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A87056	Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers. In a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation. By W. L.	Hammond, Samuel, d. 1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing H623bA; ESTC R230554	59,944	204

Smiths Barn and though it grieved the holy man of God who was Minister of the place as the Sodomites did Lot yet he could not help it but in their profanenesse they proceeded not long after a fire kindles in the place of this impiety and burnes down not onely his House Shop and Barn but rages so vehemently as it reaches many other houses with ruin all being chief actors in this horrid profanenesse In the year 1634. upon a Lords day when the River Trent was frozen over fourteen young men were at foot-ball upon the Ice near Gainsborough and meeting all in a cluster together the wrath of God met with them and suddenly the Ice broke and they were immediately drowned Oh the justice of the Lord upon the prophaners of his Holy day The same painful and useful Author of Gods examples relates a sad one of Gods Judgements upon two fellows in Essex near Brinkely that were working in a Chalk-pit one of them boasting that he had vext his Mistresse by coming so late in from his Sabbath-dayes Sports and Recreations ● but sayes he I will anger her worse next Sabbath day which words were no sooner out but Justice seizes upon him for the Earth falls upon him and he never stirred more to his Sabbath prophanesse his fellowes limbs were broken both being sharers in the sin of the Sabbath are made also to be so in their sufferings and punishments The Lord will be known in the paths and wayes of his Judgements to such as will not be led and allured by his tender mercies And of one Mr. Ameredith a Gentleman of Devonshire being recovered from a pain which he had suffered in his feet one of his friends saying he was glad to see him so nimble the Gentleman replies He hoped his hopes should not be frustrated of the great expectations he had to dance about the May-Pole the next Sunday But behold the Lord in a just punishment for such impious and wicked resolutions and no doubt also for his former prophanesse on that day smites him suddenly with feeblenesse and faintnesse of heart ere he stirred from the place and with such a strange dizzinesse in the head that he was forc't to be led home and from thence to his last home before the Lords Day shined upon him Now tell me any that can what little hopes the poor souls thus ushered to the chambers of death have to keep an eternal Sabbath with God that will not keep his Sabbath from prophaning on earth Truly these are sad symptoms of Gods heavy displeasure against soul as well as body his mercy if any be in such dismal dispensations are occult and hidden the Lord in mercy warn poor sinners to avoid the wrath of such an Infinite God that such as will not be intreated to keep the Lords day as they ought may be terrified from prophaning of it Another as severe he relates which together with the three former are attested by sufficient witnesses At Walton upon Thames in Survey upon a great frost in the year 1634. three young men having in the forenoon heard a Sermon from 2 Cor. 5.10 We must all appear before the Judgement-seat of Christ c. they went over the Ice into an house of disorder and gaming where they prophanely spent away the rest of the Lords day and night also in revelling and drinking the one of them next day boasting merrily of his pleasure upon the Sabbath day and his adventure over the Ice All three on Tuesday return the way they went and upon the Ice suddenly sunk to the bottom like stones one of them onely miraculously preserved These judgements may be mercies to some that are yet prophaners of the Lords day if God please At Burton upon Trent Mr. Abberly a godly Minister often took occasion to reprove and threaten such as make no conscience of the Lords day by prophaning it in a more peculiar manner such as bought and sold meat upon this day which it seems was a sin as great and as commonly practised in this place as it was lately at Buntingford where in my journey some Gentlemen of Newcastle being my fellow-travellers we took occasion after Sermon to acquaint the Minister withal I pray God it may not be so still lest such a judgement befal the place as did this prophane wretch which was thus A Taylor being a nimble and active man dwelling at the upper end of the Town must needs in a bravado go to the further end to buy some meat before morning-prayer but coming home with both his hands full in the midst of the street he fell down stark dead I was sayes Doctor Teate an eye-witnesse both of his fall and burial and that it wrought a reformation in the place both among the Butchers and others It was a remarkable Providence and I wish I say that other places may be reformed of this bold and impudent sin or truly they may repent of it when it s too late A Pious Divine sayes he The Lord hath spoken so loud from heaven against Sabbath-sinners that I cannot be silent We hereabout have had in a short time terrible tokens of God severe vengeance upon such as mind not the service of his Day amongst our selves a sad example A Townsman going to gather Cherries on the Lords Day fell from the tree and in the fall was so battered and bruised that he never spake more but lay groaning in his blood until the next day and then died Another man not far from this place in Cherry-time as he was gathering fruit fell from the tree and with the fall was so hurt that he lay in anguish and dreadful dolour all the week till Sabbath day and then ended his miserable life And of a young man that on the Lords Day in a place nigh unto Mr. Goodwins scrambling with others for Peares thrown out in the Church-yard broke his main thigh-bone and the bone of his leg on the same side which was so miserably and strangely broken as that the Bone-setter who was a godly man told Mr. Goodwin though he had seen many yet he never saw the like God here dealt in mercy as well as in judgememt in that he 〈◊〉 him space to repent and see his sin The Lord warn us all by these examples A company of prophane young men in 1635. near Salisbury upon the Lords Day morning went to Clarington Park to cut down a May-Pole and having loaden the Cart with the tree and themselves with the bitter fruits of sin they are severely punisht by the hand of God For entring into the City of Salisbury through a place called Milners Bars unawares the Cart gives a turn and the end of the tree struck one of the Sabbath-breakers such a mortal blow that his brains flew out and there on the place he yeilded himself a conquered sinner by the Just hand of the Lord lying there as a sad spectacle of Gods indignation and sayes Mr Clark I enquired of

dayes of their youth unlesse by blaspheming and cursing it A Noble person of the City of Eflinghen at a losse by gaming began to swear and curse bitterly in which rage and madnesse he mounts his horse for home the Devil meets him pulls him off who with his servants was misguided all the night by evil spirits and in the morning finding themselves not lost they get their Master safe to Bethen-Hansen where in great torment for three dayes he yeilded Justice victor A woman in Marchia being a prophane curser and swearer was justly left by God to Sathan for in sight of many people she is snatched into the air and thrown down again which brake her neck God we see can break us from our sins and lives together if we do not from the first break off by repentance One Margret VVood of Allercleugh in the Parish of Stanhop in the County of Durham was notoriously known for many years upon every slight occasion to use this imprecation I wish I may sink into the earth Upon the last day of August 1655. she with one Elinor Mason of the same Parish being both washing of lead oare to fit it for the Lead-mill and standing upon the same spot of ground where many horses laden with Lead had passed the immediate day before the earth suddenly failed under them and swallowed them both up next day when their dead bodies were digged out Elinor Mason was found with her body erect but Margeret VVood was many yards deeper within ground and her head direct downwards One Elinor Short of the same Parish did frequently use this imprecation I wish my feet may rot off if this or that be not so or so It pleased the Just God about 20 years ago to visit her with a pain in her feet which by degrees did rot quite off as afterwards did her legs also and she is yet alive at this day as a Monument of Gods signal Judgement she creepes upon her hands and thighs and doth often acknowledge Gods just dealing with her Robert Durance Butcher in Carlisle was a known Swearer and Drunkard who about 30 years ago being playing at Cards with some of his companions and having lost all his money except 30 s began fearfully to swear he would be revenged upon himselfe whereupon he run out at the gates of the City towards the River Eden and though he was followed by divers some on Horse-back yet did he destroy himself by leaping into the River in which River hard by the place where he leapt in he lay for the space of four years at the end of which a Fisherman found the lower parts of his body only the other parts being consumed William Knot of Dalston in Cumberland being a common swearer when he was a servant to Alderman Grey of York he fell into a lead full of boyling liquor by which means in ten days he dyed John Prestman of Weighton in Cumberland A Sheriffes Bayliffe being accounted a common swearer one night when he was drunk at Carlisle went out in the night and notwithstanding the perswasion of his Landlord leapt over the Bridge with his horse and was drowned in the River Caude One Hudson of Dalston in Cumberland did wager with another man who should swear more oathes by God the other man was by the just judgment of God struck dead ere he parted Hudston was struck dumb to his dying day and though he lived many years after yet could speak nothing but swear by God which he did upon every occasion Oh the justice of God to some and the patience and forbearance to others waiting to be gracious let such as swear by the name of God look upon this example this sad example On May Eve 1634. one Troe of Gloce●ter a Carpenter in the Parish of St. Michael being demanded by some whether he would go with them and fetch the May-pole swore by the Lords wounds he would go though he never went more But mark the justice of God on May day morning as he was working on the May-pole before it was finished he was by a Divine stroke of Justice smote with such a lamenesse and swelling in all his limbs that he could neither goe nor lift his hand to his mouth to feed himselfe but was forced to keep his bed for half a year together and to this day goeth lame May 4. 1636. OF THE SABBATH DAY WITH GODS JUDGEMENTS UPON THE PROFANERS thereof OF THE SABBATH DAY With GODS JUDGEMENTS upon the profaners thereof I Am now to treat with the Sabbath-breaker who for many reasons will appear to be lesse excusable before God for this sin then either the Drunkard or Swearer Here is a double sin profaneing it and neglecting that which is ordained by God for the eternall good of our soul besides it is a premeditated act and goes along with a great aggravation as we shall see in a word presently It is now become so great a custome to prophane the Lords day that he almost becomes a scoffe to others that offers to reform or punish it and that men may not so much slight it I have collected a few reasons to perswade men to observe it and disswade from the profanation of it for God will not be mocked That we may know this day is no mock-day The Lord that made heaven and earth That great Jehovah stiles himself Lord of the Sabbath and the Lord hath in a more speciall manner singled out this Commandement with a memento Remember by no meanes forget the Sabbath for the Lord rested that day and he blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it It 's a great consideration to make us weigh the duty of keeping it for six dayes the Lord made heaven and earth and when the seventh day came he rested on it The Lord as it were hasted to finish the world in six dayes that he might himself be an example to lead us to the understanding of the great weight which God himself put upon this day And that we may see it is no ordinary nor common thing to break this day see how strictly God in his holy Word commands it This is that which the Lord hath said To morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord six dayes may work be done but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest Holy to the Lord he that works shall be put to death that soul shall be cut off from amongst the people it shall be observed throughout their Generations for a perpetual Covenant The Lord threatens sore Judgements and why Because they have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned amongst them Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it It 's called by the Prophet the Holy of the Lord Honourable there might be many more places quoted but these few are enough to let people see that it is not a trifling matter to profane the day and that we

stand as a monument of Gods severity A Noble-man that used to hunt on the Lords day had a child born unto him with a head like a Dog with eares and mouth crying like a Hound which was a very remarkable judgement of God Reports of an Husband-man that went to plough on the Lords day and cleansing his plough with an Iron it stuck so fast in his hand for two years that he carried it about with him as a signal tostimony of the Lords just displeasure against him Another that gathered corn into his barn upon the Lords day had it all with fire from heaven consumed together with the house At Kimstat in France 1559. there lived a woman that neither would go nor suffer others of her family to go to Church on the Lords day as she was drying flax fire issued out of it● but burnt it not she taking no notice next Sabbath day as she was busie with it miraculously again fire proceeds out of it and burnt it but was put out this poor creature was ● blind as not to see or take warning by these foot-steps of Gods mercifull providences but the third Sabbath day when she was busied about her flax as before it fires of it self and could not be quenched till she and two of her children were burnt to death And in the year 1126. One grinding corn upon the Lords days it took fire and gave him timely warning not to break the Sabbath day by the works of his calling In Helvetia nigh Belessina three men were playing at Dice on the Lords day one called Vlrick Schraeterus having hopes of a good cast because being crost to the losse of much money before he now expected fortune or rather the Devill to favour his desire and therefore he uttered these horrid words If fortune do dececeive me now I will thrust my dagger into the Body of God as farre as I can O the cursed frames of our naturall tempers if once God cast the reins into our own wills the Dice favours him not and presently he drawes his dagger and with a powerful force throws it up towards heaven which never was seen more and immediately five drops of blood falls before them all upon the Table and as suddenly comes the Devill amongst them carries away this vile wretch with such a terrible and hideous noyse as the whole City was astonished at it Those two remaining alive endevoured to wipe off the blood but to so little purpose that the more they rub'd the more the drops of blood were perspicuous Report carries it all over the City multitudes flock to see this wonder who found only the Sabbath profaners rubbing the blood to get it out these two by decree of the Senate of the City were bound in Chains and as they were led to the prison one of them was suddenly struck dead from out of whose body a wonderful number of wormes and vermin was seen to crawle The City thus terrified with Gods judgements and to the intent that God might be glorified and a future vengeance averted from the place caused the third to be forthwith put to death And the Table with the drops of blood on it preserved as a monument of Gods wrath upon this sin not only of Sabbath-breaking but swearing and wicked gameing O the depth of the knowledge of God How unsearchable are his judgments and his wayes past finding out January 13. 1583. At the Bear-garden in Southwark on a Sabbath day afternoon many people pressing on the Scaffolds to see the sport forced it suddenly down with which fall eight were killed and many spoyled in their bodies who lived not long after Much like to it was that at Risley in Bedfordshire 1607. where many people rather then resort to hear the the word of the Lord by the mouth of his Minister came in great numbers to see a Stage-play on the Lords day the Chamber floor fell down and as a judgment of God upon this sad wilful sin many were killed and wounded thus we see when the works of piety and mercy are neglected to prosecute sinne and wickednesse Gods judgements are swift to overtake us thereby endeavouring to hedg up our way with thornes which examples may push us back from the like impiety and vengeance of an angry God A sad example of Gods severity in ●is hot and sore displeasure against ●abbath-breakers is recorded of Feverton in Devonshire which place saith he , was frequently admonished of the profanation of the Lords day by a Market kept the day following which without reformation would inevitably pluck down divine vengeance A little after the Ministers death upon the third of April 1598. A sudden fire from heaven consumeth the whole Town in lesse than half an hour excepting only the Church Court-house and Almes-house where was consumed in this fire of Gods wrath four hundred dwelling houses and fifty soules destroyed Who will not say this was a sad and immediate hand of the Lord but alas what will not poor creatures do that follow sin with greedinesse The same Town fourteen years after on the fifth of August 1612. for the same sin was wholly consumed except some thirty poor peoples houses School-house Almes-houses these Judgements are not recorded for Historical Perusall but to consider of and remember those on whom the Tower of Shilo fell At Alcester in Warwick-shire where the Authour lived there were of his own knowledge four remarkable Judgements of God One that upon the publishing of the Declaration for sports and pastimes upon the Lords day A young woman on this day comes to the Green and sayes She would dance as long as she could stand and dancing in the midst of her sin God struck her with such a violent disease that in two or three dayes she died in misery as an example to all that delight more in serving their own pleasures and sinfull desires then to wait upon God and delight in his wayes The other of a young man of the same place and not long after the other who on the Lords day immediately after the evening exercise was finished brings into the street a pair of Cudgells layes them down nigh unto the Ministers house and invited divers to play with him who refusing at length comes one and taking up the Cudgels sayes Though I never played in my life yet I will play one bout now A little after sporting with a young woman he takes up a Birding-piece charged saying Have at thee the piece goes off and murders her immdiately for which as a deserved judgement he suffered the Law Another of a Miller at Wootton in the same County who going forth to a Wake and coming home at night found his House Mill and all that he had burnt down to the ground A fourth upon Mr. Clarks own knowledge is of many wicked and prophane persons at Woolston in the same County who on the Lords day met at a Whitsun-Ale in a

of this exemplary piece of Gods just Judgement repaires to the witnesses of it who testify with a sad relation their woful experience no lesse horrid then true Three souldiers travelling through a wood in the Coutrey of Samurtia A tempest of thunder and lightening arose one of them breaks into his usual oathes and in the instant of swearing the violence of the wind no doubt directed by God throwes a tree upon him whereof he presently was crushed to pieces Another that was very much habituated to swear by Gods Armes had his own arm hurt with a knife and could find no remedy but it festered daily till it rotted and mouldred away gradually and he through Anguish and Torment died And one Michael a Jewish Rabbin as he was swearing by the Name of Jesus fell down and broke his neck A boy at Tubing in Germany invented strange and unusual oathes but God sent a Canker that eat out his tongue these are signal tokens of Gods anger they are so immediate from himself that none can see lesse then a wonderful hatred in God of them At Benevides a village in Spain a whirlwind arose two young men being in a field apprehending the approaching danger fall down upon the ground lest the violence of it might carry them into the ayre when it was past the one arises in great amazement the other being a very notorious curser and swearer lyes dead his bones so crusht that his joynts turned every way his tongue rooted out and could not be found In June 1649. A souldier at Warre goeth with others to wash in a shallow river asked whether there was a deeper to swim in and they answered there was one nigh hand but dangerous by reason it was a deep pit who replies God damne me if it be as deep as hell I will in he was no sooner in but sunk to the bottom and never rose again which sayes Mr. Clark was attested by good witnesses And God met with that swearer and curser in France a Citizen of Paris whom Lewis 9. ordered to have his lips seared together with a hot Iron saying I would to God that with sear●ng my own lips with a hot Iron I could ●anish out of my Realm all abuse of ●athes A souldier falling sick in his jour●ey through Marchia in Almain stay●d in his Inne and when recovered ●emanded of his Landlady the mony ●e gave her to secure for him but con●ulting with her husband resolved ●ot to confesse any so denied it the ●ontroversie arose to a contention till the Landlord interposed and justifi●d his wife and thrust him out of his ●ouse the souldier drawes and ●rusting at the door the Landlord ●ries theeves the souldier is impri●oned and ready for Judgement The ●ay of pronunciation of death the devil ●●ters into prison tells him he is con●emned but if he will resign up soul and ●●dy to him he would free him he like a ●hristian repells those fiery darts ●ith a strong denial which the de●●ll seeing perswades him when called ● the Bar to intreat the Judge to ●●ant him the man in a blew cap to ●ead his cause for he was and that ● was innocent of the crime brought ●●ainst him The poor souldier being arraigned had this blew-cap't Attourney allowed him for his Advocate who affirmed this poor man to be much abused relating all the circumstances of the money with the place where it was laid the Landlord denied all with an imprecation wishing the devill might take him if it were true The devill looking for this advantage took this poor man and carried him up into the ayre who was never more heard of Oh that the Lord would open some mens eyes to see Gods mercy to them that though they have often been guilty yet God in mercy spared them tremble at the justice of God and let these warning● be so to us A certain Priest in Ruthnerwall wished if Luthers doctrine were true a thunderbolt might destroy him a●ter three dayes a Tempest with lightning and thunder so terrified him that he run to Church and at his devotion was struck down who recovering and led homewards a flash o● lightening burnt him to death a● black as hell it self One in France of some knowledge and profession in Religion in passion wisht the Devill to take one of his children the child immediately was possessed and though the prayers of the Church prevailed with God for the release from this evill spirit yet dyed of it A man in anger wishing his wife to the Devil she was forthwith possessed and never recovered it A young Courtier at Mansfield whose customary asseveration was the Devill take me The Devill when he was asleep took him indeed and threw him out of a window where though he was not slain yet he learnt to curb that unruly member of the tongue by escaping the danger of a severer punishment At a Horse-race where divers Noble-men were present some cries the Devill take the last which happened ●o be a Horse that broke loose which the Devill carriad away and was never seen more These examples may ●artle us and not only to warn us ●ut also as a Lanthorn of the Lord to direct our feet from these paths of sin ●nd Ruine At S. Gallus in Helvetia 1556. A man that made foul linnen clean and coming out of a Tavern drunk wished the Devill to take him if ever he followed his Trade more next day being sober he regards not his oaths the devill appears to him in the likenesse of a tall man and told him of his promise presently smiting him upon the shoulders so that his feet and hands presently were dryed up and he trembling with horror yet God gave the devill no farther power that it might be an example both to himself and others Relates of a Taylor that whilst the Fleet was engaged in fight with a Portugal Galleass he cometh running out of the Cabbin with his Goose in his hand swearing he would never follow his Trade more throwing the Goose into the Canon mouth suddenly came a Bullet from the enemy and shot him to pieces Henry Earl of Schwartburg by frequent and wicked wishes was at last answered in his own coyn for at every common occasion he desired he might be drowned in a Privy if such a thing were not so or so which God in Justice answered for he died that filthy death A very remarkable story is recorded of a woman in the Dutchy Megalopole at a village called Oster who gave her selfe to the devill by her frequent cursings and wicked oathes and at a wedding she was publickly reproved and dehorted from her sins but taking no warning the Devill when they were all merry came in person and with horrid cries and roarings mounted her into the ayre before the face of all the company and hovering over the Town the people that saw it were extremely perplexed with fear she is torn into four parts which