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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36404	Ezekiel, cap. 2	Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.	1640 (1640)	Wing D1988; ESTC R18906	5,579	24

Ezekiel Cap. 2. WHereas this Vision stiled The appearance of the likenes of the glory of the Lord whereby as appears then a warning-piece of great Babylons preparation reports some greater judgement of more moment or importance then their Captivity above all his fellow brethren the Prophets though then others he no more timorous neverthelesse by such several admonitions given him doubtless intendeth no other or no lesse then captivity lead captive attended with innumerable chariots The Lord of Hosts marching on the wing'd winds much rather then the King of Assyria his Army The great days Alarm sufficiently visible And so of these vigilant living creatures in this Vision This watchmans Looking-glass the first visag'd like a Man looking upward another a Lyons voice the third the laborious Ox the fourth for speed to an Eagles swiftness likened whose faces every way besides full of eyes before and behinde other motion none but straight forward requisite in Prophets those watchmen or seers especially who bend their course that way the future the mark they shoot at And having had such a full view of this glorious Vision every one so many faces fell on his face by a voice commanded Stand upon thy feet to wit I am the Resurrections voice unlike that of the tempter If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down And where the Devil threw him down when the evil spirit cast out thus stood up instantly gives him withall to understand Verse I ordain thee one of the order of Prophets my Spirit I have appointed to to enter into thee and Jure Divino no lesse at all points armd with his commission he with a writ of Rebellion to serve them saith I send thee to a rebellious Nation Cap. 2. that have rebelled against me And they whether they will hear or forbear who stop the ear like the deaf Adar I send thee unto them say thou thus Thus saith the Lord whether they hearken or refrain chuse them for they a rebellious house yet shall they know there hath been a Prophet amongst them verse 5. And thou be not daunted or dismaid howsoever they look of their looks be not afraid though they a rebellious house leave that to him the Holy Ghost who will not be so answered protesting though Noah Daniel and Job were present they should but save themselves And line upon line even the Lords own words again and again expresly what can be said more plain then thou shalt speak these my words unto them notwithstanding as aforesaid whether they will hear or forbear for they are most rebellious But thou hear what J say Be not rebellious like that rebellious house weigh not their favor nor frowns let them know they have been visited give them warning howsoever Open thy mouth eat what J give thee standing on thy feet receive it the Resurrection tidings and as expresly commanded so to a tittle observed of which Angelical food the Evangelist John communicated even the little Book opened c. where heard such a noise of Trumpets an Angel the cryer stood roaring like a Lyon so many Thunders uttering their voices as Drums a Cryers voice too he in the Isle of Patmos in that Desart crying He that hath an Ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches Rev. cap. 2. c. besides Fighting against the Holy Spirit forewarning all to beware proclaims the Iudge of quick and dead his coming and both of these agreeing thus in the sad condition of the time as it were not to be awakened bidden in another place Son of man sigh with breaking of thy loins smite thy hands c. an end the end is come upon the four corners of the earth or land as signifies both now the end an evil an only evil behold is come Thus saith the Lord Cap. 7. An end is come it watcheth for thee behold it is come as it were all is accomplished the day of Iudgements forerunner is come smothered although by our Overseers fast asleep for all as in this City of late some sleepers characters of the cariage of the time women never the like awakened not not by the pains of their travel but as faln asleep many days before so continued stil sleeping whilest in the bed the Babe choked c. Another whose Arm lay broyling on the fire lately gone into the Hospital she in the mean while asleep Furthermore for whose commission before this Prophets being dismissed thus much without aggravation or augmentation he unto such an unexpected Banquet invited being not sent fasting away of Lamentations Mourning and VVoe spread before him Cap. 3. Moreover saying having caused him to eat bidden freely to fill himself c. J send thee not to the Cotages unto Day-laborers those of a rude speech them of thick or great lips surely had J sent thee unto them they would have hearkned unto thee and have answered And with motives and admonitions such this Messenger of his prepared and this no news of a Prophet to be least honored where best known for the most part there dishonored most Even these the Lords gracious warning his words expresly shall go on with them Saying Go get thee to the house speak with my words unto them who hardly will hearken to thee receive thy testimony whom neither pestilence the like unheard of the sword Brother against Brother Children against their Father Famine evil Spirits grown familiar acquaintance as though Satan now faln from Heaven And thus mixt new and old like a Scribe in both instructed c. proceeding with the Commission saying farther for as steel they be of a stiff forehead But thy face I have made strong against their faces and thy forehead against their foreheads as an Adamant Harder then flint embrace or salute them not shake off the dust of their houses go not amongst them who say in their hearts He delays his coming or We will not have this man to reign over us as though of some other nation we know not what he says moreover Bring them forth and slay them before me as appears by that Prophetical Parable when as supposed the Kingdom of God immediately to appear as it were even Mine eye shall not pity them though they cry aloud I will not hear them c. And therefore that will by no means incline or hearken to thee with none of them communicate for all their looks see thou be not weak or daunted though they a rebellious house verse 9. receive and take it into thine heart and hear it with thine ears For all my words shalt thou speak unto them c. Look see thou forbear them not having a watchmans care speak unto them and tell them Thus saith the Lord c. ver 11. Verse who then taken up in the Spirit shews how he heard behind him from its motion a voice of a great rushing to remember him again another warning as a clock its Alarm before it strikes cap. 1. likened to the voice or

speech of an Host those Alarms or unto the noise of great waters their rushing and the like as compared to the Almighty voice coming from Heaven Their wings and wheels one within another c. Thus what before he saw now his ears witnesse bears of it Much like as when all they were sitting or assembled Penticost when fully come Acts 2. which filled the House where they were suddenly such a sound a rushing of a mighty wind from Heaven VVhen Elias like also this Prophet ascends lifted up the King of Glory his fiery chariots from above sent down drawn by the aforesaid living creatures four swift as the wind with their two joynd wings on this side and on that side sparkling likened to burnished brass and burning coals of a brightness unspeakable yet not flying but went or ran even the workmanship of clocks and watches with their christal covers so dreadfully exprest besides the shadow on Dials these the emblem of Prophets not to go backward in the least degree all their motion strait forward who when they went or ran returned not although in another place shews they returned a contradiction easily recōciled from their recoiling likened to the Heavens perpetual motion in a moment though as a flash of lightning retire at the King of Glory his appearance or presence Verse 17. They return'd not when they went c. And of this sacred essence each grain or dram requisit to weigh it annexed to a charge thus given upon life and death whether they will or will not as afore declared much more every fathom and quarter to sound of this deep a calling to discharge of more consequence then his voyages or any Belman or VVatchman shewing what hour of the night and what past But let that pass moreover whose charge thus verse 12. where heard that voice Blessed be the glory of the Lord from this place to wit in the Church sufficienty manifest where the Suns Tabernacle the clock stands shadowed under the Tabernacle as from the head to the sole of the foot drawn the Cherubins by witnesses appearing more then one shews they had round feet according to the Hebrew and strait with faces and hands stretched upward and what living creatures these not deemed difficult to discren adding when those went these went when those stood these stood plain enough to be understood besides Ringers no strange creatures these having under their wings the form of a mans hand informing clocks their plumits and weights drawn up those feet too together with Ringers their posture stretching their loins standing on their toes as by the soles of their feet c. the length of which easie to be taken unto calves feet likened to wit Neats leather their shooes or Calves leather each exprest as this Prophet portray could we understand And so far for Aarons Bells these their rushing heard into the utter court Bells a glory wherein we surpasse other Nations Besides this for another cap. 9. where those six men standing beside the brazen Altar Amongst whom one with a writers inckhorn by his side among the wheels the Sexton or Clerk that keeps it in order He for one withall shewing he reported had the matter as he was commanded or ordered to do in the next place as refers to the Rolls Office it s six Clerks those reports of theirs by the said Roll or VVrit that woful lamentation c. likewise certifies with the inckhorn that slaughter weapon too wit the penknife to beware of cutting mens throats therewith such doings c. Cap. 10. Thus running over the words of it from the beginning of the Book to the end as the Alphabet the literal sence he that runs may read it hidden although from Rabbies Fathers Modern both taken with that admiration into consideration giving thanks to his Father that had made of his great Counsel He that shuts and no man opens opens and no man shuts Behold the little book seald with the Seven-stars which book holds in his right hand no man worthy or so wise for all their libraries so much as to behold the out side of it they held at such distance no looking within the shadow of those Hierglipical Cherubin Curtains The Spirit and the Brides bed thereof to touch a loop so much edge or selvedg like the scattered bones out of hope cap. 37. Though here brought bone to bone as it were Live O obstruse Oracle containing the living creatures namely The Holy Ghosts Heralds betokening not only this terrestrial Tabernacles clothing of rags covered with vermin for vermillion celestial forthwith exchanged with the whole Creations Restitution figured forth the renewed estate of men and Angels each in its order But even engines of VVar the great dreadful days likeness as in his hearing cap. 10. O wheel cried unto where he between the wheels the man in linnen match made of linnen pointing there to great Ordnance even gives fire to them beware the brass Piece loud enough cried whose motions strait forward whether the head looked mounted on their beril coloured wheels all put into a colour compared to the Almighty thundering voice when he speaks plainly spoken what a noise utters when their monstrous shot discharged compassed with no little smokes and fire as the appearance of the glory of God c. their terror represented by the cloud in the day time and the fiery pillar by night these living creatures likewise in the Brazen serpents likeness when bitten in that maner whose souls so much loathed the Manna could not digest such light meat Num. 21. And how lightly soever esteemd nevertheless with the Prophets last instructions shall proceed to give a taste of it where shewd him the forefront of the house eastward all the form of the house charged to observe it to be brief Church-Reformation demonstrates cap. 40. with its Chambers inner Chambers and outer Courts namely the several Courts of Iustice likewise to be reformed as by such exact dimensions for a rule given with the Temple and inner Temple every corner surveyed as of late disordered Coledges called Temples in this City repaired too set forth in this Map of Isralites days The holy waters answering thereto like one deep calling to another tokens of no inferior consequence when at so low an Ebb issuing from the threshold that became an ocean for fishers exceeding many from Eng. to Engl. c. not to be circumscribed within so narrow limits reserved to a larger table Have only sounded the trumpet here given the word O house hear Thus saith the Lord c. for they a Rebellious c. for their standing in contempt served the subpena Thus hard and slow of hearing removed the pillow from their elbows of some passages and tokens touching the woful present given a touch to call them from the foreruners of his coming what an over-turning goes before it whose voice as the sound of many waters even the floods voice Noahs days 1700. VVhen as repented him he made man as in this present century appears un paralleld for such surpassing sins and judgements But going on with the words of his commission to perfect the same Cap. 3. Verse 2.6 Thou shalt not go amongst them c. for they a Rebellious house a multiplyed phrase after the maner of clerks in drawing bills or books the aforesaid as it were the word book authorised otherwise called a bill of divorce as thus stiled the book of Ezekiel the Prophet signifying both book and bill Cap. 12. verse 2. thus inlarged Thou dwellest in the midst of a Rebellious house Verse 3. For they a Rebellious house though they a Rebellious house c. And hath not the Rebellious house said unto thee c. concluding the matter thus For in your days O Rebellious will I say the word and perform it saith the Lord Verse 25. Acts 13. Therefore beware lest that fall upon you behold ye despisers and wonder and perish ye for I do a work in your days which ye shall not believe though one declare it unto you VVhere last of all because if the cause should depend beyond what was expected before ripe for a hearing Thus a cloud about breadth of a hand appears Verse 27. Thus saith the Lord He that heareth let him hear and he that forbeareth to put in his answer let him forbear for they c. alters both mood and number hereby shewing what though some be dumb or willful yet he at least let him open his mouth and not with one voice Shut him out whilest he made stand at the door knocking making as they asleep were bears witness Revelations 22. he that is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy c. and come saith the Spirit and the Bride revealing before the glorious Throne our appearing immediate and let him without delay answer that heareth and say come c. The Grace of our Lord c. Ezek. cap. 3. Postscript Least that come to pass Friend how camest thou in hither not having a Wedding garment and he was speechless c. without his robe of Parliament without doubt in adding thereto many called but few chosen an Item to both Houses Mat. 22. FINIS