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Of the general great days approach. To his excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax general. From the Lady Eleanor Da: & Do
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1648
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Wing D1999A; ESTC R231426
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Of the general Great DAYS APPROACH To His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax General FROM The Lady Eleanor Da Do. PSAL. The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce Let the great Isles be glad thereof Printed in the Year 1648. A. O. FRom him which is and was and is to come the alone peace-maker his Majesty expresly these the Revelation by his Handmaid interpreted Shewing that as the word of the Lord that Manna came in the wilderness to him sent afore from God he first of his Name last of the old Prophets and first of the new So to his servant John again in the Isle of Patmos sent unto the Gentiles to whom by way of Characters and other sacred Tokens signified the express time of the Lords return the mystery unfolded of which as follows Cap. 1. VVho on this wise with no slender charge Blessed is he that reads and they that hear the words of this Prophesie and keep the things written therein for the time is at hand Verse And with precious time to be short that returns not the happy Reader whieh would a taste of this Angelical food have ministred to Iohn by the Angel whose Name signifies both the Grace of God and the Year of Grace as Ioann Anno c. by these shall understand that the Gospels progress or pilgrimage t is to be paced out by Noahs days or like his few and evil Iacobs which attained not to those of his predecessors as by this account of the Gospels coming short of the former both before the Law and under fulfilling seventeen Centuries like his seventeen years sojourning in Egypt before ended the tedious days of his laborious life Sevenscore and seven years his Ladder reaching from Earth to Heaven And thus with the expedition of Churches captivity in spiritual Babylon finished Iohn with these joyful Tidings the Time at hand salutes the seven Churches Grace and Peace unto you from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven Spirits before the Throne besides the familiar Voyces of Time also personating the Holy Spirits gift even his watchful servants day and night these next to eternity about to take their leave remember their service to the churches especially sabbath days where inclusive Times whole family with the Anniversary day Easter the Resurrections feast the year when begins and ends those spiritual c. VVho all with one voyce and consent cry down Times person no more allegiance due or adored with superstitious Ceremonies longer From voyces to good tokens all to the same end and effect vers And from Iesus Christ the faithful witness c. the first begotten of the dead The prince of the Kings of the earth that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood the Lamb of God c. a Bathe able to contain certainly the whole world even from Iudas Iscariot that Traytor in grain to the Red old Dragon to present them in their primitive estate in his appointed time in whom we live move and have our being every one where points to the custom of former ages of the Church their administring about Easter Baptism and the Lords Supper VVhich seven weeks for spiritual exercise how imployed before the Holy days too well known And the Holy Spirit made their open pastime too such a gift bestowed upon them possest with Sodom blindeness reigning such Nevertheless with the words of this prophesie This tree of Life come to his full ripeness going on shewing a greater Potentate then either Cesar slain vvho set the year arriv'd at their sun-setting that Monarchy or then C. R. Defender c. with his monthday 27 about Easter and priests in his presence in whom bleeding commiseration none such never too soon in shortening such Reigns hereby as shadow'd out And so proceeding with another expression of his much love exceeding Solomons to the queen of the South vvhich could but ask and have vers and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to vvhom be power and dominion to ages of ages Amen in the Churches old age as much to say Princes every one Preachers God and the Father c. VVhereof Eden that parted River that became four Heads a figure where in those three Gold very good The Onyx-stone and the unknown Bdellium the Manna likened to it compar'd to a round white seed whence comes doubtless our Orient Pearl that queen of Egypts for one as well bestowed upon a Swine the Gentiles Emblem how it fares with them even to this day in holy things And the whole sacred current flowing this way of Old and New concurring as the Tabernacle for example shews wrought wiih blue purple and crimson in which the Table the Shew-bread and the Candlesticks those Memorials also the significant Ark four-square containing the Tables of the Law he pot of Manna and the budding Rod of the four winds who may doubt too unknown whence they are And the fourth part of the VVorld because but three formerly or with doubting Thomas c. As witness this Trinity in Vnity Exodus the 3. say The Lord God of your Fathers the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob c. This is my memorial to all generations four several times repeated to beware of going less no vain repitition from the Lords own mouth a Lesson to his first Ambassador Moses bare footed before the thorny Bush the fiery Throne the fourfold Aleluiah voyces saying Amen Revel with that four-square virgin City unfolding as much said to have the glory of God measured 144 her reign So now to return home to the matter of his coming in his cloudy chariot thus advertised verse Behold he cometh with clouds c. Even so Amen to the greater sort as a thief in the night welcom or some open enemy even wounded by Jew and Gentile both Of his Name sacred every tittle thus I am A. and O. the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty where the truth of it the burthen of the word of the Lord the acceptable year proclaims at hand witnesd to be with the Scriptures the Original Languages as pointed unto manifests the old New where the first begins the last ends as it were the Suns rising of the one the others setting like Antipodes the Hebrew and Greek and so of the Old-year end married to New-years day And as here by his ovvn Example recommended Iohn our brother and companion what patience requisite in a Prophet shews he to the Isle of Patmos confined scituated in the Egean sea by that Tyrant c. So a Revolution vvithal as the Noon-day visible and the Stars in the firmament directed to this Isles three from him which is was and is to come the very voyce of the present Reign the first of his name c. even this kingdom where began the Reformation as it were by several languages
or ways to them revealed his second coming And these the sum of the blessed words of this prophesie the day of Iudgements summons to Great Britain foreshewed Shewing upon the Lords-day how it came to pass a great voyce of a trumpet behinde him heard meditating it may be how long to the Resurrection or about the meaning of those What if I will he tarry till I come answered by the Resurections alarm appears saying I am Alpha and O mega the first and the last and what thou seest write in a book c. at which turned about that dreadful apparition beheld one in the likenes of the Son of man a very book at all points as it were in fine paper gilded bound and clasps the flaming Eyes some combustable stuff declares not onely but the sharp instrument two edged coming out of his mouth the cutting or opening of the leaves And so for his voyce as the sound of many waters even the floods voyce lifted up as the days of Noah the coming of the Son of man the evening of time come the seven golden Candlesticks and the seven stars in his right hand by whose influence Iohn revived dead afore unanimously the same Vision the Prophet Daniel saw saying a thing wus revealed but the time was long as it were belongs to the time of the end to be understood as referr'd to those one and twenty prophetical days when withstood so long by the Persian prince Dan. 10. it being thereabout since Cyrus so many hundred years since this Secret revealed to him And thus much for the BOOK and its Contents with his Commission signed and sealed with those mystical letters and stars seven to remember the Church to stand on their guard and be watchful those lights almost extinct Bishops about 27. in the first place A piece drawn in the Ancient of days likeness a Robe girt as it were spurs and sword an ireful aspect answerable to his confused voyce a rod in his right hand or scepter indued with such power with his age c. the least touch his watchword or Motto vers I am the first and the last I am he that was dead and am alive to ages of ages and have the keys of He and Death consisting of variety of expression sounding the Resurrections Alarm he standing in the midst of those Centinels or walking in that solinary place not the least among the Isles like his walking in the fiery furnace beheld by the King of great Babylon at whose command the same was heated seven times more then afore a forerunner of his own judgement of seven times c. And from these significant things and those his last words Behold I am with you all days until the consummation of the age Mat. 28. as follows shewing the holy Spirit not in power onely visible to all but in person again sent before the last Day to some one even a Revolution or return to be of the former Also of the very time gives to understand from his standing in the midst of so many watch-lights to wit about the midst of such Century to look about us then with our brother John who turning saw and heard these presaging too some special judgement being foreshewd then accompanied for a testimony of it with no inferior persecution And the prophesie accomplished accordingly this to be the day of Iudgement Herald verily to all Nations c. Much more to be provided for aforehand then the years of scarcity the former when brought forth by handfuls where Joseph the prisoner so advanced surely more to lookt after then tything of Rue and Rosemary or great tythes either Howsoever by them the Day of Iudgment passed over From moreover who wrote to a Lady that loving Epistle so He that hath an ear c. even which accompanies the times general Out-cryes and Nevvs cryed let him give ear to the truth of his presence and company vvill enjoy who stands without and knocks freely offers to sup c. to sit in his Throne with him FINIS