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A29454	A Brief historical account of several of the most remarkable years of war, drought, famine, and pestilence in England, and the time when they happened together with an additional discourse of God's judgments, and the procuring cause of them : as also of the prediction of the late excellent mathematician and modest astrologer Mr. Vincent Wing, as to the present year 1699 / by a gent.	Gent.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4596; ESTC R37469	8,648	16

land and wrath upon this people and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles c. And now may I present to our view and serious consideration some few of the many most Dreadful and Remarkable strokes of the Divine Vengeance which have in several Ages fallen upon our own Nation of England To begin with that Relation I meet with in an Author called Britanniae speculum printed 1683 who telleth us that about Anno 438. In the 8th Year of the Reign of King Vortigern King of the Brittains after the horrible devastation made among them by the Picts breaking in upon them and of Famine yet after their pinching hunger was past and their Enemies were retreated from them being partly repelled by force That yet their Piety vanished and Luxury succeeded accompanied with all sorts of vice which infected not only the Layety but the Clergy also and that altho God sent to reclaim them by his Scourge the Pestilence that raged so horribly among them that the living were scarce able to bury their dead yet with this severity they were nothing at all amended Gods Patience being spent towards a People that grew worse by Prosperity and Adversity God so infatuated them that they called in a forreign Nation worse and more cruel than the Picts to their own Confusion and Ruin in Conclusion Also in the Reign of King Edward the II. King of England Anno. 1307. In the beginning of his Reign who having a vast Army of 100000 Men and incountring Robert Bruce the King of Scots his army was totally overthrown at Ban●ocksburrow by a small contemptible Army of Scots by stratagem the consequent thereof was the English-men became so faint hearted and so contemptible that three Scots durst venture upon a 100 English-men when 100 English-men durst scarce encounter with three Scots a grievous and sore Calamity indeed and that the Scots possessed all the north Part of the Kingdom as ●ar as York And in the 18th of the said King Edward the I. King of England 7 years after the Battel of Bannocksburrow Anno 1314. there was so great a Famine that Horses and Dogs were eaten Thieves in Prison plucked in pieces those which were newly brought in among them and eat them half alive which Famine continuing three Years brought in the end such a Pestilence that the living scarce sufficed to bury the dead And in the Reign of King Richard the I. King of England who began his Reign Anno 1189. There was such a drought for three or four Years together which caused so great a scarcity upon which followed so great a Mortality that scarcely the living sufficed to bury the dead And in the reign of King Henry the 3d King of England Anno 1232 there appearing three Suns at once there presently followed so great a Famine that people were constrained to eat horses Flesh and the bark of Trees and that then there died twenty thousand people in London starved for want of food In the 22 Year of King Edward the third Anno 1348. A contagious Pestilence there was in the East and South parts of the World and spread it self over all Christendom and at last coming into England continuing many Years it so wasted the People that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive In the third Year of King Richard the second King of England Anno 1379. There was so great a Mortality which afflicted the north Parts of England that the Country became almost desolate In the sevententh Year of the Reign of King Edward IV. King of England 1476. so great a Pestilence Reigned in England that it swept away more People in four Months time than the Wars had done in fifteen Years then past And two Years after the same Anno 1478. In his 19 Year there was another Pestilence which beginning at the latter end of Sept. continued to the beginning of November come twelve Month after in which Time innumerable People died In the 19th Year of King Henry the 8 King of England Anno 1527. by Reason of Extremity of Rain in seed Time there followed a great famine Dearth and Scarcity of Corn which would have caused a great Calamity but it was prevented by the Merchants of the still-yard bringing it out of Germany and a thousand Quarters being issued out of the Kings own Provision And in his three and thirtieth Year Anno 1541. there was so great a Mortality by Reason of hot Agues and Fluxes and withall so great a Drought that small Rivers were Clean dryed up and much Cattle dyed for lack of Water And in the fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Mary Queen of England Anno 1559. In harvest Time there was so great a Mortality especially of Priests so as many Churches were unserved and much Corn was lost for want of Workmen to get it in whereupon ensued a great Famine And in the thirty fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Queen of England Anno 1592. There was so great a Drought that not only the Fields but the springs themselves were dry ed up and many Cattle every where dyed for want of Water so that the River Thames did so fail that a Horseman might ride over the faid River at London-Bridge And the Year following Anno 1593. There followed a great Plague in London so as there dyed that Year in London and the Suburbs seventeen thousand Eight hundred and ninety besides the Lord Mayor and three Aldermen To draw towards a Conclusion Capt. John Graunt in his Natural and Political observations made upon the bills of Mortality Printed 1676. Informs us that there hath been within our Age four Times of great Mortality viz. 1592. 1593. 1603. 1625. unto which may now be added that of 1669. that the plague of 1636 lasted 12 Years in 8 whereof there dyed 20000. per An. one with another and never under 300. Now from the serious Consideration of the premisses may we not rationally conclude what Calamities from the strokes of divine Vengeance we in this Nation are lyable to when ever Gods Patience and Forbearance is tyred and worn out and come to an end by means of our provoking Sins and Iniquitys and that it is highly rational not to be secure or put far from us the evilday but seriously consider that great Guilt which it 's much to be feared lies upon this Nation at this Day for if it shall be found that although we have enjoyed the best reformed Christianity in the World yet at last that it should appear we have been the worst of Christians what can we expect Doth not the innocent Blood of our Martyred Soveraign King Charles the First of blessed Memory now cry afresh to Heaven against us when there are so many among us who now again Murther him in his Reputation and Ho●our now as one saith Innocence is the near●●t resemblance of God

A BRIEF Historical Account Of several of the most remarkable Years of ●…ar Drought Famine and Pestilence IN ENGLAND And the time when they happened ●●gether with an Additional discourse of God's Judg●ents and the procuring cause of them As also of the Prediction of the late excellent Mathematician and ●odest Astrologer Mr. Vincent Wing as to this present Year 1699. By a Gent. ●…ute justitiam moniti non temnere Dives Virg. Aen. 6. ubi non est pudor 〈◊〉 cura juris Sanctitas Pietas Fides ●…bile Regnum est 〈◊〉 is to many men much dearer than their Faith and ●…esty Clemens Alexandrinus 〈…〉 long shall the Land mourn and the herbs of every ●…er for the iniquity of them that dwell therein 〈…〉 are consumed c. Jer. 12.4 Printed for John Wells in London 〈◊〉 yard near St. Pauls 1699. EXcellent is that Discourse of Monsieur Charron in his Tract of Wisdom That the greatest part of Mankind hath always been led to serve God by fear of Vengeance which he Inflicts on the Contemners of his Majesty his Justice strikes Men with dread when they survey the Strokes and Examples of it on Mankind as by Pestilence War Famine Tempests and Inundations by Lightnings discharged from Heaven and other like demonstrations of his Vengeance It is saith he a terrible Thing to fall into the hands of God who though he is very merciful yet is terrible in Execution of his Vengeance upon those who Contemn him And he further tells us that all the World would be extinguished and would perish and be lost if it were not changed and renewed by those great accidents before mentioned which season perfect and purify it giving Liberty and ease to the whole And accordingly it is the Judgment and Opinion of that learned and judicious French Protestant Divine Amiraldus in his Treatise of Religions who saith that when Men are grown to a great height of Wickedness and will not be reformed God then strikes Men with dread that when they survey the Strokes and Example of his displeasure upon Mankind by Pestilences Wars Famines Tempests and Inundations and by Lightnings discharged from Heaven and other demonstrations of his Vengeance From that saith he the greatest part of Mankind hath always been led to serve God even by fear of his Vengeance which he inflicts on the Contemners of his Majesty With which also agrees the Judgment and Opinion of that eminent Divine Dr. Will. Sherlock Dean of St. Paul's and Master of the Temple in a printed Sermon of his who therein tells us that when Mankind is grown incurably and universally Wicked it doth not become God to permit and suffer the Earth to be an eternal nursery of Atheists and Rebels against the Majesty of Heaven Now as all Sins provoke God to send down his Judgments upon a Nation and People but especially Pride fulness of Bread i. e. Luxury and Idleness the Sins of Sodom as also Dr. Tillotson when Dean of Canterbury hath informed us that great Sin next to Idolatry viz. Perjury is one of the greatest affronts that can be to the Divine Majesty for this is one of the Sins that cry aloud to Heaven and quicken the pace of Gods Judgments This Sin by the secret Judgment of God undermines Estates and Families to the utter Ruin of them And among the Heathens it was always reck'ned one of the greatest Crimes and which they did believe God did not only punish upon the guilty Person himself but upon the Family and Posterity and many times upon whole Nations as the Prophet speaks Jer. 23.10 for because of swearing the Land mourns It is saith he further certainly a Sin of the highest Nature deliberate Perjury being directly against a Mans knowledge so that no Man can commit it without staring his Conscience in the Face which is one of the greatest aggravations of a Crime and it is a Sin equally against both Tables and being the highest affront to God and of most injurious consequence to Men a wrong not only to this or that Man particularly that suffers by it but also is Treason against humane Society subverting at once the foundation of publick Peace and Justice and the private security of every Mans Life and Fortune So when ever Religion fails and Oaths are nothing set by human Society must disband and all things run into disorder which saith he made David cry out Ps 12. Help Lord for the godly Man ceaseth c. Intimating that when faith that is fidelity fails from among Men nothing then but an immediate Interposition of Heaven can preserve the World from falling into confusion and ruine This state of things when Faith and Truth shall hardly be found among Men as is mentioned Luke 18.8 When the Son of Man cometh shall he find Faith that is Fidelity on the Earth doth loudly call for Christ's coming to destroy the World which is even ready to dissolve and fall in pieces of it self when these bands and Pillars of Human Society do break and fail And surely saith he never in any Age was this sign of the coming of the Son of Man more glaring and terrible than in this degenerate Age wherein we live when almost all sorts of Men seem to have broke loose from all ●ligations to Faith and Truth And further to evince the truth of our Guilt of this crying Sin let us see what was that ●genious free and open acknowledgment in Print of our London Divines in their publick Declaration Anno 1660. wherein they complain of the odious scandal of those that then profes●d themselves the People of God particularly ●●eir self seeking under the pretence of publick ●ood and their unparalell'd breach of all civil 〈◊〉 sacred Oaths and Covenants both to God of Man As also our Guilt herein appears by what 〈◊〉 Divine Dr. Richard Sherlock of Lanca●●●r incerts in his excellent Tract called ●●e Practical Christian Printed Anno 1677. ●●erein he thought fit to give us in this Nation 〈◊〉 pious and devout Confession of Sin viz. I 〈◊〉 seen the Reverend Name and Oath of ●●d imposed on the Consciences of Men out 〈◊〉 Tyranny and Covert of Oppression and Inju●●●● and I also partly for fear and partly for ●●ur and affection to unjust Designs have ●●●●…edly taken the same Oaths and Engage●●●ts and though because of such Oaths the 〈◊〉 sadly mourns yet have I not been hum●●●● for the Sins and Perjuries of this sinful Na●●●● Besides also that Reverend Divine Dr. Pa●●●●… when Dean of Peterborough in his pious 〈◊〉 excellent Tract of Repentance and Fasting ●●●●…ced Anno 1686. there exhorts us in this Na●●●e to beseech God to deliver us from all blindness of heart so most especially from all Sedition and privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from hardness of heart and contempt of God's Word and Commandments which saith he was never more necessary than in these days And he there further saith that it is a sad melancholy