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Hells destruction. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1651
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Hells Destruction BY The Lady Eleanor Douglas Apocal. Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison that you may be tryed and you shall have tribulation ten days c. Printed in the year 1651. Hells Destruction Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have Tribulation Ten days c. Apoc. MOst Learned and Honored Iudges with whom so precious restles Time of which as who can be over frugal shunning therefore Multiplicity long process but wearisom to the wise Seeing then our Laws how ballanced with Gods Law its profound Precepts said to be founded thereon and Reason in its purity consonant thereto otherwise hath with it no affinity Emboldens to present this Paradice Posey durable presidents which too circumspect wherein ye cannot be hereof as ensues Adam that first Lord Chief Iustice or Iudge before whom the Lord God brought every Creature formed of the Earth to see what he would call them and whatsoever he called every living Creature that was the name thereof of a certain admits of no wrong or contrary Names whatsoever in any Courts of Record to be legal or answered unto As these inform accords with the former the Iudge of quick and dead where demanded first What his Name was before obtain'd a pass for that Baptized Herd the Gentiles Prototype doubtless the Devil his Godfather who made answer saying Legion for they were many he resident as it were in Hell among the Graves distracted c. Thus as we see and know irrational Creatures these of several kindes retain their proper Names and very Devils not debarred theirs Nevertheless that Dominion have over them Man the Little World to Angels not much inferior deemed no little VVonder as though confined to a lower Region then they suffer our selves worse then Bruits undergo Names enjoyned utterly false instanced as here the dead childe like in stead of the living laid in her Bosom disputed in Solomons presence whereby no less then bereft both of her good Name and Liberty witness this their erroneous VVarrant of Arrest Ecce vera copia Eleanor Lady Davers alias Douglas committed to Woodstreet-Compter by Steedman Officer to the Lord Major July 17. 1646. As true that might have stiled her Lord Major c. for any relation between Davers and Douglas But by a Non-sence Alias a seeming connexion far from Holy VVrits Example Slime in stead of Morter and Brick-bats for firm Stone with it dispenses not Confusion of that consequence VVhence follows next Simon Magus alias Peter c. Saints and Devils become fellows also Fool and Racha what not as out of the path of his Commandments of warrants that latitude allowed them one Name because lighted on matters not how many false beside so at all with Logicks definition or Reason agrees not authorized by the proviso Alias the meaning of it sometime or otherwise c. though she never afore at any time called by the aforesaid Name belonging to another Tribe or Family He that calls the Stars by their Names as it were Male and Female those lights where joyns names no such Bills of Divorce tolerates neither what Antiquity or Custom either occasions as referred to those judicious the Sequel of what concernment Lastly wherwith even whose additionals Abraham Sarahs consists but of a letter both alike old and new consenting in one Also Paul for Saul one so cautious that way witness in mentioning the said Patriarks Blessing as well observes saying Not Seeds as of many c. but Seed c. And so much for that They would have said c. in stead of Alius All they can alledge or say for themselves so contradictory to Sense and Verity better to be justified by some blinde slow Belly Cretians such Vipers then by those interested in the Name of Christians who would be unwilling to Subscribe to any other And hereupon of her false Imprisonment undergone so many years If when the cause of the Law ceases then ceases the Law it self wherefore when the Adversary detains the work for which the Bond was entred into occasioned it why should he keep it and her person in hold both or by what Iustice and Equity stands such an Execution any longer afoot or in force she having been since put to the charge for Imprinting the same all over for which was acknowledged the said Obligation of Sixty pounds no benefit whereby accrewing to her by a certain Printer one Pain upon whose importunity and protestation 't was obtained Another Quaere since Scandalous Names bear Action to be termed Bankrupt c. why unjust Cut-Throat Actions what the Adversary pleases no Redress in that case as amounting to Hundreds no few by this Broken Printer and his Consorts the Burthen of them no short furrows plowed c. By City unmerciful Adonizebeks unmindeful of his Confession as he had done God had requited him Threescore and ten had dismembred them c. And Abimelech how rewarded doing execution on his Seventy Brethren a woman his Executioner Judges 9. laying on himself as it were violent hands caused one to slay him not impertinent here to unmerciful Executions VVith the Milstones lighting on his Head a presaging to the Press and Majorship both by those several Tables under which so many fed by him of his Thumbs to be pared and Great-Toes And what Figs and Grapes such Thistles and Thorns produces proceeding therewith the plot of this Cut-Throat Fellow which aforesaid Arrest in his own House who to draw her thither fain'd had lost the Copy c. The ready way for compassing their desperate Ends supposed in having her life at mercy being sent to the Compter lock'd into her Chamber by the Keeper Not long after she all unready c. between two of them carried down thence instantly shut and bolted was into the Dungeon-Hole Hells Epitomy in the dark out of call or cry searching first her Coats pockets Frustrate that way with the Key took away the Candle there left in their Pest-house on the wet floor to take up her lodging beyond any draught by so many poysonous Vermin harbored Like disquieted Spirits setting up fearful several Notes coursing about c. About an hour after when as no need of Sun Moon or other Anno 1646. July 17. whereof notice Extraordinary taken about the City they brought her again to a Chamber That Night till day break the Heavens without intermission flashing out Lightnings as Noon-day The Element like a Casemate standing open without Thunder at all or any Rain those continued fire-works notwithstanding VVhich time Twelve-Moneth that Adonizebek Lord Major was committed to the Tower and his Brethren Anno 47. when the Armies unexpected arrival at the Whitsontide c. As for the perfideous Printer how hapned with him soon spued out of House and Home his VVife within few days dead in whose Brothers unhappy Name the Bond taken And so when the smoaky Bottomless Pit to be opened the purifying days over oppressed Captives seasonable for Elevating their weary Heads Signs in Heaven and Earth Sea and Waters contribute their Testimony no mute obscure Tokens like the floods voice uttering theirs unbound as it were clapping their hands for company perplexed people at their VVits-end Luke 21. on all sides in that unparalleld Thraldom mutinying then these Uncircumcised their Commissions date expired As he that reads that Magna Charta the Prophet Isaiahs Good Tidings for them bound c. those doors to be unbar'd Of which groaning Days thus alluding to their Moneth of Travel the Tenth or lying in paralleld with the ten Persecutions Ten days shall have Tribulation The Mysterious Beasts Reign Crown'd or Mitre'd with his Ten Horns charged with open Blasphemy spewed out by so many Heads against the Tabernacle the presence c. opening no narrow Throat repaid Lex talionis that leads into Captivity c. Rev. 13. And so much for the year of Redemption arrived that Haven Tokens of it likened to the Springs infallible Messengers of Summers approach the Fig-tree and the rest proclaimed by Heavenly Heralds which Powers above shaken like those Boughs others bids beware the Tree or Ax. VVitness our New Star in Cassiopei the French taking essay of its influence that Herodian Massacre not long after it seen 74 years before the year 1644. the heavy day of Reckonings forerunner of which Great-Seal day John heard the number Rev. 7. even sealed the year of God Ao Dom. 44. observing the motion of the former that in the East 74 years afore Jerusalems ludgement the numbred Time of our Captivity or coming out of Heathen Babylons Purgatory of whose Habeas Corpus sealed VVrits a Discharge thence of the restless Abyss touching Obligations sealed and the like These an express command Rev. 9. commanded henceforth not to harm or touch any such but those branded or charged with Murther and Theft c. ver. 20. breach of his Law the Commandments And for this time so much prefixt fixt or set times though said to be but a certain time for an uncertain and the like questionless of highest concernment those undervalued most or least in request because flatters not or torments them termed wilde notions and brainsick c. Likewise for uncertain Names on record Darius as it were for David like that Dispute about her having five Ioh. Bidden Go call her Husband whence follows if Davers one then otherwise called Douglas he none of hers either As sarthermore for tedious Apprentiships their farewel together with that granted What is not true is false Ergo Libel bastard slips and sinister actions imposed on his people unlawful to be fathered on Gods VVord his Law thereon either erring not in a tittle FINIS From the Fleet Easter 1651. Consisting of about 6000 Foot and 700 Horse the length of Times Foot the distracted Time Aged ear â—000 years he Legton also c. The Dutch stiled Gravs and Boors their late loss put into the Reckoning Mat. 8. Mark 5. Luk c. Cap. 61. Luke Revel. 2. Shewing they have a King 〈◊〉 them c. of the Roman Faction where those cald Cavaleers or Royalists and coyn Dollors and Half Crown Pieces adored Daemoniae he heard the Number of them with Pieces of Ordnance the Fleet or Navies preparation by those hideous Hieroglyphicks signified c.