THE
VOYCE
OF
THE
LORD
IN
THE
TEMPLE
.
GOD
in
all
ages
hath
given
Testimonies
of
his
power
,
and
particularly
of
that
power
which
is
able
in
flaming
fire
to
take
vengeance
on
them
that
do
not
know
and
obey
him
,
even
the
power
which
the
Excellent
Singer
of
Israel
thus
expresseth
,
The
voyce
of
the
Lord
is
powerfull
;
The
voyce
of
the
Lord
is
full
of
Majesty
,
The
voyce
of
the
Lord
divides
the
flames
of
fire
.
But
here
have
we
notice
,
not
only
of
his
power
but
his
goodnesse
;
so
as
wee
may
say
with
the
Prophet
,
The
Lord
is
jealous
,
and
the
Lord
revengeth
;
the
Lord
is
slowe
to
anger
,
and
great
in
power
,
his
way
is
in
the
whirle
wind
and
in
the
storme
,
and
the
clouds
are
the
dust
of
his
feet
.
For
here
we
see
God
in
the
storme
,
threatning
judgment
,
yet
shewing
mercy
;
yea
,
Mercy
triumphing
over
judgement
:
And
indeed
his
judgement
leads
to
Mercy
by
leading
to
Repentance
;
For
whiles
it
calls
to
Repentance
,
it
forewarnes
to
flye
the
wrath
to
come
:
Whereas
without
Repentance
,
this
will
be
but
a
patterne
and
forerunner
of
eternall
fire
.
But
if
like
wise
children
burnt
with
this
temporall
fire
,
sinners
by
penitence
escape
the
everlasting
burnings
of
eternall
fire
;
then
may
they
sing
Mercy
and
judgement
,
even
judgement
turned
into
Mercy
:
And
then
may
they
breake
out
into
thanksgivings
,
for
the
judgement
which
hath
brought
them
by
Repentance
to
Mercy
,
and
did
now
terrifie
them
,
but
not
destroy
them
;
and
did
terrifie
them
now
,
that
it
might
not
hereafter
eternally
destroy
them
.
On
Whitsunday
last
a
faire
morning
began
,
but
by
the
desert
of
sinne
,
turned
into
blacke
darknesse
,
and
was
shadowed
about
8.
or
9.
of
the
clocke
with
a
cloud
,
and
this
cloud
was
followed
with
some
(
not
extraordinary
)
darknesse
,
claps
of
Thunder
,
and
flashes
of
Lightning
;
but
afterwards
when
Divine
Prayers
and
Sermon
were
ended
,
and
Administration
of
the
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
was
neere
accomplished
,
there
came
a
very
vehement
fire
,
farre
more
bright
than
Lightning
;
and
this
fire
was
suddenly
attended
with
a
terrible
and
unspeakable
sound
,
to
the
great
amazement
and
astonishment
of
the
people
then
present
in
the
Church
.
The
terrour
of
this
strange
fire
and
fearefull
sound
,
drew
from
some
pittifull
cryes
,
caused
in
others
a
dead
silence
,
their
senses
being
stupified
and
overcome
by
that
which
they
saw
,
heard
,
and
felt
.
More
particularly
,
while
the
holy
Communion
was
administring
,
and
when
as
many
as
came
to
a
first
and
second
Table
had
received
,
and
those
that
came
to
a
third
had
received
the
bread
,
Light
came
in
at
the
Chancell
window
,
and
was
seene
in
the
Chancell
by
divers
persons
,
in
the
forme
of
a
fiery
Ball
,
the
bignesse
of
a
Bowle
,
and
did
strike
divers
persons
which
were
kneeling
and
expecting
the
Cup
.
Divers
hurts
by
divers
persons
were
then
received
,
of
which
my selfe
was
one
,
who
thought
I
had
the
haire
of
mine
head
burnt
off
,
and
the
outside
of
my
left
legge
scalded
,
and
could
not
in
minde
be
otherwise
perswaded
,
untill
I
was
informed
the
contray
of
the
one
,
and
mine
owne
eyes
saw
the
contrary
of
the
other
.
In
which
give
me
leave
to
expresse
unto
the
Reader
(
and
that
with
hearty
thankes
to
my
mighty
Preserver
)
my
great
deliverance
,
and
that
onely
by
Gods
good
providence
toward
me
;
I
received
the
blow
at
my
very
turning
towards
the
Communion
Table
,
to
take
the
Cup
to
administer
the
Wine
,
and
I
was
no
sooner
removed
from
the
place
,
but
instantly
a
Ball
of
Fire
came
into
the
same
place
where
I
stood
before
,
as
is
testified
by
divers
persons
then
present
.
For
my
owne
part
I
call
to
minde
that
I
saw
a
great
flaming
fire
about
my
body
,
and
heard
a
terible
sound
in
mine
eares
;
and
the
blow
which
came
with
it
(
according
to
our
sense
)
if
it
had
lighted
on
my
person
,
must
needs
have
proved
mortall
.
And
my
wife
Elizabeth
Bache
,
sitting
in
her
seate
after
the
receiving
of
that
holy
Sacrament
,
being
astonished
,
partly
with
the
greatnesse
of
the
sound
,
partly
with
the
terror
of
the
fire
,
and
partly
vith
the
cry
of
the
people
,
supposing
some
one
had
beene
strucke
dead
,
asked
of
some
of
her
neighbours
by
her
,
whether
that
were
her
husband
which
was
killed
?
Reply
was
made
her
;
not
,
thankes
be
to
God
,
for
hee
is
comforting
Iohn
Hodge
,
one
of
the
distressed
,
and
astonished
persons
.
Master
Antony
Furlong
the
yonger
,
was
stricken
in
the
soles
of
his
feete
,
and
likewise
in
the
legges
as
it
had
beene
with
Gunpower
,
and
so
he
saw
the
fire
vanish
away
in
the
manner
of
sparkles
.
Iohn
Brusie
likewise
saw
at
the
same
time
,
as
it
were
a
Ball
of
fire
desending
from
above
;
which
when
it
came
to
the
ground
,
dispersed
abroad
with
a
deadly
Sound
;
and
hee
felt
his
legges
and
toes
extraodinary
hot
therewith
;
but
when
hee
returned
home
,
and
looked
upon
them
,
they
were
onely
very
red
,
but
hee
had
no
other
harme
.
William
Sargent
,
a
Masters
mate
of
a
ship
,
kneeling
under
the
Chauncell
window
,
was
stricken
on
the
chine
,
as
seemed
to
him
with
a
bullet
:
The
blow
was
so
grievous
,
as
that
hee
thought
his
body
had
beene
cut
in
two
peeces
;
yea
such
was
the
violence
of
the
blow
,
that
it
caused
his
water
forthwith
to
issue
from
his
body
;
and
for
a
time
lost
his
sight
and
sences
,
but
soone
recovered
them
againe
;
which
Sargeant
for
two
or
three
yeares
before
feeling
oftimes
a
great
paine
in
his
chine
,
was
hereby
so
cured
,
as
that
hee
felt
no
paine
there
since
.
John
Gendle
a
servant
vnto
Richard
Carew
Esq.
was
smitten
against
the
fore
part
of
the
right
shoulder
,
where
hee
kneeled
upon
his
knees
,
with
a
great
violence
,
that
(
hearing
as
it
were
the
hissing
of
a
great
shot
)
hee
thought
hee
had
beene
stricken
therewith
,
and
his
shoulder
had
beene
carried
cleane
away
:
hee
was
turned
almost
round
about
where
hee
kneeled
,
and
exceedingly
astonisht
with
the
blow
.
Anthony
Peeke
was
fearefully
smitten
,
in
all
the
lower
part
of
his
body
,
as
if
it
had
beene
made
dead
;
and
felt
the
water
in
his
bladder
,
as
it
were
boyling
hot
;
hee
supposed
hee
had
beene
shot
thorow
;
he
was
set
up
upon
the
forme
,
by
which
he
was
kneeling
,
himselfe
not
knowing
how
.
Dorothy
Tubbe
who
was
then
kneeling
to
receive
the
Communion
,
was
so
smitten
with
this
Lightning
,
that
it
seemed
to
her
that
her
legs
and
knees
were
stricken
off
from
her
body
,
wherewith
shee
was
astonisht
for
a
while
,
but
afterwards
recovering
her
senses
,
felt
extraordinarie
paine
,
and
heate
therein
,
which
by
little
and
little
went
so
away
,
as
it
left
onely
a
little
numnesse
in
them
,
during
the
most
part
of
that
day
;
but
in
the
end
shee
was
(
by
the
blessing
of
God
)
perfectly
freed
thereof
.
Ferdinando
Reepe
of
the
Church-towne
,
was
stricken
in
the
sole
of
his
left
foote
,
with
such
violence
,
as
he
thought
it
had
been
split
in
peeces
;
and
with
the
same
blow
was
for
the
time
deprived
of
his
senses
.
Iohn
Hodge
was
smitten
in
his
knees
,
and
thighes
;
and
so
as
if
every
joynt
of
the
lower
part
of
his
body
had
beene
unjoynted
;
hee
feared
greatly
hee
should
never
have
beene
able
to
stand
againe
;
it
forced
from
him
,
a
bitter
and
most
pittifull
cry
;
hee
likewise
saw
the
ball
of
fire
.
Susanna
Collings
also
received
a
greeuous
blow
,
as
if
shee
had
beene
strucke
with
fire
,
and
the
under
part
of
her
body
seem'd
,
as
if
it
had
beene
severed
from
the
upper
;
it
scalded
the
wrest
of
her
right
arme
,
as
broad
as
a
peece
of
three
pence
,
which
was
not
whole
in
a
fortnight
after
;
though
she
nor
any
of
the
rest
felt
any
of
the
greater
hurts
,
after
the
same
day
;
shee
was
so
astonisht
with
the
blow
,
as
that
shee
fell
sidewayes
therewith
,
as
shee
kneeled
by
the
forme
:
who
being
seene
so
falne
,
there
came
one
Iohn
Burt
of
our
parish
,
who
being
weake
in
respect
of
age
,
and
so
not
able
to
lift
her
up
;
forthwith
came
likewise
one
Master
Oliver
Deeble
,
to
assist
him
with
his
hands
,
as
hee
did
my selfe
,
and
the
rest
with
his
Christian
comfortable
words
.
As
likewise
Mistris
Grace
Carew
,
the
wife
of
the
foresaid
Master
Richard
Carew
did
(
her
husband
being
then
absent
,
by
reason
of
his
grievous
sicknesse
;
)
perswading
them
to
continue
in
,
and
not
to
goe
out
of
the
Church
:
which
counsell
was
so
hearkened
unto
and
embraced
,
as
that
none
departed
from
the
Temple
.
There
came
in
at
the
North
window
(
being
a
little
behind
the
aforesaid
Master
Carewes
seate
)
a
great
fire
much
redder
then
ordinary
Lightning
;
which
was
seene
by
Misteris
Pearse
widdow
,
daughter
unto
the
said
Master
Carew
;
and
by
Degory
Moyse
the
elder
his
Tenant
;
and
strake
Nicholas
Skelton
,
one
of
his
house
,
with
such
violence
,
as
if
he
had
beene
stricken
with
two
flat
stones
,
or
two
trenchers
,
the
one
on
the
one
side
,
and
the
other
on
the
other
side
of
his
head
,
and
withall
shooke
his
body
,
as
if
it
should
have
beene
shaken
in
pieces
,
whereby
for
a
time
he
lost
his
sight
and
his
sences
.
This
fire
then
passed
downe
by
Master
Carewes
seate
into
the
path
before
it
,
and
so
went
on
unto
the
end
thereof
upon
the
ground
,
and
passed
up
by
the
fore-part
of
his
seate
in
the
Chancell
,
and
there
instantly
kill'd
a
Dogge
,
which
Mistris
Pearse's
Daughter
heard
onely
once
to
screech
.
This
Lightning
or
fearefull
fire
(
terme
it
as
you
please
)
entred
likewise
in
the
same
time
at
a
window
in
the
West
end
of
the
Church
,
where
it
brake
off
pieces
of
the
hard
Moore
stone
,
and
rent
one
of
the
Arches
of
the
window
three
foot
long
;
and
likewise
brake
some
of
the
glasse
,
and
left
the
lead
of
the
same
pressed
inwards
,
and
made
an
hole
in
the
stones
and
the
lime
of
the
side
wall
adjoyning
thereunto
as
big
as
a
scaffold
hole
,
and
then
strucke
one
Roger
Nile
on
the
pinbone
of
his
right
side
,
and
on
the
ankle
on
the
inside
of
his
left
legge
,
as
if
the
blow
had
beene
given
by
a
Bowle
;
so
as
for
a
while
hee
was
not
able
to
stand
.
John
Cowle
also
(
commonly
called
Cowling
)
sitting
in
the
South
I
le
of
our
Church
,
as
high
up
as
the
lower
end
of
the
Chancell
,
was
so
stricken
with
Lightning
in
the
face
,
that
he
thought
all
the
haire
thereon
had
beene
burnt
;
yet
by
the
mercy
of
God
,
though
hee
were
feared
,
had
no
hurt
.
Nicholas
Wilcock
,
a
servant
unto
the
foresaid
Master
Carew
likewise
saith
,
that
he
saw
fire
come
downe
from
aloft
,
and
a
small
piece
of
Lime
therewith
being
throwne
downe
,
strake
him
on
the
cheeke
,
which
made
his
cheeke
continue
in
a
burning
heat
all
that
day
.
In
this
Agony
one
cryed
as
the
childe
to
his
Father
,
Mine
head
,
mine
head
,
2
Reg.
4.19
.
Another
,
My
belly
,
My
belly
,
Jer.
4.19
.
A
third
,
like
a
lame
Mephibosheth
,
My
leg
,
My
leg
,
2
Sam.
4.4
.
All
,
like
the
Prince
in
Daniel
,
chap.
5.6
.
(
troubled
,
yea
trembled
)
whose
face
was
changed
at
such
a
dismall
sight
.
After
this
fire
(
which
it
should
seeme
came
from
divers
places
;
as
appeares
by
the
blowes
of
severall
persons
,
received
in
severall
places
,
and
all
at
one
instant
)
there
was
heard
in
the
Church
,
as
it
were
the
hissing
of
a
great
shot
;
and
withall
such
a
noise
,
as
rather
resembled
divers
Canons
shot
off
at
an
instant
to
make
one
single
terrible
report
,
then
usuall
long
ratling
thunder
:
Which
fearefull
sound
was
not
heard
till
the
Ball
of
Fire
was
seene
to
breake
in
pieces
;
neither
did
the
noise
descend
from
above
,
but
was
heard
,
and
seem'd
to
begin
in
Church
first
:
And
as
I
for
mine
owne
part
doe
verily
thinke
,
close
at
the
North
side
of
the
Communion
Table
,
and
as
neere
as
might
be
,
to
mine
owne
person
;
with
which
terrible
noise
the
Church
seemed
to
shake
,
and
the
lyme
fell
on
the
persons
of
two
,
who
sate
in
one
Pue
,
so
as
their
Hats
and
clothes
were
white
therewith
,
as
if
they
had
beene
whited
with
Meale
;
so
as
many
feared
the
falling
of
the
Roofe
,
as
it
did
at
Withicombe
,
where
one
was
killed
with
the
same
,
and
divers
others
hurt
,
and
the
Church
so
ruined
,
as
they
were
forced
to
have
a
contribution
for
the
reparation
thereof
.
After
this
fire
and
sound
,
there
followed
a
loathsome
smell
of
Gunpowder
and
Brimstone
,
but
the
savour
of
the
Gunpowder
by
the
judgement
of
all
,
was
stronger
then
that
of
the
Brimstone
.
There
was
a
great
smoake
in
divers
places
of
the
Church
,
which
many
saw
and
many
saw
not
.
The
fearefull
hearing
of
this
noise
,
and
seeing
of
this
fire
,
astonisht
and
even
mortified
most
of
those
who
were
smitten
therewith
,
and
greatly
terrified
the
whole
Congregation
(
which
were
about
two
hundred
soules
)
as
appeared
in
their
faces
;
yet
notwithstanding
the
storme
(
praised
be
the
Name
of
God
)
we
all
went
safely
home
,
as
the
Sea-men
did
to
land
,
Acts
27.44
.
Wherein
it
pleased
God
to
shew
us
his
poore
Christian
servants
such
favour
,
as
though
it
wrought
for
a
whilè
on
them
who
were
most
fearefully
smitten
,
losing
their
speech
,
and
being
deprived
of
their
senses
,
so
as
they
resembled
dead
,
or
dying
men
,
more
then
the
living
;
yet
God
so
limited
the
force
and
burning
of
the
Lightning
,
that
it
hurt
neither
their
clothes
nor
persons
;
much
like
unto
that
mighty
worke
of
God
in
Daniel
upon
the
three
children
,
Master
Anthony
Furlong
the
elder
had
a
Mare
killed
in
the
field
,
and
another
horse
fearefully
stricken
the
same
time
with
his
head
on
one
side
,
and
so
continues
;
and
the
ground
of
the
same
Field
,
for
the
space
of
three
or
foure
foot
,
turned
as
with
a
Plough
:
And
likewise
made
seven
or
eight
holes
and
rents
in
the
walls
of
our
Tower
;
some
on
the
inside
,
some
on
the
outside
;
and
made
impressions
on
the
stones
thereof
in
divers
places
,
as
if
it
had
been
done
by
the
force
of
shot
discharged
out
of
great
Ordnance
;
so
as
in
divers
places
,
the
light
might
be
seen
through
the
walls
.
Thus
have
beene
represented
to
you
terrible
sounds
;
even
sounds
,
containing
many
Thunders
at
once
;
a
Fiery
Ball
flying
from
Heaven
to
Earth
;
Fire
walking
upon
the
Earth
;
Brimstone
kindled
with
fire
,
thicke
darknesse
,
Storme
and
tempest
;
The
blowes
and
scourges
of
an
hand
from
on
high
;
Astonishment
,
hurrying
and
tumbling
of
Bodies
,
shaking
and
distracting
of
senses
,
spirits
,
and
hearts
of
men
.
You
have
seen
part
of
the
Plague
of
Aegypt
,
where
fire
mingled
with
Haile
,
as
here
with
most
unusuall
and
overflowing
Raine
,
ran
upon
the
ground
.
You
have
seene
a
resemblance
of
Mount
Sinai
,
God
is
come
to
prove
you
,
that
his
feare
may
be
before
your
faces
,
that
ye
sinne
not
.
Let
the
Psalmist
tell
you
,
Stand
in
awe
,
and
sinne
not
.
Feare
the
Lord
and
serve
him
in
truth
with
all
your
heart
;
but
if
ye
shall
still
doe
wickedly
,
ye
shall
be
consumed
.
There
hath
been
also
shewed
you
,
the
levelling
and
shooting
of
the
Arrows
of
the
Almighty
,
at
this
place
,
at
this
time
,
and
among
the
people
;
you
have
seene
the
fire
,
as
it
were
,
led
by
his
hand
,
not
onely
where
it
did
,
on
whom
it
did
,
but
like
a
living
creature
turning
about
as
in
a
walke
:
And
so
according
to
the
Vision
of
Ezekiel
,
Lastly
,
you
have
seene
flames
scorching
,
but
not
consuming
:
A
Ball
of
Fire
shot
,
and
striking
,
but
not
killing
;
yea
killing
of
Beasts
,
and
unreasonable
creatures
,
but
sparing
the
reasonable
;
casting
downe
,
but
not
destroying
;
Men
astonished
and
driven
out
of
their
senses
,
yet
soone
restored
;
A
Communion
divided
and
cut
in
pieces
,
but
healed
againe
and
perfected
:
Those
that
in
the
House
of
God
received
the
sentence
of
death
,
in
the
forenoone
,
returning
to
the
same
House
in
the
afternoone
,
O
praise
the
Lord
for
he
is
good
,
for
his
mercy
endureth
for
ever
And
againe
,
O
that
men
would
praise
the
Lord
for
his
goodnesse
,
and
for
his
wonderfull
workes
to
the
children
of
men
.
And
againe
,
I
will
extoll
thee
my
God
,
O
King
,
and
I
will
blesse
thy
Name
for
ever
and
ever
.
Every
day
will
I
blesse
thee
,
and
I
will
blesse
thy
Name
for
ever
,
and
ever
.
Men
shall
speake
of
thy
terrible
Acts
,
and
I
will
declare
thy
Greatnesse
;
They
shall
abundantly
utter
the
Memory
of
thy
great
goodnes
:
And
yet
again
,
we
have
thought
of
thy
Goodnesse
,
Israel
,
but
doe
also
what
they
said
,
and
did
not
;
Who
is
there
of
all
flesh
,
Fire
and
Brimstone
over
Constantinople
,
Tract.
De
Excidio
urbis
,
inter
Augustini
opera
.
Tom.
9.
NOnne
ante
paucos
annos
,
Archadio
Imperatore
Connstantinopoli
(
quod
dico
audierunt
nonnulli
,
&
forsitan
noverunt
,
&
sunt
in
hoc
populo
,
qui
&
illic
praesentes
fuerunt
)
volens
Deus
terrere
Civitatem
▪
&
terrendo
emendare
,
terrendo
convertere
,
terrendo
mundare
,
terrendo
mutare
;
servo
cuidam
suo
fideli
(
viro
ut
dicitur
militari
)
venit
in
revelatione
,
&
dixit
ei
,
Civitatem
venturo
de
coelo
igne
perituram
;
Eumque
admonuit
ut
Episcopo
diceret
.
Dictum
est
;
non
contempsit
Episcopus
,
&
allocutus
est
populum
,
conversa
est
Civitas
in
luctum
poenitentium
,
quemadmodum
quondam
illa
antiqua
Ninive
.
Tum
ne
putarent
homines
illum
qui
dixerat
vel
falsitate
deceptum
,
vel
fallaciter
decepisse
,
venit
dies
quem
Deus
fuerat
comminatus
.
Intentis
omnibus
,
&
exitum
cum
timore
magno
expectantibus
,
noctis
initio
tenebrante
jam
mundo
,
visa
est
ignea
nubes
ab
oriente
▪
primo
parva
,
deinde
paulatim
,
ut
accedebat
super
Civitatem
,
ita
crescebat
,
donec
toti
urbi
ingens
terribiliter
immmineret
.
Videbatur
horrenda
flamma
pendere
;
nec
odor
sulphuris
deerat
:
Omnes
ad
Ecclesiam
confugiebant
,
non
capiebat
multitudinem
locus
;
Baptismum
extorquebat
quisque
à
quo
poterat
.
Non
solum
in
Ecclesia
,
sed
etiam
per
domos
,
per
vicos
,
&
plateas
salus
Sacramenti
exigebatur
,
ut
fugeretur
ira
,
non
praesens
utique
sed
futura
.
Attamen
post
magnam
illam
tribulationem
,
ubi
exhibuit
Deus
fidem
verbis
suis
,
&
revelationi
servi
sui
;
caepit
ut
creverat
minui
nubes
,
paulatimque
consumpta
est
.
Populus
securus
paululum
factus
,
iterum
audivit
omnino
esse
migrandum
,
quia
Civitas
esset
proximo
Sabbato
peritura
;
migravit
cum
imperatore
tota
Civitas
.
Nemo
in
domo
remansit
,
nemo
domum
clausit
,
longè
recedens
à
moenibus
,
&
dulcia
tecta
respiciens
,
relictis
charissimis
sedibus
,
miserabili
voce
valefecit
.
Et
aliquot
millibus
tanta
multitudo
progressa
,
uno
tamen
loco
,
fundendis
ad
Deum
orationibus
congregata
,
magnum
fumum
subito
vidit
,
&
vocem
magnam
emisit
ad
Deum
;
tandemque
tranquillitate
conspecta
,
missis
qui
renunciarent
,
sollicita
quae
praedicta
fuerat
hora
transacta
,
&
renunciantibus
,
quod
salva
universa
moenia
,
&
tecta
consisterent
,
omnes
cum
ingenti
gratulatione
redierunt
.
Nemo
de
domo
sua
quicquam
perdidit
patente
,
omnis
homo
sicut
dimisit
invenit
.
Quid
dicemus
?
utrum
ista
ira
Dei
,
an
potius
misericordia
fuit
?
Quis
dubitet
misericordissimum
patrem
corrigere
voluisse
terrendo
,
non
perdendo
punire
,
quando
nihil
hominum
,
nihil
domorum
,
nihil
moenium
,
tanta
impendens
praesentia
calamitatis
laesit
?
The
same
in
English
.
Was
it
not
some
few
yeares
past
,
Archadius
being
Emperour
at
Constantinople
(
what
I
speake
some
have
heard
,
and
perchance
knowne
,
for
there
are
among
this
people
,
those
that
were
present
there
)
that
God
intending
to
terrifie
the
Citie
,
&
by
terrifing
to
amend
it
,
by
terrifing
to
convert
it
,
by
terrifing
to
cleanse
it
,
by
terrifing
to
change
it
,
came
to
a
certain
faithfull
servant
of
his
(
a
military
man
,
as
is
reported
)
in
a
Revelation
,
and
told
him
;
That
the
Citie
should
perish
by
fire
comming
from
Heaven
,
and
willed
him
to
tell
it
to
the
Bishop
.
It
was
told
,
and
the
Bishop
despised
it
not
,
but
spake
to
the
people
;
The
Citie
was
turned
into
the
wayling
of
penitents
,
like
the
auncient
Niniue
.
But
then
lest
men
should
thinke
,
that
he
who
reported
it
,
was
deceived
himselfe
with
a
falshood
,
or
had
deceived
others
,
the
day
came
which
God
threatned
.
All
being
intent
,
and
expecting
the
issue
with
great
feare
,
at
the
beginning
of
the
night
,
the
world
now
growing
darke
,
a
fierie
cloud
was
seene
from
the
East
;
first
small
,
but
by
little
,
as
it
drew
neere
over
the
Citie
,
it
did
so
increase
,
that
being
very
great
,
it
did
lye
fearefully
over
the
whole
Citie
.
A
horrible
flame
seemed
to
hang
there
,
neither
was
there
wanting
the
savour
of
Brimstone
:
All
fled
to
the
Church
,
the
place
could
not
containe
the
multitude
:
Every
one
unbaptized
extorted
Baptisme
from
such
as
they
might
;
not
onely
in
the
Church
,
but
in
houses
and
streets
,
the
safety
accompanying
the
Sacrament
was
required
,
that
the
wrath
,
not
so
much
present
as
to
come
,
might
be
avoided
.
But
after
that
great
tribulation
,
when
God
had
given
trust
to
his
words
,
and
the
Revelation
of
his
servant
,
the
cloud
began
to
diminish
,
even
as
first
it
increased
.
The
people
now
secure
,
yet
heard
againe
,
that
they
must
by
all
meanes
depart
,
because
the
Citie
was
to
perish
the
next
saturday
;
then
departed
(
together
with
the
Emperour
)
the
whole
City
:
No
man
staid
in
his
house
,
no
man
did
shut
his
house
,
but
going
farre
from
the
walls
,
and
looking
backe
to
their
sweet
dwellings
,
and
leaving
their
beloved
Mansions
,
with
a
pittifull
voyce
they
bid
them
farewell
.
This
great
multitude
going
some
miles
forth
,
yet
gathering
together
in
one
place
to
poure
out
prayers
unto
God
,
suddenly
saw
a
great
smoake
,
and
sent
up
a
great
cry
unto
God
.
At
length
tranquillity
being
seene
,
and
some
sent
to
bring
backe
notice
(
the
sad
houre
which
was
foretold
being
past
)
they
bringing
back
word
that
all
the
walls
and
houses
were
safe
,
every
one
returned
with
great
rejoycing
.
No
man
lost
any
thing
out
of
his
house
,
though
left
open
;
every
man
found
it
as
he
left
it
.
What
shall
we
say
?
was
this
a
wrath
,
or
rather
a
Mercy
of
God
?
Who
can
doubt
but
that
a
most
mercifull
Father
,
would
amend
by
terrifying
,
not
punish
by
destroying
,
when
the
presence
of
the
calamity
hanging
over
,
no
man
,
no
houses
,
no
walls
were
hurt
.
The
Reason
of
the
Publication
.
THe
publication
of
those
great
calamities
,
which
befell
our
Neighbours
at
Withicombe
,
made
many
of
us
that
had
knowledge
thereof
,
at
the
instant
while
this
great
feare
was
on
us
,
to
cry
more
earnestly
,
God
be
mercifull
unto
us
miserable
sinners
,
Luk.
18.13
.
And
to
pray
more
devoutly
,
The
Lord
blesse
us
and
keepe
us
,
The
Lord
make
his
face
to
shine
upon
us
,
and
be
gracious
unto
us
,
Numb.
6.24
,
25.
Now
another
Visitation
falling
on
us
,
our
desire
is
,
that
ours
may
be
published
as
theirs
was
,
for
the
benefit
of
Gods
Church
and
Children
.
And
withall
more
particularly
,
that
it
may
be
an
everlasting
memoriall
of
Gods
goodnesse
to
the
people
of
the
place
and
Parish
where
it
hapned
;
because
therein
God
did
so
mingle
terrour
with
Mercy
,
as
that
wee
must
ever
acknowledge
our selves
infinitely
bound
to
our
most
gracious
God
,
because
hee
was
pleased
like
a
most
loving
Father
,
to
awaken
us
from
our
dangerous
sleeping
in
sinne
,
by
striking
us
with
the
flat
,
and
not
with
the
edge
of
his
wounding
,
killing
,
and
flaming
Sword
.
Who
so
is
wise
will
consider
these
things
,
and
hee
shall
understand
the
loving
kindnesse
of
the
Lord
,
Psal.
107.
FINIS
.