An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

We have had of late great Storms of Rain and Wind, and some of Thunder and Lightning, whereby Execution has been done, though with sparing mercy to Men: Mr. Jones his House in New-Haven, was broken into by the Lightning, and strange work made in one Room especially, in which one of his Children had been but a little before. This was done June 8. 1682. A little after which at Norwalk, there were nine working Oxen smitten dead at once, within a small compass of Ground. The next Month at Greenwich, there were seven Swine and a Dog •illed with the Lightning, very near a dwelling ⟨p. 87⟩House, where a Family of Children (their Parents not at home when Lightning happened) were much frighted, but received no other hurt: what are these but warning pieces, showing that Mens lives may go next? Thus he,

We have had of late great Storms of Rain and Wind, and some of Thunder and Lightning, whereby Execution has been done, though with sparing mercy to Men: Mr. Jones his House in New-Haven, was broken into by the Lightning, and strange work made in one Room especially, in which one of his Children had been but a little before. This was done June 8. 1682. A little after which at Norwalk, there were nine working Oxen smitten dead at once, within a small compass of Ground. The next Moneth at Greenwich, there were seven Swine and a Dog •illed with the Lightning, very near a dwelling ⟨p. 87⟩House, where a Family of Children (their Parents not at home when Lightning hapned) were much frighted, but received no other hurt: what are these but warning pieces, shewing that Mens lives may go next? Thus he,

I proceed now to give an account of some late Remarkables about Thunder and Lightning, wherein several Vessels at Sea were concerned.