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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76675	The Sabbath truly sanctified, or, Godly rules and directions for all sincere Christian professors, for the strict observation of the Lords Day before, at, and after the publike exercises of the church. With an order from the House of Commons, for the due observing the Sabbath-Day. As also, a cataloge of the fearfull judgements that have happenned to wilfull infringers, and profane and irreligious Sabbath-breakers. By A.B. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.	A. B.	1645 (1645)	Wing B28; Thomason E26_15; ESTC R6427	6,451	9

Consideration of the Sabbaths rest consists in performing three sorts of duties First Before Secondly At. Thirdly After the publike exercises of the Church The duties to be performed before the publike exercises of the Church are 1. To give over working be times on the Eve that thy body may be the Adoc 2. 3. more refreshed and thy minde the better fitted to sanctifie the Sabbath on the next day for want of this preparation thy self and thy servants being tyred with Labour and watching the night before are so heavy that when you should be serving God and hearing what his Spirit saith unto the Church for your souls instruction you cannot hold up your heads for sleeping to the dishonour of God the offence of the Church and the shame of your selves therefore the Lord commands us not only to keep holy but also to remember aforehand the Sabbath day to keep it holy by preparing our hearts and removing all businesse that might hinder us to consecrate it Isa 56. 51. 13 c. as a glorious day unto the Lord who in the other Commandments doth but either bid or forbid but doth both in this Commandement and that with a speciall Memorandum As if a Master should charge his servant to look well unto ten things of great Trust but to have a more speciall care to remember one of those tenn for divers weighty reasons should not a faithfull servant that lov●s his Master shew a more speciall care unto that thing above all other businesses Thus Moses taught the people overnight to remember the Sabbath and it Exo. 16. 23 c. was a holy custom among our forefathers when at the ringing to prayer on the Eve before the husbandman would give over his labour in the field and the tradesman his worke in the shop and goe to evening prayer in the Church to prepare their soules that their mindes might more cheerfully attend Gods worship on the Sabbath day 2. To possesse that night thy vessell in holinesse and honor that thou maist Exo. 9. 15 1 Cor. 7. 5 Gen. 35. 2 ● Sam. 31. 5. Exo. 19. 16. Psa 9. 22. Ec. 4. 17. present thy soul more purely in the sight of God the next morning 3. To rise up early in the morning on the Sabbath-day Be carefull therefore to rise sooner on this day than on other days by how much the service of God is to be preferred before all earthly businesses For there is no master to serve so good as God and in the end no works shall be better rewarded then his service 4. When thou art up consider with thy self what an impure sinner thou art and into what an holy place thou goest to appeare before the most holy God who seeth thy heart and hatethall impurity and hypocrisy Examine thy self therefore before thou goest to Church what grievous sins thou hast committed the week past confess them unto God and earnestly pray for the pardon and forgivenesse of them and so reconcile thy self with God in Christ Renew thy Vows to walk more conscionably and pray for an increase of those graces which thou hast and a supply of those which thou wantest But especially pray that thou maist have grace to hear the Word of God read and Preached with profit and that thou maist recive the holy Sacrament with comfort if it be Communion day that God by his holy Spirit would assist the Preacher to speak somthing that may kill thy sinne and and comfort thy soul which that thou maist doe poure forth thy prayers to Almighty God who upon thine unfained repentance will enable thee and hear thy earnest and most humble request Now in the Name of Almighty God who rested having created heaven and earth and of his eteanall Son Jesus the Redeemer of his Church who shall shottly come on the dreadfull day of doom to judge all men according Act. 12. 31 Ro. 2. 12. 1 Thes 2. 8. to the obedience which they have shewed to his Commandments I exhor● nay I require thee who readest these words as thou wilt answer before the face of Christ and his holy Angels at that day that thou better weigh and consider whether Dancing Stage-playing Masking Carding Diceing Tabling Ches-playing Bowling Shooting Beare-baiting Carousing Tipling and such other fooleries of Robin-hood Morrice-dances Wakes and May-games be exercises that God will blesse and allow on the Sabbath day And seeing no Action ought to be done that day but such as whereby wee either blesse God or look to receive a blessing from God how darest thou do these things on that blessed day on which thou darest not to pray to God to bestow a blessing on it to thy use Hear this and tremble at this O profane youth of a profane age O heart all frozen and voide of the feeling of the grace of God And having every day in six every hour in every day every minute in every hour so tasted the sweet mercy of thy God in Christ without which thou hadst perished every moment yet canst not finde in thy corrupt and irreligious heart to spend in thy Masters service that one day of the week which he hath reserved for his owne praise and worship Let men in defence of their profaness object what they will and answer what the Devill puts in their mouthes yet I would wish them to remember that seeing it is an antient tradition in the Church that the Lords second comming shall be upon the Lords day how little joy they should have to bee overtaken in Lactan .l. 7. cap. 1. those carnal sports to please themselves when their Master should find them in spirituall exercises serving him The profanest wretch would then wish rather to be taken kneeling at prayers in the Church then skipping like a Goat in a dance If this cannot move yet I would wish our impure Gallants to remember that while they thus dance on the Lords day contrary to the Lords Commandement they doe but dance about the Pits brink and they know not which of them shall first fall therein whereinto being once fallen without repentance no greatnesse can exempt them from the vengeance of that great God whose Commandment contrary to their knowledge and conscience they doe thus presumptuously transgresse If then Gods Commandments cannot prevaile with thee nor Gods Word advise thee Then let these ensuing Examples of Gods Judgments on Sabbath-breakers deterre thee from the wilfull profanation of the Lords day The Lord who is otherwise the God of mercy commanded Moses to stone to death the man who of a presumptuous mind would openly goe to gather Num. 53. 2. sticks on the Sabbath-day The fact was small true but the sin was the greater that upon so small an occasion would presume to breake so great a Commandement Nicanor offering to fight against the Jewes on the Sabbath day was slaine himself and 35000. of his men A husbandman grinding corne upon the Lords day had his Mill burned to ashes Another carrying corn on this day had his barne and all his corn therein burnt with fire from heaven the

next night after A certain Nobleman profaning the Sabbath usually in hunting had a child like a Dog and with ears and chaps and crying like a hound A flax-wife working with her maids on the Lords day it seemed unto them that fire issued out of the flax but did no harm the nex Sabbath it fired indeed doing little harm but not taking warning by this the 3. Sunday it again took fire burnt the house scorched the woman and two children whereof they died the next day but by the mercy of God a childe in the cradle was taken out of the fire alive and unhurt At a Beare-baiting in France on the Sabbath 300. were slaine outright besides divers lamed and grievously wounded A Miller dwelling in a Town called Hoult neer Westchester grinding corn on the Lords day An. 1588. was found dead in his Mill by his wife on the Munday following his ears nose and lipps eaten off with Ratts On the 13. Ian. 1582 being the Lords day the scaffolds fell in Paris Garden under the people at a Beare-baiting so that eight were suddenly slain Stowes a bridg An. 1582 and a great number hurt and maimed A warning to such who take more pleasure on the Lords day to bee on a Theater beholding carnall sports then to be in the Church serving God with the spirituall workes of Piety At a Bull-baiting in the Popes dominions 1603. the Bull breaking from the Ring killing a woman and so 〈…〉 righted another woman being great with child that she immediately fell in labour and dyed with her child also Many fearfull examples of Gods Judgements by fire have in our dayes been shewed upon divers Towns where the prophanation of the Lords day hath been openly countenanced Stratford upon Aven was twice on the same day twelve-mon●th being the Lords Day almost consumed with fire chiefly for profaning the Lords Sabbath and for contemning his Word in the mouth of his faithfull Preachers and Ministers Torverton in Devonshire whose Remembrance makes my heart bleed was oftentimes admonished by her Godly Preacher That God would bring some heavy judgement on the Towne for their horrible profanation of the Lords day occasioned chiefly by the Market on the day following Not long after his death on the 3. of Aprill 1598. GOD in lesse then half an hour consumed with a sudden and fearfull fire the whole Towne except only the Church the Court-house and the Almes-house or a few poor peoples dwellings where a man might have seen 400. dwelling-houses all at once on fire and about 50. persons consumed with the same and lately on the fift of August 1612. the whole town was again fired and consumed except some thirty houses of poor people with the School-house and Almes-houses they are blinded who see not in this the finger of God God grant them grace to change their market-day and to remove all occasion of profancing the Lords Day Let other Townes remember the Tower of Siloe Luk. 13. 4. and take warning Luk. 13. 4 by their neighbors chastisements and fear Gods threatnings Ier. 17. 27. and beleeve Gods Prophets if they will prosper 1 Chron. 20. 20. Many other examples of Gods Judgements as the fire lately at Oxford might be alledged but if these are not sufficient to terifie thy heart from the wilfull profanation of the Lords day It may be if thou proceed in ●hy profanation the Lord will make thee the next example to teach others to keep his Sabbaths better Wherefore againe and againe in the name of the Lord I exhort thee Nay I conjure thee as thou tenderest the salvation of thy own poor soul that thou remember to sanctifie the sabbath and to keep holy the Lords Day if not for the love of him who loved thee so well that he gave his only begotten Sonne to suffer for thy sin yet for feare of temporall punishment here and eternall torment hereafter in the world to come Oderunt peccaere boni vertutis honore Oderunt peccaere mali formidine penae For love of Vertue good men from sinne abstaine For feare of punishment the wicked doe refraine FINIS