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A13448
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The fearefull summer, or, Londons calamity, the countries courtesy, and both their misery by Iohn Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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STC 23754; ESTC S531
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he may be a patrone and a guide Vnto a people purg'd and purifi'd This by a president is manifest When famous late Elizabeth deceast Before our gratious Iames put on the crowne Gods hand did cut superfluous branches downe Not that they then that were of life bereft Were greater sinners then the number lest But that the Plague should then the kingdome cleare The good to comfort and the bad to feare That as a good king God did vs assure So he should haue a Nation purg'd and pure And now that Royall Iames intombed lyes And that our gratious Charles his roome supplies As He did for his Father formerly A sinfull nation cleanse and purifie So God for him these things to passe doth bring And mends the subiects for so good a King Vpon whose Throne may peace and plenty rest And he and his Eternally be blest AMEN Against Swearing THere is no sin that euer the Diuell invented for the abuse of God and the perdition of man but the Authors and Actors of it may frame some frivolous or impertinent excuse for examples our first parents in Paradise did disobediently offend in hope thereby to gaine further knowledge and to be like God Cain slew his brother and had some poore excuse for the fratricide and murther because he saw that Abell and his offering was in better acceptation Samson was ouercome by Dalilah but he had lewd lust or lustfull loue to entice him Dauid had not committed the two crying sins of Adultery and murther had not the beauty of Bethsheba bin his insuaring object Achitophel had not bin a Traitour to the Lord 's Anointed and a wicked counsellour to Absolom but the expectation of raising his estate was his motiue Ahab had not put Nabaoth to death vnjustly but that hee knew it the neerest way to be possessour of his Vineyard Achan's theft Gehazies lie Manasses cruelty and Idolatry Peter's denying Iudas his betraying of our Sauiour had all some colour of Excuse but a swearer is worse then all these for he hath no starring hole or by way that can make him appeare guiltlesse either before God or men Remember this all you that make swearing the glory of your speech the damnable grounds of your earthly society the accursed Garbe of your misnamed Gentleman like carriage Remember that God doth heare and see and can and will reuenge and for this inexcusable crime especially the wrath of the Almighty is showred and powred vpon vs. THou that these lines dost either heare or reade Consider with thy selfe and take good heed Reade them and let them neuer be forgot They doe concerne thy soule then sleight them not The Friends of hell beleeue there is a God And feare and tremble at his angry Rod They doe confesse his glorious Excellence And his Almighty powers Omnipotence But Man his choicest and his chiefest Creature Is so rebellious against God and Nature That he gainst Heau'n dare both blaspheme and sweare And worse then Fiends they not belieue or feare So that the Earth doth breed feed and retaine Worse Monsters then there doth in Hell remaine If men beleeu'd the word that God hath spoke They would beleue that word should nere be broke In His enacted Law is one Decree That all who take his Name in vaine shall be Accounted guilty and his fearefull wrath Will hold them worthy of eternall death Againe 't is said Let the Blasphemor dye Let him be stoned for his Blasphemy And euill tongues who dare to curse adventer Shall into Heauens blessednes not enter And Christ when on the Earth he liued heere Forbade vs that at all we should not sweare And in th' eleventh of Deuteronomy againe We are commanded not to sweare in vaine The Heathen to blaspheme their gods abhorr'd Yet Christians wilfully blaspheme the Lord. Who euer to reuile the Gods were knowne In Rome were from the Rock Tarpetus throwne Th' Egyptians Law was he should lose his head 'Mongst Seythians life and goods were forfeited These grieuous punishments did Pagans vse Against all them that did their Gods abuse King Donald's Law in Scotland's not forgot Who burne them through the lips with irons hot And when King Edmund here had Regall State All Swearers he did excommunicate And Philip King of France a Prince renown'd Ordain'd that all Blasphemers should be drown'd The Emperour Max milian did decree That all vaine Sweaters should beheaded be The Earle of Flanders Philip did ordaine Their losse of life and goods that swore in vaine Saint Lewis the King of France enacted there That for the first time any one did sweare Into Imprisonment one month was cast And stand within the Pillory at last But if the second time againe they swore One with an iron hot their tongues did bore And who the third time in that fault did flip Were likewise boared through the vnder-lip For the fourth time most grieuous paines belongs He caus'd to be cut off their lips and tongues Henry the fift of England that good King His Court to such conformity did bring That euery Duke should sorry shillings pay For euery Oath he swore without delay Each Baron twenty Knights or ' Squires offence Paid â—ennâ—â— and euery Yeoman twenty pence The Boyes and Pages all were whipt most fine That durst abuse the Majesty diuine Thus Pagan Princes with sharp lawes withstood Profauing of their Gods of stone or wood And Christian Kings and Rulers formerly Haue most seuerely punisht blasphemy And shall a Heathen or an Infidell That knowes no joyes of Heauen or paines of Hell More reuerence to his deuillish Idols show Then we doe to the true God whom we know If we remembred well but what we were And what we are we would not dare to sweare Poore trunks of earth fill'd with vncertain breath By nature heires to euerlasting death Most miserable wretches most ingrate 'Gainst God that did elect vs and create Redeem'd conseru'd preseru'd and sactifi'd And giues vs hope we shall be glorifi'd H' hath giuen vs being life sense reason wit Wealth and all things his Prouidence thinkes fit And for requitall we quite voide of grace Curse sweare and doe blaspheme him to his face Oh the supernall patience of our God That beares with Man a sin polluted clod When halfe such treasons 'gainst an earthly King Would many a Traytor to confusion bring Suppose a man should take a Whelp breed him And stroake him make much of him feed him How will that curre loue him beyond all other Neuer for saking him to serue another But if he should most disobediently Into his Masters face or throat to fly Sure euery man that liues vpon the ground Would say a hanging's fit for such a hound And worser then so many dogges are they That 'gainst their God with oathes doe barke and bray And if repentance doe not mercy win They 'll hang in Hell like Hell-hounds for that sin Of all black crimes froÌ„