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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01791	Gods handy-vvorke in vvonders Miraculously shewen vpon two women, lately deliuered of two monsters: with a most strange and terrible earth-quake, by which, fields and other grounds, were quite remoued to other places: the prodigious births, being at a place called Perre-farme, within a quarter of a mile of Feuersham in Kent, the 25. of Iuly last, being S. Iames his day. 1615.		1615 (1615)	STC 11926; ESTC S105736	11,528	24

that it had now with great trembling and feare been seene of many men in the towne and euery man astonide thereat in the end they smothered it betwixt two beds and so killed it My brother in Christ and Reader hereof let not this which is here declared seeme a fable vnto thee for this and the like wonders many haue been heard of heere and there as Monsters by Sea signes in the Ayre both of men and cattell By this we do perceiue and marke that the Lords comming is at hand and that shortly hereupon will follow the iudgement day whereas we must not onely giue account of our sinnes but also of all vaine works words and deedes For now a dayes the common sort of people are wholy bent to wicked companie whereas is cursing swearing eating drinking breaking of Wedlocke and whoredome like as was with this aforesayd man of Arneheim good people amend your sinfull liues and call to God for grace Also this may be a looking glasse vnto euery wedded woman whereby to refraine casting out of such vnaduised words like as did this aforesayd wife her time of deliuery being so neere but rather to haue patience by pacifying her wrath and commit all matters to almighty GOD that hee may amend all that which in her husband is amisse also to pray for him that it wil please God so to turne his heart that he may acknowledge his sinnes and so amend his sinfull life The almightie GOD wonderfull in his creations grant vs all his grace that wee may amend our wicked liues confesse his power and haue euerlasting life in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A TRVE DISCOVRSE OF THINGS happened by an Earthquake the 1. of March 1615. according to the ancient supputation in the places adioyning to the lake of Geneua otherwise called Lacus Lemanus and especially in the villages of hie Corberye and Iuorne which are perished SYthence that GOD speaketh vnto vs by all his workes our duety is not to passe ouer lightly that which he causeth vs to heare but rather to consider it so well and attentiuely that the whole be referred to that end vnto the which it appertaineth He hath spoken vnto vs long time sithence by his holy word published and preached in these latter dayes so faithfully that wée may say that those which haue liued before vs doe followe vs in this very farre off But alas the more he speaketh the lesse we heare and the hearts which ought to relent doe ware the more hard yea in steade of yeelding willingly vnto his obedience there is such a rebellion in the most part of men that a great number of them make themselues vtterly vnapt to learne Neuerthelesse for all this hee ceaseth not to set before vs that which is to the furtherance of our saluation aswell by his promises whose effects are felt and perceiued in the harts of those which loue him and feare him as by his threatnings by the which his will is to terrifie the hypocrites contemners of his Maiestie the more to increase their condemnation Indeede if being admonished threatned and corrected they shall perseuer in their wickednesse without doubt God will continue his iustice and display his true and seuere iudgement in this world to the continuance of it euerlastingly in the world to come It is most certaine that on what side soeuer a man turneth himselfe he may perceiue the signes of the wrath of God ingraued in al his creatures whose age and wearinesse in the seruice of men in their corruption requireth nothing more then to be deliuered from the oppression which they feele through the wickednesse of such as abuse them in dishonouring God and following their wicked will The heauens are witnesse the ayre the water and the earth cryeth nothing else The plagues and infectiue diseases which haue almost vnpeopled the whole world beare witnesse hereof The forren and ciuill warres which haue destroyed and doe yet destroy the earth doe declare it The dearthes and famines which haue brought and do bring to ruine many realms doe shew the like Neuerthelesse they laugh and mocke no lesse then in the dayes of Noe whereas they should rather prepare the Arke to saue themselues when as the floud of the lake and eternall iudgement shall light vpon all creatures for it seemeth to be euen already at hand This Arke is vnfained repentance which hauing the true feare of God for the foundation causeth men to be grieued and sorrowfull for their wickednesse past with carefull and most earnest studie of well doing for the time to come To this repentance God doth call vs by sundry and diuers wayes especially by the signes aforetolde by our Sauiour Iesus Christ in the 24. Chap. of Saint Mathew which signes in these later dayes hee dayly setteth before vs as fore-runners of his glorious comming Now our meaning is not to speake of things happened far hence or long sithence neither of impressions or sights seene in the ayre within these few Moneths such as are burning flames the Sun doubled yea tripled or yet of thundring or lightning in the middest of winter but onely of the Earth-quake happened the first of March 1615. according to the ancient Almanack in the countreys of Lyonois Masconois Daulphin Sauoy Piedmont Valles Swysse and Burgonny Nor yet to discourse of the causes and effects thereof as the naturall Philosophers according to their profession are wont to doe but to warne euery one that séeing the earth shaketh we may take occasion euery one of vs generally and particularly to be affraide and quake in our hearts considering the multitude of sinnes which ouerwhelme vs in this cursed time and extreme olde age of the world And also that it is not here beneath that we must looke for our assurance séeing that there is nothing firme or stable but aboue in heauen For as Histories witnesse vnto vs there haue seldome beene such signes but that there haue followed shortly after most great and cruell calamities common and generall to all estates And not to speake of thinges befalne elsewhere wee will briefely touch such things as are chansed in these quarters neere to the lake Lemanus leauing vnto others to doe the like of that which happened to euery one in his Countrey The 1. of March 1615. halfe an houre before 12. of the day the skie being most cleare and faire the Sunne shining all sodainely came the Earthquake which lasted not aboue 10. or 11. minutes by the clocke for that one time It was especially perceiued by the clicketing of the windowes and cracking of the houses shaking of trees and stone walles with a great noyse and hollow sound in the ayre In many places there fell downe chimnies the walles rased and riuen as amongst the rest at a towne called Bonne in Fussigny at Thonon Euyan S. Mauris in Chablage Laufanne Morges and many other places At Geneua fell downe thrée or foure chimnies and a stone wall of an olde building without any other