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he flew all the Men, and deftroy'd all their Riches.

fo that miferable Men had but the third part left. [This Verfe is mifplac'd in the Oracles, and ought to be here. ]

And a King was fent from God against them, and he fhall come from the West, with a fwift Sail, or Leap, who fhall waste all the Land, and make it defolate.

Note, That Rex Cissi Missus is a Western Prince in the Holy War; Cittim is the Western Parts; fo the Ships are faid to come from thence.

But when the (Saracen) Prince of Ægypt, fhall be the strongest, it shall cause a fhame ful Fear; he fhall come to destroy the bleffed City, and then a ftrong King fhall be fent from God, who fhall flay all the great Kings, and the most famous Commanders, and then the utter Ruin of Men fhall fol lów.

Note, This is a Defcription of Saladin's Conqueft of the Chriftians, and of his taking Ferufalem from them, Anno 1199. After it had been held by many of them 89 Years, Saladin turn'd the Temples Foundations into a Mofch, and made Stables of the reft, only the Temple of the Sepul chre was redeem'd by the Chriftians. This is the fulfilling of that Prophecy concerning Antichrift fitting in the Temple of God. This laft divine King is Haolan the Tartar, who flew the Sultan at Damafcus; and this Tartar was a Chriftian.

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Alas for thee, O timerous Heart! why doft thou move me to declare the troublefome Government of Egypt under many Princes?

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Note, This is the Saracen Caliphs, and after them, the Turks, from 1163, till 1245, when the Mammalukes poffefs'd it, whom the Turk Selymus conquer'd, Anno 1517.

Turn to the East, to the foolish Nation of the Perfians, and fhew them those things that were before, and thofe things which

are to come.

The Water of the River Euphrates fhall The Invafion of make an Inundation, which fhall deftroy the Turks in Perfia and Afia Perfia and Iberia, and Babylon, the Maffagetes (Scythians) lovers of War, and all with their Arrows; all Afia fhall be burnt and confum'd, as far as the Iflands; and Perga mos, formerly very famous, fhall be cut down as a Branch; and all Pitane fhall ap pear a great Wilderness to all Men, and Lesbos fhall fink into the deep bottom of the Sea, and feem to perifh; and Smyrna fhall Smyrna was for weep, rolling down from its, Precipices, the Hills; after and perish, tho' formerly famous, and of its fuffering by great Reputation. The Bithynians fhall many Earthquakes, it was weep for their burnt Country, and for rebuilt on the great Syria, and Phoenicia, abounding in Hills. Trees.

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prefented. The Turks came first from Tartary into Armènia major, now call'd Turcomannia, Anno 844, thence they were call'd by the Sultan of the Saracens to his Affiftance; and afterwards Tangrolopix, Anno 1030, conquer'd Perfia. Anno 1075, the Turks having conquer'd the Caliph of Babylon, came into Syria, and it was agreed betwixt them and Axan, the Turkish Sultan in Perfia, that Melec and Ducat thould have Aleppo and Damafcus, and what they could conquer from the Saracens in Syria. Cutlumufes, another of the Turkish Generals, conquer'd Cilicia, Media, Armenia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Bithynia in Afia minor : And to thefe Conquefts this Prophecy evidently belongs.

Euphrates is the great River of Mefopotamia: Iberia is Northward of Armenia major. Iberia is now Georgia. Pergamos is a City in Myfia; Pitane a City in Æolia, in Afia minor, or in Myfia major, near the Coafts of the Egaan Sea. Lef bes is an Ifland in the Egean Sea. Bithynia is a Country in Afia minor, over-against Thrace.

Alas for thee, O Lycia! how many Mifchiefs are contriv'd for thee! He fhall afcend amongit thy miferable People, who - fhall freely admit him into their Country: How fhalt thou weep with bitter Rivers of Tears, for this Invafion, or Earthquake? Lycia fhall be without Ointments, who formerly us'd much; and Phrygia fuffer a grievous Vengeance, becaufe of the Mourning, for which Jupiter's Mother Rhea went thither, and remain'd there. He fhall deftroy Pontus, whofe Inhabitants are a Generation which came from Mount Taurus, and a barbarous Nation.

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Note, This Deftruction will befal Phrygia for its ancient Idolatry of Rhea and Jupiter; and afterwards the Chriftians worship'd Saints, and the Virgin Mary. Rhea was call'd Dea Phrygia, and the Mother of Jupiter. Lycia is a Country in Afia minor, famous for Ointments. Pontus is a Country in Afia minor, near on the North to the Euxine Sea, and has Thrace on the Weft, and Bosphorus. All these were conquer'd by Cutlumufes and his Succeffors, when they came into Afia minor hom

And the Lapitha he fhall utterly destroy; and Theffaly fhall be deftroy'd by the Inundation of Peneus, which is a deep River, and shall destroy the Figures of Beafts from the Earth.

Note, That the Lapithe are a People in Theffaly, which is a part of Macedonia; Amurath, Anno 1386, poffefs'd many Places in Macedonia and Theffaly. This is the Inundation of Pencus, a River on the North of Theffaly: The Inundation of this River made Deucalion's Flood. And now this Inundation reprefents the Turks Invafion of Greece, and the Deftruction of the fmall Kingdoms, which are call'd wild Beafts. The Beast is the Empire, in the prophetick Stile. Bonifacius was made King of Theffaly, 1210; there was then a King in Epirus, and others in Peleponnefus, and the Venetians had much of Greece, which the Turk took from them.

Eridanus (the River Po in Italy) is faid to beget the Figures of wild Beafts at that time.

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Note, Many Princes at this time were fet up by the Pope, and many fmall States are call'à wild Beafts; and the Emperor made many free States.

And two or three Poets fhall defcribe the Miseries of Greece, under the Turkish Tyranny.

When the great King of great Rome (the Pope) a God-like Man from Italy fhall invade the Neck of Ifthmus, whom, they say, Jupiter begot himself, (that is, Christ's Vicar,) and honourable Juno, (that is, he was elected by the Church,) he fhall deftroy many (the Reformers) with their miferable Mother (the Church.)

Note, That the Pope is here call'd the great King of Rome, because of his temporal Power and Dominions there; the Emperors were then drove out of Italy, and could not be the great King there. The Pope fet up the feveral Kingdoms of Naples; the Norman Line he prefer'd, Anno 1125, the German in 1198, the French in 1261, and he made them his Tributaries. The Papal Kingdom came to great Power in the Time of Gregory the 7th, Anno 1073, when he excommunicated Henry IV, the German Emperor, for meddling with the Inveftitures. Anno 1159, Alexander III. excommunicated Frederic the Emperor, and fet his Foor on his Neck. Thus the Spiritual_Tyranny at Rome began at the fame time the Turkish Empire was fet up in the East.

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