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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

and to it till they could not stand so steady as the Pole did whereupon the Major and Justice bound the ring leaders over to the Sessions whereupon these complaining to the Archbishops Vicar Generall then in his visitation he prohibited the Justices to proceed against them in regard of the Kings book But the Justices acquainted him they did it for their disorder in transgressing the bounds of the book hereupon these libertines scorning at Authority one of them fell suddenly into a * Deut. 28. 22. Consumption whereof he shortly after died now although this revelling was not on the Lords day yet being upon any other day and especially May-day the May-pole set up thereon giving occasion to the prophanation of the Lords day the whole yeer after it was sufficient to provoke God to send plagues and judgements among them Example 17. In the same yeer 1634. and in the same Shire one Edward Amerideth a Gentleman having been pained in his feet and being upon his recovery whereupon one said unto him he was glad to see him so nimble Amerideth replied that he doubted not but to daunce about the May-pole the next Lords day But behold the hand of the Lord for before he moved out of that place he was smitten with such a feeblenesse of heart and dizsinesse in his head that desiring help to carry him to an house he died before the Lords day came so fearfull it is to fall into the hands of the living God Example 18. One in Glocestershire being very forward to advance a solemne sommer-meeting wherein his son was to be a chief stickler went himself in great jollity to see it and there beholding it he fell down suddenly and so died Example 19. A Miller at Churchdown neer Glocester would needs contrary to the admonitions both of his Minister in private and generally in publike yea and that very day and of other Christian friends keep a solemn Whitson ale for which he had made large preparation and provision even of threescore dozen of cheesecakes with other things proportionable in the Church-house half a mile from his Mil his musicall instruments were set forth on the side of the Church-house where the Minister and people were to passe to the Church to Evening Prayer When Prayer and Sermon were ended the Drumme is struck up the peeces discharged the Musicians play and the rowt fall a dauncing till the evening where they all with the Miller resort to his Mill where that evening before they had supt about nine of the clock on Whitsunday a fire took suddenly in his house over their heads and was so brief and quick that it burnt down his house and mill and devoured with all the greatest of all his other provision and housholdstuffe This is confirmed by sundry good testimonies Example 20. Richard Benfield an Apparitor in the Parish of Hemsteed kept an Ale in the Church-house joyning to the Church-yard with dauncing and revelling night and day without controule pretending that the Bishop would bear him out and not unlikely because at his complaint to the Bishop of his Minister for preaching against dauncing and Maypoles he was suspended for his labour It happened that upon the Lords day at even being the 20. day of April that his youngest son was accused for stealing a purse and 20. shillings in it from a Butcher who lay drunk upon the board or table in the Church-house for which he was like to be hanged the purse being found about him Vpon the 21. day of the said moneth Benfield his eldest son Richard went down into Hempsteeds Peirse about some businesse and his youngest brother with him where they met with a little boy called Baker that had been a fishing having some small fishes in his hand Benfields youngest sonne would have taken these fishes from Baker whereupon they fell together by the eares The eldest brother Rich. Benfield went to help his younger brother being too weak for Baker This Baker did swear a great oath that he would stab him if he did meddle with him upon which words Benfield fell upon Baker gave him a box or two and ran away Baker followed him with his knife in his hand overtook him and thrust his knife three inches deep into his body which wound proved mortall so that he never spake more words then these Oh Jack Baker hath killed me and so fell down Two men being present there took him up in their armes brought him up into the Church-house alive and so soon as they had put him out of their armes upon the table he groaned and died Remarkable it is that where the Father drew ale upon the Lords day and so prophaned it In the same place his son the next day drew his last breath for that the punishment inflicted was stamped with the resemblance of the sin convicted Example 21. At Baunton in Dorcetshire some being at bowls on the Lords day 1634. one flinging his bowl at his fellow-bowler hit him on the eare so as the blood issued for that the other eare whereof he shortly died The murtherer fled Example 22. One good man Paul neer Stoke in Dorcetshire rejoycing much at the erection of a summer pole 1634. at a Parish called Simsbury in Dorcetshire and saying before one of his neighbours he would go see it though he went naked through a quickset hedge which is a common proverbe they use Going with wood in his armes to cast into the bonfire where he lived and using these words Heaven and earth are full of thy glory O Lord he was presently smitten by the stroke of God and within two or three daies died and his wife with him These two last examples are testified by a Minister in his letter to a brother Minister Example 23. In the edge of Essex neer Brinkley two fellows working in a chalkpit the one was boasting to his fellow how he had angred his Mistresse with staying so late at their sports the last sunday night but he said he would anger her worse the next Sunday He had no sooner said this but suddenly the earth fell down upon him and slew him out right with the fall whereof his fellows limbe was broken who had been also partner with him in his jollitie on the Lords day escaping with his life that he might tell the truth that God might be glorified and that by this warning he might repent of his sin and reform such his prophanenesse and remain as a pillar of salt to season others with fear by his example Example 24. The last Spring a Miller hard by Wootton in Worcestershire went on the Lords day to a wake whence returning home again the same day at night found his Mill and house all on a fire this was testified by a Minister in a Reply to another Minister who was an eye witnesse Example 25. At Woolston in the same countrey where the said Ministers father had been Minister fourty yeers and by Gods blessing upon his labours had

upon the ice on the river Trent neer to Ganisborow coming all together in a scuffle the ice suddenly brake and they were all drowned Example 6. At Dover the very same Lords day 1635. that the book was read one in S. James Parish that played on a kitt went and plaied and thereby called together a sort of wenches and young men But he was thereupon that very day struck by divine hand so as within two daies he died Example 7. At Thurlow in Suffolke one making a Feast to his friends on the Sabbath day for joy of the publishing of the Book for sports was the next day pressed to death by the sudden fall or a faggot stack Example 8. At Hellings by five or six miles from Af●● in Sussex the book being read on the Lords day in the Church by the Minister on the next day being Munday an honest man one Tomkins being on his way a neighbour overtakes him and scoffingly asks him if he would go daunce with him the next Sunday to whom the man answered Take heed that thou be not dauncing in hell before that day come or before it be long By the next week Gods hand fell on this Scoffer that himself and two more of his family died Example 9. On February 9. 1634. being the Lords day an Apothecaries man in Limestreet London rid to Barnet with another companion to make merry who returning home drunk neer High-gate met a Tinker and offering him some abuse the Tinker strikes one of their horses whereat the one bid the other run him thorow who drawing his Rapier ran the Tinker thorow the breast that he fell down dead thereupon being by and by apprehended and confessing the fact they were both sent to Newgate Example 10. At Thornton neer Westchester 1634. the people there upon the first publishing of the book prepared for a solemn summer-ale The bringing in of their Lady flora should have been guarded with a Marshall troop the lustiest wench and stoutest young man in the town were chosen to be the purveyors for cakes and for ribbons for favours the solemnity was to be on the Munday but the preparation on the Lords day this lusty tall maid on the Saturday before went to the mill to fetch home the meal for cakes on her head she being strong and able for the purpose but in the way passing by a hedge she was suddenly struck by a divine stroke and fell into the ditch where she was found dead she was suffered to lie abroad in that pickle all the Lords day till Munday morning when the Coroner being sent for she was thence carried to her grave immediately where all her solemnity was buried with her and all her vain thoughts in that verie day wherein the great solemnity should have been And see what a good effect this wrought in the whole town First all their mirth was turned into mourning no summer ale kept and besides that they being moved by the dreadfull stroke of God took their May-pole down which they had before set up and never after would presume to set it up again or to have any more summer-ales or may-games God grant they continue in their sober mindes and that all other would learn to be wise by their example Example 11. In Yorkshire at a Wake in the Parish of Otley at Baildon 1634. on the Lords day two of them sitting at drink late in the night fell out and being parted the one a little after finding his fellow sitting by the fire with his back towards him comes behinde him and with a hatchet chines him down the back so as his bowels fell out the murtherer flying immediately and being hotly pursued lept into a river and so drowned himself O fearfull fruits of carnall liberty Example 12. One at Ham neer Kingston being a scoffer of all goodnesse 1635. and a common prophaner of the Sabbath going abroad to see his grounds on the Lords day and finding some neighbours cattell to have broken in he runs to drive them out and that with such eagernesse that he fell down dead instantly upon the place Example 13. One Wright at Kingston being a scoffer of Religion and rejoycing much at the suspending of his Minister and others for not reading the book of Sports in their Churches saying he hoped to see them all so served shortly was within a day or two after struck with a dead Palsey all over the one side and with blindnesse and dumbnesse that he could neither go nor see nor speak and so lay in a miserable manner for a fort-night and then died Example 14. In Moorefields neer London 1635. sundry youths playing at Cat on the Lords day two of them fell out and the one hitting the other under the eare with his Cat he therewith fell down for dead in the place the other was sent to prison but the dead for the time by Gods mercy recovering the prisoner was released which may be a warning both to them and all other youth to take heed how they so prophane the Lords day Example 15. April 18. 1635. being Saturday one travelling with three others from London to Maydenhead he the rest spending the Sabbath there would travell on his way the next day being the Lords day contrary both to Gods commandment and also of the Lady whom he served who had given him strict charge to observe the Sabbath and not to travell on it He rode in the morning to Henley and there heard the Sermon after that he fell to travell in the afternoon but as he went in the way leading his horse in his hand gently down a plain descent and even way his horse suddenly fell and broke both his fore legs the man fore agast at this not more sudden then strange disaster which he could not but attribute to the immediate hand of God and being past all hope of recovery was forced himself to knock his horse on the head and so to leave him and being the next day overtaken at Abington by his company whom he had left the day before and they asking him how it fell out he was no further on his way he smote his breast and told them how it had befallen him in the way saying that he had heard many a good Sermon yet none of them or any thing else did so work upon his conscience as this thing did and that this example should be a warning unto him for ever travelling on the Sabbath day again This is testified under the hands of those three which had travelled with him and overtook him Example 16. At Dartmouth 1634. upon the coming forth and publishing of the book for sports a company of younkers on May-day morning before day went into the countrey to fetch home a May pole with Drumme and Trumpet whereat the neighbouring Inhabitants were affrighted supposing some enemies had landed to sack them the Pole being thus brought home and set up they began to drink healths about it

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 Arch-patrons thereof By that worthy Divine Mr. Henry Burton Printed in the yeer 1641. many thousand yeers past yet they remain still fresh upon record as done but yesterday even for this very end that they might be examples unto us not to lust after evill things as they lusted nor to trace the footsteps of their sinfull wayes lest we should incur the self same exemplarie punishments as they sustained 1. Cor. 10. 5. to 12. And as God himself so holy men of God in all ages following his example have carefully ob●●●ed and registred to posterity the speciall most remarkable judgements of God upon obstinate sins and sinners of all sorts with which not onely Ecclesiastical but even prophane stories are fully fraught happened in the ages and the places wherein they lived many whereof Mr. Jo. Fox in his Acts and Monuments near the end Mr. Raynolds in his Treatise concerning the miraculous discovery and punishments of murthers and Murtherers Dr. Thomas Beard in his Theatre of Gods judgements with sundry others have collected and digested into intire Tractates the very reading and serious perusall whereof would no doubt daunt the most professed Atheist and reclaim the most incorrigible sinner I therefore desiring to tread in their pious footsteps having received from good intelligence many memorable presidents of Gods avenging justice upon Sabbath-breakers and the prophaners of Sacred times devoted to his service hapning within the compasse of our little Island within two yeers space since the publication of the Declaration for Sports and Pastimes after Evening Prayer on the Lords day in Parish Churches by divers a Nullam habet spem salutis aeger quam ad intemperantiam Meditus hortatur Senec. Ministers hath set open the flood-gates to this presumptuous sin of Sabbath-breaking thought it a part of my bounden duty to preserve and propagate their memorie both for the honour of Gods truth and justice the vindication of the intire sanctification of his sacred day which he hath visibly pleaded for from heaven since men have been audaciously prophane b See the Doctrine of the Sabbath The History of the Sabbath the Treatise of the Sabbath-day and Discourse of the Sabbath lately printed which though they condemne the very name of Sabbath as Iewish yet they are all characterised with that name and title as to plead and I would I could not say to write and preach against it upon earth the clearing of those Ministers innocencie who now unjustly suffer through the malice of ungodly persecuters and raging Prelates for refusing to joyne with others in spurring on the people to the greedy pursuit of this crying dangerous sin to the ruin of their souls their bodies and shame of our Religion and the monition of this present and all future ages to beware of this so dangerous a transgression How God hath punished this very sin in former ages in such who have either by dancing Sports Pastimes or unnecessarie Labours and travels prophaned his Sacred day I mean not to record he that listeth may read store of such examples regist●ed to his hands in the Councell of Paris under Lewis and Lotharius anno 829. lib. 1. ca. 50. which relates in generall That many present in this Councell were eye-witnesses and others of them had it by relation that some men upon the Lords day being about their husbandry have been slain with Thunder some punished with the contraction of their joynts and sins some even with visible fire have had their bodies and bones burnt up in a moment and suddenly resolved into ashes and that many other terrible examples of like nature hath happened and did fall out daily By which it was declared that God is much offended with the dishonour of so great a Day Petrus Plessensis in Latinia major Sermo 20. In Mathew Paris Historia Major Anno 1200. p. 194. in Roger Hovenden anno 1200. p. 122. In Mathew Westminster Flores Historiarum Ann. 1200. In Vincentius Belvacensis Speculum Morale li. 3. pr 9. Distinctio 9. of dances In the flower of the Commandments printed in the beginning of King Hen. 8. fol. 159. to 163. In Henricus Gran. Distinct 9. Exemp 51. in the Magdeburge Centuries Centurie 12. ca 6. In Dr. Bownde his doctrine of the Sabbath Edition 2. p. 252. to 263. the first book in Mr. John Field his declaration of Gods judgements at Paris garden in Mr. Philip Stubs his Anatomie of abuses p. 185. in the Practice of Pietie 429. to 434. and Dr. Beard his Theatre of Gods Judgements All which have registred sundrie notable judgements of God upon sundrie Sabbath-breakers which have presumed to dance work or travell on the Lords holy day of purpose to shew the danger of prophaning holy times and to deter men from this common sin for which so many have smarted from heaven in an exemplarie manner I shall therefore confine my self onely to such domestick examples as have fallen out in sundrie corners of this our Realm within these two yeers of purpose to refute the * 2 Pet. 2. 16. madnesse of those Prophets who in the Presse and Pulpit and the prophanenesse of those people who in their dancing-greens and may-pole arbors have been so audacious as to affirm the Prophanation of the Lords day by Maygames Dances Maypoles Wakes and common Labour out of time of Divine Service especially after Evening Prayer to be no sin at all against the fourth Commandement or any other Law of God or man but c See the History Treatise Discourse and Doctrine of the Sabbath accordingly and Sunday no Sabbath necessary and commendable point of true Christian Libertie they should have said of carnall and heathenish licentiousnesse rather from which the people must not be debarred But let these blinde guides and Libertines learn from these examples to correct this their erronious judgement and practise for fear the Lord make them the next examples in this kinde to teach others to keep his Sabbaths better and more intirely for the future And if these tragicall spectacles of Divine justice will not perswade them that such prophaning of the Lords most sacred day is a sin yea and a crying sin too as all our writers yea and our Prelates generally till now of late have unanimously defined and the whole State in Parliament in d 1. Car. c 1. 3 Car. c. 1. two late famous Statutes and e 1. 27. H. 6. 5. 5. 6. E. 6. c. 3. two more ancient Acts to omit our f Of the Time and Place of Prayer part 1. Of Disobedience and unlawfull Rebellion part 3. p. 292. 293. Homilies

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

transgression of Gods holy commandment then of what holy commandment but of the fourth And if of the fourth then the holy keeping of the Lords day for the Christian Sabbath is grounded upon the fourth Commandment and commanded in it as God hath abundantly testified by his many remarkable judgements even within these two yeers as hath been shewed Ob. But here some may object God may punish men for the breach of humane ordinances which are out of the expresse commandments of God So in this instance God may punish the violation or prophanation of the Lords day by such sports or wakes as being a breach of a humane ordinance or Ecclesiasticall institution Answ I answer it is true all humane ordinances being not against Gods word are to be observed for conscience sake of Gods commandment commanding subjection to all ordinances of men for the Lords sake Aud if it were a humane ordinance to dedicate this day of holy rest to God by a perpetuall vow and Decree then the greater is their sin that devoure that which is sanctified and after the vow make inquirie how it may be violated So as they are liable to the like judgements for so doing without repentance THE EPILOGVE THus have I presented you with a large Scene of late severall examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers and such a So the Statute of 1. Caroli c. 1. stiles them disorderly people who have been so presumptuous as to prophane the Lords own sacred day against the monitions of Gods faithfull Ministers with unnecessarie labour vain sports and idle pastimes To which I might annex many ancient Precedents of like nature which I pretermit onely one excepted which is remarkable In the yeer of our Lord 1583. in the famous Metropolis of this our Land the City of London two Citizens the one leaving his wife the other her husband and committing adulterie together on the Lords day it pleased God to strike them dead with fire from heaven whilest they were in the very act of uncleannesse their bodies being left dead in the place half burnt up sending out a most loathsome savour for a spectacle of Gods avenging Justice unto others to teach them both to shun the sin of adultery and of Sabbath-breaking too and to take heed how they commit any fin or wickednesse at any time and especially on Gods sacred day or how they follow dauncing may-games Morisdaunces Ales and such lascivious pastimes b Vincentius Volnacensis Spec. moral li. 3. Ps. 9. Dist 6. Mr. Northbrook Stubs Brant Lovel and others in their Treatises against dauncing which commonly end in whoredome adultery as being strong allurements thereunto this judgement was so famous and remarkable that Laurentius Bayenlinke a forrain Historian in his Opus Chronologicum orbis universi Antwerp 1611. p. 110. hath thought good to register it to posterity if any deem those judgements strange or that God should iustice such punishments on this sin which some now justifie as a part of Christian liberty both in the Pulpit and in c The late Treatise History and Discourse of the Sabbath Sunday No Sabbath Doctor Pri. and a soveraigne Antidote against Sabbatarian Novelties printed works I shall onely intreat such to remember that the whole Convocation house all the Arcbbishops Bishops Archdeacons and greatest Clerks of England in their book intituled The Institution of a Christian Man subscribed with all their names and dedicated to King Hen. 8. an●… 1537. and King Hen. 8. himself in his own book inscribed A necessarie doctrine and erudition for any Christian man set forth by the Kings Majestie of England with the advise and approbation of the Lords spirituall and temporall and Nether house of Parliament ann 1543. and by the King himself dedicated under his name and title to all his faithfull and loving Subjects and published by vertue of the Statute of 30. H. 8. c. 26. in the exposition of the fourth Commandment have in the very dawning of Reformation injoyned all Bishops and Preachers diligently to instruct and teach the people committed to their spirituall charge and I wish that some Bishops would now do it that against this commandment generally do offend all they which having no lawfull impediment do not give themselves upon the holy day to hear the Word of God to remember the benefits of God to give thanks for the same to pray to exercise such holy works both publikely in the Church and privately in their houses as be appointed for such holy dayes but as commonly is used passe the time either in idlenesse in gluttony in riot or other vain and idle pastime Do * Ergo it is in force and the prophaning of the Lords day a sin against it break this Commandment For surely such keeping of holy day is not according to the intent and meaning of this Commandment as some new * As the Treatise History Discourse of the Sabbath Doctors now dogmatize but after the usage and custome of the Jews though some late Rabbies would make the world beleeve that the strict sanctification of the Lords day and the restraining of vain sports and pastimes on it is Jewish when a Epist 6. ad magnefianos Ignatius b Tract 3. in Iob. de 10. chordis c. 3. In Ps 32. 91. De consensu Evang li. 2. c. 77 Augustine c In Iob. Evang li. 8. c. 5. Cirillus Alexandrinus d Homily de festis diebus Ephraim Syrus e Eccl. Hist l. 7. c. 13. Socrates Scholasticus f Codicis Theodosit l. 15. tit 5. lex 5. Theodosius the Emperour g Enare in Ps 91. Beda Vincentius Belvacensis and generally al Authors since have branded dauncing sports and recreations on the Lords day both as Jewish and heathenish and i Edit 5. Lon. 1624. Sect. 38. n. 1. p. 110. Se. 43. digr 46. n. 6. p. 165. 186. Dr. John White in his way to the true Church defended and published by his elder brother Dr. Fr. White now Bishop of Ely k In 4. preceptum Mr. Zanchie l In Iohn Eu. c. 7. fol. 273. Wolfg. Musculus m Proposition for the Christian Sabbath p. 4. Mr. John Sprint as Popish and licentious tending to the overthrow of piety and desolation of publike Government and doth not please God but doth much more offend him and provoke his indignation and wrath towards us For as n In Iohan. tract 3. in Ps 32. 91. de 10. chordl●… c 3. St. Augustine saith of the Jews they should be better occupied labouring in the h Speculum morale li. 3. part 9. c. 6. fields and to be at plough then to be idle at home And women should better bestow their time in spinning of wooll then on the Sabbath day to loose their time in leaping or dauncing and other idle wantonnesse Now if the whole Clergy King State and Parliament were so quick-sighted as in those times of darknesse to see a Lords day