Another Part of the Second Book which ought to be referr'd to the Beginning of the Third.

The CONTENTS.

God is defcrib'd as the Creator, and is alone to be worshipped, and not Idols. Chrift must be born when Rome had conquer'd Ægypt; and he must Govern the World. Three must destroy Rome, after which the World shall have its end; but the Sibyl promifes to declare the Calamities which fhall happen in every City, in their order; which is done in the third Book.

Hou Heavenly Author of Thunder,

THO

who art happy, and haft the Cherubim under thy Throne! I pray thee spare me a little, who always fpeak the Truth, 'for I am weary in my Mind. But why 'does my Heart palpitate again? Why is 'my Mind, ftruck with a Whip, forc'd to 'declare from within, a Prophecy in Verfe 'to all Men? I will speak all things which 'God commands me to declare to Men.

O Men! having the divine Form in your Image, why do you in vain err, and not walk in the ftreight Path, always remem

bring the Eternal Creator? For there is one God, who is a Monarch ineffable, living in Heaven, Author of himself, invifible, he alone feeing all things, whom no Carver in Stone, nor any Artificer in Gold or Ivory, made, or can reprefent his Image, but he hath fhew'd himself from all Eternity, who is, and was, and is to come. For, what mortal Man can behold GOD with his Eyes? And, who is capable alone to hear the Name of the Heavenly Great God, who governs the World, and by his Word created all things, both Heaven and Sea, the unwearied Sun, and the encreasing Moon, and the fhining Stars, and our strong Mother the Earth, the Fountains and Rivers, incorruptible Fire, Days and Nights.

This God made Adam, whofe Name con fifts of four Letters, who was first made, and by his Name and Pofterity fill'd the Eaft, Weft, South, and North: He made the form and figure of Men, the wild Beafts, the creeping things, and Fowls. You do not worship or fear God, but vainly err, worshiping Serpents, and facrificing to Cats and other Idols, the ftony Statues of Men, and place them before the Doors of prophane Temples. Adhere to the true God, who preferves all things. You being delighted with the vain Beauty of the Stones, forget the Judgment of the Immortal Saviour, who made Heaven and Earth.

O Generation of bloody Men, deceitful, wicked, impious, double-tongu'd, Lyars,

The Kingdom of
Chrift, after the
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ill-natur'd, Adulterers, Idolaters, treaclierous who have a violent Inclination in their Hearts to do Mifchief; they live by Robbery, and have much Impudence in their Minds; for none that is rich, having Plenty, will give to another, but there fhall be an exceeding Wickedness in all Men; they hall have no Faith, and many Widows fhall privately love others for Gain, and they that have Husband's fhall not observe the Laws of Wedlock.

But after that, Rome fhall govern Ægypt Conqueft of uniting it to the Empire: Then the great Kingdom of the Immortal King fhall appear amongst Men, and a holy King shall come, commanding all the World for all Ages of Time to come; and then the inevitable Anger of God fhall fall on the Latins : Three fhall deftroy Rome by a miferable Fate, and all Men fhall be destroy'd in their own Houses, when the River of Fire fhall defcend from Heaven. O me miferable! when that Day fhall come, and the Judgment of the Immortal God, the great King!

Rome must be destroy'd by three, the Goths,

Vandals, and

Turks at laft; then the World

muft be burnt,

Now why do you build Cities, and adorn them all with Temples, Studies, Marketplaces, gilt, or carv'd, or cover'd with Silver, or made of Stone, that you may come to that fad Day? For it fhall come when the Smell of Brimftone defcends amongst Men. But I will declare all things, in what Cities Men fhall fuffer Calamities.

Note,

Note, This Prophecy about the Destruction of Rome by three, cannot relate to Auguftus, Antonius, or Lepidus, because they did not deftroy Rome, and they were before Chrift; and the World muft end when the Turkish Pyrates have destroy'd it: as is here describ'd in the Eighth Book.

Note, All the things which the will declare, are in the Third Book; and this is the Preface to it.

THE

THIRD BOOK.

The CONTENTS.

This Book has the Account of Antichrift in its beginning, which is out of its place, and ought to follow the Account of Belial in the Second Book, and not to precede the Hiftory of the Tower of Babel in the Third. Belial fhall come out of Sebaftia, his Royal City, and work Miracles, and be burnt, and at the fame time a Woman fhall govern; she shall become a Widow, and lofe her Riches, and then the World fhall end.

The tenth Age is after the Flood, when the Titans reign'd; after them the Monarchies. The old HiStory of the Jews. Babylon will fuffer much under the Perfians, and Egypt be conquer'd by 'em. Mefopo

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Mefopotamia is call'd Gog and Magog; it shall be a place of Wars, under the Perfian and Grecian Monarchies.

Libya fhall be miferable under the Revolutions of the Perfian, Grecian, and Roman Empires.

The Western parts must fuffer by Land and Sea, for the Destruction of the Temple in Judea; and Italy become a Defart.

In the Western parts a Comet (A. D. 453) and Earthquakes destroy many Cities in Afia and Europe; the River Tanais fhall alter its Course. Thefe Signs happen'd before the Northern Nations invaded Italy.

Conftantinople is defcrib'd, and the peaceable times of Conftantine. The Goths fhall come into Macedonia, and plunder both East and Weft; the Saracens conquer in Europe, and after that Babylon fhall be fubdu'd by them.

The Turk is call'd a cruel Man, who will come into Afia, and conquer it, and the Conftantinopolitan Emperor, who is call'd the Father of the ten Horns. The firft Families of the Turks fhall be destroy'd, who were of the Zelzuccian Race, but they shall leave a Root, the Caramanian King; and these at last were overcame by the Ottoman Race; Ac tunc adnafcens cornu regnabit. He shall con quer Phrygia and Ilium, and these Wars must be writ by another lying Homer, who will impute all to the Saints. Then Chalcedon, Lycia, and Cyzicus muft fuffer by the Western People; and Byzantium will encourage the Wars against the Western Princes, who for that reason they conquer'd it; and then the Venetians feiz'd the Inlands. Rhodes, Samos and Cyprus were taken by King Richard; and the Western Princes conquer'd the Perfian Forces which came to the affitance of the Turks in the Holy War.