THE Wonder of Wonders, OR, A TRUE RELATION OF A Late Strange and Miraculous Accident that happened to one that died in the Ship called, the Dunbar, who after he had been buried one shore above five days, rise again, and standing upright in his Grave, called to the Fleet with a shrill Voice at Noonday, telling them the Events that should happen to all those ships that went towards the Sound.  
With the several Speeches made by him, to the wonderful astonishment and admiration of divers of the Fleet, who were both Hearers and Eye-witnesses, and will justify the truth of this great Miracle.  
With a great and strange Apparition of two Armies that appeared in the North of England on Thursday last, with the exact manner of their engaging one another at Noonday with the thundering noise both of great and small shot.  
LONDON, Printed for J. Jones, Anno Dom. 1659.   

THE WONDER OF Wonders, BEING A true Relation of the wonderful rising again of one (in the Ship called the Dunbar) who had been buried on shore above 5 days, and stood upright in his Grave, and cried out with a shrill Voice, calling to the Fleet several times.  
THis being one of the strangest and most miraculous of all Wonders that hath happened in this our age, before I come to the matter of this much to be admired accident, I shall instance two or three of the like nature very pertinento the same.  
Pliny writes in the Wars of the Danes, what signs and Wonders, what miserable cries of men, clashing of Swords and Armour and neighing of horses were heard, in so much that the same day that Caesar fought his battle with Pompeus the cry of an Army, and the sound of Trumpets were head at Antioch in Syria. Divers men that were in the battle of Marathonia against the Medians affirmed that they saw the soul of Theseus armed before the host of the Greeks as chief General and Captain, running and setting on the Barbarous Medians, whom the Atherians afterward for that cause only honoured as a God.  
Hector after he was slain by the hand of Achilles, appeared and desired him not to throw his Carcase to be devoured by Dogs, but rather to deliver his body to be buried. So Patrochus appearing in like manner after he was dead to Achilles, desired, him to bestow upon his body all Funeral solemnities.  
Many such like visions we read of in the Scripture; But let us take notice of the Athenians who presaged that when Miltiades joined in battle against the Persians, hearing a terrible noise, and beholding certain Spirits before the battle, to have Victory over the Persians, judging those sights and visions to be the shadow of Pan.  
Likewise the Lacedæmonians before they were vanquished in the battle of Leuctris, their Armour clashed together, and made an exceeding great noise in the Temple of Hercules, so that at that time the Temple of Hercules being fast shut with Iron bars, opened suddenly of their own accord, and the Armour which hung fastened before on the wall, was found on the ground.  
But now to come to this strange and much to be admired appearance itself, which was as followeth, viz: The Fleet being now safely arrived from the Sound into their desired Harbours where they lie in safety, and the Soldiers being paid off, some who were in the ship called the Dunbar, do credibly report a strange and wonderful accident which happened to one in that ship, who after he was dead and buried on the shore above five days, he to their great amazement risen again, and there stood upright in his Grave several days together about Noon-tide, and cried out to the Fleet with a most shrill voice, saying unto them, that they should take up his Corpse and bury him some where else further from the shore, otherwise he should disturb and molest all shipping that should come up that Road: upon which his doleful cries, some of the Seamen of the Dunbar considering thereof; were commanded out and went on shore, (after he was vanished again) and took up his Corpse, and buried it again further in the Land, after which he was seen no more, to rise or disturb them in the least with these dismal exclamations, for the further satisfaction of the Incredulous, those that will not put confidence hereto may inquire of any Seamen who were in that Vessel, who will maintain the truth thereof, and declare the particulars more exactly being eye-witnesses of the same.  
One thing more above the rest is also observable, That the party before he was buried came also from the Grave into the room he died out of among the sick men, a woman all in black walking before, and there told them by what token they should know his Grave which was by the lying of a white Word cross the grave, the Seamen that went after his departure found the Wand according to this direction.  
In the next place I shall give you an account of as strange an appearance as the former, which was thus, viz.  
Another of the Ship called the Dunbar, being a shore in a Village where several sick men of their Vessel lay, and he standing at a Window reading a Book, was suddenly conveyed away out of the place, and being gone, several persons missing him searched both Ditches and Wells, thinking he had made himself away; but their long search proved to little purpose, for they could never hear of him more; At the same time many were in the same room, but neither saw nor heard the least noise or disturbance at his departure, or how he went from thence, which seemed as miraculous to them as the former accident.  
Now to the strange and wonderful appearance in the Air, which happened in the North part of England, it being very true and apparent to the sight of several spectators, I shall give you a brief account thereof, thus, viz.  
On Thursday Septemb. 7. in the afternoon there was seen at Markfield in Leicestershire extraordinary flashes of lightning, which breaking from the angry Clouds made way for the ensuing thunder, the claps whereof were terrible, and continued chiding and roaring in the Air for the space of an hour: At every silence and respite of the Thunder, the lightning during this dreadful storm did break forth with great force: And the next voice of the Thunder was louder, and more affrighting then that which was before; There were no showers of rain, but at the last there was a most black and dreadful storm of Hail, and instead of Hailstones there fell rattling down from the Air, Halberds, Swords, and Daggers, which being taken up were found to be of the same nature, and to be begotten of the same extremity of Cold as were the Hailstones, and after a little time, both the sight and the fright which the sight brought with it, did melt away at once.  
Many of the Town of Markfield, and places adjacent were much amazed at this prodigious spectacle, which to increase their wonder, was seconded by another terrible noise in the Air, as if two great Armies had been on their march, and advancing one against the other; The Canons were heard to play with importunate fury, and the Muskets on both sides in repeated volleys did discharge their choleric errands: During this encounter there were beheld many prodigious eruptions of sire, which with great violence did fly in the Air, and running lower, did tear in pieces many strong Houses, and laid great Trees on their backs, which in an instance were plucked up by the roots. There was not far off a Limekiln, on which some part of the tempest did fall with so great violence that all the Lime was blown up in the Air, Just as in a high storm the waters of the Sea are blown, when the winds and the waves do wrestle for supremacy. This being done, that part of the fiery tempest which came so low, was seen by all to take its course up the hill, where it vanished away, and was heard here no more noise of it.  
It is certified by several letters, that this Tempest at the first did appear like a thick and rolling Smoke, and sometimes it would cast itself into a great Circumference, like to a great wheel, or an Orb, not easy to be compassed.  
The like storm also happened in Derbyshire, and more particularly in Derby Town, where although the Church stand u●on an advantage of higher ground than any other place, yet some part of of the Church yard and Church itself, hath been coverred by the insolence and usurpation of the waters, and the lower parts of the Town being almost drowned, the Inhabitants are compelled to betake themselves, and take their goods along with them into the upper rooms for their present safety, divers herds of  have been destroyed by these inundations both there and in other parts.  
In Scotland also they have lately suffered very much and in very many places by the late glut of rain, and immoderate weeping of the Clouds, which hath swelled the waters to so great a height that about Leith the Mills are drowned, and three thousand pounds will nor make good the loss, or repair the outrages, which the violence of the inundations have committed there.  
By these and other great Floods in divers parts, whereby both harvest, and  have been carried away at once, all the hopes of the lamenting husbandman is lost.  
Saint Matthew witnesseth, that Moses and Elias, after they were dead many hundred years before Christ, yet they appeared bodily and ghostly in Mount Tabor to Christ, where they spoke and communion together.  
The soul of Lazarus did not only appear, as John saith, but he came again both soul and body in token of our rising again. But as the appearing of those sights at God's appointment were most true, so it is most absurd to give credit that the souls of men after death do either by visions or by bodily appearance show themselves: but the Devil is well beaten in experience of things, and knoweth best how he may deceive the wisest, for he is subtle and crafty. If the Mariner doth know when storm and tempests arise, if the Physician judgeth by the Urine the state and danger of the Patient, if the skilful Astronomer can many years before exactly fortel the Eclipse of the Sun and Moon, in fine, if the soldier knoweth where the victory will happen, no marvel it is that the Devil an old Soldier, can foreshow things to come, and make things apparent of nothing.  
Thus have several miraculous appearances been in all ages, which have produced strange alterations, but the event of these time will make manifest.  
FINIS.