Apocalypse, Chap. 11. It's accomplishment showed from the Lady Elinor. THus Reader in a word to thee, what the unsealed words of this prophecy imports; we even in the same Estate with them, called well Spiritually hardened Egypt, and sinful sodom's great City (pointing expressly to the Spiritual calling in the last days what incurable Blindeness Arrogancy begets: Here impeached of the sin against the Holy Ghost, guilty of the blood of these his sacred Ambassadors slain by them: the Prophet Daniel and John, no inferior prophets, their Books being interpreted by the same Spirit they wrote, and these Imprinted at Holland, Anno 1633 immediately seized on, shrouded in a loose sheet of paper: their embalmed bodies about doctor's Commons, the good hour waiting for of their resurrection wounded in that barbarous manner, assaulted by merciless, desperate men, unto a senseless, saltless age sent; bidden, Remember her looking back, Lot's faithless Wife, who neither discern the time, know not the voice of the prophets, enemies to the church's deliverance (Micah 4.) promised, at last, the downfall of her foes, come upon themselves have fulfilled it: By filling the measure up, reaching to Heaven: an account but current heretofore, never complete till now the holy Ghost in such manner blasphemed: The invincible truth termed madness, the prophet's Testimony as extant on Record, and published, sentenced detestable, as if any thing were too hard for the Lord in his appointed time: whose dead bodies trodden underfoot daily, or swept out like weekly Occurrences, those truths; and proceeding with the brutish fact committed on these sacred witnesses, or Ambassadors arrived what their entertainment; though not ignorant what power extraordinary endued with: wonders of the highest kind at their word, waters turned into blood, war foreshowed, Heaven shut, and the like, smite the Earth with plagues as often as they speak the word, yet these rash wretches such a vexation their presence, clad in Sackcloth, &c. gratify with presents making merry, as the manner by stopping one another's mouths, to make up the Breach; triumphing over their corpse slain by the Beast coming out of the smoking pit or Abyss, as appears, making war with them, with his furious Train, armed at all points this British beast. Not a little wild concerned in it, because showed in this manner: He must be killed (verse) which harms them, touches a leaf of the Tree of Life, a violent death, whose doom be he whatsoever, vers. 5. cap. 11. And though since see it true, visible as their unexpected Resurrection and Ascension, beheld by their very Enemies, eye witness of it: Gentlemen no less slighted, then by those impious persons insenced at their Testimony, supposed such an impossibility in those profane feasting days, adored by his riotous Lords, Courted by his Concubines, with Belshazzar, born under a like malevolent Planet: And though needless any farther showing, concerning in the last time, the last days approach to be revealed out of the Prophet Daniel and the Apocalypse, one a phoenix of great Babylon, the other an Eagle, his flight from Patmos Isle, of times tyrannical Reign cut off, and his cashiered Generation; suffering for which glad tidings murdered by wretched caitiffs (vers.) confirmed both by their Resurrection and Ascending: & whose scaled writs reserved for the end, not opened to be till then or served. Notwithstanding of time's mystery thus, his being bidden, Arise and measure the Temple; after the seven thunder's voices uttered, proclaiming of a certain in what century, sworn in his wrath, Times being no longer; He forbidden to measure the Court, leave it out, given to the Gentiles; of whose treading under foot 42 months the City, as follows, signified by the Temple of God, the year of God how about 1642. from his leaving the High Court, &c. unto Nazebies blow given him, just three years and a half, even from Jan. 1641. unto Anno Dom. 1644. complete, that Ascensions feast and cities solemn thanksgiving. And thus as the heavens one contained in another, under that great victory obtained, shadowed out the general day of judgement not far off; whereat the holy prophets and Elders not more rejoicing, than the ireful Nations enraged; like those so many thousand prisoners brought up, &c. filling every place like Hell, likened to that great Earthquake 1645. after the aforesaid feast, when a List returned with Names, &c. ver. a remnant only escaping, giving glory to God, or took their flight, as showed (v. 13.) all pointing to the present century; as moreover 7000 slain by the cities fall, the tenth part of it in the same hour, &c. confirmed by the divided number of Seven, a time and times and half (or part.) And so much for measuring out of these times of division never such; and the third woe said to come quickly, showing the other two are past: what signs and woeful tokens visited with (to wit) monstrous levied Taxes devouring young and old, and Engines of war those pieces in a moment destroying, men by Sea and Land innumerable, as though Hell let loose, the Devils short, &c. And for these in special, let so much suffice of Heaven opened, or the Temple of GOD, &c.) with the two Candlesticks, and two Olive-Trees anointed ones, passing over the General, what war hath been waged against the Old and New Testament, and two Sacraments, the sum of it, oil in their lamps, or watchful, &c. including your Holland Ambassadors welcome, & that the Cedar if not spared, or the root, let the Firtree beware, the branches must not be too bold, between whom (the King & Bishops in hot blood) to judge referred to those two divided brethren, one returning a cross answer, the younger as free of his fair language, prohibits deferring to give God the glory, or going about to deceive him, with I, I, &c. FINIS.