READER,  
THe heavy hour at hand, that it should not as a Thief surprise us in the night, Babylon's 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 restless stone, prove but labour in vain.  
Where Line upon Line, no vain repetition, styles them A house of Rebellion, and Most Rebellious, Cap. ver. etc. Nay (as it were) had been sent to the house of Austria their Churches, replied, Had long ere this in sackcloth and ashes; or to a People of a deep lip, of another language, etc. The first-fruits of which Ambassage, showing 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 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 harkening to the Prophet bidden, stamp with the foot, smite with the fist, with the breaking of thy loins sigh, their music but made and sung, The Lord of Hosts when uttering his thundering voice, roaring; as a Lion, 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 King's captivity accomplished (Ezekiel Cap. 1.) the hand of the Lord when upon him, his word coming expressly to him, saw the great Vision of God, he amongst the captives; Also from this place, the King's Bench Prison amongst this Society, give to understand, to accompany this warning piece of the Turkish Armadoes preparation, added a sign, as Isaiah sometime gave one of the Suns going back so many degrees retiring, before their captivity at hand foreshowed then; Another given of the Moon, from his giving the Three half Moons, whose Army harbours at Argier, attending Zions being delivered up into his possession: These Islands three to be under his lash of jurisdiction, drawn from which premises these, for his Crest or Coat-Arms who gives the Half Moon, not far off his house called Zion, committed to whom three prisoner Princes, one of no inferior estate, under Babylon's 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, paralleled 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 City's siege, showed by those battering rams or brazen Engines, so to the life their swift doing execution; and dreadful wheels motion and thundering voice, in those living creatures (as shadowed under the Seraphin work of the Tabernacles Curtains, the Lord of Hosts Pavilion, 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, joined 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, etc.  
1648. 23. of the present Reign.  
FINIS.