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A16857	The vvarnings of Germany By wonderfull signes, and strange prodigies seene in divers parts of that countrey of Germany, betweene the yeare 1618. and 1638. Together with a briefe relation of the miserable events which ensued. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch chronicles, and other histories by L. Brinckmair Captaine. As also a learned and godly sermon preached before the lords the States at Norrimberg. Anno 1638.	Brinckmair, L.	1638 (1638)	STC 3758; ESTC S121731	42,464	105

have multitude and varietie of examples that teaches us to count of sinne as a certaine forerunner of divine vengeance unlesse repentance intercept And to take Repentance Faith Obedience Piety Justice and Charity for assured pledge of Gods love and purpose of blessednes in every kinde According unto these we are to regulate our hopes and feares Humility is a speciall token of honor ensuing and pride a forerunner of destruction He that goes on in an evill way shall not prosper at the last though the Sun Moon and Starres should seeme to fall downe and worship him as they did sometime to Ioseph And he that feareth God and escheweth evill may be confident that all shall worke together for the best though Hell were for the present let loose upon him Yea though God himselfe should make a but of him to empty his quiver in Foure hundred Prophets may say to Ahab Goe up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper Yet Ahab falls there for he had sold himselfe to worke wickednesse Romes merchants will not believe her fall but they shall certainly see and lament it Babylon sayes I am and none else besides me I shall not sit as a widdow neither shall I know the losse of children But these two things saith God shall come to thee in a moment in one day the losse of children and widdowhood they shall come upon thee in their perfection c. In sinning there be some circumstances which are more immediate harbingers of judgement and so likewise many particular sinnes Backsliding as in Solomon Presently hereupon God stirred him up adversaries Raeshnesse in things which require a waighty consultation as in Rehoboam Selfe-will as in Iosias Impudency as in Absolon But I had rather leave particulars to the studious Readers observation So on the other side humility wisedome patience importunity in prayer diligence in well doing doe more especially demonstrate Gods purpose to manifest his especiall mercy But those praedions which we have now especially to consider are of another sort § 8. To speake more fully of the Matter of Prodigies in generall I conceive it is some speciall accident happening by the providence of God The things about which such accidents happen are diverse and according to the difference thereof wee may count of 3. kinds of Prodigies Naturall Morall and Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naturall are those speciall accidents which fall out in the particular or generall course of nature Of which some are Celestiall some Elem●ntarie Celestiall I call those which happen about the heavenly bodies As about the Sunne Moone or other Starrs By Elementary I meane those which happen in the Elements themselves or those things which are compounded of them Morall Prodigies are those which consist in the affections passions words or actions of men Divine I call those wherein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some divine impression is more conspicuous or necessarily to be acknowledged For each of these kinds there is mutiplicity of Instances to be had almost in all Histories but it shall suffice me to particularise in some few out of Scripture That extraordinary Eclipse which happened at our Saviours passion at which the greatest Philosophers that then were much admired The plague of darknesse in Aegypt and the apparition of Angells and heavenly visions whereof we often read in Scripture were Prodigies Celestiall Of Elementary we have more variety of examples The Fire which consumed Nadab and Abi●● That which fell from heaven on the Captaines and their companies sent by Ahaziah to Elijah The pillar of Fire which was for safe conduct to the Israelites in the night time The fire vrimstone which fell on Sodom and Gomorrah The Cherubims and flaming Sword which God placed before paradice The cloudy pillar which was Israels guide by day The Manna wherewith they were fed in the wildernesse The plague of Haile in Egypt That on the army of the Five Canaanitish Kings in Ioshua's time The dividing of the red Sea And of Iordan Christs walking on the water Water issuing out of the rocke And out of the Jaw bone of an Asse Bitter Water becomming sweet by casting in Salt Earthquakes Famine Extraordinary fruitfullnesse Excessive multitude of Birds as of Quailes among the Israelites or of Flyes Beasts or creeping things as among the Plagues of Egypt The strange peregrination of Creatures from their wonted habitation as the comming of the creatures into the Arke These and many such like particulars are counted Prodigies and for distinction sake naturall because some thing in it selfe naturall is the subject of them As for morall Prodigies that which is passed in the former Section shal●suffice because it is but a schedule that I have to write and not a volume for divine prodigies so called in a more especiall manner these following are most apparent The Sun and Moone standing still as in Ioshua's time The shadowes going backe 10 degrees on Ahaz his Diall in Hezechiahs time The new starres appearing at our Saviours birth The rending of the vaile of the Temple and the resurrection of dead bodies at the time of his crucifying c. These are sufficient to shew us what is to bee counted prodigious and what not For all particulars we have no instance Things new and strange may daily happen as God sees cause to conclude this part of the matter in hand let this note suffice Whatsoever happens extraordinarily and rarely to us or to any of the creatures hath more or lesse of the nature of a Prodigie in it Such was the strange fighting in the nombe of Rebekah Nebuchadnezzars Pharaohs and Pilates wives dreames The carriage and speech of Baalams Asse The falling off of the Chariot Wheeles of the Egyptians as they drave in the red Sea Dagons prostrating before the Arke § 9 Sufficient being spoken of the Matter the next thing necessary to be touched is the forme to shew what makes any speciall accident to be a Prodigie that is as I conceive the aptitude which such accidents have in themselues or by divine institution to portend the futurition or manifestation of something as yet not existent or not knowne As for example Bloud happening extraordinarily in raine in sweate or in the use of bread or otherwise doth fitly betokenwarre murther execution of malefactors or persecution But how comes the Rainebow to be a signe the world shall never be overflowne againe by an Vniversall Inundation whereas naturally it signifies raine This it could not doe if God had not appointed it for such an use It may be demanded what I thinke of experience If it be found by observation from time to time that after such an accident in one kind such an event in another followes may not that accident thenceforth be taken for a certaine signe of such an event to ensue I answer God is unsearchable in his wayes No observation whatsoever will inable us to trace him As the