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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

A DISCOVRSE OF THE SEVErall kinds and causes of Lightnings Written by occasion of a fearefull 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 Psal 145. Vers 17. The Lord is iust in all his waies and holy in all his workes THOV SHALT LABOR FOR PEACE PLENTIE LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet and are to be sold by Iefferey Chorlton at his shop neere the North dore of Pauls 1607. Honoratissimo Domino D. HOVVARDO Baroni de Effingham illustrissimi Comitis Notingamiensis filio et heredi domino suo colendissimo omnia prospera faelicia * ⁎ * CVi potius munus praeclare ac nobilis Heros Hoc donare queam sit licet exiguum Quàm tibi cuius in auxilio Blechingleienses I am tristes totam spem posuere suam Sperant permultos per te domine inclite amicos Tempore posse quidem se reperire breui Per quos campanae amissae sibi restituantur Debito vt ad templum tempore conueniant Concipiantque preces humiles vt Rex Iacobus Viuat sit sanus floreat vigeat Sēper Howardos solito amplectatur amore Sic villa haec saluam se fore non dubitat Sic Christoque vir ample placebis qui tibi donet Nestoreos sanos omni in honore dies Amplitudini tuae deuotissimus Simon Harward The preface to the Christian Reader IT is not without great cause pronounced by the wise man that no man knoweth either loue or hatred which Saint Bernard doth expound to be ment of naturall man that man by nature doth not know whether he be in the loue or in the hatred of god but the spiritual mā doth discerne all things But saint Hierom doth better interpret it to bee spoken of things vnder the Sunne which wordes are vsed by Solomon fiue seuerall tymes in the selfe same chapter By things then vnder the Sunne that is by the outward accidents of this life no man can discerne either loue or hatred because sorrowes sicknesses losses and calamities do befal to the godly as wel as to the wicked but the triall of our selues doth consist in inward graces to wit with what faith in God and what loue toward God we indure the said afflictions what good vses we make of them to our selues and how in the middest of them all we do possesse our soules with patience Sondry fearefull punishmentes by lightnings haue bin inflicted in many corners of this land in this cleare light of the preaching of the gospell partly vpon Paules in London and partly on other places of this realme And the like or farre greater haue bin shewed heretofore in the time of Popery and blindnesse The french Chronacles do testifie that in the year of our Lord 1534. at which time France was ouerwhelmed with idolatry superstition the citie of Claraualla being stricken with lightning about noone dayes did so fiercelie burne that in three howers space their town castles and churches were vtterly consumed VVe must needs acknowledge that our sinnes do deserue a farre deeper punishment then did the offences of our forefathers They were as seruants sent out in the night time and therefore if they missed their way their faults cannot be so heauy as ours who are as seruants sent out of the cleere day light where God giueth one talent he expecteth the increase of one but where he giueth ten talents he doth iustly demand the increase of ten VVhat vses we are to make of these iudgements of God vnder the Sunne I haue briefely according to the shortnesse of time set downe in this smal treatise which here now I do commit to thy view both thee and it to the good blessing of the Almighty From Bansted this twentieth of Nouember An. Dom. 1606. Thine in the Lord S.H. A DISCOVRSE OF THE SEVERAL Kindes and Causes of Lightninges WHen the Lord Almighty doth any where shew extraordinary tokens of his iudgementes it behoueth such as neere dwellers to resort to the place and not only to take view of the punishment but also to lay it deepely to their heartes For there are some punishments which in Greeke are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 punishmentes of vengeance there are some which are termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 punishments of correction and means to draw vs to amendment of life and some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 punishmēts of triall to trie our faith and patience The consideration whereof moued me this present weeke to visite the towne of Blechingley being a towne not onely neare vnto me but also hauing such inhabitants as vnto whome for many yeeres for sundrie kindnesses I am much beholden when I came I found their case to be equall if not worse then the rumor or report which was before published I found that by the lightning which came with the terrible thunder on Munday being the 17. day of this instant Nouember about ten of the clocke in the night the Spire steeple of the said Bleachingley hauing beene lately new couered to the great charges of the parrish in three howers space was vtterly consumed with fire The steeple was but about twelue fadome high aboue the battlements of the square stone worke but it was a steeple spreading downeward very large in circumference The stone worke which bare it being also about twelue fadom high is a long square of one twenty feet one side and eighteene feete the other side It is thought by good workemen that two hundred loades of timber will not suffice for the erecting of such a steeple as that stone-worke did lately beare I found also the belles being before a sweet ring and so large that the Tenor waighed twenty hundred waight partly melted into such fragmentes as may perhappes bee melted againe and partly burnt into such cinders or intermingled with such huge heapes of cinders as it will neuer hereafter serue to the former vses thereof These grieuous losses are by diuerse sortes of people in sundrie wayes interpreted Some do account of them as a particular iudgement of God against the sins of the inhabitantes of that towne of Blechingley But I am not of their opinion partly because as I cannot excuse the inhabitantes of the said towne of sundrie grosse abuses so am I fully persvvaded a number of tovvnes neare adioyning to them are in the like iniquities nothing inferiour to them and partly because in the extremitie of this fire vpon the church the tovvne and tovvnesmen vvere miraculouslie preserued The church standeth in the East ende of the tovvne and the vvinde though it somtimes changed yet it still kept neare the vvest point droue the flame frōvvard frō the houses A thatched barne and certaine poore houses neere adioyning to the Church were so wonderfully preserued that we must needes confesse and acknowledge that in