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B21325 To the most honorable the high court of Parliament assembled, &c. Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 1643 (1643) Wing D2015 9,061 29

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TO THE MOST HONORABLE THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLJAMENT ASSEMBLED c. MY LORDS THer 's a Time for every thing under the Sunne and if any for to bee abrupt and breife in ever t is NOW when Time so precious is with your Lordships under the Sunne there is nothing but a supernaturall Course to be taken Touching the Cure of such unnaturall condition'd Times The Almightie his VVord the only Balme then and Soveraigne remedy when ye have tryd all If any therefore doe amisse and miscarry of you Blame your selves none but the Parliament For I shall of no little Burthen discharge my selfe here who can but say and tell you I have a receipt of such rare opperation and vertue given me That within few dayes it shall bring Him againe to Himself I meane the KING after absent so long from his Parliament whose Character if ye please to observe This is his He that no Chaines could binde him Marke Evangelist the 5 th That had been often bound with fetters and with Chaines pluck'd assunder by him And the fetters broken in pieces neither could by any man be tamed as much to say neither Oath nor word or promise availing or any reason of force to parswade with Him as the Holy Ghost speaking plaine by that adjuring in Gods Name and by asking his Name too saying LEGION for they were many who spake not with the Lest Neverthelesse not more feirce then fearefull of the Lords comming this man wounding himself thus And thus have made tender unto your Lordships Of my service whether or no yee accept thereof for to bring His Majestie to you Setting as afore time cloath'd c. And doing withall what Ye shall aske or desire As for the Caveliers what They shall doe all of them even crave a Passe here to take Shipping for the Low-Countries and Germanie to be gone away the Boors will entertaine them willingly St. Matt the 8. gives Notice of two so exceeding feirce that none might passe by that way to wit that Dutch Duke or Prince possessed with an uncleane Spirit out of his VVITS he to returne also without delay Home againe beyond Sea VVaiting on your Lordships Commands ELEANOR 1642. The 3 d. of January The Holy Ghosts new-yeares-New-yeares-gift SAMSONS LEGACIE JVDGES the 16. Chap. c. ANd as instanc'd or brought to his Tryall here found light SAMSON guiltie that way which Vow of his had he unhappily not violated a businesse that Of no mean weight what Fetters of Brasse bound him had none of what kinde soever Samsons fall lost himself hereby dispossessed of the Spirit of the LORD By him discovered the Almighties counsell unto the Lords Enemy could not with-hold or refraine told her all his heart she acquainted is therewith bee it whatsoever Such a blind thing is Love They into such Thraldom brought which harbour it suspected nothing because he lov'd her or doted rather That whosoever they were was able with a looke of his Browe to put them for ever to silence wherein his soul so farre ingag'd any to attempt but the motion c. And farther shewed how in his allegiance having toward his Master and Lord fayled Both stript of that great strength of his Lost both his Eies not only boord or put out faine to be lead afterwards by a Ladd But put in prison beside grinding in a Mill To tast of restlesse HELL that wearisome being Even takes Essaye of our Saviours Cup indeede these in some things to Samson belong onely able but for to turne his weary sides without other help or by a wals side to go which before had The Lord his support The Philistims his Lords now a heavie change of no other estate worthy had taken his pleasure and so came of it One Trusted with that high place of Government Twenty yeares therabout as it appeares Crownd with so many favours That had the Eternall words direction his light set so light by alhough chastised never so severly the bage of his Masters heavy displeasure none commiserate his Complaint bee it whatsoever whether marked shorne or noted He which wist not the Spirit of the Lord was departed from him when He had foolishly departed from the Lord And if GOD spared not Samson others much lesse that have him for their lesson who could have supposed warn'd before hand too what trust to be reposed in them That upon a VVomans assault her charms such a Forte rendered up without any reason rendred But to please Her was not that Riddle disclosd enough who would not have layd another wager as great as Samsons That this man could never have been over taken so that had been mistaken so much in Her before named his Heifer and this woman she of the Philistims breed too both of them one in effect or two witnesses appearing as it were Herewithall bidden to take heed all of Close-underhand-dealers For the holy Ghost is not without a double or two-fold meaning in these thirty Shirts wrap'd up thirty Shutes those not only Judas His livery-Coates or Coate-armes expressing but our bleeding dayes wherein such Plundering and intolerable Theifts For which betraying of the trust as one beside himself beside being a Prisoner made a by-word or one for a meane Occupation fitter or trusted when His eyes bee out rather then other-wise In steed of a Saviour or Deliverer hee delivered into the hands of such c. VVhich kindnesse for To none other bound but to Her beside his willfulnesse whose Parents some-time could not prevaile with Him or any other Is during the remnant of his wretched dayes ordain'd for to beare those shakels and fetters Brassen ones for suretiship and better securitie Thus armed by Her from Head to Foote c. But her Ladyship urged him She prest him Daily vext his Soule his Conscience to the Death Moreover by Lulling of him as much againe was kept in a Dreame untill layd himself flat at her Feet By such maine Strength was Samson over-mastred by his Mistres who so often gives the Allarum The Philistins SAMSON c. But to bring these home a little farther to these last dayes without Over-laying Your patience I hope shewed great Brittains low ebbe like Samson what passe brought to The worlds wounder for blessing and bounty from above beyond all their 's not unknowne a dreadfull Name farre and neere Now by His Majesties warfare being fettered and in Armes become the game and musicke of the VVorld Those as it were away hidding and running before time crowding as fast and covering house-tops fearelesse now of Samson In which difference difficult to judge whether for Might and Majestie more reverenced then dejected at last and dispised Certainly manifested as great Imbecillitie in subjecting himselfe to a Womans waywardnesse therewith carryed away so and transported But these not for disputationsake but made for dispatch not so wide and full of stuffe as others are acknowledged If it sit close t is as becoming Joseph in makeing himself known to his