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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	good_a	see_v	11,824	5	3.3378	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19994	VVonderfull straunge sightes seene in the element, ouer the citie of London and other places on Munday being the seconde day of September: beginning betweene eight and nine of the clocke at night, increasing and continuing till after midnight: most strange and fearefull to the beholders.	Day, Thomas, fl. 1583.	1583 (1583)	STC 6433; ESTC S105220	4,328	17

VVONDERFVLL straunge sightes seene in the Element ouer the Citie of London and other places on Munday being the seconde day of September beginning betweene eight and nine of the clocke at night increasing and continuing till after midnight most strange and fearefull to the beholders Psalm 19.1 The Heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy worke AT LONDON Printed by Robert VValde-graue dwelling without Temple-barre neere vnto Sommerset-house The Call of England AS nothing can mooue or stirre man more effectually vnto the feeling of his owne sins then the lawe of God thundred out threatned against the conscience of his iniquity so nothing can draw him more forcibly vnto repentance then the sencible sight and feeling of fearefull and mighty plagues heauenly threatninges and strange and prodigious wonders drawn by the efficient cause God from the operations of earthy ayrie watry heauenly supernal Elementes As on Munday beeing the second of September Anno 1583. was seen very strange sights in the ayre beginning betwixt the houres of eight nine at night And so increasing continuing till after midnight but chiefly betwixt eleuen twelue was séen maruailous strange rare miraculous wonderful permouements ad and regrediacions with constellations of the ayre and watery elements which were sometime darke sometime red sometime fiery and bloody colloured with streames like sharpe speares shooting straight vpwarde and meeting togeather as it were in a round point with flashes much brightnesse many streames and straunge and vnwonted collours of the rainebow As also with the collour of the fire of Brimstone and seeming as it were burning with fierye flashes and smoake Straunge and fearefull no doubt to the beholders as though the gallant frame of all the radient skie and elements had beene euen then about to be set on fire All which threates and often preachings from Heauen by Fyre doth yet once agayne call our disobedience vnto speedy obedience and amendment of life I therefore as one that beheld the same although of all others the most vnfittest to report it haue here in wryting published the very trueth and sight as it then appeared and was manifestly seene ouer our horrizon at London no doubt of many others To the end that none might be ignorant of that last warning which appeared to call vs vnto repentaunce Before the Lord God whose mercies are alwaies as great as him selfe do bring any notable ouerthrow or destruction vpon any nation kingdome or people he firste of all giueth them warning to the ende that if they repent not yet they might be found vnexcusable as hauing no cause to plead ignorance Thus he dealt towardes the Sodomites to whom before hee destroyed them With fire and brimstone from heauen hee sent three Angels to Abraham to giue them warning who prayed for them And before he destroyed the old worlde by the diluge of water he sent them Noah who preached by the preparing of an Arke an hundreth and twenty yeares so that euery stroke of his hammers might haue been a sufficient sermon to warne them of the comming of the waters before the dearth came vpon Egipt the Lorde sent Ioseph to prouide barnes and store for old father Iacob his familie as it appeareth in the 45. chapiter of Gene. When the heart of Pharaoh could be mollified towards the Aegyptians by none other meanes then by the Lordes punishmentes The Lorde sente ten merueilous notable plagues and wonders vppon Pharaoh and al his host yea from the hiest that sitteth on themperiall seate to the lowest that grindeth in myll or slandeth behinde the doore and made his stoute stomacke somewhat to stoupe The Lorde hath forwarned vs a great while yet doth not cease so to doe stil first by his Law then by his gospel thirdly by the benefites that we haue continually receiued of him fourthly by his creatures and miraculous tokens strange monsters blazing commets vnwonted enundations of waters straunge fishes perrillous warres earthquakings and last of all firye constellations as now also lately appeared and is here afore more plainly specified Obseruing in al pointes touching the declaration of that strange sight which I sawe the trueth so neare as I can Requesting the gentle readers to pardon me as one vnlearned and willing to submit my faltings alwaies to the censure iudgement and discretion of the learned whom I reuerence Requesting al to bear in mind the holy words of S. Peter in his second epistle and thirde Chapter which are spoke to this purpose First that there shal come in the latter dais mockers walking after their owne lustes And saying wher is the promise of his comming For euer since the olde fathers fel asleepe al things haue continued still alike from the beginning and creation of the worlde For this they know how be it are wilfully ignoraunt of it howe that the heauens were of old and the earth consisting of the water and the water by the worde of God By the which the worlde that then was as I haue sayde before perished being ouer runne with Water But the heauens and the earth which be now are kept in store by his worde and reserued vnto fire against the day of iudgement and the pardition of vngodly men And therefore be not ignoraunt of this that one day is with the Lord as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day And that y e Lord is not slack in comming as some men count slacknesse but is patient to vs warde forasmuch as he would haue no man lost but receiued all vnto repentance Neuerthelesse whether ye repent or continue stil in your sinnes yet the day of the Lorde shall come as a theefe in the night in which the Heauens shal passe away with a greate noise and the elementes shal melt with feruent heat the earth also and the workes that are therein shalbe vtterly burned Seing then that al these things shal perish what manner of persons ought ye to bee in al manner of holy conuersation and Godlinesse Looking for and hasting vnto the comming of the day of God by whom the heauens shall perishe with fire and the elementes shall melte with feruente heate Wherefore good Christians and beeloued brethren seeing that you doe nowe looke for suche thinges which vndoubtedly shall come to passe be diligent that ye may be founde of the Lord in peace without spot and vndefiled Wherefore seeing ye bee warned and that afore hand by diuers and sundry preadmonitions to take heed Take heed and beware least ye fall away thorow the error of the wicked from your owne stedfastnes But growe ye in grace and in the knowledge of our onely Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to whom be glory both now and foreuer Amen Farewell in the Lord Thomas Day ¶ THE CALL OF England which setteth out our great sinne and iniquities Gods long sufferaunce his sundry kindes of callings our slacknesse in comming our incredulity in beleeuing and our iust