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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07173	A wonderfull and straunge newes, which happened in the countye of Suffolke and Essex, the first of February, beeing Fryday, where it rayned wheat, the space of vi. or vii. miles compass: a notable example to put vs in remembraunce of the iudgements of God, and a preparatiue, sent to moue vs to speedy repentance. / Written by William Auerell, student in diuinitie..	Averell, William.	1583 (1583)	STC 982.5; ESTC S125869	9,271	33

great stones from heauen vpon them so that more dyed with the haile stones then dyed by the swords of the children of Israell the Sunne stood still in Gibeon and the moone in the valley of Aialon tyll the children of Israell weare auenged of their enimies a hole day stoode the sonne still in the middest of heauen and hasted not to goe downe The lyke we reade of in the Historie of Hezekiah and in bréefe the whole booke of God is a spectacle of his wonders a glasse of examples and a mirror of hys miracles set downe by his spirite for our instructiones looke through the old Testament and turne ouer the new sée if they bée not bothe farsed with wonders and stored with Miracles wherefore are they written but for our learninge Wherefore weare they don but for our comfort Quaecunque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt they weare not onely wrought for olde Israell but also for vs the redéemed and chosen people to teache vs to beware by their daungers who not regarding the workes of the Lord did harden their hearts against his iudgments who contemninge the mercies of God in their deliueraūce were payed home with the terror of his vengaunce but are there not some Epicures amonge vs that liuinge at their luste thinke these thinges to bée shaddowes are there not some Libertines amonge vs that perswade themselues that these thinges being past pertaine not to them and are there not some hard harted Nullafideans that scarsly beléeue these thinges for that they saye they are Obliterata vetusttate therefore that they might be without excuse beholde the arme of the Lord is not shortned nor his power is not abated but beinge Semper et vbique idem he leaues the wonders past and prickes vs forward with thinges present he leaueth forraine reportes and shewes his workes at home he comes now to our townes and knockes at the gates of our Citties O happy wée if wée take him O cursed wée if wée forsake him the Lorde hath heard the cryes of hys ministers soundinge his Gospell long time amonge vs but their voices are not harde nor hys woorde winnes no regarde and therefore séeinge our stonye hartes wyll not waxe softe with the sounde of his Gospell he prooues if they will melt with the fire of his miracles It is not longe sythence God shaked the earth in hys anger when hee was mooued the earth quaked and the very foundacions thereof tottered thinges sencelesse can tremble at Gods iudgementes but sinful men feare not his furies for a short tyme hath worne out the remembraunce of so great a wonder and as that so all others doo laste wyth vs but nine dayes That Godlye exhortation of Maister Fielde to the obseruations of the Sabboth is almoste alreadye forgotten and that heauie iudgement of Parris garden béeginnes to flyppe out of remembraunce for men beginne to flocke theither agayne accounting the speciall warning of our GOD to bée some sodayne accident that happened rather by chaunce then by choyse and because they will be assured to scape the daunger of falling they make account to set fast footing on the grounde as though the earth were not the Lordes and all that is therein and as though the Lorde can not open the earth to swallowe the despysers of his worde We haue yet freshe in our remembraunce the gréeuous punishment of M. Brustar but why do I call him master that being olde was a filthy slaue to his lustes the horrible death of his miniō louelie Lais that loathing labour liued by luring but euen as Alcibiades the Athenian was slaine in the filthie acte of his pleasure with his harlot Tymandra and as Plutarche and Valerius maketh mention vncertaine how euen so the Lorde strooke this old Lecher with his fine Flora that both of them were stubble for the fire leauing the maner of the iudgement to iudge by the matter that remained and surely as wonderfull a iudgement as euer hath hapned and as harde to be scanned by the deuise of mannes witte that so small a fyre as a lyttle panne of coales halfe wasted should consume almost the one and also burne the other to death but sure a right and iust iudgement that one fierie element beyng visible shoulde consume another vnuisible as the burning fire to consume the flaming luste for such is the nature of lust rightly and fitlye may the heart of a lustfull lecher bee compared to the stone Albestes that beeyng once on fire is neuer quenched nor the lustfull hearte of an olde crooked and consumed adulterer tyll death neuer wasted but they had their iudgement for our ensample and wee may by there perill make our present profite GOD graunt we may least a spéedie threatened punishment come vppon vs. This warning was not giuen when the Lorde by a wonderfull worke dyd shewe his omnipotencie in other places for on Friday the first of this present moneth of Februarie in the countie of Suffolke at Ipswich Storcknayland Hadley and manye other places the Lorde shewed the power of his hand in this straunge and woonderfull effect Men ryding by the way as it is credibly reported felte in a Snowe as it were in a small drizling a heauier fall of matter then in snowing is accustomed to be and féeling the same to pat somewhat hardly vpon them by better aduisment perceyued it to bee a contrarie matter and therefore taking of it vp in their handes they founde that it was Wheate the straungenesse hereof did amaze many who doubting it was some deceipt coloured deuise did not greatly beléeue the same till comming into the townes and villages and bruting the report thereof it caused the townsmen and dwellers to make searche in their Gardens for as much as they knew that if any such thing fell it wold there be presently found neyther could it bee séene in the highe waies forasmuch as it rayned in so thyn small an order that the moisture wet with the slabbinesse of the way did take away the knowledge thereof But in Gardens and Closes and by Yardes was founde greate aboundance thereof there was at the writyng hereof in Toune one Maister Willyam Geffreies Clothier acredible man and dwellyng in Ipswhich who founde of the same in his Garden and brought thereof to London and liyng at the George in Lumbardstreate gaue therof to the Host named Maister Ginue and to other Gentlemen that desired the same of hym besides diuers other honest and credible persones dwellyng in that Countie which lodged at the same place and faithfully reported the same Now as touchyng the maner and likenesse thereof it did rightly resemble our common Wheate sauyng that it was of a softer substaunce and looked somewhat greener otherwise like vnto our Wheate in all respectes There are that did bite and eate thereof who doe affirme that it hath a more mealier inwarde substaunce then our Wheate hath and whiter also with in and it is reported that some