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A18767	A warning for the wise, a feare to the fond, a bridle to the lewde, and a glasse to the good Written of the late earthquake chanced in London and other places, the. 6. of April 1580. for the glorie of God, and benefite of men that warely can walke, and wisely can iudge. Set forth in verse and prose, by Thomas Churchyard Gentleman. Seen and allowed.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1580 (1580)	STC 5259; ESTC S105093	9,563	30

seconde Earthquake when it commes will stryke before it threat This came to trie how you can take a threatning at his hande That rydes vpon the Starrie cloudes and hath a whysking wande Will make the worlde to yarke and fling when he sées tyme therfore Well for this season gentle friends I dare now speake no more The Iudgements of the Lord are great God graunt that well in grée From him you do good warning take and weigh these wordes of mée FINIS ꝙ Churchyarde A true Reporte vpō the great Earthquake SInce forrain Reportes right christian Reader may not suffice to call in question our frailty nor the hearing of Children monsterously borne prouoke vs to bridle our vntamed flesh nor the warres and cruel bloodsheds of other Cuntries with their great pes●…ilences sorowes and vnquiet state can make vs to be thankful for the Gospel which wée haue quietly maintaned by so gratious a Prince that the vniuersall world hath in admiratiō yet must this present cause this fearful w●…nder this gentle token and swéet correction mortifie our cankred conceits and break in peeces our hardned ●…arts Dul sighted is that man that séeth no●… through this perfect spectacle the heauy burden of his grée●…ous offences when Heauen and Earth Fish and Fowle Beasts and Woormes quake for our sin Now dooth the ancient Enemie séek after starting holes and with vain encouragements would perswade men to esteeme these rare tokens as common trifles therefore it behooues vs to put on the helmet of Saluation the swoord of the Spirit y ● Armour of life kéep the Castle of a cléer Conscience to with stand the gréeuous assaults of those thrée Rebels the world the flesh and the deuil If wée haue with Péeter the Apostle broken promise with our Maister and denyed him let vs also with Péeter the Apostle s●…ed sorowful teares and with hartie repentaūce win him to be our good Father again If wée haue with cruel hands committed murder or bondes of holy mariage let vs with Dauid be waile the death of Urias lament the raye of Bet●…sabe for hée is a gratioꝰ God and hath no plesure to giue vnto his Enemy the olde ser pent the creature that hée hath made and fashioned for him self to make vp his nūber of Saints If thou hast béen a persecuter with Saul thy remedy is to become a Preacher with Paul for hée hath no pleasure in the death of a Sinner but rather that hée may liue and amend If thou hast with Mary Magdalen broken the boundes of modestie and folowed the vain whistle of wantonnes forgetting from whence thou camst whers thou art and whither thou must throwe from thée the goldē ball of pleasure which is secretly linde with poyson humbly with Mary Magdalenanoint the feet of thy Sauiour with the teares of thy hart and wipe them with y ● heares of thy hed Doo not with the vnwise man fall in argument with thy maker why thou art made of this fashion or framed of y e mettel for it is no reason the pot should say to the Potter why haste thou made mée of this fashion If thou finde in thy self any imperfections by Nature thy remedie is to make it perfect by Nurture Set not thy glory vpon sumptuous and stately buildings which are subiect to the winde that is due vnto thy God which bothe winde and wethers doo obey for so dooing thy wilful pleasure wil in the end return thy woful disproffit Striue not with Pharo to be a roring Lyon but labour with the Apostles tob●… a méek Lamb. Consider what a familiēr name the Lord was content to take vpon him hauing the choise of all names in his owne hands Had hée called him self Emperour to that name had belonged great maiestie Had hée called him self King great is the feare of a Subiect toward that name Had hée called him self Iustice to decide controuersies there had belongd a woorshipful reuerence to that degrée but hée to showe the kindenes of a merciful God took the name of our Father vpon him and did not disoain to cal vs his Children Then must wée by naturall reason think which by bodily Fathers when wée sée our owne Children go astray fall into themiseries of y e world run after the slesh and become carelesse of their Elders counsel if it make our ●…eds gray our harts heauy must it not néeds offend our heauenly Father to sée his swéet promises refused his deuine ex cellencie so slightly credited and his Ministers so slowly followed That woūded man deserues to haue his sore rancle his flesh rot his bones putrifie y ● knowes a ●…alue and wil not be his owne Surgiō Euen so since it hath pleased him to say Come vnto me all you that are heuy loden and I wil ease you if wée come not our sloth is the cause of our sorrow and wée found guiltie of our owne blood If thou hast béen prodigall or vainly spēt thy life or liuing vpon surfeting dishes y ● worldly pleasure had prouided for thée or if thou hast doted vpon y ● painted bea●… tie of Harlots whose secret winks and priuy smiles are like drawing Adamāts If thou hast béen ●…ld in the Cradle of delight and ●…ng a ●…léep with the Sirens labor ernestly in y ● Uiniard of thy minde and with the prodigall Sonne return to to thy Father and say Father I haue sinned against heauen and against thee I am no more woorthy to be called thy sonne Then he according to his fatherly mercy wil cause the fatted Calf to be kild put a ring on thy hand and a faire garment on thy back That wée may be all so accepted after our time of prodigalitie vain expence of life let vs w t harty repentaunce humble harts lowe knées pray vnto y ● Lord to whōe be all honor glory Amē A true Reporte of the Earth quake in London Two or thrée honest men that walked for their pleasure into Moorféeld sitting vpon a hil were vpon a suddain tūbled down with such violence that when they recouered them selues they were so amazed that for a good space they could not one speake to the other ¶ Two honest Men more sitting on a Cannon vpon Tower hil were on a sudden throwen of and the Cannons rolled and hop●… vp and down very straunge The very waters and diches shooke and frothed wunderfully There were diuers Chimneies in many places about the Citie the vpper part throwen down The Beasts in the féeld ●…orde meruelously In Christes Church with a stone that fel there was one kild and many hurt in stri●…ing to get foorth of the Church ¶ They were so terrified in the Royall Exchaunge that many wept with feare with asmuch spéed as they might many shut vp their windowes béeing very fearfully amazed Through the whole Citie this suddain token was suddainly feard and I stand in do●…t wil as suddainly be forgotten A number of other things which are so cōmonly

knowen as I néed not to write them This wunder came so vnlookd for that they forsooke their houses in feare with such things as they had in their hands rūning into the stréets gasing one vpon an other This beeing considered to shew our thankfulnes for so merciful a token let vs desire the Lord our God to accept our humble prayer A prayer O Heauenly father which of thy owne free wil and heauenly grace madest man like vnto thy self and commaundst all creaturs to obey him after that our forefather 〈◊〉 had transgressed by whose ●…al we became Children o●… death when thy maiestie was so mightily displeased that thou repe●…edst that thou madest man ●…et vpon thy fatherly good wil remembring thy mercy thou didst not disdaine to send thine owne Sōne to be born of the blessed Uirgin Mary And touching his manhood to take our ●…raile nature vpon him to liue heer in sorow anguish to be despised of sinners to be called be fore Rulers to be bu●…fetted to be spet at to be slaūdred cruelly misused to be betraied of his owne seruant Iudas to be folowed as a Murderer to be deliuered into the hands of sinners to be crucified vpon the crosse to be laughed at of his enimes to 〈◊〉 water and blood for out sakes to dye among ●…heeues and after to be buried then to rise again to be come fellow heire with the in thy euerlasting 〈◊〉 For remēbraun●…e of these and all thy other graces whē thy swoord o●… wrath is lifted vp ready to confound vs which rebel in sin against thy glo ry thē remember thy 〈◊〉 sonnes death cast a 〈◊〉 thy pitieful eyes beholde his gree●…us wounds that bleed a fresh to pacifie thy an ger for get O Lord the offences of our youth blot out of remē braūce y ● sinnes of our forfathers as it hath pleased thee to sēd so gē●…e a remēbrance as this earthquake when it was in thy hands to shake our bodyes to dust and our soules to he●… so merciful Father giue vs thy spirit of grace to takethy warning so thākfully so mortifie all worldly desires in our harts that we may iust for thy cō ming and humbly pray thee to hasten thy kingdome that wee may be pertakers of thy heuenly felicitie and felow sharers with thy Saints and martirs to glorify thy name Graūt this for thy deere sonnes sake to whōe be all honor praise glory world without end Amen YOu that desire to heare of Forrain newes or tales new ●…oynd by rumors rash report Lay by such care good fréends leaue of to muse the tale I tell shall sound in better sort No toy no trifle nor surmised iest But worthy wel to lodge in euery brest When Mountaines mooue as late they did in wales great signe it is y ● nature then is crost When Monsterous Infants tels such doctors tales the tokē shews sōe fauour hath bin lost With him that hath in charge y e vse of all To spill or saue to raise or let vs fall When bla●…g starres and bloody cloudes do●… show then time it is for men too serch a new And mark y ● stock from whēce these graffes doo grow the frute more straūge thē any gardner knew the Ai●…e is chockt w e vapour of our sin When such vnwoonted tokens call vs in The very seas of late haue chaung'd their tides tis not so straūge as true the Sailers know Few things or none in former state a bides such swelling floods such great and monstrous snow with other woonders to to straūge to tel A charme for flesh when nature would rebell The braunch of pride beares such a gallāt gra●… that plainnes now is thrust vnto the wall And c●…uetousnes hath conquerd such a place that charitie must let his action fall Such writs of error subtiltie brings in That Conscience verdit is not worth a pi●… The Childe desires his fathers death for welth bothe moste least make Idoles of their golde Forgetting death that cré●…peth in by stelth to kil desire if baiard be too bolde The siluer key now opens euery gate Such is the blindenes of our present state 〈◊〉 dooth kéep so great a coyle that Saints Martirs they are slain a new And Usury bréeds such a bloody broyle that Pouertie bids all his ioyes adieu Blindnes hyes him ●…ast to cut the cardes too smother law with bribes great rewardes Then Gl●…ttony dooth challenge for his share his earthly ioy which is his paunch too fill And wicked lust tha●… bids a figge for care dooth think this wanton world wil tary still With seuerall sco●…fes they doo not blush to say Put of repentaunce til an other day But if these tokens which be past and gon haue took no roote at all within your harts You néeds must graūt this earthquake to be one vnlesse you chalenge Heauen for desarts Our health of soules must hāg in great suspence When earth and Sea doo quake for our offence But now you Stewards which are put in trust prepare against your Captain call account See that your bookes and reconings fall out iust I feare your paiment wil your welth s●…rmosit Turst not in s●…uces nor a golden tale The law is hard the Iudge wil take no bale Let faith and trueth giue suerties of your life first honour God and then obey your Prince Use vpright dealing bothe to man and wife conquere eche cause that once may bréed offence So shall you liue deuoide of all complaints With Psalmes of ioy to sing among y ● Saints FINIS Richard Tarlton ¶ Imprinted at Lōdon by Iohn Allde and are to be solde at the West doore of Paules Church by Nicolas Ling.