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mercy_n	jesus_n	sin_n	sinner_n	3,659	5	7.4408	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00175	Fire from heauen. Burning the body of one Iohn Hittchell of Holne-hurst, within the parish of Christ-church, in the county of South-hampton the 26. of Iune last 1613. who by the same was consumed to ashes, and no fire seene, lying therein smoaking and smothering three dayes and three nights, not to bequenched [sic] by water, nor the help of mans hand. VVith the lamentable burning of his house and one childe, and the grieuous scorching of his wife: with the birth of a monster, and many other strange things hapning about the same time: the like was neuer seene nor heard of. / Written by Iohn Hilliard Preacher of the word of life in Sopley. Reade and tremble. With the fearefull burning of the towne of Dorchester vpon friday the 6 of August last 1613.	Hilliard, John	1613 (1613)	STC 13507.3; ESTC S116587	14,244	56

to remaine within the Towne God open our eyes that we may behold these things aright and mollifie our hearts good Lord we beseech thee that we may repent as we ought And although I will not particularize the vnaturall proportions of that Monster yet I obserue that it wanted lippes to teach vs as I suppose that we want sanctified lippes to glorifie the powerfull name of our gratious God Moreouer it wanted the place of euacuation by meanes whereof the body could not be exonerate or clensed of the excrements To teach that whatsoeuer pretence or shew we make of Religion outwardly yet the filth of sin remaineth still within because there wanteth true Repentance in vs whereby our soules might be clensed in the bloud of Iesus Christ Truly I am perswaded that in this Towne and the parts adioyning where these Iudgements fell there is as much sinne raigning as there is in a greater parte of the kingdome besides but I beseech God of his infinite mercy that his long suffering of our sinnes be not an occasion that we plucke his feirce wrath vpon our heads which we daylie goe about prouoking him to anger that will not be tempted so vngratefull are we and so gratious is he I doubt the same sentence wil be pronounced against vs which our Sauiour vsed saying Woe vnto Carazaine woe vnto Bethsaida it is better for Tire and Sidon then for them at the dreadful day of the Lord. A seueare sentence pronounced by a mercifull Iudge who will doubtles in a more dreadfull time not onely vtter the like words against vs but will cast vs into vtter darkenes where shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth except that of his infinite goodnes and great mercie he call vs home to repentance Could the people of Israel tremble at the voice of the Lord when he talked with Moses insomuch that they accorded to all his lawes and ordinances which were giuen them so that they might not indure his presence and dare we the off-scum of the earth rebell against our Creator so obstinately that neither signes the word nor wonders can conuert vs doe we not remember the benigne blessings which he promiseth that our land shal be fertile our fruites shall increase our foes shall flye before vs c. if we please him serue him and keepe his commandements neither doe we feare his heauie wrath and horrible curse which he threatneth to the contrarie if we transgresse his precepts and breake his ordinances saying thy Wife shal be widdow thy land barren thou shalt flie when none followe thee and feare without cause famine shall confound thee warre shall waste thy countrie and hunger so assaile thee that the after-birth of thy wife shall serue for thy foode O terrible dreadfull and heauie wrath of God but more monstrous filthie and vglie hearts haue we that imbrace the blessings when we deserue cursings reape good where we sowe euill and yet cannot afforde thankes to the sender of all thinges who giueth liberallie and casteth no man in the teeth Doe we not know that he is of power to turne our Heauen into brasse and our earth into Iron or are we ignorant that if it please him not to bring foraine force vpon vs yet he can plague vs by our freinds send Grashoppers to spoile our groundes Frogs to fellow vs whethersoeuer we flie Caterpillers to consume our fruite in the blossome or Raine to rot our Corne and Grasse when it is readie for the haruest or that he can send Lice to liue by our flesh and Mice in such multitudes that neither power nor pollicie can keepe them from vs for thereby he shewes his omnipotencie not in a huge armie of enemies but in a mightie arme with the weakest of his creatures Hath he not sent famine to Samaria so that a little Doues doung was worth fiue pence an Asses head sold for fourescore shillings destruction to Ierusalem so sharpe that the mother was faine to eate her Babe to satisfie her hunger Fier and Brimstone to Sodome and Gomorrah a deluge ouer the olde world with infinite other Citties that he hath iustlie plangued for their iniquities and we thinke to escape that haue not onlie practised to be perfect in their sinnes but dailie studie to deuise new offences The times we sée haue almost changed their natures and our Sommer become euen a Winter yet nothing can prouoke vs to repent O stife-necked people put on sackcloth with Nineuie leaue pride and fall to prayers let Saule become Paule cease to oppresse and turne to preach let euerie man amend one so shall we all doe well at the last and seeing the spirit in the faithfull is willing but the flesh weake and blinde in heauenly thinges let vs beseech our heauenlie Father in continuall prayers that by his holie spirit he will daylie more and more increase and strengthen our weake and féeble faith And therefore we heartely desier thee O eternall Father that thou wilt not vtterlie breake vs though we bowe not as we should neither deale with Iustice though we doe not our duties according to thy will but keepe vs good Lord in thy wel beloued sonne illuminate our mindes with thy holie spirit by which we may be prepared to all good workes in the holinesse and newenesse of life that so with Paule wée may desire to leaue this wicked world and to be with Christ and so in the comming of the Lord being found readie with Oyle in our Lampes and adorned with our wedding garmentes we may finde entrance into the Lords marriage which thou for thy deare sonne and his beloued spouse the Church hast prepared and appointed from the beginning of the world To thee therefore O holy Father and to thine onlie begotten Sonne Iesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit our comforter be all praise honour and glorie for euer and euer Amen LAVS DEO Hereunto is anexed THE LAMENTABLE AND FEAREFVLL BVRNING OF THE TOWNE OF DORchester vpon the 6. of August last 1613. IF this dolorous discourse aforesaid of Gods fiery iudgement written by master Hilliard late hapning in Hampshire haue any whit penetrated the reader with remorse I am here presumingly bolde without disparagement to the Author to adde vnto his booke a second sorrow to our country a sodaine calamity late befalne vpon the towne of Dorchester in the West of England the heauy newes whereof euen strikes trembling hearts of people that so famous a Towne and the onely store-house of those parts for Marchantly commodities should in lesse then foure and twentie houres be ruinated by this great commaunding Element cosuming fier Dorchester as it is well knowne is one of the principall places of traffick for westerne marchants by which meanes it grew rich and populous beautified with many stately buildings and faire streetes flourishing full of all sorts of tradesmen and artificers plenty with aboundance reuelled in her boasom maintained with a wise and ciuill gouerment to the well deseruing commendation of the

impiety and more bruitish then beasts forgetting their duty else how durst the vsurer deuour the body and thirst for the bloud of his brother when he readeth how the rich man burned in Hell Luke 16. How durst the Adulterer persist in his lasciuious enterprises when he seeth the sinne of Dauid so seuearely punished the incest of Lot so greeuously lamented and the wisedome of Salomon so foulely obscured How durst the couetuous person heape vp riches for other when he heares our Sauiour call him foole that so prouided for his soule How gracelessely dare the Glutton maintaine his delicacie when he remembers how Iobes children were flayne at their banquet How dare the Tyrant continue his crueltie if he regard the reuenge of the rigorous debtor How dare our worldlings continue their pride considering the fall of Lucifer How dare the Idolater doe reuerence to Images when he heareth the heauie curse that the God of truth pronunceth against him How dare we sweare and forsweare our selues when wée remember the wretched end of Nabal How dare greedy Man to couet his neighbours house when he thinketh how hungerly the dogges licked the bloud of King Ahab How dare the most base swynish gormondizing drunkard sit all the day and night and weeke swilling sing and prophanely abusing Gods Creatures when he heareth the holy Ghost pronounce woe vnto them that rise earely to be drunken How dare all foule offenders but to tremble and quake when they heare the fearefull noyse of the Thunder and see the dreadfull blasts of is lightning to descend from the heauens and sent from an angrie God as tokens of his fearefull indignation In a word how dareth euery obstinate sinner to delite and boaste of his wickednes when he knoweth that vpon the vngodly shall raine Snares Psal 11.7 Fier and Brimstone stormy tempest this shall be their portion to drinke But such is our vngodlines that what we should doe wée slide backe from forgetting God and calling vengeance vpon our selues haling sorrow vpon sorrow enuying those that liue well and louing those that hate goodnes Who euer read of more Royaltie in a King then we may iustly write of our learned gracious and godly King Iames whose blessed peacefull and happie raigne the Lord for his mercie long continue ouer vs. What land had euermore plenty of all things then this Realme of England and yet what country vnder the Sun may be compared with it for vnthankefulnes Wée haue the light of the glorious Ghospell set vpon an hill and yet too manie rather then they will see it will sit blind-fold in the valley of ignorance Can any Cronicles make report of a more worthie wise vertuous godly religious Prince then the late Prince Henry in whome the worthines of all the eight Henries before him met as in their confluence I may speake of him as the Apostle spake of those with whome he is now in companie The world was not worthy of him And although our sinnes no doubt were the cause why he was taken from vs yet who is the more sorrowfull And whereas God blessed be his name hath left vnto vs not onely the Sunne and Moone of our firmament but also Charles-wayne to remaine in one Horizon D. P. A Prince if Starres be of any truth like to be of long life and great learning most hopefull for his time most fruitfull for his hopes so that I hope God hath said to our Iacob as Iacob said to his Iudah Sceptrum non auferetur a Iuda the Scepter shall not be taken from our Iacob till Shiloah come againe into the world yet who I say is the more thankefull Our gratious King hath made many good lawes to cutte of Malefactors but some estéeme little of Gods ordinances lesse of his Maiesties authority and least of all of his decrees for proofe whereof we haue seene such is our gracelessnes how wickedly some haue growne to rebellion whome the earth hath swallowed as Corath Dathan and Abiram Many haue conspired the death both of his Maiestie and his posteritie but the sword hath and I trust euer shall cut them of before their wicked fruit come to diuellish ripenes Yea their owne tongues shall make them fall And let vs beseech the Lord of hosts to looke downe alwayes vpon his anoynted and to cloath his enimies with shame but vpon him and his good Lord let his Crowne flourish vpon till thou Crowne vs all in heauen Let vs learne by the consuming of Sodom and Gomorrah to flye from their sinnes and let vs leaue the wickednes of the old world least God deuise a worse end for vs let vs be warned by the sinnes of Ierusalem to be armed with the word of truth at the preaching of Ionas to Niniui let the ignorant leaue to be obstinate and the learned cease to be slothfull and labour by all meanes to make the world know that the fearefull day of the Lords comming is at hand exhorting therefore to watch continuing in prayer For assuredly this fearefull accident I meane the burning of this man and childe by fire from Heauen ought not to be attributed to any naturall cause but it is euen the Finger of God threatning greater plagues to ensue without our earnest and hearty repentance Neither may we thinke that this iudgement lighted vpon them for their owne proper sinnes which might be greater then ours but rather that our sinnes are farre greater then were theirs and God whose mercy is greater then all hath sent this for our example to call vs to repentance wherefore let vs not thinke that those one whome the Tower in Siloam fell were greater sinners then all those that dwell in Ierusalem but rather let vs assure our selues that vnlesse we repent we shall also perish And to speake of the life and conuersation of the man I cannot finde or by any meanes vnderstand no not by reports of the nearest or the worst affected of his neighbours but that he behaued himselfe euery way in the iudgement of the world as an honest poore man and a painefull laborer in his vocation The manner of the accident is as followeth He hauing bene on Saterday the 26. of Iune last at worke at the house of one Iohn Deane of Parly-Court where he truely and painefully labored at his trade being a Carpenter and hauing ended his dayes-worke went home to his house as an honest man to comfort his Familie with the money which he had painefully gotten and went not as too many Trades-men vse to doe to be drunken and carelesse of their poore housholds at home wherein he shewed and gaue testimony to the world of a Religious care And after his comming home betooke himselfe to his rest and being in bed with his wife and childe in the deepe of the night the lightning came on so fiercely that an old woman named Agnes Russell mother to the wife of the said Iohn Hitchell hauing receaued a terrible blowe on her chéeke by