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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

to look upon the Wine when it is red when it sparkles in the Cup or to rise up early in the Morning to follow drink that is strong as appears by the places of Scripture beforecited in the last preceding Chapter And we read that Pitticus the Mitelenian Philosopher and one of the seven wise men of Greece made a Law that whosoever committed a Crime when he was drunk should be punished double both for the Offence committed and also for being drunk And Solon another of the seven wise men of Greece and the famous Law-giver to the Athenians ordained that if any Prince were taken drunk he should be put to death Noah that Holy Patriarch drinking too much Wine not only discovered his own shame but also was the occasion of the cruel Curse which the Lord sent upon the Posterity of Cham which even to this day lieth hard upon them And Lot though he hated the Sin of Sodom and escaped the Punishment thereof yet being overcome with the Wine of the Mountains he committed Incest with his own Daughters and made a new Sodom of his own Family Balthasar rioting and revelling amongst his Whores had the end of his Life and Kingdom denounced against him by a bodiless Hand writing upon the Wall the Lord's Decree And whilst Holofernes besotted his sences with excess of Wine and good Chear Judith found means to cut off his Head Alexander the Great having invited many of his Favourites and Captains to a Supper propounded a Crown in reward to him that should drink most so one in the Company swallowed up four Steans of Wine being in value worth six hundred Crowns and so won the Prize but lost a greater Prize viz. his Life for he survived not three days after and one and forty of the rest that did strive with him for Conquest dyed also to bear him Company at his Death as they had done in the Frolick Alexander also himself was so addicted to the excess of drinking Wine and was oft-times so distempered therewith that sometimes he kill'd his Friends at the Table in his drunken fits whom in sobriety he loved dearest Cyrillus a Citizen of Hippon had a drunken Son who in the midst of his Drunkenness kill'd his own Mother great with Child and his Father also that endeavoured to restrain his drunken Fury and would have ravished his Sister had she not strugled sore and made her escape not without many wounds Three not far from Huntington to my own knowledg saith my Author being overcharged with Drink perished by Drowning when being not able to rule their Horses they were carried by them into the main Stream from whence they never came out again alive but left behind them visible marks of God's Justice for the Terror and Example of others Upon the Coasts of Bohemia Anno 1551. five drunken men quaffing together with horrible Blasphemies profaned the Name of God and the Picture of the Devil being painted on the Wall they caroused Healths to him to which the Devil answered immediately and the next Morning all five were found dead their Necks being broken and squeez'd to pieces as though a Wheel had gone over them Blood running out of their Mouths Nostrils and Ears to the great Astonishment of the Beholders An Alewife in Kesgrave near Ipswich who would needs force three Serving-men that had been drinking in her House and were taking their leaves to stay and drink the three Ou ts before they went that is Wit out of the Head Money out of the Purse and Ale out of the Barrel as she was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand was suddenly taken speechless and sick and her Tongue swoln in her Head and never recovered her Speech but di●d the third day after Two Servants of a Brewer in Ipswich drinking for the Rump of a Turkey and strugling in their Drink for it fell into a scalding Caldron backwards whereof one died presently and the other lingringly and painfully since my coming says Mr. Ward to Ipswich A Man coming home drunk would needs go and swim in the Mill-pond his Wife and Servants knowing he could not swim perswaded him and once got him out of the Water but he going in again was drowned in the Pond In Barnwel near Cambridg a lusty young man living at the sign of the Plough with two of his Neighbours and one Woman in their Company agreed to drink up a Barrel of strong Beer and drinking up the same three of them died within four and twenty Hours and the fourth hardly escaped after great Sickness A Butcher in Haslingfield hearing the Minister inveigh against Drunkenness being at his Cups in the Alehouse fell a scoffing at the Minister and his Sermons and as he was drinking the Drink or something in the Cup got into his Throat and stuck so there that he could neither get it up nor down but was choaked therewith presently At Tillingham in Dengy Hundred in Essex Three young men meeting to drink strong Waters fell by degrees to half Pints and one of them fell down dead in the Room and the other two prevented by Company coming in escaped not without much Sickness At Bungy in Norfolk three coming out of an Ale-house in a dark Evening swore they thought it was not darker in Hell it self one of them fell off the Bridg into the Water and was drowned the second fell off his Horse and the third sleeping on the Ground by the River side was frozen to Death A Bailiff of Hedley being drunk upon the Lord's Day at Melford would needs get upon his Mare to ride through the Street affirming as the report goes says my Author that his Mare would carry him to the Devil and his Mare casting him off broke his neck Company drinking in an Alehouse at Harwich in the Night over against one Mr. Russels Mayor of the Town was by him once or twice desired to depart and at length coming down he took one of them making as if he would carry him to Prison who drawing his Knife fled from him and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand At Tenby in Pembrokshire a Drunkard being excessive drunk broke himself all to pieces from an high and steep Rock in a most fearful manner and yet the occasion and Circumstances of his fall so ridiculous as I says my Author think not fit to relate lest in so serious a Judgment I should move laughter to the Reader A Glasier in Chancery-lane in London fell to a common course of Drinking and being admonished by his Wife and many of his Friends to leave off his sinful Course yet he presuming much of God's Mercy continued in his sinful practise till upon a time having overcharged his Stomach with Drink he fell a vomiting broke a Vein lay two days in extream pain of Body and sorrow of Mind till in the end recovering a little Comfort he died Four sundry instances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their

entertain them when he took them by the Hands he perceiving Claws instead of Fingers he was most terribly amazed and ran out of Doors with his Wife and lest none in the House but a young Infant and a Fool sitting by the Fire whom the Devils had no power to hurt neither any Body else but devoured up the Victuals and so departed One Hacket of Oundle in Northamptonshire used in his earnest talk to curse himself in this manner If it be not true then let a visible confusion come upon me which afterwards happened to him for falling into abominable Errors he call'd himself Christ and Judg of the World for which he was hanged in the 33d year of Queen Elizabeth in Cheapside London At Wit●berg before Martin Luther and divers Learned men a Woman whose Daughter was possessed by a Spirit confessed that by her curse that plague was faln upon her Child for being angry at a time she bid the Devil take her and no sooner spoken the words but the Devil did take her indeed and possessed her in a most strange manner And a Woman of Neuburg in Germany cursing her Son in her angry Passion prayed to God she might never see him again return alive which came to pass that very day for he bathing himself in the Water was drown'd and never returned to his Mother alive according to her ungodly wish Also another Woman in Astorga in her rage cursed one of her Sons with detestable Maledictions giving him to the Devils of Hell and wishing they would fetch him out of her presence with many other horrible Execrations this being about ten of the Clock at Night and the night being very dark the Boy growing fearful hearing his Mother curse so went out into a little Court behind the House from which place he was presently hoised up into the Air by men in shew of grim Countenance great Stature and loathsom and horrible Gesture but indeed cruel Fiends of Hell and that with such swiftness as the Boy confessed that it was not possible as he thought for any Bird to fly so fast and lighting down amongst certain Mountains amongst Bushes and Briers was trailed through the thickest of them and so torn and rent not only in his Clothes but also in his Hands and Face and almost all his whole Body at last the Boy remembring God and beseeching his merciful Favour and Assistance the cruel Fiends brought him back again through the Air and put him in at a little Window into a Chamber in his Father's House where after much search and grief for him he was found in this miserable Condition and almost distracted and thus tho they had no power to deprive him of his Life yet the Lord suffered them to afflict the Parents in the Son for the good of both if they belonged to God But above all says my Author this is most strange which happned in a Town of Mesina Anno 1552. when a diolerick Father seeing his Son slack about his Business wished he might never stir from that place which was no sooner said but it was done and his Son stuck fast in the place and could not by any means possible be removed no not so much as to move or bend his Body till by the prayers of the Faithful his pains were somewhat mitigated tho not remitted three years he continued standing with a Post at his back for his case and four years sitting at the end whereof he died nothing weakned all this while in his Understanding but professing the Faith and not doubting of his Salvation in Christ Jesus When any asked him at any time how he did his usual answer was that he was fastned of God and that it was not in mans Power but God's Mercy to release him Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments makes mention of a certain young Gallant that was a monstrous Swearer who riding in the Company of divers Gentlemen began to swear and most horribly blaspheme the Name of God and one in the Company telling him that he must one day answer for it he in a great huff said Why takest thou thought for me take thought for thy Winding-sheet Well says the other amend for death gives no warning and as soon comes a Lambs-skin to the Market as an old Sheeps Gods wounds said he care not thou for me raging still on this manner worse and worse till at length as they past on their Journey they came riding over a great Bridg upon which the Gentleman Swearer spurred his Horse so that he leapt clear over the Battlement with the man on his Back who as he was going cry'd Horse and Man and all to the Devil In August 1629. one Thomas Wilson Labourer a known and common Swearer and Blasphemer of God's Name by Oaths and Curses and much given to drink to excess upon a slight occasion moved to displeasure against his Wife and not daring to do much violence to her turned it upon himself and with his Knife stabb'd himself and so died many of his Friends and Neighbours being present Sir Jervasa● Elwayes Lieutenant of the Tower of London when he was hanged on Tower-hill for being Accessary in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury his Prisoner confessed that at his playing at Cards and Dice he had often wished that he might be hang'd if it were not so and so and therefore says he this shameful death is justly come upon me Anno 1603. A man that dwelt in Wimble Stafford in Cheshire seeing two godly Persons going in the Highway near to him said to one that was with him I will dance and swear and swagger to anger yonder Puritans and so he did to their great Grief but presently the revenging hand of God fell upon him so that immediately he was strucken with Sickness was carried home in a Cart and three days after he died in a most fearful manner About the beginning of April 1661. a Woman in Darbyshire having cozened a Boy of some Money was charged with it but she stifly denyed it and being further urged to confess the Truth she in a fearful manner prayed God that the Earth might open and swallow her up quick if she had it and immediately the Earth under her opened and she sunk down into it and being afterwards digged for they found her nine Foot deep within the Earth and that very Money was found in her Pocket this was attested by credible Witnesses John Peter Son-in-law to Alexander Keeper of Newgate in Queen Maries time an horrible Blasphemer upon every idle occasion used to say if it be not true I pray God I may rot before I die and accordingly God made him exemplary for as he wished so it happened to him for his Body rotted away by piece-meal till he died And a certain Maid having stoln and pilfred many things out of her Mistresses House and being examined about it forswore them and wished that she might rot if ever she touched them or knew of them and being carried

Drink and slain by Carts I says my Author forbear to mention because such Examples are so common and ordinary A Yeoman's Son in Northamtonshire being drunk at Wellingborough on a Market day would needs ride his Horse in bravery over the Ploughed Lands so fell from his Horse and broke his Neck A Knight notoriously given to drink carrying some Pales of Drink into the open Fields to make People drunk withal being upon a time drinking with Company a Woman comes in delivering him a Ring with this Posy in it Drink and Die saying to him this is for you which he took and wore and within a Week after came to his end by drinking One of Aylesham in Norfolk a notorious Drunkard was drowned in a shallow Brook of Water with his Horse And one to my own knowledg in Yorkshire being drunk as he was going home fell down upon his Face into a very small running Water and was drowned there though the back side of his Head was all dry and not covered with the Water Two examples says Mr. Ward have I known of Children that murdered their own Mothers in drink and one notorious Drunkard that attempted to kill his Father of which being prevented he fired his Barn and was afterwards executed A young Fellow of North-Allerton in Yorkshire being Drunk and having some reproof given him by his Mother he murdered her in her own House upon a Good-Friday she having received the Sacrament that day and being but come from the Church a little before At a Tavern in Breadstreet in London certain Gentlemen drinking Healths to their Lords on whom they had Dependance one desperate Wretch steps to the Tables end lays hold of a Pottle Pot of Canary Sack swears a deep Oath What! will none drink a Health to my noble Lord and Master and so setting the Pottle Pot to his head drank it off to the Bottom but was not able to rise up or to speak when he had done but fell into a deep snoaring Sleep and being removed laid aside and covered by one of the Servants in the House attending the time of his waking was within the space of two hours irrecoverably dead A man in Suffolk overtaken with Wine tho never in all his Life before as he himself said a little before his Death and others that knew him said the same vet going down a pair of Stairs against the perswasion of a Woman sitting by him in his Chamber he fell and was so dangerously hurt that he died soon after not being able to speak from the time of his Fall to his Death I forbear says my Author to name the parties thus punished for their Kindreds sakes yet living says he In Dengy Hundred near Maldon there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or six that plotted a solemn Drinking at one of their Houses laid in Beer for the purpose drunk Healths in a strange manner and all died thereof within a few Weeks after some sooner and some later In August 1618 one Thomas Alred of Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire Butcher an accustomed Drunkard being entreated by a Neighbour to unpitch a load of Hay and being at that very time in drink leting his Pitchfork slip out of his hand and stooping to take it up again slipped from the Cart with his head downwards his Fork standing upright with the Tines he fell directly upon them which at once run him into the Breast and struck his Heart so that he died suddenly And in July 1628. one John Vintner of Godmanchester Gardiner a known Drunkard and one that would profanely especially in his drink scoff at Religion and abuse good men fell from the top of a Pear-Tree and brake his Neck and so died Manlius in his common Places gives a Relation of three abominable Drunkards who drank so long till one of them fell down stark dead and yet the other two nothing terrified with such a dreadful example of divine Vengeance proceeded on still in their vain presumptuous drinking and poured the dead mans part into him as he lay by them So that the Text in the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 5. ver 12. might well be applied to them They regard not the work of the Lord neither consider the operation of his Hands St. Ambrose tells of one Theotimus that being told by his Physicians that much Quaffing would make him blind Vale Lumen Amicum said he Farewel dear Eyes if ye can bear no Wine Then ye no Eyes shall henceforth be of mine So that he would rather lose his Sight than his Sin his Soul than his Lust And St. Austin brings in a Drunkard saying Malle se vitam quam vinum eripi he had rather lose his Life than his Wine We are told by a credible Author That about eight Persons that were Citizens and Citizens Sons in the Country of Swaben meeting together at a Tavern on a Sabbath-day morning proceeded to that height that they drank themselves drunk and then began to blaspheme God and scoff at the Vintner who advised them to leave drinking and go to Church and hear the Word of God preached at which advice they did not only continue to mock but continued on their drinking but on a sudden the Devil coming in among them in a Gentlemans Habit and drinking to them set their Mouths in such a Fire that these Drunkards not only became amazed thereat but also after a miserable manner were all strangled to death A Soldier in Salisbury in the midst of his Health-drinking and Carousing in a Tavern drank a Health to the Devil saying that if the Devil would not come and pledg him he would not believe that there was either God or Devil whereupon his Companions being strucken with Horror hasted out of the Room and presently after hearing an hideous noise and smelling a stinking Savour the Vintner went up into the Chamber and coming in he missed his Guest and found the Window broken the Iron Bar in it bowed and all Blood but the man was never heard of afterwards A Vintner that accustomed himself to Swearing and Drunkenness as he was upon a Lords-day standing at his Door with a Pot in his Hand to invite in Guests there carne suddenly such a violent Whirlwind as carried him up into the Air after which he was never more seen Zeno the Emperor was such a Drunkard that he would often lie as one dead for many hours so that he grew not only odious to all People but even to his own Wife who upon a time finding him in that case caused him to be laid in a Tomb with a great Stone upon the top of it whereby he was miserably pined to death Maginus reports of Fliolmus King of Goths that he was by his drunken Servants thrown headlong into a Vessel of Ale and therein was drowned In Glocestershire an horrid Patricide was committed by an ungracious Son being drunk upon his Father whom he desperately slew The like unnatural Villany was committed by one Purchas an

Essex Monster upon the Body of his Mother whom he likewise slew In the Parish of Castle-Terra in the County of Cavan in Ireland a Gentleman when he met with jovial Company used to drink Healths and throw the Glasses against the Walls he delighted also to contradict what Ministers delivered in their Sermons and having heard one preach of the Benefits and Trial of a justifying Faith after Sermon he demanded of the Preacher whether he could remove Mountains if I could see you do that then said he I would believe you had Faith otherwise not for does not the Gospel say If a Man have Faith but as a Grain of Mustard seed he shall say to Mountains be removed hence and it shall be done But at length this Gentleman was strucken with the Small-pox which got into his Throat in such manner that he could not swallow nor let down a little Beer to cool his excessive internal Heat wherewith being sore tormented he broke out into these Expressions to an honest man that stood by O Thomas would I could now receive one of those Glass-fulls of Drink which formerly I have thrown against the Wall in a Frolick and afterwards when he saw there was no Remedy but die he must he said again O that I now had Faith like a Grain of Mustard-seed and a little after he deceased in the fifty seventh year of his Age. We read of a Drunkard says Mr. Clark who in the midst of his Cups sold his Soul to the Devil for a Tankard of Wine and the Devil forthwith had his Bargain A certain young man that had devoted himself to a pious and retired course of Life was much assaulted by the Devil by sundry Temptations and pressed to make choice of one of these three Sins once to be drunk or to lie with his Neighbours Wife or to kill his Neighbour and the Temptation so far prevailed that at last he chose the first viz. once to be drunk as deeming it the least Sin but when the Devil had drawn him to that at the same time both the other Sins were committed by him For as St. Bernard observes Ad universa vel crudelitatis vel turpitudinis facinora perpetranda facilis invenitur via cui nulla sobriae mentis ratio sed ebrietas dominatur When Drunkenness gets rule and dominion over a man he is then easily drawn to commit any sort of Villany so when the young man was gotten drunk he then did not scruple to lie with his Neighbour's Wife and to kill his Neighbour too A certain Drunkard whom I says a godly Minister knew very well when he was in drink quarrelled with his fellow-Servant and after a few words knock'd him down with his Flail and kill'd him at one blow yet when he came to his Trial by the help of his Friends he made a shift to escape the Halter and came home again and there he used to swear and curse and drink at as high a rate as ever but at last when he was in the same Yard where he committed the aforesaid Murder he fell down dead in a moment and I was saith the same Minister one of the first that saw him Mr. Baxter tells us a Story for a certain Truth There is in London saith he an understanding sober pious man oft one of my Hearers who hath an elder Brother a Gentleman of considerable Rank who having formerly seemed pious of late years doth oft fall into the Sin of Drunkenness he oft lodgeth long together here in this his Brothers House and whenever he is drunk and hath slept himself sober something knocks at his Bed-head as if one knocked on the Wainscot when they remove the Bed it followeth him besides loud noises in other parts where he is that all the House heareth They have oft watch'd and kept his Hands lest he should do it himself and his Brother has often told me and brought his Wife a discreet Woman to attest it who averreth moreover that she watching him has seen his Shoes under the Bed taken up and nothing touch them they brought to me the man himself and when we asked him how he dared to sin after such a warning he had no excuse but being a person of Quality for some special reason I says Mr. Baxter must not name him Nathaniel Butler was first addicted to Drunkenness Gaming Purloining and Fornication before he committed that murder upon his Friend John Knight in Milk-street London 1657. for which he was afterwards condemned to the Gallows and executed Mr. William Rogers an Apothecary in Crane-brook in Kent exceedingly much given to Drinking and Sabbath-breaking tho a young man of a pleasing sweet Temper was often admonished and perswaded by Mr. Robert Abbot Minister of the place to come to Church but had often promised and failed But one lord's-Lord's-day in the morning when he said he was ready to come he was taken sick and betook him to his Bed but it proving only an Ague next morning he betook him to his old course again next Week after the Messenger of Death came in earnest Mr. Abbot addressed himself to him in his Chamber with these words O how often have you deceived God your own Soul and me and what is now to be done I fear you will die and then what will become of you his Sickness prevailed and there was too great a Fire kindled in his Breast to be smothered it burned in his own Soul and it lightned from his Heart and Lips into the Ears and Hearts of those about him one while he cries out of his Sins saying I have been a fearful Drunkard pouring in one draught after another till one draught could not keep down another I now would be glad if I could take the least of God's Creatures which I have abused and have neglected my Patients which have put their Lives into my hands and how many Souls have I thus murdered I have wilfully neglected God's House Service and Worship and tho I purposed to go God strikes me thus before the day of my promise comes because I am unworthy to come amongst God's People Again another while he falls to wishing O that I might burn a long time in that Fire pointing to the Fire before him so I might not burn in Hell O that God would grant me but one year or a month that the World might see with what an Heart I have promised to God amendment O that God would try me a little but I am unworthy Another while to his Companions Beware by me to forsake your wicked ways lest you go to Hell as I must do calls his young Servant tells him that he had been a wicked Master to him But be warn'd by me says he you have a Friend that has an Iron Furnace which burns hot and long but if you give your self to my Sins you shall be burned in the furnace of Hell an hotter Furnace millions of millions of Ages The Minister propounding the Gospel-promises of the largest

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-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

him so nimble Mr. Ameridith replied he doubted not but to dance about the May-Pole the next Lord's Day but before he moved out of that place he was smitten with such a Feebleness of Heart and Dissiness in his Head that desiring help to carry him to a House he died before the next Lord's Day came At Walton in Surrey upon the Thames there in a great Frost Anno 1634 Three young Men on the Lord's Day after they had been at the Church in the Forenoon where the Minister pressing the words of his Text out of 2 Cor. 5. 10. That we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ c. They the while whispered as they sate And in the Afternoon they went together over the Thames upon the Ice unto a disorderly House of Gameing c. where they spent the remainder of the Lord's Day and part of the Night also in Revelling one of them in a Tavern merrily discoursing the next Day of his Sabbath Deeds and of his Voyage over the Ice but on the Tusday after these three returning homewards and attempting to pass over the Ice again they all sunk down to the bottom like Stones whereof one only was miraculously preserved but the other two were drowned Anno 1598 the Town of Teverton in Devo●shire was often warned and advised and told by the Godly Pastor thereof that God would bring some heavy Judgment upon the Inhabitants of that place for their horrible Profanation of the Lord's Day occasioned chiefly by reason of their market-Market-day being on the Monday and accordingly not long after their Minister's death in the said Year God sent a terrible Fire which in less then half an Hour consumed the whole Town except the Church the Court-house Almes-houses and a few poor People's Dwellings and above 50 Persons were consumed and perished in the Flames Also Anno 1612 it was again wholly burnt down except a few poor Houses they not being warned by the former Judgment but continuing in the same Sin In the Year 1635 A Profane Company of young Men went as Mr. Faucnor relates on the Lord's Day early in the Morning to Clarendon-Park to cut down a May-Pole and having loaden the Cart with it at Miln●rs-Barn entring into Salisbury one of the Cart Wheels falling into a Rutt made the young Tree in the Cart which they had stoln for a Pole to give a great shugg on one side which struck one of the Company such a blow on the Head that it beat out his Brains so that he presently died in the place and there lay a fearful Spectacle of God's Wrath both against that idle Sport and wilful prosaning of the Sabbath whilst he makes the very thing they had chosen for their Sport and Pastime to be the Instrument of executing his Fury And Dr. Teate gives a second Example of this Nature in the Year 1626. We read that Mr. Abberley a Godly Minister in Burton upon Trent did often take occasion to reprove and threaten Sabbath-breakers especially such as sold and bought Meat upon the Sabbath-day Mornings a Practice too common it seems in that place nevertheless there was a Taylor in the Town a very nimble active Fellow dwelling at the upper end of the Town who would go through the long Street as it were in Bravado to the other end of the Town and fetch home Meat on the Lord's Day before Morning-Prayer But as he came back with both his Hands full in the midst of the Street he fell down stark dead which as it pleased God says the Doctor did work some Reformation both amongst the Butchers and others When I was in Cheshire says my Author there was one Sir T. S. a Papist and at that time in favour at the Court who coming into his Country was much feasted and followed by the Gentry and upon a Sabbath day was entertained and feasted at a Knight's House where many others were present towards Evening they went to Dancing and in the midst of their Sports there was one Sir J. D. that had a great Blow given him on his Leg by an invisible Hand which made him lame for a long time after Thomas Savage a young Man who was Executed at Ratcliff Octob. 28. 1668 for Murthering his Fellow-Servant whilst he was in Newgate cryed out thus to some that came to see him O Wretch said he that I was 〈◊〉 studied how I might spend the Lord's Day in the Devil's Work I thought I could never dishonour God enough and that time I should have served God in I did most for Satan in it on the Sabbaths I used to play my Prancks I sometimes went into the Church indeed but I may speak it to my Shame and deep Sorrow I never heard one whole Sermon all the while I was with my Master and indeed I laughed at those that spent the Sabbath in Hearing and Praying and looked upon them as the veriest Fools in the World I was glad when the Sabbath came that I might have time to run to my Vile Comrades I rejoiced that then I could go to satisfy my cursed Lusts with Wherish Women O tell young Men from me that the breaking of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly Sin Also while he was in Newgate one Sabbath day his Fellow-Prisoners being at Cards asked him to join with them O said he you and I have something else to do with our Time than to play at Cards is it now a time for us to be sporting away the Sabbath when we have but one poor Sand left us to work for Eternity A Minister on a time preaching and pressing the Sanctification of the Sabbath had occasion in his Sermon to make mention of that Man that by the special Command of God was stoned to death for gathering Sticks upon the Sabbath day Whereupon one in the Congregation stood up and laughed and made all the haste that he could out of the Church and went to gathering of Sticks the he had no need of them but when the People came out from Sermon they found this Man stark dead with the bundle of Sticks in his Arms lying in the Church-Porch Gregory Tomonensis reports that an Husbandman who upon the Lord's Day went to plow his Field as he cleansed his Plow-share with an Iron the Iron stuck so fast into his Hand that for two Years he could not be delivered from it but carried it about continually to his exceeding great Pain and Shame Another Profane Fellow without any regard to God or his Service made no Conscience to lead his Corn out of the Field on the Lord's Day in Sermon time but he was well rewarded for his ungodly Covetousness for that Corn which with so much care he gathered together was consumed with Fire from Heaven with the Barn and all the Grain that was in it And a certain Noble-man every Lord's Day using to go a Hunting in the Sermon time the Lord punished his Impiety with this Judgment he caused his Lady to

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

Esau who for one morsel of Meat sold his Birth-right Heb. 12. 16. Marriage is honourable in all and the Bed undefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judg Heb. 13. 4. Wherefore lay aside all Filthiness and supersluity of Naughtiness and receive with Meekness the engrafied Word which is able to save your Souls Jam. 1. 21. Ye Adulterers and Adulteresses know ye not that the Friendship of the World is Enmity with God Jam. 4. 4. Having Eyes full of Adultery and that cannot cease from Sin beguiling unstable Souls 2 Pet. 2. 14. For all that is in the World the Lust of the Flesh and the Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life is not of the Father but of the World 1 Joh. 2. 16. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha and the Cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to Fornication and going after strange Flesh are set forth for an Example suffering the Vengeance of Eternal Fire Jude ver 7. But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and Muderers and Wboremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Liars shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second Death Rev. 21. 8. More Places of Scripture might be cited to this purpose but I suppose these may be sufficient to convince any sober rational Christian of the Dangers that attend the sinful Wickedness of incontinency and Whoring I shall therefore proceed to the next Chapter and acquaint the Reader with some few signal Marks of God's Justice in the punishment of Persons guilty of such profane Wickedness and so shall conclude this Treatise CHAP. XII An Account of some Persons signally punished by Almighty God for the Profane and Wicked Vice of Whoring and Lustful Incontinency WE read in Scripture that the Sons of Ely were Sons of Belial they knew not the Lord. And when their Father heard all that his Sons did unto all Israel and how they lay with the Women that assembled at the Door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation Their Father Ely reprov'd them saying ye make the Lord's People to transgress If one Man sin against another the Judg shall judg him but if a Man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him Notwithstanding they hearkned not to the Voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them Which accordingly came to pass For the Philistines fighting against Israel made a great Slaughter of them for there fell of Israel thirty thousand Footmen And the Ark of God was taken and the two Sons of Eli Hophni and Phineas were slain 1 Sam. 2. 12 22 24 25. and 4. 10 11. And David having committed Adultery with Bathsheba the Wife of Vriah and caused her Husband to be slain The Lord thereupon caused Absalom David's own Son to rebel against him so that he was forced to flie from Jerusalem for foar of his Son and had his Head covered and went barefoot and wept when he went up by the Ascent of Mount Olivet As appears by the Story in the 2 Sam. Ch. 11. and 15. In Germany a Gentleman of Note finding his Wife in Bed with another Man slew first the Adulterer and then his own Wife A Nobleman in Thuringia being taken in Adultery the Husband of the Adulteress bound him Hand and Foot cast him into Prison kept him fasting only causing daily hot Dishes of Meat to be set before him to tantalize him with the smell in this Torture the Letcher continued till he gnawed off the Flesh from his own Shoulders and on the eleventh day he died Mary of Arragon Wife to the Emperor Otho the 3d carry'd a young Fornicatour along with her in Womans Habit But he being discovered was burnt to death Afterwards soliciting the Count of Mutina and not able to draw him to her Lure she accused him to the Emperor of attempting a Rape upon her for which he was Beheaded But the Emperor at last finding out his Wife's Wickedness caused her to be burnt at a Stake Luther tells us of a great Man in his Country so besotted with the Sin of Whoredom that he was not ashamed to say that if he might live for ever here and be carried from one Whore-house to another there to satisfy his Lusts he would never desire any other Heaven this Vile Fellow afterwards breathed out his wretched Soul betwixt two notorious Harlots Joan Queen of Naples was insatiable for her Lust which caused her to hang her first Husband which was Andrew second Son to the King of Hungary at her Window for insufficiency Her second Husband was Lewis of Tarentum who died with the over-straining himself to satisfy her Lustful Appetite Her third Husband James of Tarracon a gallant Gentleman she Beheaded for lying with another Woman Her fourth Husband was Otho Duke of Brunswick in whose time the King of Hungary drew her out of her Kingdom and having taken her hung her out of the same Window where she had hang'd her first Husband An ancient Gentleman of good Account marrying a beautiful young Gentlewoman but having no Issue he took into his House a young Gentleman a Neighbours Son and compleatly qualified purposing to make him a sharer in his Estate This Gentleman grows familiar with his Wife which gave so much occasion of Suspicion and caus'd such a Rumour in the Country that his Father requires him to return home again He doth so but at parting promiseth Marriage to the Gentlewoman in case of her Old Husbands decease and she to him both with Oaths The Old Gentleman's Maid meeting with this young Gallant over a Glass of Wine tells him in private how much his Company was missed at her Master's House and his Return desired But withal tho she knew the Familiarities between him and her Mistress yet it was all feigned for another enjoyed both her Heart and Body naming the Person the Gentleman is startled but incredulous And after some time the Old Gentleman sends for him again he goes in the Night but very privily having before by Letter desired that the Garden Door might be left open for him and tells the Old Gentleman the reason of his absence But before he went back he goes softly to the Gentlewoman's Bed-chamber Door who often lay by her self and hears the Whispers of two distinct Voices Upon which in a sudden Passion he resolves to break in upon them and run them through with a Sword but relenting with tenderness he departs softly to his own home grows melancholy and distemper'd but recovering he resolved to travel The Old Gentleman sends for him to take an unwilling Farewel At the importunity of his Father he goes After Dinner the Gentlewoman singles him out for a Farewel weeping in his Bosom and beseeching him to have care of his Safety but especially of his Vow and Promise Instead of a Reply he gave her a Letter which he desired her to peruse in his Absence She opens the Letter and reads there all the Story of her Lust laid