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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00175	Fire from heauen. Burning the body of one Iohn Hittchell of Holne-hurst, within the parish of Christ-church, in the county of South-hampton the 26. of Iune last 1613. who by the same was consumed to ashes, and no fire seene, lying therein smoaking and smothering three dayes and three nights, not to bequenched [sic] by water, nor the help of mans hand. VVith the lamentable burning of his house and one childe, and the grieuous scorching of his wife: with the birth of a monster, and many other strange things hapning about the same time: the like was neuer seene nor heard of. / Written by Iohn Hilliard Preacher of the word of life in Sopley. Reade and tremble. With the fearefull burning of the towne of Dorchester vpon friday the 6 of August last 1613.	Hilliard, John	1613 (1613)	STC 13507.3; ESTC S116587	14,244	56

impiety and more bruitish then beasts forgetting their duty else how durst the vsurer deuour the body and thirst for the bloud of his brother when he readeth how the rich man burned in Hell Luke 16. How durst the Adulterer persist in his lasciuious enterprises when he seeth the sinne of Dauid so seuearely punished the incest of Lot so greeuously lamented and the wisedome of Salomon so foulely obscured How durst the couetuous person heape vp riches for other when he heares our Sauiour call him foole that so prouided for his soule How gracelessely dare the Glutton maintaine his delicacie when he remembers how Iobes children were flayne at their banquet How dare the Tyrant continue his crueltie if he regard the reuenge of the rigorous debtor How dare our worldlings continue their pride considering the fall of Lucifer How dare the Idolater doe reuerence to Images when he heareth the heauie curse that the God of truth pronunceth against him How dare we sweare and forsweare our selues when wée remember the wretched end of Nabal How dare greedy Man to couet his neighbours house when he thinketh how hungerly the dogges licked the bloud of King Ahab How dare the most base swynish gormondizing drunkard sit all the day and night and weeke swilling sing and prophanely abusing Gods Creatures when he heareth the holy Ghost pronounce woe vnto them that rise earely to be drunken How dare all foule offenders but to tremble and quake when they heare the fearefull noyse of the Thunder and see the dreadfull blasts of is lightning to descend from the heauens and sent from an angrie God as tokens of his fearefull indignation In a word how dareth euery obstinate sinner to delite and boaste of his wickednes when he knoweth that vpon the vngodly shall raine Snares Psal 11.7 Fier and Brimstone stormy tempest this shall be their portion to drinke But such is our vngodlines that what we should doe wée slide backe from forgetting God and calling vengeance vpon our selues haling sorrow vpon sorrow enuying those that liue well and louing those that hate goodnes Who euer read of more Royaltie in a King then we may iustly write of our learned gracious and godly King Iames whose blessed peacefull and happie raigne the Lord for his mercie long continue ouer vs. What land had euermore plenty of all things then this Realme of England and yet what country vnder the Sun may be compared with it for vnthankefulnes Wée haue the light of the glorious Ghospell set vpon an hill and yet too manie rather then they will see it will sit blind-fold in the valley of ignorance Can any Cronicles make report of a more worthie wise vertuous godly religious Prince then the late Prince Henry in whome the worthines of all the eight Henries before him met as in their confluence I may speake of him as the Apostle spake of those with whome he is now in companie The world was not worthy of him And although our sinnes no doubt were the cause why he was taken from vs yet who is the more sorrowfull And whereas God blessed be his name hath left vnto vs not onely the Sunne and Moone of our firmament but also Charles-wayne to remaine in one Horizon D. P. A Prince if Starres be of any truth like to be of long life and great learning most hopefull for his time most fruitfull for his hopes so that I hope God hath said to our Iacob as Iacob said to his Iudah Sceptrum non auferetur a Iuda the Scepter shall not be taken from our Iacob till Shiloah come againe into the world yet who I say is the more thankefull Our gratious King hath made many good lawes to cutte of Malefactors but some estéeme little of Gods ordinances lesse of his Maiesties authority and least of all of his decrees for proofe whereof we haue seene such is our gracelessnes how wickedly some haue growne to rebellion whome the earth hath swallowed as Corath Dathan and Abiram Many haue conspired the death both of his Maiestie and his posteritie but the sword hath and I trust euer shall cut them of before their wicked fruit come to diuellish ripenes Yea their owne tongues shall make them fall And let vs beseech the Lord of hosts to looke downe alwayes vpon his anoynted and to cloath his enimies with shame but vpon him and his good Lord let his Crowne flourish vpon till thou Crowne vs all in heauen Let vs learne by the consuming of Sodom and Gomorrah to flye from their sinnes and let vs leaue the wickednes of the old world least God deuise a worse end for vs let vs be warned by the sinnes of Ierusalem to be armed with the word of truth at the preaching of Ionas to Niniui let the ignorant leaue to be obstinate and the learned cease to be slothfull and labour by all meanes to make the world know that the fearefull day of the Lords comming is at hand exhorting therefore to watch continuing in prayer For assuredly this fearefull accident I meane the burning of this man and childe by fire from Heauen ought not to be attributed to any naturall cause but it is euen the Finger of God threatning greater plagues to ensue without our earnest and hearty repentance Neither may we thinke that this iudgement lighted vpon them for their owne proper sinnes which might be greater then ours but rather that our sinnes are farre greater then were theirs and God whose mercy is greater then all hath sent this for our example to call vs to repentance wherefore let vs not thinke that those one whome the Tower in Siloam fell were greater sinners then all those that dwell in Ierusalem but rather let vs assure our selues that vnlesse we repent we shall also perish And to speake of the life and conuersation of the man I cannot finde or by any meanes vnderstand no not by reports of the nearest or the worst affected of his neighbours but that he behaued himselfe euery way in the iudgement of the world as an honest poore man and a painefull laborer in his vocation The manner of the accident is as followeth He hauing bene on Saterday the 26. of Iune last at worke at the house of one Iohn Deane of Parly-Court where he truely and painefully labored at his trade being a Carpenter and hauing ended his dayes-worke went home to his house as an honest man to comfort his Familie with the money which he had painefully gotten and went not as too many Trades-men vse to doe to be drunken and carelesse of their poore housholds at home wherein he shewed and gaue testimony to the world of a Religious care And after his comming home betooke himselfe to his rest and being in bed with his wife and childe in the deepe of the night the lightning came on so fiercely that an old woman named Agnes Russell mother to the wife of the said Iohn Hitchell hauing receaued a terrible blowe on her chéeke by