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prayer_n	ear_n	hear_v	lord_n	7,968	5	4.2764	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04893	A declaration of such tempestious, and outragious fluddes, as hath been in diuers places of England. 1570	Knell, Thomas.	1571 (1571)	STC 15032; ESTC S121237	10,428	42

A declararation of such tempestious and outragious Fluddes as hath béen in diuers places of England 1570. To such as haue been touched with these Calamities of vvater by the greate Fluddes in this present yere 1570. DAVID the Prophet in the .107 Psalme speakynge of the marueylous workes wounders y god doth by his power shew before the sonnes of men stirreth vp the Godly to prayse and extoll his maiestie and mooueth the wicked and stubborn to the feare and dreade of his ho●rible vengeance He turneth saith he the Flouds into a wildernesse and the springes of water into drie grounde a frutefull lande into barrennesse for ●●e wickednesse of them y dwel therein Which notable sentence may be well considred more aptly applied but cheifly of vs well examined waying how fearfully the Lorde hath bestowed vpon vs his meruelous iudgements in y he hath turned many of our fruitful Feelds and Marshes Pastures and Meadowes into vnmercifull Flouds and streames vnlooked for by changyng as he did in the olde worlde the moderate course of the vpper Fountaines which were ordayned to water the earth and so to make it fruitfull into immoderate and vnseasonable Fluddes which in steede of makyng fruitfull hath made barren many places of the Earthe in this our countrie by destructiō of the Creatures as Pastures Corne Cattell Sheep Neate Horse Beastes Oxen Kine and such like with some of y bodies of men though not so generally as in the first Floud neither half so extremely as our sinnes doo deserue which craue not so light a scurge as moyste and coolynge plashes of water but hot and burnynge flakes of Fyre and Brimstone whiche for lesse offences God poured vpon Sodome Gomorrah The cause of which barrennesse as Dauid saith in this our fruitfull countrie is our wickednesse whiche are the inhabitants of the same as is to be approued by markynge the fruites and operation of two kindes of people within this land especially vpon whom these calamities haue faullen to weete the Riche and the Poore As concerning the one namely the Riche men if euer the Prophet Esayes woe against them that ioygne house to house and lande to lande till there be no more place left for the poore coulde euer be applied it may be applied vnto them whiche as Amos the Prophet saieth are the fat Kyne of Bason in the Mountaynes of Samaria which oppresse y poore and destroy the needy To whom Abacuk saith That their couetousnesse is an euil couetousnesse to their houses whereby they seeke to set their neast on hie and to escape from the power of euill Thou hast sayth the Prophet conseled shame to thine owne house and by destroying many people and hast sinned agaynst thine owne soule For the Stone shall crie out of the wall and the Beame out of the Timber shall answer it as now the Seales of the War Parchment of the Leaces hath cried vengeance and destruction to the Leasemongers of England and the conditions haue cried out of the Leases which haue béen enhaūsed and raysed answeryng woe worth such couetous caytifs as haue caused the care full cries of so many poore Thou righteous God plague these couetous Leasemongers these greedy grasiers which haue cōuerted the Tillage of much erable ground to the grasing of Shéep and Northern Oxen whereby they enriche them selues with the ruine and decay of thousands round about them Thou God that seest this their vnmerciful dealing open the cloudes water their pastures sowne with sheep in steede of men and Corne of all graines geue their flocke moysture that they may see them by thousandes swim aboue the ground and at the fall of the waters to lie deade vppon their watred land Which crie God hath heard and this is the cause of suche ruin and destruction The Riche are so welthie that they are without Iudgement without mercy and that hath caused their Heards to be wasted their Flockes to be deminished their Granges made pasturelesse with the pitifull fluddes past wherby much of their substance hath perished For whose sakes also the Poore are made partakers of these greate losses Those riche Landelordes yet addynge to their troubles whom the Lorde hath smitten by exactyng still their outragious Rents aswell for the halfe yere past wherein these perils haue hapned as before not considering y the Lorde did it to plague them withall because of their couetousnesse God geue them repentance before the Lorde be too to much sturred and prouoked to anger by their wickednesse Least y if these fauourable thretnynges be despised the Iust and righteous God doo in steede of water raygne downe Fier Brimstone vpon them and in stéede of the ouerflowing of their pastures with watry streames ouerflow the carelesse consciēces with cruel flames of Hell fire euerlasting dampnacion and in stéede of the losse and wracke of sheep and cattell Shipwrack and Landwracke of bothe their bodies and soules which all their rustie Golde and Siluer shal neuer be able to recouer agayne And the Poore God geue them patience to beare this the Lordes visitation thankfully knowynge that the poore crieth and the Lord heareth him and that the Lorde is the refuge and strong hold of the poore in time of necessity who hath his eares open to heare their complaintes and is ready at hand to help them and receiue theyr prayers God graunt that they murmure not at God handyworke in striking the litle they had but that they may say with blessed Iob the Lord gaue it the Lorde hath taken his owne agayne blessed be his name for euer and euer So shall wee be Gods humble Children bothe riche and poore embrasing his Rods of correction as meanes to amende our liues The riche forsaking their former couetous vnmercifull gréedinesse The poore learning to be more thankful and faithful in staiyng vpon Gods prouidēce that God may restore vs from the hand of straungers whose mouthe talketh of vanitie and their right hande is a right hande of falsehood That our Sonnes may be as the Plants growynge vp in their youth and our daughters as the polished corners of the Temple That our countries may be full and abundant with diuers sorts and that our sheepe may bring foorth thousands and tenne thousandes in our streetes That our Oxen may be strong to labour and that there be no inuasion nor goyng out nor decaying in our stréetes which blessings God wil multiply vpon vs if wée al wil once begin to feare him blessed are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are we if the Lord be our God his wonders make vs feare and obay him his mercy make vs al to loue and serue him through his Son Iesus Christ our only sauiour AMEN Math. 22. Geue vnto Caesar that which belongeth vnto Caesar and vnto God that belongeth vnto God. 1. Peter 2. Submit your self to all maner ordinance of man for the Lordes sake whether it be vnto the Kyng as to the chief