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A73737	The vvonders of the ayre, the trembling of the earth and the warnings of the world before the Iudgement day. Written by Thomas Churchyard esquire, seruant to the Queens Maiestie.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1602 (1602)	STC 5260.5; ESTC S124798	16,729	25

great countrey where now is the Sea Atlantique and in the Sea Mediterranie a marueilous deale of land is sunke and couered with water yea to the very gulfe of Ambracia which is in Acarnanie which commeth out of Corinth the same hauing one member or legge vpon Gréece and how many countries in Europe Azia and other partes are destroyed by the Sea and originall cause of earthquakes I hope now néedeth not to make particular report off albeit some notorious thinges may be by the sufferance of learned men that readeth touched and somewhat treated off vnder fauour as farre as serueth to my purpose There was an earthquake in the Emperour Tiberius time so wonderfull that it ouerthrewe twelue townes in Asia all in one night and during the warres of Carthage it was reported to the Senate of Rome that within one yéere was seauen and thirtie earthquakes but now behold what followed the very selfe same season Hanniball discomfited the Romans néere the lake of Perouse and yet neither of both the armies which was a most maruell hard nor felt no péece of the earthquakes albeit the earth trembled so often as it was to bee supposed that the whole world would haue sodainly béene ouerwhelmed Thus you see the earth which is the mother of mankind though she séemes sencelesse is mooued by the almightie to tremble and shake when man is toward destruction and commonly no bloudy battayls haue happened but an earthquake or commet went before the one to make man looke vpward to the heauens where he desires to dwell and the other to warne him and plainely shew him he must fall to the earth and ashes from whence all flesh did rise and tooke his originall and surely it is a manifest signe of Gods fauour when that both heauen and earth and all other thinges wee can beholde are occupyed and working away by some misterie to call vs to repentance and make the pilgrime prepare himselfe to be gon from the vaile of miserie and miserable dungeon of disquietnes but now I pray you regard what Plinie sayeth he being but an infidell in respect of a Christian nowe truely sayth he The trembling of the earth neuer is the cause of one euil alone nor all the danger is not onely in the trembling for it alwayes presageth some mishappe and Des aster to come and likewise saith he there was neuer séene earthquake in the citie of Rome but some great mischance fell out suddenly after if an infidell beleeued so and hath set downe his opinion in print for an infallible rule and ground to builde vpon me thinke Christians should confesse without any difficultie that the naturall cause of earthquakes is a supernaturall matter which neither agitations nor exalations can command by their force to mooue so great a masse of earth as an earthquake shaketh though Aristotle and sundry others makes a great argument on the like purpose If all earthquakes commetts in the ayre signes and wonders in the skyes and many other notorious maruells rise on a naturall cause it may be asked who sent the starre to be séene at Christs birth and who caused the whole world to shake at his death if nature by the course of her operation worketh such wonders then belike that fearefull earthquake had happened though Christ had not dyed and at the same houre and instant though Christ had not suffered for man the earthquake would not haue fayled the ordinarie season and working that springs on exalations agitations and such like matter Aristotle for all his superexcellent learning knew no more then pertayned to the iudgement of a man and though all the déepe wise men of the world and the world it selfe were possest with his bookes and arguments it passeth all reason to beleeue that the earth can shake and the whole world trembling without his will and pleasure that made the day and night and knoweth all thinges before they come to passe and is both the mouer and maker of heauen and earth And surely I beléeue that neither all the Diuels in hell nor all the Angels in heauen nor all the coniurers and sorcerers in the world haue no power of themselues to turne vp side downe a little mountaine much lesse haue they power to turne mightie kingdomes into the Seas and make the maine Sea dry land no doubt but the winds waters ayre fire and earth working together haue an excellent force and nature to woorke their effects and bring to passe thinges both marueilous and past mans cunning to compasse but to shewe armies and battayls in the skies commetts in the cloudes force the heauens to rayne bloud compell the heauie molde to remooue and shake the vniuersall world is a diuiner matter to speake off and deserueth in a most high manner to bee handled and more reuerenced regarded and feared when it happeneth For such strange sights are the very messengers that the great iudge sendeth before his comming and the only warnings the world in the latter dayes shall haue before this olde earth shall be consumed and new Ierusalem shall be made nature can not of her selfe make sweete apels sowre sowre apels sweete change and exchange the naturall kind of trées or other fruite as in Lyche was seene a towne of Surrie at the ariuing of king Xerxes in those partes read Aristander and the commentaries of Caius Epidius and they will shew you thinges to be wondred at of trées if it be true that they affirme they say trees did speake which nature denies and reason can not conceiue but trées stones and all other sencelesse thinges God may make speake aswell as he made Balams Asse reprooue his owne maister and the Oxe in Rame cry Roma caue tibi Plinie in his naturals sayth that it was reported of the Romains that in the territorie of Cuma a cittie of Ionie a great and a high tree did sincke so lowe into the earth that nothing but a fewe small sprayes on the very toppe thereof was to be seene but what thinke you followed after marry many mischiefes terrible bloudshedde wicked conspiracies and open dissentions for the ciuill war betweene Pompeie and Iulius Caesar began at that present and ended not God knowes a long while after the Romaines to knowe what the sincking of that tree did signifie did looke in their bookes of deuinations and their they found that this wonder presaged a matter of greate consequence threatned the slaughter of multitudes of men What néedes nowe to search or rehearse prophane histories for the weight and worthinesse of a true argument touching earthquakes wonders in the ayre and warnings of the world that manifestly setteth foorth the myraculous doings and maiestie of the almighty for you néede not to goe any further for a ready resolution of these poyntes but to the holy scripture which plainely declares that in the latter dayes you should see signes in the ayre wonders in the world the starres fall from heauen the Sunne and Moone loose their light and to be

hollowed be Thy kingdome come done be thy will As well on earth as ti 's in heauen still Giue vs this day our daily bread With which our bodies and soules are fedde Forgiue vs our trespasse euery way As we forgiue them that seeke our decay And lead vs not into temptation But for Christs sake our onely saluation Deliuer vs from euils all That makes vs from thy fauour fall For kingdom glory and al is thine For euer and euer by powr diuine The Creede I Beleeue in God the Father of all might Made heauen and earth sent darkenes and light And in Iesus Christ his sonne and our Lord Conceiued by the holy Ghost as scriptures doe record Of the virgine Mary this babe was borne To redeeme man that else had beene forlorne Suffred vnder Ponce Pilate crucified and layd in graue Descended into hell the elect soules to saue Rose the third day such hope I haue Was seene aliue here ascended into heauen than Sits on Gods right hand a mediatour for man From thence shall he come to iudge both quicke and dead Amyd the cloudes to shew his great Godhead I beleeue in the infinite holy Ghost The Catholike Church that honors God most The communion of Saintes the forgiuenes of sinnes The resurrection of the body where gladnes begins And in the life euerlasting I trust To rise at the last day with Iob out of dust The ten Commandements GOd spake these words the Lord thy God I am That brought thee home when thou from Egypt came I set thee free from bondage euery way Because thou shalt my holy will obay Thou shalt not haue any other Gods but me Thou shalt not serue strange Gods in any degree Vnto thy selfe no grauen image make Like any thing that is in heauen aboue Nor earth belowe thy pleasure so to take Nor vnderneath the earth my wrath to mooue Nor worship them by any kind of meane For I thy God loues people pure and cleane Thou shalt not bowe downe to any image wrought Thy onely Lord a iealous God he is That plagues the sinnes of people vaine and nought Yea to the third and fourth generation note well this I visite the Sonnes and Fathers of them all That doe hate me or to idolatry fall And mercies shewes to thousands when I will That loues me and keepes my commandements still Thou shalt not take thy great Gods name in vaine He gilty is that will mine honour staine The sabboth day looke that thou keepe in feare Sixe dayes thou hast to worke to trudge and toyle The seuenth is the Sabboth euery where Than thou shalt not thy hands with labour foyle Thou and thy sonne thy daughter mayd and man That serueth thee shall doe no labour than Thy cattell and the stranger in thy gate Shall doe no worke that day early nor late For in sixe dayes thy Lord that all hath blest Made heauen and earth and in the seuenth did rest Thou shalt honour thy father and mother well That long aliue on earth safe thou maist dwell Thou shalt not kill for bloud craues bloud or vengeance still Thou shalt not breake true wedlockes band no way That knot and staffe is an honourable stay Thou shalt not steale for theeues robe Prince and common weale Thou shalt not beare false witnes in any sorte For that may take from iustice good report Thou shalt not wish thy neighbors house nor wife His man seruant nor mayden for thy life His Oxe his Asse nor nothing that is his Liue with thine owne as the Lords pleasure is Verses fitte for euery one to knowe and confesse TO bed I goe from you God knowes when I shall rise Nights darknes bids the day adue till morning glads the skies The bed presents the graue in shrowding sheetes we lie The flattring boulster that we haue is stuft to please the eye The blankets are greene grasse that growes when we are gone The pillowes with sun beames do passe for pilgrimes to looke on The couerlet is care that clothes vs whilst we liue The bed staues gentill scourges are that doth vs warnings giue The bedstocke and the tycke and all belongs to bed Is but vaine pleasures that we like to please a wanton head Sleepe is of death the shape to shewe mans substance small As earth doth for the body gape so death will haue vs all Then liue as thou shouldst die when God shall please to stricke The graue wherein our bodies lie and bed are both alike But sure when sences sleepe from labour toyle and paine The soule for feare doe wayle and weepe till man awake againe Death waites so hard at hand when soundest sleepe we haue That all our state doth doubtfull stand till body be in graue Man shortens his owne dayes and so doth weare and wast By wilfull steps and wicked wayes that cuts of life in hast Sleepe is a steppe to death and time that weares full fast Life waites no longer on the breath then bloud and health doth last When candell waxeth dimme or neere the socket drawes Mans goodly glistring glory trimme declines by kindly cause Then aged syres like me small tarrying haue you heere When faulters shall examind be they buy their folly deere In bed that brings no rest those strange euents we find When roling vp and downe the brest sad thoughts lodes heauy mind The bed breedes dreames and toyes that idell fancie brings More vaine than rash are earthly ioyes that hinders heauenly things The soundest sleepe of all in Abrahams bosome is Heere ioy is mixt with bitter gall and there gall turnes to blisse To bed goe in these bounds as babes in cloutes are layd To rise with Christ when trumpet sounds who hath our ransome paid FINIS