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Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies.
Title:
Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies.
Author:
Davies, Eleanor, Lady.
ISBN:
9780195358636
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Series:
Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations of Titles -- Prophetic Writings -- A Warning to the Dragon and all his Angels -- Woe to the House -- Given to the Elector Prince Charles of the Rhyne -- Bathe Daughter of BabyLondon -- Spirituall Antheme: Elea. Tuichet -- The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal to the High Court of Parliament -- To the most honorable the High Court of Parliament and Samsons Legacie -- The Star to the Wise -- From the Lady Eleanor, Her Blessing -- A Prayer or Petition for Peace -- As Not Unknowne. This Petition or Prophesie -- Great Brittains Visitation -- For Whitson Tyds Last Feast -- For the Blessed Feast of Easter -- The Day of Judgments Modell -- The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal. Present this to Mr. Mace -- Je le tien. The General Restitution -- The Gatehouse Salutation -- Ezekiel the Prophet Explained -- The Excommunication out of Paradice -- Reader, the Heavy Hour at Hand -- The Writ of Restitution -- Her Appeal from the Court to the Camp. Dan. 12 -- The Blasphemous Charge Against Her -- The Crying Charge -- The New Jerusalem at Hand -- Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings -- A Sign Given Them Being Entred into the Day of Judgment -- The Everlasting Gospel -- The Bill of Excommunication -- The Appearance or Presence of the Son of Man -- Before the Lords Second Coming -- Elijah the Tishbites Supplication -- The Lady Eleanor Douglas, Dowger, Her Jubile's Plea -- Hells Destruction -- The Benediction. From the A:lmighty O:mnipotent. I Have an Errand -- The Restitution of Prophecy -- Bethlehem Signifying the House of Bread.
Abstract:
Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell her own story as woman and prophet. They offer an opportunity to study her experiences as wife, mother, and widow; they also exhibit her extraordinary intellect, extensive education, and fascination with words. In showing how England's history was fulfilling the biblical prophecies in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, she commented about the political and religious controversies of the turbulent period preceding and during the English Civil War and Revolution.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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