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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11249	Feareful neuues of thunder and lightning with the terrible effects thereof, which Almighty God sent on a place called Oluestone, in the county of Glocester the 28. of Nouember last : hauing prefixt before it, a short discourse, concerning two other admirable accidents that soone after ensued / truely related by P.S. ; and dedicated vnto the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie.	P. S.	1606 (1606)	STC 21511; ESTC S1678	19,658	32

and his King it was neuer heard of that to execute him should sauour any way of extremity and crulty but of most iust seuerity Nay rather to spare such a one as a rotten member to the vtter hazard of the hole body may be well accounted in humanity more then desperate folly God almighty in whose hād are the hearts of al men to turne them whether it pleaseth him so in wisdome direct his vicegerents herein that they may in their seueral kingdoms do that which may most serue for his glory and the good of their seuerall estates Hitherto of the traitors that did complot the former horrible treason and their complices now for the vse we are to make against whom and whose good it was most deuilishly complotted and desperately contriued Which is likewise double the first respecting Gods iustice the second his mercy Concerning his Iustice let vs know and remember with profit that hee by the hand of these vniust wretches shaking his rod vnto vs did therby shew what we for our many sinnes had iustly deserued Euen all of vs to feele and see an vtter demolition and desolation of our state and common wealth For although these more then wicked traitors had no iust cause nor occasion to draw them on but most desperately by the instigation of the deuill and their deuilish madnes were carried on headlong to attempt and enterprise so horrible a treason the like whereof no history doth affoord as at an instant to kill the King the Queene the Prince and all the flower of the Church and common wealth that after a most hellish and fearfull manner by blowing them vp in the aire so to leaue the commonwealth as a forsaken widow prostituting her to be deflowred defaced and desolated by the bloody hands of bastard children at home and the furious inuasions of forrein tirants and so to make her a terror to herself a terrible spectacle of extreame misery calamity to the whole world howsoeuer I say they had no cause to do or attempt this yet we may acknowledg confesse that by the iust iudgment of God all this and more if more might bee might haue come vpon vs and ouertaken vs. But almighty God euen in the midest of his iudgement remembring mercy did only shake the rod at vs and then cast it into the fire That so long as we liue and our posterity after vs in that cōmon wealth which by the iustice of God wee had almost lost but by his mercy yet possesse inioy and I hope shal to the ende of the world maugre the malice of the deuill we may learne to feare Gods Iustice to loue his mercy and so for his iustice and mercy to feare and loue him and to praise him with the prophet in that excellent song If the the Lord had not beene on our side may wee now say If the Lord had not bin on our side when men rose vp against vs and so forth to the end of that psalme Who so maketh not these profitable vses of this wonderfull deliuerāce of the lord but runneth on in sin without remorce let him remember what Christ said to the man deliuered from his malady go and sinne no more least a worse thing happen vnto thee And here an end of the two first wonderfull accidents I meane an end of my discourse thereof but I hope the inhabitants of this land will neuer cease with thankfullnes to God to remember his iustice and mercy therein neuer sufficiently to be praised O Eternal God creator of heauen and earth in Iesus Christ my most mercifull father I thy vnworthy seruant returne vnto thy diuine maiesty most humble and hearty thanks as for all other thy vnspeakable mercies so especially for the great and wonderful deliuerance of my selfe and many other of thy poore and sinfull creatures from the rage and force of the horrible thunder and lightning which of late thou didst send amongst vs. The true report whereof sith I am herein to deliuer to thy seruant King Iames whom thou by thy almighty prouidence hast made thy vicegerent in this mighty empire and so vnto thy people his subiects so sanctify good Lord my memory and meditation and therewith all my report and relation that the truth herein beeing effectually deliuered it may redound to the glory of thy great name the profit of thy beloued children the terror of thy profest enemies Amen Now I come to the third wonderfull and terrible accident whereof I was both an eare and an eye-witnesse First I will according to the truth deliuer the report thereof and next make such profitable vses as so great and wonderfull a worke doth require First therefore where a report is to be made of an action done the time and place are of no small moment for the euidence of the matter The time therefore was on Thursday being the 28. of Nouember last about a moneth after the foresaid fearful flaming of the heauens and most horrible treason complotted detected The place was at Ouelstone in the county of Glocester scituated some eight miles from the famous citie of Bristoll and two miles from Aust which is well knowne in regard of the often transportation and passage there ouer the Riuer of Seuerne This for the time and place when and where this wonderfull worke of God was by his al nighty hand wrought and done now for the action and worke it selfe The morning of the foresaid day being lowring and sad did yet a little after eight begin to smile and looke some-what cheerefull toward the east which was indéed but a smile and for a very smal time for euen anone before nine of the clock the west as it were enuying the easts meriment sendeth me vp with a strong winde a most darke mantle which ouerspred the whole heauens as if the sunne had vpon some sudden feare sodenly retired and againe hid it selfe vnder our horison giuing place to the darke night to wrap vp all thinges in her black mourning gowne So darke and blacke was it that but for the note of the time it was hard to iudge whether it were day or night yet after halfe an howre or there about this black maske was againe taken off and the heauens begin to smouth vp and cléere their countenance the sunne sending forth from the south his goulden raies for an howre and halfe which the north disdayning with a most scornfull lower thinking it selfe wronged as the west did before and terribly menacing the south notwithstanding the winde stood betwene them to stay the quarel with a most terrible and ougly visage Neither was it satisfied with threatning lookes but her fearefull forces come on amaine admitting yet betwéen them the sun a short parle made knowne by a goodly and beautifull rainbow The sight whereof did not a little comfort mee notwithstanding the frowning face of the heauens did otherwise pretend some fearefull euent for beholding the worlds