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A78019	A divine tragedie lately acted, or, A collection of sundrie memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, hapning within the realme of England, in the compasse onely of few yeers last past, since the book was published, worthy to be known and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sin or archpatrons thereof. / By that worthy divine Mr. Henry Burton.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669, attributed name.	1642 (1642)	Wing B6161; Thomason E176_1; ESTC R18494	27,899	47

de Litania masori records may prove life to many and the judgements on some become remedies to cure all who are sick of the self same si●ne Amen Examples of Gods Iudgements VPON SABBATH-BREAKERS THese Examples of Gods judgements hereunder set down have fallen out within the space of these few yeers even since the Declaration for Sports tolerated on the Lords day was published and read by many Ministers in their congregations for hereupon ill disposed people being as dry fewell to which fire being put quickly flameth forth or as waters pent up and restrained being let loose break forth more furiously were so incouraged if not imaged as taking liberty dispensed thereby so provoked God that his wrath in sundry places hath broken out to the destruction of many would to God to the instruction of any And the judgements are so much the more remarkable that so many in number as here are observed besides many more no doubt which have not come to our ears should fall within so narrow a compasse of time so thick and that in so many places as we read not of such a number of judgements in this kinde for this one sin throughout the whole history of time from the Apostles hitherto So many there are of them as it were too heathenish to impute them to chance too mûch stupidity and envy of Gods glory not to acknowledge the speciall hand of God in them upon such transgressors of his own sacred day And it were to be wished that all the examples in this kinde within this compasse of time were diligently collected and compiled into one Narration for the further illustration of Gods glory and for admonition to all Sabbath-breakers who if they repent not nor surcease from such their prophanenesse it may justly be feared that the number of such examples will be daily increased till they make a heap for all the world to stand amazed at In the mean time who so is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord Psal 107 43. As for the truth of them I have good testimony under the hands of men of sufficient credit for the most of them and the rest hath come to our eares by credible report If it shall so fall out that one or two or so should prove otherwise either for the substance or circumstance let not the Reader blame me who have used my best diligence to enquire out the certain truth of them all and I am sure the most of the examples are confirmed by witnesses without all exception and none of them is to me of any suspected credit So as here are no fained miracles nor fabulous stories nor old Wives tales for prophane Scoffers to jeare at and play upon thereby to disgrace and discredit all truths in this kinde as some of late have done History of the Sabbath part 2. chap. 7. pag. 223. but these examples are such as will abide the triall and search of this present age wherein are yet living so many both eare and eye witnesses of them Example 1. A woman about Northampton the same day that she heard the book for sports read went immediately and having 3. pence in her purse hired a fellow to go to the next Town to fetch a Minstrel who coming she with others fell a dancing which continued within night at which time she was got with childe which at the birth she murthering was detected and apprehended and being convented before the Justice she confessed it and withall told the occasion of it saying it was her falling to sport on the Sabbath upon reading of the book so as for this treble sinfull act her presumptuous prophaning of the Sabbath which brought her adultery and that murther She was according to the Law both of God and man put to death much sin and misery followeth upon Sabbath-breaking Example 2. Also at Northampton in the last Easter Assises there was a young man who formerly by seeing the example of good people in the due sanctification of the Lords day or Sabbath had begun to reform his former loose kinde of life and to frame his conversation according to Gods Word and that in the well keeping of the Sabbath abstaining therein from sports and pastimes and spending the whole day in the publike and private duties of it but when once he heard of the publishing of the book for sports and pastimes he fell back again to his former wallowing and being taken as he was picking a pocket when the Judges were in the Church upon examination confessed what he had formerly been and how he had been reformed and that upon the publishing of the said book he was incouraged to run riot a fresh by which means he fell into this impiety and iniquity for the which he suffered death Example 3. A Maid at Enfield neer London 1634. hearing of the libertie which was given by the book which was published for sports would needs go daunce with others on the Lords day saying she would go daunce so long as she could stand on her legs she daunced so long that thereof within two or three dayes she died Example 4. Vpon May day last 1634. being the Lords day a Maid of the Minister of the Parish Cripplegate London was married to a Widower having three children the youngest being at Nurce in the countrey upon this day they kept their feast in the Church-house joyning to the Church where they spent all the afternoon in dauncing but within one week after the Plague began in that Parish in the new married mans house where within a moneth it took away the man and his wife and his two children that were in the house And thus was the Plague brought first into that Parish this yeer To this we will adde another example because it fell within the same moneth in the same Citie A Minister Rector of a Church in London on the Saturday would go with two of his neighbours boon companions to be joviall the next day being the Lords day they conditioning that he should bestow a Sermon upon them They on the Lords day being now in the countrey spent the forenoon idly in the afternoon they go to visit another Minister who had another benefice there in the Countrey he puts his brother to preach which done invites him with his companions to a bottle of Sack They drank so long that the two neighbours tongues began to fail them Home to their lodging within a few miles they betake them That night their Minister could not sleep and rising early to walk abroad he returned with such a coldnesse upon him that he looked and felt like cold pale death the two neighbours much dismaid and with much a do get him home to London where in that case continuing he dieth before the next Sabbath day Example 5. On Jan. 25. 1634. being the Lords day in the time of the last great Frost 14. young men presuming to play at football

g The Praier after the 4. 10 Commandment Common Prayer Book h Canon 13. 163. Canons i Article 35. of Ireland 56. Articles and k Queen Eliz. In un●r 20. Injunctions which conclude the same I say have adjudged such a presumptuous transgression as will draw down Gods vengeance on mens heads Our late Soveraign King James of happy memory and our present gracious Soveraign Lord K. Charles with all the Prelates Clergy and people of the Realm in the first yeers of both their Reigns in the severall Books of Common Prayer and order for the publike fasts set out by their royal authorities and the Bishops advice with the consent and hearty desire of the whole Realm for the abating aversion and ceasing of those dreadfull Plagues which then swallowed up many thousands of people every week will inform them That among other sins The prophaning of the Sabbath so King James his Book styles the Sunday and not keeping holy the Lords day was one chief cause why those two great terrible Plagues and why not also this great Plague which is now begun and spread much abroad brake in upon us to the destruction not of some few particular persons but of many thousands and the punishment of the whole Realme and Nation in generall And because some of these men plead most falsly that the chiefest writers of the reformed Churches are of their opinion l Homil. 162. in Matth. fol. 308. Hom. 28. in Mar. f. 35. Hom. 56. in Lu. f. 141. Hom. 36. in Joan. f. 77. Hom. 88. in Act. Mr. Kodolphus Gualter and m Comment in Matth. 12. 14. p. 376. 423. in Joa 7. f. 293. Wolfgangus Musculus men of principall note and learning among them will both assure them that the Lords day is not onely wholly onely and intirely to be spent in religious publike and private duties of Gods worship and that dancing sports and pastimes on it are sinfull and execrable the constant judgement of all forraigne Protestant Divines whatsoever as I am able to prove what ever n History of the Sabbath ●● 1. 2. ● 6. 〈◊〉 9 10. Dr. Helyn or o D. Pooklinton Sunday no Sabbath p. 8. others have rashly averred to the contrary But likewise further inform them That God may justly revenge the great contempt of his Deity in prophaning his Sacred day with dances and such like Revels and disorders With horrible punishments neither is it to be doubted saith Mr. Gualther that the prophanation of the Lords day is not the least cause of the evils and calamities of our age Yea their own most illustrious Cardinall Robert Bellarmine whom they almost deifie when they do but name him is so far a Puritan in this particular that he not onely spends P Concio 6. 9 19 20. 2● foure or five whole Sermons against dancing mummeries masks and such like Bacchanals which he simply condemnes at all times but especially on sacred festivals and Lords dayes as most detestable prophanations of them but likewise professeth that the practise of them upon sacred times was the occasion of all the publike calamities and judgements which they suffered But by these Dances Mummeries Bacchanels and disorders saith he we pollute the holy dayes of the Lord and yet neverthelesse we do inquire the reasons why God doth punish us why we are slain in our very houses do not the Scriptures cry aloud Sin maketh a people miserable And there is no evill in the Citie which the Lord hath not done Therefore these our sins of prophaning the holy dayes of the Lord with dances revels and bacchanals have procured us famine and pover y and pestilence and sedition and all plagues and scourges And verily saith he in another Sermon I vehemently fear that if we proceed to celebrate the Bacchanals with mummeries and masks and dances as we do at other times and to provoke God to wrath with so many wicked pastimes our sin will be grown to the full at last and the anger of the Lord be so far incensed that he will utterly destroy us as we see he hath destroyed many nations for what I pray hath destroyed Grecia but even that very thing which we do They were men exceedingly given to drunkennesse feasting and dancing and that upon sacred times as may be known by the Orations of Basil and Chrysostome But what hath God done because they were addicted to these things and especially to Dancing he hath imposed such a severe tyrant to wit the Turke upon their necks that they now groane under the yoke and are pressed with so heavy a burthen that they have neither Time nor Will to Dance or Caper Thus Bellarmine to his great admirers shame and refutation If then this sin of prophaning the Lords day by dancing Maygames Ales Pastimes or unnecessary travell and labour draw down Gods Plagues and vengeance upon whole Kingdomes and Churches as these authors together with Mr. John Field in his declaration of the judgement of God at Paris Garden and Humphrey Robarts in his complaint for the Reformation of divers vain and wicked abused exercises practised on the Sabbath day which tend to the hindrance of the Gospel and increase of many abominable vices printed by Richard Jones London 1580. together with Mr. Philip Stubs in his Anatomie of abuses and M. John Northrook in his Treatise where in Dicing Dancing vain playes and Enter ludes with other idle Pastimes and exercises commonly used on the Sabbath day are by the Word of God and ancient Writers reproved printed for George Bishop London 1579. most punctually testifie and the Practice of Piety dedicated to his Majestie and 39. times printed by publike authority resolves no wonder if it hath lately caused God to unsheath his sword of exemplarie justice upon these particular persons that I speak not of the whole kingdome in generall now scourged with a fresh plague and lately a draught whose tragicall examples I here present unto your view to deterre all others from this sin It is a true saying of Cyprian Praebentur cunctis Exempla cum fuerint quibusdam irrogata Supplicia The Divine punishments of a few are warnings to all God grant that these may be so to us He faith the same Father is over audacious who strives to passe over there where he hath seen another to have fallen he is patragiously head strong who is not struck with fear when he beholds another perish in that course which he is running he onely is a lover of his own safety who takes warning by the Deaths of othes and he alone is a prudent man who is made wife by the Ruins of other men God of his mercie vouchsafe that the exemplarie deaths of these few here specified and of thousands more in this time of mortality occasioned by this sinne of Sabbath-breaking were as the former pests Together with a Plague in Pope Pelagius the second his time An. Dom. 591. as Petrus Blessensis in his 20. Sermon