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A vvarning to the dragon and all his angels
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1625
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A VVARNING TO THE DRAGON AND ALL HIS ANGELS Marke yee this wicked persons yee friends of the vnrighteous MAMMON LVKE XXI Take heed to your selues lest at any time your hearts be over-charged with Surfetting and Drunkennesse and the Cares of this life and so that day come vpon you vnawares For as a SNARE shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole Earth A SNARE O DEUIL Printed M.DC.XXV A GENERALL EPISTLE TO The fold and Flocke of CHRIST and to them that are gone astray that say they are Apostles and Catholiques and are not c. GRace be to you and Peace from God the Father and from our Lord IESUS CHRIST who gaue himselfe for our Sinnes and in the absence of his Body for a remmbrance the Blessed Supper till his second appearing As often as we taste thereof he takes it as a token we are not vnmindfull of his tender mercy that tasted Death it selfe for vs so many melting trials and torments the innocent Lambe for a brood of Vipers whose damme is Death whose sting is Sinne he that washed vs in his owne Blood vnto whome there is no accesse but by Faith Behold hee commeth and euery eye shall see him To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer Amen Jt seemed good vnto me having a perfect vnderstanding giuen mee in these things and the dispensation of them an office not a trade to roote out to pull downe to build and to plant by the grace and bounty of IESUS our Lord God To present this Visitation to your view joyning you together of the first Arke and vniuersall great House vessels of Honor and dishonor some cleane and purified others having need of purging Former things are come to passe and new things I declare vnto you no age so weake nor sex excusing when the Lord shall send and will put his words in their Mouth He powreth out his Spirit vpon his hand-maidens the rich are sent emptie away even so Father for it seemed good in thy sight Pressed and constrained with obedience to him and Duty towards you saying no other things then the Prophets and Apostles did say should come to passe that yee might know the certainty of those things wherein yee haue beene instructed whether you will heare or whether you will forbeare Jt is a salue to annoint and open the eyes of the blinde to bring them that sit in darkenesse a light to leade them out of the Prison-house others by meanes of remembrance whose annoynting long since teacheth them all thinges to stirre them vppe It is a true looking-glasse a large houre-glasse Phisicke for the sicke wholsome for the whole milke for the young and meate for the strong It is vpon Record due an olde debt One and Twenty hun-yeares since Vnto me is giuen this stone to polish vnto me this grace is giuen Jt is as it were a new Song to be sung before the euerlasting Throne a salutation for Strangers and the Brethren if we loue them that loue vs if we salute the Brethren only what doe wee more then others yea but they come at the last houre others hauing borne the heate and burthen of the Day Shall not the lost Son be found againe the Father of these that Blaspheme and are found lyers But in the eye of our weakenesse their prosperitie will weaue the webbe of enuie murmure not at the good-man of the House Is it not lawfull is it no wrong as he will to dispose the riches of his owne goodnesse nay rather may we not all say we are vnprofitable we haue both gon out of the way there is none that doth good no not one nay are not his Iudgements according to truth O man grudge not his grace dispute not his justice But they haue bin and will be to the worlds end our persecutors and slaunderers need they not so much the more our Prayers recompence no man evill for evill Therefore let the Congregations of the faithfull Pray for them poore blind distracted naked wretched people and giue glory to God who hath done away the vaile from these hidden mysteries that hindred our stedfast sight Though to blinde mindes and deafe harts this vaile remaines still vntaken away Wherein for mine owne part J challenge little not so much as those that brought to the Tabernacle guifts of their owne spinning of Blew and other colours But rather to be in the number of those servants that drew out the wonderfull Wine for the Bridegroomes Feast to beare it to the Gouernor and the Guests though to cast in my myte with others J was never vnwilling Finally to those that require a Signe or thinke this Confidence Boasting that high stiles are not steps for the declining age of this weake world to climbe my age of this weake world to climbe my defence is no shorter then free Least any should thinke of me aboue or better then he seeth me to be as others to suspect a forged passe To present you with Pearles of that sort or holy things I forbeare at this time If the debt be paid the secret of the multiplyed oyle is to my selfe Though J shut the Doore or shadow my name I feare no faces smiles nor frownes for the hope of Israel to me no chaines are heauie it is no bought nor stolne fire my ability nor boldnesse extending so high yet a Candle too high mounted for Sathan and all his attempts to blowe it out thriued the Gospell the lesse rejected of the Iewes But all alike hit not the marke they presse forward wranglers started aside like a broken Bowe the match is wonne one Foord is not knowne to all Passengers eleven strikes the clocke saith he twelue saith she doe these contradict those that are not against vs or with vs Antichristians those that are not against vs are with vs Even so glory be to him alone the Set is ours the houre and set time of whose Iudgement is at hand and O Lord remember thy servants Abraham Isaac Iacob looke not to the stubbornnes nor to the wickednes of this People turne their harts preserue thy Church and his victorious Matie to tread downe the power of his enemies our Soveraigne gratious Lord and the Queene annoint them with thy holy Spirit Crowne them with Grace and forren Princes especially the Kings excellent Sister with a happie life here and eternall life hereafter Be gratious to the remnant of IOSEPH heare J beseech thee the Prayer of thy servant The Servant of Iesus Christ O A SVRE DANIEL DANIEL I END AL. Postscript TO maske my name with boldnesse to vnmaske Error J craue no Pardon the manner let none dispise Dreames in times past haue beene interpreted our Fathers in divers manners haue beene spoken vnto the winde bloweth where it listeth ELEANOR AVDELEY REVEALE O DANIEL TO THE GREAT PRINCE the King of Great BRITAINE FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Faith THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VISIONS OF THE PROPHET