Bethlehem signifying the house of bread, or, VVar whereof informs, whoso takes a small roul to taste cures forthwith distraction in the supreamest nature, with such vertue indu'd : by those tormenters firy serpents as they when stung, were heal'd a view by taken of the brazen one. Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A36396 of text R3835 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D1978). 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. 11 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 12 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A36396 Wing D1978 ESTC R3835 12375766 ocm 12375766 60591 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. A36396) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60591) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 937:16) Bethlehem signifying the house of bread, or, VVar whereof informs, whoso takes a small roul to taste cures forthwith distraction in the supreamest nature, with such vertue indu'd : by those tormenters firy serpents as they when stung, were heal'd a view by taken of the brazen one. Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 12 p. s.n.], [London? : 1652. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. Attributed to Lady Eleanor. cf. NUC pre-1956. eng Spiritualism -- Controversial literature. A36396 R3835 (Wing D1978). civilwar no Bethlehem signifying the house of bread: or VVar. Whereof informs, vvhoso takes a small roul [sic] to taste cures forthwith distraction in t Douglas, Eleanor, Lady 1652 1546 3 0 0 0 0 0 19 C The rate of 19 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 2006-10 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion BETHLEHEM Signifying The House of Bread : or VVar. Whereof informs , VVhoso takes a small Roul to taste cures forthwith Distraction in the supreamest Nature ; with such vertue indu'd . By those TORMENTERS Firy SERPENTS as they when stung , were heal'd a view by taken of the Brazen ONE . Ezekiel 16 ▪ Cause Jerusalem to know her Abomination , &c. Printed in the Year , 1652. Touching the healing of the present Evil . SHews ( as not unknown their influence ) the better that we may judge of things to come ; from Examples in vain not recorded of things past : Achan as his story for one Epitomizes : By whom the golden Wedge or Tongue hid , wch trespass until discovered of his , thus and thus , &c. no peace or presence of the Lord any more . So whence as follows , Cause the city to know , &c. for recovery of health , to have knowledge of the disease since the first step thereto . Acters or consenters , know ye or be informed , of one and the same nature : that of the one Talent buried also by him or not improved , &c. where so much for the better ordering the Medicine or prescribed Rule : shewing how in days of those late high Priests it came to pass Anno Dom. about 36. By them after what execrable maner Crucified the Oracles of God , their late Altars for that purpose prepared ; to be short , over which a Gyant Crucifix being erected : The value not of a Napkin to cover , &c. exposed to the view of all to kneel before it : like as in Golgatha that Fridays dismal Day bowed the knee : Then his humble Servants also . VVhich Goliah portray'd with the Crown of Thorns , wanting neither its Superscription , done by that in his Holyness Chappel , a true Copy brought over by Father , &c. VVhilest that Original as shamefully covered the Ten Commandment at the East end plac'd : to their low obeysance at every turn , least an Eye-sore . Had contrived under colour of an Altar Hanging , fastned down to the wall of course purple Woollen , even to Ecclipse that Light of Lights : whereby to cover the Ten Commandments no obscure business as befel : Brocht in Litchfield Minster : where this Monster Table appointed with the Centurion , armed at all points , mounted on this Courser : the Beast worshipt too . Unsufferable to behold , the one not more ignominiously exposed , then the other obscured : to give free passage to whatsoever abomination . VVhereupon , O accursed , as obliged for bringing to light the same Court and Ci●y to awaken : Their Lord Major that year a Litchfieldman : resolved to set some mark upon their purple Covering , whereon she cast a Confection made but of Tar , mixt with wheat Starch , with fair Water heated , &c. Them possessing with such outrage-flocking about it , some Gunpowder Treason as though : upon whose fright , post a Sergeant at Arms was sent down at Candlemas to carry her up : Carriers unable to pass after that Summers drought , when as much wet again : At whose Arrival , though Higher Powers certified by the Sergeant at Arms , of such causless Panick Terror : yet said , in regard who knows what she may do in other Mother Churches : Held it fit to commit her to the Cities Custody ; one as it were buried quick in Bedlems loathsom Prison , infected with those foul Spirits day and night Blaspheming : where was shut up by the space of two years sufficiently published or bruted by that time . VVhen began , the War kindled in Scotland : And so much for that designed place Bethlehems Hospital , alias Bedlem : Bethlehem the House of Bread signifying , or War , &c. undergon in behalf of that crying cause , causless Jealousie of hers . Never that was called to appear or answer whether Guilty , but surprized in that sort , or the Adversary against her appearing : Conscious of their abominable Cause , of whose proceedings by Luke thus recorded : in which aforesaid City dwelt a Judge , saying within himself not difficult to judge when Though I fear not God nor reverence Man : yet least this never ceasing Widow by her VVriting , &c. inlarged thus no ordinary Assessment were mentioned : who by casting into their Treasury those two mites , from that seeming Paradox outstript them all , as Englefield Manor for one devoured , &c. accompanied with the unparalleld last troublesom times Description : when that Famine of Faith a fore-runner of his coming . Return shall to the former of those precious Tables , able to dissolve Mill-stones : Like as when rent the Templevail , Stones and Graves unable to contain , &c. men whilest more obdurat as in the Bladder of uncircumcised Hearts , which nothing penitrates . Oyes , himself Westminsters Cryer , in the mean while much People gathered , several So●ls those , proclaims Earth , Earth , in relation to her Ears not few : how difficult to bring forth fruit in kinde , three for one miscarrying : He that hath ears , &c. VVhich Ten Commandments lastly how were Restored ; although yielded not to pluck down the aforesaid Cloth that Altar Ornament , appointed nevertheless in an Azure Table the Law engraven to be in gold Letters : Hanged up in all Churches , bearing date , Anno 37. To be buried in silence neither , where by accident in the Prisoners Chamber : when brought into it , beheld on the wall the two written Tables in Moses hand coming down out of the Mount , the onely Ornament or Picture there , hang'd up on a Nail : not long after rent down by the Keeper ; because unto some shewed or as a token then what done by them in Churches : not calling to minde ; As visits unto the third and fourth Generation , That hates them , so mercy shews to Thousands that love his Commandments . And so return to their sufferings : As testifies ( Apocalips cap. 11. ) The Tables of the Law those Lights inclusive with the two invincible Witnesses , Where the Lord Crucified , &c. Waters converting into Blood : whose insulting Enemies rewarded thereafter with Core and his Companions in that Earthquake , &c. as when Prebends and clerk Vicars forced , were afterward for fear of the Parliament Forces to bury it in a Donghil , not one would harbor it , so low obeysances had made thereto afore : And this in Stafford-shire their Lord Major aforesaid of that County , fulfilling what honor his anointed ones to expect : If the Master of the House call'd Devil or Beclzebub : Bedlem no dishonor for them , especially whilest Grandees in that measure their House infected . As moreover for that aforesaid Shire or intire County of Stafford , not long since belonging to whose Ancestors the house of Audley of no obscure Denominations . Audley of England from whence derives her Antiquity . Touchet of France , the Paternal Name . Castlehaven in Ireland , thence her Precedence alike concerned in each . From the Province of Wales that of Davis : and Douglas of Scotland the Doughty : such a one of the several Nations as intimates no less : A Prophet shall the Lord like unto me raise up unto you of your Brethren , him shall you hear , &c. And every soul which will not hear , shall be destroyed from among the People : ( Acts 3. ) so a Deliverance time , whose word a Law : stoops to no Bulls or other like actings : Prophets howsoever buried in the Land of Oblivion : which Nations , as much to say , avenge her shall of her Adversary thus supported : My hand shall hold him fast and my arm shall strengthen him , nor gates of Hell shall not prevail against her : O Hell or Fleet-Prison ( to wit ) where is thy Victory now . And for a leading touch , these suffices for this spreading soar , its swellings to asswage threatning , no less then Ears and Throat : By our Achans for the accursed thing put among their own stuff , as upon his Humiliation shewed them : And for this Analogy between the Times of spiritual Egypts Map . And for that prophet parallel'd with Moses , by whom the Golden Calf conjured down by his Serpent Rod : Those first and last of Prophets . Containing a Brief of a like Dispute as between them about Moses Body . Jude . June . Elea : And : Touch : Castleha : Da : & Do :