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Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary
Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary. : Prefaced, with some observations upon the turns of divine Providence, now bringing of mighty changes, upon the world. : Whereto is added, the address of condolence [sic], made unto His Majesty, by the nonconformist ministers, on the decease of that illustrious queen.Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary. : Prefaced, with some observations upon the turns of divine Providence, now bringing of mighty changes, upon the world. : Whereto is added, the address of condolenee [sic], made unto His Majesty, by the nonconformist ministers, on the decease of that illustrious queen.
printed by B. Green for Samuel Philips, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To give this Text a right posture in our Understandings, Imagine that you see Four ⟨p. 5⟩most Illustrious Angels, which are called, The Chariots of God, Exhibiting themselves under the Characters with which the Cherubim were Portrayed in the Temple of Old. Imagine that by these Angels, you see Four, Large, High Wheels, each of them after the fashion of a Sphere, with others transversely so Inlaid into them, as to intersect them with Right Angels. Unless you'll imagine a Chariot also implied in this Vision; which if so, you must not make the Wheels to be so Spherical. However then Imagine, that you hear the voice of our Almighty Lord Himself, making that Loud Cry unto them, O Wheel!
To give this Text a right posture in our Undestandings, Imagine that you see Four ⟨p. 5⟩most Illustrious Angels, which are called, The Chariots of God, Exhibiting themselves under the Characters with which the Cherubim were Pourtray'd in the Temple of Old. Imagine that by these Angels, you see Four, Large, High Wheels, each of them after the fashion of a Sphaere, with others transversly so Inlaid into them, as to intersect them with Right Angels. Unless you'l imagine a Chariot also implied in this Vision; which if so, you must not make the Wheels to be so Spherical. However then Imagine, that you hear the voice of our Almighty Lord Himself, making that Loud Cry unto them, O Wheel!
There you have had the Vision. It is in the Interpretation of it, a Vision of the Turns, which the Providence of our God gives unto the World, in His Governing the Affairs of it. For the Cry it self, O Wheel; the word is not the same, that is used, when the Four Wheels here cried unto, are themselves described; but this word may be rendered, O World! An Intimation, that the State of Things in the World, is intended by the Wheels that we have now before us.
There you have had the Vision. It is in the Interpretation of it, a Vision of the Turns, which the Providence of our God gives unto the World, in His Governing the Affairs of it. For the Cry it self, O Wheel; the word is not the same, that is used, when the Four Wheels here cried unto, are themselves described; but this word may be rendred, O World! An Intimation, that the State of Things in the World, is intended by the Wheels that we have now before us.