A Fearfull Example of GOD his Iudgement vpon the prophaners of his Sabaoth.
VPon the 13. day of Ianuarie last, being the Sabaoth day. Anno. 1583. the Peo∣ple, Men, Wemen and Children, both yonge and old, an infinit number, ••••ocking to
The anatomie of abuses contayning a discouerie, or briefe summarie of such notable vices and imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian countreyes of the worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ilande called Ailgna: together, with most fearefull examples of Gods iudgementes, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in Ailgna of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie godly, to be read of all true Christians, euerie where: but most needefull, to be regarded in Englande. Made dialogue-wise, by Phillip Stubbes. Seene and allowed, according to order.
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- The anatomie of abuses contayning a discouerie, or briefe summarie of such notable vices and imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian countreyes of the worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ilande called Ailgna: together, with most fearefull examples of Gods iudgementes, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in Ailgna of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie godly, to be read of all true Christians, euerie where: but most needefull, to be regarded in Englande. Made dialogue-wise, by Phillip Stubbes. Seene and allowed, according to order.
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- Stubbes, Phillip.
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- 1. Maij. 1583.
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"The anatomie of abuses contayning a discouerie, or briefe summarie of such notable vices and imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian countreyes of the worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ilande called Ailgna: together, with most fearefull examples of Gods iudgementes, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in Ailgna of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie godly, to be read of all true Christians, euerie where: but most needefull, to be regarded in Englande. Made dialogue-wise, by Phillip Stubbes. Seene and allowed, according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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those infamous places, where these wicked exercyses are vsuallie practised (for they haue their courts, gardens & yards for y• same pur∣pose:) when they were all come together, and mounted aloft vpon their scaffolds, and galle∣ries, and in middest of al their iolytie & pasti∣me, all the whole building (not one stick stan∣ding) fell down with a most wonderfull and fearefull confusiō. So, that either two or thrée hundred, men, wemē and childrē (by estima∣tiō) wherof seuē were killed dead, some were wounded, some lamed, and othersome bru∣sed and crushed, almost to the death. Some had their braines dasht out, some their heads all to squasht, some their legges broken, some their arms, some their backs, some their shoul¦ders, some one hurt, some another. So, that you should haue hard a woful crie, euen pear∣cing the skyes, parents bewayling their chil∣dren, Children their louing Parents: wyues their Husbands, and Husbands their wyues, marueilous to behould. This wofull spectacle and heauie indgement, pitifull to heare of, but most ruefull to behold, did y• Lord send down from Heauen to shew vnto the whole World how gréeuously he is offended with those that spend his Sabaoth in such wicked exercises: In y• meane tyme leauing his temple desolat and emptie. God graunt all men, may take warning hereby to shun the same, for feare of
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like or worser Iudgement, to come.
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A wofull crie.