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chefe Norchern parts of the heaven 5 a Serpent or Dragon, clofc by the two Beare?, Vid Iheodor.Gra- tniftdit Myft, Aquil, Seeing that thcfe Creatures are thctrue HieroglyphicksofTyrany, Violence, and all manner of OpprefTion. And certainly , who ever (hall but run over the Annals, will finde, that all the great defolationsthat have ever happened 5 have come from the Northern Parts. The Ajfyri^ ttns^ or Chaldeans^ fet on by Nabuchadonofor^ and SaL ntanafar , have fufficiently manifefted the Truth of this, in burning to the ground a Cityjand a Temple, that was both the raoft -Sumptuous, and the moft holy in the worlds and in the utter ruine of a Peo- ple, whom God himfelf had taken into his own fpe- cial proteftion, and whofe father he particularly called himfelf. And hath notKow/^, like afecond Jerufalent^ in like manner often felt the fury, of this /\ccurfed Generation of the North ; when by the cn\t\iyoi Alaricus^Genfmcus^ Joulas^ and the relt oftheGe^f^Vc/;^, Hme^ Vandale and AlaKe PrJhccs , It faw it alters overturned,it8 (lately places burnt to afhes , and its inhabitants confumed by fire and fword I Thus hath not this Nation fparcd at all the two Spoufes of the Living God^ and doth ftill torment the latter of thefe, by the Tyrany of the Turkj, which aifo came out of the North. Moft properlythcrefo edo we, in this C£lejHd Writing^ begin to read difafters, and misfortunes, from the Northern part; feemgthat A feftentrione pandetur omne waluniy as you may read in our Tables in 7hs Harwofiyofthefi'orld.Or elf we may fay,that we begin to read on this fide, becaufe that the Verb nniin lipatach^ which in this prophefie is tranflated, ?an^ detur^ fignifieth alfo in the Ori that we may render this prophefie in thefe words :
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All evillsjhall he defcribed^ (or written) from tbe NoT" ward. And if written, then certainly to be rea4 from this fide.
Now this C^leftid Writing doth not alwaycs re^ ^refcnt in Words at length, what things are to hap-» pen, butfometimesin a more compendious m^n-^ uer, and byway of Abreviation: m like manner as was that vifion, which appeared to Beljhazzar^ forefhewing the deftru^^ion of his Kingdome, and which was interpreted by Daniel: MANE, THECELf PH ARES, And as none buc Darnel^ who was a /uft ft^an in the fight of God,could interpret this Vifion, In like manner) fay the Jews , it appertaineth only Co good men3and not to all manner of perfons what ever, to interpret thofechjngs: in Jike niaunpr fay the JfJ^jj ic appertaineth only to good men, and not to all manner of perfons whatfoever^ to inter- pret thotc things, that are found IVritten intheHea^ vens and i« 7elefmeSy which are for the moft part very obfcure and difficult ; and which require, for the perfed interpretation of theni-,tha t a man ihould be sldlfuU in the GEOMANCY, NOTARIGON, and the TEMURAH? which are the three parts of the Cabale. The firft of which (the name whereof ?^''1DC?i Gecntaritria^ is corrupted from theGr-:^^ tiaiin^iAy oreUe this latter from the others) coi,ifi- derethofrhe numbers that are contained in the Letters-^ and by comparing them with others the like^givcj an explication of what was before obfcure. ri^sfor example, where it is faid in GeuefeS:, concern- ins: che Comming of the M .SchilOj ShilobihzW r/irue j thefe H^r^W Letter^ make up the number aifo of the Letters of theA/^J^(« n-'VO Mafcbich: fo that tiie Prophet faying, Votfeo venerit Schilcb , it is as mucJi.r a« if l^^'had fajd , Vd-