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<P>A STRANGE WONDER, OR, The Cities Amazement.</P>
<P>Being a Relation occa&s;ioned by a wonder|full and vnu&s;uall Accident, that happened in the River of <HI>Thames,</HI> Friday, <HI>Feb.</HI> 4. 1641.</P>
<P>There flowing two Tydes at <HI>London</HI>-Bridge, within the &s;pace of an houre and a halfe, the la&s;t comming with &s;uch violence and hideous noy&s;e, that it not onely affrighted, but even a&s;toni&s;hed above 500. Water-men that &s;tood beholding it, on both &s;ides the <HI>Thames.</HI></P>
<P>Which latter <HI>Tyde</HI> ro&s;e &s;ixe foote higher then the former Tyde had done, to the great admi|ration of all men.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for IOHN THOMAS, 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>True Newes from Heaven,</HEAD>
<P>_IT hath been manife&s;tly &s;hewne how in all Ages for the&s;e 700. yeares, ever &s;ince the Conque&s;t, di&s;mall chances, and heavy events, have ever at|tended &s;uch vnnaturall and undue motions of the Ocean; be&s;eeching God Almighty that it may be his mercy in Chri&s;t towards us, that it may not mi&s;&s;e of it wonted cour&s;e and that no &s;ad di&s;ta&s;ters or judgements follow or en&s;ue it hereupon, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l good people of this Kingdome are de|&s;ired to lay away di&s;pute, and embrace devotion to &s;urcea&s;e contention and &s;trifes, to embrace charity in peace, and quiet, with humility, and thus di&s;po&s;ed to pray day and night with vnanimous con&s;ent; for the joyfull Union, and pro&s;perous harmony between King and Parliament, wherein con&s;i&s;teth the onely happine&s;&s;e of this Kingdome.</P>
<P>Not long &s;ince was printed an idle Pamphlet, entituled <HI>Newes from Hell,</HI> a pa&s;quill onely intended for mirth and pa|&s;time not &s;o &s;ea&s;onable for the&s;e dayes of publike di&s;traction, and &s;euerall di&s;content; if <HI>Salomon</HI> may be heard, who &s;aith, that there is a time for all things under the Sunne.</P>
<P>But &s;ee the chance, no &s;ooner was that breviary of tales and collection of idle fal&s;itie, publike ex&s;tinct and quenched men having both &s;eene and read their fill. But behold comes <HI>Newes from Heaven,</HI> true Newes I warrant you, for God we know as the God of truth, &s;o he delights in nothing le&s;&s;e then fal&s;hood, that being as oppo&s;ite to him as light unto darkne&s;&s;e, good unto evill, no que&s;tioning therefore any thing done by God for matter of Fact, becau&s;e he doth them for the mo&s;t
<PB REF="3">part &s;o publickely (as who dares &s;tand to and avouch them) that many times Kingdomes and Nations, at the lea&s;t multi|tudes of per&s;ons are forced, will they take notice of them, nay more if the world is &s;o either &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pid or Sotti&s;h, that it will take no notice, nor give any heede to Gods newes, (which are his &s;ignes and Tokens, appearing either in Skye, Earth or Water contrary or aboue the ordinarie &s;teerage of nature) what time I &s;ay men &s;hall &s;pare to take &s;peciall regard, and to &s;light the prodigious en&s;ignes, if not ominous ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bingers in their addre&s;&s;e, and appearing, it is altogether a knowne cer|tainty that they will take notice of him by their determinate working: God &s;aith, that the very Snow and raine &s;hall not returne without the accompli&s;hment of that for which they were &s;ent, which are the ordinary affects of naturall cau&s;es very familiar with us, and &s;hall we thinke that his wonders &s;tand for Cyphers, that his extraordinary workes (that &s;ome|time the world is not acquainte with all once in an age) &s;hall dye &s;peechle&s;&s;e, that his terrible Apparitions &s;hould de|part empty, leaving no effects, no prints behind them, fure|ly no, they are of greater con&s;equence then &s;o, and in all A|ges they have by wofull in&s;tance, that have followed them compelled the world to be of another beliefe, the Heathen Phylo&s;ophers that had nothing but the glimmering of nature to helpe them, and &s;ome rov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng gue&s;&s;e at naturall cau&s;es, that Blazing Starre of our time, the deaths of great Princes, and Po|tentates, immoderate Windes P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ague and Pe&s;tilence, intem|perate Raines Rot, Murren among Bea&s;ts and Cattell, the unexpected &s;uddaine and cau&s;ele&s;&s;e &s;welling of Rivers, Death and Famine, the d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;orderly and changeable eb|b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng and flowing of the Tyde, blood, and di&s;cention, if the Heathen by the Candle of n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">re could not onely perceive v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, but w Gods n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ble Me&s;&s;engers, and part|ly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their arrant; &s;hall Chri&s;tians that live in the day of the Go&s;pell de&s;crye nothing by them, but take them to bee as dombe in effect as &s;ome of them are in &s;ound, e&s;pecia ly when
<PB REF="3">God him&s;elfe cryeth, <HI>my Wonders &s;hall fill the Earth,</HI> which is under&s;tood &s;o much with their number, as their operation, if then Gods extraordinary Heralds, <HI>J</HI> meane his dread and vnacquainted predictions have ever had &s;ome vndoubted de|&s;igne, then this of ours that happened <HI>Februarie.</HI> the 4. being la&s;t Fryday, ought not to be pa&s;&s;ed over, as not worth the marking or ob&s;erving, The &s;trange tokens which GOD from Heaven, the day aboue-&s;aid, &s;hewed among&s;t us, was this, <HI>Fryday Februarie</HI> 4. 1641. it was high Water at one of the Clocke at noon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, a time, (by rea&s;on &s;o accommodated for all imployments, either by Water or Land) very fit to afford witne&s;&s;e, of a &s;trange and notorious accident, after it was full high Water, and that it flowed its full due time as all <HI>Almanacks</HI> &s;et downe, and Water-men the vnque&s;ti|onable Progno&s;ticators in that affaire, with confidence mainetaine it &s;tood a quiet &s;till dead Water, a full houre and halfe, without moving or returning any way never &s;o litle, yea the water-men flung in Stickes to the &s;treame, as neare as they could gue&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> which lay in the Water as vpon the Earth, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">thout moving this way, or that, Di&s;hes, likewi&s;e and Wod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en Buckers they &s;et a &s;wimming, but it proved a &s;tilling for move they would not any way by force of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ream or water, &s;o that it &s;eemed that the water was indeed a&s;leepe or dead, or had changed or borrowed the &s;tability of the Earth, the Water-men not content with this evidence wou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d needs make the vtmo&s;t of the rryall, that they might teport with the more boldne&s;&s;e the truth of the matter, and with more cred<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ble confidence they tooke their Boates and lanched into the &s;treame or very Channell: the Boates that lay hailed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p upon the &s;hore moved as much, ex|cept <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hen they u&s;ed their Oares, nay (a thing worthy the admiration of all men) they rowed under the very Arches, tooke up their Oares and &s;lept there: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or at lea&s;t lay &s;till an houre very neare
<PB REF="4">their Boates not &s;o much as moved through any way, either upward or downeward: the water &s;eeming as plaine, quiet, even, and &s;table, as a pavement, under the Arch, where if any where in the Thames, there mu&s;t be moving by rea&s;on of the narrowne&s;&s;e of the place, in this po&s;ture &s;tood the water a whole houre and halfe or rather above by the Te&s;timony of above five hundred Water-men on either &s;ide the <HI>Thames,</HI> whom not to believe in this ca&s;e were &s;tupiditie, not di&s;cre|tion.</P>
<P>At lea&s;t when all men expected its ebb, being fil|led with amazement that it &s;tood &s;o long as hath been delivered, behold a greater wonder, a new Tyde comes in, a new Tyde with a witne&s;&s;e, you might ea&s;ily take notice of him, &s;o lowde he roared, that the noi&s;e was gue&s;&s;ed to be about <HI>Greenewich</HI> when it was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd &s;o, not onely clearly but fearefully to the Bridge, and up he comes tumbling, roaring, and foaming in that fu|rious manner that it was horror unto all that beheld it, and as it gave &s;ufficient notice to the care of its comming, &s;o it left &s;ufficient &s;atisfaction to the eye, that it was now come, having rai&s;ed the water foure foote higher then the fir&s;t Tyde had done, foure foote by rule, as by evident mea&s;ure did appeare, and pre|&s;ently ebbed in as ha&s;ty confu&s;ed unaccu&s;tomed man|ner, &s;ee here reader a wonder, that (all things con&s;ide|red the olde&s;t man never &s;aw, or heard of the like, what God would &s;ignifie unto us by it, e&s;pecially in the&s;e not well &s;etled times) we mu&s;t leave to him that in &s;uch ca&s;es teacheth and in&s;tructeth by the event, but for our, parts let it worke this good effect in us (knowing that in all ages from the Conque&s;t hitherto, if we will believe our owne Chronologers the Feoffees in tru&s;t of the pa&s;&s;ed times, this vnu&s;uall, &s;udden, vnnaturall
<PB REF="4">returne of the Tyde, hath in this Kingdome been ever|more followed with continuall di&s;mall heavie i&s;&s;ues, either of deaths of unmatchable and Peerele&s;&s;e per&s;o|nages, of Battaile, &s;ickne&s;&s;e, or Famine (as by &s;ixe and forty mournfull in&s;tances we are able to make it ap|peare:) this effect J &s;ay let it worke, let it end, or at lea&s;t qualifie our di&s;&s;entions &amp; vncharitable di&s;putes, let it worke in us a hate of Popi&s;h Idolatry, yet alone unto the men, to doe well as we &s;ay well to endeavour to joyne true charity towards our neighbour with true piety toward God, to couple true &s;incerity with true humility, to lincke true amity toward my friend, with true and vnfained Loyalty toward my Sove|raigne.</P>
<P>To pray day and night for a perfect Concord, and vnanimous con&s;ent, vndivided Union betweene King and Parliament, wherein con&s;i|&s;teth the onely permanent hap|pine&s;&s;e of this King|dome.</P>
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