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A61214	Gods sword drawn forth against drunkards and swearers blasphemers of Gods Holy Name, whore-mongers, Sabbath breakers, and other lewd livers of all sorts. In which is set forth the abominable and beastly sin of drunkenness, with its attendant vices. In forty three terrible examples of Gods immediate judgements upon several drunkards, and other impenitent sinners. Necessary to be had in all houses, being a caution to young and old. By J. Srenock, B.D. Licensed and entred according to order.	Srenock, J.	1677 (1677)	Wing S5103A; ESTC R221809	6,992	20

in a shallow Brook of water with his Horse by him 15. On the eighth of February a company of drunkards whose names are recorded as followeth Adam Gibbens George Kespel John Koysel Peter Horsdroff John Warner Simon Heamkers Jacob Hermons Hermon Frow these eight Drunkards in contempt of the blessed Sabbath agreed to go to the Tavern on the Lords day to be merry and coming to the house of one Anthony Hodge an honest godly man they called for burnt wine sack claret and what not the good man refusing to give them any advised them to go to Church to hear the Word of God but they all save Adam Gibbens refused saying they loathed that exercise Whereupon the Host departed who being gone to Church they began to curse and ban wishing he might break his neck ere he returned and wishing the Devil might break their necks if they went from thence till they had some Wine whereupon the Devil in likeness of a young man appeared unto them bringing in his hand a flaggon of wine and so drank to them saying Good fellows be merry you shall have wine enough you seem lusty Lads and I hope you will pay me well who answering said they would either pay him or ingage their necks for it yea rather then fail their bodies and Souls Thus these men continued drinking and swilling so long till they could hardly see one another at last the Devil their Host told them that now they must pay for all at which their hearts waxed cold but the Devil bid them be of good chear for now they must drink fire and brimstone with him in the pit of hell for ever At which the Devil brake their necks asunder and destroyed them And thus ended these dr●nkards their miserable days which may serve for a Cavet for all drunkards for ever 16. Two examples I have known by Children that have Murthered their own Mothers when they were in Drink and one notorious D●unkard who attempted to kill his own Father of which being hindred he fired his Barn and was after executed 17. On the third of August one T. Aldred of Godmanchester in Huntington-stire a Butcher and an accustomed drunkard being desired by a Neighbour to unpitch a load of Hay and being at that time in drink let his Pitchfork slip out of his hand and reaching to take it up fell down with his head foremost and fell upon his fork Tines being upwards and struck himself to the Heart and so dyed suddenly 18. One John Bone of Ely Coachman being given exeedingly to swearing and drunkenness drank himself so drunk on the Lords day that he fell out of the Coach-box and the horses trod him to death See Clarks Examples 19. A Bayliff of Hendly upon the Lords day being drunk at Melford got upon his horse to ride through the streets saying that his horse would carry him to the Devil and presently his Horse cast him and broke his Neck 20. A Glasier in Chancery-Lane not long since so overcharged his Stomach with wine that coming home he fell a Vomiting in so exteraordinary a manner that he broke a Vain and dyed two days after 21. In the Year 1674. some Children near Lambeth on the Lords day having as I was credibly informed got a pot of Drink amongst them drank a health to the Devil saying that he was a Son of a whore if he came not to pledge them but before they had drank round their invited guest the Devil appeared unto them ready to pledge them which almost frighted them out of their Wits and they lay in a sad condition for some time afterward 22. So great are these Sins of Drunkenness and Whoredom and Sabbath-breaking that it hath brought several persons to ruine and unto untimely and shameful ends As for an Example The young-man that was hanged for murthering his fellow-servant by name Thomas Savage confessed that the sin of Druhkenness Whoring and Sabbath-breaking brought him to that untimely end 23. Also likwise the Captain and Lieutenant of the Pyrates that were executed in 1674. confessed that Whoring and Ill company brought them to that untimely end 24. So a young-man that was hanged in Chains in Kent March last 1674. for murdering his sweet-heart and her son confessed at the Gibbet that Drunkenness and Sabbath-breaking brought him to that untimely end 25. So also the Two Men that Hang in Chains the one at Hampstead and the other between High-gate and Islington this last year all these confessed at the Gibbet with much grief of heart that these too common sins of Drunkenness Whoredom and excess hath brought them to their untimely ends how d●d they with grief of heart exhort all others to take warning by them who are made publick spectacles of shame and Infamy 26. And truly there is hardly any of those persons that are executed at Tyburn every month but confess the same that those sins have been their ruine Consider of these things O thou Drunkard and Whoremonger and repent before it be too late and take warning by these sad examples lest thou fall with these persons and pertake of these punishments Think not that those on whom the Tower of Shilo fell were greater sinners then ye but except you repent you shall likewise perish Luke 10. 27. Some Examples against Whoredom and Adultry both from Scripture and History 1. It is forbidden of God as you may read Exodus 20. 14. Thou shalt not commit Adultry Luke 8. 20. thou knowest the Commandme … do not commit Adultry complained of in Jer. 9. 1. Rom. 2. 2. Prov. 30. 20. Threatned Psal 50. 18. Read Mal. 3. 5. Heb. 13. 3. Whormongers and Adulterers will God judge Read Prov. 6. 16. For by means of whorish women a man is brought to a morsel of bread and the Adultress will hunt for the precious Life Punished Levite 20. 10. Prov. 6. 32. David the Sword never departed his house 1 Sam. 2. 4. Ely's Sons 1 Sam. 2. 4. With many other Scriptures against this beastly and filthy Sin so much gloried in this Age to their very great shame See these following Examples the truth of which I could relate 28. The Aegyptians used to cut off the nose of the Adultress where to the Prophet alludes in Ezekiel 29. Anno Christi 1583. In London two Citizens were committing Adultry together on the Lords day who were immediately struck with fire from Heaven in the very act of uncleanness Their bodies were found half burnt up and sending forth a most filthy savour 30. Mr. Cleaver reports of one whom he knew that had committed the act of uncleanness whereupon he fell into such horror of Conscience that he hanged himself leaving it thus written in a Paper Indeed saith he I do acknowledge it to be utterly unlawful for a Man to kill himself but I am bound to act the Magistrates part because the Punishment of this Sin is Death See more in the book the sins of Whordome and Adultery condemned 31. Lastly God will make his Plagues wonderful against these sins his curse will overtake the Swearer and Blasphemer in their Souls and Bodies persons

and prosperity in their goods and houses when he begins he will not spare he will make an end he will do that that will make the Ears of them that hear to tingle as is verified in these ensuing Examples 32. One Ann Avires in the City of London Widow forswore her self for a little money that she was to give for six pound of Tow at a shop in Woodstreet for which she was suddenly surprized by the judgment of God and she fell down speechless immediately and cast that upwards which by nature should be voided downward and so dyed to the terror of all perjured and forsworn wretches See Clarkes Examples more at large 33. An Innokeeper in the Town of Rutlingvin who received a Budget of money from a passenger to keep for him forswore the same before a Judge giving himself to the Devil if he swore falsly and was by two that testified against him which indeed were two finds of hell presently in the presence of the Judge hoisted up into the Air where he was never seen more 34. Michael a Blasphemous Rabin as he was Banqueting with his companions fell to Blaspheming of Christ and his Mother Mary boasting that he had gotten the Victory over the Christians God But as he went out of the Room he fell down Stairs and broke his neck See Fencilus 35. The same Author reports what happened in Megalapole near to Voildstate in the time of the celebration of the Feast of Pentecost Anno 1651. The people being set on drinking and carousing a Woman in the company commonly named the Devil in her Oaths till the Devil being so oft called upon carried her through the gate alost in the Air before them all and hanging a while in the Air they found her fallen dead upon the ground without the Town See Beards Theater 36. I shall relate one example more which hundreds of people near London can testifie the truth of in October 1675. at Salt-Peter bank near Well Close lately lived a Woman very much adicted to Drunkenness Swearing and uncleanness this Woman as her self afterwards confessed wronged a woman of two shillings taking it away from her Child and being taxed with it forswore it before a Justice wished the ground to open and swallow her a live if she had it and at an other time wished that God would damn her if she had it or knew any thing of it and now God dealt with her accordingly for the Devil suddenly possessed her and would several times have choaked her and destroyed her thus she continued some time in a miserable condition One Sunday coming to a Meeting in Gravel Lane she cryed out to the Minister as he was going up into the Pulpit Oh good Master pray for me pray for me Sometimes she would be lifted from the ground and then a ratling in her throat crying out he choakes me sometimes she would strive with the Devil with all her strength and cry be gone thou Rogue I will serve God in this manner she continued all the Prayer and in the midst of the Sermon she was flung down violently headlong to the ground and was taken up dead God grant this may be a warning to all rash forswearers and other lude livers 7. A Credible Author relates of a swearing Courtier at Mans-field who in the midst of his blasphemous Oaths was taken up and carried away by the Devil 38. The German History tells us that at Tubinga a desperate Boy devised new Oaths that were not Common in use But the Lord sent a Canker or some worse disease that eat out his tongue even the very instrument where with he blasphemed God 39. How common are these and such like speeches in too many peoples mouths As the Devil take me if I do such or such things God consume me body and soul or the plague or the ●●x take or rot me And abundance of other hellish Oaths And vild wishes to them which I would have all persons to avoid as they Tender their Immortal souls welfare 40. At Wittenberg before Martin Luther and other learned Men a Woman whose Daughter was possessed with a Spirit confessed by her curse that Plague was fallen upon her for being angry at a time she bad the Devil take her and she had no sooner spoke the word but he took her indeed and possessed her after a strange sort Infinite examples I might mention more as that of the cholerick Father that wished that his Son might never stir from that place it was no sooner said but done his son stuck fast to the place and could never be removed during life which he continued with a post at his back four years and so dyed 41. The Romans were wont to have their funerals at the Gate of Venus Temple to shew that Lust was the harbinger and hastner of death 42. In Germany a Gentleman of note sollicited a Citizens wife to uncleanness which her Husband being inform'd of watcht them so narrowly that finding them in bed together first slew the Adulterer and then his own wife Lut. Col. 43. Before Moses time it was a custom to burn the Adulteress in the fire as appears in the case of Thamer Gen. 38. 24. Prov. 7. 27. Speaking of Whorish Women Her house is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of Death 44. How doth this Sin of Whoredom raign amongst us that many boast of this their shames and are so hardened in this their Wickedness that they go on'to the utter destruction of soul and Estate Let me tell thee Oh Whoremonger and all filthy Harlots that God will surely punish thee for this filthy Sin and remember that for all this God will bring thee to Judgement and without Repentance to the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone where there is no redemption To conclude let us learn by these sad and terrible examples to fear God and take warning by them and pray for Church and Kingdom and a blessing upon our Children and families Amen FINIS