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Jerimyes Prognostication of Jerusalems Overthrow

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Mine eyes are spent with teares, my bowels are troubled &
my liver is poured on the ground, for the bre[a]ch of
the town of my people; when Infant and suckling
faint in the streets of the city.

         Lamed, lerning a hard lesson that
the children oppose their mothers
they are now to feel ^lern^ to give good a quilts
to their children M5: [symbol] they cannot
comfort all the[m] and that is most lame[n]t
able w^ith^ [illegible] and wine [illegible] or
flower meat.

To their mothers they say wher ^is^ corn and wines
when they poure are fainting like slain men in
the streetes of the city and pour out their
lives in their mother’s bosom.

         Mem, water, Doctrine In all the 
book of Scriptures and waters of life
life prophet Lerning can finde no Ap-
plications to heal her or comfort her
for the greatnes of her heart and this [illegible].
Nah: 3. [symbol]

How shall I witness thee, what shall I resemble to thee
o town of Jerusalem? What shall I equall to the
to comfort thee, O virgin town of Sion, for thy
breach is as great as the Sea, and none can heale
thee.

         Nun, an offspring. Thy prophets dis-
cover many foolish thinges and wrong
desolation our discover nor thin iniquity
and from hence springs they captivity and great wifery. Nah: 3, [symbol]. Jer 23
27.

Thy Prophets see for three fall and foolish things ^and^

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and discover not thine Iniquity, to withhold thy
captivity; and they see for thee deportations &
scatterings of falsehood.

         Samek an upholding [symbol] their very support ^was^
of Kingdomes of the world had their joy
and delight ^Ch:5^ [symbol] in of this is the travailers
note and it is greevous.

All travailers beat their hands for three, they hiss &
shake their heades for Jerusalem the town of Jerusalem,
Is this the citty which they called the perfection of
Bewty and joy of all the erth?

        Pe, a mouth the propriety of gaping 
and swallowing is turned to Expectation
and the [illegible] thereof thy Enimyes
[illegible] and are
becom scornful, which is intolerable.
PS: 10.35. Ch. 3 [symbol].

All thine Enimyes gape with their mouthes upon thee
they hiss and gnash the teeth, they say we have swall-
owed, yea, this is the day wee looked for, wee have
found it and seen it.

         Gnaijin, and Eye, the metaphore is 
high lookes, which hee hath made
the Enimy by exalting his horn PS: 35.
75 that his insolency and scorn is most la-
mentable.

The Everlasting hath don that which he meant, and
fulfilled his word, which hee commanded from dayes
of old; Hee hath broken down and not spared hee
hath made the Enimye mery over thee, hee hath ex-
alted the horn of thy besiegers.