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A00931	A bright burning beacon forewarning all wise virgins to trim their lampes against the comming of the Bridegroome. Conteining a generall doctrine of sundrie signes and wonders, specially earthquakes both particular and generall: a discourse of the end of this world: a commemoration of our late earthquake, the 6. of April, about 6. of the clocke in the euening 1580. And a praier for the appeasing of Gods wrath and indignation. Newly translated and collected by Abraham Fleming. The summe of the whole booke followeth in fit place orderly diuided into chapters.	Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 11037; ESTC S102280	47,166	126

bréefe cocker our selues too much become careles because the woes wherof we are forwarned will not come yet it will be long first ere they take effect For so did many vse to say of the floud in Noes time of the fire brimstone in Lothes time of the destruction of dust and ashes Doe you not thinke that they themselues if they were able to speake would say thus to vs Alas wretches what meane you to runne vp and downe from place to place after the vanities of this worlde Alas why doe you ouerwhelme your selues in the seas of sin and wickednes Looke vppon our bones and let your owne greedines greeue you your owne miserie make you affraid We were once as you be now and as we are so shall you be And therefore to returne thither from whence I haue straied let vs wey with carefull consideration and in weieng let vs tremble at the fearfull end of this world and hauing the day of our owne death continually before our eies let vs hasten as much as we may to amend our life missed Let vs not neglect the time because our good God forbeareth vs vile offenders and his anger commeth forth but slowly to take vengeance for this slownesse shalbe recompensed with gréeuousnes of punishment and his lame legge if I may so speake shall neuer leaue till it haue ouertaken the swift running sinner This is doubtles that how much the longer God looketh for amendement at our handes and we regard it not so much the more gréeuous shall his iudgement be against vs which to be so the Scripture by many examples hath not slenderly proued Now if we thinke which thought be farre from vs that it will be long ere the end of this world come and therevpon euery one of vs set at naught the consideration of our own falles who are more miserable Are we not I beséech you suddenly smitten with death and our soules taken out of our bodies we looking for nothing lesse whiles we very willingly and in the pleasure of our mindes are well content to tarrie in this forsaken worlde and determine with our selues of matters of long continuance But who are happie Euen they that alwaies haue before their eies either their owne death or the ende of this worlde and that make hast to be found in a readines when that houre commeth Let vs therefore be mindfull one with another that we walke in the middes of the snares of the Diuell and in consideration thereof let vs alwaies be prouided that whensoeuer the Lord laieth his commandement vpon vs being set frée from all blottes and blemishes of sinne wée may enter into his rest Let vs not persuade our selues that the time is long which we haue to weare out in this world For it may be that God will call vs vpon such a sudden that we shall not haue an houres respite giuen vs to repent Alas let vs remember the words of our Sauiour saieng Verily verily I say vnto you the houre is come when all that are in their graues shall heare the voice of the Sonne of God and they which haue done well shall come forth into the resurrection of life but they which haue done ill into the resurrection of iudgement Nowe therefore let vs take our choice determine with our selues what to doe in this life that according to our desertes we may either reioice with the godly or be tormented with the wicked worldes without end If rewardes will not win vs to béecome better let punishments make vs affraide to waxe worsse and if it be not in our power to despise this present world and to ceasse from the custome of sinning yet let vs at the least doe what we can to redresse our selues by righteousnes If we haue wandered like wantons in our youth let vs nowe repent and be reformed in our age and the euill déedes which wée haue done in sinning let vs renownce and forsake by amending For beholde how the world not by litle and litle but as I said altogether beginneth to come to ruine and decay yea it hath failed already many waies and at this present it draweth néerer and néerer to his last destruction as wée haue béen taught by many tokens al which with one consent agrée vppon that matter euery thing that wée sée vanisheth like a clowde passeth away like the euening shadow Behold the euents of things which were foretold vs long ago by the very trueth it selfe are nowe in these daies of oures more than apparantly perceiued All goodnesse as wée plainely sée is taken away and banished all mischéefe and euill day by day doth more and more abound in such sort manner that there is not a man able to open his mouth and so bold as once to gainesay that the last times are come vpon vs considering that the workes fruites of these dangerous daies are so rise among vs in cōtinuall vse practise For in the latter daies saith the Apostle shall be perillous seasons and men shall loue themselues they shall be couetous high minded proude blasphemers stubburne against their parents vnthankfull mischeeuous void of loue without peace faultfinders accusers dishonest vnkinde cruell traitors froward ambitious louers of pleasures more than of God hauing a shewe in deed of godlines but yet vtterly denieng the force and power thereof in their life Is not euerie place of the earth I pray you full of such men Doe not all corners of the worlde swarme with them in such maner that the wordes of the Lorde are more verified in vs of this latter age than of anie people of olde saieng All haue gone backe and started aside all are become vnprofitable there is not one that doth good no not one For now doubtlesse is that houre come according to the testimonie of eternall trueth wherein Iniquitie doeth abounde and the charitie of a great manie is waxed colde For which cause the Lord threateneth against vs his kindled wrath and indignation and foretelleth vs by horrible signes strange wonders maruellous visions monstrous shapes and such like fearefull appearances as it were by proclamations made from heauen that he is comming to iudgement and admonisheth vs earnestly to repent and amend still shaking his right hand of reuengement ouer vs but sparing to smite telling vs neuerthelesse that except we repent we shall all perish And God graunt that hauing so many warnings both in heauen and in earth by the voices and outcries of such strange wonders we woulde at length shake off slouth and awake not setting at naught the soundes of these trumpets these true proclamations from heauen heauie threatnings of God whereby we are called compelled to repent God grant we may so do to whom be all laude praise dominion power and maiestie now and euermore Amen ¶ A contemplation of wonderfull accidents and principally of Earthquaks as well particular as generall which haue happened in the realmes

secret woulde the Lord haue made such a short answere to his Disciples when they put out the question to him their Master For they helde not their peace in the presence of him but put foorth their demande saieng Lorde wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome of Israel But he spake to them againe and said It belongeth not vnto you to know the times which the Father hath put in his owne power This answere had they not asking the question of the houre or of the day or of the yeare but generally of the time Uaine therfore are such séeme they neuer so wise and learned in the eies of the world which make their vaunt that they know the end of their owne life are not ashamed to professe though seduced by signes of birdes flieng by opinions of the weather-wise by the doctrines of Magicians and such like sinister meanes that they can tell when the world shall be at an ende But is not these mens laboure lost whiles they goe about to reckon and cast account how many yeares are to come before the worlde shall ende Séeing we haue heard euen from the mouth of truth it selfe that it is not in vs nor for vs to knowe it and that it passeth our abilitie whatsoeuer wée are to atteine to the certeintie of a secrete which God the father hath reserued vnto himselfe alone And here I can not sufficiently muse at * C. Lactantius and diuerse others not a fewe men I confesse déepely learned in matters touching the Church and verie well practised in those pointes that some of them notwithstanding affirme that foure hundred yeares some that fiue hundred yeares and some that a thousand yeares should be accomplished and fulfilled from the ascension of our Lorde vntill his last comming at doomes day Wherein they are found false and out of the way as verie children can tell And therefore I thinke it not worth paines taking to declare in this behalfe vpon what reasons proofes each of them build their opinions both because I haue confuted them alreadie in place conuenient and also for that they leane wholy to coniectures of mans wit not bringing in any thing that is vpholden by authoritie of Canonicall scripture He saith S. Augustine who spake these wordes It is not for you to knowe the times which 〈◊〉 Father hath put in his owne 〈…〉 all Calculators and 〈…〉 to holde their 〈…〉 meddle no further in this 〈◊〉 A number of triflers therefore verie rashe and presumptuous busie bodies are to be laughed at or rather to be contemned a sort of foolish Heretikes Scismatikes I meane in this our age which seducing the simple people dare openly affirme and teach both at what time in what moment the end and consummation of this worlde shall be notwithstanding the voice of the Gospell which these men haue alwayes in their mouthes doth prooue the flat contrarie saieng Of that day or of that houre no man can tell neither the Angels in heauen nor the Sonne but the Father c. It shall suffice vs therefore to knowe this that there is nothing more certeine than as time passeth away so this world shall perish and that nothing is more vncerteine than the time wherein it shall decay Which ende of the worlde to be at hande and euen at the doores not onely by the holy Scriptures is manifest for as well the preachings of the Prophets as the sermons of our sauiour Christ haue said that it shall be shortly but also by the signes and wonders which haue gone before it and appeared to all the world in euerie place as most assured warnings of the last day and proclamations as it were from God vnto vs as wée haue alreadie declared by many examples is most cléere and euident Now after what maner this consummation or end of the world shall be and what shall become thereof whereto the glorie and pompe of the same shall growe who so is disposed to search the Scriptures shall easily finde But there are Preachers in the worlde whose voices agréeing with the cries of the Prophets tell vs plainly that the ende and ruine of althings will come to passe and that after a while painting before our eies the last age of the worlde as it were wearie and readie to fall I thinke it not necessarie also particularly to repeate those things which haue béene foretolde by the Prophets hereafter to happen before the ende come vpon vs considering that I haue omitted none of them in the worke of our Centuries whither I referre the Reader for the fuller declaration hereof intending God being my guide with a fewe woordes more to make an end of this matter ¶ What all and euerie one of vs ought to doe seeing the ende of this worlde approch Chap. 11. FOrsomuch as it is certeine after the rehearsall of so manie testimonies worthie of credite and warranted by the things themselues which are nowe done in the worlde with such confusion and disorder beside that very manifest euen by the signes and wonders which haue appeared both in heauen and in earth that The most terrible and fearefull day of the Lord is at hande and the end of this world verie nie euen at the doore we sée that there remaineth nothing else but this if we regard our owne safetie namely to exhort one another by all meanes that we may not to abuse the good grace of almightie God not wilfully to winke when we sée such great store of light but to haue our eies open and to behold the strange sights and wonders which we haue séene euen within the compasse of our memorie knowing for a certeintie that these and such like are as it were proclamations made vnto vs from almightie God whereby he calleth vs to repentance and therefore not to be contemned as nothing pertinent or belonging vnto vs. For it is as true as the Gospell that God is long suffering excéeding patient and full of forbearance doing what he can by these signes and wonders to soften the hardnesse of our heart and he had rather shew vs the terrors of his iudgements and the threatnings of his right hand than laie the same vpon vs in his vengeance Let vs not flatter our selues because we are Christians therefore God will forgeue vs though we doe not repent No no he spared not the Angels but when they had transgressed he thrust them downe into hell and therefore doubtles he will not spare or forbeare vs in our sins Againe let vs not deceiue our selues supposing peraduenture that such sorrowes as are to come are not so horrible as we haue set them out in this behalfe For God himselfe hath foretold and said it should be so who neither doeth lie nor can lie swearing with an othe that it should so come to passe Verily verily I say vnto you heauen and earth shall passe but my wordes shall not passe Neither let vs to be

all swéete things be they neuer so toothsome by their often vse are made loathsome yet the reading of this with deliberation and the marking thereof with due aduisement shall increase desire to beginne againe when it is once passed ouer and a comfort to sée the iudgement of God poured out vpon a fewe that many might amende two speciall meanes to cut off the verie conceit of satietie and loathing The late casualties that haue béene séene and felt both in this citie and in sundrie places in this land villages and townes both East West North and South yea beyonde the Seas doe threaten vnto vs some heauie iudgement of God and tell vs that Our sinnes are written with the point of a Diamond and with a penne of iron It is no time now to go a gadding to the weather wise the season serueth not the reason suffereth not For nowe we ought all of vs to looke about séeing that God hath spoken vnto vs these many yeares so many wayes by the troubles of his Church by the slaughter of his Saints beginning correction at his owne house by monstruous birthes by strange shapes by inundations of waters by contagions of the aire by fire in the Element by forreigne warres abroad by tumults at home and now of late by an Earthquake at one instant shaking the whole Realme as may be coniectured by the report of trauellers to and from sundrie coastes of this land And not onely on this side but beyond the Seas as I haue heard reported this Earthquake hath happened with the very quiuering therof doing much harme and farre greater than any that hath chanced among vs. Séeing then this Earthquake so vniuersall for I beleeue the Lord did shake the foundations of the whole earth it was his mercie in that we were not all vtterly vndone I may conclude that it was supernaturall being supernaturall the more wonderfull For neither wind nor water could haue the force with a generall moouing of the whole land to terrifie the peoples hearts Let vs be resolued that there remaineth nothing now but the day of our visitation The Lord will come in his wrath to iudge and punish vs whom in mercie he spared and yet we the worsse For what should we looke for now but a terrible reuenger We haue had the Prophets of God we haue had his lawe we haue had his Sonne his Apostles his Euangelists and Disciples we haue had his Preachers we haue had the Elements we haue had euen dombe creatures preaching vnto vs repentance strange sicknesses sudden deaths and I cannot tell what chances wherevnto this changeable estate of ours is subiect haue forewarned vs to amend we neuerthelesse forsaking the waters of the well of life are contented to wallowe in the puddles of our owne pollusion and filthinesse and being lepers regard not to be clensed What remaineth in this case but that the Lord performe that in his seuere iudgement which he hath spoken in his wrath against Ierusalem saieng Who shall haue pitie vpon thee ô Ierusalem or who shall be sorie for thee or who shall goe to pray for thy peace Thou hast forsaken me and gone backwards therfore will I stretch out mine hande against thee and destroy thee For I am wearie with repenting The proofe wherof God graunt we auoid The effect of all is this that others destruction be our instruction ¶ How long wonders and straunge appearances deferre and put off those effectes whereof they are significations and tokens Chap. 8. BEcause we are taught by many proofes and trials that Eclipses for so they call the diminishing of light in the Sunne and the Moone happening at set times seasons and places appointed by nature when the Sunne by the interposition of the Moone and the Moone by the interposition of the Sunne are so couered and hidden that they are suddenly darkened prolong their effects and operations sometimes more sometimes lesse space herevpon riseth a question how long wonders are said and thought to deferre their effects and workings Unto which demand this answer may be made namely that it is at the will appointment of almightie GOD without whose commandement and sufferance those things come not to passe be they either by nature contrarie to nature or aboue nature For God by the same power wherewith he created all things by the selfe same power he gouerneth all things seing he is the author and maker of al things able by his omnipotencie either to hasten or delay all things according to the pleasure of his will For saith the Prophet he hath made all things whatsoeuer he would in Heauen and in Earth and in all deepes But now that same pleasure of Gods will touching the effects of wonders and their appearances are so hidden and vnknowne to vs that this is all we can doe nothing he houeth vs so well euen deuoutly to crie out with S. Paule ô the depth of the riches of the wisedome and knowledge of God! how vnsearchable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out For who hath knowne the mind of the Lord or who hath beene of his counsell or who hath giuen ought to him first and it shall be giuen and paide him backe againe Because of him and through him by him in him is all in all c. Nowe because it is manifest that many wonders haue their cause and originall euen of nature in such sort manner that the very course of nature doeth throughly teach as well the set seasons as also the appointed places of such wonders For it hath pleased GOD to leaue vnto this course of nature whose ministerie and seruice he vouchethsafe to vse oftentimes in naturall things her conditions qualities her operations and workings and hée suffereth nature to beare rule ouer naturall things and naturall thinges to incline and yéelde vnto nature himselfe winking thereat and looking vpon as it were through a lattesse Herevpon it is possible that a man may by certeine coniectures and ghesses gather or by certeine causes and reasons attaine vnto the knowledge both of the times and places when and where the effects of such and such things séeme they neuer so strange and wonderfull shall come to passe To confirme this I bring for example Astronomers skilfull and cunning in their profession who many times know before hand and forshewe likewise the seasons effects of Eclipses neuer failing in their prognostications and yet there are some that holde opinion that an Eclipse is a meruellous matter and such a thing in déede as is monstruous strange and contrarie to the common course of nature Howbeit there is no cause why wée should wonder thereat more than néedes as though it were a rare thing and not to be beléeued seing it is a plaine case that the very naturall eiesight of man doth behold and comprehend as well the causes as the signes appearing aboue him as hée doth the