A weapon of defence against sudden death. or, A brief description of the desperat times in which we live. : Being a brief and true relation of the evils that proceeds and follows after vain-glorious opinions and cursed desperation by the example of several people both in the city of London, and in other parts of our nation. Shewing the manner of their ungodly living, and how they came by their untimly deaths this present year, 1656 for want of serving of God and taking good heed. Here is also a brief and true relation of the terrible storms of lightning and thunder, hail and rain which happened at Norwich, July 20. 1656 / - L. P. (Printed for W. Gilbertson at the Sign of the Bible in Giltspur Street,, 1656)