SO many having attempted the straits or passages of this Labyrinth, and lost their labor who went about it, could not but drop a word, have thought it not amisse or unseason­able, as wise as they are that missed their mark, a taste or touch to give them, of the tree of Life, otherwise cald the mystery of Times and Sea­sons, reserved for the last time, this Sacramental little Rowl, with such a solemn protestation bound touch­ing [Page 2]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 hastning on Cap. 1. now in the Thirtieth year, &c. And I looked, and behold a Whirl-wind came out of the North, a great cloud, &c. where those winged living creatures four, &c. represented by the Tabernacle; also the Lamp, &c. as it were those Curtains, every one of one mea­sure joyned one to another with so many loops or eyes, and rings above so high, besides their running side­ways, like those swift creatures who went on their sides when they ran, their displayed wings sending forth such a noise, of a spherical work, &c. [Page 3]And so much for these Curtains of his Pavilion, typifying the four Evangelists agreeing in one, said to kisse or touch, &c.

VVhereof Apocalyps the Fourth thus, of the aforesaid four Beasts, and the Lightning proceeding out of the Throne, shews first of the Lamp; And there were Seven Lamps of fire, which are the Seven Spirits of God, &c. Cap. 5. The Seven Spirits and Seven Eyes sent forth into all the Earth, as their Characters ☉ ☽ read through the world.

So to shew 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 brightnesse, when this con­ception [Page 4]or gift of the holy Ghost, &c.

Giving withal to understand, received or rejecting it, notwith­standing how Prophesie ceased not, nor the Spirit (as the world would have it) totally is quenched; But the VVrit or Label of this little sealed Rowl being first served on them, cald 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 witnesse the grand Iury, those Twenty four Crowned Elders, so many times mentioned, [Page 5]and as shewing 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 passe; how distasteful to them, hony in the mouth, bitter in the belly; compared to a womans travel, or as fares with Officers earning a Fee venture their lives upon Arrests, even the sum of this Vision restlesse 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 [Page 6]space of an hour, the Bed his throne rested thereon, from his mouth for a farewel received a salute; and for another farewel, that had on his right hand an Amber glove, left such an odoriferous scent when he was gone, all oyled with Amber­greece, 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, &c. a Holy, holy, holy day, by whom observed ever since.

And for Lamentations, Mourn­ing and VVoe, such cryed up and down: So much for this time cry­ed unto, O Wheel, cap. 10. besides [Page 7]proclaims winged Times reign in­cludes years, containing the four Seasons, Moneths, VVeeks, Days and Hours, not returning restlesse 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 Brasse, with their ascending and descend­ing; and for the dreadful Rings so much, &c. 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 VVindow, the glasse its curious work compared to the Beril of a Sea-green colour, as the dread­ful Christaline Heaven all with one [Page 8]voice proclaim the dreadful Iudge­ment day reveald at hand, to a City most rebellious.