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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.
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Day, Thomas, fl. 1583.
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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
destruction NO comfort solace nor no ioy can lodge within my brest Because thou dost me stil annoy with thy vnquiet rest Repent England and turn with spéed whilst God doth dayly cal For he doth sende and byd thee mend before thy dreadful fal Deare England thou dost dayly grieue and vex me euery way To see my workes and prooue my deeds what I can do or say Repent England c. Ful twenty yeares and foure thou hast at large heard out my cry And stil by word I say repent by waters earth and skie Repent england c. And as vpon Ierusalem I did both weepe and waile So doth my louing preachers cry but nothing can preuaile Repent england c. Thou thinkest not vpon my call my voyce thou dost note hare My preachers meeke my word most sweet to saue thou dost not feare repent england c. Neglecting stil thou dost fulfil all wickednesse and sinne And hast delight both day and night to fit and dwel therein repent england c. What sinnes in Noy his time were found or els in Sodomes store That doth not now in thee abound a thousand times and more repent england c. Is not thy whooredome and thy pride thy vsury and gaine Thy waight and measure vniust tryde still lodged in thy braine repent england c. No care to get so that thou haue thy pining purse to fil Who be vndon although thereby thy brothers blood thou spil repent england c. Loe England now what meaneth else thy rents which tripled bee In such a rate that none but thou or thine can dwell with thée repent England c. And is it all nay leases great yea Fines and Incomes bare Vp such a price that non thats wise but thee and thine doth feare repent England c. Why dealest thou so O England with thine annointed king Who fills thy store and empts thy store againe of euery thing repent england c. But auarice that bagg stirres vp thy Tygred natures kinde To wring and wrest the poore to fill thine vncontented minde repent england c. Thus carelesly thou dost contemne the poore whom thou shouldst feed And to the ritch thou makest feastes with fare thou dost exceed repent england c. Esteeming more thy gluttony thy pride and idle lyfe Then care and conscience of the poore to end their law and stryfe repent england c. Yet God doth send his Ionas stil thee England to cal While there is time if thou wilt heare and feare from sinne to fal repent england c. If not his iudgement is most swift remember Easter past how on the wednesday he did shake this earth and all things fast repent england c. Both Castles townes and Towers strong and Mountaines euery where The ground most firme and al thereon did shake and quake for feare repent england c. If then his wrath be found so fearce as sencelesse things makes nymble Shall it not make the stoutest hearts of vnderstanding tremble repent england c. Yes yes O england think not so but that thou shalt be found And as amazed gydsicke man fal flat with death to ground repent england c. While thou hast time therefore repent and call to God for grace That he from wrath may yet relent and al thy sinnes deface repent england c. Vnto thee which his iudgements call and cause thee to decline And thitherward appoint thy path as by a squared lyne repent england c. Repent I say and soeke his face whilst it is to be found In this same special time of grace here liuing on the ground repent england c. And dare thou not protract the time to dally any more Because the iudge with iudgement comes and standeth at the dore and saith repent c. With wonders strange and monsters fell and blazing starres by past Doth stil Prognosticate and tell of iudgement at the last repent england c. What sicknes new with plagues are sent what flouds do ouerflow In euery place what wars are bent to tell vs it is so repent england c. And euerything in their degree as nature hath assignde The tyde the time and winters bee vnnatural by kinde repent england c. What warninges hath beene often sent to thee by flashing streames Of fire which bids thee to repent and wake out of thy dreames repent england c. The clowdes likewise infixt with bloude and Brimstome fire like smoken With collours strange not oft like seene a day of dome betoken repent england c. As late alacke on Munday last who so abroad did range Betwixt the howres of leuen and twelue might see it very strange repent england c. On al the parts of heauenly sky was tokens to remember The latter comming of the Lorde the second of September repent therefore O england c. Therefore while thou haste time and space and whiles he calles thee still Come vnto him turne not thy face obey vnto his wil. repent england c. And thou shalt haue that he hath bought and purchast for thee free The kingdome of eternall rest for thy reward and fee. repent england c. Lord send vs al those heauenly ioyes with thee for to remaine And vs defend from sathans noyes and euerlasting paine repent england c. God saue our queene Elizabeth and stablish still her raigne In health and wealth and happy peace thy Gospel to maintaine Repent O England then with speed and turne from sathans thrall Both man and wife amend your life and Christ wil saue you all FINIS Gen. 18. Gen. 6.