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B21322 From the Lady Eleanor, her blessing, to her beloved davghter the Right Honorable Lvcy, Covntesse of Huntingdon. Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 1644 (1644) Wing D1991 8,817 40

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FROM THE LADY ELEANOR HER BLESSING TO HER BELOVED DAVGHTER The Right HONORABLE LVCY COVNTESSE OF Huntingdon The Prophet DANIELS Vission Chap. 7. Jn the first yeare of Belchazer REX c. Printed in the Yeare 1644. FROM THE LADY ELEANOR HER BLESSJNG to Her beloved Daughter c. WHose new Interpretation not with Froath filled up or Interlarded with differing Opinions of others such old peices having No affinity and agreement with this BRITISH garments or displayed COATE by blessed Prophets pend So what the Veritie of those fouer great Beasts divers one from another which should arise c. Whoso would understand know their mistery for this very time reserved hitherto with the Kingdome of Heavens great seale shut up Distinguishing not only Nations but Times The very truth of it N'other then the severall Coate Armes given or borne by him the first of great Brittains Kingdoms or Monarchie Not unlike Jacobs united Familie his Wives Children and Children of the Hand-maids The aforesaid Crowns foure concerning whose peice of super-artificiall Heraldry unknown to those Heralds of the King of great Babylon Dan. 3. even at hand proclame the ancient of dayes the aproach of that great day of his So goe thy way Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end which Not only the Time but unfolds unto what Nation or Language revealed those glad Tydings as by the Word Sealed given to understand thereby Even where the great Seale the Jmpression thereof those fouer Coates or Beasts styled Kings which shall arise c. And the Coine stampt therwith and the like c. And so the first in the likenesse of a Lyon with Eagels wings c. first displays the armes of England and France and then standing upon the feet like a man a Lyon rampant to wit Scotlands coate where the other the Jrish Instrument or Harpe evident also out of Tune c. That no need to say J am Joseph or over-verball to be in this case No more requisit then their asking either whether or no thy sonns coate this of so many colours or peices as in the field now those inumerable colours c. That were HE living our Father JACOB would say some evill beast had devoured us to behold such blood shed amongst brethren and cruelty as Since the Creation such a flood the old Serpent never casting out of his mouth and so like Joseph sold to the Midianits our wofull estate sale and rapine made by Malignant brethren c. But such miserable Shipwracke with us being no news shall returne to those misteries of Heraldry The frequent Oraments of your House wherefore to explain them farther but needlesse nor endlesse Figures here borrowed out of old Orators Bookes suffices for figurative Demonstrations such to render their meaning truly running the way of the plaine rather for the ancient of dayes his comming to prepare the way So for my Commission thus And farther as to you not unknown especially at what time your Mother became a VVriter or Secretary concerning the unsealing or interpreting this obscure peice to open the Vission of Daniel though no obscure persons of the seed of the KINGS and of PRINCES Even in the yeere 1625. undertaken this burthen following his steps who declares when HE wrote first in BELCHAZARS first yeere the last of those Caldeans of great Babylon Also shewed in that great plague yeere when the City shut up This Vission then opened whereof even Then a Signe ro Token not without a touch given in those words But thou O Daniel shut up c. Dan. 12. And thus where every word a mistery cannot passe over them as none of the least His being so often saluted or stiled so highly of the Angel O Daniel greatly beloved man as much to say too O KJNG of great Britaine as Kings and Prophets Brethren Let him that reads Daniel understand And as it extends to this time also beares Date forty foure directly the present Yeare as these beareing Record of time and place c. of whose storming daies thus And Daniel spake and said J saw and behold upon the great Sea the foure Winds strove and foure great Beasts came up divers one from another to say from beyond sea the occasion of such divission ready to be swallow'd up in these swelling Seas The first like a LYON and Eagels wings Daniel 7. J beheld till the VVings were pluckt thereof And lifted up from the Earth and made stand upon the Feete like a MAN And a MANS HEART was given unto it viz. The LYONS Passant regardant turn'd into the Rampant c. After her decease a Virgin Princesse of renown'd MEMORY ENGLAND stil'd great Britaine and then these foure severall Coates given c. And this Sayling on or pursuing the Subject And behold another Beast a second like to a BEARE and it raised it selfe upon one side And had three Ribbs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it N'other then as it were displayed The three LYLLIES The Armes of FRANCE to the full given by this KINGDOME where Nothing but a meere Shadow or the bare Coate of it Left Leaves in stead of Fruite Besides how by a She-Beare as this N'other Three devided KINGDOMS rent in peices The Ribbe or Side beares VVitnesse thereof The second SEXE its Character And so farther from This saying too well prooved Arise and devoure much FLESH even what Date it bears needlesse to say Her MOTTO the Mother not of the Living Child but of Divissions and Massacres where inclusive the ador'd Sacrament called the MASSE Thus uttered Her Voice Let it bee neither Thine nor Mine but devide it destroy it utterly c. No such Coate then like to have any Affinitie with Solomons Ivory Rament or Robe as the Ensigne of Peace the LILLY of the field but rather a Slippe come out of the Bear-garden unworthy to behold the Sunne became degenerate and so wild Sometime to none of the Flowers of Parradise inferiour And another like LEOPARD Lyon-like SCOTL AND 's Coate the truth of it displaied Thus Which had foure Heads and foure VVings on the backe of it as it were a Heralds Coate or KING AT ARMS c. So great BRITAJNS foure KINGDOMS or Crownes proclaimes by them And this the Summe of it shewing Then revealed the time of END when united These foure aforesaid c. As hereby farther appeares And Dominion was given unto it No small addition after Her dayes raigning forty foure Yeares for Scotland to give such a Large Coate by a Prince as unfortunate in His Progenie and Successor As in his Predisessors or Parents VVherefore liken'd to the LEOPARDS Spoted skinn those sable spots or drops And behold a fourth BEAST like a HARPYE or some such Monster having great Jron Teeth and Nayls of brasse to be short the Jrish Harpe demonstrated likewise the very wrest as it were a little Horne of which Jnstrument not a little out of tune as insues stamping all
Caesars Superscription even the Roman Empires age written in in those Characters of the 3. Ribs 4. VVings and the 10. Horns and then those Eagles wings so lifted up pluckt too notwithstanding Germanies manly looks that Saxon state like this great Statue unable longer to stand upon its feet not unlike Irelands estate the modell of that Empire in such a flourishing condition and as the blow then in the 17. yeare of the present reigne so the other in the 1700. c. broken so soon in peices Wherefore the world but like a Dreame vanished Like his suddain awaking in a moment forgotten all c. But now returning to great Brittains brittle condition againe That union dissolved and broken in peices since his dayes He the head of GOLD as by those peices called JACOBVS after his name c. And he the ROMAN SPANISH Emperour by his tribute of late since the Judies discovery who makes up the head of Gold too And all this but to manifest and shew That God is a Revealer of Secrets in these dayes also Reveales the deep and secret things And maketh known what shall be in the Latter dayes by divers severall demonstrations as this for another Of the Axe laid to the roote That tree or pedigree whose fruit much of such a hight reached up to Heaven this Jacobs Ladder c. And now but the Stump end remains as yee see The very VVoods every where proclaims it where the Axe never put so to the Root such felling c. And so the Axe that fell into the water by a sticke cast into it caused to swime The Morrall thereof no other then the Resurrection time revealed to be by the Spirit of prophesie As much to say As the late hand writing for a seale or signe of it a sufficient propheticall proclamation though not on the Walls c. in the Banquetting-House yet not unknown to Lord ●o few how these applied Thy Kingdome numbred and thou found wanting c. and come to passe too as published and printed 1633. sufficiently known in meeter to his Majestie from great Babylon transferred to great Brittain And so this but the truth of it shewed in the 12. of the Revelation How Satan because he knows his reigne or time to be short is ready to devoure the VVoman even for the truth of the Resurrection time revealed as most proper to be performed by that sex a Woman by whom death came to be the Messenger of Life And so WOE TO THE INHABJTERS of the EARTH and of the SEA c. And since a pleasing Theame as t is said makes a good Orator and sure I am a worse time then this never known or ever heard of so then the time the end discovered although pend somewhat hastily or unperfectly c. being like the hony and like the hony gathered out of so many parts I shall the lesse need to excuse it unto such as have a ful knowledge of the Scriptures That should it be written at large a Chronicle or a booke as ample as those tables of the Mapps of the VVorld could I suppose not contain it Not sutable to the little book being but an Epittomie as it were and so much for being not voluminous especially when the time ●o short too as by Tyrant time his reigne expired shew'd to be and these the apointed Scutchins for his Hersse apeared those winged Beasts devouring times likenesse c. As by this one wittnesse more produced or set forth asigned to the present even in the dayes of these Kings or united Kingdoms Shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdome which never be distroyed And the Kingdome shal not be left to other c. And shall breake in peices even to the same effect with that Dan. the 7. The greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven for ever given to the Saints or Rulers c. which shall breake in peices c. viz. By those ordinance or orders of Parliaments and feild peices c. And yet not so strange as true notwithstanding such a troublesome time O let Jsmale live as it were prefer'd before Jsaac to be his Heire And Absolons life before Solomon the wise O Absolon my sonne Absolon Like Egypts Leekes Garlike before Canaans Grapes c. And so preferred this worlds vanity folly before everlasting Righteousnesse endlesse Joy life eternall and now ended thus this point of Honour displaying the Ancient of dayes his Kingdome your portion to you dedicated that so punctually have discharged that duty of the first commandement with promise in so much and such dishonour endured have bene your mothers Copartner even You her alone and sole support under the Almighty So Veni Domine Jesu gracia Domine c.