and a City drowned; and Civil Wars fall hap pen in Greece, with a doubtful Victory. And in the tenth Age Macedonia fhall conquer Perfia: Thebes being taken, Tyre deftroy'd, Samos overwhelm'd with Sand, and Delos ruin'd, Babylon fhall make little refiftance. The Macedonians inhabit Bactra, but thence they shall fly into Greece. When Pyramus fhall reach the Holy Ifland, Sybaris and Cyzicus fhall fall by an Earthquake, and Rhodes be destroy'd; but the Macedonian Empire must fall by the Romans, who will conquer Carthage. Laodicea will be ruin'd by an Earthquake, and afterwards be repair'd. Corinth fhall be conquer'd, and Lycia deftroy'd by an Earthquake. Armenia fhall be conquer'd by the Italians, and they shall destroy the Jews Temple; but the Romans, thro' their Wickedness and Tyranny, fhall fall. Nero's Cruelty in killing his Mother is mention'd, and the vulgar Opinion, that he fled over Euphrates. Afterwards the Deftruction of the Temple and Country of Judea is defcrib'd; then the fame Earthquake fail destroy Paphos and Salamina, and caufe an Inundation in Cyprus. The Eruption of Vefuvius fhall fill the Air with Afbes, and red' Drops fhall fall like Minium: Then God will revenge the Death of the Godly (Chriftians) by Wars in the Weft; and Nero (i.e. the Turk) fhall come over Euphrates, and take Antioch, and deftroy Syria. Cyprus fhall fuffer by Winter Storms. The Riches of Rome fhall be brought into Afia in the Holy War. The Famine fall rife in Caria, afterwards Impiety and Cruelty fball encreafe, and God fhall deftroy the World, by burning it, and these Signs fhall precede it, Swords, Trumpets, and a terrible Noife at the Sun-rifing. After the Conflagration, Men fhall be rais'd from the Afbes, and the Fudgment shall

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Succeed and the Wicked fhall be again cover'd by the Earth, but the Righteous fhall again live on the Earth, and all fhall fee and know themSelves.

HEar, you boafting People of Asia and Europe! what things I, who am a Prophetess of God, and not of false Phœbus, am ready to prophecy, which are very true, and thefe I will declare in pleasant Verses from my own Mouth.

Vain Men call Phoebus a God, and pretend that he can prophecy, but I am a Prophe-. tefs of the great God, who is not made by Mens Hands, like to dunıb Idols hew'd out of Stone, neither has he a House, nor is a Stone fet up in a Temple, dumb and deaf, and a difgrace to Men, being alfo an occafion of their Miferies. None can fee God from the Earth, nor measure him with their mortal Eyes; no Hand of Mortals made him. He fees all Men at once, but is feen of none himself. He made the dark Night and Day, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Sea full of Fish, the Land, and the Rivers, and the Water of the ever-flowing Springs, Creatures for Food, and Showres to produce the Fruits of the Earth, and Trees, and Vines, and Olive-trees. This is he who agitates my Mind to declare truly to Men both things that are prefent, and things that will come hereafter, from the firft Generation to the eleventh; for He reveal'd and told them to me, and will per

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forn them. But thou, O People! hear the Voce of the Sibyl, who from her holy Moith speaks thefe true Prophecies.

Note, This Sibyl declares, that she was infpir'd by God, and not by Phabus, Jove's Son, the God of te Gentile Oracles; And fince she begins from theirft, as the Erythraan did, the must be anothe Sibyl, and probably the Cumaan, because she ufes the Character of Nero for the Turk: By whih Observation we may diftinguish two Sibyls. Ancfhe who uses Nero's Character may be the Cunean.

Thofe Men fhall be happy in the Earth wh love the great God, giving Praise to him before they eat and drink, obferving Rigteoufnefs, and who avoid all the IdolTemples they fee, and their Altars and Idolstatues of deaf Stones, which are pollutecwith the Blood of Mankind, and the Sacrices of Quadrupeds, but adore the Glor of the one God: They neither commit chel Murders, nor get great Gain by Theft, which are horrible to be done, nor have ay shameful Inclination to Adultery, nor torile, odious, and loathfom Sodomy; whofe ious Life and Converfation other Men wl not imitate, who delight in Impudence and deride them with Scorn and Laughte, and foolishly err thro' their want of Wifdm, who do mifchievous and wicked Actins;. for all Mankind are hard to be goverd. But when the Judgment fhall come, bth of the World and of Men,

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which God himself fhall execute, judging both the Wicked and Righteous, He will fend the Wicked again into Darkness; and then shall they know the great Impietythey have committed: But the Righteous fhall remain on the fruitful Earth, the Spiit of God giving them Life and Victuals. All these things fhall be finifh'd in the enth Age. Now I will relate thefe things, vhich will happen from the first Generation

Note, That this Sibyl fays, All must be mish'd in the tenth Age; and therefore the eleenth, mention'd above, is some Mistake, for the Sibyls fay nothing of it. Since Juftin, Lactantin, and Clemens Alexandrinus quote the Verses i this Book, it is certainly genuine; but the Qucations differ in words, and not in fence; therefre the Fathers had a different Greek Translatio from the prefent.

First of all, the Affyrians fhall goern all Men for fix Ages, reigning over theWorld from the time that the Sea cover'd te Land by a Deluge, when God was angy with the Cities and all Men. Thofe th Medes will fupplant, and reign in their "hrones: But they fhall continue only twAges, in which time these things will hapṛn: There fhall be a Darknefs like that of ie Night, in the middle of the Day, andthe Stars fhall be wanting in the Heaven, and the round Moon; and the Earth fhd be mov'd by a great Earthquake, join'd with a Noife,

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and fhall overthrow many Cities and Buildings; and Islands fhall rife from the bottom of the Sea. But when the great River Euphrates fhall flow with Blood, then shall be a grievous Fight betwixt the Medes and Perfians; and the Medes being conquer'd by the Perfians, fhall fly over the great River Tigris; and the Perfian Power fhall be the greatest in all the World, and it shall be a happy Empire for one Generation.

Then fhall thofe evil Deeds be done which all Men bate, Fights, Murders, Seditions, and Flights, the fubverfion of Towers, Infurrections in Cities: When boasting Greece fhall fail to the broad Hellefpont, and fhall make great Devastations in Afia, and in fruitful Egypt fhall be a Famine. and Sterility, tho' it be fit for the Plow and much Corn; and this fhall rage there twenty Years; when Nile, which makes Egypt abound in Corn by its Inundation, shall in fome other place hide its black Water under the Earth. A great King fhall undertake a War, coming from Afia into Greece with innumerable Ships; he hall come on foot over the Sea, but fhall fail on dry Land; whom miferable Afia fhall receive when he flies from that War.

Note, The Darknefs in the time of the Medes may be like that which happen'd before Xerxes's Expedition, which Herodotus mentions. Delos was fhaken by an Earthquake before the Peloponnefian War the Athenians took Cyzicum and Colophon,

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