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A49676 The Late dreadful and most admired calamity of a parcel of land and many great oaks, and other trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a water that the tops of the highest oaks are not to be seen, together with a great quantity of land and other trees that are daily falling ... neer unto the parish of Bulkley, about nine miles from Chester, it being part of the land of the Lord Cholmley : this strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657. 1657 (1657) Wing L544A; ESTC R41456 5,627 15

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THE Late dreadful and most admired Calamity of a Parcel of Land and many great Oaks and other Trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a Water that the tops of the highest Oaks are not to be seen Together With a great quantity of Land and other Trees that are daily falling and the thundering noise that is made at the time of their most terrible fall ne●r unto the Parish of Bulkley about nine miles from Chester it being part of the Land of the Lord Cholmley This strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657. LONDON Printed for Tho. Vere and William Gilbertson without Newgate and in Giltspurr street 1657. The late dreadful and most admired calamity of a Parcel of Land and many great Oaks and other Trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a Water that the tops of the highest Oaks are not to be seen GOd doth continue to manifest unto us some visible tokens or others of his displeasure and yet we do continue and encrease our sins It is observable what Doctor Crofts speaking of the Kings Army did preach before the King himself some few dayes after the great overthrow at Nazbey They do increase said he their sins as God doth increase his judgments and what is a true sign of their desperate and most deplorable condition they are not sensible of his judgement We should all have the Spirit of application Sometimes God speaks to us by fire sometimes by water two implacable Elements and as merciless unto themselves as unto others It is not long since we had a desolation by powder the fire was heard then to thunder as now the water God maketh use of any Creature to rebuke us and yet we have not a heart to relent though fire and water and Trees and Stones do preach unto us The other day when the powder took fire at the Hermitage the Houses were blown up into the air Now at this visitation in Cheshire the Earth opens and receives the Earth and Trees which for their height were wont to be the first witnesses of the rising Sun did sink down with it into a lowe darkness The Histories of our Nation since we have been visible in earnest and by commerce with other Nations have been refined from fable and neglect can hardly afford us any president in the like nature It was a judgement that did attend the Israelits they had for their murmuring in the wildernes been bitten with fiery Serpents the sins of their Tongues being punished with the teeth of the Serpents their murmuring Tongues being like fiery Serpents by which their sins were both chastised and expounded but the Princes among them taking no warning but proceeding in their disobedience and impiety the Earth opened and devoured them a fearful judgement for a wilfull sin Corah Dathan and Abiram were of the first rank amongst the Israelits as the Oaks amongst the Trees of the forrest but Corah Dathan and Abiram were all swallowed up there was no more to be seen of them then there was of the Oaks in this late Calamity or rather this gentle warning of the Almighty to humble our selves before him least the Earth open and devour us and there be none to relieve us A heathen Poet inveighing against the wickednes of his times Thinkst thou saith he That God is asleep or blind Cause he forbeares and sooner strikes a Tree With horried thunder then thy House and Thee Shall we think because the sicknes is at Rome it will be well enough with us because the Oaks and the Trees of the forrest fall therefore we shall stand We shall find in History that the like sinking of the Earth hath not only made families but Cities and Kingdoms desolate and thousands who have been alive in the morning have been swallowed up in the twinkling of an eye with a swift destruction Sad monument to all this way sail-by Here King and Kingdom in our grave do ly The Mountain of Vesuvius and the Mountain of Aetna in Sicily are perpetually casting forth smoak and flames of fire to the amazement of all that sail that way and there have been such strange motions of the Earth that lands and houses were in a moment carried away and the same ground with the Cattel and woods thereon have been found to stand twenty mile off and other ground to be justled into place of that which within an hour before was there In such a wonderful motion we do read that Hills have been made Valleys and Valleys Hills and the suddeness of the change hath been as wonderful as the change it self This indeed doth appear strange at the first like some violent convulsion in nature but the possibility of it will appear by a Counterfeit of it which was performed by the right honorable the Marquis of New-Castle when about four and twenty year since he entertained the late King when he was going unto Scotland The King drawing neer unto his House perceived a great wood before it through which he passed the wood dividing it self into a plain and open way for him The magnificent dinner being ended and the King taking Horse again he enquired what was become of the wood which with such a grave and so silent solemnity entertained him that morning as he came unto the House the Marquis told him that it was retreated behind the House to give way on purpose to more lively and comfortable entertainments This moving wood was looked upon by all the Court with equal wonder and delight but this was but an extravagance of expence and love This sinking of the Earth with such great Trees in Cheshire deserves our most serious consideration and the lesse that there is in it of art there is the more of ruin Alexander the Great when he travailed into Judia to add that Nation to his other conquests will tell you of the Tree of the Sun with he both saw and worshipped this Tree he was not permitted to draw neer unto without assuring the Priest in the first place that he had not touched a Woman for so many dayes If you will believe the authority of most grave Historians and of Alexander himself this Tree of the Sun could speak both in the Greek and the Indian tongue and deliver oracles before hand of events to come but not without some ceremonies to be observed as to pull off the rings from the fingers of the worshippers the shoes from their feet in reverence to the place before they make their approaches too neer unto it to lift up their eyes and silently to propound to themselves whatsoever they desire the oracle should satisfy them in this being done the Tree in soft accents like all most unto a whisper would tell them what they should trust unto so it told Alexander that it was denied him by heaven to return with triumphs into Macydon It was told him that his dayes and his victories were numbred and that now an end must be put to his