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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

The ciuill Magistrate saith either he hath no law to punish it or correcteth it at the most with a simple whipping and as for those that haue the ecclesiasticall censures in their hands they surely haue no will to do it but vse their authoritie rather to picke mens purses than to instruct their consciences and to conuert men vnto God Yea I wish with al my heart that euen the very ministers themselues to whom for ought I see there is no other thing left to represse euil by than crying out against iniquity were not in this as in other matters of as great consequence tongue-tied and mute or else as the prophet saith in another place that they were light and wicked persons and had polluted the sanctuarie and wrested the lawe To rehearse all transgressions in the seuerall sortes and particularities of them would be too lōg and tedious take one therefore and the same as the most common so the most grieuous that by it we may iudge also of the rest the prophanation of the Sabbath is the sin that I meane Where is the man woman or child that hath care and conscience publikely to sanctifie it either by reuerent and religious preparing of themselues to come to publike assemblies as they should or to repayre thither duetifullie as they ought or to carrie themselues there as beseemeth such heauenly exercises of prayer preaching c. What househoulder man or woman what childe what seruant hath any regard priuately to spend it well in meditation and conference of things publikely taught them in singing of psalmes in prayer in thinking seriously vpon the creatures in visiting the sicke in dooing the workes of charitie and christian loue Or rather who prophaneth it not in publike and in priuate by themselues and in company and in euery place almost some by thinking it to be a day of bodily rest only and therefore giue themselues and theirs ouer to sleepe more and longer then than on other dayes besides other some making no more account of the holy assemblies of the church and religious exercises therein than of prophane and common meetings nor so much many times and receiuing the word with no more reuerence attention than a prophane tayle other some sitting idle at their doores gaping and gazing suffering yea some times commaunding their seruants and children to abuse it by dicing daunsing carding stoole-ball playing and other vnlawfull and wicked recreations others also poasting ouer their worldly affayres as matters of accountes repayring to Iustices for execution of law visiting and intertaining their friendes and such other worldly things to that daye with a thousand such like abominations fearefully committed and performed vpon that daye that of all others should bee best spent For these may not wee saye as the Prophet speaketh in cases of meaner importance Shall not the land tremble for this and euery one mourne that dwelleth therein Or as another Prophet speaketh against the people that descended frō Iaakob for their pride contempt of Gods word and other iniquities Aram before and the Philistines behinde and they shall deuoure Israel with open mouth and yet for all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still and good reason for the people turneth not vnto him that striketh them iustly for their sinnes neither doe they seeke the Lord of hostes therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and tayle branch and bodie in one day The auncient and the honorable man hee is the head and the Prophet that teacheth lies he is the tayle with many such other things as follow in that ninth chapter of Isatah which I would desire the godly reader with care to looke vpon and in conscience to make vse of For who knoweth whether this bee yet the day of Gods grace offered and the acceptable time if it be receiued Or who can tell whether this bee not a foretelling and a fore-running signe also that the land may and that or euer it be long for ought we know bee consumed with fire from the West by the Turke Pope Spaniard other instruments of Gods wrath to punish a sinfull and rebellious nation All which would bee glad not only for the inlarging of their territories and kingdomes but euen of hatred more than cruell and bloodie against vs to whet their teeth vpon our bodies and bones and to bath their swords in our blood or else who can or dare say that this may not be an assured testimonie that the Lord Iesus shall shortly come in the cloudes in a melting and consuming fire going before him and destroying all things with great power and glory to iudge the quick and the dead Sin not at the height it is at doth in full prouoke the one with earnestnes calleth for our aduersaries to come out against vs in troopes and armies and on the other side all signes if I be not deceiued that should goe before that great and terrible daye of the Lorde bee accomplished already Sith things then are so vncertaine that wee knowe not when nor where nor how the Lord will come vpon vs and yet wee cannot but feare that hee is nigh euen at the doore why should wee deferre with the wicked euen therein or thereby causing the Lordes wrath to breake forth against vs to our vtter confusion or rather considering that all these things must bee dissolued why doe wee not make this vse of it to learne what manner of people wee should bee in holy conuersation and godly life looking for hastning vnto the comming of that day of the Lord by the which the very heauens being on fire shall be dissolued and the elements shall melt with heate But who I wil not say practiseth these things for the number of such persons is almost as rare in the world as a blacke swanne amongst foules thinketh vpon these things seriously Surely surely the most part busie their mindes and their mouthes also farre otherwise for some giue themselues ouer to filthie and foolish speech which not onely bringeth no grace or godly edification to the hearer but rather corrupteth good maners Other some though they fall not so fouly yet are ouertaken in their discourses of pleasure of profit hauking hunting merchandise purchasing landes c. which though in themselues they be not euill yet because they continually put better matter out of place they are become the sin of their soules And if it so fall out that now and then they or some of them stumble vpon good things be it either in word or deede by the motion of their owne minde or occasion from others it is certainely but as a flashe lightening no man knoweth whence it commeth nor whither it goeth and euen vanisheth away as if it were in the first appearing of it And therefore surely thorow their sins of ignorance negligence carelesnes contēpt prophanenes it is likely that vengeance shall breake forth from the Lord in a grieuous both

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 thē 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 frō God to commēd 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