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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09349	A brief account of the most remarkable prodigies which happened at the birth, in the life, and the death of our blessed savior Jesus Christ. To which is added a lively description of the person of Christ. Also, something concerning Agbarus, prince of the Edesseans; with his epistle to Christ; and Christ's letter in answer thereto collected out of the best historians, both divine and heathen / and illustrated with observations, both in verse and prose by W. L.	W. L.	1696 (1696)	Wing L84A; ESTC R224607	4,603	1

far more resplendent than it self Bright Sol surrounded with that Glorious Light Withdrew his Beams and vanisht out of sight The Righteous Son made that illustrious Day Darkness at his arising fled away Missed in th' Night of blind Obscurity Before we grop'd but now we plainly see Gamester in his Ecclesiastical History affirms That the very same Day that our Saviour Christ was born a Temple at Rome dedicated to the Goddess Pax fell to the Ground adding that when it was first erected the Romans consulted the Oracle of Apollo demanding how long it should continue which replyed Vntil a Virgin should bring forth a Child Which they concluded impossible and therefore that Temple should never be demolished nevertheless they were grosly mistaken for at the blessed Virgin 's bringing forth a Child even the King of Heaven it fell to the Earth and became a ruinons heap Lucas de Cais in his Chronicle of Spain reports That he found in the Antient Records of that Country that by computation of Time on the same Night wherein our Saviour was born a Cloud appeared about Midnight giving such a resplendent Light that it was hard to distinguish the Night from a clear Day So Heaven's bright Nuntio's did of old descend In Fiery Clouds not able to contend With Ph●bus till this most refulgent Cloud Chang'd Night to Day Dim Sol amazed stood Trembling for fear a far more Radiant Light Should him obscure and make him rule the Night PRODIGIES in the Life of Christ I Now proceed to speak of Prodigies which occur'd in the Life of our blessed Saviour here upon Earth Saint Jerome relates That when Joseph fled with the Virgin and her Son into Aegypt all the Idols and Images of their Gods tumbled from their Altars to the Ground and that their Oracles also ceased at that time and never were heard to answer any more Rarities of the Creation pag. 84. About the first Year after the Birth of Christ Armies were seen at Rome fighting in the Air. The Sun suffered a violent Eclipse after which a violent Tempest of Rain and Hail followed And about the 12th Year when Jesus disputed with the Jewish Doctors a great and terrible Comet appeared The Light of the Sun was apparently seen to fail at Rome How could he longer cast a glimmering Ray And see the Fountain of his Light decay The Heavens seemed to burn Fiery Beams fell from Heaven and bloody Comets were seen in several places The River Tiber overflowed Rome Upon which see Horace in the 2d Ode of the first Book Jam satis terrae nivis c. Thirteen Cities in Africa were destroyed by an Earthquake Noisome and Pestilential Flyes came in great Swarms into Germany Caligula that Monster of Mankind was born King Agrippa was slain Agustus Caesar dyed In the 22d Year of his Age it rained Blood in Rome which was a remarkable presage of the effusion of Christ's most precious Blood Armies were seen again fighting in the Air both in Rome and Pola●d and a Blazing Star like a Sword was discerned in the Skye Soon after whith the Theatre erected by Pompey was burnt down and the City of Tiberius drowned And in the same Year Tiberius became a most Bloody Tyrant and committed all manner of Cruelty upon the Romans Strange and Unusual Sights what else could be While our Great Lord sustain'd such Misery Nature unhing'd stood trembling in amaze Dreading her Mover would her Beauty raze Least she to her Confusion should return And Fiery Flames become her Funeral Urn. Such strange Events may justly seem to bode A Wicked People and an Angry God PRODIGIES at the Death of Christ IN the 34th Year of our Saviour's Life Tiberius then being Emperor of Rome the Wicked Jews most barbarously cruc●fied our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as produc●d such prodigious Effects as were never seen in any Age before and which were afterwards attested and confirmed as well by Heathens as Christians At the time of his Death a very great and thick Darkness happened in the Day-time which continued from Six till Nine and yet the Sun suffered no Eclipse for the Moon was at Full so that it was Miraculous and Contrary to the Order of Nature and could be no otherwise effected than by the Immediate Power of God who justly deprived the Sun of its Light whilst his Son ignominiously suffered Death for the Sin of Man Dionysius the Areopagite being that Day in Athens and seeing the Son in a total Eclipse and knowing being well skill'd in Astrology and the Course of the Heavens that such an Eclipse must be contrary to the known rules of Nature cryed out with a loud Voice Either the World is at End or the God of Nature suffers Some Authors affirm that the Wise Men of Athens were so much affrighted at this Prodigy that they presently caused an Altar to be built and dedicated to the unknown God and that St. Paul arriving there cheeked their blind and superstitious Ignorance declaring unto them That Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the World was that unknown God whereby he converted many of them to the Christian Faith Which also is a plain demonstration that the Darkness was over the whole World since it was at Athens and other places far remote from Jerusalem yea the Moon being at Full and having no Light but what she borroweth from the Sun she became most violently darkned Heaven's brightest Darling thus bereav'd of Light What could succeed but a most gloomy Night Darkness his Mourning cloath'd the doleful Sky And thickest Clouds became his Canopy All things condole but the most impious Jew Who did his Hands in Spotless Blood imbrue I might mention a great many more Prodigies which I have met with in credible Authors but am forced at present to omit them for brevity's sake desiring that these represented unto us in this small Collection may have that blessed effect upon every one of us to make us more circumspect in our ways And if such Terrible Apparitions happened at his First Coming far more Dreadful may be expected at his Second For which God of his infinite Mercy prepare us all Amen FINIS Licensed and Entred according to Order Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Jewen-street near Crowder's-Well 1696.