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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. 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. Licensed, May 7. 1679.
Edinburgh : s.n., re-printed 1679
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1. It was he who (if I may speak it with reverence) like our Saviour had the honour to be prophesied of before he was born: and this, even the Romans themselves cannot deny, since their own Histories acquaint us that one John Hilton a person they themselves h•ld in great veneration for piety and gift of Prophecy, wrote this almost a hundred years before Luther had declared himself against the Church of Rome. Much about the year 1516. the Mystery of ungodliness shall begin to be discovered, and the Sun of Righteousness shine forth in the Truth of the Gospel, and Popery shall in Germany, and other parts of the World then r[…] a Sudden Declension. This ⟨image 3⟩⟨p. 2⟩Prophecy was certainly fulfilled by Luther who appeared at that time against Rome, and in spite of all her then domineering Tyranny gave her a greater blow than ever she received either before or since.
1. It was he who (if I may speak it with reverence) like our Saviour had the honour to be prophesied of before he was born: and this, even the Romans themselves cannot deny, since their own Histories acquaint us that one John Hilton a person they themselves h•ld in great veneration for piety and gift of Prophecie, wrote this almost a hundred years before Luther had declared himself against the Church of Rome. Much about the year 1516. the Mysterie of ungodliness shall begin to be discovered, and the Sun of Righteousness shine forth in the Truth of the Gospel, and Popery shall in Germanie, and other parts of the World then r〈…〉 a Sudden Declension. This ⟨image 3⟩⟨p. 2⟩Prophecy was certainly fulfilled by Luther who appeared at that time against Rome, and in spite of all her then domineering Tyranny gave her a greater blow than ever she received either before or since.