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A declaration of such tempestious, and outragious fluddes, as hath been in diuers places of England. 1570
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Knell, Thomas.
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1571
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vp by the roote WE Reade in the Sermons of Ieremie the Prophet the .44 Chapiter that Ieremie did laboure to bring them from Idolatry which were fled into the Land of Egipt to Pathors and declared what plagues and miseries God had laid vpon them and would lay vpon them til they were destroied vtterly which councel of the Prophet they not onely little set by but were with malice and extreame impudent madnesse so incensed that they gaue a plaine aunswer to the Prophet The wordes which thou hast spoken in the name of the Lorde vnto vs wee will not heare them But we wil do whatsoeuer thinge goeth out of our owne mouthe as to burne incence to the Queene of Heauen and to poure out Drinck offrings vnto her as we haue don both we and our Fathers our Kinges and our Princes in the Cities of Iudah and in the streates of Ierusalem for then had we plentie of Uitailes and were wel and felt no euill but synce wee left of to burn Incence to the Queene of Heauen and to pour out the drinck offrings before her we haue had scarcenesse of all thinges haue been consumed by the sword and by famine which impudent aunswere may be likened to the answer of our Egiptian Papists or Babilonicall Idolators Which in times past sang Salue Regina and Regina Coeli letare to the virgin Mary whom Idolatrously they call the Queene of Heauen To the Preachers of the Gospell of Iesus Christ we heare your words that you speak in the name of the Lorde but as for vs wee will neuer beleeue them but wil be as wee haue been Though wee cannot haue our Peeuish Idolatry and Apish Religion openly yet we wil in harts vnrefourmed sacrifise to the Queen of Heauen say Maria Mater gratia Mater misericordia tu nos ab hoste protege in hora mortis suscipe y is Mary thou mother of grace and mother of mercy in like case defend vs from our Foes wee pray and take vs in our dying day As al our blinde generacions haue done before vs as our good holy Fathers the Popes haue taught vs from time to time and as our Fathers and good Cacolike Kinsfolks haue don in the countreies of England and the Cities of Britaine and in the streetes of London Caunterbury Yorke Bristowe Sarisbury Westchester Norwiche and as our good Bretherne in Northumberlande and Westmerlande Ridsedale and Tidsedale and our friends of the Bishoprik of Durham and our false folish fauourers of Fables in Suffolke and Northfolke of late haue done Which wee if their quarters gracious Queene of Heauen did not more feare vs that hang on London gates diuers Towres Trees in this countrey then either our obedience to God or Queene doth mooue vs would euen now do also as our fathers haue done before vs for then when the Masse was vp Images of blissed holy Saints the holy Rood and our Lady sainct Thomas of Canterbury Saincte Fraunces with his bloudy syde and all the trimsy trash and peltinge paltrie of that holy holy Whore of Rome our mother holy Church then had we a mery world althings were plenty wee had Uictailes and all things in abundance and felt no yll but synce this new fangled ReligioÌ„ which they cal the gospel which our Fathers neuer knewe and yet were led to the Deuill well inough was Preached wee haue had scarcitie of all things and haue ben consumed by Sword and famine with Fyre and water as now al men may see by these great Fluds which God hath sente to plague them for their Heresy because they haue despised our old auncient holy Churche Religion that hath continued in worship this seuen or .viii. hundreth yere lesse haue brought in this new religion that began but in Paradice and was deuised but the last day when God before the Worlde was made in his euerlasting wisdome and good purpose of meere knowledge thought it good Thus I say do blind Idolaters make argumeÌ„ts esteeming Religion by the belly and in steede of acknowledging Gods workes which sendeth both plenty and Dearth Raine and drie Weather Fluddes and dry land Riches and pouerty sycknes and health attributing all to theyr dome Idolles which are cursed with their makers and worshippers but as Ieremie sayde to the Egiptian Israelitish Idolaters so I might sai to our Romaine Popisticall Englishmen the Lord saw your peuish Idolatry and in steede of plagues gaue you much abundance of mercie whiche might haue mooued you from Idolatry to his trewe religion but when he saw your Impudencie and Whores Forheads that would not repent and be ashamed of your brutish Idolatry he plagued you and Scourâ—ed you and that by many fearfull Roddes from which your Queene of Heauen could not saue nor all your Idolles deliuer you in the daies of your sayd Sacrifice when euery Church had a Lady priest euery Church a God lockt in a Box in the middest of your Idolatrie were there not as great and greater showes of wrath felt as now ther is laid vppon vs that are in the light of the Gospell I must needs confesse to punish as I haue sayd in my Epistle the lewde liuers vnder the Gospell yes verely For in the dayes of Kyng Henry the viii I will not reape open what hath hapned before in older monumâ—nts when Gylford Marsh in the countie of Sussex nere to Ry was drowned with all the Cattell sheep a mountyng to merueilous number with much of Chaynecourt Marsh Kyte Marsh and the marshes of the Isle of â—â—â—ene in Kent when your queen of Heauen could not saue them but that they were faine to fetch Hay-stackes and Beanestackes to stop vp Damines for feare of drowning all the Country about which time also the country of Sealand was drowned from Armew to Dort wher not only sheepe and Oxen were lost but all that euer inhabited within .xxx. mile compas yea wherin our Ladies Preestes our Ladies Pictures yea your Queene of Heauens Temples your Alters and Pixes with your reall Gods which innumerable wer all drowned not beyng able to help themselues and their worshippers but perished with bruit beasts and the whole country which shal neuer be recouered agayn When also aboute .xxxvii. yeere agon there was such a Hayle as slew both men and Cattell and Corne-beaten downe in the time of Haruest that not withstanding Deruelgethren the WelshimeÌ„s Idol God all y Corne was destroyd beyng redy to be reaped in the eare on the grounde and in many places of England notwithstanding your Queen of Heauen whom you serue in all blindenesse of Popery There came such Rayne by the space of .v. weekes with such fearful Haile that all the Wheat Barly Beans Otes other grayne with Apples peares and other Fruits were vtterly lost neuer reaped Mowne nor gathred but rotten in the Earth and beaten to Morter with the showre About which time also all Plumsted Marshes here by y Thames were drowned which lye almost al wast til this day Also in Queen Maries daies when the Queen of Heauens sacrifices were agayne erected why dyd she not saue Sandwich Marshes the Cattell and Treasure therein Eâ—â—ly marshes and the marshes of the Isle of Hartly the Marshes of Herne and Whitslable Besyde the miserable Famin that God sent ouer all this land when Wheat was at a French crowne a Bushell and many that could get neither Wheat nor Barly nor Beans were glad to eate Acorn breade and many to sterue for lacke of Beans and Acorns when Spanish Mules and Iades were fed with Wheat besyde the sword and Robberies of straungers that the Queene of Heauen suffred hir worshippers to be plagued with al that rightly they might accuse them selues of such vile sinne as caused god to be angry which also and not our Religion is the cause as theirs was of our Fluds other Rods of Gods correction to make holely to liue in so holy a Religion bothe vpon the Papistes and Christians powred at this time by Gods Almighty hande on the Papists for theyr blindnesse on the lose liued professours of the Gospel for their lewd conuersation God geue vs al grace truly to repent and by Iesus Christe so to seeke for Pardon that for him and through him all our ignorance blasphemie Idolatrie weaknesse lewdnesse and Hipocrisy may be forgeuen in this world that in the world to com wee may haue life euerlastyng Amen FINIS ê™ T. Knel Iu. Psal. 10 33. Esay 3. Amos. 4. Psal. 144. Imprinted at London in Fleetstreet by William â–ª How for Iohn Allde and William Pickeryng 1571.
A declararation of such tempestious and outragious Fluddes as hath béen in diuers places of England 1570. To such as haue been touched with these Calamities of vvater by the greate Fluddes in this present yere 1570. DAVID the Prophet in the .107 Psalme speakynge of the marueylous workes wounders y god doth by his power shew before the sonnes of men stirreth vp the Godly to prayse and extoll his maiestie and mooueth the wicked and stubborn to the feare and dreade of his hoâ—rible vengeance He turneth saith he the Flouds into a wildernesse and the springes of water into drie grounde a frutefull lande into barrennesse for â—â—e wickednesse of them y dwel therein Which notable sentence may be well considred more aptly applied but cheifly of vs well examined waying how fearfully the Lorde hath bestowed vpon vs his meruelous iudgements in y he hath turned many of our fruitful Feelds and Marshes Pastures and Meadowes into vnmercifull Flouds and streames vnlooked for by changyng as he did in the olde worlde the moderate course of the vpper Fountaines which were ordayned to water the earth and so to make it fruitfull into immoderate and vnseasonable Fluddes which in steede of makyng fruitfull hath made barren many places of the Earthe in this our countrie by destructioÌ„ of the Creatures as Pastures Corne Cattell Sheep Neate Horse Beastes Oxen Kine and such like with some of y bodies of men though not so generally as in the first Floud neither half so extremely as our sinnes doo deserue which craue not so light a scurge as moyste and coolynge plashes of water but hot and burnynge flakes of Fyre and Brimstone whiche for lesse offences God poured vpon Sodome Gomorrah The cause of which barrennesse as Dauid saith in this our fruitfull countrie is our wickednesse whiche are the inhabitants of the same as is to be approued by markynge the fruites and operation of two kindes of people within this land especially vpon whom these calamities haue faullen to weete the Riche and the Poore As concerning the one namely the Riche men if euer the Prophet Esayes woe against them that ioygne house to house and lande to lande till there be no more place left for the poore coulde euer be applied it may be applied vnto them whiche as Amos the Prophet saieth are the fat Kyne of Bason in the Mountaynes of Samaria which oppresse y poore and destroy the needy To whom Abacuk saith That their couetousnesse is an euil couetousnesse to their houses whereby they seeke to set their neast on hie and to escape from the power of euill Thou hast sayth the Prophet conseled shame to thine owne house and by destroying many people and hast sinned agaynst thine owne soule For the Stone shall crie out of the wall and the Beame out of the Timber shall answer it as now the Seales of the War Parchment of the Leaces hath cried vengeance and destruction to the Leasemongers of England and the conditions haue cried out of the Leases which haue béen enhauÌ„sed and raysed answeryng woe worth such couetous caytifs as haue caused the care full cries of so many poore Thou righteous God plague these couetous Leasemongers these greedy grasiers which haue coÌ„uerted the Tillage of much erable ground to the grasing of Shéep and Northern Oxen whereby they enriche them selues with the ruine and decay of thousands round about them Thou God that seest this their vnmerciful dealing open the cloudes water their pastures sowne with sheep in steede of men and Corne of all graines geue their flocke moysture that they may see them by thousandes swim aboue the ground and at the fall of the waters to lie deade vppon their watred land Which crie God hath heard and this is the cause of suche ruin and destruction The Riche are so welthie that they are without Iudgement without mercy and that hath caused their Heards to be wasted their Flockes to be deminished their Granges made pasturelesse with the pitifull fluddes past wherby much of their substance hath perished For whose sakes also the Poore are made partakers of these greate losses Those riche Landelordes yet addynge to their troubles whom the Lorde hath smitten by exactyng still their outragious Rents aswell for the halfe yere past wherein these perils haue hapned as before not considering y the Lorde did it to plague them withall because of their couetousnesse God geue them repentance before the Lorde be too to much sturred and prouoked to anger by their wickednesse Least y if these fauourable thretnynges be despised the Iust and righteous God doo in steede of water raygne downe Fier Brimstone vpon them and in stéede of the ouerflowing of their pastures with watry streames ouerflow the carelesse conscieÌ„ces with cruel flames of Hell fire euerlasting dampnacion and in stéede of the losse and wracke of sheep and cattell Shipwrack and Landwracke of bothe their bodies and soules which all their rustie Golde and Siluer shal neuer be able to recouer agayne And the Poore God geue them patience to beare this the Lordes visitation thankfully knowynge that the poore crieth and the Lord heareth him and that the Lorde is the refuge and strong hold of the poore in time of necessity who hath his eares open to heare their complaintes and is ready at hand to help them and receiue theyr prayers God graunt that they murmure not at God handyworke in striking the litle they had but that they may say with blessed Iob the Lord gaue it the Lorde hath taken his owne agayne blessed be his name for euer and euer So shall wee be Gods humble Children bothe riche and poore embrasing his Rods of correction as meanes to amende our liues The riche forsaking their former couetous vnmercifull gréedinesse The poore learning to be more thankful and faithful in staiyng vpon Gods prouideÌ„ce that God may restore vs from the hand of straungers whose mouthe talketh of vanitie and their right hande is a right hande of falsehood That our Sonnes may be as the Plants growynge vp in their youth and our daughters as the polished corners of the Temple That our countries may be full and abundant with diuers sorts and that our sheepe may bring foorth thousands and tenne thousandes in our streetes That our Oxen may be strong to labour and that there be no inuasion nor goyng out nor decaying in our stréetes which blessings God wil multiply vpon vs if wée al wil once begin to feare him blessed are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are we if the Lord be our God his wonders make vs feare and obay him his mercy make vs al to loue and serue him through his Son Iesus Christ our only sauiour AMEN Math. 22. Geue vnto Caesar that which belongeth vnto Caesar and vnto God that belongeth vnto God. 1. Peter 2. Submit your self to all maner ordinance of man for the Lordes sake whether it be vnto the Kyng as to the chief