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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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The Devil begat darkness, Darkness begat Ignorance, Ignorance begat Error and his Brethren; Error begat. Free-will and Presumption, out of Self-conceit; Free-will begat Merit, Merit begat forgetfulness of God, Forgetfulness of God, begat Transgression, Transgression begat Superstition, Superstition begat Satisfaction, Satisfaction begat Oblation of the Mass, the Oblation of the Mass begat unction, Unction begat the Priest, the Priest begat Mischief, Mischief begat Misbelief, Misbelief begat Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy begat Trading with Offerings for gain, Trading begat Purgatory, Purgatory begat yearly solemn Vigils, yearly Vigils begat Church-Livings, Church-Livings begat Mammon, Mammon begat Superfluity, Superfluity begat Excess, Excess begat Rage, Rage begat Licentiousness, Licentiousness begat Dominion, Dominion begat Pomp, Pomp begat Ambition, Ambition begat Simony, Simony begat the Pope and his Brethren; the Pope begat the Mystery of Iniquity, the Mystery of Iniquity begat Sophistical Divinity, Sophistical Divinity begat rejecting of the Holy Scriptures, the rejecting of the Holy Scriptures begat Tyranny, Tyranny begat Murdering of Saints, Murdering of Saints begat Abomination, Abomination begat Desolation, Desolation begat Anguish, Anguish begat Questioning, Questioning begat the searching out the Grounds of Truth; out of which the Pope, called Antichrist, is Revealed. Ex Luthers Prophecies, pag. 12.
THe Devil begat darkness, Darkness begat Ignorance, Ignorance begat Error and his Brethren; Error begat. Free-will and Presumption, out of Self-conceit; Free-will begat Merit, Merit begat forgetfulness of God, Forgetfulness of God, begat Transgression, Transgression begat Superstition, Superstition begat Satisfaction, Satisfaction begat Oblation of the Mass, the Oblation of the Mass begat unction, Unction begat the Priest, the Priest begat Mischief, Mischief begat Misbelief, Misbelief begat Hypocrisie, Hypocrisie begat Trading with Offerings for gain, Trading begat Purgatory, Purgatory begat yearly solemn Vigils, yearly Vigils begat Church-Livings, Church-Livings begat Mammon, Mammon begat Superfluity, Superfluity begat Excess, Excess begat Rage, Rage begat Licentiousness, Licentiousress begat Dominion, Dominion begat Pomp, Pomp begat Ambition, Ambition begat Simony, Simony begat the Pope and his Brethren; the Pope begat the Mysterie of Iniquitie, the Mysterie of Iniquitie begat Sophistical Divinitie, Sophistical Divinitie begat rejecting of the Holy Scriptures, the rejecting of the Holie Scriptures begat Tyrannie, Tyrannie begat Murdering of Saints, Murdering of Saints begat Abomination, Abomination begat Desolation, Desolation begat Anguish, Anguish begat Questioning, Questioning begat the searching out the Grounds of Truth; out of which the Pope, called Antichrist, is Revealed. Ex Luthers Prophecies, pag. 12.
I Shall now according to my Tittle, give you a brief account of Mich. Nostredamus, and then present you with some of his Prophecies which particularly concern England and France.
He was bo•n in S•. Remy a Town in Provence on the fourteenth of December. 1503. he was bred up in all the Learning in France, and having betaken himself to the Study of Physic, grew so excellent therein, that at last he became Physician to three successive Kings of that Country. I shall give my self the less trouble to demonstrate to the Reader that this Learned person was endowed with the Spirit of Prophecy, because I could instance above a thousand Prophecies of his which have already come to pass: but before I give you one or two which concerned our Nation as an instance; I shall give you the judgement of one of the greatest wits in our last age, who in brief says thus,
He was bo•n in S•. Remy a Town in Provence on the fourteenth of December. 1503. he was bred up in all the Learning in France, and having betaken himself to the Study of Physick, grew so excellent therein, that at last he became Physician to three successive Kings of that Countrey. I shall give my self the less trouble to demonstrate to the Reader that this Learned person was endowed with the Spirit of Prophecy, because I could instance above a thousand Prophecies of his which have already come to pass: but before I give you one or two which concerned our Nation as an instance; I shall give you the judgement of one of the greatest wits in our last age, who in brief says thus,
God Almighty hes chosen out Mich. Nostredamus to impart to the World many prodigious and extraordinary things which shall happen for the Future: again says he, next the Apostles; and Canonical Prophets, Nostredamus is to be preferred before any other in these four things, viz. in the Certainty, the Infallibility, in the Generality and quantity of his predictions, of which here's an example, written as he did all his other, in old Law French, of which I shall only give the beginning, and then set you down the English of them. Trente de Londres secret— Englished thus, Thirty of London shall conspire against their King: The Plot shall be made on London. Bridge.
What could appear more perfect in number, place and substance, to any one that can remember the Plotters against King Charles the First of blessed Memory, whose Conspiracy was contrived at the Bear on the Bridge-foot: This he foretold almost a hundred years before it came to pass: He also prophesied that a King of England should appear on a Scaffold without his Doublet; that he should be taken off; and that in ⟨p. 7⟩the place where he was to be beheaded, another had been killed three days before; all which Circumstances were sadly made true by the Lamented Catastrophe of that most pious Monarch and Martyr.
I shall now proceed to those Prophecies which as yet are unaccomplished, Pag. 231.5.—A quarante huit •ejre,&c. At the Climacterical year of 8 and 40. at the end of Cancer, shall be such a Drought that the Fish in the Water shall be boiled to a Consumption; Bearn and Bigorre, by heavenly Fire shall be in distress.
I shall now proceed to those Prophecies which as yet are unaccomplished, Pag. 231.5.—A quarante huit •ejre,&c. At the Clymacterical year of 8 and 40. at the end of Cancer, shall be such a Drought that the Fish in the Water shall be boiled to a Consumption; Bearn and Bigorre, by heavenlie Fire shall be in distress.
I shall say no more but that Bearn and Bigorre, are two Provinces in France: of the rest let the Reader judge.
Another, Paix uberte long temps on ne levera, &c. Thus Englished. Peace and Plenty shall not long be praised: before the end of his Reign the Flower de Luce shal be deserted: bodies shall die by water, Earth shall be brought, but therein they shall not be buried.
Another, Paix uberte long temps on ne leuera, &c. Thus Englished. Peace and Plentie shall not long be praised: before the end of his Reign the Flower de Luce shal be deserted: bodies shall die by water, Earth shal be brought, but therein they shall not be buried.
By Flower de Luce is meant France, expound the rest your selves. Proph. 82. pag. 141. de Nostredamus.
But afterwards he ends his tenth Century, pag. 444. with this Prophecy concerning the future Welfare of England.
But afterwards he ends his tenth Century, pag. 444. with this Prophecie concerning the future Welfare of England.
Le grand Empire ser• per L' Angleterre, &c.
England at last the worlds Empire shall be And so shall remain for three hundred and three, Great Armies shall pass both through Land and through Sea To which the proud Spaniard shall strike and give away.
THE END.
