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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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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.