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The new Jerusalem at hand by the Lady Eleanor Douglas.
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1649
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Wing D1997; ESTC R29372
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THE New Jerusalem At Hand By the Lady Eleanor Douglas Daughter of Lo Audeley Lo Touchet E. of Castlehaven JE LE TIEN MAT. 28. Behold I am with you all days until the consâ—mmâ—tion of the age Printed in the Year 1649. The Prophetess of the most High to all Nations and People c. SHewing in stead of a Charls the second gives ye the character of a second Saul even He and his for ever cut off unto that giving place that everlasting even proclaimed The first and the last to wit Prophets the beginning and the ending Jure Divino afore Kings of the Earth Certain inferences by borrowed from dayes of old Sam. cap. 10. whose Reign confirmed by that ominous token witness of Rachels Sepulchre as much to say such another he mourning and weeping also for his children because they were not or not him to succeed read in letters of her Name Rachels otherwise rendred Charls and thus running over the sum of it To whom on this wise shewed cap. he when little in his own eyes above the rest how chosen to be a King so great from tending on Asses Scotlands former low Estate pointing thereto so farther of Kings given in his wrath in anger taken away briefly thus but referred to the first of his Reign Anno 1625. that heavy hand upon the City an unparalleld Pestilence concluded with our three Kingdoms Division so that if ever all at their wits-end now accompanying his departure 23 of his bloody Reign in making him King of Great Britain evident the Lord repenting himself much more well served for their Repining whom Nothing but a King would serve who blest were above all Kingdoms so in a virgin Queens renowned Reign And for them so much First and last of their Name both tasting of one sharp cup their Heads cut off and fastned their bodies in that maner to the wall or nailed c. as to the Story referred Sam. c. which had each three Sons where this for another cast upon her Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman whether in right appertains not to our Scotish Jonathan by his Mothers means stript of his Royal means and Estate Passing over what between him passed and his ghostly Father or Confessor supposed to have been Samuels very Spirit who fell all along both of them upon the earth sore afraid how feigned or carried out to make good the innocent blood spilt of such multitudes of his people who without question as participated of Sauls fits The evil Spirit from the Lord to wit the evil Counsel infused by the Clergy so wanting neither in his Fathers Faith or Religion spake truer then he wist whose wanton Minion bewitcht with neither repented hereof One charged with the life of his Father nor of his unmeasureable Swearing which amongst them sware By their saul so long till verily conjured up his Spirit that not a little boasted of his King-craft witness Familiar Spirits witches of late transferr'd from Scotland hither And as for that Agag the delicate BuckingaÌ„ how his mother made childless she author of his unhappiness she insnared by their Spanish junkets cannot but adde this to the Reckoning of Phinehas spirit how it hath acted on these twain saying Righteous art thou O Lord that hast judged thus Anno 1628. as when Buckingham his deadly wound had given him by such a one transported c. so even Charls late King 1648. at length paid home that heavy Stroke or Blow of his aged Eight and forty like The flying Rowl in length twenty cubins c. twenty years which had given him to make his peace or repent him and so much onely at this time commended to the Reader with this contained in the Prophet Daniels confession neither have we hearkned c. Chapter 9. v. 6. doubtless pointing to the people of this land alike with dumb deaf spirits c. together with his lame confession on the Scaffold like blinde Devotions Lesson promised That he should say but very short Prayers who came not short of it none at all said that we hear of Nevertheless unwilling to insult over the worm or grave as his hard lot To morrow be thou with me said to Saul so This day be thou with me in paradice peradventure his pardon had folded up herein which had not received in his life-time altogether those good times others had c. might at the last gasp or minute repent And so much for The Ax laid to the Root of the old Tree in a Reign of 23 years which produced no better fruit And for the title set forth of the Keys of David belonging to her Rev. 1.7 And as demonstrates a second Saul so a second Adam he first of the Kings of the Earth his immediate woful fall shadowing it forth VVitness she subject Heb. called Chavah or Eve By whom had three Sons where thus for her sake rewarded Gen. 3. Even placed at the East a flaming Sword c. turning every way droven out as it seems VVestward from his Garden to the open Field in their Leather liveries to encounter travel justly reaping the fruits of accursed mother Earth war and strife the Thistle and Thorn its emblem in stead of the Olive and Grape All our days as stubble but a blaze vanished like a shadow The sum or substance of which informing formerly as he forbiden expresly the Tree of good and evil notwithstanding took thereof so again when as offered the Tree of life its Leavs for healing the evil of the Nations or Kings Evil a like Trespass or capital Crime guilty of that rejects it like Iudgements draws upon their heads And therefore suppose not that those Galileans were sinners above the rest because of late suffered c. Nay but except ye repent ye all likewise shall perish And so from Saul and Doeg deriving Douglase here concluding as began how his bloody House cut off also even dyed for his transgression against the word of the Lord c. and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar Spirit enquired not of the Lord to wit his Bishops c. whose army how swarmed with VVitches never the like heard in any Raign visited in that kind wherwith shewing lastly of the evil Spirit when fell upon him how the good Spirit at the very same time rested on another The solitary Turtle-Dove as it were shut up one of his own name owned by King Iames before the other of Stuart and of his Age and Nation Sir Archibald Douglase the supposed Son of King Iames the Elder Brother about a moneth c. also wrote Anno Etatis c. as by a Legacy of a thousand pound per annum out of his Crown-Lands appointed for him whereof though disappointed or prevented by the said K. unexpected death yet of the better part could not be disinherited then any three Crowns a greater blessing The holy Spirits anointing apparent by his Letters hereto annext that not only in those days