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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16857	The vvarnings of Germany By wonderfull signes, and strange prodigies seene in divers parts of that countrey of Germany, betweene the yeare 1618. and 1638. Together with a briefe relation of the miserable events which ensued. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch chronicles, and other histories by L. Brinckmair Captaine. As also a learned and godly sermon preached before the lords the States at Norrimberg. Anno 1638.	Brinckmair, L.	1638 (1638)	STC 3758; ESTC S121731	42,464	105

neither the voyce of God on earth by his Ministers nor the voyce of God from heaven by his wonderous workes though Noah Job and Daniel were among us they shall deliver but their owne soules God must deny himselfe or we perish if we continue impenitent The name of reformation which we have in our mouthes will no more helpe us then the Iewes crying The Temple of the Lord We be Abrahams children In many abuses there is not so much as a colour of reformation as in the matter of sacriledge for one It was after Iosiah had reformed many things that his heart was tender and smote him upon hearing of the Law Perceiving thereby there were yet more abuses in the Land than he at first was ware of Antichrist had made all places like Augean stables They doe therefore surely neede a continuall clensing The God of all grace fill us according to our measure with wisdome and zeale that we may grow from beauty to beauty in his eyes § 15. And seeing God is so gracious as by all meanes to manifest himselfe and his intended judgements he hath not left himselfe without witnesse but we are altogether without excuse Let him have the prayse which is due unto his name who abounds toward us in all meanes of grace whereby we might be made wise unto salvation Thy Word O Lord is sufficient of it selfe to warne all the World Thy Workes are the utmost that we can aske or thinke what shall we say of thy wonderous Workes from day to day Oh thou holy one of Israel All this is that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou art judged It will be thy glory that thou ast shewed us signes in Heaven above and wonders in Earth beneath But it will be our misery if we regard them not or if regarding we doe not blesse thee the Almighty or if blessing thee in words we repent not and amend Of our selves we are able to doe none of all this Let it not alwayes be said of us as it was sometime of thy people Israel Yet the Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and eares to heare unto this day For thy Annoyiteds sake powre upon us thy spirit give us hearts according to thine owne heart and cause us to walke in thy wayes Truth Lord thou mayst leave us to our selves and let us perish if thy Grace were not free for thee to besto●●r not it were no grace If thou sayest I have no pleasure in you doe to us as seemeth good in thy sight Yet be pleased to remember thy Covenant And for his sake who hath sealed it with his bloud poure out his spirit among us Worke knowledge in our minds submission in our wills Yea sanctify us we beseech thee throughout Oh love us and cause us to love thee and then wee know assuredly that all things shall worke together for the best Amen If any thing offend thee Christian Reader in this Prologue consider herein I tread an unbeaten path wherein it is easie to erre The way it selfe is rough my spare houres for such imployment few Importunity of others and arguments drawne from the publicke good have stollen mee from my selfe to doe others service in this businesse If it seeme strange I make so much a doe to usher in a small Pamphlet consider not the book but the subject In Prodigies God comes in as riding on a Cherub and flying on the wings of the wind How then can just exceptions be taken at one for cōming before to cry Bow the knee my boldnesse pardoned I am content to beare all other blame In Magnis est volxisse Satis Errors in the Preface In the first Sect. r. Axiona●a for him r. himself In 2. Sect. them r. him for fooler foo●e 3. Sect. for suspitiously r. superstitiously for paedicant r p●rdica●● 5. Sect. for No is in mar 1. Iovis so mer men in 7 Sect. so pledge ● pledges in mat-tom r. revel for prediens r. p●edict●ors in the 〈◊〉 Se●t r. which ate adapted DREADFVLL AND PRODIGIOVS ASPECTS WHICH have happened and appeared in the Ayre Water and on Earth beyond the common course of nature in diverse parts of Germany since the beginning of these late bloody b●oyles in that Country from the y●er● of our Lord 1618. to this present time together with briefe observations of the issues and Consequences ensuing after 〈◊〉 AMong the many troubles and turmoyles Courteous Reader which have long time roved and raged not onely in Bohemia but also in divers other places of Germany there appeared a terrible Comet with a great blazing tayle which was as terrible as visible It appeared first October 26. 1618. in the signe of Scorpio and the tayle thereof was extended betwixt the Spicavirginis and Arcturus towards Polus Septentrionalis Afterwards it tooke its progresse in Signo Librae continuing its course from the Ecliptica to Topico Cancri from East to West or Northerly It was to be seene often in a cleare Skie in the East In Bohemia and Ausiria it appeared at first with red in other places with a Saturnish pale-red colour for the space of 27. dayes and in some places longer This fearefull ominous Link or Torch the Omnipotent Iehovah had constituted and ordained in the Pulpit of the Heavens to bee a Preacher of Repentance that sinfull man might see and discerne that for incorrigible sinne he was resolved to plague and punish them if they timely prevented not the threatned danger by seeking grace and speedi'y fying from sinne the sole cause thereof For in as much as the ●●cure and bood-winckt-World had long despsed and neglected the gracious reclaming voyee of his sacred Word in the publike preaching thereof by his vignant and diligent Ministers and refused to heare those charmers charme ● they never so wisely running on in their accustomed course of sinne and transgression refusing to be reclamed and living all their dayes in sensuall impenitence as if God regarded not their doings and tooke no notice of their desperate rebellions Therefore the Almighty Lord God as mercifull as just sent forth these his prodigious signes in the Sunne Moon and Starres of Heaven as certain fore-runners of his wrath and of imminent and eminent Plagues and punishments on them if not speedily prevented thus if it were possible to awaken men from thei even dead sleepe of sin to timely repentance and true reformation of life but otherwise to shew and assure them that he would come suddainly and severely upon them and bring all those evills and miseries on them which those hideous and ho●●ed lignes did portend unto them Of which his proceeding in former ages manifold examples are extant both in the sacred Scriptures and in other various and volummous Histories which for brevities sake I heere of purpose pretermit This Comet herein mentioned hath bin indeed a certain harbinger and fore-runner of the Lords high indignation and future