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A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

day in the service of Satan which Almighty God hath hallowed and commanded to be set apart for the Service and Worship of himself For this Day in many Places of the Realm being prophaned and neglected by a disorderly sort of People in exercising and frequenting Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes Common Plays and other unlawful Exercises and Pastimes thereon And for that many Quarrels Bloodsheds and other great Inconveniencies did grow by the Resort and Concourse of People going out of their own Parishes to such disorderly and unlawful Exercises and Pastimes neglecting Divine Service both in their own Parishes and elsewhere Therefore by the Statute 1 Car. 1. Ch. 1. it is enacted That there shall be no Meetings Assemblies or Concourse of People out of their own Parishes on the Lord's Day within this Realm of England or any the Dominions thereof for any Sports or Pastimes whatsoever nor any Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes Common Plays or other unlawful Exercises or Pastimes used by any Person or Persons within their own Parishes and that every Person and Persons offending in any the Premisses shall forfeit for every Offence three Shillings and four Pence to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be committed And if any one Justice of the Peace of the County or the Chief Officer or Officers of any City Borough or Town-corporate where such Offence shall be committed upon his or their view or Confession of the Party or Proof of any one or more Witness by Oath which such Magistrate hath power to administer shall find any Person offending in the Premisses the said Magistrate shall give Warrant under his or their Hand and Seals to the Constable or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where such Offence shall be committed to levy the said Penalties so to be assessed by way of Distress and Sale of the Goods of every such Offender rendring the said Offenders the overplus and in Default of such Distress that the Party offending be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of three Hours And if any Man be sued or impeached for the Execution of this Law he may plead the general Issue and give the matter of Justification in evidence and no Man to be impeached by this Act except he be called in question within one Month next after the Offence committed The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction not to beabridged by this Act but that the Ecclesiastical Court may punish the same Offence as if this Act had not been made This Statute 1 Car. 1. Ch. 1. only prohibiting unlawful Sports Games and Pastimes on the Lord's Day Carriers Waggoners Wayr-men Carmen and Drovers being out of the Statute having no Veneration for the Lord's Day kindness for themselves nor pity for their Beasts did make a Common practise of Travelling upon this Day and Butchers did usually kill and fell Victuals on the Lord's Day So in the 3 Car. 1. An Act was made prohibiting Carriers Drovers c. to travel on this Day on pain of twenty Shillings every Offence and Butchers for killing and selling Victuals thereon on pain of six Shillings and eight Pence for every Offence But this Statute standing but upon contiunance and expiring after the end of the first Session of Parliament then next following Several of these Persons returned again like the Dog to his Vomit to their former accustomed Prophaness And tho this Statute 3 Car. 1. Ch. 2. was by the Statute 17 Car. 1. Ch. 4. continued and made perpetual yet the unnatural uncivil Civil War between the King and Parliament breaking out shortly after this Statute was much neglected and seldom put in Execution two Witnesses being required for the conviction of the Offender which was troublesome So by the Statute 29 Car. 2. Ch. 7. it is enacted That all Persons whatsoever shall on the Lord's Day apply themselves to the observation of the same by exercising themselves thereon in the Duties of Piety and true Religion publickly and privately And no Tradesman Artificer Workman Labourer or other Person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly Labours Business or Work of their ordinary Callings upon the Lord's Day Works of Necessity and Charity only excepted And every Person being of the Age of Fourteen Years or upwards offending in the Premisses shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of five Shillings and no Person or Persons whatsoever shall publickly cry shew forth or expose to Sale any Wares Merchandizes Fruit Herbs Goods or Chattels whatsoever upon the Lord's Day or any part thereof upon pain of forfeiting the same Goods so cryed or shewed forth or exposed to Sale And no Drover Horse-courser Waggoner Butcher or Higler their or any of their Servants shall travel or come into his or their Inn or Lodging upon the Lord's Day or any part thereof upon pain of twenty Shillings for every such Offence and none shall use imploy or travel upon the Lord's Day with any Boat Wherry Lighter or Barge except it be upon extraordinary occasion to be allowed by a Justice of the P●ace of the County or Head Officer or Justice of the Peace of the City Borough or Town-Corporate where the Fact shall be committed on pain of five Shillings for every such Offence and if any Person so offending in any of the Premisses shall be thereof convicted before any Justice of the Peace of the County or chief Officer or Justice of the Peace of the City c. where the Offence shall be committed upon his or their view or confession of the Party or proof of any one or more Witnesses which Oath the said Magistrates are impowered to administer then the said Justice or chief Officer or Officers shall give Warrant under his or their Hand to the Constable or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where the Offence shall be committed to seize the said Goods so shewed forth or put to sale as aforesaid and to fell the same And to levy the said other Forfeitures or Penalties by way of Distress and Sale of the Goods of every such Offender distrained rendring them the overplus of the Money raised thereby and in Default of such Distress or in case of Insufficiency or Inability to pay the Party offending to be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of two Hours And all Forfeitures to be imployed to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the said Offence shall be committed Save that any such Justice Mayor c. may out of the said Forfeitures reward the informer according to their Discretions so as such Reward exceed not a third part of the Forefeitures But this Act is not to extend to the prohibiting of dressing of Meat in Families or dressing or selling of Meat in Inns Cooks-shops or Victualling-houses for such as otherwise cannot be provided nor to the crying or selling of Milk before nine of the Clock in the Morning and after-four in the Afternoon No Person to be impeached prosecuted or molested for any Offence before mentioned

unless it be within ten Days after the Offence committed And if any Person shall travel upon the Lord's Day and be robbed the Inhabitants of the Hundred shall not answer for the Robbery but upon notice of such Robbery to them or some of them given or Hue and Cry for the same to be made they shall make or cause to be made fresh pursuit after the said Offenders with Horsemen and Footmen according to the Statute 27 Eliz. upon pain to forfeit as much Money to the King's Majesty as might have been recovered against them by the Party robbed And no Person or Persons whatsoever upon the Lord's Day shall serve or execute any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree except in Cases of Treason Felony or Breach of the Peace but that the Service thereof shall be utterly void and the Person or Persons so serving or executing the same shall be as liable to the Suit of the Party grieved and to answer Damages to him for doing thereof as if he or they had done the same without any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree at all Having shewed what Provision the Law makes for the Observation of the Lord's Day I shall proceed in the next Chapter to give an Account what some Texts of Holy Writ command in such Case to be observed Note that by the Statute 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 22. No Shoe-maker shall put his Wares to sale upon Sundays on pain of three Shillings and four Pence and also to forfeit the full value of the Wares sold CHAP. VIII Of the several Texts or Places of Scripture relating to the due Observation and Sanctifying of the Sabbath REmember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy Six Days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of thy Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work Thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man Servant nor thy Maid Servant nor thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in Six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and 〈◊〉 that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Six days thou shalt do thy work and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine Ox and thine Ass may rest and the Son of thy Handmaid and the Stranger may be refreshed Exod. 23. 12. Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel saying Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your Generations that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doth any work therein that Soul shall be cut off from amongst the People Six days may work be done but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest holy to the Lord whosoever doth any work in the Sabbath day he shall surely be put to death Exod. 31. 13 14 15. Six days thou shalt work but on the seventh day thou shalt rest in Earing-time and in Harvest thou shalt rest Exod. 34. 21. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary I am the Lord Levit. 19. 30. 26. 2. And while the Children of Israel were in the Wilderness they found a Man that gathered Sticks upon the Sabbath-day and they that found him gathering Sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the Congregation And they put him in Ward because it was not declared what should be done to him And the Lord said unto Moses the Man shall surely be put to death all the Congregation shall stone him with Stones and all the Congregation brought him without the Gamp and stoned him with Stones and he died as the Lord commanded Moses Num. 15. 32 33 34 35 36. Keep the Sabbath-day to sanctify it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six days thou shalt labour and do all thy Work but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any Work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter nor thy Man servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thine Ox nor thine Ass nor any of thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates that thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servant may rest as well as thou Deut. 5. 12 13 14. Six days shall Work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you an Holy day a Sabbath of Rest to the Lord whosoever doth work therein shall be put to death Exod. 35. 2. Blessed is the Man that doth this and the Son of Man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any Evil. Isa 56. 2. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasures nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isa 58. 13 14. And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy Convocation ye shall do no servile Work Num. 38. 25. Thus saith the Lord Take heed to your selves and hear no Burden on the Sabbath day nor bring it in by the Gates of Jerusalem Neither carry forth a Burden out of your Houses on the Sabbath-day neither do ye any work but hallow the Sabbath-day as I commanded your Fathers But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath-day and not to bear a Burden even entring in at the Gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day Then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Jer. 17. 21 22 and 27. Thou hast despised mine Holy things and hast profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 22. 8. Moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my Sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 23. 38. And the Lord said unto Moses How long refuse ye to keep my Commandments and my Laws See for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the Bread of two days abide ye every Man in his place let no Man go out of his place on the seventh day So the People rested on the seventh day Exod. 16. 28 29 30. Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the Wilderness they walked not in my Statutes and they despised my Judgments which if a Man keep he shall even live

Penalty inflicted by the aforementioned Act upon the Inn-keeper Alehouse-keeper or Victualler that suffers Foreigners to Tipple in their Houses It is therefore 1 Car. 1. Ch. 4. Enacted That every Inn-keeper Alehouse-keeper or Victualler that shall permit or suffer any Person or Persons not inhabiting in the City Town Corporate Market-Town Village or Hamlet where such Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house is to Tipple in the said Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house contrary to the true intent of any or either of the aforesaid Statutes the said Inn-keeper Alehouse-keeper and Victualler so offending shall incur the same Penalty and in such manner to be proved levied and disposed as in the former Statute 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 9. is appointed for permitting such to tipple as dwell in the same City Town Corporate Market-Town Village or Hamlet And it is also Enacted That the keepers of Taverns and such as do sell Wine in their Houses and do also keep Inns or Victualling-houses shall be taken to be within the said two former Statutes and also within this Statute If these Laws against inordinate and customary Tippling and Drunkenness were duly and effectually put in Execution it would not only be greatly to the Honour of God but tend much to the Honour and Credit of this Realm And might also prove very instrumental in the preventing many Families from Ruin and becoming burdensom and chargeable to the Places where they live and are settled for many ingenious Handicraft-men and other laborious and working Persons are so bewitch'd and charm'd with the love of strong Drink that what they earn with hard Labour all the day having neither regard to their own Credit nor any Charity Love or Kindness for their poor Wives and Families they embezle and spend at Night in profuse idle and insatiable Tipling and Drunkenness amongst their debauched Comrades when at the same time perhaps their poor Families at home are ready to starve for want of Bread I shall therefore in the next Chapter acquaint these obstinate presumptuous and vitious Persons with some Texts of Scripture against these their sinful Courses in hopes that the perusal and serious Consideration of them may bring them to a sight and sense of their Wickedness and work some Reformation in them But before I proceed to the next Chapter I think it will not be amiss if we give a brief Account here of the Laws made against Keepers of Play-houses and unlawful Games of which Offences many Inn-keepers Alehouse-keepers and Victuallers ' are guilty By the Statute 33 H. 8. Ch. 9. it is Enacted That none shall keep or maintain any House or Place of unlawful Games on pain of forty Shillings every day And none shall use or haunt such places on pain of six Shillings and eight Pence every time And it shall be lawful for every Justice of the Peace in every County and for head Officers in Corporations as well within the Liberties as without to enter and resort into all such Houses and Places where such unlawful Games are suspected to be used and as well the Keepers thereof as the Resorters thereto to arrest and imprison until they shall severally give good Security at the discretion of the said Justices or Officers not to keep such Games any more Every Mayor Sheriff Bailiff Constable and other head Officer within every City Borough or Town shall make due Search as aforesaid once every Month at least on pain to forfeit 40 s. for every such Default No Artificer or Journey-man nor Husbandman Apprentice Labourer Servant at Husbandry Mariner Fisherman Waterman or Serving-man shall play at Tables Tenis Dice Cards Bowls Clash Goyting Logating or any other unlawful Game out of Christmass or then out of his Master's House or Presence on pain of twenty Shillings and none shall play at Bowls in open Places out of his Garden or Orchard on pain of six Shillings and eight Pence All Informations or Suits upon this Statute shall be prosecuted within one year and the Forfeitures thereof which happen within a Leet or Liberty shall be divided between the King and the Lord thereof and in all other Places betwixt the King and the Prosecutor Proclamation of this Act shall be made quarterly in every Market-Town as also at every Goal-delivery Assize and Sessions Then lastly there is a Proviso that this Act shall not restrain a Servant by his Master's License to play at Cards Dice or Tables with the Master himself or other Gentlemen resorting to his Master's House and if the Master have Freehold of an hundred Pounds per Annum he may also license his Servant to play at Bowls or Tenis By the Statute 2 3 Ph. Ma. Ch. 9. All Licences to keep Houses or Places of unlawful Games shall be void Before this Statute several Persons used to obtain Placards or Licences to keep common Gaming so that by this Statute all such Licences are made void CHAP. II. An Account of some Texts of Scripture shewing the sad Consequences and Effects that attend the customary sinful and profane practice of profuse Quaffing and Drunkenness SUCH Persons as neither the fear of the Law respect to their own Credit nor love to their Families will reclaim or deter from their obstinate and presumptuous sinful Progress in their profane Courses of customary expensive and profuse excessive Tipling and inordinate Drinking upon the perusal of these several Scripture-sentences following may I hope be thereby induced and excited to follow a more frugal vertuous and godly course of Living and to abandon the charming Delilahof their beloved sinful Vice And they shall say unto the Elders of his City This our Son is stubborn and rebellions he will not obey our Voice he is a Glutton and a Drunkard And all the men of his City shall stone him with stones that he die so shalt thou put evil away from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear Deut. 21. 20 21. Wine is a Mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise Prov. 20. 1. Be not among Wine-bibbers amongst riotous eaters of Flesh For the Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to Poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with Rags Prov. 23. 20 21. Who hath wo who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath bablings who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of Eyes They that tarry long at the Wine they that go to seek mixt Wine Look not thou upon the Wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the Cup when it moveth it self aright At the last it biteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder Prov. 23. 29 30 31 32. Wo unto them that rise up early in the Morning that they may follow strong Drink that continue until Night till Wine inflame them And the Harp and the Viol the Tabret and Pipe and Wine are in their Feasts but they regard not the Work of the Lord neither consider the Operation of his Hands Isa 5. 11 12. Wo unto

Drink and slain by Carts I says my Author forbear to mention because such Examples are so common and ordinary A Yeoman's Son in Northamtonshire being drunk at Wellingborough on a Market day would needs ride his Horse in bravery over the Ploughed Lands so fell from his Horse and broke his Neck A Knight notoriously given to drink carrying some Pales of Drink into the open Fields to make People drunk withal being upon a time drinking with Company a Woman comes in delivering him a Ring with this Posy in it Drink and Die saying to him this is for you which he took and wore and within a Week after came to his end by drinking One of Aylesham in Norfolk a notorious Drunkard was drowned in a shallow Brook of Water with his Horse And one to my own knowledg in Yorkshire being drunk as he was going home fell down upon his Face into a very small running Water and was drowned there though the back side of his Head was all dry and not covered with the Water Two examples says Mr. Ward have I known of Children that murdered their own Mothers in drink and one notorious Drunkard that attempted to kill his Father of which being prevented he fired his Barn and was afterwards executed A young Fellow of North-Allerton in Yorkshire being Drunk and having some reproof given him by his Mother he murdered her in her own House upon a Good-Friday she having received the Sacrament that day and being but come from the Church a little before At a Tavern in Breadstreet in London certain Gentlemen drinking Healths to their Lords on whom they had Dependance one desperate Wretch steps to the Tables end lays hold of a Pottle Pot of Canary Sack swears a deep Oath What! will none drink a Health to my noble Lord and Master and so setting the Pottle Pot to his head drank it off to the Bottom but was not able to rise up or to speak when he had done but fell into a deep snoaring Sleep and being removed laid aside and covered by one of the Servants in the House attending the time of his waking was within the space of two hours irrecoverably dead A man in Suffolk overtaken with Wine tho never in all his Life before as he himself said a little before his Death and others that knew him said the same vet going down a pair of Stairs against the perswasion of a Woman sitting by him in his Chamber he fell and was so dangerously hurt that he died soon after not being able to speak from the time of his Fall to his Death I forbear says my Author to name the parties thus punished for their Kindreds sakes yet living says he In Dengy Hundred near Maldon there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or six that plotted a solemn Drinking at one of their Houses laid in Beer for the purpose drunk Healths in a strange manner and all died thereof within a few Weeks after some sooner and some later In August 1618 one Thomas Alred of Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire Butcher an accustomed Drunkard being entreated by a Neighbour to unpitch a load of Hay and being at that very time in drink leting his Pitchfork slip out of his hand and stooping to take it up again slipped from the Cart with his head downwards his Fork standing upright with the Tines he fell directly upon them which at once run him into the Breast and struck his Heart so that he died suddenly And in July 1628. one John Vintner of Godmanchester Gardiner a known Drunkard and one that would profanely especially in his drink scoff at Religion and abuse good men fell from the top of a Pear-Tree and brake his Neck and so died Manlius in his common Places gives a Relation of three abominable Drunkards who drank so long till one of them fell down stark dead and yet the other two nothing terrified with such a dreadful example of divine Vengeance proceeded on still in their vain presumptuous drinking and poured the dead mans part into him as he lay by them So that the Text in the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 5. ver 12. might well be applied to them They regard not the work of the Lord neither consider the operation of his Hands St. Ambrose tells of one Theotimus that being told by his Physicians that much Quaffing would make him blind Vale Lumen Amicum said he Farewel dear Eyes if ye can bear no Wine Then ye no Eyes shall henceforth be of mine So that he would rather lose his Sight than his Sin his Soul than his Lust And St. Austin brings in a Drunkard saying Malle se vitam quam vinum eripi he had rather lose his Life than his Wine We are told by a credible Author That about eight Persons that were Citizens and Citizens Sons in the Country of Swaben meeting together at a Tavern on a Sabbath-day morning proceeded to that height that they drank themselves drunk and then began to blaspheme God and scoff at the Vintner who advised them to leave drinking and go to Church and hear the Word of God preached at which advice they did not only continue to mock but continued on their drinking but on a sudden the Devil coming in among them in a Gentlemans Habit and drinking to them set their Mouths in such a Fire that these Drunkards not only became amazed thereat but also after a miserable manner were all strangled to death A Soldier in Salisbury in the midst of his Health-drinking and Carousing in a Tavern drank a Health to the Devil saying that if the Devil would not come and pledg him he would not believe that there was either God or Devil whereupon his Companions being strucken with Horror hasted out of the Room and presently after hearing an hideous noise and smelling a stinking Savour the Vintner went up into the Chamber and coming in he missed his Guest and found the Window broken the Iron Bar in it bowed and all Blood but the man was never heard of afterwards A Vintner that accustomed himself to Swearing and Drunkenness as he was upon a Lords-day standing at his Door with a Pot in his Hand to invite in Guests there carne suddenly such a violent Whirlwind as carried him up into the Air after which he was never more seen Zeno the Emperor was such a Drunkard that he would often lie as one dead for many hours so that he grew not only odious to all People but even to his own Wife who upon a time finding him in that case caused him to be laid in a Tomb with a great Stone upon the top of it whereby he was miserably pined to death Maginus reports of Fliolmus King of Goths that he was by his drunken Servants thrown headlong into a Vessel of Ale and therein was drowned In Glocestershire an horrid Patricide was committed by an ungracious Son being drunk upon his Father whom he desperately slew The like unnatural Villany was committed by one Purchas an

size he cri'd it is too late I must be burned in Hell he pressed him with Tears not to cast away his Soul for Christ died c. he answered he cast off Christ and therefore must go to Hell in short at last in idleness of thoughts and talk he ended his miserable Life Anno 1576. Tir-Owen the Irish Rebel in Queen Elizabeths time was such a Drunkard that when his Body was immoderately inflamed with drinking strong Drink and Usquebath he used many times as Mr. Camden reports to be set in the Earth up to the Chin to cool himself A Gentleman whom I knew having been at a Fair at North-Allerton in Yorkshire a Town famous for strong Ale and there having overcharged himself with that Liquor as he was riding homewards putting his Horse into a galloping posture the Horse being in great heart and very mettl'd and he not in a condition to guide him having gotten about a mile from the Town the Horse threw the Gentleman in the open High-way and kill'd him with the Fall for he died presently Another Person with whom I had been long acquainted he being Barliff to the Lords of a Market-Town where I kept their Courts several years being full of strong Drink and not able to govern his Horse was in like manner slain with a fall from his Horse And one who lived in the same Town where I lived having gotten too large a quantity of strong Drink and riding his Horse into a River to pass over it the Water at that time being very high and scarce passable and he not keeping the Horses head up against the current of the Water when he came into the main Stream being driven down the River after a little while he parted from his Horse and was drowned And another of my Acquaintance being invited by a Gentleman to the Tavern and there drinking too freely at his going homewards from the Tavern on the back-side of the Town coming to enter into his own Yard he fell from off a little Bridg at the end of the Yard with his Head downwards into a Ditch and tho the Ditch were dry without any Water in it and that he was missed and found in a very short time yet he was found dead for the weight of his Body had choaked him A man being riding in the same Company that I was in and being very full of strong Liquor and clapping his Spurs to the Horses sides the Horse run into a Ditch or Gutter with the man on his back and riding along in the Gutter a Tree in the Hedg over hanging the same the Horse run the man's Head against the Tree and beat out his Brains and he fell down dead and never spoke one word of this sad Accident I was an Eye-witness and see the man's Brains lying on the Ground And one who was a customary prosane Swearer and a great Drinker being gotten drunk at North-Allerton aforesaid and desiring one of his Neighbours to let him ride home behind him when they came near the Town where the Drunkard dwelt he desired to alight from behind his Neighbour to ease himself and so getting down his Neighbour rid along the Street and some Company coming not long after found the man dead lying in the Street with his Breeches about his Feet in an unseemly and nasty manner A Mason who loved strong Drink too well and was frequently drunk one time lying down upon the ground to sober himself when he was drunk he fell into a long Sleep for he never awaked again but was there found dead A Farmer who lived in Cleaveland in Yorkshire in the same Constablery where I have a small Estate going with other of his Neighbours to pay his Tythe Rent to the Impropriator who being a jovial boon free man was very liberal and bestow'd great store of strong Ale on them And this man having drunk too freely had it seems got more than he was able to bear for when he was got very near his own House at his coming home when he alighted from his Horse it being in the Night and dark and he not able to guide himself he stagge●ed into a Pond close by the House and not able to get out of it was in the Morning found standing in the Pond with his Back against the bank of the Pond and up to the Knees in Water and there starv'd to death All these eight last mentioned exemplary Judgments have fall'n within the compass of my own certain knowledg Drunkenness is a flattering Evil a sweet Poison a cunning Circe that besots the Soul and destroys the Body Dolores gignit in capite in stomacho in toto corpore acerrimos Dolours and grievous Pains by Drunkenness The Head the Stomach and whole man possess At last as Solomon observes it bites like a Serpent and stings like an Adder CHAP. IV. A Compendium of the Laws made against profane idle customary Swearing and Cursing TIpling and excessive Drinking having obtain'd a kind and favourable Reception and in a manner a general approbation within this Realm as appears by the several Acts of Parliament mentioned before in the first Chapter hereof made for the restraining this exorbitant sinful Vice the People in their Frolicks and extravagant Cups were apt and prone to fly out one profaneness ushering in another into sinful profane desperate Swearing and Cursing which by little and little began to be so very common and practicable that the Parliament of 21 Jac. 1. taking notice thereof and knowing that profane Swearing and Cursing is forbidden by the Word of God they thereupon made an Act for the restraining the growth of this catching Sin For by the Statute of 21 Jac. 1. Ch. 20. it is Enacted That no Person or Persons shall prosanely Swear or Curse and that if any Person or Persons shall offend herein either in the hearing of any Justice of the Peace of the County or any Mayor Justice of the Peace Bailiff or Head Officer of any City or Town Corporate where such offence is or shall be committed or shall be convicted by the Oaths of two Witnesses or by Confession of the party before any such Justice of the Peace of the County or Head Officer or Justice of the Peace in the City or Town-Corporate where such offence is or shall be committed which Oath they have power to administer That then every such Offender shall for every time so offending forfeit and pay to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the offence is or shall be committed the sum of twelve Pence to be levied by the Constable Church-wardens and overseers of the Poor of that Parish by Warrant from such Justice of the Peace or head Officer by Distress and sale of the Offenders Goods rendring to the party the Overplus and in default of such Distress the Offender if he or she be above the age of twelve Years shall by Warrant from such Justice of the Peace or Head Officer be set in the Stocks

him so nimble Mr. Ameridith replied he doubted not but to dance about the May-Pole the next Lord's Day but before he moved out of that place he was smitten with such a Feebleness of Heart and Dissiness in his Head that desiring help to carry him to a House he died before the next Lord's Day came At Walton in Surrey upon the Thames there in a great Frost Anno 1634 Three young Men on the Lord's Day after they had been at the Church in the Forenoon where the Minister pressing the words of his Text out of 2 Cor. 5. 10. That we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ c. They the while whispered as they sate And in the Afternoon they went together over the Thames upon the Ice unto a disorderly House of Gameing c. where they spent the remainder of the Lord's Day and part of the Night also in Revelling one of them in a Tavern merrily discoursing the next Day of his Sabbath Deeds and of his Voyage over the Ice but on the Tusday after these three returning homewards and attempting to pass over the Ice again they all sunk down to the bottom like Stones whereof one only was miraculously preserved but the other two were drowned Anno 1598 the Town of Teverton in Devo●shire was often warned and advised and told by the Godly Pastor thereof that God would bring some heavy Judgment upon the Inhabitants of that place for their horrible Profanation of the Lord's Day occasioned chiefly by reason of their Market-day being on the Monday and accordingly not long after their Minister's death in the said Year God sent a terrible Fire which in less then half an Hour consumed the whole Town except the Church the Court-house Almes-houses and a few poor People's Dwellings and above 50 Persons were consumed and perished in the Flames Also Anno 1612 it was again wholly burnt down except a few poor Houses they not being warned by the former Judgment but continuing in the same Sin In the Year 1635 A Profane Company of young Men went as Mr. Faucnor relates on the Lord's Day early in the Morning to Clarendon-Park to cut down a May-Pole and having loaden the Cart with it at Miln●rs-Barn entring into Salisbury one of the Cart Wheels falling into a Rutt made the young Tree in the Cart which they had stoln for a Pole to give a great shugg on one side which struck one of the Company such a blow on the Head that it beat out his Brains so that he presently died in the place and there lay a fearful Spectacle of God's Wrath both against that idle Sport and wilful prosaning of the Sabbath whilst he makes the very thing they had chosen for their Sport and Pastime to be the Instrument of executing his Fury And Dr. Teate gives a second Example of this Nature in the Year 1626. We read that Mr. Abberley a Godly Minister in Burton upon Trent did often take occasion to reprove and threaten Sabbath-breakers especially such as sold and bought Meat upon the Sabbath-day Mornings a Practice too common it seems in that place nevertheless there was a Taylor in the Town a very nimble active Fellow dwelling at the upper end of the Town who would go through the long Street as it were in Bravado to the other end of the Town and fetch home Meat on the Lord's Day before Morning-Prayer But as he came back with both his Hands full in the midst of the Street he fell down stark dead which as it pleased God says the Doctor did work some Reformation both amongst the Butchers and others When I was in Cheshire says my Author there was one Sir T. S. a Papist and at that time in favour at the Court who coming into his Country was much feasted and followed by the Gentry and upon a Sabbath day was entertained and feasted at a Knight's House where many others were present towards Evening they went to Dancing and in the midst of their Sports there was one Sir J. D. that had a great Blow given him on his Leg by an invisible Hand which made him lame for a long time after Thomas Savage a young Man who was Executed at Ratcliff Octob. 28. 1668 for Murthering his Fellow-Servant whilst he was in Newgate cryed out thus to some that came to see him O Wretch said he that I was 〈◊〉 studied how I might spend the Lord's Day in the Devil's Work I thought I could never dishonour God enough and that time I should have served God in I did most for Satan in it on the Sabbaths I used to play my Prancks I sometimes went into the Church indeed but I may speak it to my Shame and deep Sorrow I never heard one whole Sermon all the while I was with my Master and indeed I laughed at those that spent the Sabbath in Hearing and Praying and looked upon them as the veriest Fools in the World I was glad when the Sabbath came that I might have time to run to my Vile Comrades I rejoiced that then I could go to satisfy my cursed Lusts with Wherish Women O tell young Men from me that the breaking of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly Sin Also while he was in Newgate one Sabbath day his Fellow-Prisoners being at Cards asked him to join with them O said he you and I have something else to do with our Time than to play at Cards is it now a time for us to be sporting away the Sabbath when we have but one poor Sand left us to work for Eternity A Minister on a time preaching and pressing the Sanctification of the Sabbath had occasion in his Sermon to make mention of that Man that by the special Command of God was stoned to death for gathering Sticks upon the Sabbath day Whereupon one in the Congregation stood up and laughed and made all the haste that he could out of the Church and went to gathering of Sticks the he had no need of them but when the People came out from Sermon they found this Man stark dead with the bundle of Sticks in his Arms lying in the Church-Porch Gregory Tomonensis reports that an Husbandman who upon the Lord's Day went to plow his Field as he cleansed his Plow-share with an Iron the Iron stuck so fast into his Hand that for two Years he could not be delivered from it but carried it about continually to his exceeding great Pain and Shame Another Profane Fellow without any regard to God or his Service made no Conscience to lead his Corn out of the Field on the Lord's Day in Sermon time but he was well rewarded for his ungodly Covetousness for that Corn which with so much care he gathered together was consumed with Fire from Heaven with the Barn and all the Grain that was in it And a certain Noble-man every Lord's Day using to go a Hunting in the Sermon time the Lord punished his Impiety with this Judgment he caused his Lady to

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