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fhip (i. e. become fubject to) the Mahometan or Saracen Empire, whofe deadly Wound was heal'd, tho' the Saracens were flain. The Mahometan Empire was fupported by the Turks, and Mahomet's Religion follow'd by all People, whom he at first deceiv'd by his Miracles: He pretended to make Fire come from Heaven, which is mention'd in his Alcoran to be Thunder, which destroy'd a Village. The Image made to the first Beaft is the fame Tyranny and Religion fet up by the Turk as Mahomet us'd amongst his Saracens, and he forc'd all to profefs that Religion and wear Turbants, as true Mufelmen. The Mark in the right Hand is the Mark of Soldiers, or the Profession of their Creed, that there is one God, and Mahomet his Prophet. The number of the Man who fet up Government is 666; that is the Year of the beginning of this Empire, if we reckon by the Æra made by Julius Cafar, which is 44 or 45 Years before Chrift; and add 622, the Christian Reckoning, when Mahomet fled from Mecca, and his Hegira will begin 666, if we reckon nicely; for Erasmus Rheinboldus affirms, that the Hegira began in 621, and 195 Days: And the numeral Letters in Mahomet's Greek Name make near the fame number, but the numbers of his Arabic Name ought chiefly to be confider'd, which I hope they will do who understand that Language.

As an Account is given both of the Rife of the Saracens and Turks, in Chap. 9, fo 0 3

both

Sibyl. Orac.

Lib. 5.

Lib. 3.

both are joyn'd together in Chap. 13, and
in the continuance of both 42 Months, the
Lunar Years both the Saracens and Turks
ufe, and both reckon by their Hegira, which
is reckon❜d from Mahomet's Flight.

The coming of the Turks into Syria:
Aufugiet Babylone malus Rex horribilifque,
Quem male mortales omnes odere, bonique,
Suftulit & templum Divinitus ædificatum,
Et cives igni combuffit

Hoc enim tremuit rerum natura creato,
Et reges periere:

Perdiderunt magnamq; urbem, populumq; bonorum
Purpurea ftirpis patrem excindendo ferocem,
Cornibus ex denis, aliam plantam feret inde,
Et tunc agnafcens cornu regnabit.

The Turks conquer Greece:

Barbara gens vero cum Græcos adorietur,
Multa quidem capita extirpabit le&a virorum.
The Turks muft continue in Greece till the
end of the World:

Sed tamen Impia ftirps hominum illuc ufq; vigebit,
Dum finem hoc capiat tempus fatale diefque.

I must observe, that the Beast in this Chapter is Antichrift, as he is defcrib'd in Daniel; makes War with the Saints, and fpeaks Blafphemies; and that the Pope, in the defcription of this Beaft, is made part of him; but nothing farther is mention'd in this Chapter concerning the Pope, nor in the fucceeding, till the 17th and 18th Chapters; all before relates to the Saracens and Turks Destruction, the Reformation, and

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Return of the Jews. In the beginning of the third Book the Sibyl joyns the Account of Antichrift and the Woman's reign, and the Fall of both at the end of the World.

At the fame time the Turkish Power rofe in the Eaft: In the Eleventh Century the Pope came to a full Power, or height of the Papacy, under Gregory the Seventh, 1073, and the following Popes had Wars with the Emperors for 200 Years.

The Lamb appears with 144000, his first Fruits, redeem'd from among Men; these fang a new Song, thefe follow Chrift in Heaven: This fhews the Reward of the Martyrs. The next Angel brings the everlafting Gofpel, that is, the Reformation from worshiping Saints and their Idol-Statues, to worship him that made Heaven and Earth.

And there follow'd another Angel, faying, Babylon is fallen.

The third Angel threatens thofe that worship the Beast and his Image, with Torments by Fire and Brimftone. At this time Babylon was the Seat of the Saracen Caliphs, who were conquer'd by Tangrolopix after his Conquest of Perfia, in 1030; and the Tartars utterly deftroy'd the Caliph in 1260, under Haalon.

The Son of God appears with a Siecle to reap the Harvest, that is, to destroy the Saracens in Perfia, Syria, Afia minor, by the Holy War, and by the Tartars. The Grapes 04

were

Rev. ch. 14.

Sibyl. Orac.
Lib. 5.

Lib. 5.

were cut with the Siecle; that is, many Saracens flain in Italy, France, Spain, in which Countries Wines abound; but the greatest Maffacre of them was made in the West. Thefe Angels came out of the Temple. Thefe Slaughters were made by the Chriftian Princes, and the Tartars were Christians.

The Posterity of Seleucus held Babylon till the Parthians feiz'd it, and they had many Wars with the Romans. Trajan made fome Conquefts of it, but Adrian neglected it, and confin'd the Roman Empire within Euphrates. The Saracens took Babylon and Perfia, and held a Caliphate in it 500 Years.

The Turks take Persia and Babylon :
Et Perfas perdent & Iberos & Babylona.
The Holy War with the Saracens and Turks:
Rex ciffis miffus divinitus illi,
Ipfe ex occafu faltu veloce volabit,
Terram defolans, & vaftans funditus omnem.
The coming of the Tartars:

Sed cum terribilis multum dirusque valebit,
Famque beaturum veniet populetur ut urbem:
Rex quidam fortis miffus divinitus illi,
Omnes exfeindet magnos regefq; virofque.
Deq; polo veniet fidus magnum in mare magnum:
Altumque exuret pontum, atq; ipfam Babylonem.

The Tartars, joyn'd with the Armenians, overthrew 100000 Babylonians.

Babylon was not burnt by Cyrus or Alexander, but decay'd under the Grecians, who

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remov'd the People to Seleucia; therefore this Deftruction of Babylon is Bagdat, and not Rome. The Sibylline Oracles always diftinguish the Fate of Babylon and Rome, for they never call Rome Babylon. And the prefent Bagdat was built by the Perfians or Turks, near Babylon, and muft fall by an Earthquake at last.

The feven Angels with the feven Vials Rev. ch. 15. appear: They who had got the Victory over the Beast stood on the Sea of Glafs mingled with Fire, finging the Song of Mofes; the Jews are the Perfons here defcrib'd, who had been long try'd under the Tyranny of the Turk: They fing Mofes's Song upon their return into their Country.

The Sibyl mentions the Jews Song:

Lib. 3.

Tunc dulci incipient meditari carmine laudes,
Et modulata facris dicent tibi carmina linguis, Lib. 5.
Omnigenifq; deo facris, precibusq; litabunt.

The Tabernacle is open'd in Heaven, and the feven Angels came out of the Temple; one of the four Beafts gave them the Vials. 'Tis plain, by the Sibylline Oracles, that the Return of the Jews must fucceed the Reformation, and be before the Fall of Rome and that of the Turkish Empire. The Defign of the Vials, is the Destruction of the Turkish Empire, and the Return of the Jews begins with the first Vial.

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