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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15344	[A short, yet a true and faithfull narration of the fearefull fire that fell in the towne of Wooburne, in the countie of Bedford, on Saturday the 13. of September last, Anno. 1595 Together with a Christian admonition as to the particular people of that place]	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1595 (1595)	STC 25629; ESTC S113059	30,731	79

TO THE HONORABLE AND HIS VERIE GOOD LL. SIR IOHN POPHAM Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England and Sir William Periam Knight Lord chiefe Baron of her Maiesties Court of Exchequer T.W. hartily wisheth the abundant riches of al Gods mercies in this life eternal blessednes in that which is to come thorow Christ THough I doubt not my good Lords but that you haue ere this heard of the feareful and lamentable fire that in September last light vpon the towne of VVooburne in the countie of Bedford and am fullie perswaded that according to the measure of heauenly wisedome that God hath vouchsaued to you both you haue made spirituall profit not only thereof but of sundry other such like iudgments past alreadie in diuers quarters of our kingdom and iustly feared that hereafter may fall out vpon vs for our sinnes yet because the particularities of that punishment are not so wel and certainly knowne as were meete mens minds are so various and fame increaseth by going as wee say in the Prouerbe besides that euen in these things likewise there is a trueth fit to be vnderstood also because the generalitie of men either see them not because they are blind or els bee amazed at theÌ„ for a while because they haue no further insight or else make not good vse of them because they are of carelesse hearts I haue thought it sit and that vnder your Lordshippes protections and with your good acceptation also I trust to publishe though a short yet a true narration of that pitifull spectacle and therewithall some meditations of mine owne concerning that matter begunne within a daye or two after the aforenamed fire it selfe and finished in howe short a space I will not write least I might seeme to vaunt In regard of the matter I haue aimed at nothing but this that the trueth it selfe being laide open and some obseruations made thereupon men might bee lead by the hande to make some profitable vse of it they being drawne on to repentance for that which is past and carefully to looke to themselues for that which is to come least otherwise the flame of Gods wrath should break forth further against vs and that to our vtter wasting and destruction For the manner obserued in this discourse it is not so methodicall I confesse as it should be but the reason thereof was the sodain feare and great griefe that I conceiued vpon the very viewe and sight of the ruines it had made all making me vnfit indeed for that present especiallie for matter or manner to handle such a subiect as it ought both the one and the other then tooke such a deepe impression in me and that is the reason also and nothing else I assure you why I seeme as it were so confusedly to deale in the cause for how can a distempered mind be sit especially in methode to propound any matter sith that to the orderlie deliuerie of thinges there must of necessitie concurre a quiet hart and a staied head Howbeit this I dare notwithstanding protest that for the bodie of the treatie there is in it nothing vnsound or vncertaine and therefore in that respect may the more safely be receiued As for the reasons leading me to present this little labour to your Lordships though they bee many the same waightie also yet take them I beseech you in a worde as it were You haue vouchsaued me sundry honorable fauours and I would not willingly seeme or be thought either vnmindfull of them or vnthankefull for them in any dutie that God hath or shal be pleased to inable me to performe You execute the iustice of the land nay which is more the verie iustice of God himselfe euen deriued from himselfe by her Maiesties holy hand and power How fit therefore it is that his example should bee set before you whose person you doe in some sort beare and whose iudgement also you execute in your functions that so you might in your places tread also in some good measure in his pathes your selues can more wisely iudge than I am able to relate You both professe the holy gospell of Christ and may in some sort and sense be reckoned amongst them that mourne for your owne sinnes and for the transgressions of the land also How meet it is that you and others with you shuld see that you haue not taken vp this lamentation without cause as welfor that which is past present as for that which is feared to come But I will represse my selfe in these thinges and will not cease according to all the graces that I haue receiued froÌ„ God to commeÌ„d these causes into his most merciful hands who only worketh wonderful things both in heauen and in earth that so turning vs from our euil waies vnto himselfe and knitting our harts daily more and more vnto him wee may haue assured hope of the bettering of our estate in this life according to his owne good pleasure or at the least of the euerlasting sauing of our soules notwithstanding all the troubles and turmoiles that may fal out in the world The Lord alwaies and in all things also direct your Lorships both by his holy spirite and vntill the daye of Christ make perfecte in you all good works that hee hath begun for the prosperitie of Sion or the commoditie of the common wealth to his glorie and your euerlasting comforte thorowe Christ London the 1. of Nouember 1595. Your Lordships bounden and readie euer in Iesus Christ Tho. Wilcocks the Lords vnworthie A short narration of the fearefull fire that fell in the towne of VVooburne in the Countie of Bedford on Saturdaie the 13. of September last 1595. Lord Iesus begin and make an ende MEN brethren and fathers yea whosoeuer amongst you truly feareth God vnfainedly loueth his lawe stedfastlye beleeueth his promises and sincerely obeieth his wil to you and to euery one of you I say are the words of trueth and exhortation following directed not of a hatefull heart I assure you against any for I wish would labour your good generally and especially the saluation of your soules as mine owne nor yet of a minde curious in other mens causes with the neglect of them that belong to my selfe for I know it to bee displeasing before God and vnprofitable to my selfe but of an earnest desire in christian charitie by al meanes lawful and that according to my vttermost abilitie to assay to doe good vnto others as vnto mine owne soule and to labour what I can the setting forth of his glory that hath created vs and placed vs in this worlde for that speciall end and purpose that so at the last also after we haue a little glorified him here we might thorough his mercie and Christs merites obtaine the fruition of euerlasting life and the immortall glorification of our bodies and soules in that great and last day Wherein if either thorow the vncleanenes of my heart or the pollution of my hands or

aboue measure and in the daies of our aduersitie not to bee too much depressed but euen for the time present patiently to beare and for the time to come with comfort to expect and waite for such a deliuery and issue out of all troubles as the Lord shall see to be fit for the glory of his name the benefit of his people and our own euerlasting good Whereas without this we shal either with some of the wicked languish away in distrustfulnesse murmuring and all manner of impatiencie or with other some fall to vngodly deuises and shiftes imagining either to haue our necessities satisfied by coÌ„sonage fraud force theft or some such like wicked way or else that our griefes may and shall bee recouered by repayring to witches sorcerers coniurers and sundry other such wicked persons the practise wherof we may beholde to too many in our time ouertaken withall and running ryot to that great and grieuous excesse of euill Wherefore wee may well see and say that it much standeth vs in hand indeed yea and greatly importeth all and euery one of vs to bee rightly and religiously perswaded as of other grounds principles of Christian religion so of this one point particularly and that not onely for the auoyding of iniquitie and sinne in louing liking in seeking and striuing to them whoÌ„ for their grosse and grieuous transgressions we ought to loath and abhorre but euen for the faithfull accomplishment of many good duties in pietie towardes God in charitie towards men and in comfort and patience as in respect of ourselues For otherwise how shall wee stedfastly trust in or religiously call vpon him whome wee beleeue not to bee almightie or how can wee comfort our selues or other men if there bee any power that is either equall with or can ouerrule the same Nowe wee are to see what causes should moue the Lord in such fearefull measure and manner as many times he doth to exercise execute his iudgements Of a truth it proceedeth not of himselfe and his owne nature as though hee tooke pleasure in punishing the sonnes of men For the scripture telleth vs in many places that hee is as it were of another disposition namely slow to wrath of great goodnes and inclinable to much mercie for which purpose see Exod. 34. and Psalm 86. neither indeede delighteth hee to afflict his owne creatures specially man the excellentest and chiefest of the rest Some thing then froÌ„ elsewhere must of necessitie draw him and driue him to doe it or else it could neuer bee performed From our selues therefore surely and our most grieuous transgressions is the first yea and as a man may say indeede is the onely cause of all our miserie of what kinde sorte or condition soeuer it bee either outwarde in the bodie or inwarde in the minde temporall in this life or euerlasting in that which is to come Which because men are not easily perswaded of nor willingly yeelde to pride and conceitednes concerning some good things in themselues taketh so strong hold of them and possesseth them so mightily God in suÌ„dry places of the holy scripture doth not onely plainely describe the corruption of mans nature saying The thoughts and imaginations of mans heart are onely euill euery day from his youth vpwarde and againe There is none that doth good no not one they are al become corrupt abominal le c. But also by his Prophet peremptorily telleth vs that our sins are they that make a separatioÌ„ betwixt the Lord and vs and againe in another place Thy destruction O Israell is of thy selfe For the further cleering and confirmation of which point we are to marke that God at the first made man iust holy innocent righteous c. but he not continuing in that excellent estate corrupted himselfe and all his posteritie who as they were by creation in his loynes so were they all standing with him in innocencie had hee stoode and falling together with him thorow transgression So that nowe it is no more naturall for man as man that is to say vitiated and corrupted as hee is to breath or speake than it is for all and euery one of them euery way and euery day to sin On the other side God is a God with whom there can dwell no manner of wickednes yea whose eies can at no hand behold that which is euill whether it bee in deuise or desire in thought in word or in deede As soone therfore as man hath sinned any manner of waye so soone hath hee plunged himselfe as in regard of Gods absolute and exact iustice into most grieuous and fearefull iudgements And though God strike not presently therefore as wee see many times according to his nature inclinable to mercie yea mercie it selfe hee doth with much patieÌ„ce and lenitie forbeare wee must not thinke as the wicked doe that either he doth it not because he cannot for what is it that hee cannot accomplish or because hee careth not for the sins of our soules for wee know that hee hateth sinnes and sinners to but rather to expresse the wonderfull ouerflowing mercie that is in him waiting for mens conuersion if it may be yea assaying to worke it by all good meanes possible or else that forbearing them and they not amending he way the more sharply and seuerely in his iustice punish theÌ„ for abusing of his goodnes and turning his grace into wantonnes as the Apostle saith Which thing the world either not soundly knowing or else not sincerely confessing the same to bee true falleth into fearefull dangerous yea deadly extremities sometimes accusing God of iniustice as as that either he striketh them without cause or more than by reason of the offence committed they haue deserued sometimes they post the cause of their punishment from them selues to others supposing that other mens sinnes rather than their owne haue thus prouoked the Lord and sometimes againe they ascribe or attribute all to secondary causes as to such a coniunction and influence of such and such planets to the negligence or reachlesnes of such and such persons to the streÌ„gth and power of such and such windes and waters c. And sometimes they doe prophanely charge and accuse their miserable mishap or fortune as they call it making her with the heathen a God or goddesse and sometimes they fling out into one corruption and sometimes to another By meanes whereof they as much as in them lyeth rob God of his gouernement as though there were any thing that without him or against him did beare sway in the worlde and spoile him of his iustice as though that he which indeede is the onely iust iudge of the worlde could doe iniustice or wrong and forget his long forbearing hande and so besides that they depriue him of his honour in thankfulnes profite not therby to amendment make other things namely creatures God a creator as it were yea sometimes such things as neuer were in the nature of

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