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Anthony Paint[er] the blaspheming caryar Who sunke into the ground vp to the neck, and there stood two day[s and] two nights, and not to bee drawne out by the strength of hor[ses] or digged out by the help of man: and there dyed the 3. of Nouember. 1613. Also the punishment of Nicholas Mesle a most wicked blasphemer. Reade and tremble. Published by authoritie.
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are first and directly against the honour of God and e'en as it were to spight him If Dathan Corah and Abiran for hauing murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wildernesse haue beene gulped vp and swallowed aliue with all their families into the deepest bowels of the earth what must blasphemers looke for and expect but the very same and worse If any back-biteth or speaketh ill neuer so little of his King and Prince hee is by and by chastned and put to an exemplarie death Why should not the blasphemer be vsed so sith that by his blasphemie hee doth no lesse then spit vpon the very face of God which is the King of Kings the Lord of Lords and the Soueraigne Monark of all the world If the Law of worldly Kings and Princes is vnviolably obserued and executed against such men Why shall not Gods Law bee likewise put in execution which expressely and vpon great threatnings doth command Kings and Magistrates to put the blasphemer to death and to cut and roote him out from amongst his people to appease his anger The ancient Romanes did so abhorre and detest a Blasphemer that finding no torments fit inough for his punishment they did giue him vp to the fury of their gods after he had béen publikely whipped causing this to be proclaimed before him Doe not sweare by the name of the Gods rashly HEsiodus in the first booke of his daies and workes affirmeth that in all ages the Blasphemer hath beene bitterly punished by the Gods for hée was a Pagan and knew not the true God and that the first Blasphemers were laid out and set for a prey vnto Vultures add rauenous birds to feede vpon which did eate their eyes tongue and Liuer Alas if these poore Heathen haue beléeued that their false Gods thus would and did auenge their honour how can we make any doubt beeing Christians but that the true God which we worship will punish the blasphemers sith that he commands it to the Iudges and Magistrates of the earth without any restriction The wise man in his Ecclesiasticus chap. 13. saith that the man which vseth to sweare shall be filled with iniquitie and the plague and affliction shall not goe farre from his house In the 12. chap. of Saint Mathew the blasphemie of the Spirit shall not be pardoned neither in this world nor in the other Saint Iohn in in his Reuelation chap. 16. giues a reason for it saying that the damned shall chew their tongues for very smart and dispaire and for their plagues they shall blaspheme the God of heauen because they did not amend themselues The Théefe hideth himselfe to steale The Letcher seekes darknes out to commit his wickednes in the proud counterfetteth himselfe to bee humble the enuious the couetous the glutton and the idle couer and draw out of mens sight their vices as being ashamed of them but the blasphemer alone is a shamelesse sawcie wicked one vttering publikely and without shame and feare his blasphemies against the holy Name of God nay thinkes it a meane to be esteemed a braue and valiant fellow and so he is but in the Diuels Schoole and in the academie of the damned and Reprobate O how happie was the age of that great Doctor Saint Chrysostome In whose time blasphemers were presently punished and with great rigour as it appeareth in his first Homily to the people of Antiochia grounded vppon the places of Scripture there cited in these words whosoeuer shall heare the voice of the blasphemer if hee accuseth him not he shall beare his iniquitie Leu. 5. chap. God said vnto Moses cast out the blasphemer out of the Campe and let all the people stone him Leu. 14. In the same place God saith The blasphemer shall die the death The same sentence was executed vpon a blasphemer whose mother was an Israelite and his father an Egyptian which was stoned to death in the wildernes Iudas Machabeus for the same crime caused the tong of Nicanor to be cut and minced for foode to the birds of the ayre Mac. 2. booke last Chap. The blasphemer of Corinth was deliuered to the Diuell S. Paul 1 Cor. chap. 3. Nabuchodonosor by a solemne Decree commanded that whosoeuer should blaspheme the God of Daniel should die the death Dan. chap. 3. The lawes of the Church Extr. de maledict C. Statuimus thus condemne them that whosoeuer shall be found to haue blasphemed the holy name of God the Virgine Mary or the Saints must stand by seuen Sundaies at the Church doore and not goe in and the last Sunday of them must be there barefoot a halter about his neck he refusing to do so hee must be thrust out and seperated from the Church and depriued of Christian buriall The ciuill and Imperiall law punisheth them seuerely decreeing that it is a greater sin to blaspheme the eternall Maiesty then the temporall or worldly Maiesty Phillip the faire alias le Bel King of France decreed that blasphemers should be thrown into a riuer or poole Robert King of France iudged them to death without pardon S. Lewis King of France would haue them marked in the forehead with a hot Iron and their tongue peirced through King Hnery the 3 likewise made an excellent statute against them The matter then being so weighty and of so high a consequence as directly touching the honour of Almighty God Let all good and faithfull Christians be vppon their knees holding vp their handes and pouring out teares at the feet of our gracious Soueraigne Lord and King whom God blesse with long and happy yeares of his most wise counsell and of the Lords of his iustice with most humble and deuout petition that by this notable example they would bee pleased better and better to put in execution the decree of God against blasphemers confirmed and obserued from time to time through all lawes Commonwealthes and kingdomes that thereby God being appeased for the sinnes of this World we may see vnder our King Lewis 13. and his most wise mother Regent a golden age vice exiled chastened and extinguished vertue and Christian faith exalted that so our France may be a mirror of vertue piety and iustice vnto other nations So be it Briefes drawne out of the Registers of the Court of Parliament VPon the motion and complaint made vnto the Court by the Kings Atturney generall that as well in Paris as in other places from whence notice was giuen to him by many of his Substitutes or deputies in sundry Shires and Iurisdictions or resorts of Seneschaldoms and other Territories amongst the huge wickednesses and horrible impieties brought in through the vnbridled licentiousnes of the ciuill warres the Blasphemies against the holy Name of God of the blessed Virgin his mother and the execrable oathes detestable renouncings abominable cursings and defyings or spightings of their names and power are growne so common and familiar amongst all persons of what condition so euer that to appease the ire and wrath of God it
ANTHONY PAINTâ—â— THE Blaspheming Caryar Who sunke into the ground vp to the neck and there stood two dayâ—â— two nights and not to bee drawne out by the strength of Horâ—â— or digged out by the help of man and there dyed the 3. of Nouember 1613. Also the punishment of Nicholas Mesle a most wicked blasphemer Reade and tremble Published by Authoritie At London printed for Iohn Trundle and are to be sold at Christ Church Gate 1614. THE STRANGE PVNISHMENT AND IVDGEMENT OF GOD VPON A CVRSED blasphemer ANTHONY PANETER Caryer TRemble all yee people stoope now and fall downe vnder the dreadfull and most iust Iudgement of that great Iehouah which holdes in his hand Heauen Earth and euery thing that therein is weighing them in scales as though it were dust Bee now amazed at the might of so mighty an arme which in the twinckling of an eye crusheth and beateth downe sinners in his wrath scattereth them as the winde doth the Grashoppers and maketh them the subiect and argument of his glorie in the sight of all Nations O fearefull iudgements of the most High which suffers not his glorie to be troden vnder foote but when hee thinkes fit brings the iust and horrible plagues of his auengement vpon the despiser of his holy Name How terrible and full of horrour quoth the Psalmist it is to fall into the Lords hands when hee puts on the armour and weapons of his wrath as the holy Apostle Paul sheweth in the tenth Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes he may when he pleases punish with diuers punishments and temporall plagues besides the eternall damnation those that rebell against him and offend his sacred Maiestie Tremble and shake againe O Sinners for the Prophet Moses in the 14. of Exodus pronounceth vnto you the decree from heauen so dire and frightfull saying that this great God without vsing the ministerie or meanes of any man sendeth his Angels the executioners of his vengeance against the proud profane which sets light by his holy Name That high minded Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon shall bee though to his great shame the first wee will produce for an ensample to all posteritie Pharao King of Egypt and the ten notable plagues which the same God auenging his honour did send vppon that swaggering spirit are euident proofes of the same waters turned into bloud filthy Frogges Lice anoyance of Flies the mortalitie of men by pestilence murren and death of Cattell Boyles and Scabbes Haile and frighting Thunders Grashoppers obscuritie and palpable darknesse briefely the very Angell of the same God whom he blasphemed made warre against him yea ' by things that seemed very contemptible and of no force by the onely winde of his mouth and by his destroying Angell he ouerthrowes and quite vndoes the proud and insolent blasphemer Senacherib King of the Assyrians for attempting with blasphemous words to spite this Soueraigne God but the same most mightie God made him well knowe and all men after him that it is he that punisheth and sheweth mercie which killeth and keepeth aliue which makes wonders in heauen and earth and hee throweth e'en downe to the ground that loftie man by the hands of Sarazar and Adramalec his owne Children within the temple of his owne false God Nezrok in Niniuie And as the same our great God hath diuers and sundry wayes at hand so doth he diuersly inflict and layeth paines vpon sinners sometimes by the Elements as Moses witnesseth in the 26 of Leuit. and 11. of Deuteronomie Sometimes by sicknesses of sundry sorts Exod. 15. Deut. 28. Sometimes by the Sword and by Warre Ezech. 5. Sometimes by Famine by Fire by Captiuitie briefly in a thousand manners when it pleaseth him to take reuenge for his honour offended night cannot hide the sinners from him their strength and nimblenes of their bodie cannot saue them Monarkes Emperours Princes and Kings doe tremble and shake vnder his mightie hand the strongest and best fortresses tumble bowne at his onely looke It is that terrible and potent God of whom spake that Captaine of the Hebrues Iudas Macchabeus who is like in force and greatnes to the mightie God of the Hebrues and the same posie hee vsed in his ensignes of war Doe you think then you wretched and accursed blasphemers of the Name of the most High at whose terrible lookes the earth doth tremble the elements do 〈◊〉 the heauen fadeth away and the sea flyeth out doe you thinke say I to you doe yee thinke to shunne the furie of his face and escape the heauines of his arme that can not be auoided O accursed blasphemers the first and cheefest more wicked and more abhominable than all other sinners doe you not sée that as many times as you open your stincking mouthes to blaspheme the Name of the Almighty as many times the Diuels and frightfull fiends doe enter within your selues through euery blasphemie Doest thou beléeue wretched blasphemer that God which séeth and vnderstandeth thee is deafe or a sleepe or else distracted and busie about some other busines like the Idols of the Paynims as the holy Prophet Elias did in old time reproach vnto the Idolaters of those dayes Dost thou thinke thou must neuer be called to accompt for thy foule and stinking blasphemies bee it neuer so late that letting loose the reines of thy desolate tongue which polluteth both heauen and earth thou shalt thus still liue without God without Faith and Religion in this world Thou art O blasphemer farre worse and more wicked than a Theefe a Niggard a Murtherer a Lyar a Whooremonger a Wanton an Adulterer a Drunkard a Glutton an Idolater a Ruffian and Pandar or a Conceaier of st althes for thou art traiterous and rebellious vnto God spitting in his face as many times as thou blasphem'st against his holy Name with no lesse indignitie and ignominie than the Iewes which did buffet and spit vpon the blessed Sauiour of the world And if Saint Paul said in the sixt to the Hebrues that sinners do crucifie once againe the Sonne of God that being said in generall how much more in particular may it be applyed to the Swearers and Blasphemers of the Name of God For those as saith Saint Augustine doe not sin lesse which blaspheme our Sauiour Christ raigning in heauen than those which haue crucified him walking vpon the earth Yea it may be said that it is lesse sinne to blaspheme Iesus Christ hanging and dying on the Crosse than now he is sitting and raigning in heauen liuing and triumphing The Iewes not knowing that he was the Sonne of God did blaspheme and filthily bespit him but now blasphemers that know him to be the very Sonne of God doe yet worse than euer the Iewes did and are yet more wicked than the damned which blaspheme God in that by blasphemies they make this world their very Hell by anticipation It is most certainely held amongst the Diuines that God is nothing so angry for the blasphemies of all