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A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

unless it be within ten Days after the Offence committed And if any Person shall travel upon the Lord's Day and be robbed the Inhabitants of the Hundred shall not answer for the Robbery but upon notice of such Robbery to them or some of them given or Hue and Cry for the same to be made they shall make or cause to be made fresh pursuit after the said Offenders with Horsemen and Footmen according to the Statute 27 Eliz. upon pain to forfeit as much Money to the King's Majesty as might have been recovered against them by the Party robbed And no Person or Persons whatsoever upon the Lord's Day shall serve or execute any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree except in Cases of Treason Felony or Breach of the Peace but that the Service thereof shall be utterly void and the Person or Persons so serving or executing the same shall be as liable to the Suit of the Party grieved and to answer Damages to him for doing thereof as if he or they had done the same without any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree at all Having shewed what Provision the Law makes for the Observation of the Lord's Day I shall proceed in the next Chapter to give an Account what some Texts of Holy Writ command in such Case to be observed Note that by the Statute 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 22. No Shoe-maker shall put his Wares to sale upon Sundays on pain of three Shillings and four Pence and also to forfeit the full value of the Wares sold CHAP. VIII Of the several Texts or Places of Scripture relating to the due Observation and Sanctifying of the Sabbath REmember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy Six Days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of thy Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work Thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man Servant nor thy Maid Servant nor thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in Six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and 〈◊〉 that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Six days thou shalt do thy work and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine Ox and thine Ass may rest and the Son of thy Handmaid and the Stranger may be refreshed Exod. 23. 12. Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel saying Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your Generations that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doth any work therein that Soul shall be cut off from amongst the People Six days may work be done but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest holy to the Lord whosoever doth any work in the Sabbath day he shall surely be put to death Exod. 31. 13 14 15. Six days thou shalt work but on the seventh day thou shalt rest in Earing-time and in Harvest thou shalt rest Exod. 34. 21. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary I am the Lord Levit. 19. 30. 26. 2. And while the Children of Israel were in the Wilderness they found a Man that gathered Sticks upon the Sabbath-day and they that found him gathering Sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the Congregation And they put him in Ward because it was not declared what should be done to him And the Lord said unto Moses the Man shall surely be put to death all the Congregation shall stone him with Stones and all the Congregation brought him without the Gamp and stoned him with Stones and he died as the Lord commanded Moses Num. 15. 32 33 34 35 36. Keep the Sabbath-day to sanctify it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six days thou shalt labour and do all thy Work but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any Work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter nor thy Man servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thine Ox nor thine Ass nor any of thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates that thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servant may rest as well as thou Deut. 5. 12 13 14. Six days shall Work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you an Holy day a Sabbath of Rest to the Lord whosoever doth work therein shall be put to death Exod. 35. 2. Blessed is the Man that doth this and the Son of Man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any Evil. Isa 56. 2. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasures nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isa 58. 13 14. And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy Convocation ye shall do no servile Work Num. 38. 25. Thus saith the Lord Take heed to your selves and hear no Burden on the Sabbath day nor bring it in by the Gates of Jerusalem Neither carry forth a Burden out of your Houses on the Sabbath-day neither do ye any work but hallow the Sabbath-day as I commanded your Fathers But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath-day and not to bear a Burden even entring in at the Gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day Then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Jer. 17. 21 22 and 27. Thou hast despised mine Holy things and hast profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 22. 8. Moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my Sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 23. 38. And the Lord said unto Moses How long refuse ye to keep my Commandments and my Laws See for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the Bread of two days abide ye every Man in his place let no Man go out of his place on the seventh day So the People rested on the seventh day Exod. 16. 28 29 30. Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the Wilderness they walked not in my Statutes and they despised my Judgments which if a Man keep he shall even live

People Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not swear by my Name falsly neither shalt thou profane the Name of thy God I am the Lord. Levit. 19. 12. Thou shalt not curse the Deaf nor put a stumbling block before the Blind but shalt fear thy God I am the Lord. Levit. 19. 14. He that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord he shall surely be put to death Levit. 24. 16. Every one that curseth his Father or his Mother shall be surely put to death he hath cursed his Father or his Mother his Blood shall be upon him Lev. 20. 9. Cursed be he that curseth his Father or his Mother Deut. 27. 16. The Vngodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his Thoughts His Mouth is full of Cursing Deceit and Fraud under his Tongue is Vngodliness and Vanity Psal 10. 4 7. For the sin of their Mouth and for the words of their Lips they shall be taken in their Pride and why Their Preaching is of Cursing and Lies Psal 59. 12. Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in Lies they give good words with their Mouth but curse with their Heart Psal 62. 4. His delight was in cursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him He clothed himself with Cursing like as with a Raiment and it shall come into his Bowels like Water and like Oil into his Bones Psal 119. 16 17. The wicked is snared by the Transgression of his Lips but the just shall come out of Trouble Prov. 12. 13. A wholesom Tongue is a Tree of Life but perverseness therein is a breach in Spirit Prov. 15. 4. A man's Belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his Mouth and with the increase of his Lips shall he be filled Death and Life are in the power of the Tongue and they that love it shall eat the Fruit thereof Prov. 18. 20 21. Whoso Curseth his Father or his Mother his Lamp shall be put out in obscure Darkness Prov. 20. 20. Whoso keepeth his Mouth and his Tongue keepeth his Soul from Trouble Prov. 21. 23. As the Bird by wandring as the Swallow by flying so the Curse causeless shall not come Prov. 26. 2. There is a Generation that curseth their Father and doth not bless their Mother Prov. 30. 11. Suffer not thy Mouth to cause thy Flesh to sin Eccles 5. 6. Curse not the King no not in thy Thought and curse not the rich in thy Bed chamber For a Bird of the Air shall carry the Voice and that which hath Wings shall tell the matter Eccles 10. 20. For the Land is full of Adulterers for because of swearing the Land mourneth the pleasant places of the Wilderness are dried up and their course is evil and their force is not right Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the Darkness they shall be driven on and fall therein for I will bring evil upon them even the year of their Visitation saith the Lord. Jer. 23. 10 12. By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing Adultery they break out and Blood toucheth Blood Hosea 4. 2. For Wisdom is a loving Spirit and will not acquit a Blasphemer of his words for God is witness of his Reins and a true beholder of his Heart and a hearer of his Tongue Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid neither shall Vengeance when it punisheth pass by him For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the Vngodly and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked Deeds Wisd 1. 6 8 9. The Blessing of the Father establisheth the Houses of Children but the Curse of the Mother rooteth out Foundations Ecclus. 3. 9. Then said he unto me This is the Curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole Earth for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on that side according to it I will bring it forth saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall enter into the House of the Thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my Name and it shall remain in the midst of his House and shall consume it with the Timber thereof and the Stones thereof Zech. 5. 3 4. Accustom not thy Mouth to swearing neither use thy self to the naming of the Holy One. A man that useth much Swearing shall be filled with Iniquity and the plague shall never depart from his House if he shall offend his Sin shall be upon him and if he acknowledg not his Sin he maketh a double Offence and if he swear in vain he shall not be Innocent but his House shall be full of Calamities Ecclus. 23. 9. 11. But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven for it is God's Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Foot-stool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy Head because thou canst not make one Hair white or black But let your Communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 34 35 36 37. For God commanded saying Honour thy Father and thy Mother and he that Curseth Father or Mother let him die the Death Mat. 15. 4. Their Throat is an open Sepulchre with their Tongues they have used Deceit the poison of Asps it under their Lips Whose Mouth is full of Cursing and Bitterness Destruction and Misery are in their ways There is no fear of God before their Eyes Rom. 3. 13 14 16 18. Let bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4. 31. The Tongue is a Fire a world of Iniquity it defileth the whole Body and setteth on fire the course of Nature and it is set on fire of Hell It is an unruly Evil full of deadly Poison Therewith bless we God and therewith curse we Men which are made after the similitude of God Out of the same Mouth proceedeth Blessing and Cursing my Brethren these things ought not so to be James 3. 6 8 9 10. But above all things my Brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into Condemnation James 5. 12. If any idle debauched Swearers and Cursers be so emboldned in their profane customary Wickedness as that after the reading or hearing of these before-mentioned places of Scripture they shall still dare to proceed and run on in their wilful wicked sinful Courses I shall for their further Caution in this next following Chapter give them a brief relation of several signal Instances of God's severe wrath and displeasure against such Wickedness manifested by the fearful terrible and amazing

bring forth a Child with a Head like a Dog that seeing he preserred his Dogs before the Service of God he might have one of his own getting to make much of At Kimstat a Town in France in the Year 1559 there lived a certain covetous Women that was so greedy of Gain that she would neither frequent the Church her self to hear the Word of God not suffer any of her Family to go but continually stay'd labouring and toyling about drying and pilling Flax and doing other domestick Businesses and could not be reclaimed by her Neighbours and one Sabbath day Fire seemed to run among the Flax without doing any harm the next Sabbath day it took Fire indeed but was quickly extinct all this would give her no warning but she continued obstinate in her Profaneness the third Sabbath day the Flax again taking Fire could not be quenched till it burnt her and two of her Children to death for tho they were taken out alive yet the next day they all three died and that which was most to be wondered at says the Reporter a young Infant in the Cradle was taken out of the mid'st of the Flames without any hurt thus God uses to exercise his Judgments upon the Contemners of his Commandments In the Year 1583 at London at the Bear-Garden a great number of People being gathered together on a Sabbath day to see the Sport the Lord that he might chasten them in some sort and show his dislike of the profaning the Sabbath caused the Scaffolds suddenly to break the Beholders to tumble down headlong so that eight Persons Men and Women were slain besides many others were sore hurt and bruifed to the shorthing of their Lives The like Judgment happened at a Town in Bedfordshire called Risley in the Year 1607 where the Floor of a Chamber wherein a great number were gathered together to see a Play on the Sabbath day fell down and many by the Fall thereof sore hurt and some killed In May 1629 one John Bow of Ely Coachman to one Mr. Batnum of Beenham a Fellow very vitious and exceeding in these two Evils of Profane Swearing and Drunkenness on the Sabbath day in the Sermon time drank himself drunk so that when he was to sit in the Coach-box to drive the Coach he fell from it under the Horses Feet and was trodden to death or so hurt at least that he died shortly after In November 1621 one Richard Burn Servant to Jasper Burch Gardiner of Ely accustomed to travel on the Lord's Day and making no reckoning of the Sabbath seldom or never coming to the Church on that day but went onwards to St. Ives Market and so spent the day and being drunk was at length overtaken by the just Judgment of God for going up the Stream in his Boat which he had loaden with Marketable Wares he fell into the River and was drowned Mr. Hugh Clark preaching about Oundle in Northamptonshire where the People were generally very ignorant and much addicted to the Profanation of the Lord's Day by Whitson-Ales Maurice-Dances c. which he much set himself against endeavouring to evince their and to draw them from the Evil and Danger o● the Sin denouncing God's Judgments in case of their obstinate Perseverance but they being train'd up in those Courses and hardned by custom persisted still in their Wickedness At last on a Lord's Day the Leader of the Dance a Lusty young Man in the mid'st of their Profane Pastimes fell down suddenly and died but they soon shaking off their Fear returned to their Vomit again the Lord's Day following Mr. Clark took occasion from this sad dispensation to quote that Text Jer. 17. 27. If thou wilt not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day c. then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof c. The People still kick'd against these Admonitions and the Eve following returned to their Sports again among whom was a Smith that was a chief Ring-leader but it pleased God the very next day two Husbandmen coming to sharpen their Plow-shares at his Shop a spark from the red hot Iron as he was beating it upon the Anvil flew into the Thatch which both the Smith and the Neighbours saw but had no power to move towards it which presently burnt down the Shop House and all the Smith had This Mr. Clark pressed upon their Consciences but nothing would prevail till at last upon a Sabbath day at Night when they were return'd to their several Homes there was heard a great noise and ratling of Chains up and down the Town which was accompanied with such a smell and stink of Fire and Brimstone that many of their guilty Consciences suggested to them that the Devil was come to fetch them away quick into Hell and now and not till now they began to think in good earnest of a Reformation Edmond Kirke Vintner executed July 11. 1684 for murthering his Wife in his Confession acknowledged himself frequently guilty of profaning the Lord's Day upon which Holy Day saith he I committed the heinous Sin of murthering my Wife Thus Sin was punished with Sin a less with a greater and the greater with the Gallows and that greater committed near the same Gallows and himself confessed that he had to his Wife asking whilst she passed by what place that was told her it was Tyburn where John Gower was lately hang'd for killing his Wife O Lord how dear to me thy Counsels are but how just and terrible thy Judgments Mr. Smythies Curate of St. Giles's Cripple-gate in the Confession and Discovery of a condemned Prisoner executed for Theft May 25 1687 saith as Mr. Burton reports that it was his earnest desire that all young Men should take care not to mispend the Lord's Day And I do not know says Mr. Smythies that ever I observed any Repentance in a condemned Malefactor who did not bitterly lament his neglect of his duty to God on that day In a Convocation of the Clergy at Perth in Scotland Anno 1188 for the better Sanctification of the Sabbath day it was ordained as Arch-Bishop Spotswood tells us that every Saturday from twelve of the Clock should be set apart for preparation thereunto and that all People at the sound of the Bell should address themselves to hear Prayers and abstain from worldly Labours till Monday Morning If nothing that is here shewed can prevail or any ways induce the presumptuous obstinate Prosaners of the Lord's Day to forsake their sinful and provoking Wickedness then let him that is young observe what Solomon says Rejoice O young Man in thy Youth and let thy Heart chear thee in the days of thy Youth and walk in the ways of thy Heart and in the sight of thine Eyes But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgment Eccles 11. 9. And he that is old let him know that death is at his Heels ready to trip them up and gives no warning of his coming

let not such an one therefore procrastinate and put off Repentance but let him watch for he knows neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh For he shall come in an hour that he is not aware of and if he find him in the daring provoking pursuit of his unrepented of Prafaness shall cut him in sunder and appoint him his Portion with the Hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Math. 24. 50 51. and 25. 13. Luke 12. 46. CHAP. X. A brief Account of the Laws made against vitious and debauched Men and lew'd Women about getting Bastards NOte that before the Raign of K. H. 7. there were eighteen infamous Stews or Brothel-houses and H. 7. for a time forbad them but afterwards twelve only were permitted and had Signs painted on their Walls as a Boars-Head the Cross-Keys the Gun the Castle the Cardinals-Hat the Bell the Swan c. But afterwards H. 8. in the 37 th Year of his Raign by Proclamation under the great Seal dated 30 March Anno 37. aforesaid suppressed all the Stews and Brothel-houses on the Bank-side in Southwark for that they were against the Law of God and the Law of the Land And those Infamous Women were not buried in Christian Burial when they were dead nor permitted to receive the Rites of the Church whilst they lived And the Keeper He or She of such Houses is punishable by Indictment at the Common Law by Fine and Imprisonment for altho Adultery and Fornication be punishable by the Ecclesiastical Law yet the keeping of Bawdy or Stews or Brothel-houses being as it were a Common Nusance is punishable by the Common Law and is the cause of-many Mischiefs not only to the overthrowing of their Bodies but to the indangering of their Souls By the Custom of London as appears by the 1 H. 7. Fol. 6. c. If a Constable c. has Notice that a Woman is in Adultery with a Man that a Man or Woman of Evil Fame is gone to a suspected House he may take help with him and enter the House and if he find them so he may arrest them and carry them to Prison or to a Justice of the Peace to be bound over and prosecuted Bastards begotten and born out of lawful Matrimony being an Offence against God's Law and Man's Law It is by the Statute 18 Eliz. Chap. 3. Enacted That two Justices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum in or next to the Limits where the Parish Church is within which Parish a Bastard shall be born that may be chargeable to the Parish upon Examination of the Cause and Circumstances shall by their discretion take order as well for the punishment of the Mother and reputed Father of such Bastard Child as also for the relief of every such Parish in part or in all and for the keeping of every such Bastard Child by charging such Mother or reputed Father with the Payment of Money weekly or other Sustentation for the relief of such Child in such wise as they shall think meet and convenient And if after the same Order by them subscribed under their Hands the Mother or reputed Father upon notice thereof shall not observe and perform the same that then every such Party so making Default in the non-performance thereof to be committed to the Common Goal without Bail except they give sufficient Surety to perform the same or to appear Personally at the next General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the same County where such Order shall be taken and also to abide such Order as the Justices there or the more part of them shall take in that Behalf if they take any and if they take none at the Sessions then to abide and perform the Order before made as is abovesaid And by the Statute 7 Jas. 1. Ch. 4. It is Enacted That every lewd Woman which shall have any Bastard Child which may be chargeable to the Parish the Justice of Peace shall commit such lewd Woman to the House of Correction there to be punished and set on work during the term of one whole Year and if afterwards she offend again then to be committed to the House of Correction as aforesaid and to remain there until she can put in good Sureties for her good Behaviour not to offend so again And by the Statute 3 Car. 1. Ch. 4. It is Enacted That all Justices of the Peace within their several Limits and Precincts and in their several Sessions may do and execute all things concerning that part of the Statute 18 Eliz. Ch. 3. aforementioned that by Justices of the Peace in the several Counties are by the said Statute limited to be done The Punishment appointed by these Statutes being gentle and easy we see by every days Experience that Bastards are very frequently begotten I shall therefore inform such vitious profane and sinful Persons in the next Chapter what Punishments the Scripture has appointed for such Persons of such profligate and debauched Lives that they may not be ignorant of the great Anger and Displeasure conceived by Almighty God against such profane sinful Courses and of the great Hazard and Danger they involve their precious Souls in if they forsake not their vitious way of living and by hearty Repentance cleanse their Souls putting away the Filth of the Flesh 1 Pet. 2. 3. 21. And perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. For he that soweth to the Flesh shall of the Flesh reap Corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit neap Life everlasting Gal. 6. 8. CHAP. XI Of the several Places of Scripture threatning Judgments or forbidding Adultery Fornication Incontinency Lasoiviousness and Whoredom and shewing God's Anger and Displeasure against such profane Wickedness THou shalt not commit Adultery Exod. 20. 14. Deut. 5. 18. Do not prostitute thy Daughter to cause her to be a VV●●re lest the Land fall to VVhoredom and the Land become full of VVickedness Lev. 19. 29. 〈◊〉 the Ma● that committeth Adultery with another Mans VVife even he that committeth Adultery with his Neighbours VVife the and the Adulteress shall surely put to death Lev. 20. 10. And the Daughter of any Priest if she profane her self by playing the Whore she profaneth her Father she shall be hurnt with Fire Levit. 21. 9. If a Man be found lying with a Woman married to an Husband then they shall both of them die both the Man that lay with the VVoman and the VVoman So shalt thou put away Evil from Israel Deut. 22. 22. The Eye also of the Adulterer waiteth for the ●●ilight saying No Eye shall see me and disg●iseth his Face Job 24. 15. VVhen thou sawest a Thief thou consented'st unto him and hast been Partaker with the Adulterers Psal 50. 18. By the means of a VVhorish VVoman a Man is brought to a piece of Bread and the Adulteress will hunt for the precious Life Prov. 6. 26. Who so