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<P>A famous <HI>City</HI> turned INTO STONE.</P>
<P><HI>OR, A</HI> Fearfull example for <HI>England</HI> To take warning by: In which is contained all the full and whole De&s;cription of a famous City in <HI>Barbary,</HI> that was for their Re|bellion again&s;t God (in the twinkling of an eye) both Men. Women, and Children, with all the Cattle, Hou&s;es, and materials therein turned into Stone. The manner how &s;hall in this little Booke be faithfully and truely Related according to very good <HI>Authors,</HI> which have &s;ince this great and miraculous wonder happened, been at the place where it was done, and have &s;eene (with much Teror) tho&s;e th&iuml;ngs which &s;hall be pre&s;antly &s;poken of.</P>
<P>Writen by <HI>Laurence Price.</HI></P>
<P>London, Printed for <HI>Tho. Vere</HI> at the <HI>An|gell</HI> without <HI>Newgate.</HI> 1657.</P>
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<P>A famous <HI>City</HI> turned INTO STONE.</P>
<P>Entered according to Order.</P>
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<HEAD>Angrogra</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>depiction of a city overlooked by Calvary and threatened by a heavenly sword and thunderbolt</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>two men and a woman lament</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>A famous City turned INTO STONE.</HEAD>
<P>THat God is angry with the World for Sin, may appeare by this following wonder; the like whereof was never known &s;ince the Worlds fir&s;t Creation: in the fruitfull and flori&s;hing Kingdom of <HI>Tri|pilo</HI> in <HI>Barbary,</HI> fome four&s;core miles up in the Land, there was not long &s;ince a famous Citty called <HI>Angrogra,</HI> at which Citty in former times before the Wars grew &s;o hot betw&eacute;en <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> our Engli&s;h Merchants had great com|merce, and made Traffick with the in|habiters thereof.
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 79 -->This Citty was &s;enced about with ma|ny lofty bull-works, &amp; wals, with eight great Gates made of Cedar, and Cy|prus wood; the Citty it &s;elfe was of &s;e|ven miles compa&s;&s;e round by ju&s;t ac|count and mea&s;ure: within the which were &s;ix and fifty faire and goodly Pa|ri&s;h Churches, mo&s;t richly adorned with Gold &amp; Silver, having their locks and keys for the mo&s;t part of them made of pure Gold, the rea&s;on why? was be|cau&s;e that Gold in that parts is more plentifull then Iron or St&eacute;el, and there is a mighty great Golden Mine &s;ome &s;even or eight miles from the Citty in which many labouring Men are work|ing and digging for the ore continually, and according as Men dig for the ore, and mettell of Iron, Coles, Tinn, or Lead here in <HI>England,</HI> &s;o fa&s;t do they dig and get Gold and Silver in &s;ome parts of <HI>Barbary,</HI> and the <HI>Barbary</HI> Gold is accounted to be the fine&s;t and pu|re&s;t Gold in all the World: and now to goe forward in my di&s;cour&s;e concerning the Citty, I will endeavor my &s;elfe to be as &s;p&eacute;edy as I may. The fornamed Citty had many &s;tately Buildings and
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 79 -->Territors therein, and abundance of plea&s;ant &s;tr&eacute;ets facing every way, with &s;everall Market places belonging there unto, in the mid&s;t thereof there was a &s;tately Burs or Exchange, where all manner of rich Merchants and others daily frequented about their Worldly affairs, there were likewi&s;e thr&eacute;e gal|lant Theators, or Play-hou&s;es, which were aloud every day in the w&eacute;ek &s;o of|ten as they thought good to u&s;e their vaine glorious excerci&s;es. Moreover there were great plenty of wealthy Shops, and rich Merchants Hou&s;es, in all the chiefe&s;t &s;tr&eacute;ets of the Citty? and to be briefe there was never a Citty of that bigne&s;s in all <HI>Africa</HI> that had more abundance of People in it then was in the Citty of <HI>Angrogra,</HI> nor never were People given to more plea&s;ure, then were the People of that Citty at that very &s;ame tim&eacute; when their de&s;truction came upon them: &s;ome were buying and &s;elling in the Markets for profu~t, &s;ome were Fea&s;ting and merry making a|mong&s;t their Friends and acquaintance: &s;ome were vauting and dancing in dan|cing Schooles, &s;ome were acting their
<PB N="8" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 80 -->parts in the Play-hou&s;es, whil&s;t others were drinking and &s;waggering in Ale|hou&s;es. But in as &s;hort &s;pace as <HI>Lot's</HI> Wife was turned into a Pillar of Salt <HI>Gen. 23. v. 14.</HI> was this &s;tately Citty turned al&s;o into &s;tone, and &s;o it is like to continue to the end of the World; and as for the People that were therein they were all tran&s;formed into &s;tone e|very Man, every Woman, and every Child, the manner how is as followeth.</P>
<P>HEre is a briefe and true relation of the admirable alteration of the famous Citty of <HI>Angrogra</HI> according to the Letters that were &s;ent into <HI>England</HI> this pre&s;ent yeare <HI>1656.</HI> which Letters were &s;ent by them that were eye wit|ne&s;&s;es, as namely the potent Dake of <HI>Florence;</HI> the Ba&s;&s;a or Prince of the Countrey, and two of our Engli&s;h Mer|chants that by rea&s;on of Tempe&s;tious weather at Sea, was driven to an An|chor nere unto the &s;hore of <HI>Barbary,</HI> who hearing of this &s;trange miraculous wonder, &s;ome of our Engli&s;h Seamen having admittance, travel'd up into the heart of the Land, and did behold this
<PB N="9" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 80 -->&s;ad and unexpected admiration, and la&s;tly one that is very well known to be a faithfull Friend to his Native Countrey, Sir <HI>Kellum Digby</HI> by name. a worthy Engli&s;h Knight, who having received intelligence from the Prince of <HI>Barbary,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Florence,</HI> &s;ent it into <HI>England</HI> to have it put in Print, that we may take warning by their de&s;truction: the Men that were at that time in the Citty walking up and down the &s;tr&eacute;ets about their Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, were imediately turned into &s;tone, &s;o were the rich Aldermen and Merchants with chaines of Gold about their necks, and all the Gorgerus, Gownes, and A|parrell that they did weare, were like|wi&s;e turned into &s;tone; they al&s;o that were in their Hou&s;es were &s;erved in the &s;elfe &s;ame kind: a great company of the chiefe&s;t young Men and Maids were a&s;&s;imbled together in a large and &s;paci|ous Hall, to &s;olemnize a wedding, with Mu&s;ick and dancing, &amp; much merriment, were in the twinkling of an Eye both Bridegroome and Bride, Neighbours and Strangers, every, living body and dead Creatures all turned into &s;tone:
<PB N="10" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 81 -->yet are every Man and every Woman &s;tanding &s;till in the &s;ame po&s;ture and &s;hape as they were in when they were alive; them that were dancing and ca|poring after the Mu&s;ick, and they that &s;tood &s;till were all &s;trucken dead &amp; turn|ed into &s;tone, &s;tanding &s;till in the place where they were before: they that were eating and drinking, &s;itting at their Ta|bles or in other places, both them and their Victuals, Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h, Bread and Wine, and the Ve&s;&s;els that held it was Metamorpho&s;ed, and turned in|to &s;tone; Women that had their little Infants &s;ucking at their tender Brea&s;ts were in the very &s;ame Forme and por|traiture, whether &s;tanding or &s;itting, all turned into &s;tone. A company of Men to the number of &s;ixt&eacute;en, that were digging in a plot of Ground, intending to make a Vineyard therof, were like the re&s;t all turned into &s;tone, &s;tanding &s;tooping towards the Ground with their Sho|vels in their hands: All the People that were at the Theators and &s;everall Play-hou&s;es, as well the Actors as the Spectators were every Creature turn|ed into &s;tone: and to be briefe the Mul|titude of People rich and poore, old and
<PB N="11" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 81 -->young all &s;p&eacute;ed a like, there was not &s;o much as one Man that e&s;caped alive out of the Citty, to tell what was become of the re&s;t: and thus was all humane and unhumane Creatures that lived in the Citty &s;truck dead at an in&s;tant, &amp; turn|ed into &s;tone; the covetous Man had no time to repent of his Sins, nor had the Drunkard the &s;pace to a&s;ke God for|given&eacute;&s;&s;e: furthermore all the Hor&s;es, Oxen, Sh&eacute;epe, and Cattell, and feathe|red fowls, as Cocks, Hens, G&eacute;e&s;e, and Turkeys, Tr&eacute;es, wood, Timber, Gold, Silver, Bra&s;s, and all other &s;orts of Minerals, and Mettals, became to be &s;tone, which may &s;tand for a monument, and be known for a wonder from one Generation to another, &s;o long as the Sun and Moone gives light, and the Earth and the firmament doth indure? and I am verily per&s;waded, and &s;o are many thou&s;ands more be&s;ide, that the&s;e Signes, &amp; the&s;e Tokens, and the&s;e won|ders, the plea&s;ure of the Lord was to &s;end upon them that have little or no relation to the holy Go&s;pell of the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, becau&s;e we that are ac|counted for Chri&s;tians may con&s;ider
<PB N="12" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 82 -->with our &s;elves, and learn to beare a better con&s;cience both to God and Man; and this is my de&s;ire that all &s;orts of People that would willingly be called by the name of Chri&s;tians, may &s;hew them&s;elves to walke like Chri&s;tians, &amp; with &s;p&eacute;ed every on to amend their &s;in|full lives, for fear that the Lord in his anger &s;hould lay the like, or as bad a puni&s;hment upon our Sinfull Nation; which God in his Mercy grant may ne|ver come to pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>HEre followeth directions drawn both from the Scriptures, and from humane rea&s;on, whereby to advi&s;e all Sinners in time to fly unto the Lord for Mercy, and &s;o to prevent Gods hea|vy Iudgments before it come upon us. <HI>Adam</HI> when he had lived but a little while in the Garden of <HI>Eden</HI> (which is called <HI>Paradi&s;e</HI>) for his di&s;obedience and breaking of Gods Commandement was driven out, and quite excluded for his rebellion. <HI>Gen. 3.14.</HI> The great and generall deluge, and drowning of the World, which is called <HI>Noahs flood</HI> was for provoking God to anger, in &s;o much
<PB N="13" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 82 -->that God repented him&s;elfe that ever he made Man. <HI>Gen. 6. v. 6.</HI> and when the Lord rained downe Fire &amp; Btim|&s;tone upon <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorah,</HI> it was done for the wickedne&s;&s;e of the People. <HI>Gen. 19.24.</HI> The cur&s;e of the Lord &s;ell upon <HI>Egypt</HI> whereby their Land became unfruitfull, the Caterpillars devoured their Herbs, their rivers of water were turned into Blood, and Frogs, Lice, and Gra&s;hopers brought the People to ruine <HI>Exod. 8.2.</HI> all which was brought to pa&s;&s;e for their ungratefulne&s;&s;e towards God. The Chileren of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> for murmu|ring again&s;t God, and his Prophet <HI>Mo|&s;es,</HI> were bitten and &s;tung to death with fiery Serpents. <HI>Numb. 25.6.</HI> And the de&s;truction of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> was becau&s;e they harkened not to the voice of the Lord, but Stoned and Murdered the Prophets when they were &s;ent unto them. <HI>Mat. 23.37. Corath, Dathan,</HI> and <HI>Abiram:</HI> ware &s;wallowed up alive into the Earth, for their bla&s;pemous Sinus; and the prodigall Son was faine to f&eacute;ed upon the empty hu&s;ks, long of his abo|minable Pride, and voluptuous living. <HI>Luke. 1516. Judas J&s;cariot</HI> had never
<PB N="14" REF="8"><!-- PDF PAGE 83 -->have come to have hanged him&s;elfe, if it had not b&eacute;en for his fal&s;e di&s;&s;imulati|on and trechery. Nor had the glutton <HI>Dives</HI> b&eacute;en tormented in the flames of Hell, if it had not b&eacute;en for his covetov&s;|ne&s;&s;e, and de&s;pi&s;ing of the Poore. <HI>Luke. 16.20.</HI> A many more &s;uch &s;ad &amp; &s;trange examples, may be proved by the Scrip|tures, which is the word of the living God, to &s;hew to the World wherefore God made us, and what in duty we are bound to doe: and now let us once more thinke upon the famous Citty which was turned into &s;tone; their puni&s;h|ment was more then ours; our Sinns are greater then theirs: for had they had &s;o many good and Godly Mini&s;ters in that Citty, and Countrey, that are both able and willing to preach and to teach them the word of the living God, as prai&s;ed be the name of the Lord, we have here in <HI>England,</HI> no doubt but they would have repented them of their &s;ins before that heavy vengeanc of the Lord lighted upon them. And now let every Man and Woman in <HI>England</HI> and el&s;e where turn from their wicked ways and amend their &s;infull lives, and as the
<PB N="15" REF="8"><!-- PDF PAGE 83 -->Loord hath b&eacute;en more mercifull to our &s;infull Nation then unto others, let us endeavour our &s;elves to be more thank|full unto his Holy name, for the great and manifold Ble&s;&s;ings which our good God have be&s;towed upon us; and let us henceforth lay a part all pride of heart, and covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e of mind, all hy|pocri&s;y, di&s;&s;imulation, all vaine glorious and bla&s;phemous opinions, all hatred, malice, &s;pight, and envy, all cur&s;ing and &s;wearing, &s;edition, and mi&s;cheif making, all con&s;piracy and trechery one towards another; and to love and obey the com|mandements of the Lord above all Earthly plea&s;ure, and to k&eacute;epe a good con&s;cience, and doe unto all Men as we would have them to do unto us: and withall to pray unto the Lord to take a|way from us our &s;tony hearts? and give us hearts of fle&s;h, and then if our fine were as red as Scarlet the Lord will make them as white as Snow, and though they were like Purple they &s;hall he made as white as Wooll. <HI>E&s;ay. 1. v. 18.</HI> And to conclude in a word we were better all to repent with <HI>Ninivy,</HI> then to
<PB N="16" REF="9"><!-- PDF PAGE 84 -->be burnt with <HI>Sodom,</HI> and take warning and learn by the fall of others, to lead our lives in the time to come in a better manner then here to fore we have done: which that we may, let us every one with dilligence call upon God early and late, at our up ri&s;ing, and lying downe, at our going forth and our comming in, that he will be our defender and k&eacute;eper all the days of our lives, and that for the &s;ake of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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