For the most Honourable STATES Sitting at WHITEHALL. The words of Amos, etc. And the Lord shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the dwelling places of the Shepherds shall perish, and Carmel shall whither: Thus saith the Lord, for three tarnsgressions and for four, etc. And will cut off the inhabitants of B. and the Sceptre shall perish out of Beth. Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions and for four, etc. Together with Divisions character, viz. By the same token, saith the Lord of Sabbath; When Bishop's Lands sold, Rhetorics flowers out of request, Great Britain's Union dissolved, or cut asunder, puts down their Kings, he Beheaded, Four and twentieth from the Conquest, aged Seven times seven, in the Seventeenth Century. Thus saith the Lord, In that day I will raise up the Tabernacle of David that is fallen down, etc. and will build it again, as in days of old. Amos cap. 8. London, Printed in the Year 1649. For the Right Honourable, The Council of State. From the Lady Eleanor, Octo. 1649. AS known to all, the true way or touchstone, other none to try them by, but that Salt the life of all things, All things whereby were instituted, without which (his word the Way and the Truth; where Legions of division the like unknown, a like possible to expect peace one with another, as to third Needles with a Cable, or in a day build Paul's. And so behold, all like as when stung by fiery Serpents, were healed by another in that likeness; also of those Legions entered into that wild man, as ensues, a taste or trial of them tendered to these restless days, wherein every man in his proper language, hears the wonderful word of God, as in a crystal mirror presenting the visage of the present, extracted from that distracted MAN'S recovery, sent hither to Preach (asked What his name was?) declaring What God had done for him (no infant or babe) directed to the Gentiles, a light for the last days, as though asked Great Britain, and Germany, their Names should answer Gergesens, they both a compound of it; from Gadarens as also derived Gallia or France (lying over against England) as that Region over against Galilee; so Whether thence comes any good thing, like that saying of old: Also former Marriages (what successes have had) who wots not, shall come to the matter (Mat. 8. c.) of our Saviors pilgrimages or weary progresses. And when he was come to the other side of the Country of the Gergesens, there met him two possessed with Devils, which came out of the Graves, very fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And the devils besought him, etc. and he said, Go; whereof in a paraphrasing way thus proceeding, verily their pass for Gravesend those twain Rup. and Maurice, returned to Grave Maurice, Cousin with the Boors, issue of the late Palsgrave of the Rhyne, that Germane Prince turned out of his Country, making in the Low Countries his abode, whose Offspring those furies or fiends broken lose here, sent home again: To this day which Family are constantly visited with a Spirit before the death of them, a thing known to all; and thus as though a Babe new born should speak the hardest Names. Mark 5. on this wise going on with it, of the aforesaid unclean spirits baptised in the lake, etc. certainly emblem of the Gentiles being returned to wallow in the mire, as waters of troublesome times giving warning; where thus, And when he was come out of the ship, there met him incontinently out of the Graves a MAN that had an unclean spirit, who had his abiding amongst the Graves, bound with fetters and chains, etc. neither could by any man be tamed, his Ghost (as it were) that Bear Canterbury, brought so often to the stake or Bar on his knees; where beside his Habitation, where those Monuments in Cathedrals, whose House at Lambeth with its situation not only pointed to, but of its denomination borrowed from the house of Bethlam, otherwise called Bedlam: As his Name withal whence derived from the Grave-maker or Sexton's Office, their digging or opening vaults, not unlike to be one of his Godfathers; so much of his raving fit, that bade our Saviour avoid: foreshowing had those times been in his, had given him that oath of forswearing himself, or his own accuser to be, as forced no few in that undue kind, his own Obligation so well observing, questioned not his spirit of continency, any more than whether the name Puritan a persecutor of, or given Judas pass, gone to his own place, Canterbury the last of his name on a Friday executed, the day on which our Lord was buried for his long service, that in a field Gules gives the Halter or rope, from henceforth a chain left to hang their Keys in. And so much for him and them both answering, For we are many friars, whose twelve Godfathers withal besought, (as it were) Him not to torment he adjures them; which concerns more than any Lord Major's Oath, or his Show on the water. So each in his order, where follows Great Britain's last King, or England's late Tyrant, into whom many Devils were entered from several parts; but one above the rest (no short time) vexed with most, whereof Luke 8. thus, And when he WENT to land, there met him a certain MAN out of the City, which had a Devil a long time, and he beware no clothes, neither abode in house, but in the Graves, and he commanded the foul spirit to come out of the man, for ofttimes it caught him, etc. therefore he was bound in fetters, as the cause of his binding shows; so from those words, that it came out of the man, as much to say, a woman, his Vasthi put away or departed, bereft of the Breeches, etc. in recompense Crowned by her Servant German. And so much for this misled Man, went away from his House of Parliament and Hampton-Court, turned out of City-houses and Country both, took up his restless Lodging among the slain in the field, afterward in