SHewing in stead of a Charls the se­cond, gives ye the character of a second Saul, even He and his for ever cut off, unto that giving place, that e­verlasting, even proclaimed, The first and the last (to wit) Prophets the be­ginning and the ending, Jure Divino, afore Kings of the Earth: Certain in­ferences by, borrowed from dayes of old (Sam. cap. 10.) whose Reign con­firmed by that ominous token, witness of Rachels Sepulchre (as much to say) such another he mourning and weeping also for his children, because they were not, or not him to succeed, read in let­ters [Page 3]of her Name, Rachels, otherwise rendred Charls; and thus running over the sum of it.

To whom on this wise shewed cap. he when little in his own eyes, above the rest how chosen to be a King so great, from tending on Asses, Scotlands former low Estate pointing thereto: & so farther of Kings given in his wrath, in anger taken away: briefly thus, but re­ferred to the first of his Reign, Anno 1625. that heavy hand upon the City, an unparalleld Pestilence, concluded with our three Kingdoms Division; so that if ever all at their wits-end, now accompanying his departure, 23 of his bloody Reign; in making him King of Great Britain, evident the Lord re­penting himself much more, well ser­ved for their Repining, whom No­thing [Page 5]but a King would serve, who blest were above all Kingdoms; so in a vir­gin Queens renowned Reign: And for them so much, First and last of their Name, both tasting of one sharp cup, their Heads cut off, and fastned their bodies in that maner to the wall, or nailed, &c. as to the Story referred (Sam. &c.) which had each three Sons: where this for another cast up­on her, Thou son of the perverse rebel­lious woman; whether in right apper­tains not to our Scotish Jonathan, by his Mothers means stript of his Royal means and Estate.

Passing over what between him passed and his ghostly Father or Con­fessor, supposed to have been Samuels very Spirit, who fell all along both of them upon the earth sore afraid, how [Page 6]feigned or carried out, to make good the innocent blood spilt of such mul­titudes of his people, who without question as participated of Sauls fits, The evil Spirit from the Lord (to wit) the evil Counsel infused by the Cler­gy; so wanting neither in his Fathers Faith or Religion, spake truer then he wist, whose wanton Minion bewitcht with, neither repented hereof; One charged with the life of his Father, nor of his unmeasureable Swearing, which amongst them sware By their saul, so long till verily conjured up his Spirit, that not a little boasted of his King­craft, witness Familiar Spirits, witches of late, transferr'd from Scotland hi­ther: And as for that Agag, the delicate Buckingā how his mother made child­less, [Page 7]she author of his unhappiness, she insnared by their Spanish junkets, can­not but adde this to the Reckoning of Phinehas spirit, how it hath acted on these twain, saying, Righteous art thou, O Lord, that hast judged thus, Anno 1628. as when Buckingham his deadly wound had given him, by such a one transported, &c. so even Charls late King, 1648. at length paid home that heavy Stroke or Blow of his, aged Eight and forty, like The flying Rowl, in length twenty cubins, &c. twenty years, which had given him to make his peace or repent him; and so much onely at this time commended to the Reader, with this contained in the Prophet Daniels confession (neither have we hearkned, &c. (Chapter 9. v. 6.) doubtless pointing to the peo­ple [Page 8]of this land alike with dumb & deaf spirits, &c. together with his lame con­fession on the Scaffold, like blinde De­votions Lesson, promised, That he should say but very short Prayers, who came not short of it none at all said that we hear of.

Nevertheless, unwilling to insult over the worm or grave; as his hard lot, To morrow be thou with me, said to Saul, so This day be thou with me in pa­radice; peradventure his pardon had folded up herein, which had not re­ceived in his life-time altogether those good times others had, &c. might at the last gasp or minute repent: And so much for The Ax laid to the Root of the old Tree, in a Reign of 23 years, which produced no better fruit. And for the title set forth of the Keys of David be­longing to her, Rev. 1.7.

And as demonstrates a second Saul, so a second Adam, he first of the Kings of the Earth, his immediate woful fall shadowing it forth.

VVitness she subject (Heb.) cal­led Chavah or Eve: By whom had three Sons, where thus for her sake rewarded (Gen. 3.) Even placed at the East a flaming Sword, &c. turn­ing every way, droven out as it seems VVestward, from his Garden to the open Field, in their Leather liveries to encounter travel, justly reaping the fruits of accursed mother Earth, war and strife, the Thistle and Thorn, its emblem in stead of the O­live and Grape: All our days as stub­ble but a blaze, vanished like a sha­dow: The sum or substance of which informing, formerly as he forbiden [Page 10]expresly the Tree of good and evil, notwithstanding took thereof; so again, when as offered the Tree of life, its Leavs for healing the evil of the Nations, or Kings Evil; a like Trespass or capital Crime guilty of, that rejects it, like Iudgements draws upon their heads: And therefore sup­pose not that those Galileans were sinners above the rest, because of late suffered, &c. Nay, but except ye repent, ye all likewise shall perish.

And so from Saul and Doeg, deri­ving Douglase, here concluding as be­gan, how his bloody House cut off, also even dyed for his transgression a­gainst the word of the Lord, &c. and al­so for asking counsel of one that had a familiar Spirit, & enquired not of the Lord (to wit) his Bishops, &c. whose [Page 11]army how swarmed with VVitches, never the like heard in any Raign vi­sited in that kind, wherwith shewing lastly of the evil Spirit, when fell up­on him, how the good Spirit (at the very same time) rested on another: The solitary Turtle-Dove as it were shut up, one of his own name (own­ed by King Iames, before the other of Stuart) and of his Age and Na­tion: Sir Archibald Douglase, the sup­posed Son of King Iames, the El­der Brother about a moneth, &c. also wrote Anno Etatis, &c. as by a Legacy of a thousand pound per annum, out of his Crown-Lands ap­pointed for him; whereof though disappointed or prevented by the said K. unexpected death, yet of the better part could not be disinherited, [Page 12]then any three Crowns a greater blessing: The holy Spirits anointing apparent by his Letters hereto an­next, that not only in those days were accounted to be distraction; but to this very day, even with Learned Doctor Sybald, fulfilling what honor Prophets receiue at home: By whose hand no few of these Manuscripts were burnt: This mans writing who wrote so long ago. From the Hysope Nicity, unto the Cedar Authority or Supremacy, conversing with no Books, but one the Book: Sir Archi­bald Douglas right Heir of the Earl­doms, howsoever of Morton and Douglas the doughty; likewise of person a choyce yong man, and a goodly, &c. That Nations Captain by his Birth-right himself a Soldier [Page 13]by profession, in Spain and Germany no ordinary Commander, upon whom the first fruits of the Spirit came.

And here happy Readers, with this Manna communicated (to wit) the Divine Prophesies of this Man; know herewith ordain'd and enacted as heretofore, a Rebel against the Fa­ther proclaimed, he that Despised the Son; likewise (unable to gainsay it) they a Reprobate Church, sitting in the seat of Scorners: which acknow­ledge not the fulfilling of these now, (John 16. All things which the Father hath are mine: Therefore I said, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you; and he shal shew you things to come, as much to say, Even manifested the truth of those sacred Mysteries, con­tained in the Revelation of Iesus Christ which God gave unto him, &c. Cap. 1. Things for the future treasured up, by no other Spirit to be unfolded, but [Page 26]by the same Spirit of truth, where­with were written at first, or penn'd; and for that purpose the same poured forth again in the last days: And so these by that Spirit then persecuted, witness (Rev. xi.) The Beast ascended ont of the bottomless Pit, or Abyss, one in old Samuels likeness, Bishops, &c. Also which testifies, whosoever despiseth the Spirit of Prophecy, guil­ty of all the Blood of the Prophets shed: And therefore lest your sen­tence that, Ye stiff necked, &c. ye do al­ways resist the holy Ghost: as your fa­thers did, so do ye (Acts 7.) provoke him not, who is a consuming fire, ac­cording to their works, Iew and Gen­tile both high-minded, who rewards them, as referred to the prophet Malachi, accompanied with what [Page 26]judgements (cap. 4.) when that bles­sed time, arising with healing in his Wings, (ver. 2.) the meek dove Mes­senger of peace, displaying her gold­en feathers, as the lightning out of the East shineth even unto the West (Mat. 24.) the Spirit of Prophesie vouchsa­sing a visit, absent from the Church so long comfortless, saying, I have the Keys of Death and Hell, a Scepter of seven Stars in whose right hand (Re. cap. 1.) pointing to times Mystery, the present Century, and at this time so much for admonishing all: He that hath an ear, let him hear, &c. and fare him well that will not; a story by whom related of Alexander the Great, &c. on the Scaffold, as well might have told a tale of his Horse.

These from Whitehall, sometime Wolseys the Cardinal. Febr. 1648.