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Dr. Martin Luther's prophecies of the destruction of Rome and the downfall of the…Dr. Martin Luthers prophecies of the destruction of Rome and the downfall of the…
Dr. Martin Luther's prophecies of the destruction of Rome and the downfall of the Romish religion. And how the Papists for treachery and hypocrisy shall at last become hated, and contemned [sic] by all nations. Here are likewise some of the eminent prophecies of that most learned mathematician and prophet Michael Nostredamus, concerning England and France, and those strange occurrences which are likely to happen to both those countries in these later days, with an account of some of the prophecies of Michael Nostredamus which have been fulfilled here in England already. Luther's motto writ by himself. Licensed, May 7. 1679.Dr. Martin Luthers prophecies of the destruction of Rome and the downfall of the Romish religion. And how the Papists for treachery and hypocrisie shall at last become hated, and contemned [sic] by all nations. Here are likewise some of the eminent prophecies of that most learned mathematician and prophet Michael Nostredamus, concerning England and France, and those strange occurrences which are likely to happen to both those countreys in these later dayes, with an account of some of the prophecies of Michael Nostredamus which have been fulfilled here in England already. Luther's motto writ by himself. Licensed, May 7. 1679.
London: printed for W.W., 1679
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Thus much I thought fit to premise, that the most scrupulous Reader may less wonder that the Almighty should entrust this worthy Champion of the now Reformed Religion with the Spirit of Prophecy which he was pleased to exercise on himself, saying some weeks before he Dyed, When I return to Wittenberg, I will be lodged in a Coffin, and will render to the worms a fat Luther to feed on; and so it sell out, for within two days after he came thither he dyed, but a little before his Expiration called for Pen and Ink, and wrote this following Verse, ⟨p. 3⟩Pestis eram vivens, moriens ero mors tua Papa. Which Melanchthon, one of his dear Friends, taking as a prophetic rapture, turned into a Distich of the same meaning: Thus, Qui fuit dum vixit tua pestis (Papa) Lutherus, Hic tibi causa, suo funner, mortis erit. Both of which may be thus paraphrastically turned into English: As Luther Living was Romes plague, so shall Her Fall be caused by his mourned Funeral.
Thus much I thought fit to premise, that the most scrupulous Reader may less wonder that the Almighty should entrust this worthy Champion of the now Reformed Religion with the Spirit of Prophecie which he was pleased to exercise on himself, saying some weeks before he Dyed, When I return to Wittemberg, I will be lodged in a Coffin, and will render to the worms a fat Luther to feed on; and so it sell out, for within two dayes after he came thither he dyed, but a little before his Expiration call'd for Pen and Ink, and wrote this following Verse, ⟨p. 3⟩Pestis eram vivens, moriens ero mors tua Papa. Which Melancthon, one of his dear Friends, taking as a prophetick rapture, turned into a Distick of the same meaning: Thus, Qui fuit dum vixit tua pestis (Papa) Lutherus, Hic tibi causa, suo funere, mortis erit. Both of which may be thus paraphrastically turned into English: As Luther Living was Romes plague, so shall Her Fall be caus'd by his mourn'd Funeral.
But long before this Luther was observed by all the Students at Wittenberg to be endowed with the Spirit of Prophecy which he frequently committed to posterity, the greatest part of which were in presaging the Dissolution of those two grand temporal enemies of truth and Religion, the Turk and the Pope.