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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28489	The theatre of the world in the which is discoursed at large the many miseries and frailties incident to mankinde in this mortall life : with a discourse of the excellency and dignity of mankinde, all illustrated and adorned with choice stories taken out of both Christian and heathen authors ... / being a work of that famous French writer, Peter Bovistau Launay, in three distinct books ; formerly translated into Spanish by Baltazar Peres del Castillo ; and now into English by Francis Farrer ...; Theatrum mundi. English	Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Farrer, Francis.	1663 (1663)	Wing B3366; ESTC R14872	135,755	330

the multitude and diversity of Opinions which dayly are broached and fomented amongst Christians in the which we find our selves every day more involved for what one saith is white others say is black what some hold for day others say is night in fine there wants not those who do make a lie and Antichristian faith of the truth of Jesus Christ from which proceeds a great and strange evil which is an exceeding cause of offence to ignorant persons seeing some wise men affirme what others deny knowing as they do that there is but one only truth that I can find it in no place more transparent then in the Church of England For what others can say against her is not against any fundamentall truth but against her decent Ornaments and Divine order God is the God of order and apointed distinct Vestments for the Priests that served before Him in his Temple at Jerusalem so that all ignorant people as well as knowing ought to shut their eyes and eares against all novelties and stand stedfast first in the faith but next in the practice of their forefathers for had there been any error of consequence so many wise men as lived in those days would have amended them its true the Church may to appearance run a great hazard in the depths of affliction but shall never be devoured drowned or destroyed which as a miracle we have seen of our Church in her persecution and restauration these Sects and Heresies going on as they do well may we say that the fences of the pasture where the Flock of Jesus Christ were wont to be gathered together and fed are broken down and that Wolves are entred in to destroy disperse and devour the innocent Sheep and all proceeds from the carelesseness of their unwatchfull and disagreeing Pastors who neglect to stop the gaps mend up the fences discover withstand and hinder the growth and increase of this tamelesse devouring and poysoning beast of Heresie from whence it proceeds that many of the sheep have fled and gone astray without a Shepherd others are fed of ignorant and blind Shepherds which are hired for a small matter of money and are in danger of being lost because the chiefe Pastors take no care to overlook them and for those that remain together in the fold and pasture of Christ are at the point of hazard to be parted and mislead from the true way and certainly if we could see with our corporall eyes at once the great and apparent danger that all Christendome is in at this day if it were possible to number the multitude of Soules which are dayly in danger to be lost by these Sects Schismes Heresies it must needs make a mans haire stand upright with amazement Tell me truly Gentle Reader is there any manner of chastisement scourge torment anguish or sorrow of which we have not tasted in our dayes with which God hath not assayed to awaken us I will not refraine to wright somewhat and begin with the cruell wares and great effusions of Blood which hath been amongst us within this fifty or threescore yeares although I have written thereof in another Treatise and the memorial thereof is so fresh that the blood is hardly stenched of the wounds which hath been so deeply cut amongst Christians the great multitude of people as well men as women which wander as vagabonds from Country to Province and from Citty to Village forcibly banished from their Countrys Parents and houses with the distressed Mothers laden with their sad Orphans who by the diligence fury and cruelty of their Enemies are forced to fly from the burning flame and to seek out some ease house or repose for themselves and their hunger bitten infants nay and often cannot find it these may be sufficient witnesses of the many strange and bitter evils which attend War what greater griefe then to see the streetes filled with such kind of sorowfull and afflicted people what conscience or continency of life can they have who are the cause of such Tragedies when they shall here the teares sighs and out-cryes of such miserable Creatures especially when they shall consider that there is a full and particular account to be given of all the blood that unjustly or maliciously hath been or shall be shed from Abell who was the first man that dyed unto the last that shall die in the World as the holy spirit of God teacheth us in the Sacred Scriptures If we have felt the fatal stroke of War amongst us which is one of the principall messengers of Gods wrath there is another which is the Pestilence which hath not been wanting in our dayes for God according to our hardnesse of heart and impenitence proceeds with us by degrees either increasing or diminishing the chastisement I have read of the most strange wonderfull Plagues and contagions that have hapned in former ages the which we will compare with those of our times that we may come to see and understand that when God is highly offended whets and sharpens the sword of his anger and fury against us all other Creatures are overtaken with the irefull stroke thereof Many Authors worthy of Credit have written that the Citizens of Constantinople were visited with such a strange kind of horrible Pestilence that those that were smitten therewith they imagined that they were slaine by the hand of a neighbour or friend and being fallen into this frenzie they dyed distracted being only posses'd with this fear that they believd their deaths wound proceeded from another man There was in the dayes of Heraclius such a mortall Plague in Romania that in few dayes there dyed many thousand men the fury and frenzie of the contagion was so great that the most part of those that were stricken therewith cast themselves into the river Tiber to asswage the exceeding heat which like a red hot Iron consumed their very entrailes Tucidides a Greek Author writes that in his time there happened in Grecia such a contagious corruption of aire that an infinite number of people dyed without any remedy that could be found to mittygate or cure the disease and relates another thing more admirable and strange that if any one recovered health and escaped that venemous infirmity they remained without any remembrance of what was past even to the forgeting of Fathers Children of Childrens Parents Marcus Aurellius an Author worthy of credit wrights that there happened in his dayes so great a Plague in Italy that the Historians attempting to wright thereof said it was more easie for them to number those that were living then to give account of how many dyed the Souldiers of Avidius Cassuis a Generall under the Emperour Macro Antonio being in Seleucia a Citty appertaining to the Empire of Babilon they made entrance into the Temple of Apollo and finding there a certain Chest they opened it expecting to find a great Treasure in it from which proceeded such a stinking corrupted pestiferous aire that almost destroyed