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From the Lady Eleanor, her blessing, to her beloved davghter the Right Honorable Lvcy, Covntesse of Huntingdon.
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1644
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Wing D1991
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underfoote Gods Law Humaine Law And so farre for the Harpe Like the very forequarter or ribbs informe or likenesse as strung in that manner ribbwayes whose short Horne the expresse Character of tirrants of no long continuance raising up and setting lower like the wrest according to their will made a law changing and altering when they please Informing moreover concerning the blaspheming blasts of the little Horne that had eies like a man and such a mouth as much to say that mouth speaking such great things a Womans and no Mans. Her Proclamations at her command the great Seale the Elders and the Nobles so with the Story goeing on of that Idolatrious time Come see now that cursed Womans spirit she cast downe c. cunjured up as it were walks up and down that like her selfe of her unnaturall Dogs Acteon like eaten of her none left to bury Jezebel by name Woe to the House whose signification so no other then a stolne peice by the Poet very like to be as that for another Borrowed from Elias Elevation also the fable of Phateon That Prophets being sought for as though some where had falne or miscarried Whose misteries or morralls in so high esteeme among the Heathen against many may rise in Judgement of whom reverenced no more Divine Oracles further more to weigh or unite those times with our heavie dayes Likewise Peace though voiced Jacobs voice like and the hands of Esau yet such divisions and slaying of all hands nothing but peace put the question as though he sought nothing else is it peace and thus saith the King is it peace And ever and againe Thus saith the KING c. Js it peace JEHV New Propositions as it were And Sir as long as her Sorcerors inforce doeing what she pleaseth what hast thou to doe with peace also at her last cast when this Motto who is on my side who who troode HER underfoote her inchanting voice Had he Peace that slew his Master As it were to looke to his Head This blood-thirsty Mistres of Charmes and Spells like Satans falling those aspiring Spirits So alike the time possest now see what a double portion powr'd out of the curse what one leavs another taks He that escapes the Sworde of Hazael Jehu slayes and hee escaping Jehus Sword Elisha slayes because the Land devided as those waters by him parted with the mantell of Elias wherewith Sayled over Jordan River and such virtue in it bein worne out by them much more vigere then and Spirit in their Books being perused and studyed upon And Mother and Daughter alike too Now she cast into a languishing bed confumed to nothing an Anatomy c. scarce any thing to bury The occasion of this LANDS deep CONSVMPTION SHE And wast made thereof Woe to the House of God and the House of PARLIAMENT both the nursing mother of DRAGONS those Sonns of BELJALL in armes foras her name is so is she MARRAH The GALL of bitternesse But because the Daughter of a King as JEHV speake Here forborne the Remainder buryed in silence for so births PREROGATIVE surmounts or goes before that gain'd by Marrage as desent and blood a Character not to be blotted out where with follows the state of VIRGINITY the presidence theirs Not in subjection as others And for ELJAS progresse in the SPIRIT The returne of those long expected dayes Let the READER be pleased for his satisfaction to turne but to the Apocalyps the 11 And see in his COMMISSION to the Gentills What date it beares there concerning the revealed time of the Resurrection c. even behold the Sevententh Centurye it measured out by moneths and dayes amounting unto three years and halfe the halfe of seaven like the time nothing but divission including the great misticall weeke exprest severall divers wayes A touch of which time folded up with that sevenfold marriage put the question in the resurection whose wife c. VVherefore of the last turned Houre-Glasse of time Thus Revel c. And in the same Houre a great Earth Quake and the tenth part of the CITY fell and slaine Seven Thousand Decima Pars c. and thus pend with the Character of the present when Elias his dayes shall appeare againe their Resurrection or Revolution as it were by a beseiged City its modell and yeelded or rendered up by the affrighted remnant when such publike Thanksgiving saying Wee give thee thanks O LORD GOD Almighty which art and wast and art to come Vtter'd times treble voices to weigh the time c. And as a Reformation time to the greatest part hatefull unsufferable so the day of Judgements tydings as wellcome like the writs of Parliament that news to many also dreadfull and detestable to the world these makes it sufficiently plaine and the Nations were angry the time of the dead was come that they should be judged c. ergo or viz. to be manifested to the Gentills and so like the last Supper aforehand shewing his death likewise commands the little booke open'd to be received and eaten as much to say The last day revealed to be or afore shewed the Lords second comming c. Also by two witnesses to witt the Bookes of Daniel and St. John although reproved for his firy Spirit That he was forward and sudden in calling for the day of Judgment as it were Then who knew not of what Spirit he was And here like Elias and Elijah not to be parted those twain goeing along further with the last time those aforesaid mourning moneths 4.2 And a Thousand two Hundred and Sixty dayes and three dayes and a halfe c. Revela 11. all but sounding the great dayes Alarme in the seventeenth Century Then to watch as the time for the Elects cause promised to be cut off and shortned to witt its comming short of 2000. yeares and so much for times sentence to be no longer Revela 10. And the Sacramentall tree of life or Bookes of the old and new Testament afore mentioned And he therefore that shall add or deminish from the set time written by those witnesses let Him expect the plagues also proceeding out of their mouths Pestilence and Warre c. otherwise that might have escaped death no few with Elias have been taken alive up debarred from entering the rest c. as that figure of the Refurrection double witnessed by Elijah a touch of whose Corps therby one raised up againe but let downe into this Sepulchare So againe looking backe to Daniel touching the little Horne declaring or sounding the brevitye of great Brittaines Monarchie Whose looke more stoute then his fellows more over thus I considered the Hornes And there came up another little Horne before whom three of the first Hornes were pluckt up by the roots the truth of it as much as to say That he the first Heire of the red rose and the white VVhose ISVE three of them Crown'd Princes childlesse deceasing without Heires of their body the Crown of England fell
to Scotland and great Brittaine so stiled then wherefore blazoned by those great Beasts foure being from name of Bruite derived whose Vnicorns Horne become as short as his fellowes Lookeing of late as though al by conquest had been his so according to his will wresting and altering whatsoever and possest with no little willfullnesse as well as pride proceeding from Ephnesse and Shallownesse And so from HENRY the fourths taking possession of the Kingdome regained by EDWARD the fourth of those royall Rose ten in number giving the dunn Cow so many even from the House of Lancasters usurpation untill the diadem fell to be Scotlands lott all which displayed by those Horns ten and another little Horne c. as Corone being derived from Cornua and Caroles a Diminative c. For saylingon the VVind serving faire still or for proceeding with the Map of great Brittains last Parliament so manifest that whose Image this who needs to doubt as a little farther I shall hold on c. J beheld then because of the great voice of the word which the Horne spake J behold even till the Beast was slaine and his body given to the burning flame Some may say hath God care of Oxen Yes doubtlesse beholds even such a Den or Draught of restlesse beastlinesse day and night St. James-Fayre so called not without Cause their Priviledge of late abolished As hereby appeares the Modell every of those Courts put downe VVhere so long such Lawlesse doings there c. As for the rest of the Beasts They had their Dominion taken away BVT their Liver were prolonged as Hee no little or inferiour Beast for one whose voice set a Note lower brought to the barre though so long deferred yet whose Judgement sleeps Not. And then the Ancient of dayes fitting in his Iudges Robe and Locks like Snow Even the day of Judgement clothed in the Parliaments likenesse And the Parliament clouded under or shadow'd out by the day of Iudgement His comming in the Clouds so all in their pure wooll set forth wooll Seats and thus much for that The judgement shall fit and the Bookes were opened the Bookes of the Old and New Testament also Nothing covered that shall not be disclosed too and proclaimed Likewise by those Legions of Angells beside the Parliaments everlasting sitting the warre raised by them fet forth like Dooms day as it were when the Elements melting and the Heavens shaking Stars falling like those Valies of Thunder-Bolts with lightnings such a firy Streame now making way the generall dayes Epitome the conclusion of all these Dan. 7. And the Kingdome and Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven Shall be given to the Saints of the mosthigh OR RVLERS whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome As to no other given such a high stile except unto this Kingdome c. Hitherto is the end of the matter concerning the end and as for Daniel his countenance changed and his cogitations troubled The troublesometime before the change fore saw even our evill times His heart bleeding too c. And as Daniel signifying the judgement of God so that Monsterous fourth Beast as much to say a Viperous generation Herewith is signyfied like Josephs Pharoahs dreams doubled even the seventeenth hundred yeare By this very measure doubled to bee likewise a Time and times the deviding of time or three and a halfe viz. 7. Surge metire templum Revel 11. followes tempus tempora dimidium temporis The Resurrections time hereby measured even in the present Century cut in the midst too as it were Paradventure fifty there c. And paradventure there shall lacke five of fifty exprest in the day of judgements very language as shall not the Judge of all the earth doe right and Abram he but Dust and Ashes then VVith whom saying Now J have taken upon me to speake cannot here rest shewing farther as Noah outlived the Flood three hundred years and dyed two thousand years after the Creation likewise now the time abated or comes short 300. years wherefore the disolution in the seventeenth hundred yeare and thus cut off so many yeares like the shortned dayes of Enoch whom God tooke who lived three hundred yeares and Eternitys forerunner begat Metheuseliah thus five hundred years amounts to a PERIOD as deeply sworne the Time should be longer Revela 10. measured by the CREATORS his right hand lifted up Tempus non erit amplius sed in diebus vocis septimi Angeli Times mistery revealed c. as promised to be witnessed by the Prophets his servants concerning times TRVMPET then put to silence time no more c. And lastly for MICHAELMVS 1644 That happie halfe yeare herein included a time and times and halfe also to disperse the Forces c. Revela the 12. and Dan. the 12. concerning Michaels alarme there signified and so like a Thiefe in the night as this fearful night vission appeares even the end stolne upon the whole world or comming as the travel of a VVoman misreckoning sometimes taken before SHE looks Also farther for this last of Parliaments whereas Gods word able to speake for it selfe of full age other argument whatsoever needlesse it being of a quicker returne shall presse another place of Scripture as briefly explaind as others afore Reve. 10.9 Concerning that Albion Army and Aleluja voices where even the revealed time of the Lords comming And the writs of this happie Parliament sealed up in one Scribe Beata c. They that are called to this meeting c. All sealed with the Vnicorne in pure Paper as it were mounted on white Horses or like the great shew both going together as noted c. Nomen scriptum quod nemo novit the Parliaments name in another language viz. et vocabant nomen ejus verbum dei The Word c. et cum Justitia judicat et pugnat And upon his head many Crowns with a garment dipt in blood deep Scarlet clothed and on his vesture and upon his legg written c. Namely the Colour and Garter of the order the Knights of St. Gorge Ecce equus Albus likewise from Chival and Equus And thus the Knights and Esquires of both Houses displayed of what house and so from the name of Oxford thus et vidi Beastiam et Regis terrae et exercitus c. Revela 10.9 And for the aforesaid warre so farr as for the motive Meritrice magna qui corrupit terram in prostitutione sua c. Hath bin shew'd afore where she painted like her Images that downfall of Hers before theirs Also added these to the premises because injoyned not to part or put asunder what is joyn'd shewed Farthermore The great Jmage Dan. 2. even armed at all points the verity of those foure Metals ore Argent c. the very same likewise divers one from another Apertains to the foure great Beasts the one rising out of the Earth the other out of the Sea So contains