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
FROM THE LADY ELEANOR HER BLESSING TO HER BELOVED DAVGHTER The Right HONORABLE LVCY COVNTESSE OF Huntingdon The Prophet DANIELS Vission Chap. 7. Jn the first yeare of Belchazer REX c. Printed in the Yeare 1644. FROM THE LADY ELEANOR HER BLESSJNG to Her beloved Daughter c. WHose new Interpretation not with Froath filled up or Interlarded with differing Opinions of others such old peices having No affinity and agreement with this BRITISH garments or displayed COATE by blessed Prophets pend So what the Veritie of those fouer great Beasts divers one from another which should arise c. Whoso would understand know their mistery for this very time reserved hitherto with the Kingdome of Heavens great seale shut up Distinguishing not only Nations but Times The very truth of it N'other then the severall Coate Armes given or borne by him the first of great Brittains Kingdoms or Monarchie Not unlike Jacobs united Familie his Wives Children and Children of the Hand-maids The aforesaid Crowns foure concerning whose peice of super-artificiall Heraldry unknown to those Heralds of the King of great Babylon Dan. 3. even at hand proclame the ancient of dayes the aproach of that great day of his So goe thy way Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end which Not only the Time but unfolds unto what Nation or Language revealed those glad Tydings as by the Word Sealed given to understand thereby Even where the great Seale the Jmpression thereof those fouer Coates or Beasts styled Kings which shall arise c. And the Coine stampt therwith and the like c. And so the first in the likenesse of a Lyon with Eagels wings c. first displays the armes of England and France and then standing upon the feet like a man a Lyon rampant to wit Scotlands coate where the other the Jrish Instrument or Harpe evident also out of Tune c. That no need to say J am Joseph or over-verball to be in this case No more requisit then their asking either whether or no thy sonns coate this of so many colours or peices as in the field now those inumerable colours c. That were HE living our Father JACOB would say some evill beast had devoured us to behold such blood shed amongst brethren and cruelty as Since the Creation such a flood the old Serpent never casting out of his mouth and so like Joseph sold to the Midianits our wofull estate sale and rapine made by Malignant brethren c. But such miserable Shipwracke with us being no news shall returne to those misteries of Heraldry The frequent Oraments of your House wherefore to explain them farther but needlesse nor endlesse Figures here borrowed out of old Orators Bookes suffices for figurative Demonstrations such to render their meaning truly running the way of the plaine rather for the ancient of dayes his comming to prepare the way So for my Commission thus And farther as to you not unknown especially at what time your Mother became a VVriter or Secretary concerning the unsealing or interpreting this obscure peice to open the Vission of Daniel though no obscure persons of the seed of the KINGS and of PRINCES Even in the yeere 1625. undertaken this burthen following his steps who declares when HE wrote first in BELCHAZARS first yeere the last of those Caldeans of great Babylon Also shewed in that great plague yeere when the City shut up This Vission then opened whereof even Then a Signe ro Token not without a touch given in those words But thou O Daniel shut up c. Dan. 12. And thus where every word a mistery cannot passe over them as none of the least His being so often saluted or stiled so highly of the Angel O Daniel greatly beloved man as much to say too O KJNG of great Britaine as Kings and Prophets Brethren Let him that reads Daniel understand And as it extends to this time also beares Date forty foure directly the present Yeare as these beareing Record of time and place c. of whose storming daies thus And Daniel spake and said J saw and behold upon the great Sea the foure Winds strove and foure great Beasts came up divers one from another to say from beyond sea the occasion of such divission ready to be swallow'd up in these swelling Seas The first like a LYON and Eagels wings Daniel 7. J beheld till the VVings were pluckt thereof And lifted up from the Earth and made stand upon the Feete like a MAN And a MANS HEART was given unto it viz. The LYONS Passant regardant turn'd into the Rampant c. After her decease a Virgin Princesse of renown'd MEMORY ENGLAND stil'd great Britaine and then these foure severall Coates given c. And this Sayling on or pursuing the Subject And behold another Beast a second like to a BEARE and it raised it selfe upon one side And had three Ribbs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it N'other then as it were displayed The three LYLLIES The Armes of FRANCE to the full given by this KINGDOME where Nothing but a meere Shadow or the bare Coate of it Left Leaves in stead of Fruite Besides how by a She-Beare as this N'other Three devided KINGDOMS rent in peices The Ribbe or Side beares VVitnesse thereof The second SEXE its Character And so farther from This saying too well prooved Arise and devoure much FLESH even what Date it bears needlesse to say Her MOTTO the Mother not of the Living Child but of Divissions and Massacres where inclusive the ador'd Sacrament called the MASSE Thus uttered Her Voice Let it bee neither Thine nor Mine but devide it destroy it utterly c. No such Coate then like to have any Affinitie with Solomons Ivory Rament or Robe as the Ensigne of Peace the LILLY of the field but rather a Slippe come out of the Bear-garden unworthy to behold the Sunne became degenerate and so wild Sometime to none of the Flowers of Parradise inferiour And another like LEOPARD Lyon-like SCOTL AND 's Coate the truth of it displaied Thus Which had foure Heads and foure VVings on the backe of it as it were a Heralds Coate or KING AT ARMS c. So great BRITAJNS foure KINGDOMS or Crownes proclaimes by them And this the Summe of it shewing Then revealed the time of END when united These foure aforesaid c. As hereby farther appeares And Dominion was given unto it No small addition after Her dayes raigning forty foure Yeares for Scotland to give such a Large Coate by a Prince as unfortunate in His Progenie and Successor As in his Predisessors or Parents VVherefore liken'd to the LEOPARDS Spoted skinn those sable spots or drops And behold a fourth BEAST like a HARPYE or some such Monster having great Jron Teeth and Nayls of brasse to be short the Jrish Harpe demonstrated likewise the very wrest as it were a little Horne of which Jnstrument not a little out of tune as insues stamping all
Caesars Superscription even the Roman Empires age written in in those Characters of the 3. Ribs 4. VVings and the 10. Horns and then those Eagles wings so lifted up pluckt too notwithstanding Germanies manly looks that Saxon state like this great Statue unable longer to stand upon its feet not unlike Irelands estate the modell of that Empire in such a flourishing condition and as the blow then in the 17. yeare of the present reigne so the other in the 1700. c. broken so soon in peices Wherefore the world but like a Dreame vanished Like his suddain awaking in a moment forgotten all c. But now returning to great Brittains brittle condition againe That union dissolved and broken in peices since his dayes He the head of GOLD as by those peices called JACOBVS after his name c. And he the ROMAN SPANISH Emperour by his tribute of late since the Judies discovery who makes up the head of Gold too And all this but to manifest and shew That God is a Revealer of Secrets in these dayes also Reveales the deep and secret things And maketh known what shall be in the Latter dayes by divers severall demonstrations as this for another Of the Axe laid to the roote That tree or pedigree whose fruit much of such a hight reached up to Heaven this Jacobs Ladder c. And now but the Stump end remains as yee see The very VVoods every where proclaims it where the Axe never put so to the Root such felling c. And so the Axe that fell into the water by a sticke cast into it caused to swime The Morrall thereof no other then the Resurrection time revealed to be by the Spirit of prophesie As much to say As the late hand writing for a seale or signe of it a sufficient propheticall proclamation though not on the Walls c. in the Banquetting-House yet not unknown to Lord â—o few how these applied Thy Kingdome numbred and thou found wanting c. and come to passe too as published and printed 1633. sufficiently known in meeter to his Majestie from great Babylon transferred to great Brittain And so this but the truth of it shewed in the 12. of the Revelation How Satan because he knows his reigne or time to be short is ready to devoure the VVoman even for the truth of the Resurrection time revealed as most proper to be performed by that sex a Woman by whom death came to be the Messenger of Life And so WOE TO THE INHABJTERS of the EARTH and of the SEA c. And since a pleasing Theame as t is said makes a good Orator and sure I am a worse time then this never known or ever heard of so then the time the end discovered although pend somewhat hastily or unperfectly c. being like the hony and like the hony gathered out of so many parts I shall the lesse need to excuse it unto such as have a ful knowledge of the Scriptures That should it be written at large a Chronicle or a booke as ample as those tables of the Mapps of the VVorld could I suppose not contain it Not sutable to the little book being but an Epittomie as it were and so much for being not voluminous especially when the time â—o short too as by Tyrant time his reigne expired shew'd to be and these the apointed Scutchins for his Hersse apeared those winged Beasts devouring times likenesse c. As by this one wittnesse more produced or set forth asigned to the present even in the dayes of these Kings or united Kingdoms Shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdome which never be distroyed And the Kingdome shal not be left to other c. And shall breake in peices even to the same effect with that Dan. the 7. The greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven for ever given to the Saints or Rulers c. which shall breake in peices c. viz. By those ordinance or orders of Parliaments and feild peices c. And yet not so strange as true notwithstanding such a troublesome time O let Jsmale live as it were prefer'd before Jsaac to be his Heire And Absolons life before Solomon the wise O Absolon my sonne Absolon Like Egypts Leekes Garlike before Canaans Grapes c. And so preferred this worlds vanity folly before everlasting Righteousnesse endlesse Joy life eternall and now ended thus this point of Honour displaying the Ancient of dayes his Kingdome your portion to you dedicated that so punctually have discharged that duty of the first commandement with promise in so much and such dishonour endured have bene your mothers Copartner even You her alone and sole support under the Almighty So Veni Domine Jesu gracia Domine c.