THese as by way of comparison set forth: This prophesie ap­pointed for a sign also requisite, since Faith in high things always slow.

Ionas as alotted then for the resurre­ctions sign, of which took essay: Such a three days rest and nights three; And the suns retiring so many degrees that high favour to Hezekian, Likewise of the leavings in the cup, happy Hastings this first born, an onely Son, par­takes one of no inferior Family: Ta­king his leave of this life, whose first days rest taken, on the Lords day; Saying my lovers and friends hast thou [Page 2] put away far from me (Psal.) whose death and obsequies (bewaild of no few) assigned for a warning piece of those very perilous days stoln upon us: When say peace and safety, then sud­den destruction, Thes. x. And they shall not escape even the general day of Iudgements forerunner: whereof A­pocalips thus, Behold he cometh in the clouds, and every eye shall see him; and they also that have pierced him; and all the Kindreds of the Earth shall wail, &c. And thus of one so hopeful committed to no simple Doctors, through too much suddenness or ig­norance, as that way who can plead not guilty, by letting blood was cast away; upon whom because of this cast suit of cloths bestowed on him of his Masters, They shall look upon him whom they have pierced, &c.

Let none with an evil eye look [Page] [Page] [Page 3] thereon: And so passing on with se­veral coats of houses born inclusive, a­dorning the Herse, as dedicated to our Jerusalem of the Gentiles, And in that day there shall be a great mourning in Ie­rusalem, as the mourning in Hadadrim­mon, in the valley of Megiddon, the house of Huntingdon of which partici­pates: Also in London, every family apart mourning and their wives, &c. Of the royal Branches, like the House of David, all of them bewayling apart, &c. likewise from that ominous name, called Megiddon impart, it is done, Be­hold he comes making the sable clouds his chariot: solemnized Heaven and Earths Funerals, these great lights extinguished, The Sun become as sackcloth of hair, The Moon as blood, The Stars falling, &c. answerable to that loud voice, Revel. 16.

Done it is, gathered in that place [Page 4] called in Heb. Armagedon, when every yle fled away, &c. from whose Name importing diligence, Hastings who lost no time himself, declares much more what hastning required, and looking unto that day, at whose ap­pearing Heavens and Elements dissolves and melts, &c. VVherefore, for in­struction sake adds, when ye see these come to pass, And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabi­tants of Ierusalem, the Spirit of Grace. So be sure then time to look up, &c. And this for another, and in that day I will make Ierusalem a heavy stone for all people, &c. As extraordinary bles­sings rejected, no ordinary correcti­ons incurring inseparable evermore, besides such distraction so giddy, that plague increasing daily too, or curse of tax leavied, as witness whether full­filled: and in that day (saith the Lord) [Page 5] I will smite every horse with astonish­ment, and the rider with madness: and in that day will I seek to destroy all nati­ons, that come against Ierusalem, &c. and in that day (saith the Lord) I will cut off the names of the Idols out of the land. And such like demonstrations shewing out of request, the name Saint drownd in oblivion, such an eye sore at this time unto many.

And passing forward also, whe­ther that waiter on the latter days, Esdras testimony, termd Apocrypha, or miscalled, speaks not the present condition presaging, the sons of the Church, Sion her sons cut off that fraternity; whilst deeply musing upon their departure from the Law, grown to such a low ebbe or degree, the law though still in force, like the Spirit of prophesie supposed transmit­ted not beyond the primitive times, [Page 6] as gross as Romish miracles, with­out tryal Esdras informs, saw such a mournful mother, chang'd his cogi­tations, she replying, Sir let me alone; yet afterward thus after so long time, that had a son then nourished by her with so much travel, grown up, came to take him a wife, when fell down and died, the house turnd up­side (as though) overthrew the lights fleeing the city, &c. into which Park or Field fled, purposed to take up her rest; whereupon her passion to divert, spreads that catalogue of confusion the present case greatest of all Sion, the mother of all, delivered into hands of hateful Jaylors a captive: Spoken to Sion her self, at whose fearful voice cast out the earth shook, which be­sides her Sons farewel, some future thing reveals, a prophetical voyce, &c. And new Jerusalem in her place, &c.

[Page] [Page] [Page 7]VVhereupon Vriel the Angel sig­nifying Light, shews unto him. He in need of comfort himself the soluti­on, thrice over, who repeats these and thirty years, ver. But after thirty years, &c. Lucy Lady of Huntingdon, the sackcloth and ashes Hers. Ashbeys mourning for him, he born anno 1630. about nineteen years of age, whose Epithalamiums to lamentations ex­changed for Epitaphs: The saffron robe for sable mourning, whose mo­ther coming to his bedside, a little be­fore his death, Thus quomodo vales?

aluding partly to her Name of Lucia, &c. And for the vissage mard or disfi­gured, wiped off so soon by the resur­rection hope, as matters not, though obvious to beholders at such time; VVhen beauty turnd into ashes, [Page 8] which Light about ten extingui­shed at night, injoyed no small hap­piness, in this the time of sickness, in scarce complained of pain, Here­tofore inclining to the Royal Party: Hastings prophesied of by Esdras the Prophet, as Josias his Birth, so long before concerning that reformation, when those priests cut off, foreshewed their judgement, &c.

And for Esdras that new song of his, so much suffice: And new Ieru­salem at hand, no material city, whose face all Light and Lustre: And for these useful materials, Giving all war­ning not unprovided to be of the wedding garment; Threatning the downfal of the rough garment from head to foot, soars and blains their candlestick re­ward: And so make haste Lord God,

Amen.