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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08171	[The history of strange wonders.]	Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574.	1561 (1561)	STC 18507; ESTC S110146	18,042	54

Celestial fires arose mani wais There was sene in the ayre a brighte fyre a company of horsemen and fote men to fight together and cities and swordes and bloody wapours were also sene c. In the yere M. C. and. xx There was sene in the aire bloody cloudes a crosse and a whyte man Euen at y t time men thought a destruction shuld come vpon y e whole world It is written in Chronicles that suche strange things doe signifie ciuill warres Of those thynges whych folowed you may reade at length in y e Chronicles of Boem set furth by Auentyne in the leafe D. C. xv In the yere M. CCC lxxv the aire was sene to burne all night In the. M. D. L. three fyrye globes wer sene in the aire in y e night in Misnia Lipsia which certaine students famous men did beholde The yere M. D. L. I. the xxviii day of Ianuary at Vlisbon in Portingal were sene in the aire bloody roddes and horrible fyres it rayned bloode also Furthermore there was such an earthquake that two hundred houses were terriblie shaken and throwen downe in y e which shaking more then a thousand men perished The yere M. D. L. IIII. the first day of February at Cathalane a citie of Fraunce after the musteringe of the hoste whiche the kyng of France had commaunded to be done in that place a wonderful strange sight was sene about the Moone For a greate fire arose from the East part went to the west And the Moone semed in maner of a mighty great fire brande The flame of thys fyre raged wyth great noyse often castyng oute blasyng sparkes in the ayre none otherwyse then when a smith beateth vpoÌ„ hoat iron thus saith Fritschius Aristotle nameth such fyre a goat The answere of a godly learned frende vnto the aforesayde lettter or Epistle THy letters V. C. were giuen vnto me with the boke of wonders For the which your gentlenes I geue you moste heartye thankes At your departure you dyd declare all thinges abundantly and very plainly In the meane tyme I praye God that for his mercy sake he wyll turne al things to y e best For to styrre you vp I haue added many things which you shall here reade The signification of the straunge wonder AS all men doe confesse wyth one mouth this vnaccustomed straÌ„ge wonder to signifie som great euil to these countreys so I thinke y e causes of the sayde euyll to be so neare vnto vs that it shall perse y e eies and mindes of all men And seyng for the most part the calamities of mankind be sermons of repentance although the common people through erroure do alledge mani other causes of euils notw tandyng this fire of y e ayre is an euideÌ„t argumeÌ„t token of y e wrath of god that without it be a few I think there is none so foolyshe or so mad which vnderstandeth not that it is to come We beleue verely that we shal not be cast out of blisse because it semeth that we shalbe so punyshed for oure sinnes because that the crosse aduersitie doth bryng alwayes more profit vnto the churche then rest and slouthfulnesse Of this commeth the common Prouerbe The bloode of the Martyrs watereth the Garden of the Lorde But although our enemies farre excede vs in all kynd of euyl yet notw tstanding we be not much inferior vn to them Superfluitie is a profitable instrument occasion you wyll saye the moste parte of vs do want it not superfluitie Religion also on oure parte is a lytle neglected beginneth to be gainfull no lesse truly then the Romains in time passed For we shal finde but a few diuines whiche wyll vouchsafe to seke poore Christ in the cotage and stable Manye of them couet fat benefices for the whiche they serue none otherwyse then thei wold serue for y e sacrifice of the aultar For that cause is there so much hatred so much priuy backbiting which encreaseth dayly and hourly more more y t ther is none more deuided theÌ„ thei in whoÌ„ ought to be most loue concord These be the times which Eusebius setteth furth in the beginning of hys his eyghte booke vpon ecclesiasticall histories who desireth any Dioclesian whych may restore the weake meÌ„bres vnto their health agayne God truely gouerneth hys church by fyre the whiche name is called in scripture crosse and persecution which notwithstandyng as I hope shall not be longe no more then this monsterous fire was longe whyche lasted with vs no more then an houre and that before day lyght For the Psalmograffe compareth the furye of the vngodly lyke vnto fyre amongest the thornes which maketh a feruent fire and when it appeareth to be most vehement then soddenly it falleth and is tourned into ashes But although thys fyre wyth hys heate dyd in wrap the hyghest mountaines therefore not onely the base states but also the highe monarches shall come to ruine notwithstanding the stars whiche shone betwene that is the ministers of the churche shall not be put oute of their seate which setting the worde of god before theyr face shal shyne in darke night of persecution by the cleare light of the gospell vntyll the daye wished for ware bright and the Sun of righteousnes shyne vpoÌ„ meÌ„ But one star was sene to fall from heauen which being drawen by y e fyre dyd furrow in the middest It is to be thought that one doctour or other either for feare of the greate threatnyng or els being drawen by hope of some promosion shall be cast out of his degre Therfore the Lord is to be praied vnto that he wil defende vs standing in the confession of a sincere faith For this cause it is good for all godly men to thinke that the scourge of the lorde is afore their dores whome notwithstanding they by the mouyng of chaunces shall get god onely knoweth which ruleth the causes of all thinges We wyll onely bryng those thyngs which be like the truth and seme not dissagreble from the worde of God For the worde of the lord ought to be a lantarne to our feete and a light to oure steppes By it we may learn better y e cause of our aduersities then may be perceiued by any such wonders which god sendeth commonly for the reprobate and stiffe necked men amongest whome the worde of God taketh no place that all their exscuses may be cut awaye Notwithstanding I do not deny that there be Sermons of repentaunce whych not wythstandynge they that are destitut of the gouernment of the word of god do take neuer the latter For we see vngodly and wycked men whych beyng associat with y e vnbeleuynge Iewes require a sygne from heauen which if it apeare then with full voyce they crye out oure synnes require such wonders but they of the part of the euangelicall doctrine doe beare these thinges paciently and deriue part from them selues to other and euery one that speaketh of repentance with the

that in the fielde of Berne was sene another wonder of an hoste of men fyghtyng together but the authour I know not Also after thys foresayde wonder of fyre that was sene in the aire that is the thyrty day of December which was the last yere M. D. LX. at eyght a clocke before none there was sene a fyre to aryse about Bade of Heluetia with a great thicke cloude And when the husbande men of Regenspurge which â–ª towne is in y e field of Surick saw it thei ran together being ready to quench it by and by it vanished away so that it was not perceyued whether any fyre had ben in that place or no. Not withstandyng this also may be thought to be a certaine wonder â§ The interpretation of the strang wonder set furth by the authour written vn to a frende of his dvvellvng in Vindelick a countrey of Germany I Geue you moste hearty thankes that you do part amongest vs your interpretation vpon that fearefull and monsterous syghte whyche you did not onely se in the aire at Heluetia and Ranie but at Algea and thorough out all Sueuia excepte at Auspurge in which no man no not the watche men did see any thing that daye when not withstandyng it was sene two or thre mile of and the good neyghbours there thought Auspurge dyd burne and they did lamentablye beholde the dukedom of Wirtenberg Franconia Thuringa at the same houre and moment when ye did se it I haue no naturall philosphie that thereby I might coniecture it to com for in such a dead and cold tyme there coulde not happen such vapours nor such exhalations that mighte cause such fyre to appear euery where nor yet was the cause of the earthquake knowen amonge you seing it was heard to be no where els Therefore I come to your interpretacion and I hope that Christ wyll come shortly reuenge his worde â–ª iudge the world by fyre wythout you had rather thus to expounde it that in all places wher this fyre was sene the fire of y e gospel shal so purely cleanse the people that all sparkes and ashes shalbe blowen quite away But at Bauar and Austria where this fire did not appeare they shall peryshe in darkenesse excepte God be mercifull vnto them â§ Of certayne other straunge tokens and wonders THe day before the fyre was sene in the ayre that is the seuen and twenty day of December in the ende of the yere M. D. LX. betwene the towne of Tubinga and the duke dome of Wirtenberge and the village of Iesingam which is two miles distant from Tubinga soddenly in a certaine fielde there appeared a golfe which was sire and thirty fote depe twenty fote broad and about y e earth no more then a common pitte round of compas coÌ„teinyng of depth in water nine fote Other spreade false rumors abrode say that it was of such a depth that it could not be expressed Also it is sayde that it rained bloode about the same time in many places of Germanye The thirtene day of December the yeare M. D. LX. at Vienna and Austria there was an earthquake and a great tempest and fearefull lightenyng Towres houses and the Cathedral church of Sainct Steuen was burnte with lightenynge The ayre was sene burne a longe tyme as a certayne noble man of Vindelicke in his letters doeth witnes vnto vs. We knowe for a suertye that lately in Fraunce when the king had assembled y e head men of a citi together into hys owne presence behold there appeared a great comet ouer the city which continued as long as y e assemblie endured that is xxviii dayes in the yeare M. D. LX. in the moneth of December â§ Of vvonders or strange thyngs sene in the countrey of Pymont Taken our of the letters vvritten to a certain prince in the yeare 1560. in the moneth of December AT Chirasyn a fyre was sene in y e aire which lasted thre houres At Trauilla it rayned bloode as manye houres that is to wit thre hoÌ„ures At Fosan were sene as it were thre fyry cometes In the plaine next vn-Sentaly there appeared a great numbre of horsemen in the ayre At Caragnan ther was sene an earthquake which sounded lyke the wheles of a waggon At Pinaroly was sene in y e aire the maner of a fyry linnen cloth and many other strang wonders wer sene in sundrie other places Of the heauenly goat for so Aristotle calleth it there was sene at Cathaline a notable towne of Fraunce commonly called Cholos in the yere of our lorde M. D. L. IIII. the syxte day of the moneth of Marche betwen seuen and eyght of the clocke at after none aboute the Moone a burnynge fyre in the which was sene as it had bene the poynt of a speare going froÌ„ the East vnto y e West castyng out flames and fearful great burnynges As Conrade Lycosthenes writteth in his boke of monsterous and straunge wonders â§ Of straunge wonders and prodegious thynges sene in the ayre in the begynnyng of the yere 1556. IN the begynnynge of the yeare of our Lorde a thousande fyue hundred fiftye and syxe On a Sondaye after Christenmas day about the euenynge tyde was sene with vs that dwell about Lauinga as a certayne contre man of ours writ in a letter to a frende of hys a great lyghtnyng and it thundered erceadinglye and not farre of from vs a house standyng in a village was strycken with lyghtnyng and burnte downe And the ayre opened verye wyde and brode and dyd belche oute great and bright flames of fyre The whiche tempest was about nyne of the clock at nyght manye of the people were wonderfully astonied and sore afrayd in so muche that many of them were domme a longe tyme after Out of another Epistle or letter of the same wonder the same daye at nyght in Bohem Silesia and Misnia there was a terrible tempest and many men cattell great towres and churches wer stricken with lightnyng and perished with fyre Also it rayned bloode and fyre A towne of Melnicca foure myles distant from Praga all the grounde of it was wel nigh consumed with fire The church of our Lady at Praga was burnte with lightnyng and the church of S. Anne that is in the mount was lyke wise burned Two Churches beyng about two mile distant from Lipsia were also burnt with lightning And it rained blood abundantly in y e same place and two camelles were sene in the ayre deuouring a harnessed man In the same yere M. D. L. Uâ— the eleuenth day of Ianuary at August and Vindelick towarde the Alpes in the night the air opened and burned for a while most fearefull to beholde and semed to threaten to be the latter day At Miccenhusa in Bauaria ther was sene in y e night such brightnes that y e candle light in Zeta waxed darke and when the candles were put out the brightnes of the aire sufficed theÌ„ for light thre houres space The same yere of our

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