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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68099	The dolefull euen-song, or A true, particular and impartiall narration of that fearefull and sudden calamity, which befell the preacher Mr. Drury a Iesuite, and the greater part of his auditory, by the downefall of the floore at an assembly in the Black-Friers on Sunday the 26. of Octob. last, in the after noone Together with the rehearsall of Master Drurie his text, and the diuision thereof, as also an exact catalogue of the names of such as perished by this lamentable accident: and a briefe application thereupon.	Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638.	1623 (1623)	STC 11923; ESTC S103155	14,640	56

conting at tibi There was also as he reporteth a young girle of the age of ten yeeres or thereabout who then crying said vnto him O my Mother O my sister which are downe vnder the timber and rubbish But hee wishing her to be patient and telling her that by Gods grace they should get forth quickly the child replied that this would proue a great scandall to their Religion A strange speech proceeding from a childe of so tender yeeres who euen in that perplexity seemed to haue a deeper apprehension of publique scandall then of priuate losse A lesson fit for farre elder to learne ex ore infantium lactentium c. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength Moreouer one of the men that fell then saying O what aduantage will our aduersaries take at this another of them replied thereto If it be Gods will this should befall vs what can wee say to it A pious answer and Christian resolution borrowed as it seemes from the patience of the Prophet Dauid Tacui Domine quia tu fecisti I held my peace because thou Lord hast done it An hard taske it were to vndertake the giuing a particular account of the number and quality of those that any waies suffered in this fall the diuersity of reports according to mens priuate inclinations enlarging or contracting the same In generall most euident it is that of the people that fell those that escaped best for bodily hurt were at 〈◊〉 howsoeuer deeply stricken in their minds with affright and feare others were bruised or wounded but not mortally receiuing only a gentle stripe from the mercifull hand of a chastizing father others for the present came forth or rather were carried out with life but enioyed it for a short time yeelding vp the same in their seuerall homes within a few daies yea some not many houres as by after-enformation to the Coroners Iury yet depending may appeare But the greater number of those that fell neuer rose againe nor shall till the Elements shall melt with heat and the ruines of a farre greater fabrique than that house euen of the whole earth with the workes thereof shall awake them and vs all out of the bed of death to giue account of what we haue done in the body Of these whom it pleased God thus to call out of this world the number is most currently estimated to be betweene 90. and 100. If any man out of affection to them or curiosity enquire more exactly of the Ambassadours house was digged a great pit eighteene foot long and twelue foot broad in which were laied foure and forty corpses in order piled one vpon the other partners in the same bed as a little before they were in the same passage to it Vpon this common Graue was set vp in the earth a blacke Crosse of wood about foure foot high which on Tuesday in the afternoone was by one of the Ambassadors seruants taken vp and carried into the house lest as it seemeth any scandall should bee taken thereat by the people that then and after came to that house to view the Stage of this mournfull Tragedy There was also another pit long twelue foot broad eight foot made in the said Ambassadors Garden neere adioyning wherein fifteene other were interred Beside these dispersedly here aboue numbred there are heard of vpon diligent enquirie of the said Iury and others diuers more encreasing the list of this funerall troope whose names follow in the Catalogue As for interpretation and application of this so remarkeable and dolefull an accident our duty is first to entertaine a Christian and charitable opinion of their persons whose lot it was to become an example vnto others and secondly to make a profitable vse thereof vnto our selues Too well knowne it is to the world how hardly our aduersaries conceiue speake and write not onely of our Religion but also of our persons damning and tumbling downe all of vs without difference into the bottomlesse pit of destruction and throwing vpon our heads not the ruines of one loft or house but the whole mountaines of Gods wrath and heauiest iudgements Such curses and edicts of damnation against vs their pulpits thunder out their printing presses grone vnder their pamphlets and libells proclaime all wee are giuen gone for Cast-awaies Miscreants damned Heretiques With vs no Church no Faith no Religion no God If such a calamitie had befallen any flocke of ours in our Common prayer or Sermons all must haue gone quicke to hell there would haue beene more inuectiue seuerall censures and bookes against vs than were here persons suffering What exclamation of the downfall of heresie of the passing away of nouelties with a cracke of receiuing a terrible blow of the very beames in the wall crying out against vs of the ruine of old wormeaten heresies of the trash and rubbish of the new Gospell demolished In such sort vpon lesse occasions are wee and our profession traduced and slandered publikely beyond the seas and priuately in corners at home Nor is it maruell that such flashes to scorch vs in our good names are cast forth out of that fiery Aetna of Romish zeale which hath sent forth materiall flames to consume many of our liuing bodies and some also of our dead Hic liuor nec post fata quiescit And though this fire hath beene couered with ashes in these parts for many happy yeares yet of late a sparke thereof brake forth euen in the middest of the bonfires kindled in London at the happy returne of our Prince when as a certaine Roman Zelote repining at the excessiue expense of fuell therein said openly in the hearing of many that if such waste of wood were made there would shortly be neuer a fagot left to burne heretiques But we haue otherwise learned Christ who being reuiled did not reuile againe but committed his cause to him that iudgeth righteously Et preces effudit pro ijs etiam qui sanguinem eius effuderūt and powred out prayers for those that shed and powred forth his bloud as saith an ancient Father From him we learne not to insult ouer our enemies or to reioyce at their ruine but to weepe at their calamitie not to enter into Gods secrets but to tremble at his iudgements And therefore our dutie in regard of their persons is first to be tender and carefull how so much as in our inward thoughts we passe any particular iudgement vpon them For though the euent it selfe may seeme to offer a topicall inference from the fall of both the floores namely of the preaching and the Massing roome that both their Doctrine and Sacrifice are weakely and slenderly supported and that God was displeased as well with their Pulpits as Altars yet for the particular estate of those who were combined in that action and enueloped in the same passion it were most vncharitable and groundlesse from their temporall destruction in this time and place to collect their eternall