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<P>Of the general Great DAYS APPROACH.</P>
<P>To His Excellency Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> General.</P>
<P>FROM The Lady <HI>Eleanor Da:</HI> &amp; <HI>Do.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL>PSAL.</BIBL>
<P>The Lord reigneth, let the earth re|joyce; Let the great I&s;les be glad thereof.</P></Q>
<P>Printed in the Year 1648.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A.</HI> &amp; <HI>O.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>FRom him which is, and was, and is to come, the alone peace-maker,</HI> his Maje&s;ty expre&s;ly the&s;e the Re|velation, by his Handmaid inter|preted:</P>
<P>Shewing, that as the word of the Lord, that <HI>Manna,</HI> came in the wil|derne&s;s to him, &s;ent afore from God, he fir&s;t of his Name, la&s;t of the old Prophets, and fir&s;t of the new; So to his &s;ervant <HI>John</HI> again in the I&s;le of <HI>Patmos,</HI> &s;ent unto the Gentiles, to whom by way of Characters and other &s;acred Tokens, &s;ignified the expre&s;s time of the Lords return,
<PB N="4" REF="3">the my&s;tery unfolded: of which as follows;</P>
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<HEAD>Cap. 1.</HEAD>
<P>VVho on this wi&s;e, with no &s;len|der charge, <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this Prophe&s;ie, and keep the things writ|ten therein; for the time is at hand</HI> (Ver&s;e) And with precious time to be &s;hort, that returns not, the happy Reader whieh would a ta&s;te of this Angelical food have, mini|&s;tred to <HI>Iohn</HI> by the Angel, who&s;e Name &s;ignifies both the Grace of God, and the Year of Grace, as <HI>Ioann Anno, &amp;c.</HI> by the&s;e &s;hall un|der&s;tand, that the Go&s;pels progre&s;s or pilgrimage tis to be paced out, by <HI>Noahs</HI> days, or like his few and evil, <HI>Iacobs;</HI> which attained not to tho&s;e of his predece&s;&s;ors: as by this
<PB N="5" REF="3">account of the <HI>Go&s;pels</HI> coming &s;hort of the former, both before the Law and under, fulfilling &s;eventeen Centuries, like his &s;eventeen years &s;ojourning in Egypt, before ended the tedious days of his laborious life, Seven&s;core and &s;even years, his Ladder reaching from Earth to Heaven.</P>
<P>And thus with the expedition of Churches captivity in &s;piritual <HI>Ba|bylon</HI> fini&s;hed; <HI>Iohn,</HI> with the&s;e joyful Tidings the Time at hand, <HI>&s;alutes the &s;even Churches, Grace and Peace unto you, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the &s;even Spirits before the Throne,</HI> be&s;ides the familiar Voyces of Time al&s;o, per&s;onating the Holy Spirits gift; even his watchful &s;er|vants
<PB N="6" REF="4">day and night, the&s;e next to eternity, about to take their leave, remember their &s;ervice to the chur|ches, e&s;pecially &s;abbath days, where inclu&s;ive Times whole family, with the Anniver&s;ary day Ea&s;ter, the Re&s;urrections fea&s;t, the year when begins and ends, tho&s;e &s;piritual, &amp;c. VVho all with one voyce and con|&s;ent cry down Times per&s;on, no more allegiance due, or adored with &s;uper&s;titious Ceremonies longer:</P>
<P>From voyces to good tokens, all to the &s;ame end and effect, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> And from Ie&s;us Chri&s;t the faithful witne&s;s, &amp;c. the fir&s;t begotten of the dead: The prince of the Kings of the earth that loved us, and wa&s;hed us from our &s;ins in his own blood, the Lamb of God, &amp;c. a Bathe
<PB N="7" REF="4">able to contain certainly the whole world, even from <HI>Iudas I&s;cariot</HI> that Traytor in grain, to the Red old Dragon, to pre&s;ent them in their primitive e&s;tate in his appointed time, in whom we live, move, and have our being every one: where points to the cu&s;tom of former ages of the Church, their admini&s;tring about Ea&s;ter, Bapti&s;m, and the Lords Supper.</P>
<P>VVhich &s;even weeks for &s;piritual exerci&s;e how imployed before the Holy days, too well known: And the Holy Spirit made their open pa&s;time too, &s;uch a gift be&s;towed upon them, po&s;&s;e&s;t with <HI>Sodom</HI> blindene&s;s reigning &s;uch.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, with the words of this prophe&s;ie, This tree of Life
<PB N="8" REF="5">come to his full ripene&s;s; going on &s;hewing a greater Potentate then either <HI>Ce&s;ar</HI> &s;lain, vvho &s;et the year, arriv'd at their &s;un-&s;etting that Mo|narchy: or then <HI>C. R.</HI> Defender, &amp;c. with his monthday 27 about <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> and prie&s;ts in his pre&s;ence, in whom bleeding commi&s;eration none &s;uch, never too &s;oon in &s;hortening &s;uch Reigns hereby as &s;hadow'd out.</P>
<P>And &s;o proceeding with another expre&s;sion of his much love, ex|ceeding <HI>Solomons</HI> to the queen of the South, vvhich could but ask and have; <HI>(ver&s;.)</HI> and hath made us Kings and Prie&s;ts (unto God and his Father) to vvhom be power and dominion to ages of ages, <HI>Amen;</HI> in the Churches old age, as much to &s;ay, Princes every one &amp; Preachers
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<PB N="11" REF="8" MS="y"><HI>God and the Father, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>VVhereof <HI>Eden</HI> that parted River that became four Heads a figure, where in tho&s;e three Gold very good; The <HI>Onyx-&s;tone,</HI> and the un|known <HI>Bdellium,</HI> the <HI>Manna</HI> like|ned to it, compar'd to a round white &s;eed, whence comes doubtle&s;s our <HI>Orient Pearl,</HI> that queen of <HI>E|gypts</HI> for one, as well be&s;towed up|on a Swine, the <HI>Gentiles</HI> Emblem; how it fares with them even to this day in holy things.</P>
<P>And the whole &s;acred current flow|ing this way of Old and New con|curring, as the Tabernacle for ex|ample, &s;hews <HI>wrought wiih blue, pur|ple and crim&s;on,</HI> in which <HI>the Table, the Shew-bread, and the Candle&s;ticks,</HI> tho&s;e Memorials al&s;o the &s;ignifi|cant
<PB N="12" REF="9" MS="y"><HI>Ark four-&s;quare,</HI> containing <HI>the Tables of the Law, he pot of Manna, and the budding Rod:</HI> of the four winds, who may doubt too, un|known whence they are: And the fourth part of the VVorld, becau&s;e but three formerly, or with doubt|ing <HI>Thomas,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>As witne&s;s this, <HI>Trinity in &V;nity (Exodus the</HI> 3.) &s;ay, <HI>The Lord God of your Fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of I&s;aac, and the God of Jacob, &amp;c. This is my memorial to all generations;</HI> four &s;everal times repeated, to beware of going le&s;s, no vain repitition from the Lords own mouth, a Le&s;&s;on to his fir&s;t Amba&s;&s;ador <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> bare footed, before the thorny Bu&s;h, the fiery Throne, the fourfold <HI>Aleluiah</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="9" MS="y">voyces, &s;aying, <HI>Amen, Revel.</HI> with that four-&s;quare virgin City, un|folding as much, &s;aid to have <HI>the glory of God;</HI> mea&s;ured (144) her reign.</P>
<P>So now to return home to the mat|ter of his coming in his cloudy cha|riot, thus adverti&s;ed, <HI>ver&s;e. Behold, he cometh with clouds, &amp;c. Even &s;o, Amen:</HI> to the greater &s;ort, as a thief in the night welcom, or &s;ome open enemy, even wounded by <HI>Jew</HI> and <HI>Gentile</HI> both.</P>
<P>Of his Name, &s;acred eve|ry tittle; thus, <HI>I am A. and O. the beginning and the ending, &s;aith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come; the Almighty, where the truth of it: the burthen of the word of the Lord the acceptable year pro|claims
<PB N="14" REF="10" MS="y">at hand,</HI> witnesd to be with the Scriptures, the Original Languages as pointed unto manife&s;ts, the old &amp; New, where the fir&s;t begins the la&s;t ends (as it were) the Suns ri&s;ing of the one, the others &s;etting, like <HI>An|tipodes</HI> the <HI>Hebrew</HI> and <HI>Greek;</HI> and &s;o of the Old-year end, married to New-years day.</P>
<P>And as here by his ovvn Exam|ple recommended, <HI>Iohn our brother and companion;</HI> what patience re|qui&s;ite in a Prophet, &s;hews he to the I&s;le of <HI>Patmos</HI> confined, &s;cituated in the <HI>Egean &s;ea</HI> by that Tyrant, &amp;c.</P>
<P>So a Revolution vvithal as the Noon-day vi&s;ible, and the Stars in the firmament, directed to this I&s;les three, <HI>from him which is, was, and is to come;</HI> the very voyce of the pre|&s;ent
<PB N="15" REF="10">Reign, the fir&s;t of his name, &amp;c. even this kingdom, where began the Reformation, (as it were) by &s;everal languages or ways to them reveal|ed, his &s;econd coming.</P>
<P>And the&s;e the &s;um of the ble&s;&s;ed words of this prophe&s;ie, the day of Iudgements &s;ummons to <HI>Great Bri|tain</HI> fore&s;hewed.</P>
<P>Shewing upon the Lords-day how it came to pa&s;s a great voyce of a trumpet behinde him heard, me|ditating it may be how long to the Re&s;urrection, or about the meaning of tho&s;e, <HI>What if I will he tarry till I come?</HI> an&s;wered by the Re&s;urections alarm appears, &s;aying, <HI>I am Alpha and O mega, the fir&s;t and the la&s;t; and what thou &s;ee&s;t, write in a book, &amp;c.</HI> at which turned about that dreadful
<PB N="16" REF="11" MS="y">apparition beheld, one in the likenes of the Son of man, a very book at all points, as it were in fine paper gild|ed, bound and cla&s;ps: the flaming Eyes &s;ome combu&s;table &s;tuff de|clares, not onely but the &s;harp in|&s;trument two edged coming out of his mouth, the cutting or opening of the leaves.</P>
<P>And &s;o for his voyce as the &s;ound of many waters, even the floods voyce lifted up, as the days of <HI>No|ah,</HI> the coming of the Son of man, the evening of time come, <HI>the &s;even golden Candle&s;ticks, and the &s;even &s;tars in his right hand,</HI> by who&s;e influence <HI>Iohn</HI> revived, dead afore, unani|mou&s;ly the &s;ame Vi&s;ion the Pro|phet <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aw, &s;aying, <HI>a thing wus revealed, but the time was long</HI> (as it
<PB N="10" REF="11">were) belongs to the time of the end to be under&s;tood, as referr'd to tho&s;e one and twenty prophetical days, when with&s;tood &s;o long by the <HI>Per|&s;ian</HI> prince, <HI>Dan.</HI> 10. it being therea|bout &s;ince <HI>Cyrus,</HI> &s;o many hundred years &s;ince this Secret revealed to him. And thus much for the BOOK and its Contents, with his Commi&s;sion &s;igned and &s;ealed with tho&s;e my&s;tical letters, and &s;tars &s;even, to remember the Church to &s;tand on their guard and be watch|ful, tho&s;e lights almo&s;t extinct, Bi|&s;hops about 27. in the fir&s;t place.</P>
<P>A piece drawn <HI>in the Ancient of days likene&s;s; a Robe girt (as it were) &s;purs and &s;word, an ireful a&s;pect, an&s;we|rable to his confu&s;ed voyce, a rod in his right hand, or &s;cepter,</HI> indued with
<PB N="18" REF="12" MS="y">&s;uch power, with his age, &amp;c. the lea&s;t touch; his watchword or Mot|to, ver&s;. <HI>I am the fir&s;t and the la&s;t; I am he that was dead, and am alive to ages of ages, and have the keys of He and Death;</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of variety of expre&s;sion, &s;ounding the Re&s;urre|ctions Alarm, he &s;tanding in the mid&s;t of tho&s;e Centinels, or walking in that &s;olinary place, not the lea&s;t a|mong the I&s;les; like <HI>his walking in the fiery furnace, beheld by the King of great Babylon,</HI> at who&s;e command the &s;ame <HI>was heated &s;even times more then afore;</HI> a forerunner of his own judgement of &s;even times, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And from the&s;e &s;ignificant things, and tho&s;e his la&s;t words, <HI>Behold, I am with you all days, until the con&s;um|mation of the age (Mat.</HI> 28.) as
<PB N="19" REF="12" MS="y">follows, &s;hewing the holy Spirit not in power onely vi&s;ible to all; but in per&s;on again &s;ent before the la&s;t Day, to &s;ome one even a Re|volution or return to be of the for|mer; Al&s;o of the very time gives to under&s;tand from his &s;tanding in the mid&s;t of &s;o many watch-lights (to wit) about the mid&s;t of &s;uch Cen|tury, to look about us then, with our brother <HI>John,</HI> who turning &s;aw and heard the&s;e, pre&s;aging too &s;ome &s;pecial judgement being fore&s;hewd then, accompanied for a te&s;timony of it, with no inferior per&s;ecution; And the prophe&s;ie accompli&s;hed accordingly, this to be the day of Iudgement Herald, verily to all Nations, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Much more to be provided for
<PB N="20" REF="13" MS="y">aforehand then the years of &s;carcity the former when brought forth by handfuls, where <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> the pri&s;oner &s;o advanced, &s;urely more to lookt after then <HI>tything of Rue and Ro&s;e|mary, or great tythes either;</HI> How&s;o|ever by them the Day of Iudgment pa&s;&s;ed over; From moreover, who wrote to a Lady that loving Epi|&s;tle, &s;o <HI>He that hath an ear, &amp;c.</HI> (even which accompanies the times gene|ral Out-cryes, and Nevvs cryed) let him give ear to the truth of his pre&s;ence and company vvill enjoy, <HI>who &s;tands without and knocks, freely offers to &s;up, &amp;c. to &s;it in his Throne with him.</HI></P>
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