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<P>NEWS from SEA: Or, a true RELATION Brought from <HI>DOVER</HI> Of a terrible Tempe&s;t of THUNDER and LIGHTNING; Which on the 26 of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t kill'd outright one <HI>William Eaton</HI> of <HI>Dover,</HI> on board a Ship cal|led the <HI>Henry</HI> and <HI>Mary, David Huggett</HI> Ma&s;ter, bound for <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and lying off of the <HI>Kenti&s;h Knock,</HI> and with its violence &s;truck down a Boy, &s;o that he lay as dead for a con&s;iderable time.</P>
<P>As likewi&s;e how the &s;aid Ships Top-ma&s;t was burnt with the Lightning, and her Main-ma&s;t &s;trangely &s;plit with the Thunder, and rendred utterly un&s;erviceable, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The truth whereof is well known to mo&s;t Inhabitants of <HI>Dover,</HI> there being many Eye-wit|ne&s;&s;es that &s;aw the Tackling &s;poil'd and the &s;aid dead Corps, when the Ve&s;&s;el (di&s;abled to pur&s;ue its Voyage) put in there again.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Aug.</HI> 22. 1676.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed for <HI>D. M.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Strange and wonderful News from <HI>Dover,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>AMong&s;t all the familiar Wonders which Almighty God performs and brings to pa&s;s in the world by the mini&s;try of his Handmaid Nature, there is &s;carce any more remarkable than that of Thunder and Lightning: How confounded are the Learned in their &s;earches after the cau&s;e? and how blinded when they go about to give a rational account of its effects? The proud Heathen Emperor whom his own vanity and others flatteries had puff'd up with a conceit of his being little le&s;s than a De|ity, when once he heard a Volley of Heavens Ar|tillery di&s;charg'd in a Thunder clap, confe&s;s'd him<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> le&s;s than man, and in a ridiculous Cowar|dize endeavour'd to hide him&s;elf under a bed: Nor can the mo&s;t &s;teeled Athei&s;t or mocker of Religion weather a Tempe&s;t without betraying his guilty fears with the trembling of his Joynts &amp; the palene&s;s of his Countenance.&mdash;<HI>The voice of thy
<PB N="4" REF="4"> thunder maketh them afraid,</HI> &s;aith the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t:</HI> and well it may, if we con&s;ider either the a&s;toni|&s;hing Horrour it carries with it in its manner, or the lamentable Di&s;a&s;ters frequently occa&s;ion'd thereby. Of both the&s;e the pre&s;ent Relation is a &s;ad and &s;ufficient Te&s;timony.</P>
<P>On <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 26th of <HI>July</HI> la&s;t, a Ship cal|led the <HI>Henry</HI> and <HI>Mary</HI> belonging to <HI>Dover,</HI> Mr. <HI>D. H.</HI> Ma&s;ter, being outward bound for <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> (the <HI>Northern Indies</HI> of our little <HI>Bri|ti&s;h</HI> world) lying at an Anchor off of the <HI>Ken|ti&s;h Knock,</HI> a mighty Tempe&s;t of Thunder and Lightning aro&s;e; the whole Hemi&s;phere from the <HI>Zenith</HI> to the <HI>Horizon</HI> was over&s;pread with thick pitchy Clouds, which permitted little more light than what proceeded from terrible and frequent Fla&s;hes. The roaring &s;eem'd &s;o great, as if the whole frame of the World had been about to be di&s;&s;olved, and every Star hurl'd from its Sphere, to be violently bandied again&s;t the re&s;t. In the mid&s;t of this amazing Conflict of the Elements, a Thunder-bolt (or what is u&s;ually &s;o called) happen'd to light upon the afore&s;aid Ship, and in a moment &s;truck one of the Ships Crew, na|med <HI>William Eaton,</HI> &s;tone-dead upon the Deck, and yet not the lea&s;t appearance of a wound to be di&s;covered about his whole body, but &s;ome parts of it turned very black, or of an unu&s;ual Li|vid colour; and at the &s;ame time a Boy belong|ing to the Ma&s;ter, was likewi&s;e &s;tauck down and
<PB N="5" REF="4"> lay for dead a con&s;iderable time without breath|ing &s;en&s;ibly, or giving any Symptomes of Life, &s;ave only his continuing warm; which encou|raged them, a&s;&s;oon as they hid lei&s;ure, to u&s;e means for his Recovery, which at la&s;t they ob|tained, bringing him again to life, and he is like to do well; but for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he pre&s;ent was mi&s;erably brui&s;ed in all parts of his Body, and yet nothing did touch him but the Lightening, nor was his Skin any way broken: But as for the other man, he was ab&s;olutely &s;truck dead in an in&s;tant, no Art or Means being able to recover him.</P>
<P>But be&s;ides this particular per&s;onal Damage, the whole Ship was in no little danger; For their Top ma&s;t was &s;et on fire by the Lightning, and burning furiou&s;ly was very like to have de|&s;troyed them; but be&s;tirring them&s;elves with that diligence which became them in &s;uch an exigence, they prevented that di&s;a&s;ter, though the &s;aid Ma&s;t (as they report) continued burning all Night.</P>
<P>Nor did their Main Ma&s;t e&s;cape much better, for it was &s;plit in two above half way, and each part wrythed and twi&s;ted round like a Wyth, very &s;trange and wonderful to behold, &s;o that it was rendred utterly un&s;erviceable: And that which makes this Accident more remarqueable is, that there lay another Ship ju&s;t by, who re|ceived not the lea&s;t damage or prejudice in her Men or Tackling.</P>
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<P>We have it lately a&s;&s;erted in Print from good Authority, that Two Ships &s;ayling to the <HI>We&s;t-Indies,</HI> about the Latitude of <HI>Bermudas,</HI> a tem|pe&s;t of Thunder &s;etting part of one of their Rigging on fire, with other damage, cau&s;ed this worder too, That the Needle or their Compa&s;s &s;hifted its Points clean contrary, &s;tand ng to the <HI>South</HI> in&s;tead of the <HI>North,</HI> which mi&s;led the Marriners, &s;o that they &s;hap'd their Cour&s;e di|rectly back again; and yet did not dream but they had been very orderly pur&s;uing their Voy|age, till the other Ship admiring at it Tackt, and coming up to them found out the mi&s;take, and lent them a pair of Compa&s;&s;es, for all the Com|pa&s;&s;es the other had on board were changed as afore&s;aid; and if they turn'd the Needle with their finger to the <HI>North,</HI> it would not fix, but pre&s;ently return to the <HI>South</HI> Point: Whether any &s;uch thing were ob&s;erved in the pre&s;ent Ca&s;e, I cannot affirm; but this is certain, that they were forced to put in again at <HI>Dover,</HI> where they Refl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ted, and the dead body being there brought a&s;hore, was buried, having been fir&s;t viewed by divers people.</P>
<P>What remains, but that all Per&s;ons that &s;hall read or hear this &s;ad and mo&s;t true Relation, be intreated and &s;eriou&s;ly admoni&s;h'd to con&s;ider and lay to heart, the great uncertainty of Life; How &s;trangely, how unexpectedly, how &s;ud|denly, in a moment, may we be &s;natcht away:
<PB N="7" REF="5"> And then what manner of per&s;ons ought we to be in all Godline&s;s and holy Conver&s;ation, le&s;t that Day, that terrible m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nt of Death, come upon us not only unawares, but take us unpre|pared without an Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, or any a&s;&s;u|rance obtained of Reconciliation and Peace with God, or of his Love and Pardon to our poor immortal Souls; let us not defer Repentance, let us not put off Amendment of Life (as too many do) until to morrow, for who knows but this Hour, this Minute may be our la&s;t?</P>
<P>Nor may this le&s;s &s;tir us up to a con&s;tant and con&s;cientious performance of the Duty of Pray|er, which as it is ever profitable, and at all times commendable, &s;o it is dayly needful; at Night it is our Covering, in the Morning 'tis our Armour: Nor can we at any time promi&s;e our &s;elves the lea&s;t Safety or Security, but what we obtain from the Almighties protective providence. I was credibly informed, that about two Months ago, a Mini&s;ter of an eminent Town in the <HI>We&s;t</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> upon a great Tempe&s;t of Thunder and Lightening hapning in the Night, having called up his whole Family to wait upon the Lord in Prayer, as they were on their knees in a Parlour, a Thunder-bolt (or what you plea&s;e to call it) came in at the top of the hou&s;e, and &s;o down through &s;everal Chambers, tearing the Timber and Walls, and making great havock as it pa&s;&s;ed, till it came to the &s;aid Parlour, which
<PB N="8" REF="6"> it went clear through, and &s;truck out the Can|dle, with &s;o much terrour, that each per&s;on thought all the re&s;t were de&s;troyed. But the gracious God they were calling upon, pre&s;erved them all &s;afe, &s;o that not a Hair of any per&s;ons Head pre&s;ent was hurt thereby.</P>
<P>So good it is in all our dangers and di&s;tre&s;&s;es to ca&s;t our &s;elves in Faith upon the God of our Sal|vation, who never deceiveth tho&s;e that tru&s;t in him: Let us all therefore, warned by &s;uch fre|quent Examples, labour while it is called to day, to work out our Salvation with fear and trem|bling: Let us dayly live as if every day we ex|pected to die: Let us walk &s;oberly and righte|ou&s;ly in this pre&s;ent evil world; and in all our out goings, undertakings, and perils, commit our &s;elves to the Mercies of God as unto a faithful Creator, and then no evil &s;hall happen unto us.</P>
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