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cause_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	4,953	5	4.9858	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18767	A warning for the wise, a feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a glasse to the good Written of the late earthquake chanced in London and other places, the. 6. of April 1580. for the glorie of God, and benefite of men that warely can walke, and wisely can iudge. Set forth in verse and prose, by Thomas Churchyard Gentleman. Seen and allowed.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1580 (1580)	STC 5259; ESTC S105093	9,563	30

¶ A warning for the wise a feare to the fond a ●…idle to the lewde and a glass●… to the good Written of the late Earthquake chanced in London and other places the. 6. of April 1580. for the glorie of God and benefite of men that warely can walke and wisely can iudge Set forth in verse and prose by Thomas Churchyard Gentleman Seen and allowed ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Allde and Nicholas Lyng and are to be solde at the weast dore of Paules Church Anno 1580. April 8. To the Right worshipfull his verie good friend M. Alexan●… Nowel Deane of Paules THe fatherlye and faithfull maner of your diuine Doctrine M. Deane with the blotlesse life you lead soūded by the vniuersal report of good people made mee often desirous to dedicate some labour of mine to the protectiō of your sound iudgement And now pricked forward by Gods mightie motion and maruellous workes of late to bestowe a fewe verses to a vertuous personage in a vitious world dangerous season I haue chosen you among a multitude to sounde out the trumpet of Gods glorie and to giue passage to the playnesse of my pen and willing paines I haue taken Not as though my wordes or inuention voide of depe profundity might aduance any waye the high maiestie of God or further the good Fame you haue gotten But being in humility of minde loking to the basenesse of this world and meannes of my calling vnfurnished both of heauenly gifts worldly good fortunes I presumed thorow my pen and studie to purchase you a friend and reclaime the enimies of God to come home to their consciences and looke on the wonders of the Lorde that dayly is working amōg his louing people So neyther meaning to flatter where tender eares can abyde no doublenesse nor stretche out a bare Epistle with a long discourse of borrowed wordes I betake you to the almightie committing that followes this simple short Scedule to the great and good consideration of your Wisdome From my lodging this eight of April Your wel willer alwayes at commaundement Thomas Churchyard●… ¶ Churchyardes admonition to the Reader I Trust good Reader that the fresh memorie of this late woonder shall make thée to looke backe-warde vnto thy former faultes and make thée a new man i●… cleannesse of life For the straunger the things are that our eyes behold the more the impression of the minde is carnestly occupied about the vnderstanding of a wonder And y e oftener we sée maruelles the more is Gods might made manifest we the more affrayed to offend But perhaps some fine headed fellowes will wrest by naturall argumentes Gods doing and works to a worldly or earthly operation procéeding from a hidden cause in the body and bowels of y e earth As in déede of many other earthquakes before hath bene written and throughly disputed A reason that man maketh and a matter to be spokē of but not much to be cōmended Let such fine wittes search out secretes and sift what they can from the bottome of their senses Yet those that feare God and féele in their consciences a diuine motion frō the consideration of worldly wonders will take the Earthquake to be of a nother kinde of Nature And beholding y ● myraculous manner of the same with open armes and humble heart will embrace Gods visitation worthily welcome the messanger he sendeth Which assuredly cannot come without his prouidence nor be séen without his heauenly will and pleasure And this is much to be noted If naturall causes onely compelled such Earthquaks and procured such tremblings then aswell in the wilde fieldes as in the ciuill Townes these alterations were often to be foūd In déede many graue Auctors write how mightie mountaines haue bene remoued whole Countreys haue bene drowned by y ● occasion of Earthquaks But in those kingdomes the Lorde of al Kinges for some hidden iudgement to himselfe bore a greater sway in those causes and places than any other natural properties And though that in many territories open fieldes as good bookes make report Earthquakes haue bene séene and great hurt hath bene done yet the harmes that come by Earthquakes in a ciuill towne where God is honored and taketh care of his people argues a maruellous mysterie and perswades a further matter than weake witted men may meddle withall For sundry Cities haue soonk millions of Houses Churches Towres and walles haue bene by Earthquake vtterly ouerthrowen But commonly such wonders are séen where all the world may be a witnesse of Gods great glory and mans vnsuretie of life may be thorowly vnderstoode Now if for all things that sodenly happen a reason may be made and naturall argumentes leade mans beléefe from the hope feare confidence in God then though thousandes of wonders happened in a day not one among ten thousād would thinke that God doth any thing at al but as natural causes do fal out ●…h thing to haue both beginning and their end God kéepe his chosen from such a conceit of chance and beléefe of blindnesse But now to be plaine no threatning serueth a naughtie seruaunt No whippe nor rod amendeth a loytering scholler nor no example may reforme a filthie liuer For whē y e plague is past the people fall to pleasure And euen as a horse forgets the spurre falles to a i●…nbeling pace immediatly after his gentle remembrance so man thinkes no longer on a wonder than a dreame and makes no more accompt of a meruaile than if a trifle had bene tolde him Yet my hope is good Reader that the wise will be warned and the well disposed person will be the better while he liueth as oft as this late Earthquake shal come to his minde and memorie For it was maruelous in the sight of man a great thing no doubt before the face of the Almightie to whom be praise and glory for euer ¶ The reporte of the saide Earthquake howe it beganne ON Wednesdaye in the Easter wéeke beyng the sixt day of April 1580. betwene the houres of fiue and sixe in the euening hapned generally through all the City of London the Suburbes of the same as it were in a moment and vppon the sodaine a wonderful motion and trembling of the earth in somuch as Churches Pallaces Houses and other buildings did so quiuer and shake that such as were then present in the same were tossed too and fro as they stoode and others as they sate on seates driuen off from their places some leaning backewardes were readye to fall and manye besides so shaken standing that it broughte suche terror to those that were in the same houses that the most part feared their houses woulde come downe vpon them and therevppon ranne oute of their doores in greate pe●…plexitie to sée whether their houses were stil standing in their wonted place or no. And some houses did so crackle that the tables and stooles with other furniture as Bra●…e and Pewter so tottered