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<P>FROM THE LADY ELEANOR, HER BLESSING TO HER BELOVED <HI>DA&V;GHTER;</HI> The Right HONORABLE <HI>L&V;CY,</HI> COVNTESSE OF Huntingdon.</P>
<P>The Prophet DANIELS <HI>Vi&s;sion:</HI> Chap. 7. <HI>Jn the fir&s;t yeare of</HI> Belchazer <HI>REX, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the Yeare, 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>FROM THE LADY ELEANOR, HER <HI>BLESSJNG</HI> to Her beloved Daughter, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_WHo&s;e new Interpretati|on, not with <HI>Froath</HI> filled up, or Interlar|ded with differing Opinions of others, &s;uch old peices having No affinity <HI>and</HI> agreement <HI>with</HI> this BRITISH <HI>gar|ments</HI> or di&s;played COATE <HI>by ble&s;&s;ed Prophets pend:</HI> So what the <HI>&V;eritie</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>fouer great Bea&s;ts,</HI> divers one <HI>from</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3">another, <HI>which &s;hould ari&s;e &amp;c. Who&s;o would under&s;tand &amp; know their mi&s;tery for this very time re&s;erved, hitherto with</HI> the <HI>Kingdome of Heavens great &s;eale &s;hut up.</HI></P>
<P>Di&s;tingui&s;hing not only <HI>Nations</HI> but <HI>Times:</HI> The very truth of it: N'o|ther then the &s;everall Coate, Armes, <HI>given or borne by him,</HI> the fir&s;t of great <HI>Brittains Kingdoms or Monarchie.</HI></P>
<P>Not unlike <HI>Jacobs united Familie his Wives&punc; Children, and Children of the Hand-maids.</HI> The afore&s;aid Crowns foure, <HI>concerning who&s;e peice of &s;uper-ar|tificiall Heraldry unknown to tho&s;e Heralds of the King of great Babylon (Dan.</HI> 3.) e|ven at hand proclame the ancient of dayes, <HI>the aproach of that great day of his. So goe thy way</HI> Daniel, <HI>for the words are clo&s;ed up and &s;ealed till the time of the end,</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="3">which: <HI>Not only the Time,</HI> but unfolds unto what <HI>Nation</HI> or <HI>Language,</HI> revea|led tho&s;e glad Tydings, as <HI>by the Word (Sealed)</HI> given to under&s;tand thereby. <HI>Even where the great Seale the Jmpres&s;ion thereof, tho&s;e fouer Coates or</HI> Bea&s;ts, <HI>&s;tyled Kings which &s;hall ari&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> And the <HI>Coine</HI> &s;tampt therwith and the like, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And &s;o the fir&s;t <HI>in the likene&s;&s;e of a Lyon with Eagels wings, &amp;c.</HI> fir&s;t di&s;plays the armes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> and then <HI>&s;tanding upon the feet like a man,</HI> a Lyon rampant (to wit) <HI>Scotlands coate,</HI> where the other the <HI>Jri&s;h</HI> In&s;trument, or Harpe evident al&s;o out of Tune, &amp;c. That no need to &s;ay, <HI>J am Jo&s;eph,</HI> or o|ver-verball to be in this ca&s;e.</P>
<P>No more requi&s;it then their asking
<PB N="6" REF="4">either whether or no thy &s;onns coate this of &s;o many colours or peices, as in the field, now tho&s;e inumerable co|lours, &amp;c. That were HE living, our Father <HI>JACOB</HI> would &s;ay, <HI>&s;ome evill bea&s;t had devoured us,</HI> to behold &s;uch blood &s;hed among&s;t brethren and cruelty, as Since the Creation &s;uch a flood, the old <HI>Serpent</HI> never ca&s;ting out of his mouth, and &s;o like <HI>Jo&s;eph &s;old to the Midianits,</HI> our wofull e&s;tate, &s;ale and rapine made, <HI>by Malignant</HI> bre|thren <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But &s;uch mi&s;erable Ship|wracke with us being no news, &s;hall re|turne to tho&s;e mi&s;teries of <HI>Heraldry.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The frequent Oraments of your Hou&s;e</HI> wherefore to explain them farther, but needle&s;&s;e; nor endle&s;&s;e Figures <HI>here borrowed out of old Orators Bookes,</HI> &s;uffices
<PB N="7" REF="4">for figurative Demon&s;trations &s;uch, <HI>to render their meaning truly, running the way of the plaine rather for the ancient of dayes his comming to prepare the way.</HI> So <HI>for my Commis&s;ion thus.</HI></P>
<P>And farther as to you not unknown e&s;pecially at what time your Mother became a VVriter or Secretary, con|cerning the un&s;ealing or interpreting this ob&s;cure peice to open <HI>the Vis&s;ion of Daniel, though no ob&s;cure per&s;ons of the &s;eed of the KINGS and of PRIN|CES.</HI> Even in the yeere 1625. under|taken this burthen, following his &s;teps, who declares when <HI>HE</HI> wrote fir&s;t in <HI>BELCHAZARS</HI> fir&s;t yeere, the la&s;t of tho&s;e <HI>Caldeans</HI> of great Babylon.</P>
<P><HI>Al&s;o &s;hewed in that great plague yeere, when the City &s;hut up:</HI> This Vis&s;ion then
<PB N="8" REF="5">opened, <HI>whereof even</HI> Then a Signe <HI>ro</HI> Token, <HI>not without a touch</HI> given <HI>in tho&s;e</HI> words. But <HI>thou O Daniel &s;hut up, &amp;c. (Dan.</HI> 12.) And thus where every word a <HI>mi&s;tery,</HI> cannot pa&s;&s;e over <HI>them,</HI> as none of the lea&s;t His being &s;o often &s;aluted or &s;tiled &s;o highly of the <HI>Angel: O Daniel greatly beloved man,</HI> as much to &s;ay too, <HI>O KJNG of great Britaine!</HI> as Kings and Prophets; Bre|thren, <HI>Let him that reads</HI> Daniel <HI>under|&s;tand.</HI></P>
<P>And as it extends to this time al&s;o, beares Date forty foure; directly the pre&s;ent <HI>Yeare</HI> as the&s;e beareing Record of time and place, &amp;c. of who&s;e &s;tor|ming daies thus. <HI>And Daniel &s;pake and &s;aid, J &s;aw and behold upon the great</HI> Sea, <HI>the foure Winds &s;trove, and foure great</HI> Bea&s;ts <HI>came up. divers one from another</HI>
<PB N="9" REF="5">(to &s;ay) <HI>from beyond &s;ea,</HI> the occa&s;ion of &s;uch divis&s;ion, ready to be &s;wallow'd up in the&s;e &s;welling Seas.</P>
<P><HI>The fir&s;t like a</HI> LYON, <HI>and Eagels wings,</HI> (Daniel 7.) <HI>J beheld till the</HI> VVings <HI>were pluckt thereof: And lifted up from the Earth, and made &s;tand upon the</HI> Feete <HI>like a MAN:</HI> And <HI>a MANS</HI> HEART <HI>was given unto it,</HI> viz. The LYONS Pa&s;&s;ant <HI>(regardant)</HI> turn'd into the Rampant, &amp;c. After her decea&s;e, a <HI>Virgin</HI> Prin|ce&s;&s;e of renown'd <HI>MEMORY, ENGLAND</HI> &s;til'd great Britaine, and then the&s;e foure &s;everall <HI>Coates</HI> given, &amp;c.</P>
<P>(And this Sayling on; or pur&s;uing <HI>the</HI> Subject:) <HI>And behold another</HI> Bea&s;t,
<PB N="10" REF="6">a <HI>&s;econd like to a</HI> BEARE, <HI>and it rai|&s;ed it &s;elfe upon one &s;ide: And had three</HI> Ribbs <HI>in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it.</HI> N'other then as it were di&s;|played <HI>The three</HI> LYLLIES: The <HI>Armes of FRANCE,</HI> to the full given by this KINGDOME, where Nothing but a meere Shadow, or the bare Coate of it Left, <HI>Leaves in &s;tead of Fruite:</HI> Be&s;ides, how by a She-Beare, as this N'other: Three devi|ded KINGDOMS rent in peices. The <HI>Ribbe</HI> or <HI>Side,</HI> beares VVitne&s;&s;e thereof, The &s;econd <HI>SEXE</HI> its Cha|racter.</P>
<P>And &s;o farther from <HI>This &s;aying, too well prooved;</HI> (<HI>Ari&s;e and devoure much</HI> FLESH:) even what <HI>Date</HI> it bears needle&s;&s;e to &s;ay: <HI>Her MOTTO
<PB N="11" REF="6">the Mother not of the</HI> Living <HI>Child,</HI> but of Divis&s;ions <HI>and</HI> Ma&s;&s;acres, <HI>where</HI> inclu&s;ive the ador'd <HI>Sacrament</HI> called the <HI>MASSE:</HI> Thus uttered Her Voice, <HI>Let it bee neither Thine,</HI> nor <HI>Mine, but devide it: de&s;troy it utterly, &amp;c.</HI> No &s;uch <HI>Coate</HI> then, like to have any Affinitie with <HI>Solomons</HI> Ivory Ra|ment or Robe: as the <HI>En&s;igne of Peace, the</HI> LILLY <HI>of the field,</HI> but rather a Slippe come out of the <HI>Bear-garden,</HI> unworthy to behold the <HI>Sunne:</HI> be|came <HI>degenerate and &s;o wild:</HI> Sometime to none of the <HI>Flowers</HI> of Parradi&s;e inferiour.</P>
<P>And another like <HI>LEOPARD,</HI> Lyon-like <HI>SCOTL ANDS Coate</HI> the truth of it di&s;plaied Thus: <HI>Which had foure</HI> Heads, <HI>and foure</HI> VVings <HI>on the backe of it,</HI> as it were a Heralds
<PB N="12" REF="7">Coate, or KING AT ARMS, &amp;c. So great <HI>BRITAJNS</HI> foure KINGDOMS or <HI>Crownes</HI> proclaimes by them: And this the Summe of it; &s;hewing Then revealed the time of <HI>END,</HI> when united <HI>The&s;e foure afore&s;aid, &amp;c. As hereby farther appeares.</HI> (<HI>And</HI> Dominion <HI>was given unto it:</HI>) No &s;mall addition, after Her dayes raigning forty foure Yeares, for <HI>Scotland</HI> to give &s;uch a Large <HI>Coate</HI> by a Prince as <HI>unfortunate</HI> in His <HI>Progenie</HI> and <HI>Succe&s;&s;or;</HI> As in <HI>his Predi&s;e&s;&s;ors</HI> or <HI>Parents:</HI> VVhere|fore liken'd to the LEOPARDS Spoted skinn tho&s;e &s;able &s;pots or <HI>drops.</HI></P>
<P>And behold a fourth BEAST like a <HI>HARPYE,</HI> or &s;ome &s;uch <HI>Mon&s;ter,</HI> having great <HI>Jron Teeth,</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="7">and <HI>Nayls of bra&s;&s;e,</HI> to be &s;hort, <HI>the J|ri&s;h Harpe demon&s;trated,</HI> likewi&s;e the ve|ry wre&s;t as it were a little Horne, of which <HI>Jn&s;trument not a little out of tune,</HI> as in&s;ues, &s;tamping all underfoote <HI>Gods Law, Humaine Law.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o farre for the <HI>Harpe, Like the very forequarter or ribbs informe or like|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> as &s;trung in that manner ribb|wayes, <HI>who&s;e &s;hort Horne the expre&s;&s;e Character of tirrants of no long continu|ance,</HI> rai&s;ing up and &s;etting lower, like the wre&s;t according to their will made a law, <HI>changing and altering</HI> when they plea&s;e.</P>
<P>Informing moreover <HI>concerning the bla&s;pheming bla&s;ts of the little Horne, that had eies like a man, and &s;uch a mouth,</HI> as
<PB N="14" REF="8">much to &s;ay, <HI>that mouth &s;peaking &s;uch great things, a Womans and no Mans.</HI></P>
<P>Her Proclamations at her com|mand, <HI>the great Seale, the Elders and the Nobles,</HI> &s;o with the Story goeing on of that Idolatrious time, <HI>Come &s;ee now that cur&s;ed Womans &s;pirit, &s;he ca&s;t downe, &amp;c. cunjured up,</HI> as it were, <HI>walks up and down,</HI> that like her &s;elfe of her unnatu|rall Dogs, <HI>Acteon</HI> like eaten <HI>(of her none left to bury) Jezebel</HI> by name, <HI>Woe to the Hou&s;e,</HI> who&s;e &s;ignification, &s;o no other then a &s;tolne peice by the Poet, very like to be, as that for another: <HI>Borrow|ed from Elias, Elevation, al&s;o the fable of Phateon,</HI> That <HI>Prophets</HI> being &s;ought for as though &s;ome where had falne or mi&s;carried.</P>
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<P>Who&s;e <HI>mi&s;teries</HI> or <HI>morralls</HI> in &s;o high e&s;teeme among the <HI>Heathen</HI> a+gain&s;t many may ri&s;e in <HI>Judgement,</HI> of <HI>whom reverenced no more Divine Oracles</HI> further more, to weigh or unite tho&s;e times, <HI>with our heavie dayes, Likewi&s;e Peace,</HI> though voiced, <HI>Jacobs voice like and the hands of E&s;au,</HI> yet &s;uch divi&s;ions and &s;laying of all hands, <HI>nothing but peace,</HI> put the que&s;tion <HI>as though he &s;ought nothing el&s;e,</HI> is it peace, <HI>and thus &s;aith the King, is it peace.</HI></P>
<P>And ever and againe, <HI>Thus &s;aith the KING, &amp;c. Js it peace, JEH&V;.</HI> New Propo&s;itions as it were. And Sir as long as her <HI>Sorcerors</HI> inforce doeing what &s;he plea&s;eth, <HI>what ha&s;t thou to doe with peace,</HI> al&s;o at her la&s;t ca&s;t (when this Motto, <HI>who is on my &s;ide</HI> who) <HI>who troode</HI> HER <HI>underfoote,</HI> her inchanting voice,
<PB N="16" REF="9"><HI>Had he</HI> Peace <HI>that &s;lew his</HI> Ma&s;ter? (As <HI>it</HI> were <HI>to looke to his</HI> Head) This blood-thir&s;ty Mi&s;tres of <HI>Charmes</HI> and <HI>Spells</HI> like Satans falling tho&s;e a&s;piring Spirits.</P>
<P>So alike the time po&s;&s;e&s;t, now &s;ee what a double portion powr'd out of the cur&s;e what one leavs, another taks, <HI>He that e&s;capes the Sworde of Hazael Je|hu &s;layes, and hee e&s;caping Jehus Sword Eli&s;ha &s;layes,</HI> becau&s;e the Land devided as tho&s;e waters by him parted with the mantell of <HI>Elias,</HI> wherewith <HI>Sayled over Jordan River,</HI> and &s;uch virtue in it, be|in worne out by them, much more vi|gere then and Spirit in their Books be|ing peru&s;ed and &s;tudyed upon.</P>
<P>And Mother and Daughter alike too. Now &s;he ca&s;t into a langui&s;hing
<PB N="17" REF="9">bed, confumed to nothing an <HI>Anato|my,</HI> &amp;c. &s;carce any thing to bury.</P>
<P>The occa&s;ion of this LANDS <HI>deep</HI> CONSVMPTION <HI>SHE,</HI> And wa&s;t made <HI>thereof: Woe to the Hou&s;e of God,</HI> and the Hou&s;e of PAR|LIAMENT both, the nur&s;ing mo|ther of <HI>DRAGONS,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Sonns</HI> of <HI>BELJALL</HI> in armes, foras her name is, &s;o is &s;he MARRAH: <HI>The GALL of bitterne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>But becau&s;e the <HI>Daughter of a King</HI> as <HI>JEH&V;</HI> &s;peake, <HI>Here forborne the Re|mainder, buryed in &s;ilence,</HI> for &s;o births PREROGATIVE <HI>&s;urmounts</HI> or <HI>goes</HI> before <HI>that gain'd</HI> by Marrage <HI>as de&s;ent</HI> and <HI>blood,</HI> a Character not to be blot|ted out, where with follows the &s;tate of
<PB N="18" REF="10">VIRGINITY, the pre&s;idence theirs, <HI>Not in &s;ubjection as others.</HI></P>
<P>And for <HI>ELJAS</HI> progre&s;&s;e in the SPIRIT: The returne of tho&s;e long expected dayes, Let the READER be plea&s;ed for his &s;atisfaction to turne but (to the <HI>Apocalyps</HI> the 11) And &s;ee in his COMMISSION to the <HI>Gentills. What date it beares there, concerning the revealed time of the Re&s;urrection, &amp;c. e|ven behold the Sevententh Centurye it mea|&s;ured out by moneths and dayes, amoun|ting</HI> unto three years and halfe, the halfe of &s;eaven like the time nothing, but divis&s;ion, including the great mi|&s;ticall weeke, expre&s;t &s;everall &amp; divers wayes. A touch <HI>of</HI> which time <HI>folded</HI> up with that <HI>&s;evenfold</HI> marriage, put the <HI>que&s;tion</HI> in the <HI>re&s;urection who&s;e wife,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>VVherefore of the la&s;t (turned)
<PB N="19" REF="10">Houre-Gla&s;&s;e of time, Thus <HI>(Revel. &amp;c.) And in the &s;ame Houre a great Earth Quake and the tenth part of the</HI> CI|TY <HI>fell, and &s;laine Seven Thou&s;and, De|cima Pars, &amp;c. and</HI> thus pend with the <HI>Character</HI> of the pre&s;ent when <HI>Elias</HI> his <HI>dayes &s;hall appeare againe,</HI> their Re&s;ur|rection or <HI>Revolution,</HI> as it were by a be&s;eiged City its modell, and yeelded or rendered up by the affrighted rem|nant, when &s;uch publike Thanksgi|ving, &s;aying, <HI>Wee give thee thanks O LORD GOD Almighty, which art and wa&s;t, and art to come.</HI> Vtter'd (times) tre|ble voices, to weigh the time, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And as a Reformation time, to the greate&s;t part hatefull &amp; un&s;ufferable: <HI>&s;o the day of Judgements tydings as wellcome,</HI> like the writs of Parliament <HI>that news</HI> to
<PB N="20" REF="11">many al&s;o dreadfull, and dete&s;table to the world, the&s;e makes it &s;ufficiently plaine, <HI>and the Nations were angry the time of the dead was come that they &s;hould be judged, &amp;c. (ergo or</HI> viz.) <HI>to be manife|&s;ted</HI> to the <HI>Gentills,</HI> and &s;o like the la&s;t Supper aforehand, &s;hewing his death, likewi&s;e <HI>commands the little booke open'd to be received and eaten,</HI> as much to &s;ay, <HI>The la&s;t day revealed to be or afore &s;hewed the Lords &s;econd comming, &amp;c.</HI> Al&s;o by two witne&s;&s;es, to witt, the Bookes of <HI>Daniel</HI> and St. <HI>John, although reproved for his firy Spirit:</HI> That he was forward and &s;udden <HI>in calling for the day of Judg|ment as it were:</HI> Then who knew not of what <HI>Spirit he was.</HI></P>
<P>And here like <HI>Elias</HI> and <HI>Elijah</HI> not to be parted <HI>(tho&s;e twain goeing along further
<PB N="21" REF="11">with the la&s;t time,</HI> tho&s;e afore&s;aid mour|ning moneths 4.2. And a Thou&s;and two Hundred and Sixty dayes, and three dayes and a halfe, &amp;c. (<HI>Revela.</HI> 11.) all <HI>but &s;ounding the great dayes Alarme in the &s;eventeenth Century:</HI> Then to watch <HI>as the time for the Elects cau&s;e pro|mi&s;ed to be cut off and &s;hortned,</HI> to witt its comming &s;hort of 2000. yeares, and &s;o much for times &s;entence, to be no long|er (<HI>Revela.</HI> 10.) <HI>And the Sacramentall tree of life,</HI> or Bookes of the old and new Te&s;tament, afore mentioned, <HI>And he therefore that &s;hall add or demini&s;h</HI> from the &s;et time written by tho&s;e witne&s;&s;es <HI>let Him expect the plagues al&s;o proceeding out of their mouths, Pe&s;tilence and Warre, &amp;c.</HI> otherwi&s;e that might have <HI>e&s;caped</HI> death no few with <HI>Elias</HI> have been ta|ken alive up, debarred <HI>from</HI> entering
<PB N="22" REF="12">the re&s;t, &amp;c. as that figure of the Refur|rection, double witne&s;&s;ed by <HI>Elijah</HI> a touch of who&s;e Corps therby one rai|&s;ed up againe, but let downe into this Sepulchare.</P>
<P>So againe looking backe to <HI>Daniel</HI> touching the <HI>little Horne</HI> declaring or &s;ounding the brevitye of great <HI>Brit|taines</HI> Monarchie, <HI>(Who&s;e looke more &s;toute then his fellows)</HI> more over thus I con&s;idered the <HI>Hornes, And there came up another little Horne, before whom three of the fir&s;t Hornes were pluckt up by the roots,</HI> the truth of it as much as to &s;ay, <HI>That he the fir&s;t Heire of the red ro&s;e and the white.</HI> VVho&s;e ISVE three of them Crown'd Princes childle&s;&s;e, <HI>decea&s;ing without Heires of their body,</HI> the Crown of <HI>England</HI> fell to <HI>Scotland, and great Brittaine &s;o &s;tiled,</HI> then wherefore bla|zoned
<PB N="23" REF="12">by tho&s;e great <HI>Bea&s;ts foure being from name of Bruite derived,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Vni|corns</HI> Horne become as &s;hort as his fellowes. Lookeing of late as though al by conque&s;t had been his, &s;o according to his will wre&s;ting and altering what|&s;oever, and po&s;&s;e&s;t with no little will|fullne&s;&s;e as well as pride, proceeding <HI>from Ephne&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Shallowne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o from <HI>HENRY</HI> the fourths taking po&s;&s;es&s;ion of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> re|gained by <HI>EDWARD</HI> the fourth of tho&s;e royall Ro&s;e ten in number (gi|ving the dunn Cow) &s;o many even from the Hou&s;e, <HI>of Lanca&s;ters</HI> u&s;urpati|on untill the <HI>diadem</HI> fell to be <HI>Scotlands</HI> lott, all which di&s;played by tho&s;e <HI>Horns ten and another little Horne, &amp;c.</HI> as <HI>Co|rone</HI> being derived from <HI>Cornua,</HI> and <HI>Caroles</HI> a Diminative, &amp;c.</P>
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<P>For &s;aylingon, the VVind &s;erving faire &s;till, or <HI>for proceeding with the</HI> Map <HI>of great Brittains la&s;t Parliament, &s;o manife&s;t,</HI> that who&s;e Image this, who needs to doubt, as a little <HI>farther,</HI> I &s;hall hold on, &amp;c. (<HI>J beheld, then be|cau&s;e of the</HI> great voice <HI>of the</HI> word which the Horne &s;pake, <HI>J behold even till the Bea&s;t was &s;laine and his body given to the</HI> burning flame:) Some may &s;ay hath God care <HI>of Oxen?</HI> Yes doubtle&s;&s;e beholds even &s;uch a Den or Draught <HI>of re&s;tle&s;se bea&s;tline&s;se</HI> day and night, St. <HI>James</HI>-Fayre <HI>&s;o called,</HI> not without Cau&s;e their Priviledge of late aboli|&s;hed: As hereby appeares the Modell every of tho&s;e Courts put downe: VVhere &s;o long &s;uch Lawle&s;&s;e <HI>doings</HI> there, &amp;c.</P>
<P>(As for the re&s;t of the <HI>Bea&s;ts,</HI> They
<PB N="25" REF="13">had their <HI>Dominion taken away:</HI> BVT their <HI>Liver were prolonged</HI>) as Hee no little or inferiour Bea&s;t for one, <HI>who&s;e voice &s;et a Note lower,</HI> brought to the barre, though &s;o long deferred, <HI>yet who&s;e Judgement &s;leeps Not.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And then the Ancient of dayes,</HI> fitting in his Iudges Robe, and Locks like Snow, Even <HI>the day of Judgement clo|thed in the Parliaments likene&s;&s;e:</HI> And the Parliament clouded under, or &s;ha|dow'd out by the day of Iudgement. <HI>His comming in the Clouds, &s;o all in their pure wooll, &s;et forth</HI> &amp; <HI>wooll Seats,</HI> and thus much for that: <HI>The judgement &s;hall fit, and the Bookes were opened,</HI> the Bookes of the Old and New Te&s;tament al&s;o: <HI>Nothing covered that &s;hall not be di&s;clo&s;ed too and proclaimed.</HI></P>
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<P>Likewi&s;e by tho&s;e <HI>Legions of An|gells,</HI> be&s;ide the Parliaments everla&s;t|ing &s;itting, the warre rai&s;ed, <HI>by them</HI> fet forth, <HI>like Dooms day as it were,</HI> when the Elements melting and the <HI>Heavens</HI> &s;haking, &amp; <HI>Stars falling, like</HI> tho&s;e Valies of Thunder-Bolts with light|nings, <HI>&s;uch a firy Streame now making way:</HI> the generall dayes <HI>Epitome</HI> &amp; the con|clu&s;ion of all the&s;e, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>(<HI>And the Kingdome and Dominion, and the greatne&s;&s;e of the Kingdome</HI> un|der the whole Heaven, <HI>Shall be given to the Saints of the mo&s;thigh (OR R&V;|LERS) who&s;e Kingdome is an ever|la&s;ting Kingdome.)</HI></P>
<P>As to no other given &s;uch a high &s;tile, except unto this Kingdome, &amp;c.
<PB N="27" REF="14">Hitherto is the end of the matter con|cerning the end, <HI>and as for Daniel his countenance changed,</HI> and his cogitations troubled. The trouble&s;ometime be|fore the change, <HI>fore &s;aw</HI> even <HI>our</HI> evill times, <HI>His heart bleeding too, &amp;c.</HI> And as <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;ignifying the <HI>judgement of God,</HI> &s;o that <HI>Mon&s;terous fourth Bea&s;t,</HI> as much to &s;ay; <HI>a &V;iperous gene|ration:</HI></P>
<P>Herewith is &s;ignyfied like <HI>Jo&s;ephs</HI> &amp; <HI>Pharoahs</HI> dreams doubled, even the &s;eventeenth hundred yeare: By this very mea&s;ure doubled to bee likewi&s;e: a <HI>Time and times, &amp; the deviding of time,</HI> or three and a halfe, (viz. 7.) <HI>Surge &amp; metire templum, (Revel.</HI> 11.) followes <HI>tempus &amp; tempora, &amp; dimidium temporis.</HI> The Re&s;urrections time hereby mea|&s;ured even in the pre&s;ent <HI>Century</HI> cut <HI>in
<PB N="28" REF="15">the mid&s;t too</HI> (as it were) <HI>Paradventure fifty there, &amp;c.</HI> And paradventure there &s;hall lacke five of fifty, expre&s;t in the day of judgements very language, as <HI>&s;hall not the Judge of all the earth doe right,</HI> and <HI>Abram</HI> he but Du&s;t and A&s;hes then.</P>
<P>VVith whom &s;aying, <HI>Now J have taken upon me to &s;peake,</HI> cannot here re&s;t &s;hewing farther, as <HI>Noah outlived</HI> the Flood, three hundred years and dyed, two thou&s;and years after the Creation, likewi&s;e <HI>now</HI> the time abated or comes &s;hort 300. years, wherefore the di&s;olu|tion in the &s;eventeenth hundred yeare, and thus cut off &s;o many yeares, like the &s;hortned dayes of <HI>Enoch whom God tooke,</HI> who lived three hundred yeares and <HI>Eternitys</HI> forerunner <HI>begat Me|theu&s;eliah,</HI> thus five <HI>hundred</HI> years a|mounts
<PB N="29" REF="15">to a PERIOD, <HI>as deeply &s;worne the Time &s;hould be longer, (Reve|la.</HI> 10.) mea&s;ured by the CREA|TORS his right hand lifted up, <HI>Tem|pus non erit amplius, &s;ed in diebus vocis &s;eptimi Angeli: Times mi&s;tery revealed, &amp;c.</HI> as promi&s;ed to be witne&s;&s;ed by the Prophets, <HI>his &s;ervants concerning</HI> times TRVMPET then put to &s;i|lence time no more, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly for MICHAELMVS (1644) <HI>That happie halfe yeare herein in|cluded,</HI> a time and times and halfe al&s;o, <HI>to di&s;per&s;e the Forces, &amp;c. Revela. the</HI> 12. <HI>and Dan. the</HI> 12. concerning <HI>Micha|els alarme,</HI> there &s;ignified and &s;o like a Thiefe in the night as this fearful night vi&s;&s;ion, appeares even the end &s;tolne upon the whole world, or comming as the travel of a VVoman mi&s;reckoning
<PB N="30" REF="16">&s;ometimes taken before <HI>SHE</HI> looks.</P>
<P>Al&s;o farther for this la&s;t of Parlia|ments, &amp; <HI>whereas Gods word able to &s;peake for it &s;elfe of full age,</HI> other argument what&s;oever, needle&s;&s;e, it being of a quicker returne, <HI>&s;hall pre&s;&s;e another place of Scripture,</HI> as briefly explaind as o|thers afore, <HI>Reve.</HI> 10.9. <HI>Concerning that Albion Army, and Aleluja voices where even the revealed time of the Lords com|ming.</HI> And the writs of this happie Par|liament &s;ealed up in one: <HI>Scribe Beata,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>They that are called to this meeting,</HI> &amp;c. All &s;ealed with the Vnicorne in pure Paper, as it were mounted on white Hor&s;es, or like the great &s;hew. both going together: as noted &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Nomen &s;criptum quod nemo novit, the Parliaments name in another language,</HI>
<PB N="31" REF="16">viz. <HI>et vocabant nomen ejus verbum dei. The Word, &amp;c. et cum Ju&s;titia judicat, et pugnat. And upon his head many Crowns with a garment dipt in blood, deep Scarlet clothed,</HI> and on his ve&s;ture, and upon his legg written, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Namely the Colour and Garter of the order the Knights of</HI> St. <HI>Gorge (Ecce e|quus Albus)</HI> likewi&s;e from <HI>Chival</HI> and <HI>Equus.</HI> And thus the Knights and E&s;|quires of both Hou&s;es di&s;played, of what hou&s;e, and &s;o from the name of <HI>Oxford,</HI> thus, <HI>et vidi Bea&s;tiam et Regis terrae et exercitus,</HI> &amp;c. Revela. 10.9.</P>
<P>And for the afore&s;aid warre &s;o farr, as for the motive, <HI>Meritrice magna qui corrupit terram in pro&s;titutione &s;ua, &amp;c.</HI> Hath bin &s;hew'd afore where &s;he pain|ted
<PB N="32" REF="17">like her Images that downfall of Hers before theirs.</P>
<P>Al&s;o added the&s;e to the premi&s;es be|cau&s;e injoyned not to part, or put a&s;un|der what is joyn'd, &s;hewed <HI>Farthermore, The great Jmage,</HI> (<HI>Dan.</HI> 2.) even <HI>armed at all points,</HI> the verity of tho&s;e foure Me|tals, <HI>ore</HI> Argent, &amp;c. the very &s;ame like|wi&s;e divers one from another. Aper|tains to <HI>the foure great Bea&s;ts the one ri|&s;ing out of the Earth, the other out of the Sea.</HI></P>
<P>So contains Cae&s;ars Super&s;cription even <HI>the Roman Empires age,</HI> written in in tho&s;e Characters of the 3. Ribs, 4. VVings and the 10. Horns and then <HI>tho&s;e Eagles wings &s;o lifted up pluckt too,</HI> notwith&s;tanding <HI>Germanies</HI> manly looks, that Saxon &s;tate: like this great
<PB N="33" REF="17"><HI>Statue</HI> unable <HI>longer</HI> to &s;tand upon its feet, not unlike <HI>Irelands e&s;tate,</HI> the mo|dell of that <HI>Empire</HI> in &s;uch a flouri&s;hing condition, <HI>and as the blow then in the</HI> 17. <HI>yeare of the pre&s;ent reigne,</HI> &s;o the other in the 1700. &amp;c. broken &s;o &s;oon in peices: <HI>Wherefore the world but like a Dreame va|ni&s;hed:</HI> Like his &s;uddain awaking in a moment forgotten all, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But now returning to great <HI>Brittains brittle condition</HI> againe: <HI>That union di&s;&s;ol|ved and broken in peices &s;ince his dayes:</HI> He the head of GOLD, as by tho&s;e pei|ces called <HI>JACOB&V;S,</HI> after his name, &amp;c. And he the ROMAN SPA|NISH Emperour by his tribute of late, &s;ince the <HI>Judies di&s;covery, who makes up the head of Gold too:</HI> And all this but to manife&s;t and &s;hew. <HI>That God is a Re|vealer
<PB N="34" REF="18">of Secrets in the&s;e dayes al&s;o:</HI> Reve|ales the deep and &s;ecret things, <HI>And maketh known what &s;hall be in the Latter dayes, by divers &amp; &s;everall demon&s;trations, as this for another: Of</HI> the <HI>Axe laid to the roote: That tree or pedigree who&s;e fruit much of &s;uch a hight,</HI> reached up to Hea|ven, <HI>this Jacobs Ladder, &amp;c.</HI> And now but the Stump end remains as yee &s;ee.</P>
<P>The very VVoods every where proclaims it, where the Axe never put &s;o to the Root, <HI>&s;uch felling, &amp;c. And &s;o the Axe that fell into the water, by a &s;ticke ca&s;t into it, cau&s;ed to &s;wime:</HI> The Morrall thereof no other then the <HI>Re&s;urrection time revealed to be by the Spirit of prophe|&s;ie.</HI> As much to &s;ay, As the late hand writing for a &s;eale or &s;igne of it, <HI>a &s;uffi|cient propheticall proclamation though not
<PB N="35" REF="18">on the Walls, &amp;c.</HI> in the Banquetting-Hou&s;e, yet not unknown to Lord <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o few how the&s;e applied. <HI>Thy King|dome numbred, and thou found wanting,</HI> &amp;c. and come to pa&s;&s;e <HI>too,</HI> as publi&s;hed and printed, 1633. <HI>&s;ufficiently</HI> known, <HI>in meeter to his Maje&s;tie</HI> from great Babylon <HI>transferred to great Brittain.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o this but the truth of it (<HI>&s;hew|ed in the</HI> 12. <HI>of the Revelation</HI>) How Satan becau&s;e he knows his reigne or time to be &s;hort: is ready to devoure the VVoman even for the truth of the Re&s;urrection time revealed, <HI>as mo&s;t pro|per to be performed by that &s;ex, a Woman by whom death came to be the Me&s;&s;enger of Life.</HI> And &s;o, <HI>WOE TO THE IN|HABJTERS of the EARTH, and of the SEA, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;ince a plea&s;ing Theame (as
<PB N="36" REF="19">tis &s;aid) makes a good Orator, and &s;ure I am a wor&s;e time then this never known or ever heard of, &s;o then the time the end di&s;covered, although <HI>pend</HI> &s;omewhat ha&s;tily or unperfectly, &amp;c. being like the hony: and like the hony gathered out of &s;o many parts, I &s;hall the le&s;&s;e need to excu&s;e it unto &s;uch as have a ful knowledge of the Scriptures, That &s;hould it be written at large a Chronicle or a booke as ample as tho&s;e tables, of the Mapps of the VVorld could I &s;uppo&s;e not contain it.</P>
<P>Not &s;utable to the little book, being but an <HI>Epittomie</HI> as it were, and &s;o much for being not voluminous, e&s;pecially when the time <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;hort too: as by <HI>Ty|rant time his reigne expired,</HI> &s;hew'd to be and the&s;e the apointed Scutchins for
<PB N="37" REF="19">his Her&s;&s;e apeared, tho&s;e winged <HI>Bea&s;ts devouring times likene&s;&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>As by this one wittne&s;&s;e more pro|duced or &s;et forth: <HI>a&s;igned to the pre&s;ent,</HI> even in the dayes of the&s;e Kings, or u|nited Kingdoms: <HI>Shall the God of Hea|ven &s;et up a Kingdome which never be di|&s;troyed.</HI> And the Kingdome &s;hal not be left to other, &amp;c. And &s;hall breake in peices, even to the &s;ame effect, with that (<HI>Dan.</HI> the 7.) <HI>The greatne&s;&s;e of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven, for e|ver given to the Saints (or Rulers, &amp;c.)</HI> which &s;hall breake in peices, &amp;c. viz. By tho&s;e ordinance or orders of Parlia|ments, and feild peices, &amp;c.</P>
<P>And yet not &s;o &s;trange as true; not|with&s;tanding &s;uch a trouble&s;ome time
<PB N="38" REF="20"><HI>O let J&s;male live as it were,</HI> prefer'd be|fore <HI>J&s;aac to be his Heire,</HI> And <HI>Ab&s;olons</HI> life before <HI>Solomon the wi&s;e (O Ab&s;olon my &s;onne Ab&s;olon)</HI> Like <HI>Egypts</HI> Leekes &amp; Garlike before <HI>Canaans</HI> Grapes, &amp;c. And &s;o preferred this worlds vanity &amp; folly before everla&s;ting Righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, <HI>endle&s;&s;e Joy, life eternall,</HI> and now ended thus this point of Honour, di&s;|playing the <HI>Ancient of dayes his King|dome your portion</HI> to you dedicated: that &s;o punctually have di&s;charged that du|ty of the fir&s;t commandement with promi&s;e, in &s;o much and &s;uch di&s;ho|nour endured, have bene your mo|thers Copartner, even You, her alone and &s;ole &s;upport under the Almighty. <HI>So &V;eni Domine Je&s;u, gracia Domine, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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