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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45385	A warning-peece for England by that sad and fearefull example that hath happened to men, women and children, all sorts of cattle and fowles, by stormes, tempests, hail-stones, lightning, and thunder, June 25, 1652 / written by Charles Hammond.	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1652 (1652)	Wing H499; ESTC R32474	4,891	16

A VVARNING-PEECE FOR ENGLAND By that sad and fearefull Example that hath happened to Mèn Women and Children all sorts of Cattle and Fowles by Stormes Tempests Hail-stones Lightning and Thunder June 25. 1652. Written by Charles Hammond Joel 2.30 31. And I will shew Wonders in Heaven and in Earth Bloud and Fire and Pillars of Smoake The Sun shall be turned into darkenesse and the Moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord come Printed for Richard Burton at the Horse-shooe in Smithfield A WARNING-Peece for all ENGLAND BEloved Friends I have here presented to you a small Booke called A Warning-peece for all England which I would desire all true Christians to hearken to it and being fore-warned by those wonderfull Examples of Almightie Gods heavie Iudgements which I shall here relate unto you that hath happened in this our Nation of late that you may be hereafter fore-warned by Prayer to prevent stop the heavie wrath of God which deservedly is like to be poured out upon us all This is no Fable nor invented Story which is here to bée related but such truths that thousands can witnesse it but now adayes many folks in this our Nation are so hard of beliefe that they will not beléevs unlesse they sée who are like Thomas Didimus or like those People in Noahs time that all the time he was building the Arke would not beléeve the Floud till such time as it came upon them and drowned them all So in these our times wée have heard of the Iudgements that Almighty GOD hath sent in this our Nation and yet we will not beléeve it and if we did we never strove by hearty Prayer and sound Repentance to kéepe the like from us but to our great griefe we have of late both séen heard and felt the Wonders and Iudgements of the Lord here amongst us and yet our hearts are as hard as ever they were and so stiffe-necked we are that we will not humble our selves nor bow down neither our necks nor our knées by Prayer to the Lord our GOD that he may stop his Wrath and Iudgements and withdraw his heavie hand from this sinfull and prophane Nation How many sad and wofull Accidents hath there befallen many people since the beginning of this present Yeare by hanging drowning and killing themselves and one another It may justly be called a yeare of Wonder and Admiration the like whereof hath not in any age béene known Therefore all you that are true Christians and loves the Name of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ I desire you all that read or heare this Booke to love honour and feare that great God of Gods and King of Kings who by his Almighty power can make the Earth shake and tremble and the Foundations of the Hills to move as you shall finde it written in the 18 Psalme when David called upon the Lord to deliver him from his Enemies and the 11 12 and 13 verses Hee made Darknesse his secret place his Pavillion round about him were darke Waters and thick Clouds of the Skies At the brightnesse that was before him his thick Clouds passed Haile-stones and Coales of Fire The Lord also Thundred in the Heavens and the Highest gave his voice Haile-stones and Coals of Fire The LORD hath a long time spoken to this sinfull Nation by the voyce of the Gospell and by his Ministers which we not regarding he now begins to speake loud to us by the terrible voyce of Thunder and Lightning which many places of this our Land hath of late felt as for example On the twentieth of June last at a place called Laughton a Towne in Cheshire there happened such a tempestuous storme of Thunder Lightning and Haile in the Church of that Towne that amazed all the People therein killed a great many in the said Church to the number of eleven and also hurt many Whilst the Minister was executing his place there came a flash of fire into the Pulpit which struck him downe but God be praised it did him no hurt It is a wonderfull Relation concerning the passages of it for they that were strucken dead never groaned nor spoke not a word before they dyed and some that sat next them never hurt and yet touched them to the astonishment of all those that saw it Some were strucken and lay for dead but recovered againe and others were wounded and dyed since there was a Child in the Mothers armes killed with the flashing of Lightning and the Mother not hurt In severall places of this our Nation there was Houses and Barnes burned and shattered down many great Trées torne up by the rootes At Greenwich in Kent there happened such a Storme of Thunder Lightning and Haile that it broake not only many glasse-windowes but it broake downe the tops of many Houses in the said Town and overthrew the gates of the Parke by the violence thereof At Uxbridge by the violence of the Thunder it threw a great doore of from the hinges broke a great part of the house a man being at the doore blew him down yet did him no harm Also at Westchester the side of a Church was beaten downe but did no hurt At Ingerstone in Essex a péece of that Stéeple was beaten down and a Pillar of the Church Thrée Maids being together disputing one with another one of thē having a Bible in her hand which Maid was a Papist it is said immèdiatly came a flash of lightning and struck her dead and the other two had no harme nor the Bible hurt Besides in sundry places Hogs Shéep Oxen Horses divers other Cattle were killed in this tempest of Thunder Lightning Haile Great stormes showers of Haile Raine in some places and in some none at all in some Townes the people hath séen the stormes and showers round about them and no Raine at all with them There hath béene great harme done by the floods waters in some places and within five miles againe great want of raine water to refresh the thirsty land which wanted Now you may sée the wonders of the Lord the power of the Almighty some of those Haile-stones that fell 't is reported by many credible people that they were as big as egs very Icie and hard some had the print of a Rose and Crowne some the print of Death A most miserable sad Accident happened in the Church and Towne of South-Okenton in Essex the 21 of this instant June about six a cloke at night at which time was heard a most terrible great Thunder with much Lightning it burned a Barne full of Corne downe to the ground and then tooke hold of the Church burned a great part of the same melted the Bells and Lead of the Stéeple and dispersed the same in little péeces all about the Church The tenth of June last it was such a storme in Wales in Glamorgan-shire in Breknoc-shire divers other parts of that County that by