Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	year_n	218	4	5.4352	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

body so as he was all over like raw flesh and lived in great misery about a week after and then died A Dogge neere-the Chancell doore was fiercely whirled up three times and the last time fell down dead Some seats in the body of the Church were torn up and overwhelmed up-side-down yet they that were in them had no harme notwithstanding that they were thereby throwne out of them into other seats foure or five pewes higher About the number of eight boyes sitting about the railes of the Communion Table heere wee may observe what a superstitious Church it was like almost all the rest of our Churches in these miserable daies were all of them taken up by the violence of this so terrible a storme and throwne on heaps within the railes but had no hurt at all A beame was broken in the midst and fell downe between the Minister and his Clerke but neither of them hurt thereby The Church was also very much defaced and torn in many parts of it and a great stone neere the very foundation was torne up and removed thence Other stones were violently throwne out of the tower as thick as if there had been an hundred men throwing them some stones of them of such a weight and bignesse as no one man was able to lift One of the Pinacles of the Tower was tumbled downe into the Church A man sitting on the Church-beere at the lower end of the Church had the said beere torne in pieces under him and himself thrown into a seat by the wall but h●d no other hurt A great stone was throwne about an hundred yards from the Church and sunke into the ground so deep and so fast that it could hardly be seen afterward A Bowling-alley also neere the Church-yard was strangely turned into deep pits and a Wine-Taverne nere the Church had the side thereof next the Church torne up and the top or covering broken and caried off and one of the rafters broken into the said house And was not heere a most terrible and almost an incredible print and impression of Gods threatned wrath and indignation against both the internall and externall vanity and impiety of such profuse and superfluous Church-buildings vaine and needlesse I say now under the Gospel though in the time of the Leviticall Law most requisite and lawfull in most gorgeous maner to be set out as typifying Christ Jesus in all his excellencies and graces and therefore these fearefull examples may serve as a remarkable caution and fore-warning of Gods displeasure heerein But because t is likely our superstitious Cathedralists will bee apt to object in their carnall incredulity that one Swallow makes not a Summer and so one single testimony is not sufficient to confirme so weighty a conclusion and inference as I would fain gather from these fearefull premises I shall therefore in the next place give the Reader other remark●ble examples of Gods semblable undoubted displeasure with the vanity and impiety of our Churches and Church government and services too long exercised among us to the high indignation of the Lord especially now of late since our Prelats began so grosly to tyrannize over the consciences of Gods people and then say whether thou canst not easily be induced to beleeve with me this truth which I have hence collected and which the Lord by these feareful examples seems most plainly to have indigitated and demonstrated to us And therefore to cry out with the Prophet in holy admiration and trembling Who would not feare thee O King of Nations to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners In January also then next ensuing there was very great hurt done in and upon divers other Churches in other parts of this Kingdome by thunder and lightning and mighty stormy weather to the great and terrible astonishment of the inhabitants and beholders As namely upon the 14. day of the aforesayd month about five of the clock at night three Churches were wasted and defaced with fearefull thunder and lightning and most violent windes the one was Micham in Kent also Greenhith and Stone-Church both in the sayd County of Kent And upon Whitsunday 1640. in the Parish Church of S. Anthony in Cornewall great hurt was done by terrible thunder and lightning the people being then in the Church at their Sabbath dayes exercises As heer thou seest it summarily and briefly delineated in those following Figures or Emblemes 3 or 4 Churches more as namely Micham and Greenhith in Kent also Stone-church all fearefully defaced with lightning and thunder the Ianuary following And St Anthonies Church in Cornwall Anno Dom 1640 ANd here againe that All may clearly see False-worship and Idolatry to be The sin of England God in other places More Houses of such worship much defaces With fearfull storms lightnings fierce claps of thunder Churches and Steeples rends and cleaves asunder Though many other sins doe England staine Tet this of all the rest is dy'd in graine Idolatry and Superstition base The Lord will not endure in any case And therefore shewes by so many examples With how great wrath under his feet he tramples Such Romish-trash and all will-Wil-worship vaine And only will unmixed Truth maintaine Be warned then betimes England take heed Lest wrath without redresse does make thee bleed Now all these considered together with the time of the yeere the Winter season and the day whereon they fell the Lords day and that which is so much the more remarkable in the time of their Sabbath dayes duties tell me can any man be so Atheistically minded and blindly or obstinately opinionated as to thinke that these so fearfull and formidable affrightments immediately from heaven can bee meerly casuall or contingent by naturall concurrences only and not rather immediate demonstrations and fore-runners of Gods high indignation for the great sins and provocations of our Clergy and Prelaticall Church-government Certainly it were meere madnesse or at least grosse carnall security if not diabolicall delusion to say or thinke otherwise For if we looke on our late most intolerable superstitious and idolatrous times not silently-creeping but audaciously running and with the Romish-whores unblushing face breaking out upon us and impudently and too frequently practised among us by crossing and Jesu-cringing altar-worship rayling in of our Communion-tables turned into altars Popish sumptuous and superstitious adornation and bedawbing of Churches with crucifixes other Popish pictures apish gestures vestures and such like beggarly-rudiments and ceremonies as the Apostle cals them making more by farre of the meere wals and dead stones of their Churches than of the living stones of Gods House and Temple What other thing could be discovered by all these but a most disloyall apostacy and almost a generall backsliding and defection from our first love the Lord Jesus Christ and from his found faith to Antichrist Arminianisme and Atheisticall profanenesse

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-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