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Chriſtian Valor ENCOURAGED: OR THE Turk's Downfal: And, Probably, (Out of many PROPHECIES) By WHOM.

Turca cadat, Gallus Lunaria Cornua rumpat, Ac Orientalem (Divina dote) Coronam Conſtantinopoli (Sacratus rite) reſumat. Down Turk! May Great French Lewis break thy Horn; And let Conſtantine's Crown his Head adorn.

LONDON, Printed by John Leake; and are to be ſold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers-Hall, 1684.
THE Turks Downfal: And probably (out of many Prophecies) by Whom.

EVery Hiſtorian knows the Pretenſions of the French to the Empire: And as to the Low-Countries, there was a Book Printed in the Savoy 1667. Tranſlated out of French; whoſe Title was, A Dialogue concerning the Rights of Her moſt Chriſtian Majeſty. To which I ſhall only add, That at that very Time when Robert Earl of Flanders died ſans Iſſue, whereby the ſaid Earldom, according to Tenure, fell into the French King's Hands; he by Conſent of the Lords of the Country, was put into Peaceable Poſſeſſion thereof. But if this King had no Title, yet ſome think he does not amiſs, to make himſelf ſome Amends for the Surprizal of Navarre. And if Navarre, his Grand-Father's Native Kingdom, and Paternal Inheritance, were reſtor'd, and Flanders then ſuffer'd to be quiet, it would be well for the Kings and People of thoſe Countries. King David made choice of Peſtilence, rather than War.

Quicquid delirant Reges, plectuntur Achivi. When Kings ſelf-will'd Deſigns purſue, Th'unhappy Vaſſals muſt it rue.

As to the Pretenſions to the Empire: The Deſigns and Actions ſucceeding, and purſuant to them, have made a great Noiſe and Stir: But the Raiſing the Siege of Vienna, evidently ſhews, That God, per quem Reges regunt, Prov. 8.16. has Eſtabliſh'd it where it is. And if in the Time of Charles the Simple, the Francones and Saxones were diſtaſted with the French, and choſe an Emperor of their own Blood, (Henricus Auceps) certainly the German Nation, after ſo long an Eſtabliſhment, will be very loth to change their accuſtomed and uſual Succeſſion.

Romanum Imperium Germana corona tenebit; Transferri Gallis non voluere Dii. The Roman Rule with Germans ſhall remain; The Gods deny the French it to attain.

We read in Holy Writ, of a Time and Seaſon when Kings go out to Battle. This Great Louis goes not to War upon ſuch Cuſtomary Account: His Inclination to Arms is Sidereal and Natural. Chaucer, in his Tale of the Wife of Bath, ſays, I followed ay mine Inclination, By vertue of my Conſtellation.

If then he muſt be doing, (for ſo it is) What Happineſs would redound to Europe, if he turn'd his Inclination, Endeavour and Arms againſt the Turk? No Prince fitter or abler to cope with him, than he.

Pieter van den Broeck, in his Voyages and Travels, compares the King of Spain, and the Great Turk together: Says he; In macht zyn deſe Malcanderen ſeer gelyck. In Power theſe Two are very much alike. But as the Roman Empire, (according to the Prophecy of the Druids) Tranſalpinis Gentibus portenditur, is transferr'd to the Tranſalpine Nations; ſo the Potentia Hiſpanica, Pyreneos tranſivit Montes, & Gallis transfertur; the Spaniſh Greatneſs is got over the Pyrenean Hills, and reſides in the French Tents.

But to return: He hath in this kind the Precedent of his Predeceſſors; Philip the Firſt, Lewis the Seventh, that went to the Holy-Land in Perſon againſt the Saracens and Turks; Philip the Second, Lewis the Ninth.

I have mentioned before, this Great King hath aſſerted his Title to Flanders: He may be pleaſed then to remember, That Baldwin Earl of Flanders, (his Predeceſſor as to that Province) was Anno 1194. choſen Emperor of Conſtantinople; and that Charles the Eighth had that Title confer'd upon him by Pope Alexander the Sixth. An Empire certainly eaſier to be attain'd, than that of Germany; being ſo ſtrongly guarded with ſo many Princely Satellites, for Intereſt ſake. On the contrary, the Other muſt ſtand per ſe, having ſo many Enemies round about, (the Curſe and Maledictions of ſo many oppreſſed Vaſſals); and no Chriſtian Prince, though lying remote, but would contribute Men and Money to ſo Univerſal a Good, were it ſet on foot.

If this Empire be not attainable in Toto; yet certainly in Part, and ſome goodly Limbs thereof, it is attainable and atchievable.

1. There is Cyprus; a wonderful Antient Kingdom, even as old as the Deſtruction of Troy; and was in the French Hands Two hundred thirty and odd Years: An Iſland commodious for Shipping. See Heylin; and Favine, in his Theatre of Honour, ſpeaking of the Houſe of Luſignan, and the Military Order of the Sword in that Iſland. 2. Crete or Candy; a brave Iſland, and alſo commodious for Shipping: which was in the Power of the Emperor Baldwin aforeſaid, who gave it to Boniface of Montferrat: It hath one Haven, called Suda, capable of One thouſand Ships. This Great Prince, being Maſter of This, or Cyprus, (being ſo Potent in Shipping as he is of late become) What might he not be able to do in the Levant, (having already Marſeilles and Thoulon, famous Retraicts for a Navy) againſt the Barbarous Turks? Heylin tells us, The Florentine Duke, with a Fleet of Six Sail, overaw'd the Turk in the Mediterranean. 3. There is alſo Morea, or Peloponneſus; Six hundred Miles in compaſs: The moſt pleaſant Country of all Greece, abounding in all things neceſſary for the Life of Man, and in ſuch alſo as do ſerve for Delicacy and Content; adorned with many goodly Plains, ſwelled with Fruitful Hills; well ſtored with Ports and Havens, on all Sides thereof: A Place eaſie to be fortified into the Quality and Circumſtances of an Iſland, by Immuring the Iſthmus, being but Six Miles in length, done by the Venetians in Fifteen Days. Hiſtorians tell us, That Demetrius King of Macedon, Julius Caeſar, and Caligula attempted to cut through the Iſthmus, and make it a perfect Iſland: By none more eagerly purſued, than by the Emperor Nero; who took Spade in hand, to hearten on his Souldiers: Yet, at laſt, the Souldiers being frighted with the Blood which abundantly broke forth, with the Groans and Roarings which they continually heard, and with the Spirits and Furies always in their Sights, perſwaded the Emperor to deſiſt. Who knows, but that Great Lewis, that hath not long ſince cut a Navigable River quite through his Famous Kingdom, à Mari uſ que ad Mare, from Sea to Sea, may be the Man that ſhall effect what Heaven denied to the forenamed Princes? Faxit Deus. 4. Mount Athos in Greece, ſtanding in a Peninſula: The Iſthmus of which being once cut through by Xerxes, (but ſince cloſed again) gives a Probability of what I mention, as to Morea. The Hill many Miles in Circuit; Three Days Journey long, as ſays Heylin. 5. The foreſaid Morea, and alſo Achaia, have been in the Hands of Princes of the Houſe of France: So alſo Athens, as we find it confirmed to us by Saint Marthe's Genealogick Hiſtory of France, pag. 1162, 1167, &c. Memento, and Incouragement enough, to ſtir up this Great Prince of whom we ſpeak, to ſet this treated-of Deſign afoot, from ſuch juſt Pretenſions. 6. I will not ſpeak of Armenia, held as a Kingdom Two hundred ninety and ſix Years; and by the fore-recited Houſe of Luſignan, Five Deſcents: And lies near to Cyprus. See Favine.

If any object, The French Monarch came off but ſomewhat flatly, in his Deſign upon Sicily: I confeſs it. When moſt Unchriſtianly he broke the Tenth Commandment, by Coveting and unjuſtly entring upon his Brother and Neighbor's Propriety; what could any Man expect elſe? He that perhaps hath ſaid, I will give him the Heatheniſh Turks for his Inheritance, Pſal. 2.8. I am ſure, never commanded him to diſturb the Catholick King in Sicily; in whoſe, and his Predeceſſor's Hands, it hath been Two hundred and fifty Years: And the French having no Pretenſions, but (firſt) from an unjuſt Donation of Ʋrban the Fourth, and (ſecondly) a pettiſh wayward, inconſtant Bequeathment of Joan Queen of Naples; who had firſt ſettled it upon the Houſe of Arragon, whoſe Deſcendants now enjoy it at this Day.

The Frenth have always been the Grand Undertakers againſt the Saracens and Turks, in the Holy-Land, as I have ſaid before: And Theophilus Garenciers, in his Comment upon Noſtredamus, p. 391. ſays, The Turks themſelves have a Prophecy from among themſelves, their Monarchy ſhall be ſubverted by a King of France.

Bartholomeus Georgenitz recites a Turkiſh Prophecy concerning the taking of Conſtantinople; which is ſtiled, Rubrum Pomum, the Red Apple: And it hints, That Poſt duodecimum Annum, after the Twelfth Year ſhall appear the Sword of the Chriſtians, which ſhall every where put the Turk to Flight.

My Author obſerves, The Expoſition made by the ſaid Bartholomeus, (who wrote of the Original and Manners of the ſaid Turks) fell not out well: For, ſays he, 'Tis not only Twelve Years, but an Hundred Years, ſince their Winning of the ſaid Conſtantinople.

Now, for my part, my Opinion is: It is not meant of Twelve ſimple or ſingular Years, but of Twelve certain Numbers of Years; as Twenty Years is a compleat Number in a Man's Age, (Aetas Perfectionis) when the Corporal Strength, and Mental Intellect come to a Perfection. Now Twelve times Twenty is Two hundred and forty. Conſtantinople was taken One thouſand four hundred fifty and two; take that from One thouſand ſix hundred eighty and four, and there remains Two hundred thirty and two; which wants Eight Years of Two hundred and forty. Suppoſe then Great Louis ſhould now ſet Hand to Sword; probably, in ſo many Years, he might do the Work; Turcam quaqua verſum in fugam agere, (as the Prophecy has it): Having firſt beat him out of the Pourlieus before-mentioned, at the end of the ſaid Term, he might become Maſter of the Red Apple, poſſeſt Sixty Years by Baldwin, and his Succeſſors. Notredamus ſays; Dans le Danube & le Rhin, viendra Boire Le Grand Chameau, ne ſen repentira Trembler le Rhone, & plus fort ceux de Loire Et pres des Alpes le Coq le Ruinera. Danubius and Rhine ſhall Drink afford To the Grand Camel, who ſhall them aboard: The Rhone and Loire great Terror ſhall annoy; But near the Alpes the Cock ſhall him deſtroy.

Danubius, and the Rhine, Two eminent and principal Rivers, are put for the Country where they run, viz. Germany; ſo the Rhone and Loire for France: A figurative manner of Speech, common among Poets. I could give ſeveral Inſtances; but let one (out of Martial) ſuffice, Lib. 10. Ep. 26. to Varus, that Eminent Roman Commander; Spargere non licuit frigentia fletibus ora, Pinguia, nec maeſtis addere Thura Rogis; Sed datur aeterno victurum carmine Nomen; Nunquid & hoc fallax Nile negare potes? Thus Tranſlated by Weaver. We could not dew with Tears thy dying Face, Nor thy ſad Funeral Flames with Odors grace: Yet in my Verſe Eterniz'd thou ſhalt be; Of That falſe Egypt cannot cozen Thee. [Martial has it Nilus; Weaver, Egypt.]

The Great Turk is meant by the Great Camel; an Animal abounding in his Dominions, and which he makes great uſe of in his Armies for Carriage. We read of Three hundred of them, that ſwam over the Danubius, (at the late Seige of Vienna) to the Chriſtians.

By the Cock is meant the French King, Gallus in Latine. Here is a plain Prediction; The French King is the Prince ordain'd by God, for the Deſtruction of the Turk.

The ſame Author has Another. Dans Foix entre, Roy cerulée Turban, Et Regnera moins evolu Saturne, Roy Turban Blanc Bizance coeur ban, Sol, Mars, Mercurie prez la Hurne.

I will give you Garenciere's Expoſition, pag. 391. as follows. Though I am not of his Mind, in Tranſlating Moins evolu Saturne, viz. leſs than an Age; that is, One hundred Years. Now, Saturn runs his Courſe in Thirty Years, or there-about: But let's hear him.

Foix is a Country of France near Gaſcony; where (the Author ſays) a King, with a Blue Turban, ſhall come, and ſhall Govern leſs than an Age; that is, One hundred Years: After which, another King ſhall come with a White Turban, and ſhall Conquer Bizance; that is, Conſtantinople.

The Blue or Green Turban is attributed to the Great Turk; and the White one to the King of France. Thus Garencieres.

For my part, I ſhould think Foix ſhould be Foy Fides, the Land of Chriſtendom: For what the Great Turk ſhould do in the little Country of Foix, I cannot imagine: But he hath held a Part of Hungary many Years, &c. Or, it may be, by Foix he means France, (Pars pro Toto); for an Eminent Country it was. Heylin doth tell us, The Earls of it lived in a Condition equal to moſt Kings in Chriſtendom; That at one Time there were Four Queens of the Family; and, That the latter Kings of Navarre, and preſent Kings of France deſcend from it. Be it as it will, ſtill the Rex Gallus muſt be the Cock of the Game, that muſt do the Work.

If Notredamus be but as effectual in theſe Fore-tellings, as he was in the Firing of London, and another Tragical Effect, Horreſco ruminans, omitto lubens, they will aſſuredly come to paſs. You ſhall hear his Stanza.

Le Sang du Juſte, a Londres fera faute, Brulez par foudre de vint trois le Six: La Dame Antique cheorra de place haute, De meſme Secte pluſieurs ſeront Occis.

Thus Tranſlated:

LONDON gets Guilt by Blood of one moſt Juſt; In Sixty-ſix by Lightning is combuſt. The Antient Lady tumble ſhall full low, And many of her Sect be ſlain, all Woe!

By the Antient Lady is meant the Cathedral of St. Paul; and the many other ſubordinate Parochial Churches, deſtroy'd, are thoſe of her Sect; her Dominellae or Ancille, her Hand-maids.

The Prophecies of Joachim ſay thus. The Turk ſhall be deſtroy'd by Three Nations: By the French, Propter bonos Equites, for their excellent Cavalry; by the Engliſh, Propter bonos Marinarios, for their excellent Seamen; and by the Venetians, Propter bonum Conſilium, for their prudent Counſels. This Prophecy is worthy of Remark; and ſtill the French in the Van.

The Venetians very lately, Speremus influente, favente Deo, with their Confederates, have begun to dare the Turk. No doubt, they proceeded upon good Ground and Adviſement: And they made good Preparations. But where's the French Cavalry, and the Engliſh Mariners, to make up Joachim's Ternary?

I heard an honeſt Divine ſay, when the French made the great Inrodes into Belgia; That certainly, this was the Man ſhould, in a due Time, ruin the Turk: But he was firſt to do wonderful things elſe-where, to give Proof of his Conduct, Management and Succeſs.

Ʋna dies Lotharos, Burgundos Hebdomas una, Ʋna domat Batavos Luna; quid Annus aget? Loraine a Day, Burgoigne a Week does gain, Holland a Month; what may a Year obtain?

And that, if he did not in time endeavour ſuch a Thing, (being a Great Second Cyrus, ſee Iſa. 45. Ver. 1, 2, 3.) he muſt expect ill Succeſs, if not ſomething worſe.

I know a certain Perſon (curious in Aſtrology, that, notwithſtanding all theſe wonderful Acts already gloriouſly performed, fears exceedingly, he will make an End, though not ſo violent and bloody as Great Cyrus the Firſt; yet lugubrous and untimely enough.

For my part, I cannot (like the Cloak Party) furiouſly decry Aſtrology, being a ſingular and innocent Science, befitting any Man of Parts above the Vulgar: But I love to joyn Divinity with it. And therefore, I firmly believe, that as the Sun and Moon (thoſe great Lights) ſtood ſtill in favor of worthy Joſhua, (Chap. 10.) and that the Firſt of theſe went Ten Degrees backward, for a Sign to Hezekiah, (2 King. 20.11. Iſa. 38.8.) that all Malevolent Influences are averted from this Great French Prince, for the Good of Chriſtendome, and Downfal of the Turk.

Ad Chriſtianiſſimum Regem. Baldwini ſolium, Caroli Titulum que memento: Haec moveant animum Rex Lodovice tuum: Chriſticolas placidae mandatoIſa. 45.1, 2, 3. Cyre quieti, In Turcam validas vertito, Magne, manus. Let Baldwin's Throne, and Charles his Title heat; Thy Thoughts, by aim at Theſe, become more Great Great Cyrus, daign to give the Chriſtians Eaſe, And let thy Force the Turks alone debrize.

I have already mentioned, the French Monarch is become Potent in Shipping: But he is not King of the Engliſh Mariners; which muſt make up the Ternary, according to Joachim.

Strange Revolutions have happened in England, ſince the Year 1678. That Generous Maximus Marinus, (mention'd in Day-Fatality, pag. 7.) once Great Admiral of Arragon, and till the Year 1673. Lord High Admiral of England, is now again, at length, Re-inveſted in all his Honors; and that, in ſpight of that Crew, mention'd by Introductio ad Latinam Blaſoniam, pag. 165. with ſtrange Prophetick Reflection.

He, I ſay, is Reſtor'd, influenc'd by a Divine Power and Favor, and the Benevolent Rays of Fraternal Love; the Love of the Greateſt Sea-Prince in the World, Charles le Bon, & le Grand; One born for the Good of Chriſtendom, to make Amends for his Miraculous Reſtorement.

Pray God incline the Heart of the Great French Cyrus, the Heart of the Great Charles of Great Britain; and then the French Cavalry, and the Engliſh Mariners, (influenc'd by the Auſpicious Genius and Succeſs of Prince Maximus Marinus, his Royal Highneſs) will be aſſiſtant to the Venetian Counſels and Undertakings, already upon the Wheels.

To ſatisfie the Curious, I have added Geornitz Prophecy verbatim, as I find it in Latine, Tranſlated out of Perſian:

Imperator noſter veniet. Ethnici Principis Regnum capiet, Rubrum quo que pomum capiet, & in ſuam poteſtatem rediget: Quod ſi ſeptimum uſ que Annum Chriſtianorum gladius non inſurrexerit; uſ que ad duodecimum Annum eis dominabitur, domos aedificabit, Vineas plantabit, Hortos ſepibus muniet, liberos procreabit, & poſt duodecimum Annum, apparebit Chriſtianorum gladius, qui Turcam quaquaverſum in fugam aget.

Our Emperor ſhall come. He ſhall get the Kingdom of the Gentiles Prince: Alſo, he ſhall take the Red Apple, and ſhall bring it under his Subjection: And if the Sword of the Chriſtians ſhall not riſe after the Seventh Year, he ſhall have Dominion over them unto the Twelfth Year. He ſhall build Houſes, plant Vineyards: Shall hedge about his Orchards, ſhall get Children. And after the Twelfth Year, ſhall appear the Sword of the Chriſtians, which ſhall put the Turk to Flight every where.

It is to be noted, That the Sword of the Chriſtians is principally underſtood of the French; becauſe he is commonly ſtiled, the Moſt Chriſtian King.

To Conclude, and ſhut up All: It is confeſt, that in all Ages have been Prophecies of Future Events; yet many times ſo obſcure, as not to be underſtood, or if underſtood, not to be believed. But truly, what is here produced ſeems obvious to every Man's Underſtanding: And as to the Qualification and Poſſibility of the Perſon, nothing can be objected; and who, beſides Him, can lay Claim to ſuch Pretenſions and Encouragements? Prov. 21.1. God rules the Heart of Kings. Let all Chriſtendom pray, That God would incline the Heart of the Moſt Chriſtian King, to ſo Pious an Enterprize.

Rex Lodovice tuam ſubito quam ſuſcipe Spartam; Debellare Scythas operum mihi crede tuorum. Good Lewis, with all ſpeed, begin thy Work; Thy Work it is to ſubjugate the Turk. FINIS.
—Qui quondam Fata Dierum, Signa que Cygnorum; ſcripſit hunc at que Libellum.