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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	9,284	5	10.5348	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64902	Prodigies & apparitions, or, Englands warning piece being a seasonable description by lively figures & apt illustration of many remarkable & prodigious fore-runners & apparent predictions of Gods wrath against England, if not timely prevented by true repentance / written by J. V.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V323; ESTC R717	17,447	62

body so as he was all over like raw flesh and lived in great misery about a week after and then died A Dogge neere-the Chancell doore was fiercely whirled up three times and the last time fell down dead Some seats in the body of the Church were torn up and overwhelmed up-side-down yet they that were in them had no harme notwithstanding that they were thereby throwne out of them into other seats foure or five pewes higher About the number of eight boyes sitting about the railes of the Communion Table heere wee may observe what a superstitious Church it was like almost all the rest of our Churches in these miserable daies were all of them taken up by the violence of this so terrible a storme and throwne on heaps within the railes but had no hurt at all A beame was broken in the midst and fell downe between the Minister and his Clerke but neither of them hurt thereby The Church was also very much defaced and torn in many parts of it and a great stone neere the very foundation was torne up and removed thence Other stones were violently throwne out of the tower as thick as if there had been an hundred men throwing them some stones of them of such a weight and bignesse as no one man was able to lift One of the Pinacles of the Tower was tumbled downe into the Church A man sitting on the Church-beere at the lower end of the Church had the said beere torne in pieces under him and himself thrown into a seat by the wall but h●d no other hurt A great stone was throwne about an hundred yards from the Church and sunke into the ground so deep and so fast that it could hardly be seen afterward A Bowling-alley also neere the Church-yard was strangely turned into deep pits and a Wine-Taverne nere the Church had the side thereof next the Church torne up and the top or covering broken and caried off and one of the rafters broken into the said house And was not heere a most terrible and almost an incredible print and impression of Gods threatned wrath and indignation against both the internall and externall vanity and impiety of such profuse and superfluous Church-buildings vaine and needlesse I say now under the Gospel though in the time of the Leviticall Law most requisite and lawfull in most gorgeous maner to be set out as typifying Christ Jesus in all his excellencies and graces and therefore these fearefull examples may serve as a remarkable caution and fore-warning of Gods displeasure heerein But because t is likely our superstitious Cathedralists will bee apt to object in their carnall incredulity that one Swallow makes not a Summer and so one single testimony is not sufficient to confirme so weighty a conclusion and inference as I would fain gather from these fearefull premises I shall therefore in the next place give the Reader other remark●ble examples of Gods semblable undoubted displeasure with the vanity and impiety of our Churches and Church government and services too long exercised among us to the high indignation of the Lord especially now of late since our Prelats began so grosly to tyrannize over the consciences of Gods people and then say whether thou canst not easily be induced to beleeve with me this truth which I have hence collected and which the Lord by these feareful examples seems most plainly to have indigitated and demonstrated to us And therefore to cry out with the Prophet in holy admiration and trembling Who would not feare thee O King of Nations to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners In January also then next ensuing there was very great hurt done in and upon divers other Churches in other parts of this Kingdome by thunder and lightning and mighty stormy weather to the great and terrible astonishment of the inhabitants and beholders As namely upon the 14. day of the aforesayd month about five of the clock at night three Churches were wasted and defaced with fearefull thunder and lightning and most violent windes the one was Micham in Kent also Greenhith and Stone-Church both in the sayd County of Kent And upon Whitsunday 1640. in the Parish Church of S. Anthony in Cornewall great hurt was done by terrible thunder and lightning the people being then in the Church at their Sabbath dayes exercises As heer thou seest it summarily and briefly delineated in those following Figures or Emblemes 3 or 4 Churches more as namely Micham and Greenhith in Kent also Stone-church all fearefully defaced with lightning and thunder the Ianuary following And St Anthonies Church in Cornwall Anno Dom 1640 ANd here againe that All may clearly see False-worship and Idolatry to be The sin of England God in other places More Houses of such worship much defaces With fearfull storms lightnings fierce claps of thunder Churches and Steeples rends and cleaves asunder Though many other sins doe England staine Tet this of all the rest is dy'd in graine Idolatry and Superstition base The Lord will not endure in any case And therefore shewes by so many examples With how great wrath under his feet he tramples Such Romish-trash and all Wil-worship vaine And only will unmixed Truth maintaine Be warned then betimes England take heed Lest wrath without redresse does make thee bleed Now all these considered together with the time of the yeere the Winter season and the day whereon they fell the Lords day and that which is so much the more remarkable in the time of their Sabbath dayes duties tell me can any man be so Atheistically minded and blindly or obstinately opinionated as to thinke that these so fearfull and formidable affrightments immediately from heaven can bee meerly casuall or contingent by naturall concurrences only and not rather immediate demonstrations and fore-runners of Gods high indignation for the great sins and provocations of our Clergy and Prelaticall Church-government Certainly it were meere madnesse or at least grosse carnall security if not diabolicall delusion to say or thinke otherwise For if we looke on our late most intolerable superstitious and idolatrous times not silently-creeping but audaciously running and with the Romish-whores unblushing face breaking out upon us and impudently and too frequently practised among us by crossing and Jesu-cringing altar-worship rayling in of our Communion-tables turned into altars Popish sumptuous and superstitious adornation and bedawbing of Churches with crucifixes other Popish pictures apish gestures vestures and such like beggarly-rudiments and ceremonies as the Apostle cals them making more by farre of the meere wals and dead stones of their Churches than of the living stones of Gods House and Temple What other thing could be discovered by all these but a most disloyall apostacy and almost a generall backsliding and defection from our first love the Lord Jesus Christ and from his found faith to Antichrist Arminianisme and Atheisticall profanenesse