THE Arraignment.  
By the Lady Eleanor.  MARK 9 And he said unto them, verily I say unto you, that there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death till they see the Kingdom of God come with power. 
Printed in the year, 1650.   
MARK 9 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ONES that believe in me, etc. 
ANd so who should be greatest, or bear the sway; this Lesson appointed for the present, occasioned upon that dispute: Also to whom it points about a Thing, of no little weight doubtless, where declared, A millstone better hanged about his neck, be he whosoever, standing no better on his guard, (the safeguard of no few) on whose behaviour or vigilancy depends, to whose lot the Millstone falls as follows, even the Military or Sword profession, their judgement here called to hold up their hand at the Bar; behold as this seals it a free passage: Verse, And if thy hand offend thee cut it off, it is better for thee to enter into life maimed; likewise of the foot, Better to enter halt into life, etc. Where by the natural Body, reports the case concerning the politic, to slight the least or lowest degree, coming in his name how perilous.  
So here anatomised whose Father discern I pray: Then lose a foot, suffered his whole body to perish, who thought little of the third or term cut off so of his days: By means of a festered Toe, a Corn, turned to a Gangrene died, falling into a violent Fever, that very Ignis non extinguitur, or Wildfire, his doughty heart leaving it to his heir how paterizaring, of late far and near not unknown misled or overmastered when put on his trial, what metel or salt in him: Better much had been without assistants such hands, eyes, or feet, unless more command over himself had, whether friends, wife or followers.  
From the Omnipotent General, Lord of Hosts when as sent unto, dreading neither sacred watch words these or Alarm: These thunderings vouchsafed not so much as to see the party, the like unparaleld in Divine precedents or other, of such greatness stood upon or manhood notwithstanding, Quisquis scandalizaverit unum ex his, be he never so eminent, his doom in the bottom of the Sea better to have taken up his quarters: To whom had some great thing been commanded, To have departed his native soil, or half his goods have parted among the poor, how much rather, but when to lend an ear required: Even cowardice in the highest degree, or weakness, who keeps his distance with such, thereafter from his presence excluded as far (as much to say) Writ their Epitaph on the sand, reward them with a cup filled double, a portion let them be for fishes, all as deaf and mute like themselves, no burier, etc.  
And for such Saints, so much suffices; as his name, THOMAS DYDIMOUS, etc. and for them also whose voice the mountains obey, or Monarches confined them to the ocean, Trees no small ones plucks up by the roots, whose estate blest when hated and cursed, in poverty rich, their cottage Heaven.  
Against whom, all their Enemies can allege, for silencing the Holy Ghost thus; or to cloak their arrogancy, is because, former times as it were barren signs and token discontinued, therefore abolished, That may affirm as well, or maintain Hell shall prevail against Heaven, as that ordinary spirits shall unseal the Books of Prophets, or that other Book (so styled) Revel. 20. And I saw another book opened, etc. to be explained ever by them, The word of the Lord enduring for ever having spoken it, Isa. 40. Whatsoever is crooked, shall be made straight, And the rough be made plain fields, the voice of deserts accompanying it as those waste parts at this day, though depopulated, again to be ploughed as in days of old; proclaiming the Spirit of Prophecy opposed, though shall prevail, The first and the last, in the mean time that begets these distractions to destroy themselves: The Bottomless Pit witness, as they term it (or Abyss) even when heaven opened; the other its poisonous Fogs as free (Apoc. 9) That Assemblies description. Latin habens nomen exterminans.  
Where lastly, after that ample admonition (of health compared to Heaven, and languishing sickness to Hell) by way of Terror, expressing the last general day of judgement, at hand, with ambition how seasonable; as his WIVES looking back to Sodom, verse. as here bidden, To have salt in themselves, the spirit judgement, without which never expect to have other rest, or to be found in peace at his coming, even to try the spirits, etc. each thing in its season, salt the life being of all things, quintessence of the elements, both the good spirit resembles and the bad, the best of all things and the worst, for the dunghill not profitable, otherwise nothing so pure, to have a discerning spirit the sum of all.  
Where touching the perpetuity of the aforesaid fire and worm: The old explaining the other; herewith to go forward a Lesson proper for the age: And the men that have transgressed (Isaiah the last) for their worm shall not die; neither shall their fire be quenched; as much to say, the latter or last day approached: No more dry bones henceforth, whose worm shall continue or remain in them; as moreover, They shall be an abhorring to all flesh, (to wit) their intolerable stink able to poison man and beast, etc. also of Calendars out of date; but from new Moon to new Moon, from Sabbath to Sabbath, like weekly Bills of mortality.  
And so much for this Habeas Corpus, or moderating the severity of such places, concerning their enlargement one word, where serves both for the grave and hell, supposed to be without redemption, as from this place such another Abys, saying, Descidite Maledicti, alluding to the different seasons, the life and death of the creature, when the Sun enters into Aries, the reviving Spring, and in Capricorn Winter's tedious nights December's, preparing fuel, etc. Mat. 25. shadowed under the sheep on the one hand, the goats on the other, lest surprised unawares as the old world by the deluge, to have oil in their lamps all, etc. when some taken up in the air, changed, in a moment, after the Trumpets loud alarm, others swallowed up by sea and land.  
So again, for his showing afterward Every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt, bidden to have Salt and peace, etc. refers to another passage in the Levitical Law, their Peace-Offerings, The Priests laying his hand on the head of the Oblation, as it were at the bar holds up his hand, in behalf of himself and the people, under a gross cloud of ignorance, acknowledging guilty of that creatures sufferings, shadowing forth what they liable unto.  
Also for setting at large the full meaning of these, without needless Apology, by way of what tedious objection might require, farther to show the depth and plenitude of this place of Scripture, like the fiery pillars light side, and dark toward others, even of its descending to Humane Sciences, Divinities handmaids: a word more from the Whale to the Worm, from the Millstone to the pebble, nothing to be despised, as commodious and useful the the least as the greatest, even so points to our everlasting arms, that of material salt, or sulphurous Barrels of powder to be provided that way; also the endless worm to have match in like readiness: And that fire unquenchable, the flint for another, as before showed, supposing to quench the Spirit by way of retaliation, our capernaum's alarm, or caveat entered disesteemed other, themselves to be abased as low next door to his doom, Good for that man had he been unborn, to exalt themselves like those rebels, gainsaying CORE and his fifties rewarded.  
And thus in his name, concluding by virtue of his all-sufficent Arm, that fasted forty days, I charge thee thou deaf and dumb foul spirit, wherewith possessed from his infancy, etc. thou melancholic spirit, come forth of him, and enter no more into him.  
Jubilee Lent.  
FINIS.