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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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the earth as exprest by the foure Beasts and foure Evangelists c. give all their voices also saying holy holy holy Lord God almightie which was which is and which is to come And for more light in this matter Revela 4. The seven Lamps of fire before the Throne c. which are called the seven Spirits signifie no other then Munday to be a Spirituall day Chap. 5. Signified thus There stood a Lambe in the middest of the Elders having seven eies and seven horns which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth To wit Sunday the middle Sabbath the Eie as it were to the Gentels that great light for seventeene hundered yeares space Likewise the Horns the new Sabbath Munday as afore shewed As the one proclaming the first Resurrection or comming So the other the Last in the seventeth hundred yeares to be recal'd And thus our eternall Sabbath these Sabath-dayes both in one sealed up in the little Booke Farthermore for an addition these shewing beside how the Worlds ages being cast into three parts That had not those daies before the Flood been cut off or shortned the Deluge had not been till Noahs Death which lived 300. Yeares after c. Enoch his walking with God confirms it Walked with God 300. yeares after his begetting Children as much to say weary Time three hundred yeares Comes before his Time High time of such daies to be disburthened And to touch this New-day with a coale from the Altar shewed also the one even Munday purified and the other remooved As appeares in that Massage sent Herod who had shut up the Lords Messenger Sonne of Herod the great so Sir Nam'd That be-headed Him setting abroach his Blood for his Birth-day better he never had been borne John of too high a spirit to feed him with flattery tooke our Saviour for John risen againe or some walking Spirit The Lord sends him word of the Resurrection saying go tell that FOX behold I cast out Divels and will heale to day and to morrow and the third day I shal be perfected Neverthelesse I must walke to day and to morrow and the day following c. bids him doe his worst as much to say which Ambassage whether delivered it were or no wee read not But doubtlesse for admonition spoken unto all spirituall Herods neither being curious whether these came to her eare indeavouring rather to unlocke or open the meaning of that How coming to passe Herod or Hayreod to be Sur-named Reynold the Fox Not onely because John called our Lord Innocent Lambe made their prey but his eare dedicated to her so his Dalilah Very likely he did weare some odde Locke Fox-tayle-like a scourge as it were of hayre portending how together with his Souldiers our Saviour should be stript scourged despised and mocked by him Wherefore before that Easter this word or mocke sent him that before had given his consent Onely for a rash words sake as made an eye-winesse of his valour to be-head such a one for such a woman partly because of his alliance c. Then lessen himselfe His greatnesse makes himselfe a fire-brand of Hell rather And although this Fox the first of that Name is said to be exceeding glad to see Jesus of whose coming then questionlesse he was foretold in that word sent unto him notwithstanding to those questions of his vouchsafed no answer at all As much to say he had and would make good his word in the end c. Thus shee in such obedience to her Mothers instruction He standing in as much awe of them both those Philippian Dames And so much for an Old Case new reported And as in the Gospell the five Yoke of Oxen these serves for OXFORDS Meridian which belong to His Majesties invitation Hath MARIED a wife and cannot Come c. Yoak'd in the yeare 1625. unequally Also that Term of FOX or OXFORD to wit Ominous to long Gownes Samson Companion too crafty for him afords them that subject likewise to worke upon So againe Lastly What Lacke yee Doe you lacke Match and Powder or Cable-Ropes or any Brasse c Fetters toward Field-pieces or long Haire any to weare Or Irish Wit hs Of these as much as yee please SAMSON is provided for you bound to serve is as long as he Lives Even hee with those grinding Gun-powder That Mother and Daughter in the GOSPELL Two women shall be grinding c. The last dayes watch-word so much shall hereof suffice Onely these Matt 24. Then shall two bee in the Field c. As it serves for this yeare 1642. with the sevententh hundred yeare So Samsons sacrificing here his Life Hee bearing as it were the gates of Hell and Death Also these beares date about this present EASTER set forth in Honour of the glorious Resurrection his Life and End And hetherto from Thence c. Your Silence on all sides which concludes Consent Wherefore I Conjure and Charge the aforesaid Evill Spirits or Legions no more here to enter into this Kingdome from henceforth Goe downe into Hell out into the farthest part of the Earth get thee hence c. Glory Honour and Blessing From the Blessed LADIE her Day in Lent c. 1643. None offer without Priviledge to Re-print These
TO THE MOST HONORABLE THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLJAMENT ASSEMBLED c. MY LORDS THer 's a Time for every thing under the Sunne and if any for to bee abrupt and breife in ever t is NOW when Time so precious is with your Lordships under the Sunne there is nothing but a supernaturall Course to be taken Touching the Cure of such unnaturall condition'd Times The Almightie his VVord the only Balme then and Soveraigne remedy when ye have tryd all If any therefore doe amisse and miscarry of you Blame your selves none but the Parliament For I shall of no little Burthen discharge my selfe here who can but say and tell you I have a receipt of such rare opperation and vertue given me That within few dayes it shall bring Him againe to Himself I meane the KING after absent so long from his Parliament whose Character if ye please to observe This is his He that no Chaines could binde him Marke Evangelist the 5 th That had been often bound with fetters and with Chaines pluck'd assunder by him And the fetters broken in pieces neither could by any man be tamed as much to say neither Oath nor word or promise availing or any reason of force to parswade with Him as the Holy Ghost speaking plaine by that adjuring in Gods Name and by asking his Name too saying LEGION for they were many who spake not with the Lest Neverthelesse not more feirce then fearefull of the Lords comming this man wounding himself thus And thus have made tender unto your Lordships Of my service whether or no yee accept thereof for to bring His Majestie to you Setting as afore time cloath'd c. And doing withall what Ye shall aske or desire As for the Caveliers what They shall doe all of them even crave a Passe here to take Shipping for the Low-Countries and Germanie to be gone away the Boors will entertaine them willingly St. Matt the 8. gives Notice of two so exceeding feirce that none might passe by that way to wit that Dutch Duke or Prince possessed with an uncleane Spirit out of his VVITS he to returne also without delay Home againe beyond Sea VVaiting on your Lordships Commands ELEANOR 1642. The 3 d. of January The Holy Ghosts New-yeares-gift SAMSONS LEGACIE JVDGES the 16. Chap. c. ANd as instanc'd or brought to his Tryall here found light SAMSON guiltie that way which Vow of his had he unhappily not violated a businesse that Of no mean weight what Fetters of Brasse bound him had none of what kinde soever Samsons fall lost himself hereby dispossessed of the Spirit of the LORD By him discovered the Almighties counsell unto the Lords Enemy could not with-hold or refraine told her all his heart she acquainted is therewith bee it whatsoever Such a blind thing is Love They into such Thraldom brought which harbour it suspected nothing because he lov'd her or doted rather That whosoever they were was able with a looke of his Browe to put them for ever to silence wherein his soul so farre ingag'd any to attempt but the motion c. And farther shewed how in his allegiance having toward his Master and Lord fayled Both stript of that great strength of his Lost both his Eies not only boord or put out faine to be lead afterwards by a Ladd But put in prison beside grinding in a Mill To tast of restlesse HELL that wearisome being Even takes Essaye of our Saviours Cup indeede these in some things to Samson belong onely able but for to turne his weary sides without other help or by a wals side to go which before had The Lord his support The Philistims his Lords now a heavie change of no other estate worthy had taken his pleasure and so came of it One Trusted with that high place of Government Twenty yeares therabout as it appeares Crownd with so many favours That had the Eternall words direction his light set so light by alhough chastised never so severly the bage of his Masters heavy displeasure none commiserate his Complaint bee it whatsoever whether marked shorne or noted He which wist not the Spirit of the Lord was departed from him when He had foolishly departed from the Lord And if GOD spared not Samson others much lesse that have him for their lesson who could have supposed warn'd before hand too what trust to be reposed in them That upon a VVomans assault her charms such a Forte rendered up without any reason rendred But to please Her was not that Riddle disclosd enough who would not have layd another wager as great as Samsons That this man could never have been over taken so that had been mistaken so much in Her before named his Heifer and this woman she of the Philistims breed too both of them one in effect or two witnesses appearing as it were Herewithall bidden to take heed all of Close-underhand-dealers For the holy Ghost is not without a double or two-fold meaning in these thirty Shirts wrap'd up thirty Shutes those not only Judas His livery-Coates or Coate-armes expressing but our bleeding dayes wherein such Plundering and intolerable Theifts For which betraying of the trust as one beside himself beside being a Prisoner made a by-word or one for a meane Occupation fitter or trusted when His eyes bee out rather then other-wise In steed of a Saviour or Deliverer hee delivered into the hands of such c. VVhich kindnesse for To none other bound but to Her beside his willfulnesse whose Parents some-time could not prevaile with Him or any other Is during the remnant of his wretched dayes ordain'd for to beare those shakels and fetters Brassen ones for suretiship and better securitie Thus armed by Her from Head to Foote c. But her Ladyship urged him She prest him Daily vext his Soule his Conscience to the Death Moreover by Lulling of him as much againe was kept in a Dreame untill layd himself flat at her Feet By such maine Strength was Samson over-mastred by his Mistres who so often gives the Allarum The Philistins SAMSON c. But to bring these home a little farther to these last dayes without Over-laying Your patience I hope shewed great Brittains low ebbe like Samson what passe brought to The worlds wounder for blessing and bounty from above beyond all their 's not unknowne a dreadfull Name farre and neere Now by His Majesties warfare being fettered and in Armes become the game and musicke of the VVorld Those as it were away hidding and running before time crowding as fast and covering house-tops fearelesse now of Samson In which difference difficult to judge whether for Might and Majestie more reverenced then dejected at last and dispised Certainly manifested as great Imbecillitie in subjecting himselfe to a Womans waywardnesse therewith carryed away so and transported But these not for disputationsake but made for dispatch not so wide and full of stuffe as others are acknowledged If it sit close t is as becoming Joseph in makeing himself known to his