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A17298	A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 4140.7; ESTC S115279	33,687	58

belonging to their charge Neither verily can any manner of Governing the common wealth be better or more praise worthy then that which gives the first place and care to divine worship and religion FINIS Christian Reader as these examples have beene displaced so one of them hath beene omitted in the printing which because it is notable and worthy consideration I shall here adde for a conclusion M r. William Noy that great Gamaliel of the Law his Majesties late Aturney generall as he had a great hand in compiling and republishing the late Declaration for pastimes on the Lords day thrust out by his and a great Prelates practise to thwart Iudge Richardsons good order for the suppressing of Wakes and Revels in Somersetshire and the Iustices of that Shires Petition to his Majesty for the continuance of it and to make way for a Starchamber censure against M r. Prynne so he eagerly persecuted this wel-deserving Gentleman of his own Profession and Society to whom he was formerly a friend in appearance but an inveterate enemy in truth for his Histrio-Mastix compiled onely out of the words and sentences of other approved Authors of all sorts against the use and exercise of Stage-plaies Enterludes Morisdances Maygames May-poles Wakes lascivious mixt Dancing and other Ethnick pastimes condemned in all ages without any thought or suspition of giving the least offence either to the Kings most excellent Majesty the Queene or State as he averred in his Answer upon Oath And although this book was written 4. yeares licensed almost three printed fully off a quarter of a yeare and published 6. weekes before the Queenes Majesties Pastorall against which it was falsely voiced to have beene principally written diligently perused and licensed by M r. Thomas Buckner the then Archbishop of Canterbury his Chaplaine both before and after it came from the Presse entred in the Stationers Hall under the Wardens hand printed publikely in three authorized Printing-houses without the least controll and published by the said Licensers direction who would have nothing new-printed in it as appeared upon oath at the hearing and although M r. Noy himselfe to whom he presented one of the Bookes upon the first reading of it commended it thanked him for it oft affirmed that he saw no hurt in it and at the hearing confessed that the worst and most dangerous phrase and passage in it might have a good and faire construction and Schollers would all take it in a good sence yet he handled the matter so by suppressing the Gentlemans exhibits and defence wresting his words and meaning refusing to discover the particulars of the booke on which he would insist though ordered so to doe by the Court it being else impossible to instruct Counsell how to make a reply and by tampering under hand with some of his Counsell by no meanes to make any justification or defence to cleare his innocency though the party earnestly intreated and gave them instructions to the contrary that the poore Gentleman at last received the heaviest censure that this latter age hath knowne all circumstances considered being expelled the Vniversity of Oxford and Lincolnes Inne thrust from his profession in which hee never offended fined 5000. pound to the King ordered to stand on two severall Pillories and there to lose both his eares his bookes to be there burned before him and to suffer imprisonment during life besides Which Sentence thought by most that heard the cause to bee meant only in terrorem without any intention at al of execution being respited for above three moneths space and in a manner remitted by the Queenes most gracious mediation was yet by this Atturnies and a great Prelates importunity beyond all expectation suddenly and severely executed without any the least mitigation few of the Lords so much as knowing of it The Gentleman hereupon is set on the Pillory at Westminster and there lost an eare Mr. Noy like a joyfull Spectator laughes at his sufferings and this his great exploit he had brought to passe which divers there present observed and condemned in him The Gentleman like an harmelesse Lambe tooke all with such patience that hee not so much as once opened his mouth to let fall any one word of discontent Yet that just God and Soveraigne Lord of heaven and earth Who beholdeth mischiefe and spite to requite it with his hand and avengeth the innocent bloud of his servants took this his mirth and malice so hainously that the same day as some about him and of his owne society reported he who thus shed his brothers and companions bloud by the just hand of God fell a voyding and pissing out his owne which so amazed him that he used all meanes he could to smother it from the world charging his Laundres and those about him not to speake of it refusing to acquaint his Physicians with it hereupon hee growes very palid and ill the Physicians wonder at it he complaines to them onely of the gravell and stone in his kidnies till at last he grew so ill with this divine stroke that he was forced to disclose his griefe to them yet so as they must faithfully promise to disclose it to no man for feare people should say it were a just judgement of God on him for shedding Mr. Prynnes blood But God would not have this secret long concealed his Laundres men some Gentlemen of his society discover and talke of it he much vexed in mind in stead of repenting of what he had done and seeking to right the party wronged for his irreparable dammage like a Hart or Beast once mortally wounded proceeds on in his former fury seeks to bring the poore distressed Gentleman into fresh trouble a further censure brings him Oretenus into the Starchamber reviles him with all maner of uncivell words moves to have him close prisoner among the rogues in Newgate sels his Chamber as forfeited to the House by his expulsion seiseth his books and when as the Court would not grant his unreasonable malitious motion above 5. weeks after in the long vacation when most of the Lords were gone and his Majesty in his progresse drawes up an order of his own making in Starchamber for the Gentlemans close imprisonment the last order he ever made caused the register to enter it and sends it to the Tower to be executed the same day he went to Tunbridge waters without the Lords or Courts privity The day following drinking of those waters he was in miserable torture in so much that most dispaired of his life and some reported he was dead and hearing there that his disease of voyding bloud was then publikely known and talked of in London he was so vexed at it that hee fell out with his Physicians and servants rayling on them like a frantick man as if they had betrayed him and disclosed his secrets Yea it so fretted and gnawed his heart conscience that it made his very heart intrails to perish and

and that by the Ministers themselves For was it not the judgement and confession of King Iames of famous memory and of the whole state and Kingdome in an exhortation published in that great plague beginning with his raigne 1603 where are these words The Lords Sabbath is not kept holy but polluted c. and therefore the cause is apparent why the plague is broken in amongst us And was not the same exhortation afterwards republished by our gracious King Charles whom God long preserve a religious and righteous Governour over us in the first yeare of his raigne with the approbation of the whole Parliament where the same is acknowledged of that other great Plague in the beginning of his Raigne 1625. namely that one principall speciall cause thereof was the not keeping holy but polluting the Lords day And if this were a principall cause of those great plagues then why not of this which now we suffer yea what Plague upon plagues may we not justly expect to breake forth upon us in these dayes wherein we have increased surpassed our fathers sins and that in such a height as they reach up to heaven to pull downe flames and flakes of vengeance upon our heads And so much the more sith upon the publishing of the said booke so manyfold mischiefes have attended and followed as never any age since Christ much lesse such a Christian state as we professe to be hath seene or ever heard the like For besides the open violation of Gods holy commandement the 4. Morall acknowledged in our Homily to be the ground of our Christian Sabbath day as it is there no lesse then 8. severall times distinctly stiled as also in another Homily twice which by the way makes me wonder at the audacious insolence arrogant ignorance of some new Masters in these dayes and in particular of D r. Poch in his Sunday no Sabbath who is not ashamed to avouch with open mouth that the name of Sabbath was never given to the Lords day untill it was brought in by Iohn Knox others of the Puritan faction in the yeare 1554. What saith he then to the Homilies of our Church which were set forth in K. Edw. 6. his Raigne and so I am sure before 1554. by 3. or 4. yeares now these to omitt innumerable testimonies more both out of ancient Fathers and the Prelates of this Land too large to be comprehended in a Parenthesis being now to furnish a pretty Treatise these our Homilies I say so frequently and clearly called the Lords day the Sabbath day before Iohn Knox called it so 1554. And the same Homilies being set forth a fresh by Queene Elizabeth 1562. will Dr. P. dare to charge the learned and pious compilers of them a pack of Puritans or as some other NOVELL SABBATARIANS But this by the way by which violation I say of the Sabbath or Lords day God is intolerably dishonoured and his Religion disgraced through outragious libertinisme What an invention of Antichristian tyranny hath broken in at the opening of this great sluice What havock is made in our Church by sundry of the Hierarchy in suspending godly Ministers depriving them of their liberty livelyhood and Freeholds against all Lawes of God and man so as they their wives and children are exposed to beggery and all misery and their flocks to be devoured of the wolves and to become a prey to that roaring Lion and all this because they dare not offer violence to their consciences in doing that which should dishonour God indanger their owne and their peoples soules abase before God and man the authority and dignity to their Ministry condemne the innocent people of God and call the wicked righteous teach inferiours rebellion to their Superiours and in a word hasten the pulling downe of vengeance from heaven upon the Land O ye heavens stand amazed at this sight Tell it not in Gath nor publish it in the Streets of Askelon least the daughters of the Philistims rejoyce least the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph What could the Pope have done more then some of our Prelates have done in this kind for the darkening of the glory of Christs Kingdome and for the setting up of Antichrists throne againe in this Land But our Lord sayth Ye shall know them by their fruits Besides what impudency and impiety hath broken out from sundry aëry and ambitious spirits who have dared in their late published bookes upon bookes to belch out their blasphemies against God and the power purity and profession of the Religion established amongst us for so many yeares Nor only is the floodgate of all profanenesse and impiety broken up in the violation of the 4. commandement but of the 5. also when as by occasion of the publishing of the sayd booke which inhibits Magistrates and superiours to restraine or punish youth for taking such liberty on the Lords day as the booke alloweth and which all other books writings monuments of Fathers Councells Kings Emperours Divines ancient and moderne Protestants and Papists have universally with one vote and voyce cryed downe till now but yesterday a new generation of Maleferiati hath risen up out daring and defining the whole world and God himselfe inferiour persons exalt themselves in high contempt against their Superiours as the common vulgar against the Magistrate and Minister servants against their Masters children against their Parents and wanton wives against their husbands which hath caused such outcryes and complaints of masters for their servants unbridled and uncontrowled outrage on the Lords day which must also in-jure them with pride and presumption of spirit the whole weeke after and so their whole life while like untamed colts they have thus learned to take the bitt betweene their teeth and so to runne a gallop into all excesse of riot So as if the booke be not all the sooner called in and the authors of those late books against the sanctification of the Lords day condignly punished and a speedy reformation hereofset on foot how can we looke for a stay of the plague untill the Land be consumed Now the Lord make us wise to lay these things to heart least he teare in peeces and there be none to deliver For as never any Christian Church hath produced such monstrous impieties so never any Church hath bene the theater of such tragicall examples of divine wrath as our Land is like to be if we speedily repent not Vnlesse therefore we repent we shall all likewise perish as these examples have done before us Now for these so many so markable examples of Gods judgements inflicted upon the violaters and profaners of the Lords day and that in so short a time even since the booke for such sports was published we may thus argue and conclude That for which the Lord inflicteth and executed so many notorious and severe judgements must needs be a notorious and hainous sin and so a breach of his holy commandement But for the violation and

about a fortnight after brought him to his end Being opened after his death ther was not a drop of bloud found in his body for he had voided al out before his false malicious hard heart with inward fretting vexing was so consumed shrinked up that it was like an old rotten leather purse or meere scurfe the Physicians never seeing the like before his flesh and kidnies were as black as an hat his intrails except his lungs onely all putred and his carkas a miserable spectacle but no stone that could trouble him was found about him his funerall according to his desire was so private that there were hardly Gentlemen enough to carry him to his grave but that some came in by accident His clients the Players for whom he had done knight-service to requite his kindnes the next Terme following make him the subject of a merry Comedy stiled A Projector lately dead wherein they bring him in his Lawyers robes upon the Stage and openly dissecting him find 100. Proclamations in his head a bundle of old motheaten records in his maw halfe a barrell of new white sope in his belly which made him to scoure so much and yet say they he is still very black foule within And as if this voiding of all his owne blood publike disgrace on the Stage were not sufficient to expiate the wronged Gentlemans bloud infamy himselfe in his last will layes a brand on his owne son and heire bequeathing all his goods and lands not therein given to others to Edward his eldest son to be scattered and spent nec de eo melius speravi enough to make a dutifull child turne unthrift a signe of a dispayring man Which son of his upon his own challenge rashnes hath since beene slaine in a duell in France by Captaine Byron who escaped scotfree and had his pardon Thus hath God punished bloud with bloud thus hath he dealt with one of the chiefe occasioners of this Declaration burner of that book which learnedly manifested the unlawfulnes of the severall sports and pastimes countenanced in it especially on the Lords own sacred day out of old and new Writers of all sorts specified divers judgements of God upon the authors actors spectators of them not unworthy consideration in these sable times of plagues and judgements O consider this all other the foregoing examples ye impious Prelates that so far forget the Lord as still to silence excommunicate persecute godly Ministers for not reading this Declaration though there be no Canon Statute Law or Precept extant that requires it to the ruine not so much of them as their poore innocent peoples soules ye that in these dolefull daies of Plague and pestilence suppresse neglect all publike fasting preaching and praying which now if ever should be cried up practised and in stead thereof give your selves over to dancing feasting playing Sabbath breaking to draw downe more wrath and plagues upon us You who oppresse maliciously persecute godly men for crossing you in your delights of sin lest ye now perish as these have done so much the rather because you have al these presidents to admonish you and yet will not be warned Well if you will not be admonished but proceed as you have done if you perish thanke your selves I can say no more to you but this Discite justitiam moniti non temnere divos Courteous Reader I pray correct with thy pen these mistakes and omissions of the Printers ere thou read the Books Errata and Omissions In the Title page l. 17. r. inchoat l 18. r. cansummat In the Epistle p. 2. l. 3. for with r. as l. 15. r. hapning p. 3. l. 4. r. so audaciously l. 24. f. sins r. sinewes l. 27. f. hath r. have l. 31 r. In Petrus Blesensis p 4. ● 29. r. pointes p 5. l. 13. r. and such p. 8. l. 31. f. were as r. as were In the examples p. 11. Exam. 5. l. 8 were all drowned adde this omission as some letters report Others say they were onely in great danger of drowning a spring tide breaking the Ice but with much labourwer at last saved after 2. or 3. houres space by the helpe of hotes p. 15 l. 13. f. reare r reare p. 28. l. 1. f. 1634 r. 1636 l. 2. r. Parish of S. Giles p. 32. l. 1. f. now r. enough l 6. r. Dr. H. l. 11. f. invention r. inundation l. 23. f. to r. of p. 33. l. 19. f. defining r. defying p. 38. l. 31. prophanesse r. prophaners p. 39. l 1. had r. hath l. 18. come r. rowe p. 40 l. 30. this r. his l. 32. none r. any p. 41. l. 20. r. Bochellum p. 36 in the marg r. Beluacensis Psal. 119. 120. My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy Iudgements Levit. 26. 27. 28. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me but walke contray unto me Then I will walke contrary unto you also in fury and I even I will chastise you seven times more for you sinnes An advertisement to the Reader COVRTEOVS READER Be pleased to understand that thorow some oversight at the presse the foregoing Examples are not orderly placed Indeed it was the authors minde that they should have beene otherwise to wit 1. 2. 3. and so all the rest in order one after another as they are numbred in the booke and to this end gave direction but the same was not considered of these who where imployed for the printing untill it was to late Now this we thought good to certifie thee of that so the mistake may be imputed to the parties deserving it and not to the Author who it blamelesse herein * As he hath done on the 4. Commandement itselfe and on these Infringers of it a Nullam habet spem salutis ager quem ad intemperantiā Medicus hortatur Sence b See the doctrine of the Sabbath The History of the Sabbath the treatise of the Sabbath-day and discourse of the Sabbath lately printed whichthough they condemne the very name of Sabbath as Iewish yet they are all characterised with that name and title * 2. Pet. 2. v. 16. c See the History Treatise Discourse Doctrine of the Sabbath accordingly and sunday no Sabbath d 1. Car. c. 1. 3. Car. c. 1 e 1. 27. H. 6. 5. 5. 6. E. 6. c. 3. f Of the Time and Place of Prayer part 1. Of Disobedience and unlawfull Rebellion part 3. p. 293. 293. g The Prayer after the 4. and 10. Commandement h Canon 13. 163. i Article 35 of Ireland 56 k Queene Elis Injunct 20. l Homil. 162. in Matth. fol. 308. Hom. 28. in Mar. f. 35. Hom. 56. in Lu. f. 141. Hom. 36. in Ioan. f. 77. Hom. 88. in Act. m Comment in Matth. 12. 14. p. 376. 423. in Ioan. 7. f. 293. n History of the Sabbath part 2. c. 6. Inst. 9. 10. o D. ●ooklinghton Sunday no Sabbath p. 8. p Concio 6. 9. 19. 20. 21. 1634. 1634. Aprill 20. 1634. 1634. 1634. 1634. Eccl. 11. 9. 1635. 1634. 1634. 1635. 1635. ‡ Deut. 28. 22. 1634. 1634. ‡ Homily of the time and place of Prayer Part. 1. pag. 124. 125. 126. * Hom. against Rebellion part 3. pag. 292. * Doctor Wh. Bp. of Ely a So the Statute of 1. Caroli c. 1. stiles them b Vincentius Volnacensis Spec. moral li. 3. ps 9. Distin. 6. Master Northbrooke Stubs Brant Lovel and others in their Treatises against dauncing c The late Treatise history and discourse of the Sabboth sunday No Sabbath Doctor Pri. and a soveraigne Antidote against Sabbatarian novelties * Ergo it is in force and the profaning of the Lords day a sin against it * As the Treatise history discourse of the Sabbath a Epist. 6. ad magnesianes b Tract 3. in Ioh. de 10. chordis c. 3. In Ps. 32. 91. De consensu Euang. li 2. c. 77. c In Ioh. Euang. li. 8. c. 5. d Homily de festis diebus e Eccl. Hist. l. 7. c. 13. f Codicis Theodosij li. 15. tit 5. lex 5. g Enare in Ps. 91. i Edit 5. Lon. 1624. Sect. 38 n. 1. p. 110. Se. 43. digr 46. n. 6. p. 165. 186. k In 4. preceptum l In Iohn E● c. 7. fol. 273. m Proposition for the Christ. Sabbathd p. 4. n In Iohan. tract 3. in Ps. 32 91. de 10. chordis c. 3. h Speculū morale li. 3. part 9. c. 6. o In his Sermons p 13. Eliz. c. 12. which ratifies the 39 Articles q The treatise and history of the Sabbath r Part. 1. of the time and place of prayer p. 126. ‡ Treatise of the Sabbath-day p. 231. s Tract 3. in Ioh. In Ps. 32. 91. de 10. chordis c. 3. t Apud Alex Alensis summ Theologiae part 4. q. 11. m. 2. Art 11. u Media villa Peraldus Nider Volaterranus F. Martyr Musculus Stuckius Aretius Hyperius Szegedine Angel de Clavasio Dr Bound Dr Criffith Williams Practise of Piety Osmund Lake and infinite others * See the Homily 8. times styles the Lords day and the 3. homily of rebellion twice ‡ Note Examp. 57. * One of the actors wherof and hee who first shewed his Booke to the King within few moneths after came to bee his fellow prisoners in the Tower for a reall comentary on his misapplyed text * The Iudge who upon his reference suppressed these exhibits contrary to law promise to the Gentleman was himselfe not long after unexpectedly thrust out of his place before he knew of it y The great Lord that began this censure lost his Lady in childb●d some three dayes after who much grieved at this sentence and blamed him for it Which Lord riding the last Christ-tide into the Country to keepe his Christmas on the Lords day his Coach and honor in the plaine street at Brainford were both overturned and laid in the dirt himselfe sore bruised and thereupon forced to keepe his chamber a good space there being some doubt of his recovery for a time z Psal. 10. 14. * The occasion of most of these tragicall examples * Neh. 13. 17. 18. * Bishops saith Augustine Cont. Btil l. 3. c. 6. were all wont vaine dances to reprove But now they are so farre from it that they to dance doe love Thomas Lovel his Dialogue Witnes their late Oxford pro phane plaies and dances * Virgil.