EZEKIEL THE PROPHET Explained as follows. His writ served of Rebellion, Lamentation Mourning and Woe SO many having attempted the straits or passages of this Labyrinth, and lost their labour who went about it, could not but drop a word, have thought it not amiss or unseasonable, as wise as they are that miss their mark, a taste or touch to give them, of the tree of Life, otherwise called the mystery of Times and Seasons, reserved for the last time, this Sacramental little Rowl, with such a solemn protestation bound touching times being no longer, which precious Manna, the Prophet Ezekiel and John the Evangelist both tasted of, not longed for a little (Acts 1) But hastening on Cap. 1. now in the Thirtieth year, etc. And I looked, and behold a Whirlwind came out of the North, a great cloud, etc. where those winged living creatures four, etc. represented by the Tabernacle; also the Lamp, etc. as it were those Curtains, every one of one measure joined one to another with so many loops or eyes, and rings above so high, besides their running side-ways, like those swift creatures who went on their sides when they ran, their displayed wings sending forth such a noise, of a spherical work, etc. And so much for these Curtains of his Pavilion, typifying the four Evangelists agreeing in one, said to kiss or touch, etc. Whereof Apocalypse the Fourth thus, of the aforesaid four Beasts, and the Lightning proceeding out of the Throne, shows first of the Lamp; And there were Seven Lamps of fire, which are the Seven Spirits of God, etc. Cap. 5. The Seven Spirits and Seven Eyes sent forth into all the Earth, as their Characters ☉ ☽ read through the world. So to show the truth of it, even the full Moon described its paleness in the Saphir-like Firmament, and no other likened to the Amber, and Fire its brightness, when this conception or gift of the holy Ghost, etc. Giving withal to understand, received or rejecting it, notwithstanding how Prophecy ceased not, nor the Spirit (as the world would have it) totally is quenched; But the Writ or Label of this little sealed Rowl being first served on them, called a house of Rebellion, or a rebellious house so often; afterwards to be served again, reserved even for our days, as if any be pleased to observe, directed to our seventeenth Century, by the slain Lamb, Redemptions figure, Cap. 5. having seven Horns, and as many EYES; also witness the grand jury, those Twenty four Crowned Elders, so many times mentioned, and as showing since the Conquest Four and twenty Crowned, so Seven hundred years ago thereabout. And thus going on when this sacred Writ to be served, how it came to pass; how distasteful to them, honey in the mouth, bitter in the belly; compared to a woman's travel, or as fares with Officers earning a Fee venture their lives upon Arrests, even the sum of this Vision restless Prisons description, clouded under the glory of the Tabernacle, sets forth a Chamber-Bedsted and appurtenances, the Gatehouse prison, in the year of Redemption, 1634. September 24. full Moon the everlasting Lamp, prisoners fire and candle, who from the Angel sent thither the Holy Ghost, that by the space of an hour, the Bed his throne rested thereon, from his mouth for a farewell received a salute; and for another farewell, that had on his right hand an Amber glove, left such an odoriferous scent when he was gone, all oiled with Ambergris, the spirit thereof proceeding from the Leather, so far beyond expression, as it were invisible food, like when as said, Cause thy b●lly to eat, and fill thy bowels, the hand being sent to him with the Rowl or Book spread, etc. a Holy, holy, holy day, by whom observed ever since. And for Lamentations, Mourning and Woe, such cried up and down: So much for this time cried unto, O Wheel, cap. 10. besides proclaims winged Times reign includes years, containing the four Seasons, Months, Weeks, Days and Hours, not returning restless time, with the Clock wheel its motion, likewise Rings out the Abbey Bells, those mounted wheels, Verse 18. Verse 19 like these living creatures likened to burnished Brass, with their ascending and descending; and for the dreadful Rings so much, etc. Cap. 1. ver. 18. that were so high, their sound or noise like great waters, the Voice of the Almighty coming from Heaven, as it were: And so farther for that spacious round Window, the glass its curious work compared to the Beril of a Sea-green colour, as the dreadful Crystalline Heaven all with one voice proclaim the dreadful judgement day revealed at hand, to a City most rebellious. Given under the hands of those Cherubs, under their wings that had hands, with that hand sent, etc. seals and signifies it, ring's out Time's farewell: And for the word of the Lord expressly so much. Rev. 1. Writ the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. April 2. 1647. Eleanor. FINIS.