1 pillag'd, and ravish'd the Citizens; the Emperor and Nobles were flain. 1460, the Empire of Trapezond was conquer'd, David the Emperor beheaded: And befides the two Empires, the Turks took from the Chriftians 12 Kingdoms, and conquer'd 200 Cities. 1481, Badjazet the fecond fubdu'd the Caramanian Kingdom, part of Armenia, and drove the Venitian out of the Morea, and their part of Dalmatia. 1512, Selymus, Emperor after he had poyfon'd his Father, conquer'd Syria, Palestine, Arabia, and the Mammalukes in Ægypt. 1520, Solyman the fecond, the Magnificent, furpriz'd Rhodes, Belgrade, Buda, with a great part of Hungary; Babylon, Affyria, Mefopotamia were conquer'd by him: He befieg'd Vienna, 1529, but was drove out of Germany again the first time; and from this time the declination of the Turkish Empire may be reckon'd; for after the Reformation the Sibyls fay no more of the Turkish Conquefts, altho' fince they have taken fome Countries, 1567, Selymus the second took from the Venetians, Cyprus; and from the Moors the Kingdoms of Tunis and Algiers. 1575, Amurath the third took from the Perfians, Armenia, Media, the City Taurus. 1595, Mahomet the third took Agria iņ Hungary. 16031 1603, Achmet was Emperor, and he made Peace with the Germans. 1618, Mustapha fucceeded. 1618, Ofman was Emperor; he was unfuccessful in his War with Poland, and was flain by the Fanizaries. 1623, Amurath the fourth recover'd Babylon from the Perfians, 1638. 1640, Ibrahim was unfuccefsful in his Wars with the Venetians, and depos'd. 1648, Mahomet the fourth, whofe Army was beat at the Siege of Vienna 1683, he took Candia from the Venetians. 1687, Solyman the third lost Hungary, and fome part of Sclavonia, Servia, Tranfylvania, Moldavia, Walachia. 1691, Achmet the fecond, he fucceeded by the help of the French Faction. 1694, Mustapha the fecond fucceeded; he concluded a Peace with the Chriftians at Carlowitz, 1698. 1703, The Fanizaries mutinied, and fet up Achmet, who is the 24th Ottoman Emperor, and 14th King of Egypt, Selymus being the first. I have here defcrib'd the Saracen and Turkish Empires, to fhew the great Changes they made in the Roman Empire, and the Prophefies must therefore take notice of them: The Fall of the Saracens is fignified by the Destruction in the Harvest and Vintage; the Fall of the Ottomans is defcrib'd in the feven Vials. 1571, The Turks maritime Power funk in the Battel of Lepanto, where the Chriftians took, burnt, and funk 230 Ships; the Sea feem'd red with Blood, and fince that time the Turks have never been confiderable at Sea. I have been often of Opinion that this might be the fecond Vial; but we find the Turkish Empire encreas'd till the Siege Turks kill'd in and taking of Candia, anno 1669, since which, he Siege of it has declin'd at the late Siege of Vienna: But the Sibyls reckon its declination from 80,-754 the Return of the Jews, when a Plague, Candia. fiery Showre, Famine, and Earthquakes will weaken the Empire of the Ottomans. The full defcription of the Fall of the Turkish Empire may be read in the fifth Book of the Oracles, which foretel great Changes in the Ottoman Empire after the 15th King of ib. 8th of Egypt. Selymus is the first, and the 14th he Oracles. now reigns. Some Enquiries after particular Hiftories, to which fome Prophefies relate. HE General Changes in the Hiftory of the Roman Empire are very evident, but the Earthquakes, Inundations, and other Prodigies are loft, or will be difficultly retriev'd; and a particular History of the Turkish Conquefts in Afia minor is frequently refer'd to, in the third Book. I cannot find fome Circumstances of them defcrib'd in the com common Histories of the Turks, the want of that will make the Prophefies more obfcure, like the old Jewish Prophefies, whose Hiftories are loft; I must therefore refer the Reader to the Bizantine Hiftory, and Chalcocondylas, &c. ENQUIRIES. Book 2. When the Star appear'd like a Crown? the Star at Christ's Birth, or the Pillar of Light, in Conftantine's Banner, reprefented with a Crofs and Crown on the top. This is most probable, the Historians mention it. Book 3. When the Afiatic and European Cities fell by Earthquakes, Iaffis, Cebre, Pan doia. When Tanais River left Maotis. Who the old Poet Chion was, who impu When Trallis fell by an Earthquake, and the hot Spring broke forth. When Samos built Royal Cities. When the Thracians were remov'd, ad alios ventos. When Cyrnus and Sardo funk in the Sea. Whether Carchedon is not mistaken for Chalcedon. T 2 Book Book 4. When the River Pyramus came to the Holy Island Cyprus; and when the Greeks fled from Bactria. Whether Pyramus was Ibrahim the second, a Caramanian King, for in Opfopeus's Fragments 'tis faid, de Cilicii autem adventu in Cyprum, fapientiffima mulierum fic ad verbum dicit. Erit pofteris quando Pyramus late unde littora perfundens, facram in Cyprum veniet. When the darkness happen'd in the time of the Medes, the Earth quaked then, and Islands rofe. Where and when the City in Sicily was drowned. The 20 Years Famine in Agypt. Book 5. When Nile did overflow Agypt, and rofe 16 Cubits. What Poets defcrib'd the Miseries of Greece under the Conquefts of the Turks. When was the Burning of India and Æthiopia by the Sun. Where Lesbos on Eridanus is or was. Who was the Lycurgus at Smyrna. Book 7. When Cyprus fuffer'd an Inunda tion, and Sicily the fame. Where Sardo Inland was. What part of the Alps is cover'd with Sand, which belongs to the Celta. Book 8. When Egypt shall have 15 Kings. Who Hilara will be. The |