An Example of Gods iudgement shew[n] vpon two children borne in high Dutch la[nd] in the citie of Lutssolof, the first day of Iulie and translated out of Dutche into Englishe the 6. Nouember last / by Cornelius Pet. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A00473 of text S122315 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 10608.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 7 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A00473 STC 10608.5 ESTC S122315 22919457 ocm 22919457 25895 2264187290

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An example of Gods iudgement shew● vpon two Children borne in high Dutch La●… in the Citie of Lutssolof , the first day of Iulie . and translated out of Dutche into Englishe the 6. Nouember last by Cornelius Pet.

To the Reader .

DEerly beloued Brethren like as daily wee see the wunderous woorks of GOD , to aduertise vs to the amendment of our sinful wicked & detestable liues , before hee dooth plague vs , like as alwaise hee is good and merciful and doth not punish vs according vnto our desarts , but sendeth vs first Signes and tokes to admōish vs of his ire which wee so rightly deferne for our so little regarding & esteeming of his most holy woord and gospel . But wee dayly neglecting and not regarding the same .

Hee therfore hath not only sent hydeous Monsters and fearfull Signes , vnto those where they were borne and seen : but aswel vnto vs , yea and rather vnto vs because wee hauing the sincere Doctrine and Gospel of Christe so vnfeinedly preached yea so ernestly set foorth and so diligently vtterd , and yet wee nothing regarde the same . But like stubburn and obstinate Children run hedlong into our damnation .

Wherfore wee haue to giue the greater account of the time which wee haue spent ( when we shall come and appeer before the Iudgement seat of GOD the moste rightful Iudge ) wherfore deerly belouid let vs not be like those of Sodome , Gomorra , Ierusalem , and many other Cities which would not esteem of the tokens and signes which God sent them .

But let vs repent with those of Niniuie , and pray vnto GOD for mercy and humble our selves befor h●m then wil hee not extend his wrath vpon vs ▪ but be mercifull vnto vs .

The Discription of two strange Children .

THis Childe ( deerly Belooued , which thou seest figured before the heer , was born the day and yeet a boone written , beeing in alll proportion as thou seest it heer presented . The hed of the said Childe was to be compared in all points like vnto a Bishops Miter , In all other points wel proportioned saue the hands which were as the Picture dooth represent the right hand a swoord , and the left hand a rod , the other points firmable as a Childe ought to be , but the Coullour of this Child was to be compared vnto a Negro , or Blackmore , ( the which Childe ) liued the space of three dayes , in the which dayes it did moste wunderously speak these woords following .

Be the warres of men not yet doon ? Make peace , Make peace in all Cuntries for the LORD wil come and punish the Earth , with Swoord and Rod , as my hands doo represent . And also hee said amend you in all Cuntries for there wil such a mortalitie come , yea such a sudain death that one shall say vnto an other / Oh , Brother where haue you been that you are not dead ? These were the woords of the first Childe , which as I haue said before is heer portraturde vnto thee . Therfore repent of thy former offences .

The Discription of the other Childe .
The discription of the other Childe .

THe other Childemy belooued / had this proportion , that is to say . It had two heads in good fourme , but that it was vpon the one side very black / like as the other was . And the other white , and as good c●●●let as may be , and nothing to be seene in the proportion that seemed straunge , but only black and white . This other Childe liued also three dayes . It did ●●●ure rest but contiou●sly did cry and weep and made great lamentation . In so much that euery one Lamented to see this pitious spectakle , and the third day they bothe dyed .

These Children were borne in Lutsolof , foure miles distant from Sir●●●rach , in the which Cittye , the same was first published , to the great comfort of the Godly / and to the wicked a terrour and greefe of minde .

The Father of these Children was named Baltus Maler , and the Mother that hare them / had to name Katherin Peeters , who was of the age of fortye yeeres when she bare them .

At the time of their death , fell such a greeuous Plague amongest them of the Cittie : that there dyed in nyne dayes two thowsand persons . Wherof some dyed sitting at meat , & with meat in their mouthes . And the 〈◊〉 was of so much abundance that it perished vpon the Ground for lack of those that should gather it in for the people lay in the streets as mosse or durt , and there durst none gather it in .

There haue some supposed this to be but lyes and fables . but indeed they are the very handy woorks of God and I would wish those Vnbeleeuers to be aduertised from their vnbeleef and forsake their sinnes , least when it is to late they doo repent .

Wee haue a fearful beginning amongst vs of Louin , of Mastreicht of Aken , at Namure , at Sitteret , & at Antwerp , where the People dyed of the plague by heapes , for there hath dyed of the plague commonly three hundred a week .

Thus wishing you Christian Bretheren to take example by our plagues to receiue the glorious Gospel of our Lorde and forsake your sins , I bid you Farwel .

Imprinted at London for William Bartlet and are to be solde at S. Magnus corner by Richard Ballard .