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A13106	Two wunderfull and rare examples, of the vndeferred and present approching iudgement of the Lord our God the one vpon a wicked and pernitious blasphemer of the name of God, and seruaunt to one Maister Frauncis Pennell, gentleman, dwelling at Boothbie in Lincolnshire, three myles from Grantham : the other vpon a vvoman, named Ioane Bowser, dwelling at Donnington, in Leicestershire, to whome the deuill verie straungely appeared, as in the discourse following, you may reade, in Iune last 1581 / vvritten by Phillip Stubbes.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1581 (1581)	STC 23399.7; ESTC S2352	8,019	20

face But yet good Pen hould on thy course to write doo thou not linne For I the truthe to prosecute hereof will now beginne There is a towne in Lincolneshire which Bothbie hath to name Iust thrée miles distant from Grantam a towne of aūcient fame Wherein there dwels a Gentleman the truthe for to decyde Who Frauncis Penell called is this may not be denyed It pleased God this Gentleman into his house did hyre A Seruingman t'atende him on borne in Worstershire Which sayd youngman inclyned was vnto a thing not good As for to sweare by Christ his flesh and by his precious blood So musled vp hearein he was that leaue it he ne could But at each woord which he should speake by Gods blood sweare he would This 〈…〉 was was his vsuall kinde of oath O Sathanist most vile 〈…〉 erewith he did his loouing God pollute and eke defile 〈…〉 dooth you sée transnature vs and bringeth vs to wracke Yea makes a Metamorphosis of vs behinde our backe Wherefore let vs estraunge our selues from rustomes that be naught Hauing regard vnto our soules which Iesus Christe hath bought Now Christe our Lord and Father déere in iudgement dooth procéede Hurling at this miscreant vile his thunderbolts of dread Meaning in Iustice for to make this viper Uarlet he A terrour vnto all the world of swearing for to be Wherefore our Lord commaunded death at him to shoote his darte Who straight without protract of time gored him vnto the harte Now when that he the panges of Death did féele and eke sustaine Than he began as you haue heard Gods name for to blaspheme And neuer ceased for to sweare by Iesus Christe his blood Untyll his soule at the last gaspe foorth of his body yood And in this cruell extasie he passionate did lie The space of thrée or fowre whole weekes styll swearing bytterlie Now when that he had languished the spare that I haue sayde The people they perceyuing it of force he would be dead Caused the Bell for to be tolde that all for him might pray Beséeching God his soule to kéepe against the dreadfull day But when that he had heard this Bell knolling most drerilie He rushing vp sayd by Gods blood this Bell it tolles for me He had no sooner spoke these wordes which I haue shewed to you But that a pace his heart blood did foorth of his body flowe For why out of his singers endes his blood did streame full faste So did it foorth at his toes endes which made them all agaste And yet the Lord procéeded foorth this trayterous wight to scorge The blood gusht out yea at his wrests much like the foming surge So did it also at his nose runne foorth aboundantlie With other filthie excrements which man dooth lothe to sée Thus died he commmitting his soule to the furies fell Which doo possesse th'infernall gulfe and Laberinth of hell Than was his body straight interde although in trueth forlorne For whome it had béene better farre if he had not béene borne Whose heart is now so obdurate that hearing of this thing Will not permit out of the same great floods of teares to spring Or whose minde is so fastinate or eke so lulde on sleepe That for to heare héerof will not constrained be to wéepe And that for feare he should his God through swearing thus offend And thereby purchase to him selfe like dyre and rufull end O you that sweare at euerie word repleate with deuilrie For to abstaine from swearing vile let this a caueat be For sure you are as guiltie of the death of Christe Iesu As euer were the curssed Iewes which on the Crosse him slew But oh alas so farre are we from leauing of this vice That we will not expung the same but therein doo reioyce We count that man heroicall and of a courage good Who can lashe out the greatest oathes by Iesus Christe his blood And he that will not weare at all for feare of punishment He counted is a softishe foole and eke a mere Peasant But now me thinkes I heare these Dogs t'expostulate with me And say they haue their God in minde when that they sweare him bie But to you men most Serpentine the Lord dooth say againe Thou shalt not take the name of me the Lord thy God in vaine Also the Lord dooth thée commaund in Mathew this is plaine ●hat thou at all from swearing should for euer to abstaine Prouing that what procéedeth more than this yea yea no no Dooth come from the infernall Prince our mortall deadly foe Th'apostle Iames dooth vs instruct by wordes effectuall Saying to vs O brethren déere doo you not sweare at all By other places infinite of holie Scripture pure We are restrained we should not sweare at all by no Creature For that is vile Idolatrie farre from a learned lore Which thing we ought at all assayes to lothe and to abhorre Wherefore I héereof doe conclude without remorse or grudge That all vaine oathes vnlawfull are not made before a Iudge For sure I am we neuer ought at any time to sweare Except the Christian Magistrate by lawe doo it require And if before him we doo sweare in trueth and holinesse The Lord him selfe acknowledgeth he thereby honoured is And thus I end beséeching God of his especiall grace That we all sinfull swearing may abandone in each place Elizabeth our noble Quéene good Lord preserue and shéeld That shée thy chaste and faithfull Spowse may still maintaine build Make her O Lord a Mother olde in Israell thy owne hill Graunt that shée may in all respectes obey thy godlie will Good Lord protect her royall Grace and blesse her with long life That this thy Realme may long remaine in peace voide of all strife Let her O Lord be placed farre distant from cruell death And all that will not say Amen would God they had no breath Phillip Stubbes FINIS A fearefull and rare example of Gods iust iudgement which he executed vpon an obstinate woman who would not forgiue her brother his debt the Deuill appearing to her in most dreadfull manner and afflicting her body in pittifull wise and which may be a lesson admonitory to all the world to mooue them to repentaunce and one to forgiue an other THe workes of God are wonderfull as you by this shall heare Wherefore attentiue eare I craue to hearken to my leyre Good Penne prepare thy selfe to write those things I shall require Which happened in Donington a Towne of Lestershire A Towne truly of auncientie and of renownted fame For otherwise to speake thereof in troth I were to blame But as the Towne it famous is and worthy so to be So are the people ineffrenate peruerse in each degrée In Donington the foresayd Towne there dwelt an honest man Whose name in truthe was Iohn of Twell so néere as I can scan Which sayd Iohn Twell arested was by Death that cruell wight T'appeare before our Souerigne Lord the Peareles King of might So called

❧ Two wunderfull and rare Examples Of the vndeferred and present approching iudgement of the Lord our God the one vpon a wicked and pernitious blasphemer of the name of God and seruaunt to one Maister Frauncis Pennell Gentleman dwelling at Boothbie in Lincolnshire three myles from Grantham The other vpon a vvoman named Ioane Bowser dwelling at Donnington in Leicestershire to whome the Deuill verie straungely appeared as in the discourse following you may reade In Iune last 1581. VVritten by Phillip Stubbes ❧ Imprinted at London for VVilliam VVright and are to be solde at his shoppe in the Poultrie the middle shoppe in the rowe adioyning to Saint Mildreds Church ❧ Two rare examples to mooue all Christians to repentaunce the one of an odious swearer the other of a widdow named Ioane Bowser c. IT is a pittifull case to consider the inordinate sinnes wherein the world at this time is as it were drowned For where hath not iniquity gottē the vpper hand Is not pride whoredome swearing and lying by the mallice of the Deuill euen in the time of the Gospel more frequented and helde in estimation then at any other time heeretofore Howe many counterfeit visors hath follie practised to couer all her traines of subtiltie perswading her immitators with such madnesse that modestie is driuen into exyle Are not the hearts of men so fast lulled in the cradle of Securitie that Pittie is forgotten Chatitie fledde Mercie exiled Auarice exalted good Conscience banished and the poore vncherished and the Gospell of Trueth as a shaddowe with the lyppes professed but in effect little followed Nay rather the more is the pittie Exhortations Examples Earthquakes Comettes fierie Skies Inundations Shipwrackes vnnaturall birthes as well in men as beastes nothing regarded vvhich thing dooth but foreshowe that our dayes are the verie same which the Apostle Paule to Tymothie 7. Chapter Dooth so warelie warne vs to take heede off saying In the later daies men shall become loouers of themselues disobedient euill speakers c. And who can be so blinde that dooth not see these thinges growne to such corruption that the Scithe of Gods wrath is no doubt ready to mowe vs as vnprofitable brambles from the face of the earth except we repent And heere deare brethren I haue to present vnto your eyes a rare example of the Iustice of God vpon a great blasphemer of the precious blood of Christe which came to passe in Lincolnshire in the moneth of Iune last past in a Towne called Boothebie three myles from Granthame in the house of a good Gētleman bothe of woorshippe and credite named Maister Pennell who hauing entertained this Seruingman for so he was who had styll in his mouth the vse to sweate Gods precious blood and that for verie trifles Thus notwithstanding beeing often warned by his freendes to leaue the taking of the Lords blood in vaine did notwithstanding styll persist in his wickednesse vntyll at the last it pleased God to acite him first with sicknesse and last with Death During which time of the Lordes visitation no perswasions could mooue him to repent his forevsed blasphemies but hearing the Bell to towle dyd most hardlie in the verie anguishe of death starte vp in his bedde and sware by Gods blood this Bell dooth towle for me wherevppon immediatlie the blood aboundauntly from all the ioyntes of his body as it were in streames did issue out most fearefullie as well from mouth nose wrestes knees heeles and toes with all other ioynts not one left free whereupon he most my serablie yeelded vp the ghost whose iudgement I leaue vnto the Lord. And nowe I will proceede to shewe one other as straunge a Iudgement happening in Leicestershire in a Towne called Donnington where dwelled a poore man named Iohn Twell who deceased owing vnto one Oswald Bowcer the summe of fiue shilling which the sayde Oswalde did forgiue the sayde man before named as he lay vpon his death bedde but the sayde Oswaldes wife called Ioane would in no wise forgiue the sayde Twell as long she sayde as she had day to liue Wherevpon not long after the Deuill appeared vnto her in the forme of the sayd Twell deceased expressing all the lyneamentes of the body of the dead man which might well be for we reade in the Bible in the like order did Sathan counterfeit the body of Samuell But to proceede to the matter this euill spirit vttered vnto her these speeches sayd he had brought her mony from Iohn Twell deceased and willed her incontinent to disburse the sayd money vnto her husband for his paines Which she with as couetous a desire receyued saying God thanke you She had no sooner named God but the money consumed away from betweene her handes as it were a vapour or smoake tyll it was all consumed wherwith the Deuill giuing her a most fearefull and sore stroke vanished out of her sight VVherewith her whole body became as blacke as pitche replenished all ouer with a moste filthy scurffe and other thinges which was so odious as heere my pen for modesties sake leaueth to wright referring you to the verses heereafter ensuing But to proceede her body was most straungely benummed and her eyes closed vp from the benefite of the light Thus remayning a certaine space she confessed the hardnesse of her heart and with great patience thanked God for his iudgementes bestowed on her Wherevpon to be breefe it pleased God seeing her repentaunce to reuoke his Iustice and to restore her vnto her former health where she remayneth praysing the name of God for his great mercies bestowed vpon her And I beseech the Lord Iesus that these examples may not onely be read but warily marked to the amendment of our most sinfull and wicked liues and that blasphemers may beware and take heede how they more reuerentlie in their communication vse the name of God and that these harde hearted people who will not forgiue their brethren be the debt neuer so small But as it is well mentioned in the Gospell will for a hundreth pence catch their poore brethren by the throate forgetting howe many debtes our heauenlie Father hath forgiuen vs and washed vs in his blood To whome be all honour and glorie Amen ¶ A fearefull and terrible example of God iuste iudgement executed vpon a lewde fellow who vsually accustomed to sweare by Gods blood which may be a Caueat to all the whole world that they blaspheme not the name of their God by swearing O Mortall men which in this world for time haue your repast Approch the fearefulst thing to heare that euer happened erst Yea such a thing as dooth importe the Lord our God on hye Through swearing by his blessed name offended for to be Which straūg euent whilst that I doo perpend and to minde call My Penne in trothe is readie prest out of my hand to fall My hart also dooth quaile in brest my eyes distill a pace The Saulte and brinish teares also do trickle downe my