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To the most honorable the high court of Parliament assembled, &c.
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1643
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shortned as much to say shall come short of his dayes at the time of the Deluge alluding to it when all flesh perished except eight persons In like manner from 〈◊〉 â—ncarnation when God became man thought not scorne to take our Nature upon Himselfe From which time to his second comming Parrallels it Thus. But as the dayes of Noah were so shall the comming of the sonne of Man bee For as in the dayes before the flood untill the day Noah entered into the Arke And knew not untill the flood came and tooke them all away So shall also the Comming of the Sonne of Man bee And so all before the comming of the last day also forewarnd to be appeares plainly Matt. 24. Dated with the present yeare 1642. Two shal be in the feild two Armes to wit Two women shall be grinding at the Mill c. and of our miserable devission so much for a watch-word shall serve The seventh Angels Trumpet Revela 10. give his voice on Noahs side beside that Angell that set his Right foot upon the sea c. Whose feete as Pillars of fire with that little Booke open in his hand Even great Brittains revealed forewarning That Ilands vissitation That there be some standing here not only but throughout the World that shall not tast death till the day of Judgement And so take eate this little Booke the Sacrament of his comming at hand As herein is no small mistery Conteind too twofold double Witnesse appearing like all the rest Judges the 15.20 verse And he Judged Israell twenty yeares in the dayes of the Philistins c. verse 31. and 16 Chap. And he Judged Israell twenty yeares Also when the sonns of GOD became Tyrants and carnall Gen 6. My spirit shall not strive alway with man for that he also is flesh Namely how great soever Yet his dayes shall bee an hundred and twenty yeares It includes Times reigne This twenty yeares to be put upon his last score The Prophet David foresaw this weeke Psalm 90. A thousand yeares in his sight are but as yesterday The Apostle Peter One day with the Lord is as a Thousand yeares and a Thousand yeares as one day Daniel the Prophet that Master of Arrethmatitians confirms that weeke thus He shall confirme his Covenant with many for a weeke and in the middest of the weeke oblation shall cease c. The Messiah slaine and the Cities Desolation to wit in the fourth Thousand yeare Wherein not only shewed Messiah his dayes cut off but Time the sonne of Eternitie his dayes too shortned Even one Thousand yeares fulfilled or compleat For the Gospels Progresse The 20. of the Revela Thus speakes That they lived and reigned with Christ a Thousand yeares before these Idolatryous times of late 〈…〉 therefore in respect of Time past our Saviours late comming Then The Apostle Paul after this fashion admonisheth The Time is short as much to say And to be shortned For which cause as if we possessed or enjoyed nothing Corinth 7. And here adding but in a word or two of the LORDS day that also cut off how this Samson hath been shaffed This Samson-day how it hath been observed and kept after what spirituall fashion Even the LORDS house haunted by Spirits of Divels no few amongst those Tombes c. Holding their Spirituall-Courts there whose daily Office and Occupation was before their being cast out of Pauls Either to make many forsweare themselves Or to fill Prisons with those call'd by them Puritans and now Rownd-Heads For which senslesse rediculous Name not amisse with the Prophet to bestowe these for a Girdle alwayes to bee girded with feare round about MAGORMISSABIB those Characters compounded of GOG MA GOG Compassing the Camp of the beloved Citie of the Saints Whose number c. Revela 20. consisting of Papists the Queenes Armie and prophaine Protestants before the day of Judgement being let loose These like Herod and Pilate that were made friends at variance before And wherewith observ'd as it deserves no other as others have serv'd God professing themselves his servants and going contrary as it were your servant c likewise by them as supposed Their Name but used for the abusing or betraying of their person having first craftily gone about to cut the throats of so many by giving them another Name But to return Thus this Sabboth too discarded not onely Excommunicating the Lord prophets and servants c. but turned into a Day of Cardding and Diceing with sweating Pastimes Goe for thy labour sit downe and spinne and weave plough and ditch from henceforth in the sweat of thy face Eate thy bread Come no more into the garden of God so much for harkening to the Serpents voice The flaming Sword beware Neither be grieved with him crying O my sonne Absolom my sonne my sonne Absolom also O my sonne Absolom O Absolom my sonne my sonne The Saboths double Eclips as much to say or twice Chang'd and alter'd That harkend not to that voice rather saying verily my Saboths shall ye keepe even he shall be cut off that worketh thereon That day which was given for a perpetuall signe Exodus 31. c. No marvell or wonder therefore our Houses though vissited by the Spoyler and Plunderer with our day-labour turned into Daies and Nights-warding and watching Neverthelesse not cut off without declaring in the place of this Judas-day more like then the Resurrections a lawfull Successor herewith shewed c. upon Mathias-day how the Lot fell in the yeare 1633. that Mundaies first day of the weeke In which aforesaid yeare the Beast hee also asscended then out of the bottomlesse Pit The son of perdition The last Arch B. gone to his owne place Now by whom the word of God in the Moneth October 23. was burnd suffered Martyrdome by a Candle from his owne hand at the High-Commission board Sacrifiz'd And at this time two Armies striving in the fielde for Possession and in Barke-shire and Oxfordshire where the Heavenly voice was heard first at Englefield-house The prime Shire imediately carried thereupon to Oxfoads Parliament to bee published c. In the first yeare of the Kings Raigne it being a Roule a manuscript revealing the day of Iudgement c. For which Cause now againe a great meeting of the Prophets as sometime in the daies of John that Conjunction then Jsaiah 6. An ancient Saint complaining thus Woe is mee I am cut off or undon because J am a man of uncleane lips c. VVhen as those Heralds of Armes present Each of them with six wings twaine they covered their faces with with twaine covered their feete with twaine did fly holy holy holy Lord of hostes cryed one to another c. The whole earth is full of thy glory And here to bring these home to the dayes of John in the Revelation c. prophecying to his Time even to the end of the world being Times Voices expresly for no other then a third Sabath to be through
Brethren in hast told them I am Joseph So now it was not you that sent mee hether but GOD So was it of the Lord no thanke to Samson Samsons saying she pleaseth me well When neverthelesse it displeased his Father and Mother They saying is there never a Woman among thy Brethren or people c. The almightie for bringing his owne Counsell and purpose to passe suffers much and forbeares long the Holy Ghost thus saying hee sought an occasion against the Philistins GOD on his side he needs not feare any The Time was come of their fall at last which stricks home though hardly like the Thunder at first heard And to be som-what lowder or plain herein was not an occasion sought also against that House of Lords and Commons by that unexpected progresse without President or Example of Progenitors when he separated Himself from his Head-Kingdoms Parliament Assembled then for rooting that Slip out blind Herisie Her Maiesties darling grown unto such a height Without doubt with as ill or worse successe taken in hand then hee which but lost his life good Samson When the House of Peeres and Commons those two Pillars charged with a heavie taxe of Treason purposing to lay violent hands next first rob'd of their good Name and then of their Life lastly brought about by Lyers in waite for â—hat purpose And thus his causlesse falling out the occasion of these such unspeakable miseries He carried away from His Parliament thus by the Church of the LIBERTINES and ROMES CHVRCH proceeding from a loosnesse or carelesnesse of goodnesse the good affection not set by of those to have been Equaliz'd if not preferr'd before Forreine states a greater Honour then proginey common to all to discharge such a Stewardship well The office of a Crowne a good name Proverbs 22 as our Eies open'd and Wofull evidences thereby given to understand That not old Samuel godly Queene Elizabeth was rejected tender hearted unto every one But herewith wee which were not content But nay we will have a King to reigne over us whatsoever coming to passe How soone verified the old true proverbe seldome comes a better for unto Samson as at his end so befallen us More slaine in one yeare then since the Conquest in the Reigne of so many Kings and Queenes of them cald to sacrifice their Lives for the Truths testimony commanded to rest a little season Blessed innocents were who changed have their scarlet for white robes calling a loud how long O Lord Revela 6. c. And every haire of Times head grown precious never recald and if ever perrilous to loose it as t is now reveal'd here and unloos'd the mistery of time how Samsons seven-fold ropes pluck'd asunder even drawn from them like Pharaohs double Dreame where the thing was one likewise these broken Withes and ropes reach to this sevententh hundered yeare present not alone But to that sevententh yeare of the Kings reigne a time of greater famine then Pharaohs when the plentie was not known by reason of the scarcity following so grevious And now great Brittaine newly so stiled accompanied with no few Honours that started up have in this sevententh hundred yeare Even as those knots undone all and broken with Jrelands green plantation by the rootes pluck'd up This knot or union so fast made how is it come to nothing but all up making ready in Armes that beside a Coate-armes borne no other appearance at all remains suddenly like his armes become when be awaked great Brittains peace even so brittle stands as those ropes c. Compard unto towe or a piece of thred choaked with Match and Powder now for the sweet sents of peace and plenty injoyed Long And handled Thus Notwithstanding not unfore-told None Considers of that hand writing though in the Yeare 1633. shewing His Kingdome is devided and numbred c. Belshazzar it shall be easier for him in the day of Judgement By the Prophet Jeremiah PASHVR which smote him was rebaptiz'd VVho gave him that Name Compounded as unluckie as it was Long MA GORMIS Sabib namely restles or feare round about being no lesse then great Brittains very Motto VVherefore to make it good unto His Majestie two Names be attributed a Godfathers and Godmothers here toward his regeneration Baptized in their teares for Salt that is wanting Now from Samson JAMES SON derived and also Mother Rachels Name hers added drawne from CHARLES to weare it for a Favour as long as he lives here weeping because they were Not or were lost would not be comforted c. The Lyon become a Noted sheep signifies for Rachell is a sheep but herewith to give neverthelesse some comfort Thy Kingdome come c. Then the only remedie when all is done Come Lord Jesus For what Thy Kingdomes are come unto none need to shew it They speake for themselves round about plainly and thus Samsons story their state sets forth no newes either Your hangings and Tapstery makes it not a stranger but Common blind Ale-houses not without it His lying in her Lapp a sleep whilst she pooles him c. And without streining this Legacie of his too besids those ropes puld in pieces which became as singed with fire VVith His Brazon Chains as the one Stands for Match the other toward your pieces of Ordnance Fastend this also on our Effeminate time his seven Locks Left to this last hundred yeare shewing what weaving and curlling we have of FALSE-HAIRE by that going away of His with the Webbe fastend to the Beame whose locks therein woven by her who said Thou sayest false or hast mocked mee c. Expressing how men forbidden expresly long Haire yet the sonnes of God will weare it some of them looking thereby more like the sonns of Divels And so farther for the green Wit hs and new ropes provided of old long since for such Hell-hounds whose smoaking tongues as Links set on fire already notwithstanding RACHA he who cals his Brother so he shall bee in danger of a Counsell c. and so much for those Wit hs and ropes unusefull neither for great Brittains Navie and Taklings together with Irelands Plow-Taklings and other uses as aforesaid And neverthelesse like the Plague-tokens of their inevitable end The hastie Messengers likewise so many Judgements sent forth suddenly forerunners of the dreadfull daies approach All prepared alike to meete the Son of God as those Hoggish Gergesens when all the Citie came out to meete Him and besought him to depart And now truely fulfilled The wedding is prepared but they which were bidden were not worthy c. Matth. 22. For nothing but in eating and drinking and giving in Marriage is this your hastening To his Comming Cleansing your selves of all filthinesse But returning to Times cutting off which no more returns That great Man sealed in the forehead or front with 1642. Noahs dayes even shall declare the meaning of that scentence from our Saviours mouth that no flesh saved except those dayes bee