Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	lord_n	rain_n	2,129	5	9.7306	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88509	Londons wonder being a most true and positive relation of the taking and killing of a great whale neer to Greenwich; the said whale being fifty eight foot in length, twelve foot high, fourteen foot broad, and two foot between the eyes. At whose death was used harping-irons, spits, swords, guns, bills, axes, and hatchets, and all kind of sharp instruments to kill her: and at last two anchors being struck fast into her body, she could not remoove them, but the blood gusht out of her body, as the water does out of a pump. The report of which whale hath caused many hundred of people both by land and water to go and see her; the said whale being slaine hard by Greenwich upon the third day of Iune this present yere 1658. which is largely exprest in this following discourse.		1658 (1658)	Wing L2957; Thomason E2134_2; ESTC R208343	4,170	14

LONDONS WONDER Being a most true and positive relation of the taking and killing of a great Whale neer to Greenwich the said Whale being fifty eight foot in length twelve foot high fourteen foot broad and two foot between the Eyes At whose death was used Harping-Irons Spits Swords Guns Bills Axes and Hatchets and all kind of sharp Instruments to kill her and at last two Anchors being struck fast into her body she could not remoove them but the blood gusht out of her Body as the water does out of a Pump The report of which Whale hath caused many hundred of people both by land and water to go and see her the said Whale being slaine hard by Greenwich upon the third day of Iune this present yere 1658. which is largely exprest in this following discourse June LONDON Printed for Francis Grove neere the Sarazens head on Snow-hill 1658. June 6. The Preface IN the most sacred and holy Word of God which is written for our instruction in which by the merits of Jesus Christ depends our salvation by reading hearing and preaching And in this holy Scripture the perfect Creation of the World is set down in the true and largest mannner as you may read in the first Chapter of Genesis pen'd by the faithfull hand of Moses who was in the place of a King Priest and Prophet to the Children of Israel In which Chapter by reading or hearing you shall find proved positively how the Omnipotent God great JEHOVAH the Lord of lords and King of kings whose power has no end whose glory is unspeakable whose mercy is infinite whose goodnesse cannot be numbered nor his blessings parallel'd He who rideth on the skies and makes the earth his footstool that is Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending It was this good God that first fram'd this Universe It was the Lords work and the Lords will that created this world It was the glorious almighty power of Heaven that first founded this fabrick it was God that made of nothing something and it was the Lord that made the Sun to govern the day and the Moon to govern the night it was the Lord of Hosts that made the great Whales and all the fishes swimming in the waters and it was the great God of our salvation that made every living creature And was it not the Lords excellent power to make man according to his own Image pure just and holy yea in the State of all blessed felicity But how soon through transgression did man remove himself from that happy paradice that heavenly mansion that portion of joy which he so soon spent like the prodigall son read the 15 Chapter of St. Lukes Gospell The fall of Adam has been our ruine for we by his sins as heirs from his loines are all dead in sins and trespasses Neverthelesse we are all made whole by the second Adam For as the Serpent was lift up in the Wildernesse so must the Son of man be lift up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life The 3d. Chapter of St. Johns Gospell and the 14 and 15 verses This place of holy Scripture does manifestly prove by the mouth of our Saviour Jesus Christ that whosoever believes in him shall be saved But on the contrary those that deny Christ and have crucified our blessed Saviour and Redeemer will deny them before his Father which is in heaven It is through unbelief that we have such strange apparitions in the aire where has been the appearance of four Suns altogether the Moon has been seen as red as blood strange kinde of hail and rain great winds and earth-quakes most horrible and terrible thunder in the midst of winter to the great frights and terrour of many thousands of people great inundations of water destroying hay corn and cattle besides men women and children great and unheard of tempests at Sea splitting the Vessells against the shore and driving others upon the sands where many a Marriner has been cast away through distresse and many a widow made contrary to expectation Within this few years great fires by negligence or some ill casualty has hapned in many places of this Common-wealth and especially in the Metrapolitan City of London turning many stately buildings into dust and burying the living with the dead by meanes of the pondeous weight of timber and goods that lay upon them All these examples are sent as messengers of God to forewarn us and fore-arm us against the dreadfull day of the Lord For saith the Lord Behold I come I bring my judgments with me A Briefe Relation of a Great Whale that was Kill'd neere Green-wich UPon the third of June this present year 1658. a huge whale came swimming up the Thames and was first seen by a boy at black-Wall being of a mighty bulke and bigness which something frighted the boy to see such a Monstrous fish the boy presently revealed it to some Water-men thereabouts who instantly got Harping-irons Spits Hatchets Bills and Axes fell a striking the Whale as far as they durst venter The Water-men stripping off their Doublets and Breeches and went only in their Shirts and Drawers to be light and nimble at their worke and to escape the danger of drowning in case the Whale had over-turn'd them they struck the Harping-irons all at one time into her body but she quickly remov'd them out again Some stabb'd spits into her and the Master of the haye that lives at the three Flower-deluces in Greenwich shot a brace of bullets into her and although the bloud spouted out of her body as if some had pompt her they were half affraid that she would get from them the vehemency of her Wounds made her disgorge the water out of her mouth in a bundance that the people there present were amazed to see it and although the tide was very strong and the wind against her she hauld the boats at her pleasure for they stuck Ankers into her body with spits irons and she removed them as fast as they struck her till at last a Fisher-man threw a little Anker which got into one of her nostrills and stuck so fast that she could not remove it and whilst she was in this extasie and danger of death she would sometimes bounce above the water as high as a house and down she would sinck into the Thames again then up again leaping and tossing her body above the water sometimes eight or nine foot high all this while the Sea-men Water-men and Ship Carpenters waited their opportunities to strike the harping irons into her which upon all occasions they did with much vigellency care and industry and by wounding of the Whale so often and so much the water that the place contained thereabouts for at least twenty yards round was like a pond of bloud and those that were neer her and at her execution were besmeared with blond as if they had been in a slaughter house there was such running and