Antichrist Stormed, Account of prophecies
An Account of several Strange Prophesies.
MIchael Sa…divogius, in his treatise Printed at Cologn 1616. speaketh of a Northern Prince that shall arise of a Warlike disposition, indued with excellent Vertues which no Monarch doth go beyond in Victories or excell in humanity and piety, and then mercy and peace shall meet together, and Peace and Justice shall kiss each other, truth, (saith he,) shall rise out of the Earth, and Justice look down from Heaven, there shall be one Sheepfold and one Shepherd, he positively intimates that he shall arrive to a universal dominion.
Another of a nameless Author in a Book Printed, 1650 p. 9. Sect. 14.
I find these words speaking of the Judgments of God upon Europe, for neglecting the overthrow of Antichrist, ruin of Rome, and Annihilation of the Sodomitical order of the Society of Jesus and in the Extirpation of all Kingdoms, are free Estates of Papists, adhereing to them to make way for the Lyon of the North to erect his fifth Monarchy in the ashes of Germany wherein shall be established the eternal felicity of the Church, &c.
These three are Predictions said to be of above fifty years standing.
THE Eagle Droops, and Moults his Wings,
And fewd shall grow twixt Northern Kings,
Holland is threatned, *So 'tis now by France.Spain shall pine,
And blood shall swell the River Rhine,
When once the Orange and the Rose,
Unite, beware England's old foes,
This done, no more shall monstrous pride
Triumphant over Nations ride,
The Miter falls and scarce shall have,
A Mournful tear, or certain grave,
The Lillies now bewail the loss,
And serve but to adorn the Cross.
The Northern Star at last appears,
And an all Conquering banner bears,
Howl, howl ye Merchants, all your deeds,
Shall now receive their worthy meeds.
The fourth translated out of French in the year, 1668.
WIth headlong speed, that juncture doth advance,
Wherein the Royal Seat and State of France,
The Pope, Priests, Masses, Images, Saints Shrines,
And what with these against Heavens will combines,
By divine Justice, shall to ruin fall,
I much mistake▪ or some Angelical
Spirit these verses did suggest,
Whilst in the morning sleep I took my rest,
I God to witness call, and…s heavenly hosts,
I saw indeed, or at the least suppos'd,
I saw an Angel who did shew to me
In a fair written Table this same Prophecy.
The fifth is another transcribed by Paraeus in his expositìon of the Revelations.
A Prince shall rise out of the Nation of the most illustrious Son—having a Long Forehead, lofty Eye-brows, long Eyes, and an Hau… Nose▪ he shall draw together a great Army; and shall slay all those who fly from his face, and hide themselves in the Mountains & Caves, he shall be married to Justice, as the Bridegroom—he shall destroy and burn Rome, and Florence with fire; he shal… put to death the highest Prelates of the Clergy, who have usurped Peters seat, and many other things, he says, he shall do.
Predictions of Mr. George Withers.
I Shall not fail in't which is to presage,
That Babylon shall fall in this our age,
Or set a lasting Period to their hate,
A bloodless Massacre here is already,
Begun amongst us and it will be bloody,
When you perceive admittance of those strangers,
Who first began our …lagues, renew our dangers,
And then they who suppose their persons free,
Will with the rest in equal Perils be,
For boundless lustings Mischiefs will beget,
Which lies within the Womb unheeded yet,
Where sin and Death are Twins conceived together,
Though born a little while before each other.
Another of Mr. Withers.
THere will to th …art your hopes a new Star blaze
Within the West, that shall the world amaze,
And influences through the universe,
So quickly and prodigiously disperse,
That aided by Concurrent Constellations,
It shall have some effects upon all nations,
And cause such changes, as shall make a stand,
In their attempts which they have now in hand.
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IS thus inscribed in that family; In comitum imperii leones, cum principis Gulielmi Uraniae filio Mauricio, faeli…i Heroi socianti se alicui Daniae de stirpe.
61. And subscribed thus, Hoc vexillum de fratribus quod; Uraniae principis & eorum posteris Illustrissimis intelligendum; his words of them are these, Leones nostri audaces in prima acie fremu…t, unde nobis potentia crescit, & gloria, & fama.
I know not (saith my Author) whether formerly the Family of Orange, did Intermarry with any descendent from a Daughter of Denmark, as is here intimated, it is sufficiently known this Princess was by her great Grand Mother Queen Anne of that family. And if the Prince of Orange as he here predicts, must lead the forlorn of the Northern Army, as he manifestly musters them with the Auxiliaries of England, their growing Estate and Honour, must be by their Aid; and so shews who is to be the leadng Monarch. This has been Printed several years.
Nostradamus predicts,
THAT Rome shall be ruled by the Britanish head,—That the new Prince that joins the lower and Northern Countries of Europe, shall be the instrument of loss to the Church of Rome. And that the Bishop of Rome, together with his Clergy, except they shew themselves willing to be reformed: shall be made to spit Blood when the Rose shall flourish.—
That of the Trojan Blood shall spring, a Prince of a doughty Dutch Heart, who shall attain to so high a degree, that he shall chase far away the Arabick or Mahometan multitude, and likewise return to the Church her Ancient Eminency and Sincerity.
I leave every man to his own liberty to Judge of those predictions as he pleases, I always lookt upon such kind of Prophesies as doubtful, and no certain conclusions to be drawn from them.