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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11249	Feareful neuues of thunder and lightning with the terrible effects thereof, which Almighty God sent on a place called Oluestone, in the county of Glocester the 28. of Nouember last : hauing prefixt before it, a short discourse, concerning two other admirable accidents that soone after ensued / truely related by P.S. ; and dedicated vnto the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie.	P. S.	1606 (1606)	STC 21511; ESTC S1678	19,658	32

Sacrament I remembred not onely that couenant of God which it doth seale vnto but his other couenant made with vs in Christ whereby hée hath bound himselfe and that with an oath to be our God and wee euen as many of vs as by faith apprehend the force and fruit of it to be his people And that therefore though east and west north and south heauen and earth should bee iumbled and tumbled togither yet the anchor of our hope and happinesse being cast within the veale and founded on Christ the vnmoouable rock could not faile nor deceiue nor be deceiued With this or the like meditation I past from vnder the Canopy of the open heauens vnder the roofe of the house Where after a very little while being set at dinner the terrible darknesse that was in the North so gathered on the south that it became very darke considering the time of the day and the cléere light that was but a little before But the thick cloudes had indéed their burden wherof they hasted to be eased for down falleth with a boisterous winde a very plentifull haile which with the abundance for it was better then halfe a foot thick on the ground euery where after the tempest which lasted a quarter of an houre or there about and the winde made a very terrible rattle which was accompanied with fearefull flashes of lightning and some thrée or fower claps of more then ordinary thunder Whereof I tooke occasion of talke to the gentle woman of the house and her yong plants which being fiue sonnes with the sonne of a friend sat at table with vs to this effe●● That the Atheists of the world and such as did not know acknowledge and feare God had great cause to be terrified and to tremble at such terrors of his but for such as did truely feare God they need not be appaled or dismaid at it considering they know● it came from God their gratious father in Christ Iesus She replyed with a remembrance of the day of iudgement that if this then much more terrible would the daye of the Lord be vnto such as did not know God in Christ and in him had a feeling of his fatherly loue In the middest of our talke behold there flameth in a wonderfull flash of Lightning seconded with as horrible a report of extraordinary Thunder as I thinke any man liuing hath heard It was not as the manner is of thunder a ratling and rumbling noyse drawne in length but as if a thousand tun waight had falne from a loft vpon a loft able to indure the weight of it making a most inexplicable and vnspeakeable thumpe and hownce to them that are vnder it Such was the furious and fearefull report of this terrible clap of thunder wherewith according to the infirmity of this corrupt flesh I was toucht but not without assured hope in God vsing the words of the Psalme Powre out thy wrath O Lord vpon the heathen that know thee not and vpon the kingdomes that call not on thy name The table beeing taken vp and God for his mercies praised I betooke me euen vpon 12. a clocke to my schoole where finding my schollers amazed with what had euen then past I put them in mind of that I had spoken in the morning for with our morning prayer wee had the first Chapter to the Romanes read concerning the two means whereby God maketh himselfe knowne vnto the world his word and his workes According to the present occasion I vrged the second which I had that very day deliuered out of those words of the Apostle in the 20. verse for the inuisible things of him that is his eternall power Godhead are seene by the creation of the world béeing considered in his workes to the intent they should bee without excuse But in the midst of my spéech I heard the Belles knole extraordinarily and sending one forth to enquire the occasion he presently returned answer the Steeple was a fire So concluding abruptly and passing forth at doores I sawe it was no false report of a fained fire For behold the force of Gods terrible voice had shaken rifted and rent the Towre of stone whereon the Spier of Lead of a great height stood toward the West from the rest of the Battlement almost to the roofe of the Church And as it appeared afterward all the west end of the Church was likewise shaken which was so much the more to be wondred at as it beeing crusht in diuers places as a rotten apple it was onely so done within and no appearance of it without and of thrée great glasse Windowes that stand in that end not one of them hurt by it either in the Glasse or lights Albeit the wall were shaken both immediatly aboue and vnder them the stronger being hurt and the weaker scaping harmelesse So powerfull and prouident is Almighty God that he striketh and leaueth vnstriken where he will and whom he will that strength to him is weakenesse and weakenesse to him is strength And although this Thundring voyce of Almighty God did no where shewe so terrible an effect as on and in the Church yet without the Church in the Field and in the houses neere an extraordinary presence of his power not without his mercie was sensibly to bee perceiued by diuerse whom it cast one hither another thither and some downe but hurt neither man woman child nor any liuing creature els for ought that I haue heard As this was the effect of the terrible Thunder so his fearefull fire the lightning I meane had fiered the stéeple about thrée quarters of a yard beneath the foote of the barre whereon the weathercocke pearcht which fearefull fire considering the powerfull hand that had kindled it the matter whereon and the bellowes which did blowe it béeing at first a strong westerne wind how it did rage they may wel imagine that sawe it not which they may farther vnderstand by this that within the space of two houres it did deuoure consume melt and throwe downe al the timbers lead and irons that were from the top of the Stéeple being as I haue said of a great height to the towre of stone and in other thrée howres did burne to the ground melt and cast downe with an vnresistable force all the lofts timbers stockes and wheeles of fiue very tunenable but often abused bells The Clocke which before had notified pretious time calling on men as it were to take time and to take heede of the abuse of so excellent a treasure was likewise hereby silenced The Chancell through the flered timbers and firebrands which fell from the Steeple on the roofe of it was fiered and defaced As it was very probable the Church would haue bene also with the like had not the winde carried the rage of the fire so much on the Chancell which stood on the Eastside frō the church which is seated on the west But the fire it self did not much harme the church the most hurt

they haue heard the words of thy mouth And they shall sing of the waies of the Lord because the glory of the Lord is great for the lord is high yet be beholdeth the lowly but the proud he knoweth a far of Now I descend to men of that secōd rāck order who are as models of means state neither so high that they stād to the mercy of euery threat of the ayre nor so low that they are subiect to euery inundation of the water Who as they stand betwéene two so they must make this vse to take héed especially of two faults enuy toward their superiours or disdaine to their inscriours Enuy nor emulate they must not any way their superiours nor the highest places possest by the highest personages sith it is the good will of God to erect both The places are of great importance possessors of them are subiect to much perill as the high stéeples to the force of all blustring stormes They watch when others sléepe they fast when others eate they carke when others are secure they beare the wood and others warme themselues by the fire they sowe the corne and others reape the haruest yet al this while for recompence their places persons and liues are aimed at that their estates are beleigered with millions of miserable labours and feares of extreme losses In the meane season thou doest sléepe when thou wilt eate what thou hast rest secure warme thée sow and reape though these be great blessings to these is added hearts ease if God giue thée a heart to conceiue thine owne good Thou whatsoeuer thou art of this order hast the goulden meane if thou demeane thy selfe accordingly the goulden meane I say which Agur the sonne of lakeh did so importune the Lord for Read the place with attention I leaue the search and swéetnesse of it to thy selfe and thine owne experience In the meane time as men of the second ranke must for many respects without enny but with singular submission reuerence demeane themselues to them that are aboue so they must auoide all disdaine and contempt of them that are belowe This latter they will the sooner be drawne to do if they remember the double accoūt they are to yéeld of the which the one though for a time delaid neuer faileth If they wrong despite or despise their inferiours they shal answere to their superiours on earth who with King Dauid sing of mercy and iudgement of mercy to the mercifull of iudgement and iustice to the cruell But if either by their owne ability of friends money flattery or any other indirect meanes or the inability of the oppressed not able to complaine or follow it they foredoe and foregoe this account in earth yet certenly they shall not faile to come before the heauenly iudge who telleth them plainely before hand whereto they shall trust He that despiseth the poore reprocheth him that made him And thinkest thou hee will beare reproches at thy hands not pay thee home Or wilt thou not remember that the law of God and nature will condemne thée if thou hurt him whom both of them command thée to helpe I might heere open a sea of reasons and al legations in this behalfe to diswade men from contempt disdaine of the meanest and to perswade them to pitty and compassion But one shall be to them and me insteed of all It is taken from that solemne manner of procéeding in generall conuocation of all before the great iudge at the fearefull day of iudgement when Christ shal denounce that terrible doome Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the deuill and his angells not against them onely that haue pluckt the meat from the hungry taken away drinke from the thirsty wrongd the stranger drawn vniustly the skinne as it were ouer mens eares and so afflicted their soules and bodies for there is no inquiry nor question made of them being Ipso facto condemned to hell but this heauy doome they shall also haue that haue not fed the hungry giuen drinke to the thirstie lodged the straunger cloathed the naked visited the sicke and such like Thou seest how the case stādeth weigh the truth by the aucthority and practise it for thy owne safely So in the name of God I exhort thee not to enuie but to honour thy superiours not to despise but to helpe thy inferiours of whom commending thée to Gods grace in Christ Iesus I come now briefly to speake These therfore to the 2. former estates are as poore cuttages to the highest ●urrets as mold-hills to the mighty mountaines the shrubbes to the Cedars of Libanon Yet though they be such the highest among men may not set them at naught nor the second sort little account of them Forasmuch as the lower they stand and the lesse able they are to help and right themselues the more doth the Lord tender their case and the more seuerely wil be reuenge their wrongs But they haue a fault which if they would amend notwithstanding their pouerty they might be passing happy and that is impatiency Men in the highest places except god grace them extraordinarily labour of impotencie of mind and cannot beare their estates or their estates abide with them for pride and men of the lowest places except God comfort them exceedingly labour of impotencie of mind and cannot brooke their places for want of patience Whereas this beeing possest they would not onely comfortably indure the indifferent calamities of their estate but by their hearty and humble prayers vnto God as in duty they are bound ease much their superiours those especially that are in the highest places most traueld and troubled and therefore néeding most the assistance of their godly praiers The God of patience grant this vnto them and so vnto all estates conditions and sorts of men so to carry demeane and behaue themselues as in his glorious presence who wil blesse all them that feare him both small and great Ps 115.13 Here an end of the threefold vse deliuered to the thrée estates of men concerning the third wōderfull worke of God and so of the three admirable actions Which beeing three and all very extraordinary are a sufficient testimony against all that hearing thereof will not yet in time repent and amend their liues but haue their eares and hearts so shut vp and hardned against the power of God reuealed both in his words and works that nothing wil deterre them from sinne and draw them to godlines til Christ come frō heauen with thousand thousands of angels in flaming fire to iudge the world Reuel 22. which as it hasteth so hasten Lord Iesu for thy promise sake surely I come quickly Amen Euen so come Lord Iesus Amen Hallelu-iah