Note, This feems to be Ogyges's Flood, in which time the Inland Delos 'rofe out of the Waters. Ogges was King of Thebes, in whole time this Deluge happen'd; it is reckon'd after Noah's 536 Years, and before Deucalion's many Years. Ogyges's Flood was 1796 Years before Chrift. This is the firft certain Fact in the Hiftory of Greece; with this the Sibyl begins this Bock, to fhew the beginning of Idolatry.

O Phrygia! thou shalt first appear above the top of the Waters, and first deny God, and turn to Impiety, and delight in other Idols which are horrid, and will destroy thee in future Ages..

The Ethiopians are miferable, fuffering lamentable Pains; they fhall be flain with the Sword, trembling in their Bodies.

Egypt fhall be destroy'd by intestine Sedition, which is fruitful, and always ar bounds with Corn, which Nile inundates with its seven Streams; then Men fhall fuddenly caft out Apis from amongst them, as no God.

Note, That Phrygia is accus'd as the Author of Idolatry, and in future Ages muft fuffer for it, as it did in the Revolutions of all the Empires, and at laft by the Turks; the Ethiopians must be slain in Battel, chiefly by the Romans, and they were expel'd thence by the Saracens, 647, who were conquer'd by the Turk. The Egyptians caft forth Apis under the Chriftian Emperors; and this is fome preceding Sedition.

Alas

Alas for Laodicea! thou neither didft fee Rev. 3, Laodicea God at any time, and thou, being very con- wants nothing: boafts, that the fident, wilt fpeak fally; the River of Lycus is advis'd to 2fhall lament thee.

The fame Great God, who is begotten, who fhall make many Stars, and hang his middle Axis in the Air, fhall raife a great Column for Men, as a terrible Sight, being encompass'd by Fire, whofe Sparks fhall destroy the wicked Generation of corrupt Men. There fhall be a common King, Sar turn; and then Men fhall entreat God, but they fhall not put an end to their fad Loffes; but all things fhall be perform'd by the Houfe of David, for God hath granted him to poffefs a Throne; for all the Genii fhall be fubject to him, both those who ap-. pear in Fire, and thofe who appear in Ri, vers, and they who preferve Cities, and they who fend Winds, or give a troublesom Life to many Men, infinuating themselves into their Souls, and changing the Minds of Men. But when the Branch fhall spring from the Root new in appearance, he shall diffolve the Creation, by which he gave abundant Nutriment to all things. And about this time more shall happen,

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that the may fee.

may be the other

many Barrels of

But when other Perfians fhall reign, who The Parthians are a Tribe of Warriours, there fhall pre- Perfians, or the fently be unlawful Marriages of Women in Cofres, who got their finful Tribes; the Mother fhall marry the Romans. her own Son, and the Son be a Husband to his Mother; the Daughter lie with the Father, and caufe him to fleep after this Bar

Artaxerxes re

He beat Severusj.

barian Practice: But after thefe, the Roman Armies fhall be famous in many Battels, and fhed human Blood in many Countries; and then the Italian Prince fhall fly, being concover'd Perfia from the Pathi- quer'd in Battels, and leave on the Ground ans and Romans. his Arnis adorn'd with Gold as he fled, and they fhall ever after fuffer (Defolation) the Sapores took Va Sign of Neceffity. Then fhall be a time lerian Captive; he worsted Con when Ilium, being always wicked and miferably unfortunate, fhall taste of more Funerals than Marriages; then the Nymphs fhall bewail grievously, because they knew not God, but delighted in the Noife of Drums and other founding Inftruments.

his Succeffor

ftantius.

Colophon is Ionia on the River Cayftrus.

Amurath the ad

Colophon! do thou confult the Oracle, for a terrible Fire hangs over thee.

O Theffaly unfortunate to the Nymphs, conquer'd Thef the Earth fhall not fee thee any more, nor faly, 1432, and the Venetians thy Afhes, for thou alone fhalt fly and fwim who defended it away from Epirus: O miferable Land! thou from Theffalo fhalt fall by the fwift Rivers, and by the Sword.

fled away by Sea

nica.

An. 1454, the O miferable Corinth thou shalt be enPalaologi (Tho mas and Deme- compafs'd by the fame War, and you fhall trim) were in deftroy one another.

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Note, That after the Roman Holy War in the quer'd Pelopon Eaft, thefe Misfortunes will befal Ilias and Colorefus, ann. 1460. phon, Cities in Afia and Theffaly, and Corinth in Greece. Thefe Wars fhall be from the Turks, who conquer'd thefe places, as well as Tyre; and Calo-Phanicia fuffer d by the fame. The Nymphs fled from Epirus when the Turks conquer'd it by Sea; and there were inteftine Diffenfions betwixt the Princes before the Turks took Corinth: So

of this Book.

this Book contains fome of thofe Hiftories mention'd in the third and fourth Books, and must be interpreted by them. The Deluge defcrib'd in An Allegorical the beginning represents the Tartars Invafion in Interpretation the Eaft; and Noah's, the Turks coming into Jia, because he is faid, like another Noah, to efcape it alone, and fugiens venit, which is the ufual Defcription of him. And then follows the Deftruction of Phrygia by him. And the Ethiopians are the Arabian Saracens, whom the Turk conquer'd firft in Syria, and afterwards in Egypt; and Lag dicea was taken by them. Christ's Punishment of the Eaftern Nations is represented by the Pillar encompass'd with Fire, that thence he may destroy the Wicked And, this Power God gave him, and the Pillar as a Throne. The other Perfians may be the Turks,, or Tartars, who learnt the inceftuous Marriages from the Perfians. Then the Rmans oppos'd the Turks in the Holy War, and their Blood was fpilt in every Country, and they fled, being conquer'd. After this War, the Ottomans rais'd their Kingdom, and conquer'd Ilium, Colo phon, Theffaly, and Corinth. | Act U

OnTyre! how many things fhalt thou alone Tuffer, who art the Country of Righteous Men? O Affyrian Calo-Phanicia! being formerly poffefs'd by honourable Men, over-against which lies the tempeftuous Ionian Seas. O thou miferable! thou kneweft not thy God, whom the Spirit washed in Fordan three times, and refted upon him a long time; who was formerly made a Lord, by the Word of his Father, and by the pure Spirit to govern both the Earth, and Starry Heavens. But he took a Body,

and

and swiftly afcended into Heaven; but the great Heavens made three great Towers for him, in which the good Mothers of God now inhabit [the Patriarchal Churches in the Eaft hope, a defirable Piety, and Religi on, not rejoycing in Silver and Gold, but in the Worshipers, and their Sacrifices, the Hearts of the moft juft. Thou fhalt facrifice to the immortal great God, who is fupream, not pieces of Frankincense melted by Fire, neither fhalt thou flay with a Knife a rough-hair'd Lamb; but with all those who are of the fame Blood with thee, thou Thalt take wild Birds, and (praying) fend them with thy Eyes fix'd upward to Heaven, and thou fhalt fprinkle Water on the pure Fire, fpeaking fuch things: "O Fa

ther, who haft begot thee, the Word! CO Father! I have fent the Bird, a fwift "Meffenger of my Prayers: O Word of "God! fprinkl'd in thy Baptifm with pure "Water, thou wilt not fhut the Door when "any Stranger fhall come, being in want,

to be deliver'd from Famine and Pover"ty, but receive him, and fprinkle the "Head of this Man with Water. And, praying, thrice fpeak fuch things to your God; "I do not love Riches; when I was "Poor, I receiv'd the Poor: O Father! "the Governour in all Places, hear me.

And he will give to thee Praying; and then the Man will answer, "Do not afflict 6.6 me, who am a holy Worshipper of God, just, pure, free, and a chofen Offspring:

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