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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

often seen in Germany by the inhabitants thereof in many places notable fore-runners and predictions of Germanies succeeding miserie still fresh in the memory of many yet living who have been both eye and eare witnesses of the manifold and most lamentable distresses and destructions which have befallen and even to this day lye still very heavy on that once most famous and flourishing Eden of the whole Christian world now made a desolate defart and bare and barren wildernesse But all this while that we have only heard that our neighbours houses have been so fearfully on fire what use have we of England made thereof How have we endeavoured to keep the flame off from our own houses and habitations Certainly wee have not made that holy and humbling use thereof as we might and ought to have done considering our meanes of grace and reconciliation wherewith we have been even lifted up like Capernaum to heaven far beyond our neighbours round about us We have not been wise by other mens harmes as meer humane and worldly wisedome might have taught us to be But have contrariwise drunk wine in bowles as the Prophet complaines and stretched our selves on our beds of Ivory none of us hardly being grieved for the afflictions of Ioseph in the aforesaid Germany and now also of late and lamentably bleeding Ireland Wherefore the Lord hath and that most justly come neerer home to our owne doores and begunne to make us who were only supine spectators of others miseries now unhappy spectacles to others of imbred and homebred devouring destructions Nor yet I say in all these our selfe-procured sorrowes can we justly taxe the Lord in the least measure with any more harsh or hasty proceedings heerein with us then with any of his other servants in by-past times but have been every-way wholy left without excuse For hath not the Lord for these many yeares together both called upon us by by his faithfull and painfull Preachers of the word fore-warned us to flie from the wrath to come Have they not frequently and servently cried out and told us that except we repent we also should perish Yea when this one great and maine meanes of reclaming us his people from our sinnes would not serve hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course heer mainly intended in this treatise of Prodigies Signes and Apparitions in the ayre and other most degenerating unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home As now I intend more exactly and particularly to set forth and shew to the Reader whereby wee shall easily discerne and discover to our owne hearts if we will not bee too wilfully blind which as I shewed before was the first and worst signe of smart and sorrow in Jerusalem and more then marble-hearted most apparent prints and even visible footsteps and impressions of Gods highly conceived indignation and provoked patience turned into enforced furie by our constant and unconscionable sinning against him and now resolved to execute the utmost severitie of his wrath upon us if now at last wee hasten not most heartily to prevent and divert it by true and timely repentance and reformation And now I say that we may no longer looke abroad into forreigne parts nor many yeeres past for examples of this sort I shall desire the Reader to remember what yet may be fresh in memory among us That in the Reigne of King Iames that so peacefull a Prince who so much delighted in the name and worke of Peace both at home and abroad that hee had this Motto given to him Beati Pacifici Blessed are the Peace-makers And so successefully had he prosecuted his affections therin that as heere you may see in this Embleme or following Figure Every man fate under his owne Vine and under his owne figge tree even from Dan to Beersheba all the dayes of the sayd King Iames our so peacefull King as it Every man Sitting vnder his vine vnder his owne fig gtree enjoying all good things in the days of King James But on the 18th of November 1618 A great Blazing-starr with 7 long streames appeared much damping mens hearts HEre every one sits under his owne Vine All under their-own Figtrees sup and dine In Pleasures Treasures and all joyes encrease In pleasant Plentie amiable Peace But whiles this Peace and Plentie brings forth Pride Luxurie Loosnes and all sinnes besides Gods wrath is kindled Heav'n therwith offended Lets England see his judgements sore intended By a strange Blazing-starre which every day Betimes ith'morning did bright beames display Which as a Warning piece the Lord thus sent To rouze-up England timely to repent And to prevent his judgements thus foreshown Lest still secure England be overthrown See here th' indulgence of a gratious God Who ere he strikes first shewes and shakes his Rod was said of King Salomon also that Prince of Peace But this peace being but a meer externall and sensuall peace and so the mother of Luxury Libertinisme and prophanenesse whereof the whole Kingdome did then and so all along to this very day too risely and rankly abound together with all kind of sinfulnesse Piety being then turned into Court-Policy and sincerity into outside and Diabolicall hypocrisie The Lord therefore even about the yeere 1618. November 18 sent a visible demonstration of his just wrath and displeasure namely a great Comet or Blazing Star as there also you have it in the Embleme with seven streames which continued to the 16. of Decemb. following rising every morning about three or foure of the clocke and so continued shining most cleerly and bright till day light appeared the streames of it blazing upwards Now what this Comet or Blazing Star might portend and prognosticate hath been evidently seene and known amongst us by reall and sensible experience ever since not only over all Christendome in general as in Germany Rochel in France and still fresh bleeding and lamentably dilacerated and forlorne Ireland but even within our owne bosomes in England also as in the death of Queene Anne and of King Iames also himselfe not long after yea and many most eminent Peeres and Nobles of this Land suddenly taken away but by what stroke is not yet fully discovered though greatly suspected as the Marquesse of Hamilton the Duke of Richmond and the Lord Belfast c. all eminent Common wealths men fierce and furious warres also and rumours of warres Nation against Nation and Kingdome against Kingdome And as I toucht before wee now see our too secure Kingdom must also share in these common calamities now fallen upon the earth England having sinned and done very foolishly England must also come under the lash of Gods justice and greatly incensed indignation against it as well as Germany Rochell and Ireland Before I can leave the blazoning of this Blazing-star I must give the Reader one more remarkable note and observation on it Namely that at

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