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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08934	Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers, in their unlavvful sports, collected out of several divine subjects, viz. Mr. H.B. Mr. Beard, and the practice of piety : a fit monument for our present times, &c.		1671 (1671)	Wing D1720BA; ESTC R175964	8,169	1

a reply to another Minister who was an Eye witness 23. At Woolston in the same Country where the said Ministers Father had been Minister forty years and by God's blessing upon his Labours had reformed things very well yet upon the publication of this Book in print many of the Inhabitants the Spring following were imboldned to set up May poles Morrice Dance and a Whitson ale continuing their rude revelling a Week together with many affronts to their antient and reverend Pastour but it pleased God that not long after a spark from a Smith's shop caught in that room where the Ale was brewed and though means were ready at hand yet it could not be quenched but set the House on fire and presently flew to the Barn in which their disorder was and burnt the same with thirteen Dwelling Houses more most of whose Inhabitants were Actors or Abettors in the same This is testified by many 24. In the year of our Lord 1633. Octob. 26. after the Book of sports was known to be published in print David Price a Welshman servant to one Thomas Hill a known Grasier of that Country coming to Banbury with his Drove on Saturday night declared his purpose of driving them the next day early in the Morning being the Sabbath or Lord's day his Host where he lodged disswaded him because it was the Sabbath day and told him that he would certainly be stopped and made to pay for it according to the Statute He answered that he would drive them and let me see saith he who will hinder me So in the Morning two other accompanying him he went to fetch the Cattle out of the Ground one that knew him met him at the Towns end not yet out of the Town and adm●ni●ed ●im saying What David to day he made no answer but went onward and though for any thing that appeared to any other or that himself complained of he was then ●n good health as ever he was yet within l●ttle more than a stones cast off the Town he fell down dead suddainly and was buried in Banbury Church-yard the next day after None could discern any sensible or evident cause of so suddain a surprizal and himself gave no sign of any pains weakness or illness till the instant time he gave up the ghost 25. At Wicks a Town betwixt Colchester and Harwich in Essex upon Whitsunday last in the Afternoon two Fellows meeting at the football the one killed the other 26. At Oxford on the Sabbath day one Bally Hawks a Butcher would needs go into his field with an hatchet and shovel to mend his ditch his Wife disswaded him what she could being the Sabbath day but he said he would go make an end of his work which he did for suddainly he was struck dead in his ditch and so made an end of his work and his life together 27. Also at Oxford a Carpenter undertaking to mend a Stage in St. John's College on the Saturday night for the finishing whereof he must of necessity spend some part of the Lord's day morning that the Stage might be ready against the Munday following he that night fell backward from the Stage being not far from the ground and brake his neck and so ended his life in a fearful Tragedy 28. A young man near Bow going to swim in the River on Essex side on the Lord's day in the Afternoon was drowned 29. Two boys of St. Albans going to Verulam's Pounds a mile off to swim on the Lord's day July 12. one of them was drowned and the other hardly escaped 30. At Ramsey in Suffolk a tall man on the Lord's day going with others to swim and being advertised and warned of a hole in the water he sware that there was no place there could drown him but by and by on a suddain he was missing being now under water and so drowned 3● On Septemb. 13. 1635. being the Lord's day two young men of the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West London going to swim were both drowned 32. At Lemster one Master Powle January 1634. on the Lord's day serving a Writ of sub poena and that of purpose on that day as is credibly reported upon one Mr. Shuit a Gentleman this he did in the Church yard so soon as they were come out of the Church Mr. Shuit thereupon told him I thought you had been an holier man than so to do this upon this day he replied I hope I am never a whit the more dishonest or less holy for that having spoken this he suddainly fell down dead and spake not a word more his Wife seeing this was suddainly struck with sickness 33. A Fellow in Summersetshire being to make a Tent upon the Lord's day for a Fair that was to be kept upon the Munday following said to one on the Saturday that they would rear it to morrow so the next day which was the Lord's day being drunk he d●ed the same day roaring 34. In June 1635. on the Lord s day the Tapster and Chamberlain of the Queens head in Southwark rid into Kent to be merry and having drunk liberally riding homewards the one of them fell from his Horse and broke his neck 35. Also in June 1635. and as some report the very same Lords day in Southwark at the Red Lion near St. George's Church in the Afternoon a man with another sate drinking so long that the other about six of the Clock departing fell a sleep so that he never awaked again These Examples were Collected from Beard 's Theater of God's Judgments and the Practise of Piety 36. A Noble man in France that used to go a hunting on the Sabbath day his Wife brought forth a Child with a Dogs head 37. At Kinstat in France a covetous Woman used on the Sabbath day to dry and pill Flax and would not be warned although her Flax took fire two several Lord's days but on the third Sabbath she and her two Children were burnt to death 38. Some in France at their Husbandry upon the Sabbath have been struck with Thunder some had their Bodies and Bones burnt with visible fire and consumed to ashes Scaffold at Playes on the Sabbath day have fallen and many have been wounded some killed out right 39. In 1583. at Paris Garden upon the Sabbath day a great Company were gathered to behold a sort of Bear baiting the Scaffold suddainly brake and Eight were slain out-right and many more wounded 40. A Husbandman grinding Corn upon the Lord's day had his Meal burnt to Ashes 41. Another carrying Corn on this day had his Barn and all his Corn therein burnt with fire from Heaven 42. Stratford upon Avon was twice on the same day twelve month being the Lord's day almost consumed with fire chiefly for prophaning that day 43. The Inhabitants of Tiverton in Devonshire were great prophaners of this day of which their godly Minister did oft admonish them and not long after his death on the ●hird of April 1598. By a suddain fire the whole Town was almost consumed to the number of 400. Houses and 50. Persons in the Flames 44. And once since in 1612. the same Town was almost consumed again a sure token of God's anger Royal King Solomon hath a true saying that Judgments are prepared for scorners Prov. 19.29 And in this short view you may behold Judgments executed The Lord hath made his day known by his Judgments Numb 15. 32. c. To teach the Inhabitants of the World righteousness Isa 26.9 These Tragical spectacles of divine Justice proclame the prophanation of the Lord 's most sacred day a crying sin Which hath been confirmed by the whole State in Parliament in two famous Statutes in the First of Carol. and in the Third of Carol. and two Antient Acts in Hen. and Edw 6. T●e Homilies Common-prayer-book Canons Articles and Injunctions conclude the same Our late Sovereigns of blessed memory King James and King Charles in the first year of both their Reigns in the several books of Common-prayer and order for the publ ck Feasts set out by their Royal Authorities for the aversion and ceasing of those dreadful Plagues which then swallowed up many thousands Confess that among other sins the prophanation of the Sabbath and not keeping holy the Lord's day was one chief cause why these two great Plagues brake in upon us God grant that these punishments of some may be a warning to us all and as Cyprian that Antient Father well saith he is over audacious who strives to pass over there where he hath seen another to have faln he is outragiously head-strong who is not struck with fear when he beho●ds another perish in that course which he is running he loves his own safety who takes warning by the death of others and he alone is a prudent man who is made wise by the Ruins of other men May these Judgments on some become Remed●es to cure all who are sick of the self same sin Which is the end of the Publisher London Printed for T. C. and sold by William Miller at the Sign of the Gilded Acorn in S. Paul's Church-Yard near the Little North Door 1671.