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A36428	The star to the wise, 1643 to the high Court of Parliament the honorale Hovse of Commons : the Lady Eleanor her petition, shewing cause to have her book licensed being the Revelations interpretation.	Douglas, Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing D2013; ESTC R17479	7,334	22

The Star to the Wise 1643. To the high Court of Parliament THE HONORABLE HOVSE of COMMONS THE Lady ELEANOR her Petition Shewing cause to have her Book Licensed BEING The Revelations Jnterpretation MALACHY 4. 2. For unto you who fear my Name shall the Sun of Righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings LONDON Printed in the yeer 1643. The Star to the wise To the High Court of Parliament The Honorable House of Commons The Lady Eleanor her Petition c. HAppy Reader and Hearer for so he who reads and keeps the words of this last Prophecy revealed to be at last The Revelations shewing Things which shall shortly come to passe And as the golden leaves of that fruitfull Tree shewed to be for the healing of the Nations Their Blessed Peace-maker saying And there shall be no more curse So the whole Prophecy directed unto our Nation provided for these dayes of ours That Soveraign Plaister vvhen such unnaturall Division sowed by the old Serpent The very foul Disease of the Kings-Evil c. saying therefore I Iesus have sent my Angel And so touching Malignant humors for the most part resorting about the Ears in which parts not a little dangerous wherefore He that hath Ears to hear let him hear being the burthen of every charge to the Churches concluded there with proclaiming his coming to be shewed aforehand to his servants saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last The Lord of Sabbath as evident by holding the seven stars in his right hand and That Book sealed with seven Seals like Pharaohs Dream doubled even the established time and so many dayes as from the first Adam to the flood of waters so from the second Ad●m●o the fiery Lake That flood of Fire and Brinstone And therefore the second Death so called And as that Token set in the clouds The streightned Bow that bound himself thereby so here crowned with the Bow bindes it with an Oath By him that lives for ever That Time shall be no longer But as the seventeenth hundred yeer revealed to Noah shews Times my stery contained in that little open Book The shortnesse of Time also revealed to be before the end Eyen the days of Baptisme likewise how long preached to such disobedient spirits as farther by his right foot on the waters and his left on the earth The times measured the first Noahs dayes by the second Noahs dayes to wit in the seventeenth Century his coming in the clouds who rewards every one according to his service For the name of a Christian serves not But his end worse then his beginning That after the House swept and garnished with seven foul spirits that goeth and berayeth it And afar off as in the one bewrayed how long the preaching to last of Baptisme as here in alluding to those dayes By sevens when every clean c. entred into the Ark By the unclean seven spirits entred into him whose end worse then his beginning So he expresly speaks in another place of the worlds begining and end to know one by another As the dayes of Noah were so shall the son of mans dayes be also As the dayes before the Flood One thousand seven hundred yeers as much to say To both alotted alike And so in Luke the Eleventh a touch given going afore for better discerning the time when they said He by the Devil cast out Devils Much like now as to beleeve that an army of another Religion should come to defend the true Religion Where the end of Antichrists Kingdom shewed also further By such a King as it were against himself divided or a man possest that goes about to make away himself And had the old world warning and are the last dayes cast out of remembrance and is his Promise come utterly to an end Though saying Ye shall not see me till ye say Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord And behold I will send you Elias before the great and dreadfull day as Eli signifying the Name of God c. And so much for those dayes when the sons of God took them wives of the Daughters of men taken with their Sorceries And this yet held a sencelesse thing or a fancie to expect it Though shewed even thus it shall be when the son of man shall be revealed Luke 17 like giving in marriage and revelling And with such Buildings and Plantations c. a fair warning to prepare for it And cursed Iericho that burnt with fire seven dayes or a weeks warning that had where Rahab saved her Fathers house there by a Line for token c. And was the hand-writing at that Feast sent to him He of that first Monarchy the last of them who was weighed in the Ballance c. and found a lost Body c. And by reading the Prophet Ieremiahs Books He that understood then the number of those yeers that seventy yeers should be accomplished in Ierusalems desolation Wherefore not by reading now of that Book where bidden Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast 666. c. To understand also how long the Churches captivity under spirituall Babylon The Antichristian Monarchy and aged now 43. and 1600. Even as signified in his seven heads and Ten horns those crowned his age So in her whores forehead written too that Name of hers Not of the blessed Virgins giving of a certain and so much for that He ridden and ruled so long by her no longer to be indured and which great Harlots City not unknown Beginning here with the everlasting Gospel shewing as coming to passe in Augustus his Taxin dayes there sending forth his Decrees to have all the world Taxt That second Caesar when he the second personin Trinity came to pay the Ransome of all Also in his Raign those Taxing dayes of his Not over the world unknown These Burthens never so imposed before He the second of Great Britains Monarchy Likewise revealed the se●ond coming of our Lord when that time comes to passe And good will towards Men Peace on Earth So farther with That past comparing This troublesome time When all the city so troubled and He who mockd with God faining He would worship him was himself mockd after they made of his Counsell having sent them to Bethlehem c. in revenge fell upon poor Innocents under such an age spared none who to that Fox returnd not any more but went another way supposing before their God they should have obeyed him Whose Treasure then they laid it at his feet given as it were to the Churches use made their Omage there And in city and country early and late such keeping watch by day and night both to keep out wolves inwardly those late Bishops as when the watchfull Shepherds visited and were told where they should finde The Lamb of God And the Churches watchmen likewise assembled Wherefore as Thou Bethlehem not the least so inferior to none of Great Britains Villages Thou KNIGHTS-BRIDGE by Name

Moreover of the Holy Oracle that Handwrighting reinterpreted by her for an express signe Which in the yeer 1633 was to the Elector Palsegrave Dedicated upon the letters of his naue The palme of the Hand c. Charles Be for Belshazer bidden beware the Hands of the Medesis and he being after so imprisoned in France With the premises referred to the worlds judgement What mould Pharaohs heart made of whether the Handwriting hath not been fullfilled and double Brittains Blowe And as of late came to passe these So let his repentance come to late when praying it were to do again give him for his doings of that Sop his belly full till his Bowels gush out with that arch Traytor his fellow Iudas l et the Executioner be without his fees no longer his Gown and Girdle Win it and wear it who hath drawn this Curse upon us and for whose cause with those companions of his these fleeing the very place where they sat here repair to the Second House for this Licence for the Lambe and the Bride She having made her self ready like Ioseph and Mary but betroathed as yet this pair So the other House of Parliament Our Saviours second Coming assigned to them to give Order for this his Licence In due consideration of a Sihne or the twelve Signes given rather for a token as not unknown to both houses c. Which was delivered to their Speaker taken out of the Revelation Chap. 12. And there appeared a great signe in Heaven a woman Clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet And upon her head a Crown of twelve Stars Interpreted this way The Celestiall Woman clothed with the Sun to wit the Suns entring in Virgo the bowels and belly Shewing the time of the Churches great deliverance about Michaelmas to give her enemies for ever the overthrowe as signified by Michaels victory and the Dragons fall and which piece of Scripture thus expounded be presented to them in the moneth of August Not unlike that of Ionas in the Whales belly that signe of the Resurrection then as this now of the generall time at hand And thus his Eexcellencie here the Generall for the House of Parliamets defence as that Archangel signifying Ezcellent to omong the Angels and by War in heaven The Division of tha high Cout set forth vvhere Saint Iohn ascends a degre higher then the Prophet Daniel speaking likevvise of the troubled time of the end Thus And they that turn many to Righteousnesse shall shine as the Stars in the Firmament the Parliaments signification The Firmament firm for ever as much to say To sit there fixt c. as they Daniel and Iohn joyned in Commission for these dayes And so the day of Judgements Epitomy This Battell here in heaven amongst us here before his coming that testifies he rewards every one according to his work as they have done by others even served with the same themselves Their toes pared too taken lower And shall our loins be girt and lights burning to prevent bodily danger so much preparation And shall all be in such security when that dreadfull time and no signe at all then on the posts of our doors But the destroyer coming into houses of his servants also When as the Devils storming because he knows he hath but a short time shews expresly the time is to be foreknown And the Nations angry for that time of wrath come The time of the dead to be judged Rev. 11 shews the Churches Intelligence aforehand of that time far be it from us to be like the deaf Adder That because once accursed for harkning when forbidden Therefore to forbear charm the Word of God never so strongly and sweet like the blinde Jews under colour of shunning Idolatry and the like that fell to be such Blasphemers of God Preaching ye have alway and may hear them when ye please and their large Dedicatories and Volumns may License them daily But the little Book The Spirit of Prophesie Not alway that And lastly here for testifying the burthen of the Word of the Lord revealed to her by so many voices with one consent shewed as follows touching this Firstling the Word of God where and when the same came to her In the first yeer of his Raign when His first Parliament called at Oxford Whether he now returnd a great voice from Heaven then speaking to her revealing in what yeer the day of Judgement and so at what time of the yeer or how long that time she the Daughter of the first Peer or Baron her first Husband the Kings first Sergeant c. And in Berkshire the first of Shires at her house at Englefield about the end of July which moneth nam●d after the first Emperour heard the voice of God there And for publishing the same from thence went immediatly to Oxford that first University To the Parliament then delivering the tydings of the end revealed c. in a Writing given to the prime Bishop Abots which being printed was afterward burnt by his Successour in his first yeer 1633. whose Passe given him before c. and with this Signe annext to it That the great Plague presently should cease which came but to its height the next Week after And so came to passe after that Weeks great Bill which amounted to Five thousand six hundred or neer being the first Week of August 1625. as it were the Worlds age The mysticall Weeks reckoning And then so suddenly vanished that before a Moneths end or thereabout scarse any token or appearance thereof the City so long shut up open again in a manner cleer Thus from that presaging place or Name of Englands bloody Field Englefield neer Reading-Town where the Term kept that remarkable yeer for so many Examples of Extraordinaries produced ANd now where the day of Judgement the great Day of Battels approach as hath bin declared was proclaimed c. There in those two very Shires of Berkshire or Birchshire and in Oxfordshire What we have not so much as heard the half of others have by wofull experience felt the waight of it Where two such Bodies of Armies so large Whose last Blow after that cruell Fight was within a bowe-shot of the afore-said House of Englefield at Theill village and these belonging to this place of Scripture wherefore worthy or notice Luke the 17. Where Lord shall thy Coming be revealed when replyed Where the bodie is the Eagles will resort As Gods Word without a high and heavy hand never digested or obtaining passage but like the Passeover ever eaten with bitter Herbes That Fast of the Lambe The Raven is sent forth before the Dove likewise before him That same that had his raiment of Camels hair girt with a Letherne girdle coming before him in whose Coat not so much as a seam And Here the still or soft voice sent with everlasting peace the last before the good time bring the trve Olive Leaf POSTSCRIPT Revela And here The Cup none debard of it He that is athirst Let him Come c. Knights-Bridge November 1643.