under the Sun, nor any great number of Years, nor Tribes of People, because of their deceitful Tongues and wicked impure Lives, which they all liv'd, and spake prophane Words from their impure Mouths, which are falfe and wicked; and they rebell'd against the great God and King, and fpake falfly with their wicked Mouths: for this caufe they fhall be conquer'd by a hortible Slaughter thro' the whole Land, and God fhall fend them a miferable Fate, burning the Cities to the Ground, with their Foundations.

Note, That Ptolemais was taken by the Egyp tian Sultan and burnt, and the Foundation dug up in 1291. At that Siege there were many Murders, Felonies, Rapes, &c. committed in the City, and the Governours at variance about the Command of the City. In 1290, Tyre and Sidon were burnt by the Mammaluke's Sultan of Egypt, and now they are heaps of Ruins. And Selymus, be fore his Conquefts of Egypt, took Phenicia from the Mammalukes.

O Crete! who muft fuffer many Troubles! for a Slaughter fhall happen to thee, which fhall be a horrible and everlasting Överthrow, and all the Earth shall behold thy burning, and the Fire fhall not leave thee for an Age, but thy burning fhall continue fo long.

Note, The Turks burnt and pillag'd Crete 1571, but at last took it from the Venetians by a long War

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Alas for thee, Thrace! because thou shalt come into a fervile Yoke when the Galatians, mix'd with the Dardanida, fhall violently wafte Greece, and then thou fhalt fuffer Mischief: Thou shalt do Injury to other Countries, and receive the fame thy felf.

Note, The Turks took Gallipolis in Thrace, ann. 1358; and afterwards Adrianople, in 1362; and Conftantinople, in 1453. The Dardanide are in Upper Mafia, call'd Servia, near Macedonia, or in Afia minor, from Dardanum in Myfia minor. The Turks wafted Greece before they took Conftantinople, and oft brought their Afiatic Armies into Thrace.

Woe to thee Gog and Magog, and all the other in order, Marfog and Angon! How many ill Fates will attend thee? Many to the People of Lyfia, Myfia, Phrygia, and the Pamphylian Nation: And many Evils will fall on Lydia, the Moors, Ethiopians, and other Nations of a barbarous Language; the Cappadocians and Arabians. But why do I relate all the Particulars? for the Highest will fend a terrible Slaughter on all Nations who inhabit the Earth.

Note, Cappadocia was conquer'd by the Turk ann. 1537; and then was alfo Galatia and Armenia fubdued by him. The Countries which lie Northward in Little Afia the Turk did conquer, after their Conqueft of Thrace, when the Caramanian and other fmall Kingdoms rebell'd against the Ottoman Emperors. And Ottoman conquer'd many Provinces before his Succeffors came into

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Gog and Magog, or the Mefopotamians, fo call'd Hierapolis in by the Sibyls: the Tartars, in their own Tongue, led Mageg by th Comagene is cal are call'd Mogli, from Magog. There is a Hill in Allyrians, Afia minor call'd Mefogis, which may be Marfog

here mention'd. Angon is miftaken for Dagon for the Philiftins, whofe God he is.

But when the most barbarous Nation The Turks Con fhall come into Greece, it fhall deftroy the quest of Greeça Kingdoms of many great Men, and many

fat Cattle of the Inhabitants, the Horfes and Mules, and Herds of bellowing Oxen, and unjustly burn the well-built Houfes, and by force carry away many Slaves into another Land; and the well-cloath'd Women, who were tenderly kept, out of their Chambers, who will fall down thro' the delicate tenderness of their Feet; they fhall fee 'em in Fetters under their barbarous Enemies, fuffering all manner of cruel Reproach; and none fhall fpare them, or help 'em by War, or defend their Lives, but they fhall fee their Enemies enjoying all their Poffeffions, and all their Wealth; their Knees fhall tremble, a hundred fhall fly, and one fhall destroy 'em all; five fhall overcome a strong Army, they fhall fhamefully fight, and raise terrible Tumults, which will give great Joy to their Enemies, and Grief to the Grecians; and all Greece fhall be reduc'd into Slavery and Bondage. And they fhall not only fuffer all the Miferies by War, but by a Plague alfo: And God fhall make the great and high Heavens F 3

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like Brafs, the Earth fhall be like Iron, not having any Rain, but all Men fhall afterward grievously lament their Lands unfown, and untill'd, and burnt with Fire; and God, who made Heaven and Earth, will raise high Trees on that Land fit for Mafts; and the Third Generation of Men shall grow up again (the Men fit for War).

O Greece! why do you confide in Princes, who are mortal Men, who cannot avoid Death, to which they must inevitably come? Why do you give vain Offerings to the Dead, and facrifice to Idols? Who hath inftill'd this Error into your Minds, to do these things, leaving and forfaking the Face of the great God, but own the Name and Worship of him, who made all things? Do not forget that it is 1500 Years fince the proud Kings reign'd in Greece, who firft led Men to these Wickedneffes, to make many Idols of Gods, who are only corrupt dead Men, for whofe fake you were taught to think of vain things: But when the Anger of the great God fhall fall on you, then you will acknowledge the Perfon of the great God, and all People fhall much lament, lifting their Hands up to the large Heavens; and they fhall begin to call on the great King to help 'em; and they fhall feek who fhall be their Deliverer from this great Wrath.

Note, That the Chriftian Idolatry is here reprov'd, which they learnt from the Greeks; for when the Turks conquer'd Greece, the Heathen Idolatry

Idolatry was extinguish'd long before in that Country. The computation of the 1500 Years is from the laft Heathen King of Greece till the Ottomans, who, according to the Sibyl Prophecy, now took poffeffion of it: Perfew, the laft King, was carried to Rome 159 Years before Chrift, and Badjazet conquer'd Macedon 1373, from whence to Perfeus will be 1532 Years; the odd Years are not usually reckon'd in Prophecies.

But learn this, and keep it in your Minds, how many Funerals fhall happen in Greece in the Ages to come: And when Greece fhall facrifice Bulls and Oxen at the Temple of the great God, as Holocaufts, it shall efcape the noifie War, and its Terror, and the Plague, and alfo be deliver'd from Bondage and Slavery again: But yet the Generation of wicked Men fhall remain there till the fatal Day of the end of the World fhall happen; for Greece fhall not facrifice. to God till all thefe things are come to pafs For there is an abfolute neceflity that all things fhould be done which God alone wills and decrees should be brought to pass.

Note, The Turks must continue in Greece "till the Millennium, when Chrift will come to deftroy them. Whofoever does confider this Prophecy concerning this Conqueft of Greece, and its Slavery, which must laft to the end of the World, muft acknowledge, that 'tis a true Description of the Turkish Conquefts there, after he had conquer'd little Afia and Thrace; and, that under the notion of the old Grecian Idolatry the Worship of Saints and Images in the Chriftian Church is reprefen

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