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A00462	Somewhat vvritten by occasion of three sunnes seene at Tregnie in Cornewall, the 22. of December last. With other memorable occurents in other places.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?	1622 (1622)	STC 10599; ESTC S114622	8,938	26

there none among the many thousands of Israel that could satisfie the amazed multitude concerning the causes of thunder and raine but that they must fall to such a deiection vpon the sight and hearing of them as is expressed 2 Sam. 12. 18 19. Certainly the vnsafe curiositie of mankinde when it hath gained credit in some things scornes to acknowledge his ignorance in any thing as we see by them who being beleeued or thought to speake probably in the disclosing of the causes of Snowes Dewes and Raines haue from thence assumed vnto themselues to bee able to giue naturall reasons of the Deluge of raining of Bloud Milke Wheat Stones Woll Iron and such like whereof many histories written by credible Authors doe make mention How much better and safer is it for vs though these things bee granted possible by Nature yet since it cannot bee denied that they are not ordinary in Nature to take the aduantage of them for the preuenting of that wrath which whether it be prognosticated by these ostents or no will surely be reuealed from Heauen vpon vs when the measure of our iniquitie shall be filled Were wee at that point with God where we should be we needed not to be affraid at the signes of Heauen simply and positiuely wee need not feare them as though they could hurt vs without the impulsion of his hand which made Heauen and earth or as if though hee had commanded his Army Royall of all creatures to march against vs and the Heauens themselues to fight against vs as against Sisera yet it were not in his power vpon our repentance to sound the retreat and make them all retire and againe to renew the league betweene the stones in the street and vs. But when wee see the signes the same and know our sinnes the same God will without doubt rather accept of an humble feare that trembles at the hand that shakes the rod than of a presumptuous and vnreasonable confidence that he who punished the periury of Troy should loue the lies of Rome to vse S. Augustines words or to vse the phrase of Scripture that hee who punished Iudah for three transgressions should winke at Israel for the multitude of her rebellions When there were three Sunnes seene at Rome which by little and little did all grow into one bodie It was answered by the Colledge of Southsayers that it portended the vniting of the three parts of the world which then were only knowen Asia Africke and Europe into one Empire Grande spectaculum saith mine Author quod grandia significauit This was in the yeare after the worlds Creation 3923. and after the building of Rome 711. about 41. yeeres before the incarnation of our blessed Sauiour M. Aemilius Lepidus and L. Munat Plancus being Consuls The successe proued it true for shortly after so much of the world as was either knowen or worth conquering acknowledged the Soueraigntie of the Romane Empire Had these lately seene three Sunnes whereof I am to speake appeared but twentie yeares sooner wee might peraduenture haue hoped they had but foretold what wee haue since found true The happie vnion of these three mightie Kingdomes in our blessed Peace-maker But seeing they come too late to foretell it let vs hope they come not too late to confirme it vnto him and his posteritie as long as the Sunne and Moone endure Notwithstanding euen at that time there were some that on the other side did stiffely maintaine that these three Sunnes could not presage any good vnto the Romane Empire but rather a diuision and distraction of that Imperiall power as indeed it proued true for the yeare following began the Triumvirate of Lepidus Caesar and Antonie which made way vnto Caesars Monarchy the period of the Romanes libertie and the beginning of the decay of their greatnesse And certainly it hath not been often seene or obserued that such Prodigies haue beene fore-runners of any good vnto the place where they were seene howsoeuer vpon a turning of the hearts of the people vnto God without question God can turne the threatned plagues vpon the heads of the Heathen and such as haue not knowen his name The like apparition of three Sunnes and so many Moones which happened in Italy in the yeare of Grace 1164. was thought to presage the great dissension of the Princes Electors in chusing the Emperor and the schisme which lately followed in the See of Rome And what the three Sunnes which three yeeres after were seene in Poland might seeme to fore-shew the Chronicles of that Countrey doe sufficiently demonstrate And to passe by many other those three Sunnes which were seene at Magdeburge vpon the 21. of March 1551. about seuen of the clocke in the morning accompanied with seuen Rainebowes and the three Moones appearing the night of the same day the three Sunnes appearing againe in the same place the 21. of Aprill following accompanied only with three Rainebowes might probably bee thought to fore-shew the straight siege which by the command of Charles the fifth Maurice the Duke of Saxony and Albert Marquisse of Brandenburge laid against that Citie by the space of fifteene moneths whereby the Citizens were driuen to great extremities though afterward they made their peace vpon good conditions What should I speake of the three Sunnes appearing ouer Vinarium a little Citie in Doringia the tenth of Februarie 1555. Or of the like in France before the battell of S. Quintins Because according to the Spanish prouerbe Da lueng as vias lueng as mentiras From farre countreyes foule lies I will come close to our owne times and our owne home nay as our Sauiour sayd Regnum Dei est intra vos The Kingdome of God is within you So will I say It is not beyond the seas that thou shouldest say who shall goe ouer the sea for vs and bring it to vs and cause vs to heare it that we may doe it But the thing is very neere vnto thee yea euen before thine eyes to see it And therefore the more inexcusable are they that either will not beleeue it or reflect no more vpon it than if they beleeued it not Howsoeuer thus it was Vpon Saturday the 22. of December last at Tregnie a market-towne in Cornewall well knowen to Cornish men in respect of his neerenesse to Falmouth about eleuen of the clocke before noone the Sunne being vnder a cloud it was obserued that from the bodie of the Sunne there proceeded a more scattered and dispersed light than was wont as if the bodie of the Planet had beene greater than it had formerly beene But this being attributed only to the brightnesse of some cloud betweene him and vs little notice was taken thereof till about a quarter of an houre after this diffused light seemed to concenter as it were and gather to three heads which in short space appeared to the view of the beholders to be three Sunnes of equall lustre and brightnesse and placed as neere as could bee ghessed in a