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

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

which cannot have over good a relish unlesse sweetned with a kinde of submission and therefore when drink or passion is departed then to write or send to them Yet where civillity and meeknesse will not allure to that just decency and order which holds conformity to the wholesome Lawes of the Nation then Currat lex All which I could wish were done without Malice Prejudice Revenge a spirit of domineering or to be accounted some petty some body but with a principle that may not onely approve the integrity of a mans soul to act for the glory of God but also a not expecting your reward from popularity or any other secret advantage below the truth and intent of the action guided by the best principles both Divine and Moral Now Gentlemen to you that are guilty or may be found in these disorders If Lawes were not we had as good live amongst Salvages you could not say your lives were your own if another through fear of the Lawes were not kept from murdering you if we had none to punish transgressors we had as good be without Lawes for your own honours therefore beware you involve not your reputations to the punishment of every mean officer be not angry at Justice which is more the Honour of the Gentry then any because they are looked upon as patrons of it be rather like King Henry the fourth who thanked God that Justice was executed though it lighted upon one of his own loyns To conclude Are not these sins fitter if for any in any sense for Brutes Beasts Beggars and the scum of a Nation than for Gentlemen or Christians for shame then you that are in any degree guilty of such foul spots of dishonour to the Nation to Christianity to your Families good Names and your own Souls let these wicked debauched beastly prophane sins be abandoned from your thoughts and actions and hate it in others that the Nation the Gentry first leading the van may make iniquity and sin blush and even shame these vild courses to the eternal Honour of England And now Gentlemen to whom I have been bold to Dedicate my paines I beg you to look upon the Work in that which you see it doth drive at and not at the unworthinesse of the Authour whose desire in it is nothing lesse than may be concluded in this wish That by your Good Government they that are to come may blesse your remembrance and we present may together with your selves live a comfortable peaceable and quiet life and that in all godlinesse and honesty So prayes Your humble servant W. L. TO THE READER WHen I weigh my owne unworthinesse in the ballance with any thing that may be called a work for God I am extremely discouraged to adventure wondring more that the Lord should not rather make me a warning to others by his Judgements upon me for my own sin then to write examples of others In the deep sence whereof I cannot say that I was constrained to this work purely from those noble and divine principles which should move in the wheeles of all undertakings for the glory of God and good of others lest I deceive my own spirit though ● desire a heart for both Fo● upon a strict scrutiny it will be found a difficult and more then common attainment● though most men are loath but in all their designes to plume themselves with these fair feathers so that in modesty I choose to be rather jealous it is not so then boast it as a reason that it is I can indeed say and that truly that I am an honourer and lover of Order Decency and good Government in a Nation City or Town and from a naturall and moral principle do detest these three sins of Drunkennesse Swearing and Sabbath-breaking as they strike at the Honour of Order Government and the Reputation of a Nation place or person and I wish this principle were wrought in such ingenuous persons as otherwise are not perswaded of a greater evill in these sins they are evills that wound the glory of God honour of a Christian state and the good of a civill Government yet have I been wound up to more then a common hatred of these notorious sinnes since I have seen the face of them in the glasse of Gods Judgements I have observed Drunkennesse Swearing and the slight observance of the Lords day with the profanation of it to grow the more by opposition which I think is because but slenderly punnished like the Seas where but bounded with weak banks rages and roares the more when they are broken down I have likewise observed that that which should be our greatest honor is turned into sin in that they which are under the strictest tye to Christianity by profession should so profane the Lords day and keep it with lesse exactnesse then the Heathens do their dayes of worshiping the Devil whilst we in troops runne to the profanation of God and his holy Ordinances by more then the one halfe of most Parishes absenting themselves from the Congregation and either prophane the day by drinking or which is as sad by a more then Heathenish idlenesse and sloathfull contempt of their own salvation nay and this is so common that it seems not otherwise then if it were turned into a Law to contemne the meanes of salvatien and slight and abuse such as would turn them aside from hell and eternal damnation and by this meanes they slight the faithful Ministers of the Gospel that labour night and day for the good of our soules which I account the first step to Apostasy from the ways of God I have likewise observed the slack execution of lawes by Justices not performeing their duties discourageing under Officers and leaving them a scorn and a reproach to wicked and ungodly men and if it please not the Lord to stir up the hearts of Justices of the Peace themselves to search diligently to go about and find out disordered houses the plagues of the Nation and hunt men out of their houses to the congregation sin will grow impudent and bold If I say they do not shew their faces to encourage and set a rate upon others under them men will be hardened in their wayes and be taught to grow worse by the faintnesse of justice and this I account a duty which a good conscience rightly principled cannot shift nor excuse before God or their own consciences The consideration of these things with the tendency of all to ruine where these evills are not redressed put me upon this I hope useful and may I not say necessary work especially considering the use of Judgements their Energy if pondered in a sober and deliberate mind they walk not alone the causes and ends are to be examined nor are they only limited to the persons or sins they punish but for warning others from the like sins or any other sinnes whatsoever And we see how God loves to warne before he strike so he did to Nineve and