Heavenly pastime, or, Pleasant observations on all the most remarkable passages throughout the Holy Bible of the Old and New Testament newly allegoriz'd in several delightful dialogues, poems, similitudes, and divine fancies / by John Dunton, author of The sickmans passing-bell.

The disobedient Prophet slain by a Lyon.

THe foolish Son of Solomon bereft Of Israels Aid, no Tribe but Iuda left, The bold revolters Ieroboam chose Their King and Captain to subdue their Foes: But he damn'd Idols made, fix'd bleating Gods In Dan and Bethel; to whose cur'st Abodes The mudding People soon a whoring went, For whose restraint a Man from God was sent To cry aloud, whose voice their Altar rent, Pour'd out those Ashes, which as relicts vain Of their unhallowed Sacrifice remain; Which made the wicked Monarch storm and stretc•• His Scepter'd hand, commanding some to catch The Prophet, but the blood it soon forsook, And every Joynt was with such numbness struck, That all in vain, he strugl'd to draw in A Member guilty of so great a sin, Till humbly he intreats, and is restor'd, And kindest Entertainment wou'd afford; But that's rejected, and the Prophet flies The guilty City; but the hasty Spies, Sons to an old deluding Prophet, tell What had in Iacobs Heritage befell: Who soon o'retakes the loitering Seer, and the•• With feigned tales decoyes him back agen To tast forbidden food; but when dismist He meets his Fate, and vainly does resist The rending Lyons, Death's commission'd pa••••s, And bloody Fury of his roaring Jaws; Slain is he strait, but not devour'd; so did The Lord, whom all but Man obey and dread. When soon the news was spread, when soon 〈◊〉〈◊〉 known On whom the Execution had been done;

Nor stays the Man who caus'd his hapless Fate But to a Grave the Carkase does translate; Commanding all his Sons, when Death possest His Aged Limbs, and life flew from his Breast, To lay his Bones by his, affirming all The Prophet said, should suddenly befall.