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A81669
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Je le tien: the general restitution
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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Wing D1996aA; ESTC R231423
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hundred and ninety the set time between the Prophet Daniels Visions and our Lord the Son of God his tasting death for every one The Lamb slain c. without exception praying for all a greater then Daniel praying then VVhich Four hundred and ninety years seventy weeks of years that fulfil by seven years alotted to a week after Daniels computation agreeing with Jacobs said to accomplish her week too Gen. in his seven years service for her And so the sum of the matter since by Scripture confuted this erroneous opinion by breaking open Hel gates or opening the meaning of such an intricate case beyond any case in Law ever reported consisting of such niceties where since proved to be but prison follows their remaining there no longer but till the Debt satisfied according to all Law and Iustice imposed As to him belongs only the mysterie of Times and Seasons reserv'd in the power of the Father reveal'd to whom he pleases Acts 1. Therefore what hee appoints determinable let none extend it to be without limitation since Rev. 14. declares it where the everlasting Gospel clears the mistake of the word Everlasting viz. so long as day and night lasts And now moreover of the Book of the Revelation too a word or two more such an eye-soar to the Clergy where too manifest what rottennes Antichristian Abuses of late crept in requisite to be purged out as first in our Bibles where like Jeroboams policy who made Jsrael to sin in this sinful Age have under colour of disburthening the congregation testified and ordered by like Authority That the New Testament shall bee read over every year once with this proviso Except certain Books which be least edifying and may best be spared and therefore left unread as the Revelation And if he that shall think little of any jot or tittle of the Law was to be least in the Kingdom of Heaven what shall they be worthy of that have cast such a flood of Iniquity out of their mouth as the dayes of Noah not guilty of the like Having excluded that blessed book directed to the Churches with Blessed is he which reads and they which hear the words of it and as thus opened so closed with these For the time is at hand Behold I come quickly Doubtles the days of the flood pointing unto by the seven Vials poured out filled with the seven last Plagues in the seventeenth Century so long after the creation when as the world drown'd And so seven times cryed He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith And last of all He that shall take away from the words of that Book God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life Also he that shall adde as much to say shall say in his heart The Lord delays his coming not remembring the Flood time God shall adde to him the plagues of Egypt the waters turned into blood c. Revel 11. And yet this Book by name cast out of the Church under colour of being obscure though assured nothing so covered or hidden which shal not be proclaimed or preached on house tops And thus his promises waited for the Holy Ghost knocking at the door made to wait and stand without which Antichristian Scoffers in our dayes without doubt peter testifies comes not short of them 2 Pet. 3. in their proper colours of unbelief displayd saying Where is the promise of his coming c. Even of the breed of the lawlesse seven-headed Beast with the Ten horns to wit in his head or Frontispiece Anno Dom. 1700. who have annexed such open Blasphemy to the Bible Nor this done in a corner for a second of these unsufferable doings against the third Commandment although all Heathenism Repetition forbidden Notwithstanding by a noise of Boys that name rent in so many pieces in Churches where the Schools kept indeed better much deserving to be whipt out then those defiling but the Temple where that dreadful name taken in vain so babbling at every word J pray God and God grant and Would to God we love c. or have this or that c. upon any lascivious Lines of Heathen Poets their amorous Poems when those children unlucky ones not held guiltles so lesson'd for their mocking of him by unshorn Bears torn so many of them in pieces And moreover for a third course or piece of unsavory service witnesse Pauls Churchyard under the Noses of those reverend Masters how close stools those seats sir-reverence lined clean through with the Bible from Genesis to the Revelation those precious leaves for the healing of the Nations polluted in that most base unmanerly maner worse far then if burnt by the hangman More sacred then Sauls Garment when he coverd his Feet the modest Scripture phrase also worthy the observing and was but cut off by David that man after Gods own heart if his heart smote him for so doing And Moses bidden to put off his shoes because the very ground was sacred And Josuah likewise How comes it to pass no scruple made by these Scorners who fleeing Superstition run upon gross contempt such prophanation questionles then priviledge of Parliament being subverted or infringed more material these which indure for ever purchased with his Blood any thing destructive thereto a liberty far from that preacht by our Savior in observing his severe stile who stiles himself The Preacher Eccles that well blesses the day of death before the day of ones birth and mourning So where a rash word and a look awry extended to Murther Adultery referring us to the blessed Prophets before us Antipodes to the world in such contempt ever held even blesses such and no other who chuses the foolish things and the weak the Base to confound and confute the Mighty But returning now to the former matter of his abundant love to all by these men how much so ever envied beheld with such an evil eye this light extraordinary So then for proving the Affirmative to wit there is redemption for the Damned confirmed though sufficiently by the Apostles Spirit Rom. 2 Cor. 15. shewing as all dead in Adam so all made alive again c. yet this for an addition Rev. 20. touching those that lived not again being not unbound until such a space fulfilled of time as known times bounds set also where they that lived and raigned with Christ whose part in the first Resurrection as with them Antichristians no partakers but of the second Death implying a second Resurrection for those Children of Perdition so shews like the lost Son stiled so but in respect of being found Lastly notwithstanding the dreadful word for Ever and Everlasting as mentioned by Jacob at his death Vnto the utmost bound of the everlasting Hills c. Gen. and Jonas in that danger crying The Earth with her bars was about me for ever So for the doubling of it for ever and ever howsoever may serve sometimes to shew the thing established as Pharoahs Dreams or where he in stead of smiting five or six times because came short was shewd lost his pains by the coming shortly again of the Enemy Yet the truth of it but like a Key that opens and shuts serves also to give warning of some remarkable passage appertaining to the future for the most part by him having the keys of Death and Hell in due time made known And hereof being ignorant unobserved because of the unknown day and hour only mentioned hold themselves not bound to wait for that time to be revealed Like as in the days of Noah observe neither signs nor forerunners of it As not without some mystery included Rev. 20. where several times a Thousand years sufilled repeated no lesse then six times like that of the inextinguishable fire Mark 9. translated Shall never be quenched with the worm c. only as much to say Better there to indure any pain a long space then to have had no being at all where compared to some gangren'd member Better cut off then the body perish Instanced though in the case of the Kingdom of Heaven as explained that place here for the sin against the Holy Ghost punished here and hereafter where a possibility of escape as the word Danger imports He shall be in danger c. so concludes even Judas though good had he been unborn yet extends not to annihilate him Otherwise no such abounding blessing added to Abraham without number to have a Seed or Generation as the Stars above and the Sand of the Sea if his mercy exceeded not much his Iustice Merciful unto Thousands whereas but to a few the third Degree or fourth Generation shewing hatred And as this relation thus concluded of the whole creation accompanying the present Age in the sufferings of late groaning for so many Ages under the burthen of the word signifying but for Ages or from Henceforth so let this Amoveas manus serve This Olive leaf for sinister constructions such illegal extent of unwarrantable words to make them accursed and void Forasmuch as should it repent God he had made man c. yet that ever he should reverse his own Iudgment God forbid which no ordinary Iudge can or will do without a Writ of Error brought since nothing but confusion brings which Writ either upon any terms not feisible now as the state stands a thing observable so having pronounced every thing created and made was very good then he which is the VVord not to make good his word far be it from the Iudge of all the Earth the God of all Gods and let every one say to this confession Amen yea saith the Spirit by reason of the Law and several Statutes since the world hath faln in DANGER of such penalties and forfeitures The King of Kings the grand Creditor sends forth his Pardon yea to the whole Creation Je Elen Ti I hold it FINIS
his mercy endures for 〈…〉 And yet this burthen continued supposed out of Hell there is no Redemption or Restauration which also signifies The Grave Psalm 16 one word expressing both Though elsewhere as the Holy Ghost where he pleases able more abundantly to express it In our Saviors being parareld with Melchisedeck Heb. 7. mentions an endles life in the Original to wit indisolvable And again But this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood or which passes not away to another And to that end such passages So concerning the ability of our Savior inferior not to Adam with whom he is paraleld too with Adam the first man Rom. 5. As sin entred into the world by him and death by sin which passed upon all men for that all hrve sinned And by one mans obedience much more came upon all Justification to life so much prest by the Apostle And if ye will receive it Rev. 14. resolves it ordered by a voice from Heaven to be written where shews as there smoke ascends For Ever and Ever that day and night that have no rest so they that dye in the Lord from Henceforth rest from their labors or pains The which besides useful for demolishing the aspiring walls of Purgatory for any Saints ever coming there to be partakers of such sulpherous smokes This Text of the Angels commanded to be preacht upon farther informs stiled The Everlasting Gospel that the true meaning of it even For Ever and Ever it signifies but From Henceforth a time determinable and not infinite or unlimited if credit may be given to the holy Spirit Revelations the fourteenth saying Yea or Content saith the Spirit so what spirits soever resists it or sayes No touching those disobedient Spirits cast out of his presence as if for those prisoners ringleaders of rebellion remains no hope or mercy whereas Lucifer not excepted confined though to extreme darknes of whom Jude shews The Archangel Michael DURST NOT bring railing accusation against him being against the Law of prisoners to revile them as indeed Hell no other then a prison implying a Release thence like as death cald sleep in respect of the Resurrection to which end is shewed by Peter 3. He went and Preacht to the Spirits there imprisoned and therefore saying If I go down to Hell thou art there also Psalm c. That each in his order The first fruits redeemed from among men for so The everlasting Gospel informs us Then the latter Fruits or Harvest which follows reserved for the hour of his Iudgement even 1600. bearing date paced forth by time howsoever exprest by the space of so many Furlongs for Centuries Revel 14. As hereof Luke 16. testifies where that distance between them termed a space fixt or a Gulf so much by our Adversaries insisted on whereas the verity of it a space of time prefixt because otherwise since time moves not but an improper or unnecessary Speech with that of Abrahams Bosom concurs or like those Corn Ears interpreted so many years to come Likewise his own Dream of The Sheafs of Corn doing obeysance and the like VVhere touching his pedigree the RICH man SON stiled by Abraham some PARSONS SON as is probable by that Reply They have Moses and the Prophets so without contradiction bids beware of lying by his scorchd tongue inflamed testified Psalm 120. Thou false tongue c. So again a material point from Abrahams calling him SON even points or refersus to her Story after the Bottle spent who had her eyes opened saw a well of water bidden Fear not called unto from Heaven lift up the Lad Ishmael named so of the Angel namely God shall hear when she again Thou God seest me VVhere farther of what profession or Fraternity he lifting up his eyes saw afar off Lazarus in his Bosom whom he again calls Father whose last motion that Lazarus then might be sent to his Fathers house to testifie and and forewarn them Lest his Brethren c. to wit Besides Arch. B. other Bishops 25. in number how they come there to have a care as here in their formalities that Brotherhood not alone but those of the Law their Coat displays herewith a chief Iudge who call Brothers too This Stone or Bone cast amongst them saying They have the Law and the Prophets let them hear them So then no ordinary Beggar taken up into Heaven but one of the Prophetical order granted who was to perswade them coming in the Spirit of Eliah the Tisbet DOUBTLES whom they did not or would not know And since he in Hell received no absolute denial who knows but that it was obtained to wit a line of mercy from his finger top as it were never so little of the water of life And herewith the Prophetical Date shall proceed which belongs to the preceding Parable to unfold containing his discharge shewed he might be no longer Steward accordingly whos 's Stewardship was resigned where the measures of Oyl annointing him for no common Steward either but how it shall come to pass in some wastful unjust reign for his pass given him serves And so much for the testified present evil time with the quaif degree and those of the Lawn sleeves their fine Linnen without doubt visited holding it enough to have Moses read and the Prophets though understand them not at all so all watching thus with one consent stopping their ears as their forefathers And thus it fares with this Lazarus whose ulcers Allegorical those evil things received in his life time viz. Imprisonments Excommunications and such like entertainment by some forlorn suiters only licked or visited of whom well the blessed Virgin prophecying shews how it shall fare with them in those rebellious days He hath shewed strength with his Arm and he hath put down the mighty from their seat with whom the Apostle accords Corinthians 15. Puts all his foes under his feet before his coming And as this no news to him that hath ears so this opinion as strange for which serves the parable of that envious elder Brother that would not be perswaded either to see his lost Brother or enter the house of like evil nature bids others beware lest like that Servant that obtaind mercy himself yet so unmerciful shew'd none at all to his fellow Servant they be also rewarded with him till the debt discharged every farthing accompted for And for the same purpose as Peter forbidden such remission by measure Not to pardon until seven times but until Seventy times seven likewise in Luke 17. Seven times a day to forgive where the Apostles replying Lord increase our Faith being by our Theologers termd a certainty for an uncertainty what they please yet not only points to very Easter those weeks be-before it when sent forth that first pardon The. Messiah offered proclaimd Lord of Sabbaths but as gives notice of this last pardon for the space of 1700. years hidden so shews by the 70. times seven which amounts to the sum of Four