‘J am the first, and the last, the begin­ning and the ending:’

FROM THE LADY ELEANOR, The word of GOD.

AS shewed in the Scriptures, There is nothing so secret, That shall not bee discovered: And the Clearenesse now of these future Things, being come to passe, with the rest shortly [...] [Page] [Page] [Page 6]matter of the revelation of Jesus Christs comming, which God gave unto him, &c. shewed out of the Old and New Testament, The Prophet Da­niel, and his Disciple John, their testi­monie, where notwithstanding his longing: Bidden Goe thy way Daniel for the words are shut up till the end, (to wit) times and seasons mistery, whose Charactar not to be under­stood till then reserved for a time and times and the deviding of time. Dan. 12.

The halfe of seven untill which Sabaticall Number fullfilled, he bid­den to rest, &c. viz. the 1700. yeare.

And therefore St. John weeping much because no man was found worthy [Page 7]so much as to looke thereon: which more would have wept, in these dayes, to see such unbeleife in men: having their wits and understanding in that manner shut up, notwithstanding all fullfilled and come to passe which was foretold in the Scriptures.

Though witnesse as (for these very dayes) The 11. and 12. of the A­poccalyps. Where like him possessed beseeching not so soon to torment them &c. & they who besought him to depart their City, &c. So here this City styled spiritual Sodome, where those two persecuted witnesses said to torment them that dwel on the Earth, that alway would here dwel, Shewing how well­come and what entertainment a­mongst the Gentiles his comming should find, even how hateful the Tree of [...]

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