Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings

Abstract 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, 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.