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 â—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 â—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.
to Scotland and great Brittaine so stiled then wherefore blazoned by those great Beasts foure being from name of Bruite derived whose Vnicorns Horne become as short as his fellowes Lookeing of late as though al by conquest had been his so according to his will wresting and altering whatsoever and possest with no little willfullnesse as well as pride proceeding from Ephnesse and Shallownesse And so from HENRY the fourths taking possession of the Kingdome regained by EDWARD the fourth of those royall Rose ten in number giving the dunn Cow so many even from the House of Lancasters usurpation untill the diadem fell to be Scotlands lott all which displayed by those Horns ten and another little Horne c. as Corone being derived from Cornua and Caroles a Diminative c. For saylingon the VVind serving faire still or for proceeding with the Map of great Brittains last Parliament so manifest that whose Image this who needs to doubt as a little farther I shall hold on c. J beheld then because of the great voice of the word which the Horne spake J behold even till the Beast was slaine and his body given to the burning flame Some may say hath God care of Oxen Yes doubtlesse beholds even such a Den or Draught of restlesse beastlinesse day and night St. James-Fayre so called not without Cause their Priviledge of late abolished As hereby appeares the Modell every of those Courts put downe VVhere so long such Lawlesse doings there c. As for the rest of the Beasts They had their Dominion taken away BVT their Liver were prolonged as Hee no little or inferiour Beast for one whose voice set a Note lower brought to the barre though so long deferred yet whose Judgement sleeps Not. And then the Ancient of dayes fitting in his Iudges Robe and Locks like Snow Even the day of Judgement clothed in the Parliaments likenesse And the Parliament clouded under or shadow'd out by the day of Iudgement His comming in the Clouds so all in their pure wooll set forth wooll Seats and thus much for that The judgement shall fit and the Bookes were opened the Bookes of the Old and New Testament also Nothing covered that shall not be disclosed too and proclaimed Likewise by those Legions of Angells beside the Parliaments everlasting sitting the warre raised by them fet forth like Dooms day as it were when the Elements melting and the Heavens shaking Stars falling like those Valies of Thunder-Bolts with lightnings such a firy Streame now making way the generall dayes Epitome the conclusion of all these Dan. 7. And the Kingdome and Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven Shall be given to the Saints of the mosthigh OR RVLERS whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome As to no other given such a high stile except unto this Kingdome c. Hitherto is the end of the matter concerning the end and as for Daniel his countenance changed and his cogitations troubled The troublesometime before the change fore saw even our evill times His heart bleeding too c. And as Daniel signifying the judgement of God so that Monsterous fourth Beast as much to say a Viperous generation Herewith is signyfied like Josephs Pharoahs dreams doubled even the seventeenth hundred yeare By this very measure doubled to bee likewise a Time and times the deviding of time or three and a halfe viz. 7. Surge metire templum Revel 11. followes tempus tempora dimidium temporis The Resurrections time hereby measured even in the present Century cut in the midst too as it were Paradventure fifty there c. And paradventure there shall lacke five of fifty exprest in the day of judgements very language as shall not the Judge of all the earth doe right and Abram he but Dust and Ashes then VVith whom saying Now J have taken upon me to speake cannot here rest shewing farther as Noah outlived the Flood three hundred years and dyed two thousand years after the Creation likewise now the time abated or comes short 300. years wherefore the disolution in the seventeenth hundred yeare and thus cut off so many yeares like the shortned dayes of Enoch whom God tooke who lived three hundred yeares and Eternitys forerunner begat Metheuseliah thus five hundred years amounts to a PERIOD as deeply sworne the Time should be longer Revela 10. measured by the CREATORS his right hand lifted up Tempus non erit amplius sed in diebus vocis septimi Angeli Times mistery revealed c. as promised to be witnessed by the Prophets his servants concerning times TRVMPET then put to silence time no more c. And lastly for MICHAELMVS 1644 That happie halfe yeare herein included a time and times and halfe also to disperse the Forces c. Revela the 12. and Dan. the 12. concerning Michaels alarme there signified and so like a Thiefe in the night as this fearful night vission appeares even the end stolne upon the whole world or comming as the travel of a VVoman misreckoning sometimes taken before SHE looks Also farther for this last of Parliaments whereas Gods word able to speake for it selfe of full age other argument whatsoever needlesse it being of a quicker returne shall presse another place of Scripture as briefly explaind as others afore Reve. 10.9 Concerning that Albion Army and Aleluja voices where even the revealed time of the Lords comming And the writs of this happie Parliament sealed up in one Scribe Beata c. They that are called to this meeting c. All sealed with the Vnicorne in pure Paper as it were mounted on white Horses or like the great shew both going together as noted c. Nomen scriptum quod nemo novit the Parliaments name in another language viz. et vocabant nomen ejus verbum dei The Word c. et cum Justitia judicat et pugnat And upon his head many Crowns with a garment dipt in blood deep Scarlet clothed and on his vesture and upon his legg written c. Namely the Colour and Garter of the order the Knights of St. Gorge Ecce equus Albus likewise from Chival and Equus And thus the Knights and Esquires of both Houses displayed of what house and so from the name of Oxford thus et vidi Beastiam et Regis terrae et exercitus c. Revela 10.9 And for the aforesaid warre so farr as for the motive Meritrice magna qui corrupit terram in prostitutione sua c. Hath bin shew'd afore where she painted like her Images that downfall of Hers before theirs Also added these to the premises because injoyned not to part or put asunder what is joyn'd shewed Farthermore The great Jmage Dan. 2. even armed at all points the verity of those foure Metals ore Argent c. the very same likewise divers one from another Apertains to the foure great Beasts the one rising out of the Earth the other out of the Sea So contains