THE restitution OF REPROBATES. Malac: 3 Behold I will send my messenger, &c. Printed in the year, 1644. A general PARDON for Reprobate Rebels, all of them: Their restitution, as authorised & affirmed; Math. 18. ELIAS truly shall first come and restore all things. ANd before the great and dreadful day of the Lord's coming: when sent that Prophet which for a sign of it, foreshowing what Plagues with; He will smite them, and truly never greater known, then at this very time: So take this into consideration, as probable as other things, before they come to pass; For Mercy, and Judgements going together, in these last days revealed. The time being come of the end then and no more occasion to continue threatening any longer, and terrifyings against wickedness amongst us here raignning, with that prohibited old proverb out of date: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth set an edge. Shall cansell that opinion of old, of Hell to be a place or prison without redemption, as it stands not intruth well with equity, where mercy is so unmeasurable for the offence of our first deceived parents; Who knew not what they did: That for their cause, so many without compassion, and commisseration, utterly should be undone & cast away, whereas SODOM for so few, their sakes had been spaired when pressed, shall not the Judge of all the world do right? But, for this redemption of theirs; however seeming a thing of impossibility: Yet nothing unpossible with GOD, or too hard for him in his time. Take, and receive these mystical words to your comfort all of you: saying; Whosoever shall speak a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven: But blaspheming against the Holy-Ghost, neither in this world, nor the world to come shall be forgiven. But shall be in danger of eternal Hell-fire: To wit, though punishment inevitable, yet the perpetuity in suspense; as by the word DANGER, given to understand. And furthermore, as given under the same hand for their release or new pardon sea●'d here with this saying also. ye have heard it said of old time, Whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of a judgement. But I say unto you, whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of a judgement: And whosoever shall say to his brother Racha, shall be in danger of a counsel. And whosoever shall say fool, shall be in danger of Hell fire. Whereby as here possible sometimes for old sayings to be disanuled and revoked, so the day of judgements very case, how reviled and menaced the tidings, with a great council or high court, faring both alike, foreshowed likewise reproachfully styled by their Enemies, in this most strict and severe Sermon, handled, or set forth upon the mountain, &c. concluded with mercy being showed; nevertheless, appointed for Reprobates, and rebels both. Etsi salutaveritis fratres vestros tantum quid amplius facitis & ethnici hoc faciunt, &c. Even their charge, as by the mystical name Racha expressed, how brethren missecalling one another, as it were high treason, and blasphemy no less. And here beati pauperes, beati mites, &c. with GOD in such esteem, the despised by the world, and they on the other side receiving their consolation here, such an impossibility for them to escape torment, as for an Elephant, or camel, to go through the Eye of an needle: Then the least of his words, not lightly to be set by so needful, where such may be proud, to be the least in that kingdom or Court, any door keeper or the like: whose word gives light in this darkness, for that gulf between US and them, to be a passage to Life through those straits, &c. As he able to bind and lose, and so with Paul able to say; Sirs, be of good cheer, for GOD is as good ever as His word, ye are but in jeopardy of eternal Hell-fire. And thus as no light in many days appeared, then in his dangerous voyage and sailing slowly, even like those prisoners, though in so much danger, yet escaped drownding and killing, both (Acts) so in that hopeless estate of theirs whose Anchors as it were cut off, for that capital offence, the sin against the Holy Ghost, 'tis possible with GOD to pardon it, to release them of those chains seeming endless. So again, this for another, Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come forth thence until paid the uttermost farthing. The verity of which place of Scripture: So wrested for Purgatory, those fictions founded or laid thereon overthrowing that principle. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? Therefore no other way but this to overthrow that; as in truth concerning utter darkness intended the utmost mite paid to be there: and not extended in that gross manner, for these souls justified by GOD: To make merchandise of them, cried up and down, and sold as Rome's kitchen-stuff, &c. And thus far for clearring that mistake of utter darkness, taken for that third place. So here shall not pass over, his being taken up into the third heaven: there hearing things not lawful to be uttered, that Apostle made of God's counsel. Beside the Resurrections mystery showed him, even this very Thing, heard the same, as most probable of Reprobation and Election. The dispute whereof prohibited: with what art thou O man, made of clay, to question thy Maker, Quid me fecistisic? And so a thing of too high a Nature then to be published, reserved for the world's last time: And th●n as dust thou art, and to dust disolved; Likewise all reduced to their first estate, as all things very good in the beginning, therefore return and live, &c. and in a day the world made, no more times without their determined Bounds and precincts, all things at once manifested, neither the very Disciples forbears to satisfy them in some cases. Saying, He had many things to say unto them, which they could not bear at that time: That in his father's House were many Mansions, (to wit) privy Chambers and Closits, and the like, how officious so ever they were to be informed, as that for one. When the time of restoreing again the kingdom to Israel, Acts 1 Chap. And although their last suit yet put back as it were with these, ye know not of what spirit ye be, In taking ELIAS office upon you: Or 'tis not for you to know times and seasons which the father hath put in his own power. But the power of the Holy Ghost shall come upon you. Linguae tanquam ignis, super singulos, &c. And again requested another time to know what should be the sign of his second coming, were put off with those unwelcome tokens, &c. bidden to watch, because the day and hour unknown, a reserved point; and yet nothing covered, which shall not be revealed, as much to say, the Apocalyps' or Revelation, that sevenfold sealed book which no man could so much as look upon, &c. And his sealed Commission he bidden go thy way Daniel for the words till the end are closed up, &c. even how long 'twas to end, which he longed so to understand. And so still pressed, Lord are there many that shall be saved; are commanded to strive themselves to enter at the straight gate, sent as it were to Noah's Cabin door; when saved those few souls, a cold comfort, had it not included the mystery of Noah's time, the gospels progress paralleled by those days before the flood shortened also or cut off, came short of 2000 years, &c. And thus for those hungry souls, craving the least crumb or drop of mercy falling from our table, have gathered up these multiplied fragments for them, whose multitude as the sand of the sea: GOG and MAGOG, showing His unlimited plentiful Redemption. And in no wise, So much as a tittle of these blessed words to be lost, or cast away, &c. Blessed is he that hath his part in the first Resurrection, for on such the second death hath no power. Inferring for all such having been partakers of the second death, to have a second resurrection: therefore return and live, for as I live I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, saith the Lord: Ezekiel, &c. for all souls are mine, &c. So Satan's being bound a Thousand years, even seals a finite or fixed time, including beside Hell in the last days, (as it were) broken loose, also the general delivery or losing of the damned at last. For above reach, as his Mercy exceeds in height, so his Judgements in depth, difficult to search into them. Let this suffice therefore, from Lazarus finger so much, though much more the Scripture affords, for Ishmael's comfort & his brethren, of the Concubine: and thus as when God opened her eyes and she saw a spring, Gen. &c. The free woman's son being none of them, stands in no need of the water of life with them. But these their portion fall'n from the table of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sitting in the kingdom of Heaven, reserved for those very hellhounds of Cerberus; rathter than Abraham's seed: Although calls Him, son; remember that THOU in thy Life time, &c. And here one drop more, fall'n from that Sopp given Him, that ArchBlood-Sucker Judas, though speaking on this wise, Good had it been for that had he never been borne. Yet he having a being before his birth, is not deprived of that estate, though borne Never. Therefore not disinherited utterly but in state of Salvation, nevertheless at last, for whose too late Repentance, Hell of old prepared for Him, where a Million of times Not too many for such, &c. And thus much for them, whose doleful language of desperation, that good man whose name was Job, seems to borrow and restored also: Saying, Shall we receive good from the hand of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil? Born under the same planit, as it were with them or very sensible of their estate, powers forth like ample, execrations upon the day and hour of his nativity, that disinale day, all the maledictions under the sun imposed thereon, like the day of Judgement, sentenced to such utter darkness: testifies, though he knows his Redeemer lives; and saying: Therefore have I uttered that which I understand not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. (Job 42.) And Nebuchadnezar his excellent majesty? That after so many times gone over him, was restored, come to be himself in the end, as he had come out of Hell in their slavish Condition, and as the day of Judgements alarm hadbeene affrighted so, that was driven away, &c. And thus his ways equal, as this most proper to be done by that Sex: a woman being the occasion of the world's woe and undoing: Therefore this PLAJSTER or PARDON by a woman's hand; showing after condign punishment, the reward of sin, He the propitiation of the whole world, and not the Elects only, saying: Father forgive them they know not what they do, as proclaimed on the cross, that last Petition or prayer of his. And if they forgiven, the Actors and Authors, of that most horrid crime, and abominable blasphemy, of all others that could plead ignorance least: His Brethren the Jews for so many good turns, such ungratfullnessere turning, doubtless others of seventy times seven forgiveness better worthy, than they of seven times. But the light, an evil sight overcoming: so he their stumbling block became a rock of offence: Thus stock blind, and stubborn hearted the world by Nature: though that day as amazed or ashamed, borrows the night's veil, and departed Ghosts restless; Leaveing their graves below, and coming forth, yet know not what they have done to this day: When Cains murdering his only brother, and Ishmael's deridings and the like; But as a gnate to a Camel or Elephant: And like a grain of mustardseed with a mountain weighed; or to be compared. Whose figure or prototype accursed Cain sent forth, banished from the presence of GOD saying, his punishment was greater than could be borne, like these Vagabone fugitive people ever since, Having circumcisions mark. And thus their Pardon folded up first in HIS: That by the LORD had a mark set upon him also: And so far for Marks of a Future forgiveness, for the whole world, &c. from Adam to the world's end: Even as that Salutation, peace and good will towards men proclaimed at His first Coming or arrival: so a largesse before his second Coming, for such in utter darkness, setting in the shadow of eternal perdition, for their enlargement at Last, &c. And Eloi Eloi, as one forsaken &c. not without a twofold signification truly (to wit) ye shall not see me till ye say, Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord, the name of Elias being not far from Eli or Lord, as they came very near it: Saying, Let us see it Elias will come, &c. In whose likeness or forlorn estate: of a truth, Lazarus set forth how it fares with the Prophets. John for example put in prison; and others, &c. And for the gulf, as in truth signifying a space of time, between our resurrection & theirs, so that even the water of life begged but to cool his scorched tongue: And thus that Prophet, the Lords second messenger, styled by his name (Elias,) because before the change, not tasting death, but taken up alive, like him the resurections figure: and with Elijah going on saying: As thy soul lives, I will not leave thee, here posting away briefly showing his progress: The Prince of life shall relate somewhat of his sermon bestowed upon those disobedient spirits, imprisoned sometimes in Noah's days (Peter. 3. chap.) Who certainly would not have afforded them the high favour of his presence: Had he intended to cast them away utterly, as she told her husband. If the Lord had meant or been pleased to kill us, He would not have she'wd us all these things, Judg. &c. Thus he the judge of quick and dead, declaring the veil, &c. not taking away of their atonement: then was clothed in a cloud, as this likeness in most probable did appear: (Revel. 10.) crowned with the rain Bow, his Feet as pillars of fire, a little book in His hand open, the gospel all fulfilled &c. By whose posture or standing, setting HIS right foot on the Water, the left on the land: giving to understand the gospel's pilgrimage, or preaching how long to continue by Sea and Land, before published through the world, and before the flood That time, as afore showed, so the world's last Age paced forth thereby. The ark baptisms figure, when a few saved; wherefore said: So shall the coming of the son of man, be as the days of Noah also: According to that pattern, which days coming short of two thousand years, likewise this assured to be shortened; And therefore no marvel Since amongst us such watch kept by all. The LORD having watched over US, to bring this evil upon US, even at their wit's end: which remember not the end, nor regard at all His tokens. And so decending amongst them those disobedient, etc having in his hand God's word, as much to say: I am the word of God: Alpha and Omega. And without the word made nothing that was made according to all equity, have made good all failings, to wit, upon his own innocent person, hath taken the faults of all the world, as none but one good: And thus like them: stung by fiery Serpents, by the sign of the Serpent were cured and healed: again. Our first parent not being letted or hindered of the tree of Knowledge, because so requisite to let them know themselves, though Satan never the more to be excused in the discovery of their naked estate. And so these words at Last, &c. father forgive them &c. Though expressed in the voice of that Time present, yet extends to pardoning of all Adam's progeny: whose ignorance or error not imputed to the utter ruin of the whole World. And as that Apostle heard Things unutterable: Also in this of theirs, (a Thing as difficult to express it: viz. Their release, pardoned after their being punished so:) in respect of the word, Eve lasting and perpetual; an ordinary word indeed, as in the Cerimoniall LAW: those called perpetual Statutes afterward abolished. And so all fulfilled &c. And thus like that Cloudy robe; these in a mystery folded up, opened here, or disclosed: Their future estate of bliss, and Restitution, a Thousand times happy in the End, that shall see GOD; Though a thousand years, or Times: punishment to endure, in that hot BATH or boiling Lake for the purging of their boils and soars to be cleansed of them, as Origin that Father partly his Opinion, cast out of the church's favour for his pains, by whom original sin's purgation held by this way expiated, &c. And Purgatory having thus undermined: Yet rests another wall between US and THEM; as requisite to be cast down, and one figurative speech opening another: Her's one reserved for ELIAS coming: As bold as a lion, His riddle: Out of the Eater, came forth meat: And out of the Strong, came forth sweetness: Signifying even the Ovensmouth: And the barrel or Butt, its ribs or Belly, &c. The bread and wine in the Sacrament, viz: And thus Samson eat of the same spiritual meat, and drank of the same spiritual drink. And also of this Ambiguous word (till) a word of it for example, in Matth. the first, not without some reserved meaning: known to the Holy Ghost by whom SHE conceived, since he without doubt did never know Her: Although showed, he knew Her Not, till she had brought forth Her first borne son: And so again, in a double sense contrary to the former: go thy way DANIEL, for the words are closed up, till the time of the end; where though it rests doubtful before the end, whether disclosed at all, those words: yet there's hope left, &c. Nor stands for a cipher here either: And his Lord delivered him to the Tormentors, till paid all was due, &c. That is to say: till the utmost minute there, that Mite of time expired, due to sin. Hereupon the Apostles not in vain saying, Lord increase our FAITH: As some new Article were added to their belief (Luke 17.) upon that &c. I say unto Thee, Not until seven times: But until seventy times seven times: And what ye bind and lose on earth, shall be bound and loosed in Heaven, &c. Spoken not to Peter: By him having the keys of Death and Hell: For such intent, for this prerogative of His to be wrested: That Legions such of Pardons should be bought up, as fold by His Successors; able quench at their pleasure that Fire: As many possessed with a belief thereof, for those keys of supposed purgatory resting in their power or custody. In truth whereas intended by the Holy Ghost to concern the Commission of Apostles and Prophets, those words of such Extent and Latitude, the Holy Ghosts meaning being able to explain it, sent Therefore. Peter 1. And hope to the End, for the Grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. By the Lady Elinor: FINIS. ANd so to make toward the shore (or end this) these broken pieces offered or imparted here, taken out of the flowing Scripture: As when all hope that they should be saved was taken away: Yet in Rome's dangerous voyage escaped all, Acts, &c. So making no doubt when in such a fearful estate so many, but these hopfull words will be no less embraced by them whose part in Aetna's unquenchable gulf so deep were, although the fire everlasting and eternal, And where the never dying worm and the like: nevertheless implies or proves not their pains to be of like nature, and that God is implacable or not to be entreated, which God forbid. NOw a larger PARDON: so who can wish, or imagine to make then These? Who so speaks a word against the son of man, &c. ALL Blasphemies and sins soever forgiven the Sons of men: Math. 12. Mark. Luke: no doubt able upon true repentance made in ashes, mingled with tears: (That precious gift) for to remit, etc: And one of the second Table, that commandment Thou shalt not kill: like as it refined and altered: (Math:) Even he the lawmaker and fulfiller both; what fine soever, or pain imposed by old days but in terror: In former Ages he likewise able, as the second death, That also to change & abate it. And Nothing then impossible with Him, although in the highest degree; The unspeakable offence against the Holy Ghost, though Left without form (as it were) and void: The pardoning of it yet, verily a Thing not only possible (as appears) by these words of his added to the former; But shall be of eternal damnation in danger: but VERY certain, for Reprobates after due punishment, undergone to be released from utter-darkness, and pardon all at the Last: since as much given from his mouth, That made every thing so very good in the beginning. The least tittle of whose words and sayings Not in vain, Then dangerous not a little, to make Them utterly void, as to miscall what GOD hath cleansed out of a dangerousness and niceness, to make it a common thing abstaining from it, alike to disallow what the Holy Ghost hath cleared and licenced. And now lawful, that which without Blasphemy heretofore, could not be disputed, to wit in judging of God's ways, whether equal or no, since the wicked (adam's Children for His disobedience:) not left in Hell, but in state of Redemption, as without doubt also: That of the two debtors reflects on all, both frankly forgiven. Although instanced in ADAM and Eve's case those two, &c. When he that charge forgetting himself so mu●●, so mildly Him reproved, who as one beholding to none or, no physician needed, and being displeased for her repair to the House, therefore was bidden to go in peace. Delivered that was at once of so many spirits or devils, that disposessed Woman whereby forbids any to murmur and grudge at his goodness, he giving to the first and last both, Even forgiveness: So take heed lest he have somewhat to say unto Thee also: Or should but say, take what thine is, and go thy way, &c. An non licet mihi? &c. Mat. 20. 15. Now here with this not unlawful news and tidings, a degree above their purgatory Pardon: Being not ignorant of old Distinctions, between the Sufficient and Efficient cause, as all constraned to confess for the whole world's sin his suffering all-sufficient, whose soul tasted of very Hell. Though no corruption saw, Nor of that difference, either unwitting between the cause and the occasion, Nor how straightly schoolmen besieged unwilling to yield original sin the only and sole cause of reprobation. And yet if granted ESAU rejected because of some particular or actual sin or evil foreseen in him: Consequently the others ELECTION from somewhat which GOD foresaw to be good, &c. Even so to him who overcomes when he is judged, and nothing with him impossible, be ascribed all possible Praise and Thanksgiving, whose judgements (Rom. 11.) unsearchable and way past finding out, so even increase our FAITH LORD. Charitas non ae mulatur; omnia credit. 1644.