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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42473	A true and faithful narrative of the much to be lamented death of Mr. William Tyrrell and the more to be magnified preservation of Sr. John Rous of Henham, Baronet, and divers other gentlemen ... published for the vindication of Gods truth and those persons honour and credit, from some foul and scandalous aspersions cast upon them in alying libell entituled, Sad and lamentable news from Suffolk / by Lionel Gatford ...	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing G339; ESTC R14661	12,334	18

all address my self humbly beseeching earnestly intreating both you my most honoured Patron and the rest of those Gentlemen that were so mercifully miraculously preserved to spend your preserved lives the more piously and religiously in Gods service because they were so precious in his sight as to work so wonderfully and graciously in the preservation of them when they were so near unto destruction It is the Lord that giveth life unto all Act. 17.25 And it is the same Lord that hath redeemed your lives from destruction and crowned you with loving kindnesse and tender mercies Psal 103.4 And therefore what can each of you say lesse then that which that Psalmist there saith in contemplation of those mercies ver 1.2 Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me blesse his holy Name Blesse the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits And what can ye doe lesse to shew that you forget them not then that the remaining course of your preserved lives be answerable in some good measure to the mercies and miracles of their preservation And to mind you the more of Gods mercies and your duties let me beg of you what I hope you are already resolved on before I mention it to you That you would not fail to observe the last day of July as a solemn day of Thanksgiving unto the Lord all your lives through it being a day wherein God as Lot said when he was delivered from the Brimstone Fire of Sodome Gen. 19. did magnifie his mercie which he shewed you in saving your lives and that too from the unspeakable violence and irresistible force of the most dreadful instruments of his wrath and fury his right-aiming Thunderbolts that from the clouds as from a well-drawn bow flie to the mark as they are elegantly described Wisdome 5.21 as also from those mixt sulphurious fuliginous conglutinous fiery vapours that they were and constantly are wrapt up in and which are Gods Arrows as well as the Thunderbolts Psal 77. v. 17. Here both Philosophie and History would furnish me with a very large discourse of the nature and effects of Thunder But Job's Question takes me off from medling much with the nature of Thunder by saying The Thunder of hi● power who can understand Job 26.14 Let it therefore 〈◊〉 you that it is the Thunder of his power and remember as oft●● you hear it or ought spoken of it that on the last of July 1661. God himself by his own power and of his own free mercy delive●ed you from that otherwise mercilesse power of his Thunder that passeth all mans understanding and that will help you the better to understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord in your deliverance and provoke you to be the more thankfull to him for it And for the effects of Thunder you have seen and felt so much that I presume you need not to be informed of any more for the inciting you to that duty which I am now minding you of I shall therefore as to this particular referre you onely to what holy David hath left recorded concerning the effects of Thunder Psal 18. and 29. where Thunder is called the voyce of the Lord and that voyce is said to be powerfull or as others read the places mighty in operation And some of those mighty effects are there named and the lesson recommended to all men from the consideration thereof is the same that I am now recommending to you Namely Therefore to give unto the Lord glory and strength yea to give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name and to worship him in the beauty of holinesse or as it is in the margin in his glorious Sanctuary In the next and last place When you are praising God for his delivering you from the power of his terrible Thunder forget not to give him thanks also for his delivering you in his due time from the power of a malicious and slanderous hypocritical tongue which as it does in many respects resemble Thunder viz. in its irresistible smiting indiscernable piercing and visible besooting of those persons it lights on according as they are tempered or disposed as also in the nimble flying and sudden and unwarned hitting wounding and killing and the like So it doth in divers respects transcend it For Thunder falls most upon Beasts and Trees and Buildings seldome upon Men as Pliny Scaliger have observed our own experience witnesseth But an evil tongue falls wholly upon Men and often upon the best of Men. Again Thunder when it does light upon Men it spares often times their lives and when it does kill it kills onely their bodies but the lying malicious hypocriticall tongue spares nothing that it can hurt and strikes both bodies and souls and endeavours often times to take away mens goods also and what is more precious their good Names as well as their lives Besides as the same Scaliger and Casaubon have from others that are far more ancient tell us when Thunder have slain any man All men did generally carry some sacred though superstitious kind of Reverence to such a body and would neither bury nor burn it nor take it from the place where it was smitten but there intomb it and thought the very place sacred and accounted the body so smitten to be void of corruption But the lying malicious slanderous tongue so smites and kills as that it rests not there but labours to render those whom it so deals with most odious and contemptible to all men and then it pursues them to their graves and will not suffer them to remain quiet there but spits its poyson into their very ashes And therefore if when any such tongue hath smitten any of you whom God himself hath spared or shall further persecute those whom God hath smitten and talk to the grief of those whom he hath wounded which is a true mark of a mercilesse wicked man Psal 69. v. 26. God shall then please by any unworthy Servant of his to vindicate your Honours and Credit Let the Son of Syrach's Eucharisticall expressions upon a very suitable occasion Ecclesiasticus 51. ver 1 2 3 4 5. be each of yours and say with him I will thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour I do give praise unto thy Name For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snare of a slanderous tongue and from the lips that forge lies and hast been mine helper against mine adversaries And hast delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercies and greatnesse of thy Name from the teeth of them that were ready to devour me and out of the hands of such that sought after my life and from the manifold afflictions which I had and from the choaking of fire on every side and from the depth of the belly of hell and from an unclean tongue and from lying words And this will be amongst many other comforts to yourselves an ample reward to him that hath adventured the censure of malicious evil tongues to vindicate you from the malice and evil of the tongue FINIS