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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08171	[The history of strange wonders.]	Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574.	1561 (1561)	STC 18507; ESTC S110146	18,042	54

Celestial fires arose mani wais There was sene in the ayre a brighte fyre a company of horsemen and fote men to fight together and cities and swordes and bloody wapours were also sene c. In the yere M. C. and. xx There was sene in the aire bloody cloudes a crosse and a whyte man Euen at y t time men thought a destruction shuld come vpon y e whole world It is written in Chronicles that suche strange things doe signifie ciuill warres Of those thynges whych folowed you may reade at length in y e Chronicles of Boem set furth by Auentyne in the leafe D. C. xv In the yere M. CCC lxxv the aire was sene to burne all night In the. M. D. L. three fyrye globes wer sene in the aire in y e night in Misnia Lipsia which certaine students famous men did beholde The yere M. D. L. I. the xxviii day of Ianuary at Vlisbon in Portingal were sene in the aire bloody roddes and horrible fyres it rayned bloode also Furthermore there was such an earthquake that two hundred houses were terriblie shaken and throwen downe in y e which shaking more then a thousand men perished The yere M. D. L. IIII. the first day of February at Cathalane a citie of Fraunce after the musteringe of the hoste whiche the kyng of France had commaunded to be done in that place a wonderful strange sight was sene about the Moone For a greate fire arose from the East part went to the west And the Moone semed in maner of a mighty great fire brande The flame of thys fyre raged wyth great noyse often castyng oute blasyng sparkes in the ayre none otherwyse then when a smith beateth vpō hoat iron thus saith Fritschius Aristotle nameth such fyre a goat The answere of a godly learned frende vnto the aforesayde lettter or Epistle THy letters V. C. were giuen vnto me with the boke of wonders For the which your gentlenes I geue you moste heartye thankes At your departure you dyd declare all thinges abundantly and very plainly In the meane tyme I praye God that for his mercy sake he wyll turne al things to y e best For to styrre you vp I haue added many things which you shall here reade The signification of the straunge wonder AS all men doe confesse wyth one mouth this vnaccustomed strāge wonder to signifie som great euil to these countreys so I thinke y e causes of the sayde euyll to be so neare vnto vs that it shall perse y e eies and mindes of all men And seyng for the most part the calamities of mankind be sermons of repentance although the common people through erroure do alledge mani other causes of euils notw tandyng this fire of y e ayre is an euidēt argumēt token of y e wrath of god that without it be a few I think there is none so foolyshe or so mad which vnderstandeth not that it is to come We beleue verely that we shal not be cast out of blisse because it semeth that we shalbe so punyshed for oure sinnes because that the crosse aduersitie doth bryng alwayes more profit vnto the churche then rest and slouthfulnesse Of this commeth the common Prouerbe The bloode of the Martyrs watereth the Garden of the Lorde But although our enemies farre excede vs in all kynd of euyl yet notw tstanding we be not much inferior vn to them Superfluitie is a profitable instrument occasion you wyll saye the moste parte of vs do want it not superfluitie Religion also on oure parte is a lytle neglected beginneth to be gainfull no lesse truly then the Romains in time passed For we shal finde but a few diuines whiche wyll vouchsafe to seke poore Christ in the cotage and stable Manye of them couet fat benefices for the whiche they serue none otherwyse then thei wold serue for y e sacrifice of the aultar For that cause is there so much hatred so much priuy backbiting which encreaseth dayly and hourly more more y t ther is none more deuided thē thei in whō ought to be most loue concord These be the times which Eusebius setteth furth in the beginning of hys his eyghte booke vpon ecclesiasticall histories who desireth any Dioclesian whych may restore the weake mēbres vnto their health agayne God truely gouerneth hys church by fyre the whiche name is called in scripture crosse and persecution which notwithstandyng as I hope shall not be longe no more then this monsterous fire was longe whyche lasted with vs no more then an houre and that before day lyght For the Psalmograffe compareth the furye of the vngodly lyke vnto fyre amongest the thornes which maketh a feruent fire and when it appeareth to be most vehement then soddenly it falleth and is tourned into ashes But although thys fyre wyth hys heate dyd in wrap the hyghest mountaines therefore not onely the base states but also the highe monarches shall come to ruine notwithstanding the stars whiche shone betwene that is the ministers of the churche shall not be put oute of their seate which setting the worde of god before theyr face shal shyne in darke night of persecution by the cleare light of the gospell vntyll the daye wished for ware bright and the Sun of righteousnes shyne vpō mē But one star was sene to fall from heauen which being drawen by y e fyre dyd furrow in the middest It is to be thought that one doctour or other either for feare of the greate threatnyng or els being drawen by hope of some promosion shall be cast out of his degre Therfore the Lord is to be praied vnto that he wil defende vs standing in the confession of a sincere faith For this cause it is good for all godly men to thinke that the scourge of the lorde is afore their dores whome notwithstanding they by the mouyng of chaunces shall get god onely knoweth which ruleth the causes of all thinges We wyll onely bryng those thyngs which be like the truth and seme not dissagreble from the worde of God For the worde of the lord ought to be a lantarne to our feete and a light to oure steppes By it we may learn better y e cause of our aduersities then may be perceiued by any such wonders which god sendeth commonly for the reprobate and stiffe necked men amongest whome the worde of God taketh no place that all their exscuses may be cut awaye Notwithstanding I do not deny that there be Sermons of repentaunce whych not wythstandynge they that are destitut of the gouernment of the word of god do take neuer the latter For we see vngodly and wycked men whych beyng associat with y e vnbeleuynge Iewes require a sygne from heauen which if it apeare then with full voyce they crye out oure synnes require such wonders but they of the part of the euangelicall doctrine doe beare these thinges paciently and deriue part from them selues to other and euery one that speaketh of repentance with the