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A81654 The arraignment. By the Lady Eleanor Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 1650 (1650) Wing D1972B; ESTC R231412 2,747 12

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THE Arraignment By the Lady Eleanor MARK 9. And he said unto them verily I say unto you that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God come with power Printed in the year 1650. MARK 9. And whosoever shall offend one of these little ONES that believe in me c. ANd so who should be greatest or bear the sway this Lesson appointed for the present occasioned upon that dispute Also to whom it points about a Thing of no little weight doubtless where declared A milstone better hanged about his neck be he whosoever standing no better on his guard the safe-guard of no few on whose behavior or vigilancy depends to whose lot the Milstone falls as follows even the Military or Sword profession their judgement here called to hold up their hand at the Bar behold as this seals it a free passage Verse And if thy hand offend thee cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life maimed likewise of the foot Better to enter halt into life c. VVhere by the natural Body reports the case concerning the politique to slight the least or lowest degree coming in his name how perilous So here anatomiz'd whose Father discern I pray Then lose a foot suffered his whole body to perish who thought little of the thrid or term cut off so of his days By means of a festred Toe a Corn turned to a Gangren dyed falling into a violent Feaver that very Ignis non extinguitur or VVilde-fire his doughty heart leaving it to his heir how paterizaring of late far and near not unknown misled or overmaster'd when put on his tryal what metel or salt in him Better much had been without assistants such hands eyes or feet unless more command over himself had whether friends wife or followers From the Omnipotent General Lord of Hosts when as sent unto dreading neither sacred watch words these or Alarm These thunderings vouchsafed not so much as to see the party the like unparaleld in Divine presidents or other of such greatness stood upon or manhood notwithstanding Quisquis scandalizaverit unum ex his be he never so eminent his doom in the bottom of the Sea better to have taken up his quarters To whom had some great thing been commanded To have departed his native soil or half his goods have parted among the poor how much rather but when to lend an ear required Even cowardize in the highest degree or weaknes who keeps his distance with such thereafter from his presence excluded as far as much to say Write their Epitaph on the sand reward them with a cup filled double a portion let them be for fishes all as deaf and mute like themselves no burier c. And for such Saints so much suffices as his name THOMAS DYDIMOVS c. and for them also whose voyce the mountains obey or Monarchs confined them to the ocean Trees no small ones plucks up by the roots whose estate blest when hated and cursed in poverty rich their cottage Heaven Against whom all their Enemies can alledge for silencing the Holy Ghost thus or to cloak their arrogancy is because former times as it were barren signs and token discontinued therefore abolished That may affirm as well or maintain Hell shall prevail against Heaven as that ordinary spirits shall unseal the Books of Prophets or that other Book so stiled Revel 20. And I saw another book opened c. to be explained ever by them The word of the Lord induring for ever having spoken it Isa 40. Whatsoever is crooked shall be made strait And the rough be made plain fields the voyce of deserts accompanying it as those waste parts at this day though depopulated again to be ploughed as in days of old proclaiming the Spirit of Prophesie opposed though shall prevail The first and the last in the mean time that begets these distractions to destroy themselves The Bottomless Pit witness as they term it or Abyss even when heaven opened the other its poysonous Fogs as free Apoc. 9. That Assemblies description Latine habens nomen exterminans VVhere lastly after that ample admonition of health compared to Heaven and languishing sickness to Hell by way of Terror expressing the last general day of judgement at hand with ambition how seasonable as his WIVES looking back to Sodom vers as here bidden To have salt in themselves the spirit judgement without which never expect to have other rest or to be found in peace at his coming even to try the spirits c. each thing in its season salt the life being of all things quintessence of the elements both the good spirit resembles and the bad the best of all things and the worst for the dunghil not profitable otherwise nothing so pure to have a discerning spirit the sum of all VVhere touching the perpetuity of the aforesaid fire and worm The old explaining the other herewith to go forward a Lesson proper for the age And the men that have transgressed Isaiah the last for their worm shall not dye neither shall their fire be quenched as much to say the latter or last day approach'd No more dry bones hence-forth whose worm shall continue or remain in them as moreover They shall be an abhorring to all flesh to wit their intollerable stink able to poyson man and beast c. also of Calenders out of date but from new Moon to new Moon from Sabbath to Sabbath like weekly Bills of mortality And so much for this Habeas Corpus or moderating the severity of such places concerning their enlargement one word where serves both for the grave and hell supposed to be without redemption as from this place such another Abys saying Descidite Maledicti aluding to the different seasons the life and death of the creature when the Sun enters into Aries the reviving Spring and in Capricorn VVinters tedious nights Decembers preparing fuel c. Mat. 25. shadowed under the sheep on the one hand the goats on the other lest surprised unawares as the old world by the deluge to have oyl in their lamps all c. when some taken up in the air changd in a moment after the Trumpets loud alarm others swallowed up by sea and land So again for his shewing afterward Every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt bidden to have Salt and peace c. refers to another passage in the Levitical Law their Peace-Offerings The Priests laying his hand on the head of the Oblation as it were at the bar holds up his hand in behalf of himself and the people under a gross cloud of ignorance acknowledging guilty of that creatures sufferings shadowing forth what they liable unto Also for setting at large the ful meaning of these without needless Apology by way of what tedious objection might require farther to shew the depth and plenitude of this place of Scripture like the fiery pillars light side and dark toward others even of its descending to Humane Sciences Divinities Handmayds a word more from the VVhale to the VVorm from the Milstone to the peble nothing to be despised as commodious and useful the the least as the greatest even so points to our everlasting arms that of material salt or sulpherous Barrels of powder to be provided that way also the endless worm to have match in like readiness And that fire unquenchable the flint for another as before shewd supposing to quench the Spirit by way of retaliation our Capernaums alarm or caveat enterd disesteemed other themselves to be abased as low next door to his doom Good for that man had he been unborn to exalt themselves like those rebels gain-saying CORE and his fifties rewarded And thus in his name concluding by vertue of his all-sufficent Arm that fasted forty days I charge thee thou deaf and dumb foul spirit wherewith possest from his infancy c. thou melancholick spirit come forth of him and enter no more into him Jubile Lent FINIS