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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>HER APPEAL FROM THE COURT TO THE CAMP.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Dan. 12.</BIBL>
<P>Many &s;hall be purified, and made white, and tryed: But the wicked &s;hall do wickedly, and none of the wicked &s;hall under&s;tand: But the wi&s;e &s;hall un|der&s;tand.</P></Q>
<P>Printed in the yeer 1649.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Word of the Mo&s;t High:</HI> To the Lord General, Lord FAIRFAX, From the Lady <HI>Eleanor.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe generality or &s;cope of this com|mand touching <HI>Prophe&s;ie,</HI> though cea&s;ed a time, the Church bidden expre&s;ly, <HI>De&s;pi&s;e it not,</HI> but <HI>to try the Spirits,</HI> needle&s;s to be in&s;i&s;ted on. Let it &s;eem not therefore &s;trange or hard what is here de|&s;ired, &s;ince nothing too hard for him whom ye &s;erve, <HI>The Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI> that you the Commander of the field, prayed <HI>to &s;end forth Harve&s;t-laborers,</HI> to be plea&s;ed to appoint &s;ome faithful by name, the truth of the&s;e things for to examine, no true peace without it, concerning what &s;he hath been a &s;ufferer &s;o many years for;
<PB N="3" REF="2">no le&s;s then the burthen of his word to <HI>Great Britain</HI> (Anno Dom.) <HI>1625.</HI> bear|ing date fir&s;t of the pre&s;ent Reign, Three and twenty years &s;ince; &s;hewing what year in as it were the general Judgment, &s;peak|ing as through a Trumpet from Heaven: So that the Prophets te&s;timony, the Scri|ptures which accords therewith, may no longer wait for their re&s;urrection; that have by Antichri&s;tian authority been cru|cified and buried hitherto, like <HI>that gold|en wedge or tongue,</HI> hidden by him <HI>A|chan,</HI> author of &s;o much trouble: Even the Prophet <HI>Daniel, that greatly beloved man;</HI> and John, <HI>whom he loved, that bo&s;om Di&s;ciple;</HI> both te&s;tifying of great <HI>Britains</HI> vi&s;itation at &s;uch a time, as from his own mouth al&s;o <HI>(Mat. 24.)</HI> after &s;uch fearful denounced Judgements, the like never afore or again, bidden therefore, <HI>watch,</HI> &amp;c. &s;hews of that ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Man|na</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3">their <HI>meat in due &s;ea&s;on,</HI> vvhen to be given them, doubtle&s;s &s;omething to be revealed, a forewarning plain enough.</P>
<P>As from <HI>the Kingdom of Heaven being likened unto tho&s;e virgins, five wi&s;e, and five fooli&s;h,</HI> &s;hall &s;hew you a my&s;tery, how points to the afore&s;aid acce|ptable year <HI>1625.</HI> begins with the ble&s;&s;ed Virgins fea&s;t (Five and twentieth of the moneth) witne&s;s when made at midnight <HI>that cry before the Bridegroom;</HI> which as betokens the word of God in &s;uch a year &s;o to &s;uch a Reign directed, that began then; and his marrying with &s;uch a one, with the late hour of wedding nights, &amp;c. <HI>(Mat. 25.) where the five Talents ac|count given</HI> up, a touch gives of the &s;ame year too; and for her wi&s;dom anointed with <HI>her lamp-oyl &s;pent</HI> &s;o much: <HI>Mary</HI> likewi&s;e by name much like that, had a name, <HI>She lives, but was dead</HI> (Rev. <HI>3.)
<PB N="5" REF="3">brought with her a cur&s;e in &s;tead of a ble&s;sing, Pe&s;tilence,</HI> never &s;uch, and Sword <HI>Great Britains</HI> portion; as ble&s;|&s;ings great &s;et light by, unaccompanied with no &s;mal corrections, where again up|on his Prophetical Reply to our Saviour <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> (Luke <HI>14.) Ble&s;&s;ed is he that &s;hall eat bread in the kingdom of hea|ven</HI> (as much to &s;ay) <HI>lives to &s;ee him reign, his foes put under his feet for ever:</HI> al&s;o <HI>Sion, who&s;o toucheth her, toucheth the apple of his eye,</HI> puts forth this Parable, <HI>A certain man made a great &s;upper, and bade many; and at &s;upper time &s;ent forth his &s;ervant,</HI> that intru&s;ted &s;ervant, &s;aying, <HI>All things are ready</HI> (to wit) the Prophets wait, their vi&s;ions are awake; when the unworthy wretches with one con&s;ent and voyce, all began to make excu&s;e, one this, &amp;c. another <HI>that had married a wife, could
<PB N="6" REF="4">not come without her leave;</HI> as by <HI>the five yoke of Oxen,</HI> paints too unto his being Crowned and married &s;uch a year, in who&s;e room <HI>the maimed bidden, &amp;c.</HI> e|nough of who&s;e company may be had <HI>(Luke 14.)</HI> in plain Engli&s;h, The carele&s;s <HI>Stuart</HI> by name, <HI>ju&s;tly turned out of Steward&s;hip, what Tru&s;t to be repos'd in &s;uch a ONE? unto this day not weighing the many Caveats entered, and &s;acred Statutes, Matt. 24.</HI> Noahs days, knowing not his own hou&s;e, when hee &s;ees it either: <HI>as, had the goodman of the hou&s;e known at what hour &amp;c. would not &s;uffred his hou&s;e to be broken up,</HI> his banqueting hou&s;e e&s;pecially, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>And again, like as in days of old what doings, vvhen <HI>the Son of man is reveal|ed, thus and thus it &s;hall be; marrying,</HI> &amp;c. bidden <HI>Remember Lots wife</HI> her looking back: <HI>and vvhere Lord being
<PB N="7" REF="4">askt, &s;hall be revealed that &s;ecret, and the&s;e things be? where&s;oever the body is, thither the Eagles re&s;ort.</HI> The body of an army, tho&s;e &s;pacious quarters; <HI>There|fore what I &s;ay unto you, I &s;ay unto all watch, have your lights burning, loyns girt, like men expecting, &amp;c</HI> of which Oracles not &s;o ob&s;tru&s;e hitherto as obvious now. His farewel the prophet <HI>Daniels</HI> on the hou&s;e top proclaims it, bidden <HI>Go thy way &amp;c. (Dan. 12.)</HI> &s;hewing, <HI>And from the time the</HI> Daily <HI>&s;hal be taken away; and the abomination that maketh de|&s;olate &s;et up;</HI> Altars adored; giving to under&s;tand, <HI>As any have eyes may &s;ee;</HI> Pauls no little one, thus computes the time, <HI>There &s;hall bee a thou&s;and two hundred &amp; ninety days: Ble&s;&s;ed is he that waits, and comes to a thou&s;and three hundred five and thirty:</HI> whereby taking <HI>1000.</HI> re&s;ts (the year of grace)
<PB N="8" REF="5"><HI>1625.</HI> calling unto this Jubile year <HI>1649.</HI> even <HI>Behold I &s;tand at the door and knock, if any man hear my voyce and open the door, I will come in and &s;up with him, and he with me &s;hall &s;it, &amp;c.</HI> By your leave Sirs, which bars any more kneeling at the Table not onely, but from tho&s;e words, <HI>The daily taken away,</HI> &s;hews the Lords Supper how that taken away, unto the foorenoon tran&s;lated: put|ting no difference between his and their own Suppers: well pre&s;aging the evening of time how di&s;cerned: what looking for and ha&s;tening, &amp;c. vvould follovv it, <HI>Pet. 3.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Re&s;ting, My Lord, <HI>The humble Servant of your Excellence, ELEANOR.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>Ianuary: 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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