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mercy_n	earth_n	great_a	lord_n	5,368	5	3.8783	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01791	Gods handy-vvorke in vvonders Miraculously shewen vpon two women, lately deliuered of two monsters: with a most strange and terrible earth-quake, by which, fields and other grounds, were quite remoued to other places: the prodigious births, being at a place called Perre-farme, within a quarter of a mile of Feuersham in Kent, the 25. of Iuly last, being S. Iames his day. 1615.		1615 (1615)	STC 11926; ESTC S105736	11,528	24

extraordinary thing chauncing such is the singular prouidence of God Although one hath most falsely published at which hee may tremble and blush for shame to haue lyed so manifestly in feigning which hee hath written of the blacknesse of the Lake which he sayth to haue beene the Satturday before Item of the walles and houses du bour de four and of the continuance of the Earthquake for the space of two houres long which was often renewed with whirle-windes But to returne to our matter not farre from thence there haue beene other accidents no lesse lamentable then memorable For vpon Munday being the second of March the sayd Earth-quake renewing his force in the places of the higher side of the Lake and beeing redoubled the Tuesday following bath at morning and at night with winde and snowe chanced that which followeth in a place subiect to the Souereignity of Berne distant from the said side of the Lake two houres iourney from a Towne called Aille about foure gunne shottes and this happened the Wednesday following being the fourth of March betwixt nine and tenne of the clocke in the morning A great quantitie of earth rowling euen as it were a huge streame of raging water falling from the toppe of a most high Rocke from the tops of the Mountaines glaunced a farre off and as some say about one league the which was not so much by the naturall motion which is from a high place vnto a lowe as being driuen by windes and exhalations mingled amongst it This earth was so driuen that in one instant it couered the places neere the valley vpon the which it fell and in carrying before it all the earth that it mette the same was cleane taken away the which was more easily brought to passe by reason that it was moued by the Earthquakes stirring winds aswell as the first earth which driued it so that it chaunced in this as commonly we see vpon the lake or tempestuous Sea whereas one waue is violently driuen by an other The discent valley did not onely adioyne themselues vnto it but that which is most strange the little hilles vpon low places and the valleyes were shaked likewise Heere is furthermore to be noted that the place wher this remouing was is right against a Cliffe caused by many hilles and hye places that are commonly whereas the rockes of the hilles meete and touch together Ouer against in the yssue of this Clyffe was the higher side of Corbery a little village or hamlet containing about 8. houses 25. barnes 3. water-milles The earth fell from aboue vpon the said village so violently that in a moment all was couered one house excepted whereas a thing most worthy to bee marked chanced The master of the said house being astonied and amazed through the exceeding great noyse which he heard said to his wife he did verily beleeue the end of the world to bee come and that it was necessary to pray to GOD to haue mercy on them Whereupon without delay kneeling downe in their house they perceiued such fruit and profit of their prayers that the earth which rowled as is aforesayd passed ouer their house in a manner as a huge waue without any harme to the house or any within it sauing that the Master hauing his hat pearced was hurt in the head As concerning the other houses and barnes they were all throwne downe and almost couered with earth There chances also in the sayd place another thing not to bee omitted that is to say a child of a quarters age was found safe and aliue in the cradle as he is yet thanks be to GOD hauing his mother found dead by him The manner of it was this the mother vpon the noise of the house falling seeking to saue her Child clasped the cradle in her armes wherewith all the house fell and she most pittifully brused was found dead the Child being aliue and safe as is aforesayd The like befell to a maid child of a yeere old which was found whole and aliue among the ruines of a house As touching the water-milles they were all broken and in one of them happened another strange thing for being very low situated the axeltree with the whéele were found whole together in the top of a hill which was higher then the sayd Mill 500. paces or steppes The number of men which perished in this Village 29. of Barnes 25. water-milles 2. of yeerely reuenues or Farmes within the towne called in latine Praedia Vrbana 7. of Vines 23. acres of tunnes of Wine 82. of Neate Bullocks and Calues 81. of horses mares and colts 16. of shéepe 73. The lower the earth discended the more this mishappe increased for falling vpon the next village called Iuorn which was lower and at the foote of the hill whereupon the sayd Corbery stood there perished of men 93. or a 100. persons some affirme more of houses 62. barnes 101. fulling milles 3. of Vines 39. Acres of Tuns of Wine 236. of Neate 166. of calues 112. Horses and Mares 43. Shéepe 108. also great abundance of Corne all kind of fodder for Cattell with great quantity of houshold stuffe to bee briefe this Village was well furnished with all kind of things and was esteemed one of the best in all these quarters The situation of it was vpon a discent not stéepe but slope and stretched out from the East to the West The ground was so fertill that they receiued euery yéere 3. crops as Wheat Millet Turnops Furthermore amongst them were neither poore nor begger but euery one euen to the very least liued on their goods and labour beeing a people very thriuing and painefull voyd of all euill practices as vsurie contentions and suites as all their neighbours doe witnesse of them It is said also that the aforesaid falling of the earth was so sudden that no pellet out of any gunne could be more swift then all this said remouing was past Other report that a farre off they beheld about 20. persons the most being women and children which comming downe a hill to saue themselues were ouertaken and ouerwhelmed with the sayd falling of the earth The most that perished were women and Children by reason that most of the men were at labour in the fields In this great affliction GOD hath vsed such mercy that of euery houshold some were saued either men or Children Moreouer besides the most fearefull and terrible confusion which the falling of the earth caused beeing mingled with great stones that mounted in the ayre there was seene infinite sparkles of fire with a great and darke cloud from the which did procéede a most strong smell of Brimstone At the length the earth staied it selfe ioyning together 2. houses which are at this present time standing whole laden on one side with earth to the halfe height of the walles without any other hurt besides these there remaineth yet 7. or 8. houses with as many barnes and other countrey houses The length of this

discent is from the toppe of the mountaine vnto the 2. sayd houses The bredth is of 12. Arpantes the depth is in some places lesse then in some other towards the side it is about two mens depth It is a marueilous thing that in all this discent so extended whereas the houses were it is so plaine that it seemeth as a portion of earth beene newly tilled and harrowed without any appearance of the ruine of the sayd houses no more then if there neuer had beene any and that which is more few or no stones are to be seene From the place where the remouing tooke his beginning vnto the 2. houses where it rested it is all as but one ruine where there is but one house to bée séene In Aille the middle roofe tiles of the Church fell downe without that any other moued Not farre from this place fell a rocke downe from a hill the which was stayed in a cliffe of the said hill without any hurt Many chimneis fell downe many wals were riuen by reason of the reiteration of the earthquake vpon sundry daies Hard by a place called Morteru the Lake hath excéeded his ordinary bredth twenty paces hauing caried away a portion of a Vine-yard the which they say was swallowed vp by opening of the earth Some say that at a Towne called Ville Neufue and in other places adioyning vnto the same the Earth-quake was so violent that whole tunnes of wine were raised vpon their end At Veuey many chimneis were cast downe many houses loosened and amongst the vines de l'Auau certaine walles were ouerthrowne The Magistrates of Bearne in whose soueraignty these sayd things happened haue appointed men or officers to looke and prouide for those men that yet liuing haue lost their friends and substance Now let euery man iudge of these things as the feare of God shall direct him It is well knowne what the Philosophers doe affirme to bee the causes of such Earth-quakes but if one doe weigh the diuersity of their opinions it will bée found that we must séeke hyer for the causes hereof then in the starres fire waters vapours exhalations and windes included in the bowels of the earth to the which they cleaue full fast And that wée may come vnto the cause touched by the Prophet In the 114. Psalme where hée sayth Before the face of the Almighty the earth leaped as the scarred Rammes in the fieldes and the hilles like trembling Lambes Furthermore to iudge of those whom God hath so visited wée must remember that it doth onely appertaine vnto God to whom the iudgement must bée left without concluding that those of Iuorne were greater sinners then we according to that which our Sauiour Iesus Christ teacheth vs in the thirtéenth Chapter of Saint Luke speaking of the Galileans whose bloud Pilate had mingled with the sacrifices and of those vpon whom the Tower of Sylo fell but wee must perswade our selues that except we do repent we shal likewise perish God is not vniust but contrariwise his workes are as a bottomlesse pit vnsearchable to men into the which wée ought neuer to enter but to stay our selues in worshipping with reuerence his incomprehensible wisedome Surely if we doe not condemne all those which were drowned by the waters of the floud neither all those which were destroyed by the fire falling vpon Sodome and other places adioyning vnto it for there were many children innocent in the transgression of the aged farre lesse ought wée to haue an euill suspition of those which were not so giuen to sinne as other men Laodicea Colossi and Hieropolis were ouerwhelmed by an Earth-quake In Asia first fourtéene Cities and sithence twelue In Thracia 11. and in Affrica one hundred haue béene destroyed by Earthquakes heretofore Nicodemia Antiochia Alexandria Constantinople and other places infinite haue béene hazarded by Earthquakes And who shal say that so many condemned places as were then in the world should rather haue escaped then the places aforenamed Certainly if God should haue respect vnto the sinnes of men one village should not haue felt his wrathfull hand but all the world especially the great Cities whereas the great and wicked sinners bee and the most fearefull sinnes committed But it pleased God to beate the Dogge before the Lyon to punish the least sinners before the greatest to cut downe the naturall Olyue before the wilde and the greene wood before the seare Let vs then wonder at the great patience of God that beareth so much with this world and let vs so account of his iustice that it be hereafter to haue recourse to his mercie the which I pray him that he will vouchsafe to shewe vs through Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord and Mediatour S. Augustine Mieux vault le tremblement des humbles que l'asseurance des Orgueilleux Better is the trembling of the lowly then the assurance of the proud FINIS