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Many fearful examples of God's Judgments by fire, have in our days been showed upon divers Towns, where the profanation of the Lord's day hath been openly countenanced.

Many fearful examples of God's Judgments by fire, have in our days been shewed upon divers Towns, where the prophanation of the Lord's day hath been openly countenanced.

Stratford upon Avon was twice on the same day twelve-month (being the Lord's-day) almost consumed with fire: chiefly for profaning the Lord's-Sabbaths, and for contemning his Word in the mouth of his faithful Ministers.

Stratford upon Avon was twice on the same day twelve-month (being the Lord's-day) almost consumed with fire: chiefly for prophaning the Lord's-Sabbaths, and for contemning his Word in the mouth of his faithful Ministers.

Tiverton in Devonshire, (whose remembrance makes my heart bleed) was oftentimes admonished by her godly Preacher, that God would bring some heavy Judgment on the Town, for their horrible ^†profanation of the Lord's-day, occasioned chiefly by their Market on the day following. Not long after his death, on the third of April, Anno Dom. 1598, God (in less than half an hour) consumed, with a sudden and fearful fire, the whole Town, except only the Church, the Court-house, and the Alms-houses, or a few poor Peoples dwellings; where a man might have seen 400 dwelling-houses all at once on fire, and above fifty Persons consumed with the flame. And now again, since the former Edition of this Book, on the fifth of August last, 1612, (fourteen years since the former fire) the whole Tow• was again fired, and consumed, except