Zach. 12. And they shall look upon him, whom they have pierced: And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only, &c. and shall be in bitterness for him, as one is in bitterness for his first born.  
THese as by way of comparison set forth: This prophecy appointed for a sign also requisite, since Faith in high things always slow.  
Jonas as allotted 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 Hezekiah, Likewise of the leavings in the cup, happy Hastings this first born, an only Son, partakes one of no inferior Family: Taking his leave of this life, whose first days rest taken, on the Lord's day; Saying my lovers and friends hast thou put away far from me (Psal.) whose death and obsequies (Bewailed of no few) assigned for a warning piece of those very perilous days stolen upon us: When say peace and safety, then sudden destruction, Thes. x. And they shall not escape even the general day of judgements 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 clothes bestowed on him of his Masters, They shall look upon him whom they have pierced, &c.  
Let none with an evil eye look thereon: And so passing on with several coats of houses born inclusive, adorning the hearse, as dedicated to our Jerusalem of the Gentiles, And in that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, 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 be wailing apart, &c. likewise from that ominous name, called Megiddon impart, it is done, Behold he comes making the sable clouds his chariot: solemnised Heaven and earth's 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 called in Heb. Armagedon, when every isle fled away, &c. from whose Name importing diligence, Hastings who lost no time himself, declares much more what hastening required, and looking unto that day, at whose appearing Heavens and Elements dissolves and melts, &c. wherefore, 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 Jerusalem, the Spirit of Grace. So be sure than time to look up, &c. And this for another, and in that day I will make Jerusalem 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 levied, as witness whether fulfiled: and in that day (saith the Lord) 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 Jerusalem, &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 showing out of request, the name Saint drowned in oblivion, such an eye sore at this time unto many.  
And passing forward also, whether that waiter on the latter days, Esdras testimony, termed Apocrypha, or miscalled, speaks not the present condition presaging, the sons of the Church, Zion her sons cut off that fraternity; whilst deeply musing upon their departure from the Law, grown to such a low ebb or degree, the law though still in force, like the Spirit of prophecy supposed transmitted not beyond the primitive times, as gross as Romish miracles, without trial Esdras informs, saw such a mournful mother, changed 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 turned 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 Zion, the mother of all, delivered into hands of hateful jailors a captive: Spoken to Zion herself, at whose fearful voice cast out the earth shook, which besides her Sons farewell, some future thing reveals, a prophetical voycc, &c. And new Jerusalem in her place, &c.  
Whereupon Vriel the Angel signifying Light, shows 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?  
quomodo non possum bene valere  
cum proximus sim deliciis meis?  alluding partly to her Name of Lucia, &c. And for the visage marred or disfigured, wiped off so soon by the resurrection hope, as matters not, though obvious to beholders at such time; when beauty turned into ashes, which Light about ten extinguished at night, enjoyed 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, foreshowed their judgement, &c.  
And for Esdras that new song of his, so much suffice: And new Jerusalem 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; threatening the downfall of the rough garment from head to foot, soars and blains their candlestick reward: And so make haste Lord God, Amen.  
FINIS.