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B09349	A brief account of the most remarkable prodigies which happened at the birth, in the life, and the death of our blessed savior Jesus Christ. To which is added a lively description of the person of Christ. Also, something concerning Agbarus, prince of the Edesseans; with his epistle to Christ; and Christ's letter in answer thereto collected out of the best historians, both divine and heathen / and illustrated with observations, both in verse and prose by W. L.	W. L.	1696 (1696)	Wing L84A; ESTC R224607	4,603	1

far more resplendent than it self Bright Sol surrounded with that Glorious Light Withdrew his Beams and vanisht out of sight The Righteous Son made that illustrious Day Darkness at his arising fled away Missed in th' Night of blind Obscurity Before we grop'd but now we plainly see Gamester in his Ecclesiastical History affirms That the very same Day that our Saviour Christ was born a Temple at Rome dedicated to the Goddess Pax fell to the Ground adding that when it was first erected the Romans consulted the Oracle of Apollo demanding how long it should continue which replyed Vntil a Virgin should bring forth a Child Which they concluded impossible and therefore that Temple should never be demolished nevertheless they were grosly mistaken for at the blessed Virgin 's bringing forth a Child even the King of Heaven it fell to the Earth and became a ruinons heap Lucas de Cais in his Chronicle of Spain reports That he found in the Antient Records of that Country that by computation of Time on the same Night wherein our Saviour was born a Cloud appeared about Midnight giving such a resplendent Light that it was hard to distinguish the Night from a clear Day So Heaven's bright Nuntio's did of old descend In Fiery Clouds not able to contend With Ph●bus till this most refulgent Cloud Chang'd Night to Day Dim Sol amazed stood Trembling for fear a far more Radiant Light Should him obscure and make him rule the Night PRODIGIES in the Life of Christ I Now proceed to speak of Prodigies which occur'd in the Life of our blessed Saviour here upon Earth Saint Jerome relates That when Joseph fled with the Virgin and her Son into Aegypt all the Idols and Images of their Gods tumbled from their Altars to the Ground and that their Oracles also ceased at that time and never were heard to answer any more Rarities of the Creation pag. 84. About the first Year after the Birth of Christ Armies were seen at Rome fighting in the Air. The Sun suffered a violent Eclipse after which a violent Tempest of Rain and Hail followed And about the 12th Year when Jesus disputed with the Jewish Doctors a great and terrible Comet appeared The Light of the Sun was apparently seen to fail at Rome How could he longer cast a glimmering Ray And see the Fountain of his Light decay The Heavens seemed to burn Fiery Beams fell from Heaven and bloody Comets were seen in several places The River Tiber overflowed Rome Upon which see Horace in the 2d Ode of the first Book Jam satis terrae nivis c. Thirteen Cities in Africa were destroyed by an Earthquake Noisome and Pestilential Flyes came in great Swarms into Germany Caligula that Monster of Mankind was born King Agrippa was slain Agustus Caesar dyed In the 22d Year of his Age it rained Blood in Rome which was a remarkable presage of the effusion of Christ's most precious Blood Armies were seen again fighting in the Air both in Rome and Pola●d and a Blazing Star like a Sword was discerned in the Skye Soon after whith the Theatre erected by Pompey was burnt down and the City of Tiberius drowned And in the same Year Tiberius became a most Bloody Tyrant and committed all manner of Cruelty upon the Romans Strange and Unusual Sights what else could be While our Great Lord sustain'd such Misery Nature unhing'd stood trembling in amaze Dreading her Mover would her Beauty raze Least she to her Confusion should return And Fiery Flames become her Funeral Urn. Such strange Events may justly seem to bode A Wicked People and an Angry God PRODIGIES at the Death of Christ IN the 34th Year of our Saviour's Life Tiberius then being Emperor of Rome the Wicked Jews most barbarously cruc●fied our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as produc●d such prodigious Effects as were never seen in any Age before and which were afterwards attested and confirmed as well by Heathens as Christians At the time of his Death a very great and thick Darkness happened in the Day-time which continued from Six till Nine and yet the Sun suffered no Eclipse for the Moon was at Full so that it was Miraculous and Contrary to the Order of Nature and could be no otherwise effected than by the Immediate Power of God who justly deprived the Sun of its Light whilst his Son ignominiously suffered Death for the Sin of Man Dionysius the Areopagite being that Day in Athens and seeing the Son in a total Eclipse and knowing being well skill'd in Astrology and the Course of the Heavens that such an Eclipse must be contrary to the known rules of Nature cryed out with a loud Voice Either the World is at End or the God of Nature suffers Some Authors affirm that the Wise Men of Athens were so much affrighted at this Prodigy that they presently caused an Altar to be built and dedicated to the unknown God and that St. Paul arriving there cheeked their blind and superstitious Ignorance declaring unto them That Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the World was that unknown God whereby he converted many of them to the Christian Faith Which also is a plain demonstration that the Darkness was over the whole World since it was at Athens and other places far remote from Jerusalem yea the Moon being at Full and having no Light but what she borroweth from the Sun she became most violently darkned Heaven's brightest Darling thus bereav'd of Light What could succeed but a most gloomy Night Darkness his Mourning cloath'd the doleful Sky And thickest Clouds became his Canopy All things condole but the most impious Jew Who did his Hands in Spotless Blood imbrue I might mention a great many more Prodigies which I have met with in credible Authors but am forced at present to omit them for brevity's sake desiring that these represented unto us in this small Collection may have that blessed effect upon every one of us to make us more circumspect in our ways And if such Terrible Apparitions happened at his First Coming far more Dreadful may be expected at his Second For which God of his infinite Mercy prepare us all Amen FINIS Licensed and Entred according to Order Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Jewen-street near Crowder's-Well 1696.

A Brief Account of the Most Remarkable PRODIGIES which happened at the Birth in the Life and at the Death of our Blessed Saviour JESVS CHRIST To which is Added A Lively Description of the Person of Christ 16. March 1695 6. Also Something concerning AGBARVS Prince of the Edesseans with his Epistle to Christ and Christ's Letter in Answer thereto Collected out of the Best Historians both Divine and Heathen And illustrated with Observations both in Verse and Prose By W. L. In the Days of Tiberius Caesar the Emperor Publius Lentulus being at that time President in Judea wrote an Epistle to the Senate of Rome Concerning Jesus Christ the Words whereof are these as followeth THere appeared in these our days a Man of Great Virtue called JESUS CHRIST who is yet living amongst us and of the People is accepted for a Prophet but his own Disciples call him the SON of GOD. He raiseth the Dead and cureth all manner of Diseases Well might the Romans at such Works admire Jove and his Gods could ne're so high aspire Those Mighty Works he did declar'd him more Then all those Idols Rome did then adore The Dead revivd Who could their Life restore But he that first inspir'd it by his power How c●uld the Blind in darkness longer stray When th' glorious Sun dispel'd it quite away And what but Health could seize all Living Things When shadow'd under his All-healing Wings In reproving he is severe in admonishing courteous and fair-spoken pleasant in Speech mixed with gravity It cannot be remembred that any have seen him laugh but many have seen him weep In proportion of Body well shaped and straight his Hands and Arms very delectable to behold in Speaking very temperate modest and wise A Man for his singular Beauty surpassing the Children of Men. When all that 's Good most Perfect and Divine To dignifie our Nature did combine When Innocence descended from Above In brightest Glory and in purest Love What else but Beauty could it self display Far more illustrious then the clearest Day And much more during That one frowning blast At might appreaching makes to look agast But this un●angled by devouring Age Unruffld by tempestuous Heat an Age Continues in a perfect Symetry And will outlast boundless Eternity AFter that Jesus Christ was made manifest unto all men through the working of Miracles he drew unto him an innumerable sort of Strangers far distant from Judea afflicted with sundry Diseases and every sort of Maladies being to recover their health of which King Agbarus Governour of the famous Nations inhabiting beyond the River Euphrates grievously diseased in body incurable by mans cunning hearing the renowned Fame of Jesus the wonderful Works which he wrought agreeable to the same published of all men wrote unto him by Letters requiring deliverance from his Disease Jesus though not presently yielded unto his desire vouchsafed to answer him by an Epistle That shortly he would send one of his Disciples which should cure his Disease promising withal That he should not only cure his Disease but as many as belonged unto him Which promise he not long after performed for after his Resurrection Thomas one of the twelve Apostles sent his Brother Thaddaus accounted among the seventy Disciples by Divine Inspiration into the City of Edessa to be Preacher of the Doctrine of Christ by whom all things concerning the Promise of Christ were performed The Reader hath an approved Testimony of these Things in Writing taken out of the Recorded Monuments of the Princely City Edessa for there are found enrowled in their publick Registry things of Antiquity and which were done about Agbarus's time and preserved unto this Day and copyed out of their Registry and translated by us out of the Syrian Tongue in this manner The EPISTLE of Agbarus unto our Saviour AGbarus Governour of Edessa unto Jesus the good Saviour shewing himself in Jerusalem sendeth greeting I have heard of thee and thy Cures which thou hast done without Medicine or Herbs for as the report goeth thou makest the Blind to see the Lame to go the Lepers thou cleansest foul Spirits and Devils thou castest out and the long diseased thou restorest to Health and raisest the Dead to Life When that I heard these things of thee I imagined with my self one of these two things either that thou art God come from Heaven and dost these things or the Son of God that bringeth these things to pass Wherefore by these my Letters I beseech thee to take the pains to come unto me and that thou wilt cure this my grievous Malady wherewith I am sore vexed I have heard moreover that the Jews murmur against thee and go about to mischief thee I have here a little City and an honest which will suffice us both The LETTER of Christ to Agbarus AGbarus blessed art thou because thou hast believed in me when thou sawest me not for it is written of me That they which see me shall not believe in me that they which see me not may believe and be saved Concerning that thou wrotest unto me that I should come unto thee I let thee understand that all things touching my Message are here to be fulfilled and after the fulfilling thereof I am to return again unto him that sent me But after my Ascension I will send one of my Disciples unto thee which shall cure thy Mallady and restore Life to thee and them that be with thee PRODIGIES at the Birth of Christ IN prosecution of my intended method I first begin with the Birth of the most Holy and Immaculate Son of God incarnate which was according to the best of Chronologers in the 3849 Year of the Word and in the 48th Year of Augustus Caesar second Emperor of Rome it was attended with many surprizing and remarkable Prodigies and Apparitions in the Heavens and that after a more Terrible and Supernatural manner than ever happened in the preceding Ages as the learned and warlike Jew Josephus testifies in his Jewish History which Sights being unusual were therefore more Frightful to humane Nature and put the Magi themselves to whom the Vulgar had ever recourse in things of Consequence to so great a non-plus that they could make no evasion but were forced to conclude as well they might That some more than ordinary Person should arise For besides the Account given by the Evangelists of an Angel appearing to the Shepherds and the Star which directed the Wise Men to the Place of his Nativity we have it recorded by Paulus Horatius and Eutropius then Secretaries to Augustus as also by Eusebius a very credible Author That a Fountain of pure Oyl was discovered in a publick Inn at Rome issuing forth without intermission for the space of a whole Day Which was a very notable Instance of the Coming of Him who was the Fountain of all Goodness And they farther add That at high Noon on a clear and serene Day the visible Body of the Sun was environed with a Circle