THe heavy hour at hand, that it should not as a Thief surprize us in the night, Babylons scattering whirl­wind our final or utter blow; or lest should say, There had not a Prophet been a­mongst them, could not refrain giving thee warning, though like rolling the restles stone, prove but labor in vain.

Where Line upon Line, no vain repeti­tion, stiles them A house of Rebellion, and Most Rebellious, Cap. ver. &c. Nay (as it were) had been sent to the house of Austria their Churches, replyed, Had long ere this in sack­cloth and ashes; or to a People of a deep lip, of another language, &c. The first-fruits of which Ambassage, shewing Israel being cut off, as by Ezekiel tasted of, watchman over the re­bellious house of Israel, made to eat the roll or writ, Lamentation, Mourning and [Page 2] Woe, superscribed within and without; so by all signs and tokens without doubt served on our three sinful Kingdoms, home charged with open Re­bellion, neither hearkning to the Prophet bidden, stamp with the foot, smite with the fist, with the breaking of thy loyns sigh, their musick but made and song, The Lord of Hosts when uttering his thundring voyce, roaring; as a Lyon, the tokens of his coming, an end come on the four corners of the earth, ready to fall asleep, or sitting in the seat of scorners, All their elbows grown to the pillows, they and their fathers.

And so farther informing whether silent or otherwise, as it came to pass in the fifth year of such a Kings captivity accomplished (Ezekiel Cap. 1.) the hand of the Lord when upon him, his word coming expresly to him, saw the great Vision of God, he amongst the captives; Also from this place, the Kings Bench Prison amongst this Society, give to understand, to accompany this warning piece of the Turkish Armado's preparation, added a sign, as Isaiah some­time gave one of the Suns going back so ma­ny degrees retiring, before their captivity at [Page 3] hand foreshewed then; Another given of the Moon, from his giving the Three half Moons, whose Army harbors at Argier, at­tending Sions being delivered up into his pos­session: These Islands three to be under his lash of Iurisdiction, drawn from which premises these, for his Crest or Coat-Arms who gives the Half Moon, not far off his house called Sion, com­mitted to whom three prisoner Princes, one of no inferior estate, under Babylons Bashaws, typyfying even our estate, those Mahometans our guardians, the third Earldom of this Realm, assigned thereby to Algernon Earl of Nor­thumberland by Name, sometime Admiral of the Seas, paralleld with that Northern scourge, The Assyrian Army, how given up into his pro­tection the houses of the Lord.

And so much (Reader) for this flight of ours, and this new sign of the New Moon going before it, where cannot pass over Ezekiels por­traying our Cities siege, shewed by those battering rams or brazen Engines, so to the life their swift doing execution; and dreadful wheels motion and thundring voyce, in those living creatures (as [Page 4] shadowed under the Seraphin work of the Tabernacles Curtains, the Lord of Hosts Pa­villion, each loop of which not without a Mystery, as observable Fifty in one curtain, and fifty in the other, (Exod. 26.) containing the mystery of winged time, the midst of the Century, even directed to, joyned like those Cherubin wings of theirs.

And of this your day drawing near, whose sil­ver and gold the stumbling block, Author of un­happiness all, as he unto all the people of Judah, saying from such a year of the King of Judah, even unto this day; that is, the Three and twenty year (Jer. cap. 25.) Also the word of the Lord have I spoken unto you, rising early, but, &c.

1648. 23. of the present Reign.