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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17336	The woefull and lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608		1608 (1608)	STC 4181; ESTC S114180	7,254	18

THE Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke on Munday the tenth of Aprill 1608 LONDON Printed for Henrie Gosson and are to be solde in Pater nosterrowe at the Signe of the Sunne 1608 THE Woefull and lamentable waste and spoile done by suddaine Fire in S. Edmons-burie in Suffolke on Munday the tenth of Aprill 1608 THere is no impositiō of afliction laid vpō mā-kind by the powerful hād of God but it is either to draw vs vnto him to teach vs to bend all our intendmēts to celestial happines or to with draw vs from the world and to forewarn vs not to rely our hopes vppon her slippery tearmes For what shal we get by being willing customers vnto her but false ware suitable to the shop of such a Marchant her traffick is but toile her wealth trash and her game mischiefe If we consider where we are what state we stand in The daungers that hang ouer vs and our ordinary wantes and amisses Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow that we ought rather delight and take pleasure in Gods louing chastisements and admonitions then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses or tribulations Consider saith Saint Bernarde From whom thou commest and blush whether thou goest and feare where thou liuest and lament Wee are begotten in vncleanenes nourished in darkenes and brought foorth with throbbes and throwes Our Infancie is but a dreame our youth but madnesse our manhood a combat our age a sicknes our whole life misery and our death horror If we haue any thing that doth delight vs it is in so many hazards that the feare of loosing it is more then the ioy of enioying it If we haue any thing that doth annoy vs the agreeuance therof encreaseth with the doubt of as euill or worse that may straight ensue after it which way can wee cast our eyes but that we shall finde cause of complaint and heauines These are forcible motiues to perswade vs to suffer our afflictions with patience If wee looke vp towards heauen from thence we are banished If we looke towards earth That is our prison On the right hand we haue Vertue whose steps we haue not folowed On the left hand we haue Vice whose course we haue pursued Before vs wee haue our death readie to denoure vs behinde vs our wicked life readie to accuse vs And on euery side dayly and deadly aduersaries readie to entrap vs. Oh how much then are worldlings deceiued that walke in magnis mirabilibus superse in greate things and meruailes aboue them selues that reioyce in the time of weeping that make this life their happines and their pallace of pleasure that e●eme afflictions to be dishonorable that think to goe to heauen by the wide way that only leadeth to perdition Afflictions are louing and fatherly corrections to winne vs to heauen The path that goeth thither is narrow rough fully wearisome tyring ascents their way therfore is wrong their error grosse and their ruine is assured that after the steps of many that haue patiently trode the waye to heauen by crosses tribulations will not learne to settle their footing The contentions of this life haue nothing certain but true miserie rough stormes solace full of sadnesse and hopes full of hazard they are like faire weather in winter nothing durable like a calme in the Sea alwayes vncertaine like the steadinesse of the Moone that is euer in changing they resemble the Cockatrices egge faire without foule within Nabuchodonozors Image that had the face and head of gold but earthen and brittle feete Or the sweete Riuer that runneth into the salt Sea Seeing therefore that crosses and afflictions or any externall calamities are but meanes to remember vs of our place state daunger and but seedes of comfort to such as enioye them how soeuer they seeame heere couered and corrupted in earth and tedious to mans vndergoing let vs solace our selues in hepe of a ioyfull conclusion Wee are here but Pilgrimes we haue no Citty of aboade but hope for a future place of rest If our way should be altogether beset with pleasures and delightes wee should easily be hindered in our iourney towards heauen beeing drawne and withhelde with the view and desire of those allurements Therefore God hath layed in the way of through-fare some tedious and distersfull oppositions to put vs in minde of our heauenly repose and to teach vs to runne ouer the cares of this life with patience God hath his secret loue to man-kinde and his seuerall punishements for sinne which hee often times doth easily inflict vppon vs to drawe vs to amendment Those creatures which in the first parliament of our creation were appointed to be our comforts are many times sent forth with sundry rods to scourge vs to correct vs nay to drawe blood of vs for our sinnes There is yet a meanes to be made for our reconcilement Sonne and heire apparant to the King of heauen mediats betweene his Father and vs to make our peace with him it may easily be effected if we shake off and abandon those vise enormities and base company of sinnes that attainte euery one of vs. If wee doe not hee will assuredly turne his threatnings into blowes and his louing mercy into seuere Iustice and those consuming flames which hee hath of late but scattered in diuers partes of this Kingdome hee will at one time and in one place cast all together and make of the world one geernall bone-fier and that on a sodaine for not making right vse of his diuers fatherly and gentle admonitions Amongst which this affliction of Fire that befell to the Towne of S. Edmons-burie in Suffolke deserues with all pittie to be pittied and to be reckoned in the remēbrance of many other as an imposition of calamitie laid vppon that place by the hand and power of God for their secret sins and offences The beginning of which fire as it was by the remisse and sleepie negligence of a Seruant So did it proue to be of verie dismall and disaster consequence It was such as none could beholde it without trembling neither can any heare it and not shed teares in aboundance to see the miseries that were kindled by it IT hapned on Munday the tenth of Aprill betwéene eight and nine of the clock in the morning without the east gate of the same Towne in a place called East-gate street in the house of one Randall a Maltster And notwithstanding that at first it began halfe a mile from the Market place yet was it carryed thither by the violence of the winde where it did those seuerall hurts as will not be made good in long time nor without great summes of money In describing which sad report you shall behold the names of some that are fallne into miserie by the same As also the places where the chiefe hurts and ouerthrowes haue bene with seuerall hot encounters