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A vvarning to the dragon and all his angels
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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DANIEL revealing the Man of Sinne And the Morning Starre before the comming of the Day IN the Visions of this Prophet are revealed the same things contained in the Revelatiō which GOD gaue to Iesus Christ to shew vnto his Servants things which must shortly come to passe things that are not to bring to nought things that are And as he signified to his beloved Servant IOHN the Contents of the secret Booke by his Angell Even so the Lambe slaine by the eternall Decree purposed from the foundation of the world Declared the same things to the man greatly beloved his servant DANIEL vnfolded in this present exposition drawing the juice of many sorts wanting roome and leasure to lay things in order wherein the Scripture will repaire the want of methode Being not willing for the lighting of a Match to make a fire when the stroke of a Flint is of more facilitie Speaking not to a People of a strange Speech and of a hard Language but to the House of Israell Avoyding mans enticing words things without life giue no life that revealeth not the testimony of IESUS at whose Name a name aboue every name Let every knee bowe Heare all yee Children of my people harken O Earth The first vision of this holy Prophet was in the I. yeare of the raigne of BELSHAZZER King of Babilon from which spirituall Babilon takes the denomination One and Twentie hundred yeares since Wherein he saw the foure Windes of Heaven or the losed Angels bound in the great River Euphrates the auntient bounds of the great Roman Empire that stroue vpon the great Sea and the foure great Beasts that came vp from the Sea diuers one from another These blowing Windes had no power to hurt till the servants of God were Sealed in the foreheads at what time that Cōmon-wealth became a Monarchy persecuting the Church of God being then with Child Trauailing in birth crying and pained to be deliuered of the man Childe roaring like a Lyon the whole Forrest ringing ruling all Nations with a Rod of Iron that breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things He is Alpha and Omega so haue the servants of God a Two-fold sence Besides man including some other of his Creatures bearing the names of men yet being neither Man nor Beast Praise yee him Sun and Moone c. I heard the number of them And here ended the Sealing of the first Covenant a yoake which our Fathers were not able to beare to establish the second which is Spirituall to put his Lawes in their mindes with the Pensell of his Grace to write them in their hard harts a light Burthen for the letter of the Law graven in stone is the sentence of death But the Spirit giveth life to stony harts that were dead in trespasses and sinnes yea the whole valley of dead Bodies turn'd into Stones and Earth from ABELL the first Borne to the last man taken vp in the Field they are all holy vnto the Lord their iniquitie is forgiven and forgotten as a Father hee remembreth their sinne no more Of these were Sealed to bee of the seed of ABRAHAM one hundred forty and foure Thousand twelue times twelue Thousand Of which faithfull Number IESVS CHRIST the Saviour of the world the only begotten Sonne of the living GOD in the likenesse of sinfull Flesh without Sinne the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah was sealed on the Eight day of his Nativitie The Lyonesse bringing but one and but once in her life That with the sprinckling and shedding of his Blood both Covenants might be sealed These were the first Fruits vnto God and to the Lambe hauing the Token of the everlasting Covenant of the great mysterie in those times concerning CHRIST and his Church put in the Flesh a Figure of the Heart Which first Covenant remaines to vs a Patterne of tendernes not made with hands the Heart by a mutuall respect being now the Closet or secret part whereby wee Gentiles are made the tender Spouse the habitation of God fellow heires of the vnsearchable Riches joyned to Christ the head that in times past were the Children of disobedience and wrath Aliens from the common-wealth of Israell Strangers from the Covenants of promise having no hope without God in the world are now who were somtimes farre off of all Nations Kindreds and Tongues vncircumcised Philistines not of his Brethren not of the House of his Father By the blood of IESUS CHRIST made nigh members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones greater loue and felicitie can none expresse Of which great mysterie Hipocrites next Harlots whose counterfeit beautie deceiues not him whose praise is of men and not of God false Gods are no partakers the outward Token being common to both To assure vs of which receiving the earnest of his Spirit that abideth not crying Master Carest thou not that wee perish but Abba Father Thus our tackling lost without Anchor to repayre the ruines and weaknesse of these decayed sunke weather-tempest driven bottomes such Treasures of Millions expended and bestowed what burthen what prizes what things God hath prepared to bee the lading of these vessels of honour Eye hath not seene eare hath not heard neither hath entred into the hart of man To which all the Transported affections felt or fained injoyed without paines or feare may seeme but light dotage as Light and Darknesse compared compared with the Crowne and weight of that Eternall blisse The Foure windes prepared for an houre and a day and a moneth and a yeare are the powers of these foure great Beasts shewing their degrees of residence also the finall Blast is included The Sea are the Nations of the Earth The beginning and the ending thus saith hee to the Sea Waues drowning one another swelling into Mountaines for glory foaming out your owne shame Saying haile to the Wood awake according to your owne vnderstanding you haue made Idols and Images not by my direction but after the invention of the Craftsman and haue exalted your hearts and forgotten mee giving my Praise to graven Images and my glory to another for your God not setting me before your eyes you haue gotten a Divell a false Prophet whom I sent to proue you that takes my lawes in his mouth not of loue but for strife and envie Thinkes he to say Lord Lord in thy Name wee haue cast out Divels Preached and Baptized my answer is not vnknowne to you both though you thinke to plead ignorance persecuting and dispising the number of my little ones You onely haue I knowne of all the Families of the Earth whose transgressions doe hasten your Iudgement Therefore I will punish you for your iniquities you shall bee like the Morning Cloud and the early dew that passeth away as the Chaffe that is driven with a scattering whirle-winde out of the Flower as smoake out of a Chimney vanishing away And I will bee like a Lyon as a Leopard by the way I will wayte and obserue you and as a
end turnes to whoredome beware of it for it shall bee a marke betweene them that hate mee and you that keepe my Comandements and though I will not at any time bee farre from you yet you shall fall by Captivitie and persecution to spread my name or for the Triall of your Faith when you see their Idolatrie pull downe their high Places Preach against them say Little Children ignorant people that vnderstand not the slights of Sathan Beware of Idols tender natures encounter strongest motions Top-sayles are first assaulted No man so well knowes his owne frailtie as the Lord your God knowes how prone Devotion is to Superstition Also when yee goe in and out amongst the Heathen folke or if the Lord giue them into your hands as the Amalikites were given into the hand of the Children of Israell when the Prophet said what meaneth this bleating in mine eares SAULS excuse shall not availe you to say we set them vp for Saints before the Lord the Images of IUPITER for Iesus Christ the Statue of HERCULES for CHRISTOPHER VENUS and the little Lad for the blessed Virgin as holy as Scar-crowes in a Garden of Cowcumbers You that cannot make one haire white or blacke will yee goe a Whoring after your owne inventions to humble your selues before Pageants Pictures Images with eyes that see not Eares without hearing c. More senslesse then a Beast yet these rare Mamets the light of the Sunne is too darke for them without Candles when the Members of Christ goe naked these must bee cloathed not for warmnesse but for wantonnesse and these are the Babyes made and dressed by the Divell and decked to please his Children abhorred and abominable in the sight of the Lord. Lastly with these lines the Temple of God is Measured and them that worship therein Measuring is for Numbering place is put for time and sometimes space a thousand sixe hundred furlongs Signifying the persecution of the Church so many yeares reward her even as she rewarded you To rise therefore and Measure the time begin from the taking away of the daily Sacrifice or the Destruction of Ierusalem and count a thousand two hundred and threescore yeares wherein for the absence of the Church in the Wildernesse the two Witnesses did Prophesie clothed in Sackcloth so many yeares of Mists and darknesse to these must be added some dayes of faire weather a hundred forty and foure thousand amounting to foure hundred yeares and odde having their fathers name written in their foreheads these sing as it were a new song These are Virgins not defiled with women Chaste conversation not commanding laciviousnesse by forbidding Marriage waxing worse and worse The Temple was not built in a day it is three Stories the foure hundred yeares are to be devided into three severall parts Seventy yeares and odde vntill the destruction of Ierusalem when the Apostles finished their testimony thirty yeares are restored for the raigne of CONSTANTINE the great the remaines remaine for these last times being the same eighteene thousand Measures spoken by EZEKIEL the Prophet the Measure of the Temple within are not summed vp I presume not to looke into the account the Measure of it round about without I heard the number of them cast vp Eighteen thousand Measures every Measure sixe Cubits according to the Measure of a man That is of the Angell three hundred yeares odde and the name of the City from that day shal bee God is there that said Son of Man the place of my Throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the middest of the Children of Israell for ever and my holy Name shall the house of Israell no more defile c. Blessed is he that waiteth and commeth to the thousand three hundred and fiue and thirty yeares these are the blessed times of IOHN WICKLIFFE IOHH Hus both famous Martyrs and burning Lights set vp to shew forth the state and beauty of the truth one burnt aliue the other after hee was dead being hard to judge in which of these the Devill the Father of lyes Antichrist his crucifying Sonne and the Dragon expressed most malice from which cursed triplicitie three Monsters of the bottomlesse Pit God deliver vs who will giue vs a Crowne of life Come Lord IESUS the grace of our Lord IESUS CHRIST bee with you all Amen Last of all the whole world is numbred and those that worke abomination therein and the delights thereof weighed in the balances are found lighter then vanitie it selfe There is nineteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Iudgement Iuly the 28. M.DC.XXV Sixe hundred and threescore Moneths are excluded from this last Age of seventeene hundred yeares And I thinke that I haue also the Spirit of God DANIEL Hee that is vniust and filthy let him bee so still and hee that is righteous and holy let him bee so still for behold hee will come quickly and his reward is with him Blessed are they that doe his Commandements FINIS