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A14104	A shorte and pithie discourse, concerning the engendring, tokens, and effects of all earthquakes in generall particularly applyed and conferred with that most strange and terrible worke of the Lord in shaking the earth, not only within the citie of London, but also in most partes of all Englande: vvhich hapned vpon VVensday in Easter weeke last past, which was the sixt day of April, almost at sixe a clocke in the euening, in the yeare of our Lord God. 1580. Written by T.T. the 13. of April. 1580.	Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1580 (1580)	STC 24413; ESTC S118790	14,356	23

and daungerously brused is yet liuing and like to recouer who were both seruauntes in one house vnto Iohn Spurlinge a shoomaker dwellinge in S. Botulphes parish without Aldersgate nigh London 30. Now perhaps some would expect at my handes that I should set down my iudgement farther concerning the efficient causes also the consequents of this Earthquake by the position of the Heauens and aspectes of the Planets and fixed Starres for that presente time which now I must needes omit for breuitie sake till some other time more conuenient And if likewise I were farther demaunded what mine opinion is concerninge this Earthquake whither I thinke it altogeather naturall or not Surely I am otherwise perswaded and so I iudge many other to bée that haue entred into y e déepe consideration therof But let it bee as it is surely it cannot bée without y e speciall finger of God whither it bée for our comforte or terrour as euery mans conscience shal beare him recorde although I am sure there bée none that can excuse them selues of sinne 31. But whether the Angell of the Lorde in passinge by vs in visitation hath shaken our habitations with his presence as some haue reuerently iudged or in respect of the ripenesse of our sinnes our most mercifull God hath caused the earth to tremble to the intente to mooue vs to repentaunce as it may well bee coniectured Let vs not stay I béeséeche you in the bowels of his deare Sonne Jesus Christ euery one to powre out his complaint béefore the fountaine of mercy and to call vpon him to turne from vs those plagues of Pestilence Sword Famine which by such quakinges are euermore foreshewed and our sinnes doo woorthily deserue For to admit that it procéeded but of a méere naturall cause so great and so many are the poysons corruptions cankers and rustes of mettalles and minerall bodies within the earth that the venomous aire that issueth forth from them by the eruption of the exhalation in an Earthquake is of sufficient force without the speciall prouidence of God to the contrary to infect and suffocate both Man Beast and Foule immediatly 32. But shall wée now againe coniecture somewhat vnto our owne comforte and not altogeather vnprobably Since at all times these one and twentie yeares and vpward duringe the raigne of our most deere and dread Soueraigne and most gratious Queene Elizabeth the Gospell hath béene sincerely and truely preached vnto vs and that now duringe this time of Lente last past and since Easter not only in her Maiesties Courte but also in her emperiall Cittie of London as also in all other places of her dominions most choice men for godlines and learninge haue béene appointed to sow the séede of life and to open the way vnto the kingdome of Heauen what if in token of consent good liking and conclusion of that which hath béene so manifoldly spoken the Lorde would vouchsafe to giue a nod with his head wherat as the holy Ghost speaketh by the mouth of the Prophet Dauid All the earth doth shake and the hilles doo smoake and the whole frame of the world is mooued 33. Neuerthelesse if the giltinesse of our owne consciences cannot so content vs but that as rightly we ought we be put in minde of most iust punishment for our offences doubtlesse I am most enclined vnto that persuasion which with al my hart I wish wée al followed that with spéed And herein I pray you let no man flatter or falsely persuade himself with a natural cause or with the mischance of two poore childrens death for that shall not serue when the time cōmeth For was their death casuall thinke you I know it was not since there falleth not a poore Sparrow to the earth without y e prouidēce of God Or were they the greatest sinners in y e cōpany God knoweth their yeares may somewhat answere for thē I think they were not more than they vpon whom the Towre fell in Siloa But surely if wee repent not wee shall all likewise perish 34. The iudgement if wee perceiue it is already begun at y e house of God what fauour then shall others looke for If it haue ha●ned thus in the gréen trée what shal become of the drie Good brethren let vs looke to this geare y t the Lords mightie hand light not vpon vs vnlooked for The Axe is not only set to the roote of the tree but it hath now hewen many strokes and some of the branches are fallen alreadie The Lorde is comming in maiestie to iudge the Earth and to auenge himselfe vpon his enemies and doubtlesse hée is not far of Our strange and hot and drie tokens séene of late time as the wonderfull blazinge Starre and the rare exhalations shew that hée w●l come shortly to consume all with fire But how vnprouided hée shall finde vs the sodaine comminge vpon vs of this Earthquake doth declare 35. Now I beseech you againe let euery man call himselfe to an accompt and looke narrowly into his owne life Let the Blasphemer cease to abuse the Lords name and power to his damnation Let the Adulterer leaue of and sinne no more Let the Usurer take heede how hee can answere the Lorde for his Brothers hurte Let the Murtherer remember that Abels bloud crieth for vengeaunce Let the malicious man know that the Lorde searcheth the harte and reynes Let the Glutton learne that the holy Ghost forbiddeth him to make his belly his God Let the Drunckard begin to abhorre the daunger and abomination of intemperance Let the couetous person perceiue that the rust of his money shall consume his fleshe Let the hollow harted Christian and subiect vnto God and his Prince vnderstand that as the hollownesse was the cause of the shakinge of the Earth euen so for his false and hollow hartes sake the Lorde will shake him from out his beloued flocke of Israell and cast him into that wofull place where hée shal receiue his reward with Dissemblers and Hipocrites and with Traytours and Atheistes togeather with their great Maisters Iudas and Iulian that lye perpetually tormented in vnquenchable Hell fire 36. And last of all let the worldly man consider what certentie he hath in his ritches or assurance in any thing vpon the earth when as euen that also is subiect to shakinge and mouing wheron hee reposeth his felicitie And although the witte of man haue deuised remedies against the threatninges of Heauen yet when the earth quaketh where shall hee repose himselfe in safety Augustus Caesar had a Denne made vnder the ground to shrowd himselfe in from the rage of thunder which remaineth yet to bée séene nigh Rome But indeede there is no fléeinge from the face of the Lorde who as the holy Psalmist sayeth where euer wee goe to hide our selues is present with vs whether wee ascend into Heauen or goe downe into Hell or take the winges of the morning or

is hearde a noyse lyke the working of the Sea a farre of whiche neuerthelesse doth not alwaies importe an Earthquake for that peraduenture the Exhalation is not sufficient in quantitie or qualytie to shake the earth but onely it belloweth or barketh at the departure as a Gun being discharged giueth the bygger or lesser crack according to the quantitie or ramminge more or lesse of the powder yet maketh some noyse when it is discharged although the powder were not of sufficient force to make the péece shake or recoyle 7. As touchinge other Accidentes that are noted ouer and aboue to accompany and follow Earthquakes one is eclipses of the Moone another Exhalatiue impressions in the ayre Whereof the one may importe some defectt of heat and then the colde byndeth vp the poares of the earth causeth the windes most times to blowe fiercely at such seasons and the other giueth a taste of the plenty of hot and drie matter which by probabilitie is concluded within y e earth wherof that was some part which appeared both which may minister great cause thervnto as is already declared And it is a thing specially and aboue all thing noted that a lyttle before and euen at the tyme of the Earthquake the Sun is darkened without a cloude which is long of the spirite that breaketh foorth which filling the ayre taketh away the bright beames of the Sun from our sight after the manner of a thin myst 8. The morning is calme and colde before an Earthquake happen by reason of the hot spirite or breath which is included within the earth and also after the Sun set the Skie is cleare for that the matter is soone dispearsed and often tymes there is seene in the Element a long narrowe clowde stretched foorth which is the forerunner of an Earthquake But to speake of some consequentes that doo followe them for the most part although God haue his speciall worke according to his good prouidence in them yet are these such as the naturall Philosophers haue obserued most often to ensue may not conueniently be omitted by me in this recitall for speciall purpose 9. Sometimes therfore after an Earthquake great sloare of water hath broken foorth of the earth as béeing driuen out by the Exhalation in so much that the Sea and other Riuers haue ouerflowed theyr banckes and procured certaine particular Dilugies or drowninges of Townes and Countreyes And many times by reason of the forcible bursting out of the spirite mightie heapes of Stones haue bene throwne out of the earth to the great admiration of the beholders The Sea lykewise hath bene séene to rage wonderfully as if it had bene moued by verie fowle weather and Ilands haue bene lyfted vp wheras were neuer any before and mayne Landes deuided where before was neuer Sea And moreouer it hath bene knowne that an Earthquake hath cōtinued the space of fortie dayes almost without intermission yea of two yéeres more or lesse about one place which hapneth by reason of the multitude of the spirite and strong resistaunce of the sides of the tauernous places wherein the spirite is conteyned 10. To be short the manner of the shaking of euerie Earthquake is of thrée sortes For eyther it shaketh towards one side and is lyke a certayne trembling or rocking this is a token of great store of y e Exhalatiō or else it lyfteth right vp in the middes letteth fall againe after the manner of the Pulse or other beating veines of y e body and this kinde shaketh more and is most daungerous and testifieth that there was much more plentie of the spirite or Exhalation lying déepe beneathe in the bottome or else it séemeth to be compoūded of them twaine and at the same instant dooth bothe rocke and lyft vp the earth together and with the diuersitie of motion dauncing as it were it ratleth and butteth the houses buyldings together yet in such sort that none falleth but the one is rather a stay vnto the other this discouereth plētie of the substance after both the sorts placed mouing 11. Yet the ende that any of these yea the best dooth bring where there is store of the matter continuance of the action and conflict betweene the conteyned the conteyning is most dreadfull quaking of the earth trēbling of houses shaking of bu●ldings amazing of the people doubt of farther harmes But where it pleaseth God that they rage with greater vehemencie there followeth farre more outragious myseries as suddein ouerthrowing of houses buildings subuersion of whole Townes Citties vnprepared death of thousandes of people somtime the vtter subuersion of whole Kingdoms Nations And this much sufficeth to be spoken of them in generall 12. Nowe therefore if by your patience it may be graūted let vs a while compare some parte of these generall tokens and Accidents with this our particular Earthquake since these for the most part as I haue sayde are in summe the obseruations of the learned in Philosophie concerning such matter and so shall wee bee the better able to discerne of this wonderfull worke of God whether it be méere naturall or no and also take the better occasion to report of euery poynt thereof according as I haue beene enformed by persons of credite For why for mine owne parte I must thus protest before the lyuing God whose matter wee haue in hande that béeing not much past a payre of Butte lengthes without the libertie barres of the Citie of London walking with honest godlye companye and to my lykyng euen at the instant of the quaking as it shoulde séeme neyther they nor I perceyued any such thing at all But the Lorde hath his prouidence and his workes are marueylous 13 But that the Sun the Planets and other Starres are the efficient cause aswell of an Earthquake as of the raysing of a Comet or any other firie impression or Meteor considering y e euident force of those heauenly bodies in daylye experience it is no meruaile For that hee which is the cause of al causes in al his works of nature hath made them his vnder Deputies remayning neuerthelesse at his checke without any absolute aucthoritie of their owne These therefore but especially the Sun because of his great heate about and since the feast of Easter last past and chiefly since Wensday and Thursday before Palme sunday in Lent might somewhat séeme to be of force to hasten the drying vp of some smal moisture Howbeit neyther the one nor the other can appeare to be of such valure in reason considering the great wet that hath fallen this winter as to consume so great plentye of water without some other naturall cause be assigned are the speciall prouision of God admitted 14. Neuerthelesse touching the plenty of water that to the generation of an Earthquake is required to be conteyned within the bowelles of the earth it cannot be denyed but there hath