The Star to the Wise.  
1643.  
To the high Court of Parliament, THE honourable house of COMMONS: THE Lady Elinor her Petition; showing cause to have her Book licenced, BEING The Revelations Jnterpretation.  MALACHY 4. 2. 
For unto you who fear my Name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.  
LONDON: Printed in the year, 1643.   

The Star to the wise.  
To the High Court of Parliament, The honourable House of Commons;  
The Lady Elinor her Petition, &c.  
HAppy Reader and Hearer; for so he who reads, and keeps the words of this last Prophecy, revealed to be at last: The Revelations showing Things which shall shortly come to pass: And as the golden leaves of that fruitful Tree, showed to be for the healing of the Nations, Their Blessed peacemaker, saying, And there shall be no more curse: So the whole Prophecy directed unto our Nation, provided for these days of ours; That sovereign plaster, when such unnatural Division, sowed by the old Serpent; The very foul Disease of the Kings-Evil, &c. saying therefore, I Jesus have sent my Angel. And so, touching Malignant humours, for the most part resorting about the Ears, in which parts, not a little dangerous; wherefore, He that hath Ears to hear, let him hear; being the burden of every charge, to the Churches, concluded there with; proclaiming his coming to be showed aforehand to his servants, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; The Lord of Sabbath; as evident, by holding the seven stars in his right hand; and That Book sealed with seven Seals, like Pharaoh's Dream doubled, even the established time; and so many days as from the first Adam to the flood of waters; so from the second Ad●m●o the fiery Lake, That flood of Fire and Brinstone; And therefore the second Death so called.  
And as that Token set in the clouds: The straightened Bow that bound himself thereby, so here crowned with the Bow, binds it with an Oath, By him that lives for ever, That Time shall be no longer. But as the seventeenth hundred year revealed to Noah, shows Times mystery contained in that little open Book; (The shortness of Time) also revealed to be before the end: eyes the days of baptism, likewise how long preached, to such disobedient spirits; as farther by his right foot on the waters, and his left on the earth: The times measured, the first Noah's days, by the second Noah's days: to wit, in the seventeenth Century, his coming in the clouds, who rewards every one according to his service; For the name of a Christian serves not; But his end worse than his beginning. That after the House swept and garnished, with seven foul spirits that goeth and berayeth it. And afar off, as in the one bewrayed, how long the preaching to last of baptism, as here in alluding to those days; By sevens when every clean, &c. entered into the Ark, By the unclean seven spirits entered into him, whose end worse than his beginning. So he expressly speaks in another place of the world's beginning and end, to know one by another: As the days of Noah were, so shall the son of man's days be also; As the days before the Flood, One thousand seven hundred years; as much to say, To both allotted alike. And so in Luke the Eleventh, a touch given going afore, for better discerning the time; when they said, He by the Devil cast out Devils. Much like now, as to believe that an army of another Religion should come to defend the true Religion. Where the end of Antichrists Kingdom, showed also further, By such a King, as it were against himself divided; or a man possessed, that goes about to make away himself.  
And had the old world warning; and are the last days cast out of remembrance; and is his Promise come utterly to an end? Though saying, Ye shall not see me, till ye say, Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord. And behold, I will send you Elias before the great and dreadful day; as Eli signifying the Name of God, &c.  
And so much for those days, when the sons of God took them wives of the Daughters of men, taken with their Sorceries.  
And this yet held a senseless thing, or a fancy to expect it: Though showed, even thus it shall be when the son of man shall be revealed, (Luke 17) like giving in marriage, and revelling: And with such Buildings and Plantations &c. a fair warning to prepare for it.  
And cursed Jericho that burned with fire seven days, or a weeks' warning that had, where Rahab saved her father's house there, by a Line for token, &c. And was the hand-writing at that Feast, sent to him, He of that first Monarchy, the last of them, who was weighed in the balance, &c. and found a lost Body, &c. And by reading the Prophet Jeremiah's Books: He that understood then the number of those years, that seventy years should be accomplished in Jerusalem's desolation: Wherefore not by reading now of that Book, where bidden, Let him that hath understanding, count the number of the Beast, 666. &c. To understand also, how long the church's captivity under spiritual Babylon: The Antichristian Monarchy, and aged now 43. and 1600 Even as signified in his seven heads, and Ten horns, those crowned: his age, So in her whore's forehead, written too that Name of hers: Not of the blessed Virgins giving, of a certain; and so much for that. He ridden, and ruled so long by her, no longer to be endured: and which great harlot's City, not unknown. Beginning here, with the everlasting Gospel, showing, as coming to pass in Augustus his Taxin days, there sending forth his Decrees to have all the world taxed. That second Caesar, when he the second personin Trinity, came to pay the ransom of all; Also in his reign, those Taxing days of his, Not over the world unknown: These burdens never so imposed, before He the second of Great Britain's Monarchy: Likewise revealed the se●ond coming of our Lord, when that time comes to pass: And good will towards Men, Peace on Earth.  
So farther with That past, comparing This troublesome time: When all the city so troubled, and He who mocked with God, feigning He would worship him, was himself mocked; after they made of his counsel, having sent them to Bethlehem, &c. in revenge fell upon poor Innocents, under such an age spared none; who to that Fox returned not any more, but went another way, supposing before their God they should have obeyed him: Whose Treasure then they laid it at his feet; given as it were to the Churches use; made their Omage there.  
And in city and country, early and late, such keeping watch by day and night both, to keep out wolves inwardly, those late Bishops; as when the watchful Shepherds visited, and were told where they should find The Lamb of God: And the church's watchmen likewise assembled. Wherefore as Thou Bethlehem, not the least, so inferior to none of Great Britain's Villages, Thou Knightsbridge by Name; for such service of thine, found worthy to afford such a plaster, To the honourable KNIGHTS and BURGESSES in the Commons House, which was delivered by their worthy Speaker; Being made of the root of Jesse and pure oil-olive, & from the hospital of the diseased and dismembered, not distant far, doubtless remembered all those maimed in God's service and slain, in preferring This place, made the receptacle of His Sacred Oracle, that ointment.  
Where the spital and the Bridge, in those Letters signified, the Spirit and the Bride; & as Bethlehem, The House of Bread, signifying, &c. so, Let him that is athirst, come: for here, The wedding of the Lamb, The offspring of David; Even as the inseparable Witnesses in the Sacrament: Those places where the Word of God resides, like the Bread & Cup.  
And thou Hyde-park, none of the greatest, yet makes up the Harmony, before the wedding all rejoicing; The trees of the Wood also utter their airy voice, where the Court of Guards service weil worth the marking and observation; those Bulwarks there so watched round about; and here to proceed with the everlasting Word of God; there the flaming sword also; the Tree of Life guarded thereby, which turns every way on the East of it; and as it were the Cherubims returned, displaying in the air their golden wings, those Colours of theirs; like as the Man, when droven out to till the ground from whence he was taken; and so the Thorn, and the Thistle, and Herb of the Field, his portion with his Wife, sent away in their Buff-coats and skins, to take their progress.  
In vain neither those Pales plucked up, laid open that enclosure; for every one to make their fuel of it: But the forerunner of the little Books disclosing, the day of Judgements time discovered, time's race or finished, &c. and so of those enlarged Horns of the seven-headed Beast, ranging without mean or measure, crowned with so many Crowns, The mystery of Time there but sets forth.  
And Britain derived from Brute, having the Beasts Name as it were, and left the good angels, nothing ever since Prospering or Thriving; showing also how He to Oxford now droven to go, a Prototype or figure of Time, sealed in his very brows or forehead, being aged 43. And thus as he participates of time's age like it. So tyrant Time to be no longer; but in the seventeenth hundred year cut off; a copartner with him, of his Estate also and Condition, which in the seventeenth year was expelled of his reign forborn so long.  
And thus, as the way showed where kept now the Tree of Life; so farthermore of what nature it is; a Tree hard and stony, the Fruit not to be meddled with, or touched at first; though none more mellow and soft than it afterward; and because of a restraining virtue, its good Name taken away, like the Medlars crowned fruit miscalled.  
And so another place belonging to the city, in these days of such distraction, worthy to be thought upon, Bethlehem's hospital, Their House of Bread; for the witless sent to This, as the Wisemen to the other, those Sages, &c. in some respects to That not inferior, where some Barn or the like, made the bedchamber of the blessed Lady; and He there born, our Bread from heaven, and for a sign given the Shepherds, of his racking on the cross, that was put into the Rack or Manger; and by a Woman aforehand anointed; and other like signs and tokens.  
Whether these betoken nothing too, appeal to the wisdom of our age; or to be such an unlikely thing; that he who wrote that brotherly Epistle (going before the Apocalypse) to a Lady, saying, He had many things to write unto her. Whatsoever it was which appears not there, but referred to another time or meeting; That from another Lady, The Revelations Interpretation of her writing, should be sent to Divines for their assent to the same, written by that Divine, &c. where such a meeting of theirs, in a time of so much distraction of the Church.  
Where touching or importing an inspiration; what phrase of speech more meet and proper, then that of, Mouth to Mouth; That our joy may be full? for a full expression of our Lords coming to be revealed to a woman; That secret disclosed.  
And the wind blowing where it lists; wherefore not serving to bring these about from the Isle of Patmos, to Great Britain's Islands, when testified he cometh, he cometh. The Islands may be glad thereof, &c. Psal. especially at such a time of perplexity and woe; and for the redemption of wounded prisoners too, so miserably relieved, and others for their hurts and maims, disabled ever to help themselves.  
Wherefore then not to be revealed to us, before others in such case: and as soon to his handmaids as his manservants; the spirit of God to be poured on them▪ and so now, as well as then, when she had the first happy sight of him, after his rising, which was sent to tell and inform them where they should meet him first: and what odds between seven Churches visited, or sent unto: and Henry the seventh's chapel, in such a Church: and in the seventeenth hundred year of Grace; where the Assembly of Ministers, &c. sitting in that place, dedicated or consecrated to his memory; whose sons royal Issue so soon re-edified or reformed the Church so much gone to decay; renewed in such a short space of Time, The Scriptures buried in another Language, Life not only infused into them; but sent forth as far West, as even East in former days.  
And now in the West, to us since this thing to be revealled, (the mystery of the Lord of Sabbath's Coming) wherefore to Westminster, Not directed too: where the Kingdoms Great counsel meeting showed there where they shall meet Him coming in the Clouds.  
And of late the Red Rose and the White also, By the scriptures that were delivered out of thraldom, how soon reconciled, being disunited before: The Bread and Cup in the Lord's Supper reunited, having been judgled away By the old serpent's policy, because bidden to divide it, The Cup amongst them, as other allowance have none for it. So begins with the one first, intending not to forbear the other long: Eve's Daughters moved for their sake, lays hold of the fruitful Uine, whose emblem, those Branches to keep within their own walls: or because the Spirit first moved upon the waters, And he in hold now himself the very Antichristian▪ Serpent, by whose crooked unluckey, hands kindled this Kingdoms cruel Combustion again: showed how God's word first, even that burned by him, together with the revealed last coming: the Handwriting applied to this Nation, being Sealed therewith, that Seal Manual. To Belshazzar that was sent heretofore. And now whether his Kingdoms: He which was so much incensed hereat, be Divided and numbered, or he absent and found wanting, or this be proved a false alarm sent to him, who tatken With belshazers' looseness, the occasion of this befallen him: as for more proof of it, Moreover, &c.  
Moreover of the Holy Oracle, that Handwrighting reinterpreted by her for an express sign, Which in the year 1633 was to the Elector Palsegrave Dedicated upon the letters of his nave The palm of the Hand, &c. Charles Be: for Belshazer: bidden beware the Hands of the Medeci: and he being after so imprisoned in France. With the premises referred to the world's judgement: What mould Pharaoh's heart made of, whether the Handwriting hath not been fulfiled and double, Britain's blow.  
And as of late came to pass these: So let his repentance come to late, when praying it were to do again, give him for his doings, of that Sop his belly full, till his Bowels gush out with that arch traitor, his fellow Judas, l et the Executioner be without his fees no longer: his Gown and Girdle, Win it and wear it, who hath drawn this Curse upon us: and for whose cause (with those companions of his) these fleeing the very place where they sat: here repair to the Second House for this Licence for the lamb and the Bride, She having made herself ready, like Joseph and Mary, but betrothed as yet, this pair: So the other House of Parliament: Our saviour's second Coming assigned to them, to give Order for this his Licence, In due consideration of a Sihne, or the twelve signs given rather for a token, as not unknown to both houses, &c. Which was delivered to their Speaker (taken out of the Revelation, Chap. 12.) And there appeared a great sign in Heaven: a woman Clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet: And upon her head a Crown of twelve Stars. Interpreted this way: The celestial Woman clothed with the Sun, to wit, the Suns entering in Virgo, the bowels and belly: showing the time of the Churches great deliverance, about Michaelmas to give her enemies for ever the overthrow: as signified by Michael's victory and the dragon's fall, and which piece of Scripture thus expounded, be presented to them in the month of August. Not unlike that of Jonas in the whale's belly, that sign of the Resurrection then as this now of the general time at hand.  
And thus his excellency here, the general for the House of Parliamets' defence, as that Archangel signifying Ezcellent to among the Angels, and by War in heaven. The Division of tha high Cout set forth where Saint John ascends a degree higher than the Prophet Daniel speaking likewise of the troubled time of the end: Thus, And they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the Stars in the Firmament, the Parliaments signification, The Firmament firm for ever: as much to say, To sit there fixed, &c. as they, Daniel and John, joined in Commission for these days.  
And so the day of Judgements epitome, This battle here in heaven amongst us here before his coming, that testifies he rewards every one according to his work; as they have done by others, even served with the same themselves; Their toes pared too, taken lower.  
And shall our loins be girt, and lights burning to prevent bodily danger, so much preparation: And shall all be in such security, when that dreadful time, and no sign at all then on the posts of our doors: But the destroyer coming into houses of his servants also: When as the Devils storming, because he knows he hath but a short time, shows expressly the time is to be foreknown.  
And the Nations angry for that time of wrath come; The time of the dead to be judged, (Rev. 11) shows the church's Intelligence aforehand of that time; far be it from us to be like the deaf Adder; That because once accursed for harkening when forbidden. Therefore to forbear, charm the Word of God never so strongly and sweet; like the blind Jews under colour of shunning Idolatry, and the like, that fell to be such Blasphemers of God.  
Preaching ye have always, and may hear them when ye please, and their large Dedicatories and volumes may licence them daily: But the little Book, The Spirit of prophecy, Not always that.  
And lastly, here for testifying the burden of the Word of the Lord revealed to her, by so many voices with one consent, showed as follows, touching this Firstling the Word of God, where and when the same came to her: In the first year of his reign, when His first Parliament called at Oxford. Whether he now returned; a great voice from Heaven then, speaking to her, revealing in what year the day of Judgement; and so at what time of the year, or how long that time; she the Daughter of the first Peer or Baron, her first Husband the Kings first Sergeant, &c.  
And in Berkshire, the first of Shires at her house at Englefield, about the end of July; which month, nam●d after the first Emperor, heard the voice of God there.  
And for publishing the same, from thence went immediately to Oxford, that first University; To the Parliament then delivering the tidings of the end revealed, &c. in a Writing given to the prime Bishop Abots; which being printed, was afterward burnt by his successor in his first year, 1633 whose pass given him before, &c. and with this sign annexed to it, That the great Plague presently should cease, which came but to its height the next Week after.  
And so came to pass, after that Weeks great Bill, which amounted to Five thousand six hundred or near, being the first Week of August, 1625. as it were the world's age, The mystical Weeks reckoning.  
And then so suddenly vanished, that before a month's end, or thereabout, scarce any token or appearance thereof, the City so long shut up, open again in a manner clear.  
Thus from that presaging place or Name of England's bloody Field: Englefield near Reading-Town, where the Term kept, that remarkable year, for so many Examples of Extraordinaries produced.  
ANd now where the day of Judgement, the great Day of Battels approach (as hath bin declared) was proclaimed, &c. There in those two very Shires, of Berkshire or Birchshire) and in Oxfordshire. What we have not so much as heard the half of, others have by woeful experience felt the weight of it. Where two such Bodies of Armies so large, Whose last Blow, after that cruel Fight, was within a bow-shot of the aforesaid House of Englefield: at They'll village: and these belonging to this place of Scripture, wherefore worthy or notice, Luke the 17. Where Lord shall thy Coming be revealed:) when replied, Where the body is the Eagles will resort. As God's Word without a high and heavy hand never digested, or obtaining passage, but like the Passeover, ever eaten with bitter herbs, That Fast of the lamb.  
The Raven is sent forth before the Dove, likewise before him: That same that had his raiment of Camels hair, girt with a leathern girdle coming before him, in whose Coat, not so much as a seam. And Here the still, or frenetic voice sent with everlasting peace, the last, before the good time bring the true Olive Leaf.   

POSTSCRIPT. Revela.  
And here The Cup none debarred of it: He that is athirst Let him Come, &c.  
knightsbridge, November, 1643.