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earth_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	7,508	5	10.6028	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07675	A godly exhortation, by occasion of the late iudgement of God, shewed at Parris-garden, the thirteenth day of Ianvaris: where were assembled by estimation; aboue a thousand persons, whereof some were slaine; & of that number, at the least, as is crediblie reported, the thirde person maimed and hurt. Giuen to all estates for their instruction, concerning the keeping of the Sabbath Day. / by Iohn Field.	Field, John.	1583 (1583)	STC 10844.8; ESTC S92533	15,903	45

or discommoditie that can let them Is not this thinke you to keepe the Sabboth the lawes of the land haue Godly prouided that all the people of all sortes shall repayre to the publique places of Gods worship then to be taught and instructed in the wholesome word of saluation and there is a penaltie set vpon it but how this is looked vnto thorowout the lande I leaue it to them to consider that are wyse and in authoritie The Lorde blessed the sabboth daye and sanctified it because in it hee rested from all the workes of his hande that hereby we might learne to rest from sinne and iniquitie and consecrate our selues to his spiritual seruice And this he instituted for mans commoditie that al flesh might come to worshippe before his face He gaue them double food in respect of this that it might abide with them and that none might come out of their place but might rest in his prouision and prouidence So that it appeareth he woulde not haue them occupied in making prouision for the bellie to gather stickes to treade the presse or to carry burthens either vppon their owne shoulders or vppon their beastes The commaundement for the obseruing of it is so often set downe in the scripture as nothing more The seuenth day is the Sabboth of the Lord thy God Thou shalt do no maner of worke in it neither thou nor thy Sonne or Daughter thy man seruannt or thy mayde thy Cattle and the straunger that is within thy gates Keepe my sabboth for it is holy vnto you He that shall defile it shall dye the death He that shall worke on that daye his soule shall be cut off from the middest of his people Nowe to worke is to doe thinges of our owne that are prophane or wicked And because the commaundementes of God are morall the equity of this commaundement belongeth vnto vs. In deed there was some thinge peculiar to the Iewes in respect of the ceremonie and the day But there is yet a day to be kept because intermissions from the trauailes of this life are necessarie both for the soule and bodye That both the one and the other may be prouided for the Soule to be fedde and the bodye to rest our selues and our Seruanntes yea our very cattle are to be fauoured in this behalfe because of this solemne consecration to God And therefore the king of Niniuie commaunded that that solemne Fast shoulde be extended euen to the Oxe within the staule and to the Horse in the stable and to euery beast of the field Blessed saith I say is the man that Isay 56. 2. doth this and the Sonne of that man that layeth hold of this taking heed that be defile not my Sabboth and keeping his Isay 58. 13. handes that they doe no euyll If thou shalt turne thy foote from my Sabboth doe not that thou delightest in on my holy day If thou shalt call it thy delight holy to Iehouah and honorable and shall honour it not in exercising thine owne wayes not in performing that which thou delyghtest in not in speaking a vayn word then I wyl aduaunce thee delighting in the Lord vppon the hygh places of the Earth and thou shalt enioy the possession of Iacob thy father because the mouth of the Lorde speaketh it So God speaketh by the Prophet Iere. 17. 21. Ieremy also Take beede vnto your selues and bear not burdens vppon the Sabboth day neyther bring those thinges into the Ezec. 20. 20. gates of Ierusalem c. The Prophets are very vehemente in this behalfe therefore our sinne standeth at the dore that haue made no regarde of these thinges For we do worse then beare burdens Not onely oure carriers Poste vppe and downe but men trauaile all moste with oute conscience in euerye quarter yea wee doe thinges that are naught and therefore the wrath of God must néedes be powred out against vs. And yet God hath shewed vs within these fewe yeeres many fearfull signes and tokens of his heauye anger and displeasure and one iudgemente dothe euen ouertake another and yet nothing can mooue vs. Hee hathe spoken to vs from Heauen by Comettes Ecclypses and fiery impressions he hath set Starres in vnwoonted places sent vpon the world strange tempests He hath rumbled in the howels of the earth farre and wyde and hath losed the depest and strongest foundations The earthe hath quaked at his presence and the very creature hath sled from before his face He hath opened the windowes of heauen and couered the earth with his displeasure He hath made bare the rootes of the corne and fedde the foules with our nourishment Hee hath sent out the pestilence and burning fire from before his feete that they might wast and deuoure the inhabitauntes of the earth Many men haue receiued short summons to appeare before him to render account of their doinges They haue perished as Iob saith by the blast of his mouth and by the breath of his Iob. 4. 9. 10. nostrils they are consumed By the roaring of the Lyon and by the voyce of the fierce Lyon and w●th the teeth of the Lyons whelpes they are ground to pouder And yet notwithstanding all these Iudgementes and manye more that I can not reckon vp who turneth to the Lord who leaueth his wickednes and forsaketh the companie of fooles Who is wise to vnderstand the plagues at home and the miseries that are abroade that he may be prepared to a better Kingdome Who looketh to the kéepinge of the Sabaoth and considereth this feareful example fallen out amongst vs But that it may be remembred the better to doo vs good that by the harmes of other we may make our profite I will set it downe as plainly as I can and as truely as can be gathered from the examination of those same common euidenses that haue fallen out waying some circumstances that shall teach thée that it was not the worke of any man but the finger euen of God himselfe to warne vs to turne and especially from these sinnes that we cōmit in that behalfe for prophaning of the Sabaoth which are too horrible You shall vnderstande therefore deare Christians that vpon the laste Lordes day being the thirtéen day of the first moneth that cruell and lothsome exercise of bayting Beares being kept at Parrisgarden in the after none in the time of common prayers and when many other exercises of Religion both of Preaching and Catechizinge were had in sundrie places of the Cittie diuers Preachers hauing not longe before also cried out againste such prophanatious yet the more pittie there resorted thether a greate company of people of all sortes and conditiones that the like nomber in euery respecte as they say had not béene séene there a long time before Being thus vngodlilie assembled to so vnholy a spectacle and specially considering the time the yearde standinges and Galleries beinge full fraught being nowe amiddest their iolitie when the Dogs and Beare