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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09279	A most strange and rare example of the iust iudgement of God executed vpon a lewde and wicked coniurer the .xvij. day of Ianuarie. M.D.Lxxvij. In the parish church of S. Mary Oueris in Southwark, in the presence of diuers credible [and] honest persons	Pembroke, Simon.	1577 (1577)	STC 19593; ESTC S112861	2,731	11

¶ A most strange and rare example of the iust iudgement of God executed vpon a lewde and wicked Coniurer the .xvij. day of Ianuarie M.D.Lxxvij In the parish church of S. Mary Ouerie in Southwark in the presence of diuers credible honest persons ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Bennyman REmember mortal man how time doth passe and know likewise al humain flesh is gras For time at lēgth cōsumes the strōgest oke So death at last must strike the greuous stroke Though lustie youth do pleasant beautie beare Yet youth to age in tract of time doth we are The plesant flour that bears the freshest hue The grasse that grows so grene in sōmer tide The pinching colde hir colour dothe subdue So that hir beautie cannot long abide Euen so the state of mortall man depends Whose life to these may well compared be To daye the powers aboue our life defends To morrowe deade full oftentimes we see ▪ Therfore still liue as though thou shuldest dye Thy soule to saue from so greate ieopardye If mortall man woulde weigh his state aright And shun the subtill snares of false delight Esteming them to be so fraile and vaine As nothing else maye sooner bring our paine He woulde no doubt his course direct aright And haue those shewes no longer in his sight And though our nature be so weake and frayle As any one attempt may soone auayle No doubt but if with zeale we call for grace We shall eschew suche lewde attempts apace The sygnes and shewes that dayly doe appeere In coastes abroade and in our countrie here May well a warnyng be vnto vs all To shun the synne that we be chargde withall Let vs example take of holy writ Wheron ech christen man shuld ground his wit Howe God for synne in his displeased yre Consumed Sodome and Gomorre with fyre In these our dayes it may be eke regarded How dyuers countreys for sinne are rewarded Let vs therefore by them example take And from our sinnes at length let vs awake Which God of his mercy graunt for to be That we in ioyes euerlasting may see The heuenly shew of his moste glorious face Pronouncing ioys to them that cal for grace AMEN AS the Synnes of Man are innumerable and dyuerse gentle Reader so the plagues punishmentes of God are sundrye and he sharpely scourgeth manye that wee the resydue myghte the better bee warned And though he suffer and beare with our wicked deedes and dealings a while yet without amendement and oure repentaunce hee will stryke at laste with so heauie and greuous a stroke that our frayle bodyes may not nor cānot sustayn his heauy hande Let therefore euery true Christian enter into his own heart consyder how mercyfull God is how he warneth vs howe he spareth vs and gyueth daily examples for our amendement how he plageth the offēdor thoughe mercifull to a great sorte of sinners If we woulde consyder this transitorie worlde howe tickle it standeth howe vncertayne the lyfe of man is howe we can assure vnto our selues nothyng certayne but death howe our toyles our laboures oure cares our inuentions oure pollicies and subtilties passe with our mortall bodies vndoubtedly the verie horrour of our consciences woulde cause vs to bee more carefull to refrayne oure naturall bodies from such filthy detestable and abhominable liuing as they are most prone and ready to folowe and imbrace yea it woulde so moue our myndes to deuotion that therby the vayn industries lewd attemptes and wycked imaginations of our hearte myght be altered and chaunged to true Religion to constantnesse of Faith and to true and syncere dealyng one with an other Let vs therfore searche and examine our selues and lyke the loste sonne come home crie Abba father and then vndoubtedly with spreaded armes hee will bee ready to receiue vs to his great mercye whereas on the contrarie hee will shewe hymselfe a fierce and terrible god pronouncing a most sharpe iudgement vppon the offendor yea he wil steale vpon him on a day whē he loketh not for him and in an houre that he is not ware of and shall hewe him in peeces and giue him his portion with the hipocrites where there shall be weepyng and gnashing of teethe After which sorte God in his iustice stroke the persone of whom we nowe speake who maye well bee a myrrour and spectacle to vs all that we knowing and seeyng the ende of hys wycked life may renewe the olde man graffed in our harts glorifying our heauenly Father whiche is in Heauen whiche God graunte of his mercye Amen The seuenteenth daye of Ianuarie this presente yeare of our Lorde God a thousand fiue hundred seuentie and sixe one Simon Pembroke dwelling in Sainct Georges parish in Southwark beyng cōuented before the ordinarie iudge of that place as vehemētly suspected to be a Coniurer and the proces beeing serued vpon him to appeare in the Parishe Churche of Sainct Marie Ouery at the Court there vsually holden by the sayde Iudge to aunswere vnto suche obiections as he myghte bee charged wythal touching his diuellishe trade and to receyue condygne punishment if he were founde culpable therein albeit somewhat sickely before as it must truly be confessed neuerthelesse chosing rather to come than to vse any excuse of absence he fayled not at his appoynted daye to appeare shewing him selfe ready in euery respect to cleare him selfe of all suche matters as should or might in any wise be obiected against him saying that he had gret wrong to be troubled for any suche false surmyse Wherevpon comming to a Proctor of the Arches mynding to retaine hym to bee of his counsell touchyng the defence of the obiections layde against him being refused by the said Proctor with his fee in his hande the Iudge comming into the Churche he sank down sodeynly amongst them starke deade not hauing space or grace to saye once the Lord haue mercie vpon me to the great amaze of al the standers by The Iudge seing what had chaunced and that by no meanes his lyfe coulde be recouered he commaunded that he shoulde be serched to the intent that if he had money or other chardge about him it might not bee embeselled but restored to his poore wife beeing there present lamenting hir late husbande in moste pitifull sorte whiche done there were found about him certain diuelishe and wicked bookes of coniuration a peece of tinne with a picture engraued a lttle blacke sticke like vnto Iette aboute two inches long with other toies instrumentes no doubt of his diuelish arte Wherfore let this iust sodain executiō of gods iudgement be a terror vnto those that setting apart that clemēcy great mercy of our heauenly father haue practised this or the like wicked trade let al other that are infected with any notable crime as no doubte none of vs can excuse our selues take example by thys deade carkas whose manner of lyfe as it was abhomynable and odyous in the sighte of god so the order of hys death no lesse fearful and terrible in the sight of men I say after so many warnyngs let vs not be senslesse as bruite beastes neither lette vs deferre our repentaunce vntill to morrow least at midnight or at the daunyng of the day our time be shortened whereby to late wee are to call for repentaunce but while we haue time and space let vs call for mercy that we may assure our selues of his comfortable promisse which is that at what tyme soeuer a synner dothe repent him of his sinnes frō the bottome of his harte I will put all his wickednes out of my remembrance and so glorifying him in this life we may bee partakers of the heauenlye ioyes prepared for his elected whiche God graunte for his sonne Iesu Christes sake Amen