, who shall astonish the Church of Rome. 
The Prediction of the most Learned and pious Archbishop Usher, is very remarkable, as it was printed above a years ago with Licence, and the Truth of the matter of Fact therein delivered, never that I know of denied, out confirmed by many, which in short was thus.— That the year before this holy Primate died (who was buried in the Abbey at Westminister 17 of April, 1656. The Usurper Cromwell allowing 200 l. towards his Funeral, so great his Worth, that it even charmed that Tyrant, otherwise far from being a Friend to any of his Profe●sson:) An intimate Friend of the Archbishop's ask him (amongst other discourse) what his present Apprehensions were concerning a very great Persecution which should fall upon the Church of God in these Nations of England, Scotland and Ireland, (of which he had ●eard him speak with great confidence many years before, when ●e were in the highest and fullest state of outward peace and settlement) and whether he did believe those sad Times to be past, or that they were yet to come?— He answered,— That they were yet to come, and that he did as confidently expect it as ever he had done. Adding, That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches of Europe. His Friend arguing, that he hoped the Affliction might now be over, and be intended of our late calamitous Civil Wars. The reverend Prelate turning towards him, and fixing his Eyes upon him with that serious and severe Look which he usually had when he spoke God's Word, and not his own, and when the power of God seemed to be upon him, and to constrain him to speak, said thus: Fool not yourself with such hopes, for I tell you, all you have yet seen, hath been but the beginning of sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ, who will ere long fall under a sharper Persecution than ever yet has been upon them; and therefore (said he to him) Look you be not found in the Outward Court, but a Worshipper in the Trmple before the Altar, for Christ will measure all those that profess his Name, and call themselves his People; and the Outward Worshippers he will leave out, to be trodden down by the Gentiles. The outward Court (says he) is the formal Christian, whose Religion lies in performing the outside duties of Christianity, without having an inward Life and Power of Faith and Love, uniting them to Christ, and these God will leave to be trodden down, and swept away by the Gentiles: But the Worshippers within the Temple, and before the Altar, are those who do indeed worship God to Spirit and Truth, whose Souls are made his Temples, and he is honoured and adored in the most inward thoughts of their hearts, and they sacrifice their Lusts and vile Affections, yea, and their own Wills to him; and these God will hid in the hollow of his Hand, and under the shadow of his Wings; and this shall be one great difference between this last, and all the other preceding Persecutions; For in the former, the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer most, and were most violently fallen upon, but in this last Persecution, these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church, as soon as ever this storm shall be over; for as it shall be the sharpest, so it shall be the shortest Persecution of them all; and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and formal Professors, but the true Spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be overpast.  
His Friend then asked him, By what means or Instruments this great Trial should be brought on. He answered, By the Papists. His Friend replied, That it seemed very improbable they should be able to do it, since they were now little countenanced, and but few in these Nations, and that the hearts of the People were more set against them than ever since the Reformation. He answered again, That it would be by the hands of Papists, and in the way of a sudden Massacre, and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it.  
He also added, That the Papists were in his Opinion the Gentiles spoken of, Rev. 11. to whom the Outward Court should be left, that they might tread it under foot; they having received the Gentiles worship in their adoring Images, and Saints departed, and in taking to themselves many Mediators: And this (said he) the Papists are now designing among themselves, and therefore be sure you be ready.  
This gracious man repeated the same things in Substance to his only daughter the Lady Tyrril, and that with many tears, and much about the same time.  
We the rather have mentioned this, because we find: many other of our most Reverend Divines have foretold or intimated a Return of Popery— As appears by the Book Entitled Fair warning, the Second part, published with the Licence of Dr. straddling, wherein are recited Twenty Prophecies by Archbishop Whitgift, Archbishop Bancroft, Bishop Sanderson, Bishop Gauden, Mr. Hooker, and others to the same purpose,  
But if God in Judgement for our Sins should suffer it so to be, yet 'Tis certain, the Joy of the Wicked shall be but for a moment, for We have a most sure word of Prophecy, that in due time Rome shall finally fall, And the Kings of the Earth shall hate the Whore, and make her desolate and naked, and burn her with Fire, Rev. 17.16.  
Rome tottering long, laden with Errors store,  
At last shall fall, and Head the World no more.   
FINIS.