Hells destruction. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A36410 of text R215001 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D1995). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 13 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A36410 Wing D1995 ESTC R215001 99827014 99827014 31426 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A36410) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31426) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1883:12) Hells destruction. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 16 p. s.n.], [London : Printed in the year 1651. Place of publication from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Hell -- Early works to 1800. Prophecies -- Early works to 1800. A36410 R215001 (Wing D1995). civilwar no Hells destruction. By the Lady Eleanor Douglas. Douglas, Eleanor, Lady 1651 2068 2 0 0 0 0 0 10 C The rate of 10 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-12 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2006-12 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Hells Destruction . BY The Lady Eleanor Douglas . Apocal. Behold , the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison , that you may be tryed ; and you shall have tribulation ten days , &c. Printed in the year 1651. Hells Destruction . Behold , the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison , that ye may be tryed ; and ye shall have Tribulation Ten days , &c. Apoc. MOst Learned and Honored Iudges , with whom so precious restles Time , of which as who can be over frugal , shunning therefore Multiplicity ; long process but wearisom to the wise : Seeing then our Laws how ballanced with Gods Law its profound Precepts , said to be founded thereon , and Reason in its purity consonant thereto , otherwise hath with it no affinity . Emboldens to present this Paradice Posey , durable presidents which too circumspect wherein ye cannot be , hereof as ensues . Adam that first Lord Chief Iustice or Iudge , before whom the Lord God brought every Creature formed of the Earth , to see what he would call them ; and whatsoever he called every living Creature , that was the name thereof : of a certain admits of no wrong or contrary Names whatsoever in any Courts of Record to be legal or answered unto . As these inform , accords with the former , the Iudge of quick and dead ; where demanded first , What his Name was ? before obtain'd a pass for that Baptized Herd the Gentiles Prototype doubtless , the Devil his Godfather ; who made answer , saying , Legion , for they were many ; he resident ( as it were ) in Hell , among the Graves distracted , &c. Thus as we see and know irrational Creatures , these of several kindes retain their proper Names ; and very Devils not debarred theirs . Nevertheless that Dominion have over them , Man the Little World , to Angels not much inferior , deemed no little VVonder , as though confined to a lower Region then they , suffer our selves , worse then Bruits undergo Names enjoyned utterly false , instanced as here the dead childe like in stead of the living laid in her Bosom , disputed in Solomons presence ; whereby no less then bereft both of her good Name and Liberty , witness this their erroneous VVarrant of Arrest , Ecce vera copia . Eleanor Lady Davers alias Douglas , committed to Woodstreet-Compter by Steedman Officer to the Lord Major ( July 17. ) 1646. As true that might have stiled her Lord Major , &c. for any relation between Davers and Douglas : But by a Non-sence Alias a seeming connexion far from Holy VVrits Example , Slime in stead of Morter , and Brick-bats for firm Stone , with it dispenses not ; Confusion of that consequence . VVhence follows next Simon Magus alias Peter , &c. Saints and Devils become fellows ; also Fool and Racha : what not ? as out of the path of his Commandments : of warrants that latitude allowed them , one Name because lighted on , matters not how many false beside , so at all with Logicks definition or Reason , agrees not , authorized by the proviso ( Alias ) the meaning of it ; sometime or otherwise &c. though she never afore at any time called by the aforesaid Name belonging to another Tribe or Family ; He that calls the Stars by their Names ( as it were ) Male and Female , those lights : where joyns names , no such Bills of Divorce tolerates neither what Antiquity or Custom either occasions , as referred to those judicious , the Sequel of what concernment . Lastly wherwith even whose additionals Abraham & Sarahs , consists but of a letter both alike old and new consenting in one . Also Paul for Saul , one so cautious that way , witness in mentioning the said Patriarks Blessing as well observes , saying , Not Seeds , as of many , &c. but Seed , &c. And so much for that , They would have said , &c. in stead of Alius : All they can alledge or say for themselves so contradictory to Sense and Verity , better to be justified by some blinde slow Belly Cretians such Vipers , then by those interested in the Name of Christians , who would be unwilling to Subscribe to any other . And hereupon of her false Imprisonment undergone ; so many years , If when the cause of the Law ceases , then ceases the Law it self : wherefore when the Adversary detains the work , for which the Bond was entred into , occasioned it , why should he keep it , and her person in hold both ? or by what Iustice and Equity stands such an Execution any longer afoot or in force , she having been since put to the charge for Imprinting the same all over , for which was acknowledged the said Obligation of Sixty pounds , no benefit whereby accrewing to her , by a certain Printer , one Pain , upon whose importunity and protestation 't was obtained . Another Quaere , since Scandalous Names bear Action to be termed Bankrupt , &c. why unjust Cut-Throat Actions what the Adversary pleases , no Redress in that case ; as amounting to Hundreds no few by this Broken Printer and his Consorts , the Burthen of them , no short furrows plowed , &c. By City unmerciful Adonizebeks , unmindeful of his Confession , as hehad done , God had requited him , Threescore and ten had dismembred them , &c. And Abimelech how rewarded , doing execution on his Seventy Brethren , a woman his Executioner ( Judges 9. ) laying on himself ( as it were ) violent hands , caused one to slay him , not impertinent here to unmerciful Executions . VVith the Milstones lighting on his Head , a presaging to the Press , and Majorship both , by those several Tables under which so many fed by him , of his Thumbs to be pared and Great-Toes . And what Figs and Grapes such Thistles and Thorns produces , proceeding therewith the plot of this Cut-Throat Fellow ; which aforesaid Arrest in his own House , who to draw her thither fain'd had lost the Copy , &c. The ready way for compassing their desperate Ends , supposed in having her life at mercy , being sent to the Compter , lock'd into her Chamber by the Keeper : Not long after ( she all unready , &c. ) between two of them carried down thence , instantly shut and bolted was into the Dungeon-Hole , Hells Epitomy , in the dark out of call or cry , searching first her Coats pockets : Frustrate that way , with the Key took away the Candle , there left in their Pest-house on the wet floor to take up her lodging , beyond any draught , by so many poysonous Vermin harbored : Like disquieted Spirits setting up fearful several Notes , coursing about , &c. About an hour after , when ▪ as no need of Sun , Moon or other ( Anno 1646. July 17. ) whereof notice Extraordinary taken about the City , they brought her again to a Chamber , That Night till day break , the Heavens without intermission flashing out Lightnings , as Noon-day ; The Element like a Casemate standing open , without Thunder at all , or any Rain , those continued fire-works notwithstanding . VVhich time Twelve-Moneth that Adonizebek Lord Major was committed to the Tower , and his Brethren ( Anno 47. ) when the Armies unexpected arrival at the Whitsontide , &c. As for the perfideous Printer how hapned with him , soon spued out of House and Home , his VVife within few days dead , in whose Brothers unhappy Name the Bond taken . And so when the smoaky Bottomless Pit to be opened , the purifying days over , oppressed Captives , seasonable for Elevating their weary Heads , Signs in Heaven and Earth , Sea and Waters , contribute their Testimony , no mute obscure Tokens , like the floods voice uttering theirs , unbound as it were , clapping their hands for company ; perplexed people at their VVits-end ( Luke 21. ) on all sides in that unparalleld Thraldom , mutinying , then these Uncircumcised their Commissions date expired : As he that reads that Magna Charta the Prophet Isaiahs Good Tidings for them bound , &c. those doors to be unbar'd . Of which groaning Days thus , alluding to their Moneth of Travel the Tenth , or lying in , paralleld with the ten Persecutions , Ten days shall have Tribulation ; The Mysterious Beasts Reign , Crown'd or Mitre'd with his Ten Horns , charged with open Blasphemy , spewed out by so many Heads , against the Tabernacle , the presence , &c. opening no narrow Throat , repaid Lex talionis , that leads into Captivity , &c. Rev. 13. And so much for the year of Redemption , arrived that Haven , Tokens of it likened to the Springs infallible Messengers of Summers approach , the Fig-tree and the rest , proclaimed by Heavenly Heralds , which Powers above shaken , like those Boughs , others bids beware the Tree or Ax. VVitness our New Star in Cassiopei , the French taking essay of its influence , that Herodian Massacre not long after it , seen 74 years before the year 1644. the heavy day of Reckonings forerunner ; of which Great-Seal day John heard the number ( Rev. 7. ) even sealed the year of God Ao Dom. 44. observing the motion of the former , that in the East 74 years afore Jerusalems ludgement , the numbred Time of our Captivity or coming out of Heathen Babylons Purgatory , of whose Habeas Corpus sealed VVrits a Discharge thence of the restless Abyss , touching Obligations sealed and the like : These an express command ( Rev. 9. ) commanded henceforth not to harm or touch any such , but those branded or charged with Murther and Theft , &c. ( ver. 20. ) breach of his Law , the Commandments . And for this time so much , prefixt fixt or set times though said to be but a certain time for an uncertain , and the like , questionless of highest concernment those undervalued most , or least in request , because flatters not or torments them , termed wilde notions and brainsick , &c. Likewise for uncertain Names on record , Darius as it were for David ; like that Dispute about her having five ( Ioh. ) Bidden Go call her Husband : whence follows , if Davers one , then ( otherwise ) called Douglas , he none of hers either . As sarthermore for tedious Apprentiships their farewel , together with that granted , What is not true is false ; Ergo , Libel bastard slips , and sinister actions imposed on his people , unlawful to be fathered on Gods VVord , his Law thereon either erring not in a tittle . FINIS . From the Fleet . Easter 1651. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A36410e-130 Consisting of about 6000 Foot and 700 Horse , the length of Times Foot , the distracted Time Aged ear ●000 years , he Legton also , &c. The Dutch stiled Gravs and Boors their late loss put into the Reckoning , Mat. 8. Mark 5. Luk , &c. Cap. 61. Luke . Revel. 2. Shewing they have a King 〈◊〉 them , &c. ( of the Roman Faction ) where those cald Cavaleers or Royalists , and coyn Dollors and Half Crown Pieces adored ( Daemoniae ) ( he heard the Number of them ) with Pieces of Ordnance , the Fleet or Navies preparation by those hideous Hieroglyphicks signified , &c.