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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19463	Miracle vpon miracle. Or A true relation of the great floods which happened in Couentry, in Lynne, and other places, on the 16. and 17. dayes of Aprill last past, in this present yeare of our Lord God, 1607		1607 (1607)	STC 5884.5; ESTC S105627	5,077	15

MIRACLE vpon MIRACLE Or A true Relation of the great Floods which happened in Couentry in Lynne and other places on the 16. and 17. dayes of Aprill last past in this present yeare of our Lord God 1607. Printed at London for Nathanael-Fosbrook and Iohn Wright 1607. A true Relation of the great Floodes which happened in Couentry in the Countye of Warwicke In Lynne in the County of Norfolke In Stopworth in the County of Chester and in Sheppy and other places in the County of Kent all which happened on the 16 and 17. dayes of Aprill last past in this present yeare of our Lord God 1607. WHen I enter into the consideration of the aptnesse greedinesse of our Nation and not onelie of them but almost of all people whatsoeuer both to entertaine and euen with a violent beliefe to embrace the report of any Miracle whatsoeuer howe euer deliuered from the mouthes or pennes of vaine Impostres or the most vntrue speakers without eyther examination of the grossenesse or respect of the malicious or fantasticall inuentors nay albeit it bee euen repugnant to holy Scriptures I cannot chuse but admire at their want of faith especially in these dayes wherin truth was neuer since the dayes of the Apostles more truely published and yet such is our naturall blindnesse or our willfull Ignorance that if we iourney neuer so safely in the perfect path of saluation yet we will bee drawne astray with the vainest lightest report either of prodigious monster or false miracle witnesse Garnets straw being an imagination and a report as false as Sathan himselfe who is the Author of all falsehood yet it is harboured in the hearts and mouthes of many simple seduced people witnes the Iewes Prophesie being an idle vaine Pamphlet as grosse and grosser then Iohn of Calabria and was printed many years agoe and this last yeare onely renewed with the addition of 1607. yet amongst fooles women children retayned for such an approued miracle that as if the gift of prophesie were hereditary to the Iewes their tribes there are fewe things better beleeued when as in truth there was neuer any such Iew nor any such prophesie but a meere inuention witnes Haoker that would be no lesse then Christ many other such like all which being most absurd most improbable And yet that in these latter dayes the man of sin shal bring in false prophets false prophesies false miracles false deceiuers it is most plaine in many places of holy Scripture therefore if such falshods be the signes of a false Church and a false religion then questionles the Church of Rome hath no aliance with truth since in her these euills are daily nourisht ingendred almost howerly beguiling and inchanting the people with the casting out off Diuells and other vaine and false miracles there may be Miranda multa yet indeed miracula nulla many wonders as in the Sun Moone Starrs and firmament many wonders in the earth in the ayre and in the waters some as forerunners of the last day some as forwarning vs of the euills which hang ouer vs and some as punishments of our sins and of these wonders the waters haue this yeare brought forth the strangest that hath beene read of eyther in this age or any age since the generall flood which hath gone before it as namely that which in the latter end of Ianuary last hapned in Sōmerset shire other parts of the West-countries the lamentable report whereof hath already beene published and hath almost ●●ld euery eare both with pitty and wonder so many soules perishing so much goodes and Cattell consumed so many Townes-houses and good buyldings ouer-whell med that the consideration thereof is able to moue remorse and astonishment in men of the most bloody and barbourous natures euen such as Vergill writs of the Mirmidons or Homer of the Thrasians that being as it were he wed out off stint moued with no cruelty yet wept at the destruction of Troy albeit themselues were the greatest actors in that hugh massacre like soft hearted executioners that feele a touch of that affliction with which the afflicte onely but this first outrage of waters proceeding from the great deepe I meane the Sea albe at the first it apeared most fearefull wondrous and that the effects thereof were both most lamentable and at first beyond all bound of imagination some not so strangely perishing as others more strangely preserued the true relation wherof is to bee read at pleasure yet after the dayes of sorrow were past ouer that the finishing of nine dayes had finished the remēbrance of the wonder immediatly almost euery one could collect vnto himselfe a naturall cause and a proscript constant reason both how why and which way this inundation was effected as one while the violence of the windes holding backe the springe tides that they wold not haue their free course according to their dispositions made that two tides ioyning in one and comming both with a double power and quantity it must of necessity follow that they must rise to a double height haue double boundes wherein to be contayned which not being found there would not chuse but followe this most sodaine fearefull and vnexpected Ouer-flow others imagined that the furie of the winds driuing the waters before them and raysing as it were a double quantity made the spring tides double their accustomed greatnesse and so ouerflowing their bankes to dround all within the compasse of that leuell thus men forgetting the powreful hand of the Almighty turning the wallet of their sins behind their backes began to imagine likē naturall men that sith there was a naturall reason for these natural causes sure they were not punishments for our transgressions neyther had God in his displeasure or for our amendment laid this gētle affliction vpon vs but questionlesse they were deceiued as may appeare euidently by the sequell of this relation For in Couentry a Citty seated in Warwick-shire vpon the mount of a small hill being not neare any part of the Sea or falt-water by many scores of miles neither where there is any ebding or flowing neyther any fresh Riuer of any quantity more then such as a man may at any reasonable time of the yeare eyther leape or stride ouer this Citty being euer accounted a very drie Citty as wanting water eyther for traffick or to beare a vessell of burden In this Citty vppon Thurseday at night beeing the ●6 of Aprill the dores of heauen beeing opened there fell a great raine mixed with thunder lightning to the amazement of the Cittizens I do not meane such an amazement as draue them either to feare or despair but such an amazement as doth commonly follow and depend vpon thunder lightning which are the dartes and arrowes of the highest this raine this thunder lightning cōtinued the most part of all that night euen in the greatest extremity that could be