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<HEAD>TO THE MOST HONORABLE THE HIGH COVRT OF <HI>PARLJAMENT</HI> ASSEMBLED, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY <HI>LORDS;</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THer's a <HI>Time for every thing under the Sunne,</HI> and if any; for to bee abrupt and breife in ever, tis <HI>NOW</HI> when <HI>Time</HI> &s;o precious is with your Lord&s;hips: under the Sunne
<PB N="2" REF="2">there is nothing but a &s;upernaturall Cour&s;e to be taken, Touching the <HI>Cure</HI> of &s;uch un|naturall condition'd <HI>Times:</HI> The Almightie his VVord the only <HI>Balme</HI> then, and <HI>Sove|raigne</HI> remedy when ye have tryd all: If any therefore doe ami&s;&s;e and mi&s;carry of you. Blame your &s;elves none but the <HI>Parliament:</HI> For I &s;hall of no little <HI>Burthen</HI> di&s;charge my &s;elfe here who can but &s;ay, and tell you. I have a receipt of &s;uch rare opperation and vertue given me; That within few dayes it &s;hall bring Him againe to Him&s;elf, I meane the <HI>KING;</HI> after ab&s;ent &s;o long from his <HI>Parliament:</HI> who&s;e Character if ye plea&s;e to ob&s;erve; This is his:</P>
<P><HI>He that no Chaines could binde him,</HI> (Marke Evangeli&s;t the 5^t^h^.) <HI>That had been often bound with fetters and with Chaines pluck'd a&s;&s;under by him. And the fetters broken in pieces, neither
<PB N="3" REF="2">could by any man be tamed;</HI> as much to &s;ay, <HI>neither</HI> Oath, <HI>nor</HI> word, <HI>or</HI> promi&s;e <HI>availing, or any rea&s;on of force to par&s;wade with Him, as the</HI> Holy Gho&s;t &s;peaking plaine: <HI>by that adjuring in</HI> Gods Name; <HI>and by asking his</HI> Name <HI>too, &s;aying,</HI> LEGION, <HI>for they were many, who &s;pake not with the Le&s;t:</HI> Neverthele&s;&s;e, not more feirce then fearefull of the <HI>Lords</HI> com|ming, <HI>this man wounding him&s;elf thus.</HI></P>
<P>And thus have made tender unto your Lord&s;hips, Of my &s;ervice, whether or no yee accept thereof: for to bring His Maje&s;tie to you, Setting as afore time cloath'd, &amp;c. And doing withall what Ye &s;hall aske or de|&s;ire. As for the Caveliers what They &s;hall doe all of them, even crave a Pa&s;&s;e here, to take Shipping for the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> and <HI>Germanie</HI> to be gone away; the <HI>Boors</HI> will entertaine them willingly, S^t^. <HI>Matt:</HI> the 8.
<PB N="4" REF="3"><HI>gives Notice of two, &s;o exceeding feirce that none might pa&s;&s;e by that way,</HI> to wit, that Dutch Duke, or Prince po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with an uncleane Spirit, out of his VVITS; he to returne al&s;o without delay Home againe, beyond Sea.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>VVaiting on your <HI>Lord&s;hips Commands</HI> ELEANOR.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>1642. The 3^d^. of <HI>January.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
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<P><HI>The Holy Gho&s;ts</HI> New-yeares-gift.</P>
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<HEAD>SAMSONS LEGACIE.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>J&V;DGES,</HI> the 16. Chap. &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_ANd as in&s;tanc'd or brought to <HI>his</HI> Tryall, here found light; <HI>SAMSON</HI> guiltie that way: which <HI>Vow</HI> of his, had he unhap|pily not violated, a bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e that: Of no mean weight, what <HI>Fet|ters of Bra&s;&s;e bound him had;</HI> none of what kinde &s;oever. <HI>Sam&s;ons fall, lo&s;t him&s;elf here|by, di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the</HI> Spirit <HI>of the</HI> LORD.</P>
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<P>By him di&s;covered <HI>the Almighties coun&s;ell unto the</HI> Lords <HI>Enemy, could not with-hold or refraine, told her all his heart;</HI> &s;he acquainted is therewith bee it what&s;oever: Such a blind thing is <HI>Love;</HI> They into &s;uch Thral|dom brought which harbour it: &s;u&s;pected nothing becau&s;e he <HI>lov'd</HI> her, or <HI>doted rather.</HI> That who&s;oever they were, was able with a looke of his <HI>Browe,</HI> to put them for ever to &s;ilence, wherein his &s;oul &s;o farre ingag'd, any to attempt but the motion, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And farther &s;hewed, how in his <HI>allegi|ance having toward his Ma&s;ter and Lord fayled: Both &s;tript of that great &s;trength of his, Lo&s;t both his</HI> Eies, <HI>not only boord or put out,</HI> faine to be lead afterwards by a Ladd: But <HI>put in pri&s;on, be&s;ide grinding in a Mill:</HI> To ta&s;t of re&s;tle&s;&s;e HELL, that weari&s;ome be|ing. <HI>Even</HI> takes <HI>E&s;saye</HI> of our <HI>Saviours Cup;</HI> indeede the&s;e in &s;ome things to <HI>Sam&s;on</HI> be|long onely: able but for to turne his wea|ry
<PB N="3" REF="4">&s;ides without other help, or by a wals &s;ide <HI>to</HI> go, which before had <HI>The Lord his &s;upport; The</HI> Phili&s;tims <HI>his Lords now:</HI> a heavie change, of no other e&s;tate worthy, had taken his plea&s;ure and &s;o came of it.</P>
<P><HI>One</HI> Tru&s;ted with that high place of Go|vernment: Twenty yeares therabout, as it appeares. Crownd with &s;o many favours; That had the <HI>Eternall words direction his light:</HI> &s;et &s;o light by alhough cha&s;ti&s;ed never &s;o &s;e|verly the bage of his Ma&s;ters heavy di&s;|plea&s;ure, none commi&s;erate his Complaint bee it what&s;oever, <HI>whether marked, &s;horne or noted.</HI> He <HI>which wi&s;t not the</HI> Spirit <HI>of the Lord was departed from him, when</HI> He <HI>had fooli&s;hly departed from the Lord:</HI> And if GOD &s;pared not <HI>Sam&s;on,</HI> others much le&s;&s;e that have him for their le&s;&s;on.</P>
<P>who could have &s;uppo&s;ed, warn'd before hand too, what tru&s;t to be repo&s;ed in them. That upon a VVomans a&s;&s;ault her charms
<PB N="4" REF="5">&s;uch a Forte rendered up: without any rea&s;on rendred <HI>But to plea&s;e</HI> Her, <HI>was not that Riddle di&s;clo&s;d enough:</HI> who would not have layd another wager, as great as <HI>Sam|&s;ons?</HI> That this man could never have been over taken &s;o, that had been mi&s;taken &s;o much in Her before, <HI>named his Heifer;</HI> and <HI>this</HI> woman &s;he of the <HI>Phili&s;tims</HI> breed too, both of them one in effect: or two wit|ne&s;&s;es appearing as it were: Herewithall bidden to take heed all, of Clo&s;e-under|hand-dealers: For <HI>the holy Gho&s;t</HI> is not with|out a double, or two-fold meaning in <HI>the&s;e</HI> thirty <HI>Shirts</HI> wrap'd <HI>up,</HI> &amp; thirty <HI>Shutes tho&s;e;</HI> not only <HI>Judas</HI> His livery-Coates <HI>or Coate|armes expre&s;sing, but our bleeding dayes</HI> where|in &s;uch Plundering and <HI>intolerable</HI> Theifts:</P>
<P>For which betraying of the tru&s;t, as one be&s;ide him&s;elf; be&s;ide being a Pri&s;oner, made a by-word, or one for a meane Oc|cupation fitter, or tru&s;ted when <HI>His eyes bee out rather then other-wi&s;e: In &s;teed of a</HI> Savi|our
<PB N="5" REF="5"><HI>or</HI> Deliverer, <HI>hee delivered into the hands of &s;uch, &amp;c.</HI> VVhich kindne&s;&s;e for; To none other <HI>Bound, but to Her:</HI> be&s;ide <HI>his</HI> willfulne&s;&s;e, <HI>who&s;e Parents</HI> &s;ome-time could not prevaile with <HI>Him,</HI> or any other: Is du|ring the remnant <HI>of his wretched dayes,</HI> or|dain'd for to beare <HI>tho&s;e &s;hakels and fetters,</HI> Bra&s;&s;en ones for &s;ureti&s;hip, and better &s;ecu|ritie: <HI>Thus armed by Her from Head to Foote &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But <HI>her</HI> Lady&s;hip <HI>urged him, She pre&s;t him</HI> Daily, vext his Soule, his Con&s;cience to the <HI>Death.</HI> Moreover, by <HI>Lulling of him as much againe, was kept in a Dreame, untill</HI> layd <HI>him&s;elf flat at her</HI> Feet: By &s;uch maine <HI>Strength</HI> was <HI>Sam&s;on</HI> over-ma&s;tred by his <HI>Mi&s;tres,</HI> who <HI>&s;o often</HI> gives the <HI>Allarum;</HI> The <HI>Phili&s;tins</HI> SAMSON, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But to bring the&s;e home a little <HI>farther,</HI> to the&s;e la&s;t dayes, without Over-laying Your patience <HI>I hope,</HI> &s;hewed great <HI>Brit|tains low ebbe,</HI> like <HI>Sam&s;on what pa&s;se brought to.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>The worlds</HI> wounder <HI>for bles&s;ing and boun|ty from above beyond all theirs not unknowne;</HI> a dreadfull Name, <HI>farre</HI> and <HI>neere:</HI> Now by His Maje&s;ties <HI>warfare</HI> being <HI>fettered</HI> and in <HI>Armes;</HI> become the game and mu&s;icke of the VVorld.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e (as it were) away <HI>hidding</HI> and <HI>run|ning before time,</HI> crowding as fa&s;t, and cover|ing <HI>hou&s;e-tops,</HI> fearele&s;&s;e <HI>now</HI> of <HI>Sam&s;on.</HI> In which difference difficult to judge; whe|ther <HI>for Might and Maje&s;tie</HI> more reve|renced, then dejected at la&s;t and di&s;pi&s;ed: Certainly manife&s;ted as <HI>great Imbecillitie in &s;ubjecting him&s;elfe to a Womans waywardne&s;&s;e, therewith carryed</HI> away <HI>&s;o and tran&s;ported.</HI></P>
<P>But the&s;e not for di&s;putation&s;ake; but made for di&s;patch, not &s;o wide and full of &s;tuffe as others are acknowledged: If it &s;it clo&s;e, tis as becoming <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> in makeing him&s;elf known to his Brethren, in ha&s;t told them, I am <HI>Jo&s;eph:</HI> So now it was not you that &s;ent mee hether, but GOD</P>
<P>So was it of the Lord; no thanke to <HI>Sam&s;on, Sam|&s;ons &s;aying, &s;he plea&s;eth me well: When neverthele&s;&s;e it
<PB N="7" REF="6">di&s;plea&s;ed his Father and Mother. They &s;aying; is there never a Woman among thy Brethren or people, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The almightie for bringing his owne Coun&s;ell and purpo&s;e to pa&s;&s;e; &s;uffers much, and forbeares long: the Holy Gho&s;t thus &s;aying, hee &s;ought an oc|ca&s;ion again&s;t the <HI>Phili&s;tins,</HI> GOD on his &s;ide, he needs not feare any. The Time was come of their fall: at la&s;t which &s;tricks home, though hardly like the Thunder at fir&s;t heard.</P>
<P>And to be &s;om-what lowder, or plain herein: was not an occa&s;ion &s;ought al&s;o again&s;t that Hou&s;e of Lords and Commons, by that unexpected progre&s;&s;e without <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> or Example of Progenitors, when he &s;eparated Him&s;elf from his Head-Kingdoms. Par|liament A&s;&s;embled then, for rooting that Slip out, blind <HI>Heri&s;ie Her</HI> Maie&s;ties <HI>darling,</HI> grown unto &s;uch a height. Without doubt with as ill, or wor&s;e &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e taken in hand, then hee which but lo&s;t his life, good <HI>Sam&s;on:</HI> When the Hou&s;e of Peeres and Com|mons tho&s;e two Pillars, charged with a heavie taxe of <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> purpo&s;ing to lay violent hands next: fir&s;t rob'd of their good Name; and then of their Life la&s;tly, brought about by Lyers in waite for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat pur|po&s;e. And thus his cau&s;le&s;&s;e falling out, the occa&s;ion of the&s;e &s;uch un&s;peakable mi&s;eries; He carried away
<PB N="8" REF="7">from His Parliament thus, by the Church of the LIBERTINES and ROMES CHVRCH, proceeding from a loo&s;ne&s;&s;e or carele&s;ne&s;&s;e of good|ne&s;&s;e: the good affection not &s;et by of tho&s;e, to have been Equaliz'd, if not preferr'd before Forreine &s;tates; a greater Honour then proginey (common to all) to di&s;charge &s;uch a Steward&s;hip well. The office of a Crowne (<HI>a good name, Proverbs.</HI> 22) as our Eies open'd, and Wofull evidences thereby gi|ven to under&s;tand: That not old <HI>Samuel,</HI> godly <HI>Queene Elizabeth</HI> was rejected, tender hearted unto every one. But herewith wee which were not con|tent: But nay, we will have a King to reigne over us, what&s;oever coming to pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>How &s;oone verified, the old true proverbe, &s;el|dome comes a better: for unto <HI>Sam&s;on</HI> as at his end; &s;o befallen us More &s;laine in one yeare, then &s;ince the Conque&s;t in the Reigne of &s;o many Kings and Queenes of them cald to &s;acrifice their Lives for the Truths te&s;timony: commanded to re&s;t a little &s;ea&s;on. Ble&s;&s;ed innocents were who changed have their &s;car|let for white robes, <HI>calling a loud, how long O Lord</HI> Revela. 6. &amp;c.</P>
<P>And every haire of Times head grown precious, never recald; and if ever perrilous to loo&s;e it, as tis now reveal'd here; and unloos'd the mi&s;tery of time,
<PB N="9" REF="7">how <HI>Sam&s;ons &s;even-fold ropes pluck'd a&s;under, even drawn from them; like</HI> Pharaohs <HI>double Dreame,</HI> where the thing was one, likewi&s;e the&s;e broken <HI>Withes and ropes</HI> reach to this &s;evententh hundered yeare pre&s;ent not a|lone; But to that &s;evententh yeare of the Kings reigne, a time of greater famine then <HI>Pharaohs,</HI> when the plentie was not known, by rea&s;on of the &s;carcity following &s;o grevi|ous.</P>
<P>And now great <HI>Brittaine</HI> newly &s;o &s;tiled, accompanied with no few Honours that &s;tarted up, have in this &s;evententh hundred yeare; Even as tho&s;e knots undone all and broken, with <HI>Jrelands</HI> green plantation by the rootes pluck'd up: This <HI>knot or union &s;o fa&s;t made, how is it come to nothing, but all up making ready in Armes;</HI> that be&s;ide a <HI>Coate|armes</HI> borne, no other appearance at all re|mains, &s;uddenly like <HI>his armes</HI> become <HI>when be awaked; great Brittains peace even &s;o brittle &s;tands as tho&s;e ropes, &amp;c. Compard unto towe,
<PB N="10" REF="8">or a piece of thred, choaked with Match and Powder now:</HI> for the &s;weet &s;ents of <HI>peace</HI> and <HI>plenty</HI> injoyed Long: And handled <HI>Thus:</HI> Notwith&s;tanding, not unfore-told. None <HI>Con&s;iders of that hand writing,</HI> though <HI>in</HI> the Yeare, 1633. &s;hewing, His Kingdome is devided and numbred &amp;c. <HI>Bel&s;hazzar, it &s;hall be ea&s;ier for him in the day of Judgement.</HI></P>
<P>By the Prophet <HI>Jeremiah: PASH&V;R which &s;mote him, was rebaptiz'd:</HI> VVho gave him that Name Compounded as unluckie as it was Long; <HI>MA: GORMIS Sabib namely re&s;tles or feare round about being no le&s;&s;e</HI> then great Brittains very <HI>Motto:</HI> VVherefore to make it good unto His Ma|je&s;tie two Names be attributed a God|fathers and Godmothers here: toward his regeneration Baptized in their teares, for <HI>Salt that is wanting.</HI> Now from <HI>Sam&s;on: JAMES</HI> SON derived, and al&s;o Mother <HI>Rachels</HI> Name; hers added: drawne from <HI>CHARLES,</HI> to weare it
<PB N="11" REF="8">for a Favour, as long as he lives here; <HI>weep|ing becau&s;e they were Not,</HI> or were lo&s;t, <HI>would not be comforted &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The Lyon become a Noted &s;heep, &s;ig|nifies: <HI>for Rachell is a &s;heep,</HI> but herewith to give neverthele&s;&s;e &s;ome comfort: <HI>Thy King|dome come &amp;c.</HI> Then the only remedie when all is done; <HI>Come Lord Je&s;us.</HI> For what Thy Kingdomes are come unto, none need to &s;hew it: They &s;peake for them|&s;elves, round about plainly: and thus <HI>Sam|&s;ons</HI> &s;tory their &s;tate &s;ets <HI>forth,</HI> no newes ei|ther Your hangings and Tap&s;tery makes it not a &s;tranger, but Common blind <HI>Ale-hou|&s;es</HI> not without it, His lying in her Lapp a &s;leep, whil&s;t &s;he pooles him &amp;c.</P>
<P>And without &s;treining this <HI>Legacie of his</HI> too, be&s;ids tho&s;e ropes puld in pieces, which became as &s;inged with fire. VVith His <HI>Brazon Chains,</HI> as the one Stands for <HI>Match,</HI> the other toward your pieces of <HI>Ordnance.</HI> Fa&s;tend this al&s;o on our <HI>Effeminate</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="9">time, <HI>his &s;even Locks,</HI> Left to this la&s;t hun|dred yeare: &s;hewing what weaving and curlling we have of FALSE-HAIRE, by that going away of His, with the <HI>Webbe</HI> fa&s;tend to the <HI>Beame;</HI> who&s;e locks therein woven by her: who &s;aid; Thou &s;aye&s;t fal&s;e, <HI>(or)</HI> ha&s;t mocked mee, &amp;c. Expres&s;ing <HI>how men forbidden expre&s;ly long Haire, yet the &s;onnes of God will weare it:</HI> &s;ome of them looking thereby more like the &s;onns of Di|vels.</P>
<P>And &s;o farther, <HI>for the green Withs and new ropes provided of old, long &s;ince for &s;uch Hell|hounds,</HI> who&s;e &s;moaking tongues as Links &s;et on fire already, notwith&s;tanding RA|CHA, <HI>he who cals his Brother &s;o, he &s;hall bee in danger of a Coun&s;ell, &amp;c.</HI> and &s;o much for tho&s;e <HI>Withs and ropes;</HI> unu&s;efull neither for great <HI>Brittains Navie and Taklings,</HI> toge|ther with <HI>Irelands Plow-Taklings</HI> and other u&s;es, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And neverthele&s;&s;e like the <HI>Plague-tokens</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="9">of their inevitable end: The ha&s;tie Me&s;&s;en|gers, likewi&s;e &s;o many <HI>Judgements</HI> &s;ent forth &s;uddenly forerunners of the dreadfull daies approach: <HI>All prepared alike to meete the Son of God, as tho&s;e Hoggi&s;h Gerge&s;ens, when all the Citie came out to meete Him, and be&s;ought him to depart: And now truely fulfilled. The wedding is prepared, but they which were bidden, were not worthy, &amp;c.</HI> (Matth. 22.) <HI>For no|thing but in eating and drinking, and giving in Marriage, is this your ha&s;tening</HI> To <HI>his Comming? Clean&s;ing your &s;elves of all filthi|ne&s;&s;e.</HI> But returning to Times cutting off, which no more returns. That great Man &s;ealed in the forehead, or front with 1642. <HI>Noahs dayes even &s;hall declare the meaning of that &s;centence from our</HI> Saviours mouth; <HI>that no fle&s;h &s;aved except tho&s;e dayes bee &s;hortned,</HI> as much to &s;ay: <HI>&s;hall come &s;hort of his dayes, at the time of the</HI> Deluge alluding to it, when all fle&s;h peri&s;hed, <HI>except eight per&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>In like manner from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncarnation,</HI>
<PB N="14" REF="10">(when <HI>God became man, thought not &s;corne to take our Nature upon Him&s;elfe,</HI>) From which time to his &s;econd comming, Parral|lels it Thus. But as the dayes <HI>of Noah</HI> were, &s;o &s;hall the comming <HI>of the &s;onne of Man bee:</HI> For as in the dayes <HI>before the flood, untill the day Noah entered into the Arke. And knew not untill the flood came, and tooke them all away: So &s;hall al&s;o the Com|ming of the Sonne of Man bee.</HI> And &s;o all before the comming of the la&s;t day al&s;o <HI>fore|warnd</HI> to be, appeares plainly (<HI>Matt.</HI> 24.) Dated with the pre&s;ent yeare, 1642. <HI>Two &s;halbe in the feild, two</HI> Armes, to wit, <HI>Two wo|men &s;hall be grinding at the</HI> Mill, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and of our mi&s;erable devi&s;&s;ion, &s;o much for a watch-word &s;hall &s;erve.</P>
<P>The &s;eventh Angels Trumpet (<HI>Revela.</HI> 10.) give his voice on <HI>Noahs &s;ide,</HI> be&s;ide that Angell that &s;et his <HI>Right foot upon the &s;ea, &amp;c.</HI> Who&s;e feete as Pillars of fire: with that little Booke open in his hand: Even great <HI>Brittains</HI> revealed forewarning, That Ilands vi&s;&s;itation: <HI>That there be &s;ome &s;tanding here not only, but throughout the World: that &s;hall not ta&s;t death, till the day
<PB N="15" REF="10">of Judgement.</HI> And &s;o take eate this little Booke, the Sacrament of his comming at hand:</P>
<P>As herein is no &s;mall mi&s;tery Conteind too, two|fold double Witne&s;&s;e appearing like all the re&s;t: <HI>Judges the</HI> 15.20. <HI>ver&s;e, And he Judged I&s;raell twenty yeares, in the dayes of the Phili&s;tins, &amp;c. ver&s;e</HI> 31. and 16 Chap. <HI>And he Judged I&s;raell twenty yeares.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o, when the &s;onns of GOD became Tyrants, and carnall (<HI>Gen</HI> 6.) My &s;pirit &s;hall not &s;trive al|way with man: for that he al&s;o is fle&s;h. <HI>Namely, how great &s;oever:</HI> Yet his dayes &s;hall bee an hundred and twenty yeares: It includes <HI>Times reigne;</HI> This twen|ty yeares to be put upon his la&s;t &s;core. The Prophet <HI>David</HI> fore&s;aw this weeke (<HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 90.) <HI>A thou&s;and yeares in his &s;ight, are but as ye&s;terday.</HI> The Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter: One day with the Lord, is as a Thou&s;and yeares, and a Thou&s;and yeares, as one day. Daniel</HI> the Prophet, that Ma&s;ter of <HI>Arrethmatitians:</HI> confirms that weeke thus; <HI>He &s;hall confirme his Covenant with many for a weeke, and in the midde&s;t of the weeke oblation &s;hall cea&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> The Me&s;&s;iah &s;laine, and the Cities De&s;olation, to wit; in the fourth Thou&s;and yeare: Wherein not only &s;hewed <HI>Mes&s;iah</HI> his dayes cut off: but <HI>Time,</HI> the &s;onne of Eternitie, his dayes too &s;hortned: Even one Thou&s;and yeares fulfilled, or compleat. For the Go&s;pels Progre&s;&s;e:</P>
<P>The 20. of the <HI>Revela:</HI> Thus &s;peakes; <HI>That they
<PB N="16" REF="11">lived, and reigned with Chri&s;t, a Thou&s;and yeares:</HI> before the&s;e Idolatryous times of late <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> therefore in re|&s;pect of Time pa&s;t, (our Saviours late comming Then.) The Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> after this fa&s;hion ad|moni&s;heth. <HI>The Time is &s;hort,</HI> as much to &s;ay; <HI>And to be &s;hortned. For which cau&s;e, as if we po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or enjoyed nothing. Corinth.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>And here adding but in a word or two, of the LORDS day; that al&s;o cut off: how this <HI>Sam&s;on</HI> hath been &s;haffed: This <HI>Sam&s;on-day,</HI> how it hath been ob&s;erved and kept, after what &s;pirituall fa&s;hion; Even the LORDS hou&s;e haunted by <HI>Spirits of Di|vels,</HI> no few among&s;t tho&s;e <HI>Tombes, &amp;c.</HI> Holding their Spirituall-Courts there, who&s;e daily Office, and Occupation was, before their being ca&s;t out of <HI>Pauls,</HI> Either to make many for&s;weare them&s;elves; Or to fill Pri&s;ons, with tho&s;e call'd by them, <HI>Puritans:</HI> and now, <HI>Rownd-Heads.</HI> For which &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e, rediculous Name, not ami&s;&s;e with the Prophet, to be&s;towe the&s;e for a <HI>Girdle:</HI> alwayes to bee girded with feare, round about <HI>MAGORMISSABIB:</HI> tho&s;e Characters compounded of GOG, &amp; MA GOG: Compa&s;&s;ing the <HI>Camp of the beloved Citie of the Saints:</HI> Who&s;e number &amp;c. <HI>Revela.</HI> 20. con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> the Queenes Armie, and prophaine <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> be|fore the day of <HI>Judgement,</HI> being let loo&s;e: The&s;e like <HI>Herod</HI> and <HI>Pilate,</HI> that were made friends, at variance before.</P>
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<P>And wherewith ob&s;erv'd, as it de&s;erves no other, as others have &s;erv'd God, profe&s;|&s;ing them&s;elves his &s;ervants, and going con|trary: as it were your &s;ervant &amp;c: likewi&s;e by them as &s;uppo&s;ed. Their <HI>Name</HI> but u&s;ed for the abu&s;ing or betraying of their per&s;on; having fir&s;t craftily gone about to cut the throats of &s;o many: by giving them another <HI>Name:</HI> But to return; Thus this Sabboth too di&s;carded: not onely Excom|municating the Lord <HI>prophets and &s;ervants, &amp;c.</HI> but turned into a Day of Cardding, and Diceing, with &s;weating <HI>Pa&s;times: Goe for thy labour, &s;it downe and</HI> &s;pinne, <HI>and</HI> weave; plough, <HI>and</HI> ditch, <HI>from henceforth in the &s;weat of thy face Eate thy bread: Come no more into the garden of God;</HI> &s;o much for har|kening to the <HI>Serpents</HI> voice: The flaming Sword beware: <HI>Neither be grieved with him,</HI> crying; <HI>O my &s;onne Ab&s;olom my &s;onne, my &s;onne Ab&s;olom.</HI> (al&s;o) <HI>O my &s;onne Ab&s;olom, O Ab&s;olom my &s;onne, my &s;onne:</HI> The <HI>Saboths</HI>
<PB N="18" REF="12">double <HI>Eclips:</HI> as much to &s;ay, or twice Chang'd and alter'd: That harkend not to that voice rather, &s;aying, <HI>verily my Saboths &s;hall ye keepe, even he &s;hall be cut off, that wor|keth thereon.</HI> That day which was given <HI>for</HI> a perpetuall &s;igne: <HI>Exodus</HI> 31. &amp;c. No marvell or wonder therefore; our Hou&s;es though vis&s;ited by the Spoyler and Plun|derer with our day-labour, turned into Daies and Nights-warding and watching.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;&s;e, not cut off without de|claring in the place (of this <HI>Judas-day,</HI> more like then the <HI>Re&s;urrections</HI>) a lawfull Suc|ce&s;&s;or herewith &s;hewed, &amp;c. upon <HI>Ma|thias-day,</HI> how the Lot fell in the yeare 1633. that Mundaies fir&s;t day of the weeke. In which afore&s;aid yeare, the <HI>Bea&s;t hee al&s;o a&s;|&s;cended then out of the bottomle&s;&s;e Pit; The &s;on of</HI> perdition: The la&s;t Arch <HI>B.</HI> gone to his owne place Now; by whom the word of God, in the Moneth <HI>October</HI> 23. was burnd, &s;uffered Martyrdome by a Candle, <HI>from his
<PB N="19" REF="12">owne hand,</HI> at the High-Commis&s;ion board Sacrifiz'd. And at this time, two Armies &s;triving in the fielde for Po&s;&s;es&s;ion, and in <HI>Barke-&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Oxford&s;hire,</HI> where the <HI>Hea|venly</HI> voice was <HI>heard fir&s;t</HI> at <HI>Englefield-hou&s;e:</HI> The <HI>prime Shire</HI> imediately <HI>carried thereupon</HI> to <HI>Oxfoads</HI> Parliament <HI>to bee publi&s;hed, &amp;c.</HI> In the <HI>fir&s;t yeare</HI> of the Kings Raigne, it be|ing a <HI>Roule</HI> a <HI>manu&s;cript, revealing</HI> the day of Iudgement, &amp;c.</P>
<P>For which <HI>Cau&s;e now</HI> againe, a great <HI>mee|ting of the Prophets;</HI> as &s;ometime in the daies <HI>of John,</HI> that <HI>Conjunction then: J&s;aiah,</HI> 6. <HI>An ancient</HI> Saint complaining thus, <HI>Woe is mee, I am cut off,</HI> (or undon) <HI>becau&s;e J am a man of uncleane lips, &amp;c.</HI> VVhen as tho&s;e Heralds of Armes pre&s;ent, <HI>Each of them with &s;ix wings, twaine they covered their faces with, with twaine covered their feete, with twaine did fly: holy, ho|ly, holy Lord of ho&s;tes; cryed one to another, &amp;c. The whole earth is full of thy glory:</HI> And here to bring the&s;e home to the dayes of <HI>John,</HI> in
<PB N="20" REF="13">the <HI>Revelation, &amp;c.</HI> prophecying to his <HI>Time,</HI> even to the end of the world; being <HI>Times Voices expre&s;ly:</HI> for no other then a third Sa|bath to be through the earth, as expre&s;t by the foure <HI>Bea&s;ts,</HI> and foure <HI>Evangeli&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. give all their voices al&s;o, &s;aying; <HI>holy, holy, holy, Lord God almightie, which was, which is, and which is to come:</HI> And for more light in this matter; (<HI>Revela.</HI> 4.) <HI>The &s;even Lamps of fire before the Throne, &amp;c. which are called the &s;even Spirits:</HI> &s;ignifie no other then Mun|day, to be a Spirituall day. (<HI>Chap.</HI> 5.) Sig|nified thus, <HI>There &s;tood a Lambe in the midde&s;t of the Elders, having &s;even eies, and &s;even horns, which are the &s;even</HI> Spirits <HI>of God, &s;ent forth into all the earth:</HI> To wit, <HI>Sunday</HI> the middle Sabbath; the <HI>Eie,</HI> as it were, to the <HI>Gentels,</HI> that great light for &s;eventeene hundered yeares &s;pace. Likewi&s;e the Horns, the new Sabbath, <HI>Munday,</HI> as afore &s;hewed: As the one proclaming the fir&s;t <HI>Re&s;urrection</HI> or comming; So the other the La&s;t, in the &s;e|venteth
<PB N="21" REF="13">hundred yeares to be recal'd. And thus our eternall Sabbath, &amp; the&s;e Sabath|dayes, both in one, &s;ealed up in the little Booke.</P>
<P>Farthermore, for an addition the&s;e; &s;hewing be|&s;ide how the Worlds ages being ca&s;t into three parts. That had not tho&s;e daies before the Flood, been cut off or &s;hortned; the Deluge had not been till <HI>Noahs</HI> Death, which lived 300. Yeares after, &amp;c. <HI>Enoch</HI> his walking with God, confirms it: <HI>Walked with God</HI> 300. yeares after his begetting Children: as much to &s;ay, weary <HI>Time</HI> three hundred yeares, Comes be|fore his <HI>Time.</HI> High time of &s;uch daies to be disbur|thened.</P>
<P>And to touch this New-day with a coale from the Altar, &s;hewed al&s;o the one even Munday purifi|ed, and the other remooved: As appeares in that Ma&s;&s;age &s;ent <HI>Herod,</HI> who had &s;hut up the Lords Me&s;&s;enger: Sonne of <HI>Herod</HI> the great &s;o Sir Nam'd, That be-headed Him: &s;etting abroach his <HI>Blood</HI> for his Birth-day: better he never had been borne: <HI>John</HI> of <HI>too</HI> high a <HI>&s;pirit</HI> to feed him with <HI>flattery, tooke</HI> our Saviour for <HI>John</HI> ri&s;en againe, or &s;ome walking Spirit. The Lord &s;ends him word of the <HI>Re&s;urrecti|on,</HI> &s;aying; <HI>go tell that FOX, behold</HI> I <HI>ca&s;t out Divels, and will heale to day, and to morrow, and the third day I
<PB N="22" REF="14">&s;halbe perfected: Neverthele&s;&s;e I mu&s;t walke to day, and to morrow, and the day following, &amp;c.</HI> bids him doe his wor&s;t; as much to &s;ay: which Amba&s;&s;age, whe|ther delivered it were, or no, wee read not.</P>
<P>But doubtle&s;&s;e for admonition &s;poken unto all &s;pi|rituall <HI>Herods,</HI> neither being curious whether the&s;e came to her eare, indeavouring rather to unlocke or open the meaning of that. How coming to pa&s;&s;e, <HI>Herod</HI> or <HI>Hayreod,</HI> to be Sur-named <HI>Reynold the Fox.</HI> Not onely becau&s;e <HI>John</HI> called our Lord, <HI>Innocent Lambe,</HI> made their prey, but his eare dedicated to her &s;o, his <HI>Dalilah.</HI> Very likely he did weare &s;ome odde Locke, Fox-tayle-like, a &s;courge, as it were, of hayre, portending how, together with his Souldiers, our Saviour &s;hould be &s;tript, &s;courged, de&s;pi&s;ed, and moc|ked by him.</P>
<P>Wherefore before that <HI>Ea&s;ter,</HI> this word or mocke &s;ent him, that before had given his con&s;ent: Onely for a ra&s;h words &s;ake (as made an eye-wine&s;&s;e of his valour) to be-head &s;uch a one, for &s;uch a woman, partly becau&s;e of his alliance, &amp;c. Then le&s;&s;en him|&s;elfe. His greatne&s;&s;e makes him&s;elfe a fire-brand of Hell rather: And although this Fox, the fir&s;t of that Name, is &s;aid to be exceeding glad to &s;ee <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> of who&s;e coming then que&s;tionle&s;&s;e he was foretold, in that word &s;ent unto him; notwith&s;tanding, to tho&s;e que&s;tions of his, vouch&s;afed no an&s;wer at all.
<PB N="23" REF="14">As much to &s;ay, he had and would make good his word in the end, &amp;c. Thus &s;hee in &s;uch obedience to her Mothers in&s;truction; He &s;tanding in as much awe of them both, tho&s;e <HI>Philippian</HI> Dames. And &s;o much for an <HI>Old Ca&s;e</HI> new reported.</P>
<P>And as in the Go&s;pell the five Yoke of <HI>Oxen,</HI> the&s;e &s;erves for <HI>OXFORDS Meridian,</HI> which belong to His Maje&s;ties invitation: <HI>Hath MARIED a wife, and cannot Come, &amp;c.</HI> Yoak'd in the yeare, 1625. unequally. Al&s;o that Term of <HI>FOX,</HI> or <HI>OXFORD,</HI> to wit: Ominous to long Gownes; <HI>Sam&s;on</HI> Com|panion too crafty for him; afords them that &s;ubject likewi&s;e to worke upon. So againe La&s;tly: What Lacke yee? Doe you lacke Match, and Powder, or Cable-Ropes, or any Bra&s;&s;e &amp;c: Fetters toward Field-pieces, or long Haire any to weare? Or <HI>Iri&s;h Withs?</HI> Of the&s;e as much as yee plea&s;e: <HI>SAMSON</HI> is provided for you, Bound to &s;erve is; as long as he Lives: Even hee with tho&s;e grinding Gun-powder. That Mother and Daughter in the <HI>GOSPELL: Two women &s;hall be grinding &amp;c.</HI> The la&s;t dayes watch-word, &s;o much &s;hall hereof &s;uffice. Onely the&s;e, (<HI>Matt</HI> 24.) Then <HI>&s;hall two bee in the Field, &amp;c.</HI> As it &s;erves for this yeare 1642. with the &s;evententh hundred yeare: So <HI>Sam&s;ons</HI> &s;acrificing here his Life. Hee bearing as it were, the gates of Hell and Death:
<PB N="24" REF="15">Al&s;o, the&s;e beares date about this pre&s;ent <HI>EASTER,</HI> &s;et forth in Honour of the glorious Re&s;urrection, his Life, and End.</P>
<P>And hetherto from Thence &amp;c. Your Silence on all &s;ides, which concludes Con&s;ent: Wherefore I Conjure and Charge the afore&s;aid <HI>Evill Spirits, or Le|gions, no more here to enter into this Kingdome from hence|forth:</HI> Goe downe into Hell, out into the farthe&s;t part of the Earth: <HI>get thee hence, &amp;c.</HI> Glory, Ho|nour, and Ble&s;&s;ing.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>LADIE,</HI> <DATE>her <HI>Day</HI> in <HI>Lent, &amp;c.</HI> 1643.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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