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A64902 Prodigies & apparitions, or, Englands warning piece being a seasonable description by lively figures & apt illustration of many remarkable & prodigious fore-runners & apparent predictions of Gods wrath against England, if not timely prevented by true repentance / written by J. V. Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. 1643 (1643) Wing V323; ESTC R717 17,447 62

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both in Priest and people And may we not then justly conceive and beleeve that the Lord by these so fearfull and I dare say unparallel'd examples of wrath on even these materiall Churches might truly indigitate and point-out unto us his holy purpose to ruinate this Romish-rubbish to purge his holy Temple and worship from these out-side formalities and fopperies and to set up and establish a more pure and powerfull a more precious and glorious internall spirituall simple and plaine unmixed-worship to himselfe and such faithfull and fruitfull worshippers as should worship him in spirit and in truth in plaine simplicity and singlenesse of heart for such worshippers now under the Gospel hath hee chosen to himself as our Saviour Christ Jesus himselfe assures us whose infallible heavenly authority I choose rather to beleeve then the best and most reverend pretended antiquity of primitive Fathers and humane authorities so urgently and instantly pressed upon us by our late Romish-hearted Prelates and Pontifician Doctors whomsoever What a most notable warning-piece also did the Lord make visible unto us by Sea about the moneth of September 1640. namely that Spanish Fleet which came without controule most audaciously upon our English coasts with many and mighty Vessels full fraught and furnished with armes ammunition and many thousand Souldiers almost such another formidable and affrighting Armado as that was in 1588. thinking then also to have swallowed us up and to have found us and our brethren of Scotland together by the ●ares that so they might with the more ease have unresistibly set firme footing and securely have landed on our English shore and so have stept in betweene both parties and have made up their mouthes with a fat and full prey of three rich and royall Diademes at once which indeed hath beene the long expected prize of the Spaniards most greedy appetite and hungry hope to have made up his long dreamed of universall Monarchy as here you see it set forth and described in this next Figure or Embleme A second Spanish-Armado much like that in 1588 hovering about our English Sea 's near Deale Douer hoping to have made England thier pray to have found us fighting with our brethren of Scotland but beaten back and destroyed by Van Trump and his Dutch Fleet An Dom 1642. ANd here another Warning-piece we had A ●righting Storme by Sea t'have made us sad Had not Heav'ns wisedome power and providence Prevented it and beene our strong defence A Spanish Fleet floating upon our Seas Hopefull to land upon our Land with ease To finde us fearlesse or engag'd in fight With Scotland through intestine d●epe despite But whiles they hovered about Deale and Dover Watching occasion us to triumph over Whiles we-our-selves dreadlesse of danger were So neare our ruine yet so void of f●are The Lord a Fleet of Dutchmen to them sent To pay their pride their mischiefe to prevent This Warning-piece we therefore may ad ●ire Preserv'd thus strangely from destruction dire But it pleased the Lord to direct the Dutch Fleet at that time abroad at Sea under the command of Van Trump their Admirall to meet with them and before Deale and Dover to fight with them for us when wee little thought of fighting for our selves though ready to be made a prey to this devouring Spanish-Leviathan Here I say also did the Lord by them ring us such a peale of thundring Canon as it were knocking at our doores to awaken us out of our marvellous Lethargy of ease and carnall security or of blockish stupidity as might have beene thought sufficient to have made us recollect our thoughts open our eyes and looke about us and see the hand of God lifted up against us yet loath to let the stroke fall so heavily upon us to our irrecoverable ruine and destruction as our sinnes most justly deserved had hee in his justice so dealt with us On Thursday also August 4. 1642. about 5. of the clocke in the afternoone at a Towne called Alborough in the County of Suffolke there was heard in the ayre and evidently seene a mighty sound of drummes beating very loud after which was also heard at the same time a long and fierce peale of small shot as of Muskets and such like and then as it were a discharging of great Ordnance in a pitcht field all this continuing about an houre and a halfe and then there was a mighty and terrible report or noise of them all together At the ceasing whereof a blacke stone was as it were shot out of the skye being about eight inches long and five or sixe inches broad and about two inches thicke which was taken up by two men which stood by and heard the foresaid noise and the whistling of the stone over their head as it past by them but they could not see it they found it by meanes of a little dogge who followed it by the sent and ran barking to and fro till they following the dogge were brought to the place where it lay covered with earth and grasse The men that found it brought it to London and presented it to a Burgesse of Parliament upon whose ground it was found and by him was shewne to divers others One Captaine Iohnson and one Master Thompson men well knowne in those parts of Suffolke being at a Towne called Woodbridge hearing of this marvellous noyse toward Alborough verily supposing that some enemy was landed and had made some sodaine onset or invasion upon the Town took horse and rode hastily homeward the rather bec●use they heard of the battaile louder and louder and being on their way neare Alborough they met with the greatest part of the townsmen who were generally run out of their houses round about much amazed with such an uncouth noise of war But after all this there was for certaine sodainly heard a most joyfull noyse of sweet musicke and of sundry rare musicall instruments sounding in a most melodious manner for a good space together and at last it all concluded with a most harmonious noise as it were of delicate ringing of well-tuned bels A most terrible representation of a great fight in the Ayre at Alborough in Suffolk drum's beateing Canons and Musketts-shooting a black stone shooting out from the cloudes found by a tugg on the ground but all at last ending with most melodious musick and ringing of belles as an triumph of some victories Aug 4. 1642. OF all the Warning-Pieces to us sent See here a Master-piece of wonderment A mighty battell fought as 't were in th' aire Which Alb'rough Townsmen mightily did scare For first they heard Drummes beating loud alarms Great Canons shooting as in fields of Armes Thick and quick vollies of small shot likewise A stone most black breaking forth from the skies Which whistling through the air did pierce the ground And by a Dogge where it fell down was found But suddenly this frighting feare was past And by melodious musicke turnd at last Into