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A14556	The voyce of the Lord in the temple· Or, a most strange and wonderfull relation of Gods great power, providence, and mercy, in sending very strange sounds, fires, and a fiery ball into the church of Anthony in Cornwall neere Plimmouth, on Whitsunday last, 1640. To the scorching and astonishing of 14. severall persons who were smitten. And likewise to the great terrour of all the other people then present, being about 200. persons. The truth whereof will be maintained by the oathes of the same persons; having been examined by Richard Carew of Anthony, Esquire; and Arthur Bache, vicar of Anthony.	Carew, Richard, Sir, d. 1643?; Bache, Arthur, b. 1599 or 1600.	1640 (1640)	STC 24870; ESTC S114886	9,604	23

confused manner betweene crying and speaking their senses and speeches began to revive and within a little space they so recovered themselves as that none departed out of his place till after the taking of the bread when they were smitten they had every one of them their senses so well restored unto them that they likewise received the Cup at the same Table and all returned at the afternoone as there was great cause to give thankes unto Almighty God for so great deliverance Which appeared plainely to be farre the greater in that the same Thunder and Lightning instantly kill'd a Dogge at the feet of those who were kneeling in the Chancell to receive the Sacrament and likewise another without the Church at the Bell-free doore Master Anthony Furlong the elder had a Mare killed in the field and another horse fearefully stricken the same time with his head on one side and so continues and the ground of the same Field for the space of three or foure foot turned as vvith a Plough And likewise made seven or eight holes and rents in the walls of our Tower some on the inside some on the outside and made impressions on the stones thereof in divers places as if it had been done by the force of shot discharged out of great Ordnance so as in divers places the light might be seen through the walls Thus have beene represented to you terrible sounds even sounds containing many Thunders at once a Fiery Ball flying from Heaven to Earth Fire walking upon the Earth Brimstone kindled with fire thicke darknesse Storme and tempest The blowes and scourges of an hand from on high Astonishment hurrying and tumbling of Bodies shaking and distracting of senses spirits and hearts of men You have seen part of the Plague of Aegypt where fire mingled with Haile as here with most unusuall and overflowing Raine ran upon the ground You have seene a resemblance of Mount Sinai where were Thundrings and Lightnings and a thicke cloud and an exceeding loud voyce so that all the people in the Campe trembled Behold then in these things the terrour of the Lord And what use shall we make of this Terrour Let Moses tell us God is come to prove you that his feare may be before your faces that ye sinne not Let the Psalmist tell you Stand in awe and sinne not Let Samuel tell you as he told the Israelites after a wonderfull Thunder and raine Feare the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart but if ye shall still doe wickedly ye shall be consumed There hath been also shewed you the levelling and shooting of the Arrows of the Almighty at this place at this time and among the people you have seene the fire as it were led by his hand not onely where it did on whom it did but like a living creature turning about as in a walke And so according to the Vision of Ezekiel The living creatures ran and returned as the apparance of a flash of Lightning Behold then here the Dominion High and Supreme power of the Almighty He doth what he will in the Army of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him What dost thou He directeth the sound that goeth out of his Mouth and his Lightning unto the ends of the Earth His clouds are turned about by his counsels that they may doe whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the World in the Earth And what use shall wee make of the Knowledge of this High Dominion and Rule of the Most High Let Nebuchadnezzar humbled by this Dominion teach you I blessed said he the most High and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever and ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and his Kingdome is from Generation to Generation Yea let the great King of the World teach us himselfe Looke unto me and be saved all the ends of the Earth for I am God and there is none else But for those that turne their hearts from obeying this King and will breake his bands and cast away his cords Let them know That hee will breake them with a Rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters Vessell Yea let the greatest sonne of this greatest King tell them Those mine enemies which would not have me to raigne over them bring them forth and cut them in pieces Lastly you have seene flames scorching but not consuming A Ball of Fire shot and striking but not killing yea killing of Beasts and unreasonable creatures but sparing the reasonable casting downe but not destroying Men astonished and driven out of their senses yet soone restored A Communion divided and cut in pieces but healed againe and perfected Those that in the House of God received the sentence of death in the forenoone returning to the same House in the afternoone to give thanks for a kinde of resurrection from death unto life Behold here the great free and unspeakable Goodnesse and Mercy of God And what use shall we make of this Goodnesse and Mercy Let the Spirit of God in the Psalmist tell you and not tongue onely the burden and often returning sentence of his Songs O praise the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever And againe O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men And againe I will extoll thee my God O King and I will blesse thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I blesse thee and I will blesse thy Name for ever and ever Men shall speake of thy terrible Acts and I will declare thy Greatnesse They shall abundantly utter the Memory of thy great goodnes And yet again we have thought of thy Goodnesse O God in the midst of the Temple According to thy Name O God so is thy praise unto the ends of the Earth Neither let us only praise him in thoughts and words but in workes also Serve the Lord with gladnesse as well as come before his presence with singing Being delivered Let us serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Say as the children of Israel but doe also what they said and did not Who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voyce of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have heard and lived Therefore all that the Lord shall speake unto us we will heare and do it But for such as turne aside unto their crooked wayes the Lord shall leade them forth with the workers of iniquity Therefore let us sin no more lest worse things come unto us Fire and Brimstone over Constantinople Tract. De Excidio urbis inter Augustini opera Tom. 9. NOnne ante paucos annos Archadio Imperatore Connstantinopoli quod dico audierunt nonnulli forsitan noverunt sunt in hoc populo

THE VOYCE OF THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE OR A most strange and wonderfull Relation of Gods great Power Providence and Mercy in sending very strange sounds fires and a Fiery Ball into the Church of Anthony in Cornwall neere Plimmouth on Whitsunday last 1640. To the scorching and astonishing of 14. severall persons who were smitten And likewise to the great Terrour of all the other people then present being about 200. persons The truth whereof will be maintained by the Oathes of the same persons having been examined by Richard Carew of Anthony Esquire and Arthur Bache Vicar of Anthony Imprinted at London by T. Paine for Francis Eglesfield and are to be sold at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls-Church-yard 1640. THE VOYCE OF THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE GOD in all ages hath given Testimonies of his power and particularly of that power which is able in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that do not know and obey him even the power which the Excellent Singer of Israel thus expresseth The voyce of the Lord is powerfull The voyce of the Lord is full of Majesty The voyce of the Lord divides the flames of fire But here have we notice not only of his power but his goodnesse so as wee may say with the Prophet The Lord is jealous and the Lord revengeth yet withall the Lord is slowe to anger and great in power his way is in the whirle wind and in the storme and the clouds are the dust of his feet For here we see God in the storme threatning judgment yet shewing mercy yea Mercy triumphing over judgement And indeed his judgement leads to Mercy by leading to Repentance For whiles it calls to Repentance it forewarnes to flye the wrath to come Whereas without Repentance this will be but a patterne and forerunner of eternall fire But if like wise children burnt with this temporall fire sinners by penitence escape the everlasting burnings of eternall fire then may they sing Mercy and judgement even judgement turned into Mercy And then may they breake out into thanksgivings for the judgement which hath brought them by Repentance to Mercy and did now terrifie them but not destroy them and did terrifie them now that it might not hereafter eternally destroy them On Whitsunday last a faire morning began but by the desert of sinne turned into blacke darknesse and was shadowed about 8. or 9. of the clocke with a cloud and this cloud was followed with some not extraordinary darknesse claps of Thunder and flashes of Lightning but afterwards vvhen Divine Prayers and Sermon were ended and Administration of the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper was neere accomplished there came a very vehement fire farre more bright than Lightning and this fire was suddenly attended with a terrible and unspeakable sound to the great amazement and astonishment of the people then present in the Church The terrour of this strange fire and fearefull sound drew from some pittifull cryes caused in others a dead silence their senses being stupified and overcome by that which they saw heard and felt More particularly while the holy Communion was administring and when as many as came to a first and second Table had received and those that came to a third had received the bread Light came in at the Chancell window and was seene in the Chancell by divers persons in the forme of a fiery Ball the bignesse of a Bowle and did strike divers persons which were kneeling and expecting the Cup Divers hurts by divers persons were then received of which my selfe was one who thought I had the haire of mine head burnt off and the outside of my left legge scalded and could not in minde be otherwise perswaded untill I was informed the contray of the one and mine owne eyes saw the contrary of the other In which give me leave to expresse unto the Reader and that with hearty thankes to my mighty Preserver my great deliverance and that onely by Gods good providence toward me I received the blow at my very turning towards the Communion Table to take the Cup to administer the Wine and I was no sooner removed from the place but instantly a Ball of Fire came into the same place vvhere I stood before as is testified by divers persons then present For my owne part I call to minde that I saw a great flaming fire about my body and heard a terible sound in mine eares and the blow which came vvith it according to our sense if it had lighted on my person must needs have proved mortall And my wife Elizabeth Bache sitting in her seate after the receiving of that holy Sacrament being astonished partly with the greatnesse of the sound partly vvith the terror of the fire and partly vith the cry of the people supposing some one had beene strucke dead asked of some of her neighbours by her vvhether that vvere her husband vvhich vvas killed Reply vvas made her not thankes be to God for hee is comforting Iohn Hodge one of the distressed and astonished persons Master Antony Furlong the yonger vvas stricken in the soles of his feete and likewise in the legges as it had beene with Gunpower and so he saw the fire vanish away in the manner of sparkles Iohn Brusie likewise saw at the same time as it were a Ball of fire desending from above which when it came to the ground dispersed abroad with a deadly Sound and hee felt his legges and toes extraodinary hot therewith but when hee returned home and looked upon them they were onely very red but hee had no other harme William Sargent a Masters mate of a ship kneeling under the Chauncell window was stricken on the chine as seemed to him with a bullet The blow was so grievous as that hee thought his body had beene cut in two peeces yea such was the violence of the blow that it caused his water forthwith to issue from his body and for a time lost his sight and sences but soone recovered them againe which Sargeant for two or three yeares before feeling oftimes a great paine in his chine was hereby so cured as that hee felt no paine there since John Gendle a servant vnto Richard Carew Esq. was smitten against the fore part of the right shoulder where hee kneeled upon his knees with a great violence that hearing as it were the hissing of a great shot hee thought hee had beene stricken therewith and his shoulder had beene carried cleane away hee was turned almost round about where hee kneeled and exceedingly astonisht with the blow Anthony Peeke was fearefully smitten in all the lower part of his body as if it had beene made dead and felt the water in his bladder as it were boyling hot hee supposed hee had beene shot thorow he vvas set up upon the forme by vvhich he vvas kneeling himselfe not knowing how Dorothy Tubbe vvho vvas then kneeling to receive the Communion vvas so smitten vvith this Lightning that it seemed to her that