WHerefore to prove the thing, otherwise as good as nothing what we say; but like saying and doing, which are two: concerning wch of more consequence then supposed, even of those three witnesses in earth, what power indued withal, in relation to the three in the high Court of heaven (Joh. &c.) they stiled Iudges of the Earth (to wit) the grave and prudent Barons of Exchequer; Et hi tres unum, &c. Mr. Baron Trevare, the Ancient of days in his likeness; The second like the Son of man, the azure clouds mixt his Foot-Carpet; The [Page 2]third answerable to the Holy Ghosts slow operation, PROPHESY for a time ceased, or like that saying of theirs, Have not so much as heard whether any Holy Ghost, &c. to whose Ministery committed the Mystery of Times and Seasons, by all the world derided, &c. several days before whom this troublesom tryal appearing of the Manor & Rectory of Pyreton, by what indirect courses & ways taken, thereto the King intitled, by jugling Projectors plots, an old Outlawry revived, caused hereby to stretch it self out by their breathing into it, &c. to overthrow a lawful Purchase and Ioynture, after injoyed so many years, waiting their opportunity, the widows Estate to cut it off, by such trivial incumbrances sifted forth: [Page 3]the very Image of the Beast, Revel. 13. by the Great-Seal faced forth, onely paying His Majesty about a Mark yearly; a costly purchase therein by his own officer for one born out.
Not unlike that dispute about Moses body, between the Archangel and the other, reported by Jude, this Law point debated so often in open Court by the advantage taken of her imprisonment, got into possession, so passing from this to the Iudges charge for repairing this breach, appointed to stand in the gap, hereby to take off the Lords heavy hand from him, namely the King, by conjuring this Spirit down, raised up in his Name, the three kingdoms suffering for it, no less then for the sin against the holy Ghost cōmitted, added thereto, forgiven [Page 4]neither in this world nor the other; witness the Archbishop for one gone to his proper place from Towerhil: and yet delivered not for all so long in travel the aforesaid Kingdoms, such distraction witness continuing in Ecclesiastical and Civil affairs both.
No ordinary offence or trespass for, but with a high hand, as not unknown to himself: That for her coming unto him not without manifestation of a Commission in that case: To give him a taste of his judgement at hand, no less then the hand writing (Dan. 5.) served on him in his gallery; immediately by a reference under his hand bearing date, 1633: Octob. &c. Whitehal, committed for that cause the space of two years a close prisoner in the Gatehouse, &c. stript of all ever [Page 5]since, a cup whereof himself since hath drunk the dregs, cannot deny it, This is the business that sleeps not.
Howsoever he faln asleep, like them bidden to sleep on, &c. she though then, and since armed with no few sad tokens of that kinde come to pass on others no obscure ones.
VVith this for another observation, her Ioynture the Manor of Englefield whilest she in the Gatehouse, bought by the Marques of Winchester, how his of Basing, such an Example not the like, unluckey Babel Towers, how costly to widows and fatherless, now made to kiss the ground.
All put upon his rekoning, in the Isle of Wight, and impeached of treason in this kinde; as Whitehals desolation too: no light thing; shewed [Page 6]about their neck a meeter ornament what weight not unknown. Yet for making atonement in that case, for his Majesties folly, now this suffices, like as when JOBS captivity said to return, was appointed to pray for his three friends: So on the other side, the aforesaid Iudges three to make his peace, to turn his Captivity away, fallen so low as hard to judge, whether exposed to the dunghil, or the dungeons Slavery the greater or better Estate, unhappily by his own seeking hapned.
Nor his Name wiped out of this Record, once that a good Confession made, afterward makes as bad an end lifting up the heel, as much as in him lay, like Balaam, loving the wages of unrighteousness; his own Solicitor General, [Page 7]to this pacification such an adversary, wherein the general good also a copartner with this, of the widows cause which the Lord defends, and stands up for it.
In which, if any misprision hath been since their judgement irreversable, may if they please, appoint the Amoveas Manus to be renewed, &c. And with this belief concluding, Behold, I make all things new, including Lucifers Restauration, first and last of that Name, when the times of refreshing comes, morning and evening star both; and his own Badge the star born, its Motto too, How art thou faln, &c. first of that Name, King Charls, and last of great Britains Kings, counseld by her his Eve, or CHAVAH, also Adams figure, from [Page 8]whose hands the Lord vouchsafes to accept satisfaction none, declared as afore, which cost him his life, eaten by a Lyon, he sent to cry O Altar, &c. charged neither to eat bread, nor water to drink there, that kings arm which restored (Kin. 13.) so then learnd Iudges, to whom not unknown mercy afterward, as well as judgement begins at home; your charge the substance or sum of it, when Zions widow restor'd setled in her possession, which makes ways for others, by your means, orders a mitigation for his discharge, so fast in the Sea (as it were) about his neck a milstone, &c. every one in his order, even Sodoms inlargement, before the return of Capernaums Captivity. Endless praise be to whom ascribed.
Anno 1648.