Looke
Vp
,
And
See
Wonders
.
SO
Benummed
wee
are
in
our
Sences
,
that
albeit
God
himselfe
Holla
in
our
Eares
,
wee
by
our
wills
are
loath
to
heare
him
.
His
dreadfull
Pursiuants
of
Thunder
,
and
Lightning
terrifie
vs
so
long
as
they
haue
vs
in
their
fingers
,
but
beeing
off
,
wee
dance
and
sing
in
the
midst
of
our
Follies
.
So
blinde
are
wee
in
the
vnderstanding
of
Heauenly
matters
,
that
wee
cannot
see
our
way
to
Goodnesse
,
but
runne
head-long
into
the
Pathes
of
our
owne
euerlasting
vndoing
.
Dangers
haue
not
the
skill
to
fright
vs
;
Death
onely
is
the
Man
,
that
can
doe
good
vpon
vs
:
And
yet
,
though
Death
knockes
at
our
very
Doores
,
nay
;
albeit
wee
see
him
sit
at
our
Bed-side
,
yet
the
hope
of
Life
,
playes
her
idle
,
vayne
,
and
wanton
Musicke
vnder
our
Windowes
.
Into
what
a
miserable
Sea
of
calamities
does
a
man
then
throw
himselfe
,
when
in
this
his
earthly
Nauigation
,
hee
sayles
he
cares
not
how
,
nor
knowes
where
to
finde
a
safe
Landing-place
.
Wee
had
neede
therefore
to
make
much
of
vnderstanding
,
wise
,
and
skilfull
Pilots
,
for
the
best
of
vs
all
is
an
ignorant
Marriner
.
Apt
enough
we
are
,
to
run
vpon
Rockes
and
quick-sands
;
but
an
excellent
Sea-man
is
hee
,
that
in
all
weathers
can
beare
vp
Sayle
,
and
by
the
vertue
of
his
good
Compasse
,
is
able
to
auoyde
such
mortall
Dangers
.
The
foure
Elements
haue
beene
Preachers
to
vs
,
yet
wee
get
(
or
at
least
,
shew
)
little
amendment
by
the
Doctrin
,
they
haue
Read
vnto
vs
.
The
Earth
,
(
once
fruitfull
)
hath
of
late
yeares
felt
the
curse
of
Barrennesse
:
Her
wombe
hath
beene
the
deuourer
of
many
thousands
of
her
owne
Children
;
shee
has
not
playd
the
part
of
a
Mother
,
but
a
Step-dame
,
for
insteed
of
strong
wines
,
shee
hath
bin
drunke
with
bloud
.
How
hath
the
other
Element
of
water
beene
troubled
?
What
Monsters
hath
the
Sea
brought
forth
?
The
sonnes
of
Murder
,
Rapine
,
Fury
,
and
Pyracy
.
As
for
Fire
,
it
hath
denied
of
late
to
warme
vs
,
but
at
vnreasonable
rates
,
and
extreame
hard
conditions
.
But
what
talke
I
of
this
earthy
nourishment
of
fire
?
how
haue
the
Fires
of
Heauen
(
some
few
yeares
past
)
gone
beyond
their
bounds
,
and
appeared
in
the
shapes
of
Comets
,
and
Blazing
Starres
?
The
Aire
hath
bin
infected
,
and
millions
haue
dropd
into
Graues
,
by
sucking
in
her
mortall
poyson
.
The
Aire
is
the
shop
of
Thunder
and
Lightning
:
In
that
,
hath
of
late
bin
held
a
Muster
of
terrible
enemies
,
and
threatners
of
Vengeance
,
which
the
great
Generall
of
the
Field
,
who
Conducts
and
Commands
all
such
Armies
,
(
God
Almighty
,
I
meane
)
auert
from
our
Kingdome
,
and
shoote
the
arrowes
of
his
indignation
some
other
way
,
vpon
the
bosomes
of
those
that
would
confound
his
Gospell
.
Now
,
albeit
that
these
foure
great
quarter-masters
of
the
World
(
the
foure
Elements
)
haue
in
former
times
,
and
in
this
of
our
owne
,
bin
in
ciuill
Warres
one
against
another
,
and
bent
their
Forces
at
the
Heart
of
this
Kingdome
;
yet
how
happy
are
we
,
to
eate
our
bread
in
Peace
,
and
to
drinke
our
wholesome
and
sweete
Waters
?
No
Nation
beneath
the
Sunne
hath
more
cause
to
sing
Prayses
to
God
,
and
send
vp
Thankes
to
Heauen
then
ours
.
The
Drum
beates
here
,
but
the
Battailes
are
abroad
:
The
Barbed
Horse
tramples
not
downe
our
Corne-fieldes
:
The
earth
is
not
manurde
with
mans
Bloud
(
as
it
was
in
the
Warres
of
the
Barons
;
and
those
of
the
two
Royall
contending
Families
,
of
Yorke
and
Lancaster
.
)
Here
we
presse
Souldiers
;
but
other
Countries
beare
the
burthen
of
their
Armies
.
Heere
they
kindle
their
Match
,
but
the
fire
is
not
giuen
,
till
they
come
into
Forraigne
Kingdomes
.
This
Security
yet
must
not
bee
suffered
to
rocke
vs
fast
asleepe
;
and
so
with
Sampson
,
to
haue
our
strength
cut
from
vs
,
by
the
Strumpet
of
our
carelesnes
:
For
albeit
,
our
Gates
haue
no
Canons
planted
agaynst
them
▪
Nor
no
scaling-ladders
se●
to
the
Walls
of
our
Cities
;
yet
there
are
Whole
Ambushes
of
enemies
lurking
in
our
priuate
Bosomes
;
And
those
are
our
sinnes
,
which
daily
lay
traynes
of
powder
,
to
blow
vs
vp
,
and
confound
vs
.
For
these
,
there
is
an
Eye
open
,
which
day
and
night
doth
ouer
looke
our
actions
;
and
if
milde
and
gentle
chidings
cannot
call
vs
home
,
let
vs
thanke
our selues
,
and
the
stubbornnesse
of
our
hearts
,
if
wee
groane
vnder
the
stripes
of
correction
.
Let
vs
turne
to
God
,
and
God
will
not
turne
his
Face
from
vs
:
Say
thy
sinnes
were
as
blacke
as
Hell
;
yet
Repentance
shall
make
them
like
the
Winges
of
a
Doue
,
couer'd
(
as
the
Kingly
Prophet
sings
)
with
siluer
,
the
Wings
bearing
the
colour
of
yellow
Gold
.
Repentance
is
able
to
make
the
soule
as
white
as
the
snow
in
Zalmon
;
Repentance
is
a
golden
Key
,
which
opens
Heauen
,
and
lookes
vp
to
Gods
anger
.
Repentance
wins
him
to
smile
vpon
vs
,
and
to
say
thus
;
If
thou
still
art
climing
vp
this
Hill
of
Repentance
;
Blessed
shalt
thou
be
in
the
City
;
and
Blessed
in
the
Field
:
Blessed
shall
be
the
fruite
of
thy
Body
;
and
the
Fruite
of
thy
ground
,
and
the
fruite
of
thy
Cattle
:
The
increase
of
thy
Kine
;
and
the
Flockes
of
thy
Sheepe
:
Blessed
shall
be
thy
Basket
,
and
thy
Dough
:
Blessed
shalt
thou
bee
when
thou
commest
in
;
and
blessed
also
when
thou
goest
out
.
Thy
Land-Souldiers
(
O
England
)
shall
not
stand
in
feare
of
any
Italian
Spin●laes
;
nor
thy
Nauy
Royall
of
any
Spanish
Armadoes
:
For
,
thine
enemies
that
rise
agaynst
thee
,
shall
fall
before
thy
face
;
they
shall
come
out
against
thee
one
way
,
and
flye
before
thee
seauen
wayes
.
His
word
that
speakes
this
,
may
be
taken
better
than
any
Kings
in
the
World
;
and
therefore
hold
out
both
thy
hands
,
vnder
this
Tree
of
Blessings
,
and
catch
the
golden
Apples
,
when
so
freely
they
are
shaken
downe
into
thy
lappe
But
if
thou
trample
these
gifts
vnder
thy
feete
,
and
spurnest
at
Gods
Fauours
bestowed
vppon
thee
;
New
quiuers
of
punishments
will
then
be
opened
,
and
other
strange
fearefull
arrowes
be
shot
at
thy
bosome
.
Heauen
shal
be
turned
to
Brasse
;
earth
to
Iron
;
dust
and
ashes
be
giuen
for
Raine
;
If
therfore
with
Naaman
,
thou
wouldst
be
cleansed
from
thy
Leaprosie
of
sinne
,
For
,
wee
sinke
to
the
bottome
of
the
waters
,
as
the
Carpenters
axe
did
(
in
the
second
of
the
Kings
,
)
but
,
though
neuer
so
iron-hearted
,
the
voyce
of
an
Elisha
(
the
feruency
of
Prayer
,
and
praysing
God
)
can
fetch
vs
from
the
bottome
of
Hell
,
and
by
contrition
make
vs
swim
on
the
top
of
the
waters
of
life
.
Stand
therefore
at
the
Gates
of
Gods
mercy
still
;
begge
still
;
knocke
still
;
and
knocke
hard
:
For
Hannab
,
was
barren
,
yet
being
an
importunate
suiter
,
her
petition
was
heard
,
and
signed
:
She
was
fruitfull
,
and
had
three
Sonnes
and
Daughters
:
So
,
when
we
are
barren
in
Repentance
,
in
Thanksgiuing
in
Charity
,
in
Patience
,
in
Goodnesse
,
let
vs
vnfeignedly
pray
to
Heauen
,
we
shal
be
fruitfull
,
and
these
fiue
shal
bee
our
Sonnes
and
Daughters
.
By
this
meanes
our
Mara
shall
change
her
name
to
Naomi
,
Haue
we
not
great
cause
then
to
magnifie
him
,
It
is
not
for
man
to
dispute
with
God
,
why
he
has
done
this
so
often
,
nor
rashly
to
pronounce
judgement
vppon
any
thing
,
it
pleaseth
God
to
accomplish
now
;
but
,
with
feare
and
trembling
casting
our
eyes
vp
to
Heauen
,
let
vs
now
behold
him
,
bending
his
Fist
onely
,
as
lately
he
did
to
the
terrour
and
affrightment
of
all
the
Inhabitants
,
dwelling
within
a
Towne
in
the
County
of
Barkshire
.
Looke
vp
therefore
now
;
and
see
a
New
Wonder
.
THE
name
of
the
Towne
is
Hatford
(
in
Barkeshire
)
some
eight
miles
from
Oxford
.
Ouer
this
Towne
,
vpon
Wensday
being
the
ninth
of
this
instant
Moneth
of
April
1628.
about
fiue
of
the
clocke
in
the
afternoone
.
This
miraculous
,
prodigious
,
and
fearefull
handy-worke
of
God
was
presented
,
to
the
astonishable
amazement
of
all
the
beholders
,
Men
,
Women
,
and
children
,
being
many
in
number
.
The
weather
was
warme
,
and
without
any
great
shewe
of
distemperature
,
only
the
skye
waxed
by
degrees
a
little
gloomy
,
yet
not
so
darkned
but
that
the
Sunne
still
and
anon
,
by
the
power
of
the
brightnesse
,
brake
through
the
thicke
clouds
,
and
made
them
giue
way
to
the
Maiesty
of
his
beames
.
A
gentle
gale
of
wind
then
blowing
from
betweene
the
West
and
Northwest
;
in
an
instant
was
heard
,
first
a
hideous
rumbling
in
the
Ayre
,
and
presently
after
followed
a
strange
and
fearefull
peale
of
Thunder
,
running
vp
and
downe
these
parts
of
the
Countrey
,
but
it
strake
with
the
loudest
violence
,
and
more
furious
tearing
of
the
Ayre
,
about
a
place
called
The
white
Horse
h●ll
,
than
in
any
other
.
The
whole
order
of
this
thunder
,
carried
a
kind
of
Maiesticall
state
with
it
,
for
it
maintayned
(
to
the
affrighted
Beholders
seeming
)
the
fashion
of
a
fought
Battaile
.
It
beganne
thus
:
First
,
for
an
on-set
,
went
on
one
great
Cannon
as
it
were
of
thunder
alone
,
like
a
warning
peece
to
the
rest
,
that
were
to
follow
.
Then
a
little
whileafter
,
was
heard
a
second
;
and
so
by
degrees
a
third
,
vntill
the
number
of
20.
were
discharged
(
or
there
abouts
)
in
very
good
order
,
though
in
very
great
terror
.
In
some
little
distance
of
time
after
this
,
was
audibly
heard
the
sound
of
a
Drum
beating
a
Retreate
▪
Amongst
all
these
angry
peales
,
shot
off
from
Heauen
;
this
begat
a
wonderful
admiration
,
that
at
the
end
of
the
report
of
euery
cracke
,
or
Cannon-thundering
,
a
hizzing
Noyse
made
way
through
the
Ayre
,
not
vnlike
the
flying
of
Bullets
from
the
mouthes
of
great
Ordnance
:
And
by
the
iudgement
of
all
the
terror-stricken
witnesses
,
they
were
Thunderbolts
.
For
one
of
them
was
seene
by
many
people
,
to
fall
at
a
place
called
Bawlkin
Greene
,
beeing
a
mile
and
a
halfe
from
Hatford
:
Which
Thunder-bolt
was
by
one
Mistris
Greene
,
caused
to
be
digged
out
of
the
ground
,
she
being
an
eye-witnesse
amongst
many
other
,
of
the
manner
of
the
falling
.
The
forme
of
the
Stone
is
three-square
,
and
picked
in
the
end
:
In
colour
outwardly
blackish
,
some-what
like
Iron
:
Crusted
ouer
with
that
blacknesse
about
the
thicknesse
of
a
shilling
▪
Within
,
it
is
soft
,
of
a
gray
colour
,
mixed
with
some
kind
of
minerall
,
shining
like
small
peeces
of
glasse
.
This
Stone
brake
in
the
fal
:
The
whole
peece
is
in
weight
nineteene
pound
and
a
halfe
:
The
greater
peece
that
fell
off
,
weigheth
fiue
pound
,
which
with
other
small
peeces
being
put
together
,
make
foure
and
twenty
pound
and
better
.
At
the
hearing
of
this
horrid
Thunder
,
all
men
(
especially
about
Sheffington
)
were
so
terrified
,
that
they
fell
on
their
knees
,
and
not
onely
thought
,
but
sayd
,
that
verily
the
day
of
Iudgement
was
come
.
Neyther
did
these
feares
take
hold
only
of
the
people
,
but
euen
Beasts
had
the
selfe-same
feeling
and
apprehension
of
danger
,
running
vp
and
downe
,
and
bellowing
,
as
if
they
had
bin
mad
.
It
is
in
the
Countrey
credibly
reported
,
that
some
other
Thunder-stones
haue
bin
found
in
other
places
:
But
for
certainty
,
there
was
one
taken
vp
at
Letcombe
,
and
is
now
in
the
custody
of
the
Shriefe
.
Many
do
constantly
affirme
,
that
the
shape
of
a
Man
,
beating
of
a
Drum
,
was
visibly
seene
in
the
Ayre
,
but
this
wee
leaue
to
prooue
.
Others
report
that
he
,
who
digged
vp
the
Stone
in
Bawlkin
Greene
,
was
at
that
instant
stricken
lame
,
but
(
God
bee
thanked
)
there
is
no
such
matter
.
Report
in
such
distractions
as
these
,
hath
a
thousand
eyes
,
and
sees
more
than
it
can
vnderstand
;
and
as
many
tongues
,
which
being
once
set
a
going
,
they
speake
any
thing
.
So
now
a
number
of
people
report
there
were
three
Sunnes
seene
in
the
Element
;
but
on
the
contrary
side
,
they
are
opposers
against
them
,
that
will
affirme
they
beheld
no
such
matter
,
and
that
it
was
not
so
.
Admit
it
were
,
how
oftentimes
haue
three
Sunnes
,
foure
;
nay
fiue
,
and
sometimes
more
appeared
in
the
Ayre
,
both
in
England
,
and
other
Countries
round
about
vs
?
They
who
out
of
their
Astronomicall
iudgements
write
of
such
apparitions
,
alleadging
,
and
proouing
by
strong
arguments
,
that
such
disturbances
in
the
Caelestiall
bodies
of
the
Sunne
,
Moone
,
and
Starres
,
do
more
often
from
Naturall
causes
,
than
Supernaturall
.
Howsoeuer
,
it
is
not
fit
that
any
man
,
should
take
vppon
him
,
to
write
too
broad
and
busie
Comments
on
any
such
Textes
as
these
Let
vs
not
be
so
daring
as
to
pry
into
the
closet
of
Gods
determinations
.
His
workes
are
full
of
Wonders
,
and
not
to
be
examined
:
Let
vs
not
be
so
foolish
,
as
turne
Almanacke-makers
,
and
to
Prognosticate
,
Prophesie
,
Foredoome
,
or
Fore-tell
,
what
shall
happen
,
faire
weather
or
foule
,
to
our
owne
Kingdome
,
or
any
other
;
scarcity
,
or
plenty
▪
Warre
,
or
Peace
,
for
such
giddy-brayn●d
Medlers
,
shoote
their
arrowes
beyond
the
Moone
.
The
Heauenly
designes
are
of
a
higher
Nature
,
than
to
hold
any
correspondence
,
commixture
,
or
coniunction
with
the
phantasticall
compositions
of
Humane
frailty
.
Gods
Bookes
are
not
so
easily
opened
:
Mans
eyes
are
too
weake-sighted
,
too
dull-poynted
to
looke
into
his
Voluminous
,
and
Misterious
Wonders
.
The
Learning
of
all
the
Vniuersities
in
the
World
,
is
meere
ignorance
,
to
the
Almighties
vnderstanding
.
Lay
by
therfore
thy
Iacobs
staf●e
,
thou
that
art
too
scrutinous
,
to
looke
into
the
Thunderers
treasury
;
forbeare
to
take
the
height
of
these
false
imaginary
Sunnes
;
and
fright
not
thy
Countrey
with
thy
ouer-daring
,
foolish
,
and
vaine
glorious
predictions
.
I
speake
not
this
to
Arme
any
Man
with
security
,
negligence
,
or
misbeliefe
;
or
to
make
him
thinke
,
that
God
when
he
shewes
vs
such
signes
,
such
rods
from
Heauen
,
(
doing
so
but
seldome
,
)
does
it
to
no
purpose
;
But
let
not
vs
be
too
inquisitiue
what
that
purpose
is
:
the
wranglings
of
Schooles
,
is
not
so
vnpleasing
,
to
ignorant
standers
by
,
as
our
contentions
and
quaeres
about
this
businesse
,
should
be
to
God
.
Enough
it
shal
be
for
vs
to
see
,
and
feare
;
to
heare
,
and
not
meddle
;
to
apprehend
what
our
weaknesse
can
,
and
to
admire
the
depth
which
we
cannot
read
.
The
Master
of
the
houshold
being
angry
,
it
is
the
duty
of
vs
his
seruants
,
to
doe
our
best
to
please
him
,
keepe
him
quiet
,
and
not
to
prouoke
him
to
a
higher
indignation
,
least
in
his
iust
fury
,
which
euery
day
(
euery
houre
,
)
we
are
apt
to
run
in
.
to
,
he
vtterly
confounds
vs
,
and
bring
vs
to
nothing
.
Which
,
the
Almighty
for
his
owne
mercies
sake
,
forbid
forget
,
and
forgiue
our
sinnes
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.