Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

cenfe, and Gifts to the Houses of the Great God, and there fhall be no other House to be enquir'd for by the Generations of Men that are to come, but the faithful Man whom God has given to be worship'd, for Mortals call him the Son of the Great God; and all the Paths of the Fields, and rough Shores, and high Mountains, and the raging Waves of the Sea, fhall be eafily pafs'd, or fail'd through in thofe Days; for all Peace fhall happen to the Good, through all their Land, the Prophets of the Great God fhall take away all Slaughter, for they are the Judges of Mortals, and the righteous Kings. And there fhall be juft Riches for Men, for the Government of the Great God fhall be juft Judgment. Rejoyce, Ó Virgin, and be glad, for He that hath created Heaven and Earth hath given thee Eternal Joy; He fhall live with thee, and Eternal Light fhall be given thee.

The Wolves and Lambs fhall eat Herbs together in the Mountains, and the Panthers fhall feed together with the Kids; and the Bears shall be kept with the Calves in the fame place, and the carnivorous Lyon fhall eat Straw out of the Manger, as an Ox; and very young Children shall bind them in Bonds, and a fmall thing will affright a wild Beaft; and Dragons fhall fleep with their young ones, and not hurt them, for the Hand of God fhall protect them.

Note,

:

Note, That the Government of God is call'd his Judgment, that is, the Judgment of the Juft will be in the Millennium. The Virgin is the Bride, or Church, in the Revelations God the Creator fhall inhabit the Earth: The innocent State of the Creatures in the Millennium is defcrib'd, as in the Prophets; the Millennium will be before the End of the World.

End

But I will tell thee very clearly the Signs before the d Thefe Prodigio whereby you may know when the End of the World. all these things fhall happen in the Earth: When Swords fhall be feen in the Night, towards Sun-fetting or Sun-rifing, in the Starry Heavens, and a Duft defcends from Heaven fuddenly upon all the Earth; and the Light of the Sun fhall fail in the middle of its Course in the Heavens; and the Beams of the Moon fhall fhine, and fhall prefently come to the Earth with bloody Drops, and the Rocks fhall give a Sign, and in a Cloud the Fight of Horfmen and Footmen will be feen, like the Crôud made in the hunting of wild Beafts; this end God, who lives in Heaven, will give to War. But all ought to Sacrifice to the Great King.

Note, That the Swords may be the Tails of Comets; the Duft may come from the burning Mountains Eruptions; the Sun eclips'd by its own Macula, and the Moon lofing its Luminous Reflection, will appear red, as in Eclipses; and the Smoke and Vapours in the Air, may reprefent the Fights mention'd: So that all these Signs are

G 2

pro

probable, and may come by natural means. These Things relating to the End of the World are neither in the Old or New Teftament; and therefore these Signs were neither writ by a Few or Chriftian. Lactantius quotes this Book often, and fo does Justin Martyr; so that we know it to be genuine, tho' the Words in the Verfes differ in the Quotations many times, but the Senfe is the fame; which proves, that there were divers Greek Copies of these Oracles.

Note farther, That the Worship of God is defcrib'd thro' this Book by the Jewish Sacrifices, and therefore thefe Prophefies were writ before Chrift, otherways here would have been fome mention of the Sacraments.

These things I prophecy'd to the World concerning God's Wrath upon Men, when I was infpir'd with a Fury and left great Babylon in Affyria: And I am a Fire fent against the Greeks, and these are the divine Enigma's, which I have declar'd by prophecying, but the Men in Greece will fay I am of another Country, born at Erythrea, very impudent; thefe will fay I am mad, and a falfe Sibyl, born of Circe my Mother, and Groftus my Father; but when all things come to pafs, then you fhall remember me, and then none will fay I am mad; but a Prophetess of the Great God, who fhew'd to me thofe things which were before my Parents; and what things were first done, thefe he taught me; and all things which were to be hereafter God put into my Mind, that I might prophecy of things that were paft, and of things to come, and tell these

things to Men; for when the World was drowned, and only one Man of worth was left in his wooden Houfe, fwimming on the Waters with the wild and tame Beasts, that the World might replenish again by them; I was his Daughter-in-Law, and of his Blood. The first things happen'd in his Time, and all the laft were declar'd to him. Thus all things are truly deliver'd from my Mouth.

Note, This Sibyl declares the came from Babylon, and is call'd by the Greeks the Erythrean. The Grecians fay fhe is born of Circe, a Witch, and Gnoftus, a Wizzard; the Obfcurity of this Prophecy got her the Name of being mad, but the Defign of this Prophefie was to declare the Fate of Greece, and its conqueft by the Turks; and fince all these things are come to pafs in leffer Afia, Greece, and Egypt, and the Reformation from Idolatry, as this Prophefie has foretold, I have plainly prov'd, that this Sibyl was a Prophetefs infpir'd by God, and that thefe Oracles are no Forgeries of the Jews and Chriftians, fince this could not be taken from the New or Old Teftament: And there are more Circumstances concerning Chrift's Star, the return of the Jews, and the Millennium, and Signs of the End of the World, than are writ in our Bibles. And I muft farther remark, that this Sibyl here owns, the History of the Deluge was writ by her, which is contain'd in the first Book; and then I infer that the writ this Book. The Sibyl calls her felf the Daughter of Noah, because the was defcended from him, as all Mankind must acknowledge they did. And note, this Sibyl does not call the Turk Nero, as the following Sibyls do, and therefore the is a different Sibyl from the following. G 3

THE

THE

FOURTH BOOK.

Xerxes.

The CONTENT S.

the

It begins with a Declaration, that this Sibyl had not ber Oracles from Phoebus, a falfe God, but from the great God, who is no Idol, but governs World. He infpir'd her to relate all things, from the firft Age to the eleventh. She commends Piety, condemns Idolatry, and fays, God will come to judge both the Righteous and Wicked. The Wicked fhall again be condemn'd to Darkneß, and the Righteous fhall inherit the Earth, after their Refurrection, which shall come to paß in the tenth Age. In the beginning the Affyrians fhall reign fix Ages after the Flood; then the Medes two Ages, and in their time a great Darkneß shall happen in the middle of the Day, and many Cities fhall be overturn'd by Earthquakes, and Islands rife from the Sea: then the Perfians fhall conquer the Medes, and obtain the Empire, which shall be happy for one Age. Then the Grecians fhall come over the Hellefpont, and destroy Afia. Then fhall be a Famine in Egypt twenty Years, and Greece fhall be invaded by a great King both by Sea and Land, Sicily fhall be destroy'd by Etna,

and

« AnteriorContinuar »