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A02786	A discourse of the seuerall kinds and causes of lightnings Written by occasion of a feareful lightning which on the 17. day of this instant Nouember, anno Domini 1606. did in a very short time burne vp the spire steeple of Blechingley in Surrey, and in the same melt into infinite fragments a goodly ring of bells. By Simon Harward.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1607 (1607)	STC 12918; ESTC S103922	10,214	24

the Citty of Constance but presently vpon it an infectious plague did wonderfully wast that Citty God of his infinite mercy graunt vs such true repentance for our sinnes and such vnfained conuersion from our vngodly behauiour that these his iudgements thus threatned vpon vs may fauourably be turned aside And the Lord graunt that in all his iudgements powred out vpon our neighbors wee may rather in godly wisedome make good vses of them to our selues and in charity seek to relieue such as be in distressē then either by pride to insult vpon their losses or by shutting vp our bowells of compassion to augment their griefes and miseries Sundry are the remedies which are described by sundry writers against the daungers of lightnings some of them are philosophicall as when they appoint that in thunders and lightnings men should either shoot vp ordinance into to the aire or ring bels that by the stirring of the aire the cloudes may be the sooner dispersed ●nd driuen away Fot as a stone cast into the water doth make first one circle and that circle maketh a greater vntill the greatest of all do touch the banke or side euen so say they the tossing of the aire by Gunnes or belles doth affect the aire next to it and that ayre againe the ayre next to it vntill at last it come to the cloudes by which the thūderings and lightnings are made And this they make also to be the cause why although the lightning and thunder are in time both together yet the lightning cōmeth sooner to our eies then the thunder to our eares For the line to our sight is a right line but the line of sounds beating the aire is circular or giricall giricall as I haue shewed by the aforesaid example of the stone cast into the water So when we see a man hewing wood a farre off the sight of the stroke commeth to our sight before sound of the noice which beateth the aire circularely can come to our hearing Others appoint meere Magicall that is wicked and vngodly remedies to wit to hang about the necke or body inchanted herbs stones or iewels Such deuises sauoring of sorceries can in no wise be agreeable to true Christianity Some haue taught that bay trees the skins of seacalues are remedies against the dangers of lightnings Wherevpō Suetonius affirmeth that Tiberius Cesar would crown himselfe with bay bows couer his tents with the skins of sea calues Vt a fulmine tutus esset that he might bee safe from lightnings The onely true remedy is first by true faith to put our full trust in God For as the prophet Dauid saith If wee abide vnder shadow of the Almighty we shall not be afraid of any feares of the night nor of the arrow that flyeth by day and secondly by hearty repentance to remoue the causes of Gods heauie iudgements and to forsake all such sinnes as doe make a diuision betwixt God and vs. The Prophet Dauid pronounceth of him that delighteth in Gods commandements and is mercifull and leudeth and will guide his words with discretion that he shall not be afraid of any euill tidings he shall surely neuer be remoued but the righteous shall bee had in euerlasting remembrance These graces he grant to vs that died for vs euen Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with the father and the holy ghost as well for iudgements as for mercy bee all honour glory praise maiesty and thanksgiuing now and for euer Amen An addition of the Author shewing the opinions of Philosophers and Astronomers touching Thundrings and Lightnings THe generall naturall cause which the Phlo-sophers doe giue of Thunders and Lightenings is this First a viscous vapour ioyned with a hot exhalation is lifted vp to the highest part of the middle region of the aire by vertue of the Planets then the waterie vapour by the coldnesse both of place and of matter is thickned into a clowd and the exhalation which was drawne vp with it is shut within the clowd and driuen into straights This hotte exhalation flying the touching of the cold clowd doth flie into the depth of the clowd that doeth compasse it about and courseth vp and downe in the clowd seeking some passage out which when it cannot find it maketh a way by force and beeing kindled by the violent motion it breaketh through the clowde If the sides of the hollowe clowd be thicke and the exhalation drie and copious then there is made both thunder and lightning but if the clowd be thin and the exhalation also rare and thin then there is lightening without thunder The thunder then commeth when the fierie spirits and exhalations beeing as it were shut vp in prison doe by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wrastle with the congealed vapours which haue imprisoned thē The like we see in al moist bodies which haue a hot spirit so included that it cānot get out the Chesnut in rosting amongst cinders giueth a cracke a bladder filled with aire being violently broken maketh a noise When greene wood is burned the spirits burst out with some little crack but gun-powder issuing out of ordinance maketh afarre greater sound The clowdes then which do farre exceed the greatnesse of mountaines must needes giue out a more forcible roaring Especially seeing that in them there is added a more principall operation of the handie worke of God whereupon thunder in the Scriptures is called the thunder of God Psal 77.17 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about And Psal 104.7 at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid So Psal 18.13 The Lord thundred out of heauen and the most highest gaue out his voice hailestones and coales of fire So Iob. 38.25 Who doth diuide the spowts for the raine or the way for the lightenings of the thunder as if he should say none can doe it but God alone The Poet saw somewhat by naturall reason when hee said Siquoties peccant homines sua fulmina mittat Iupiter exiguo tempore inermis erit If God should with his lightning fight As oft as men offend In little space of time he might His weapons wholy spend The Astrologers as in other pointes they vary so in their predictions by thunderings and lightnings they do greatly disagree Beda saith Tonitrua in Nouembri sterilitatem im minere ex alto quasi tuba praecinunt Thunders in Nouēber do as with a trumpet sound out from heauen to vs a dearth and scarcitie and if they happen on monday then turmas coniugum morituras fruges passuras that companies of married folks shall dy corne fruite suffer harme But Hermes is of a contrary mind He saith tonnitrua Nouembris frumenti largvm prouentum hominum hilaritatem promittunt The thunders af Nouember doe promise great store of corne and ioy and gladnesse amongst men This lightning on mondy the 17. of Nouember did not onely this harme in Surry but also it afflicted Sussex and diuers other places It was very strange that at the same time when it fiered Bleachingley steeple it entered also so into the house of one Stephen Lugsford of Buckstead in Sussex almost twentie miles from Bleachingley and melting the lead of his glasse windowes did with great violence breake through and rent in sunder a strong bricke chimney the man is of honest report and zealous in religion we must not therefore iudge of men by those outward accidents but commit all iudgement to God to whom it doth belong If lightnings haue any predictions they haue as well good as bad The mother of Hierom Fracastorius who afterward became a famous scholer carrying the said Hierom when he was a yong infant in her arms was stricken with lighning and slaine whereas notwithstanding the yong child was vnhurt and vntouched and preserued as the sequele shewed for the greater good of the common wealth Psal 77. vers 13. Who is so great a God as our God thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy power among the people FINIS ERRATA Fol. 3. Apulia Sabellicus Fol. 4 for ●lid Ibid. Salmoneus Eccles 9.1 Benedictio Campana Seneca lib. 2. Natur. quaest Pontanus in meteorolog Psal 29.3 Pontanus lib. meteor cap 16 Pontan ibid. Pontanus lib. meteorolog Sabellinus Paulus Diaconus Zonarus tom 2 Annalium 2. Reg. cap. 1. vers 10. Dionys Halyc lib. 1. Antiq. Diodor. Sic. li. 4 Eph. 6.12 Garcaeus lib. de Meteorolog Iam. 2. Malac. 1. Ierem. 5. Garcaeus lib. de meteorolog Iob. 1.16 Luk. 13.1 Ioh. 9.3 Garcaeus in Meteorol Garc. in Mete Psal 92. v. 1 et 5. Isay 59.1 Psal 112. v. 1.4 6. 7. Beda Hermes