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A07913	A most true relation of a very dreadfull earth-quake with the lamentable effectes thereof, vvhich began vpon the 8. of December 1612. and yet continueth most fearefull in Munster in Germanie. Reade and tremble. Translated out of Dutch by Charles Demetrius, publike notarie in London.	Demetrius, Charles.	1612 (1612)	STC 18285; ESTC S103115	11,000	30

to execute his displeasure Of which Tragicall fury of the Billowes this is one memorable and notorious proofe to be lamented in more wordes then I set it downe in letters that amongst those numbers of dead carkases which the Sea as vnwilling to beare such vnnaturall and ignoble Burdens paide backe againe vpon the Shoare a dead Woman was one about whose body were found tyed as it seemed in the heat and height of the Tempest seauen Children she her selfe being great with the eight Thus haue you heard a true report of the Almighties Anger and his Mercy his Power both by Sea and Land let vs therefore whose liues and possessions he might haue confiscated in his iust indignation yet hath spared them fall vpon our knees with thanks for his deliuerance and bringing vs safe through this Red Sea of troubles in which if it had pleased him we might with the rest haue beene for euer confounded For our hearts made so by our sinnes are hardened not onely one against another but against him as much as theirs were or euer Pharaohs was Open the Closet of euery mans conscience and you shall finde a Booke there all blotted and written full of impieties blacker then the incke yet so marble-breasted are we that like fooles going laughing to the stockes we are insensible of our owne harmes The Vine vntimely cut weepes away her strength at the wound but no misery that cuts vs earely or late can make vs weepe for our sinnes Sinne and we are as inseparable as trechery is from the Soule of a Turke or blackenes from the cheekes of an Ethiope Wee feele the smarting paine of a slight blow it angers vs nay the losse of a little bloud makes vs cry out and almost starke mad for the feare of approaching death but if our soules be buffeted we laugh at it if they be shattered in pieces rent and ruined we stirre not at that Her ill dayes we write downe in no Kalender for we thinke there are not any can hurt her Swallowes would not come within Thebes because the wals were so often besieged but wretched man puts on wings to flye to those Cities which are most shaken with vices The more rotten the hart of this Worlds Kingdome is by feeding on sweet and bewitching pleasures the more we dote like fond Louers vpon it To set downe our sinnes is as infinite a taske as to paint our thoughts it is a chaine reaching downe as low beneath vs as the glories of heauen are aboue vs. To set downe our sinnes at full we had need to study a new Arithmeticke to be as long-liude as the Hart when we sit to doe it to turne the Sea into Incke when we write the Figures to binde vp a Booke with as many Leaues as are rent by Autumne and to haue the Sands of the Ocean for Compters yet all these helpes are not able to cast vp the Summe For we are still at difference with God yet is he loath to fall out with vs we owe him Millions yet pay him not a Mite He loues vs as the Apple of his Eye yet we cast his loue at our feete he sings sweet Notes of mercy in our Eares and they make vs presume he then shakes his Iron Mace of Justice at vs and then wee despaire So that his patience and our wickednesse our prouocation and his tender-hartednesse are no more tunable together then Lute-strings of a Wolfe and a Lambe which neuer agree in Musicke If then the number of our bad deeds swels to a heape so great how can wee at Gods hands but looke for as great and as many punishments If a debter owe vs money we looke to haue all we spare not him we vexe him we plucke out his throate for our owne Why should not God then handle vs so Yet he reckons seldome and forgiues much when he sees vs wasting the Talents he trusts vs with and too too lauishly consuming them then then we must be sure to pay for all Euery man hath by himselfe an accompt to make vp euery Nation runnes in Arerages yea the World it selfe is behinde hand with his Lord and Maker The Audit day is set downe in his euerlasting Reportary knowne to man that it must come but knowne to the King of Heauen onely when it shall come for when eyther we by our selues personally or any Nation particularly or the world in generally is to be summoned to make his rest euen lyes hid in a Booke which none can vnclaspe All of vs therefore had neede to be in readines because the hower is vncertaine when he will call How vnspeakable then is the Mercy of our Sauiour how indemensiue is his bounty that our offences being as innumerable as the torments of hell and our least deseruing them all yet he whips vs but with silken rods and giues vs fillops when he might dash vs in pieces We are all his flocke and all haue gone astray yet he strikes but one to warne the rest For the Diuell like the Teumesian Foxe ouer takes and teares all that he hunts but he that saued the Prophet in the belly of the great Leuiathan of the sea can and doth deliuer vs when we are held fast betweene his pawes O my deare Country of Germany this is not the first warning that thou hast had from Heauen to amend thy wickednesse Many a Trumpet haue the Angels from aboue sounded in thine Eare to awake thee but seeing thou wilt not listen to the song of the Larke thou art inforced to hearken to the hoarsnesse of the Screech-owle Thou hast longed for the flesh-pots of Egypt when thou feddest vpon Quailes and Manna and that is the cause that thou art worthily afflicted and compelled in stead of rich Wines to drinke thine owne teares and for thy full banquets to eate the bread of thine owne and thy childrens sorrow Least therefore that this thy present calamity be but vnto thee as a fearefull dreame and least thou shouldst write this fresh and bleeding misery in water when it is most fit to be engrauen in leaues of Adamant or rather printed in the palmes of thy hands to be euer in thine eyes I intreate thee to looke backe vpon the woes which thou hast borne in ages past Remember some sorrowes of thy younger dayes though the wounds be closed vp yet behold the scars and in beholding them weepe that thou shouldst so incense Heauen to strike and yet reioyce that the punishment is so gentle Amongst many therefore of the rods with which thou hast beene beaten I will onely shew thee three and these are they In the yeare 1346. vpon the Regall of S. Catharine the Citie of Basill being one of the noblest buildings in Germany and for the brauery of it called Regnopoli the Kingly Citie was as Munster is at this present shaken with an Earth-quake which was so violent that by force thereof a great part of the Cathedrall Church or Summum Templum fell downe and a magnificent Palace adioyning to that Temple drowned her loftiest Pynnacles in the Riuer Rhyne vpon which that renowned City stands And againe in the yeare 1356. on the day of S. Luke another Earth-quake did not onely shake and search the foundations of all Germany but for many times one after another tossed the foresaid Citie of Basill casting downe her Towers Churches Palaces and Wals and murdring in their ruines aboue one hundred persons and with the fall of stones and timber striking infinite numbers lame Yet the rage of it was not satisfied thus for by the shaking in pieces of houses that had fires in them a lamentable destruction fell vpon the whole Citie insomuch the flames being exceeding great and not able any wayes to be quenched men women and children stood afarre off wringing their hands to see their riches their dowries and patrimonies swallowed vp in flames which burned day and night and in their greedy and mercilesse fury consumed besides the Citie of Basill these places also viz. Schouuenberg Vuartenberg Reichenstein Angenstein Berenfelss Pleffingen Scholberg Froburg and many others as by a Letter sent to Sebastian Munster by Bonif Amerbachius is to be seene in his description of Germany The same Authour sets downe likewise the sad remembrance of a misery which fell in August 1545. vpon Mechlyn in Brabant where God thundred first so terribly on the buildings and the sinnes of the people that Mechlyn shooke and trembled to her very foundations That dreadfull voice of Thunder being quiet a darknesse followed with a most horrible stench of Brimstone more terrifying the Inhabitants then the Thunder did And that misery being likewise remoued from them as bad or worse succeeded for the Clouds opening their reuenging bosomes threw downe such fearefull Lightning that men expected when the whole frame of Heauen would haue melted And to increase that terror the flashes brake into a Tower that was stored with eight hundred Barrels of Gun-powder which taking fire blew vp a great part of the Tower in a moment Stones Timber and mens quarters flying vp into the Ayre and many whole carkases found dead the next morning No Church stood vndefaced no house vnruined no man but vndone by it At the same time three men sitting at Cards were strucke dead whilst the woman that went into the Cellar to fetch them drinke escaped aliue yet dismayed no doubt but not so much terrified as he was who in the heate of those diuine punishments fled and hid himselfe in a caue by the space of three dayes from whence being driuen out by Famine for no force else could haue made him aduenture to the light he with faint voyce and trembling ioynts asked aloud If the world stood still or not Thus Munster And thus farre hauing led thee backe to looke vpon thy ancient ruines I wish thee the full fruit of all those Prayers which the Country round about terrified by thy miseries and pittying them doe daily poure out in their Churches commanded thereunto by their Rulers And with their Prayers doe I mingle mine that it would please God to deliuer not onely this our Country from his heauie punishments laid vpon it for the sinnes of the people in it but also that he would call home those angry messengers of his wrath whose stormy rage hath afflicted England France and other neighbouring Nations to the vndoing of thousands in their goods and leauing many Widowes and fatherlesse children by losse of their husbands liues FINIS

A Most true Relation of a very dreadfull Earth-quake with the Lamentable effectes thereof Which began vpon the 8. of DECEMBER 1612. and yet continueth most fearefull in Munster in Germanie READE AND TREMBLE Translated out of Dutch by Charles Demetrius Publike Notarie in London And Printed at Rotterdame in Holland at the Signe of the White Gray-hound A MOST TRVE Relation of a very dreadfull Earth-quake with the lamentable effects thereof which began vpon the eight of December this present yeare 1612. and yet continueth most fearefull in Munster in Germanie HOw happie was Adam our Father to haue the world then vnspotted his Kingdome Paradise his Pallace all creatures vpon Earth his Subiects God himselfe his Protector good Angels his councellors Sunne Moone and Starres his Bookes of contemplation and Eden his Garden of plentie and pleasure where hee had all things that were good and was in daunger of nothing that was euill But how wretched was hee for disobeying his Creators commandement to loose all this happinesse and in that Treason of his to condemne all his posteritie How miserable are the Sonnes become by the Fathers fall How blessed had they beene if hee had stood For reckon vp their losses the World that should haue beene their Paradi●e is now their Prison Mans protector God hath giuen him ouer Angels that then were his equals are now farre aboue him All creatures that were his Subiects rebell at their Lord and Master a little Bee dares sting him the smallest Gnatte is ready to choake him The earth brings foorth Bryers and Brambles to scratch him poysons to kill him Serpents to deuour him yea the heauens themselues emptie their ful Quiuers of dreadful vengeance shooting tempests of Hayle Ice Snowe Waters Windes Thunder and Lightning vpon his miserable and sinfull head That which hath a Sunne placed in it to giue him heate foode and life powres vppon him her Vyols of wrath That which was made firme for his footing and to beare vp Kingdomes Cities and all the creatures in the World now shakes and opens her entrailes to swallow him in that wombe where first hee was begotten Shall I drawe before your eyes a liuely Picture to make you see these things Alacke we write our passed punishments vpon the brest of Time and when his backe is turned it is like Childrens bookes clasped vp wee forget what lessons we reade there We are all like Zenophantus that could doe nothing but laugh yea our escaped miseries are but our mockeries for as dull beasts doe we feele stripes to day but forget the smarting to morrow growing fat with afflictions as Asses doe with blowes and the more beaten the harder our hearts are like yron lying vnder the hammer Since then we neuer feare Ship wracke but when we see our Vessels ready to Split vpon Rockes and that wee thinke neuer to fall but when the Axe is laide to the roote Since no rodde can terrifie but what is presently held ouer vs O yee Worldlings vnlesse your bosomes bee as cold as your Charitie is I shall melt you all into Water and startle your Soules out of their deadly slumbers vnlesse they bee as dull and heauie as your sinnes are by ratling in your eares the Thunder of Diuine vengeance whose noyse doth now at this very instant terrifie vs your disconsolate Neighbours The Earth-quake in Munster with other fearefull Prodigies seene in the Ayre MVnster is a Citie situate in Westphalia a part of the lower Germany It stands vpon a hill fauoured by Heauen for sweete and wholesome ayre and wanting nothing which the Prouinces adioyning to it doe plentifully enioy It is rich in people and the people rich in pleasures and therefore in sinne no windes being able to wey downe the full eares of their pride but the breath of his nosethrils which can make Princes to bow beneath his foot stoole In this Citie swelling with the abundance which her owne wombe beares and brings forth when her head lay in the soft lappe of ease when Peace sate at her Gates Freedome walked in her Streetes and when securitie laide all the Inhabitants vpon their wanton Pillowes Behold the Reuealer and Reuenger of all close and hidden impietie suddenly snatched out his Sword and smiting at them made their loftiest Pinnacles to tremble For vpon the eight day of December now last a vniuersall Earth-quake shooke the deepest foundations of the strongest buildings Churches and Steeples reeled in the Ayre like Shippes in stormes beaten vpon the Waues and in a moment their highest Battlements came tumbling to the Earth Towers of Flint Marble cannot resist this batterie The wrath of ten thousand Canons cannot confound so quickly for whole streetes of Houses stand tottering and whole streetes of Houses fall Safetie hath no Walles to dwell in no corner to flie to Men Women and Children are with the terror throwne to the Earth and as there they lie their owne Buildings fall on them and grinde them into dust If any haue so much heart left as to lift vp his hands to Heauen he is presently struck dead by Thunder and Lightning which rage with such terrible furie ouer all the poore desolately ruined Citie As if GOD in anger had swore to make this an example to other places of his Judgement as hee did his holy Citie Jerusalem not to leaue one stone standing vpon another Armies of fiery clouds thus fight against these wretched people in the Ayre thunder frights their soules and astonisheth their hearing the ground trembles vnder them and because euery Sence should be punished according to his offences the eye that once scorned to looke vp so high as heauen is now forced full of teares from thence to begge one droppe of mercy but in stead of that it beholdeth a blazing direfull Comet The Stars that are the glorious Scutcheons of the Creator and stucke as candles in heauen to light man in the night becaus● he should worke no wickednesse in darknesse are now changed into prodigious dreadfull and fiery Meteors They are out of that celestiall order which the Great Generall aboue placed them in And like a Kingdome in ciuill vprores threaten nothing but plagues mischiefe to the world and confusion Misery is euer borne with a twinne These prodigies come not alone but other strange and horrid apparitions flie vp and downe the Ayre No time being free as if night and day contended together which of them should afflict and insult ouer a wretched downe-trodden Citie with sharpest tyrannie For the Earthquake with Thunder and lightning doth twice euery day at distinct times shake disioynt and beate to the ground the howses and kill the people and when night should lend them rest to their calamities they are kept waking by these second allarms in the Element Not farre from Munster standeth a Castell called Bileuelt strongly built vpon a mightie rocke and this Fort for all it seemed to be impregnable hath beene shaken by the battry of this Earthquake and such