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A sign given them being entred into the day of judgment to set their house in order. For the high court of Parliament assembled. From the Lady Eleanor
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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A SIGN Given them being entred into The day of Iudgment To set their House in order For the High Court of Parliament assembled From the Lady Eleanor Psal. 97. The Lord is King or reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the great Isles be glad London Printed in the Year 1644. â—rinted with some words of addition for the Year present 1649. A DISCOVERY Unto what Nation the last Day aforehand to be in the last days Revealed Contained in the XX. of Kings Isaiah 39. AS had no other assigned then The word of God touching the Resurrections then being at hand but that of Jonas the prophet so in point of like incredulity at his return again turned Sadduces appointed no other but this of King Hezekiahs days Kings c. that for a sign or assurance had the third day of his uprising going up to the Lords house to seal it that of the shadows going back for the third of his life out lengthned a lease made him of thrice five years like a shadow when past VVithout which token not in a capacity of obtaining so high blessing passed not without being by the prophet Isaiah advertised the Lord of Hosts Ambassador his house afterward how swept and sons under what slavery issued from him not for facility such onely but difficulty of belief dangerous not a little Of which days come about again this great Revolution ushering the day of Iudgement his coming in the Clouds whereof as follows of Jacobs ladder reaching to heaven gate thus The express Epitomy of King James's life of Great Britain where beside no smal plague accompanying his first coming afore never visited so with those tokens of his like recovery here giving to understand beyond expectation such a solemn Thanksgiving for which at Pauls Cross which long Sermon in was related how in his late sickness unto death he likewise justified his upright walking with God and there with how pluckt off his Cap and cast it on the ground in such a passion professing in point of witting Injustice he would not so much as ask God forgiveness by which way of purging himself as came not behinde Hezekiah neither in some gross failings like that good King his hearkning to those charming Babylonian Ambassadors or Spies with letters sent to congratulate from Baladon son of Baladan Also who shewed them all his store and armory coming from those Austrian Philips c. overcome with like jugling slights a few figs and junkets suffered that Gundamore having surveyed the Tower to carry away as many great Ordnance and Guns as he pleased preserved for Truths defence and Kingdoms safety in no less peril of home bred friends such then forreign foes requisite with Arms and Forces to be secured And then how sent his Son after forced for whose Ransom to send over All the precious things and goodly laid up by his Predecessors to be bestowed amongst those insatiable Eunuchs and Officers distributed And lastly the good man himself in whose days flourished Truth and Peace thus over-reached for all his King-craft and Learning that brake his heart shortly after And the rest of his Acts and all his might or greatness and how he brought water into the City and made a Pool and a Conduit that Idol the cross are they not written in the Chronicles c. And thus this Hezekiah slept and rested with his fathers and Manasses his son reigned in his stead that came not short of Ahab and he awakened thus for him so much suffices become a sign himself no inferior one had the Suns retiring for a sign Obeyed Joshuahs command no feigned Phaeton stood 〈…〉 Moon moving neither they â—rriâ—â—d that longed after Rest so now before removed carried thence away shows them the way accompâ—â—iâ—◠〈…〉 it were sets 〈◊〉 the East Moreover for whose additional years fiveteen wedded to those ten degrees these crowning the first of his Reign 1625. forbids any more Coronations of Kings No more rising or setting here of theirs Kings xxi Chron. xxxiii ANd this Manasseh twice twelve years old when he began to reign over Great Britain How he reared Altars to Baal and set up his Roman Altars built Altars in the house of the Lord adored that Babylonian Image the Crucifix manifest are they not on record Beyond Heathenism abomination execrable Moreover to the overthrow of them and theirs how many seduced beside shedding so much Innocent Blood insomuch that the Catalogue of his sins Manasses great wickedness the hateful Amorites Cup wherewith paralleld and worse which Tyrants but light in comparison weighed with this MANS since 1625. the Remonstrance of the present To whom the Lord spake and to his people likewise but both by regard alike improved in his Commandments as the Suns course the contrary way gone as many degrees astray and so both alike whether rewarded recomended to the beholders whose high looks brought down here see whose Sons coat this therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I am bringing an evil upon them that whose heareth it both his ears shall tingle where thus again whether Jerusalems line stretched over us CITY and Country both And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish which he wipeth and turneth it upside down as in a glass whether presents not the face of the present spares neither side who not amiss deriving from Brute their denomination from the Ass as wel who understands his owner no such stranger to the dumb And so much for this Manna set at nought these judgements of the Lord foreshewed light by set notwithstanding speaking the Canaan language unto this our Age to all whosoever hath ears in their Native tongue shewed them their unnatural motion gone backward how far offended thereat or no whereof as ensues This for another making up the number he when made his supplication how was heard also returned to Hampton-Court however mis-led by sinister Counsel or betrayed not unhumbled either unknown not unto all who agreed to whatsoever about two years after who slew him in his own house attended with glowing ears not a few such a spectacle And how the people of the Land slew them again that had conspired c. Rainsborough and our Holland Ambassador taking essay of it Drunkenness added to blood-thirstiness were the first saluted with which unexpected cup. And with expedition a few words to the wise on this wise passing on what Baptism first past on his Sons visible in the Seers book withal how servile on the other side to his Priests Bishops charmed by their subtile Gospels whose Service book because allowed by his Father what an Idol made of it where that for another recorded in their Prophetical Remonstrance gave himself to them that had Familiar Spirits bringing up whoso named by him the gods and others as Plays his night exercise And the rest of his folly and other of his judgement making his Prayer-book also equivolent with the Alsufficient Scriptures evident as his grove made daily at Ball where sacrificed his time graced with one of his Fathers unhappy acts that Baals or James Chappel prodigious Tvvins the other his Babylonian Theatre from James's to vvhich fatal place made his last progress or march erected in Commemoration of the Ark as had been also the seventeenth Century current as from Adam to the Flood so long not unforevvarned of it by him that was the son of Adam that was the son of God that as vvere those days before Noah so shall be his coming again concerning not onely Timâ—â— golden vial or glass by vvhich account its being at a stand But hovv it stands or fares with faith put to the question Luke c. whethâ—r found such a thing as fâ—â—â—h how preparid then As for the fit time or vvhen Lo the present generation 〈◊〉 Masters for setting your house in order 〈…〉 here dis charges her calling or place bâ— farther giving you in the next place notice from Manasses fifty five years Reign of his second coming at hand goeth hand in hand vvith that of Caesar Augustus his five and fifty years in vvhose Reign The Prince of Life The Beginning and Ending of Monarchy came about the fortieth year into the world that began to be about Thirty years of age in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Luke c. even the sum of it bids turn to those sure Chronicles penn'd by the holy Spirits command thus saith the Spirit from the return of Manasses days to expect his coming again aforehand as shewed unto his servants the Prophets expresly pointing to the year 1655. at hand being the time vvhen the flood came 1655. from the Creation as computed by the Ancients and other Noah and his Baptisms figure at mans estate all preserved in the Whales womb ten moneths fulfilling before any window in the Ark opened and thus one deep calling to another as when the waters prevail'd the snowy Dove found no footing the Raven afore sent forth no other presaging then the Spirit of Prophesie at such a time again though ceased long at last salutes the nations with the Olive leaf in her mouth so seasonable now for their healing without which Angelical leaves applied an evil incurable promised The Tree of life yielding its monethly fruit And so be it known That the aforesaid blessed period of years 55. containing Moneths 666. Rev. 13. called The number of a MAN to vvit that Roman Emperors Reign shevved afore the Moneth of August bearing his Name by vvhose Predecessor the Calender corrected and 666 Hours fulfilling a Moneth all bids Tyrant Time and his Generation or Offspring Adieu subscribed vvith Emanuel Jesus its Numerals MVILV Anno 55. FINIS