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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

will not be altogether improper before I proceed to give an account of the Laws made for the observation of the Lords day to set down an Abstract here of the Statute of E. 6. about the Sacrament and of that of Q. M. about disturbing Ministers likewise the Statute Jac. 1. about profane speaking or jesting with the Name of God c. and then to proceed to the other Laws By the Statute 1 E. 6. Ch. 1. it is Enacted That none shall speak or do any thing in contempt of the most Holy Sacrament in pain of Imprisonment and to make Fine and Ransom at the King 's Will. Three Justices of the Peace Quor unus have power to take Information by the Oaths of two lawful Persons at least concerning the Offence aforesaid and to bind over by Recognizances every Accuser and Witness in five Pound apiece to appear at the next Sessions to give Evidence against the Offendors who are there to be enquired of before three Justices or more by the Oaths of twelve men and also indicted if the matter alledged against them be found true the Offence to be prosecuted within three Months By the Statute 1 M. Sess 2. Ch. 3. it is Enacted That if any shall disturb a Preacher lawfully Licensed in his open Sermon or Collation he shall be by the Constables or Church-wardens of the Parish brought before a Justice of the Peace who upon due Accusation shall commit him to safe Custody and within six days after together with another Justice shall diligently examine the Fact who if they find cause shall commit him to the common Goal there to remain for three Months and from thence to the next Quarter-Sessions at Which upon the parties Reconciliation and entring into Bond for good Behaviour for one whole Year at discretion of the Justices in Sessions he shall be released but if he persist still in his Obstinacy he shall remain in Prison without Bail until he shall reconcile and be penitent for his Offence He that rescues an Offendor in this kind shall suffer like Imprisonment as aforesaid and besides shall forfeit five Pounds to the King The Inhabitants of a Town that suffer such an Offendor to escape shall forfeit five Pounds being presented before the Justices of Peace in Sessions within the County or Corporation where the escape was made Justices of Peace Assize and Oyer and Terminer and Mayors and head Officers of Corporations have power to hear and determin these Offences and to impose the Fines aforesaid This Act shall not restrain the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Laws howbeit none shall be punished here for one Offence By the Statute 3 Jac. 1. Ch. 21. None shall in any Stage-play Shew May game or Pageant profanely use the Name of God Christ Jesus the Holy Ghost or Trinity on pain of ten Pounds to be divided between the King and Prosecutor It 's said that Constantine the Great made Laws for the strict observation of the Lord's Day commanding that through all the Roman Empire all servile Employments should cease on those days he prescribed also a form for the Legions of Soldiers to be used both on the Sabbath-days and other days and himself used to shew much Reverence and Attention to the Word of God so that many times he would stand up all the Sermon time and when some of his Courtiers told him that it would tend to his disparagement he answered that it was in the Service of the great God who was no respecter of Persons By the Statute 1 Eliz. Ch. 2. Every Person is to resort to their Parish Church or upon let thereof to some other every Sunday and Holy-day upon pain to be punished by Censures of the Church and also to forfeit twelve pence for every Default to be levied by the Church-wardens there for the use of the Poor upon the Offendor's Goods by way of Distress and for want of Distress to be committed to some Prison until the same be paid And by the Statute 23 El. Ch. 1. Every Person not repairing to Church according to the Statute aforesaid shall forfeit twenty Pounds for every Month they so make Default and if the Offendor is not able to pay and do not pay within three Months after Judgment then to be committed to Prison and there to remain until he have satisfied the same or shall conform himself and go to the Church By the Statute 3 Jac. 1. Ch. 4. The King may refuse the twenty Pounds a Month for absenting from the Church and take in lieu thereof two third parts of the absenters Lands and Leases but here he shall not include the Recusants Mansion-house nor demise the two third parts to a Recusant or to any other for a Recusants use The Church-wardens and Constables of every Parish or one of them or if there be none such then the High-Constable of the Hundred there shall present once every year at the general Sessions of the Peace the monthly absence from Church of every Popish Recusant and then Children being above the Age of nine years and their Servants together with the Age of their Children as near as they can know them on pain to forfeit respectively for every such default twenty Shillings which Presentment the Clerk of the Peace or Town-Clerk shall record without Fee on pain of forty Shillings If upon such Presentment being the first the Recusant be convicted the Officer that presents him shall have forty Shillings reward to be levied by Warrant upon the Recusants Goods and Estate as the more part of the Justices of Peace shall think fit But Note that his Majesties Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England and qualified according to the late Statute of Indulgence are exempted from the Penalties of these Statutes The command of the Sabbath hath a special memento prefixed to it which may not only note to us that we are by this Memento Remember thou keep Holy the sabbath-Sabbath-day to observe the Lord's zeal for the observance thereof but we are thereby put in mind timely to lay aside our worldly Business and get our Hearts into readiness for the entertainment of God into the same And altho nothing is more acceptable to God than the true and sincere Worship and Service of him according to his Holy Will and that the Holy keeping of the Lord's-day is a principal part of the true Worship and Service of God Yet the People of this Kingdom having enjoyed a long continued series of Peace Plenty and Prosperity instead of rendring thanks to Almighty God for this great Blessing and of serving him in Holiness and Righteousness of Life and Conversation they on the contrary like the idolatrous Jews upon the making of their Golden-Calf they sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play Exod. 32. 6. 1 Cor. 10. 7. Nay the people of this Realm were so entirely devoted to Games and Pastimes that they could not or would not forbear them upon the Lord's Day but spent that

to look upon the Wine when it is red when it sparkles in the Cup or to rise up early in the Morning to follow drink that is strong as appears by the places of Scripture beforecited in the last preceding Chapter And we read that Pitticus the Mitelenian Philosopher and one of the seven wise men of Greece made a Law that whosoever committed a Crime when he was drunk should be punished double both for the Offence committed and also for being drunk And Solon another of the seven wise men of Greece and the famous Law-giver to the Athenians ordained that if any Prince were taken drunk he should be put to death Noah that Holy Patriarch drinking too much Wine not only discovered his own shame but also was the occasion of the cruel Curse which the Lord sent upon the Posterity of Cham which even to this day lieth hard upon them And Lot though he hated the Sin of Sodom and escaped the Punishment thereof yet being overcome with the Wine of the Mountains he committed Incest with his own Daughters and made a new Sodom of his own Family Balthasar rioting and revelling amongst his Whores had the end of his Life and Kingdom denounced against him by a bodiless Hand writing upon the Wall the Lord's Decree And whilst Holofernes besotted his sences with excess of Wine and good Chear Judith found means to cut off his Head Alexander the Great having invited many of his Favourites and Captains to a Supper propounded a Crown in reward to him that should drink most so one in the Company swallowed up four Steans of Wine being in value worth six hundred Crowns and so won the Prize but lost a greater Prize viz. his Life for he survived not three days after and one and forty of the rest that did strive with him for Conquest dyed also to bear him Company at his Death as they had done in the Frolick Alexander also himself was so addicted to the excess of drinking Wine and was oft-times so distempered therewith that sometimes he kill'd his Friends at the Table in his drunken fits whom in sobriety he loved dearest Cyrillus a Citizen of Hippon had a drunken Son who in the midst of his Drunkenness kill'd his own Mother great with Child and his Father also that endeavoured to restrain his drunken Fury and would have ravished his Sister had she not strugled sore and made her escape not without many wounds Three not far from Huntington to my own knowledg saith my Author being overcharged with Drink perished by Drowning when being not able to rule their Horses they were carried by them into the main Stream from whence they never came out again alive but left behind them visible marks of God's Justice for the Terror and Example of others Upon the Coasts of Bohemia Anno 1551. five drunken men quaffing together with horrible Blasphemies profaned the Name of God and the Picture of the Devil being painted on the Wall they caroused Healths to him to which the Devil answered immediately and the next Morning all five were found dead their Necks being broken and squeez'd to pieces as though a Wheel had gone over them Blood running out of their Mouths Nostrils and Ears to the great Astonishment of the Beholders An Alewife in Kesgrave near Ipswich who would needs force three Serving-men that had been drinking in her House and were taking their leaves to stay and drink the three Ou ts before they went that is Wit out of the Head Money out of the Purse and Ale out of the Barrel as she was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand was suddenly taken speechless and sick and her Tongue swoln in her Head and never recovered her Speech but di●d the third day after Two Servants of a Brewer in Ipswich drinking for the Rump of a Turkey and strugling in their Drink for it fell into a scalding Caldron backwards whereof one died presently and the other lingringly and painfully since my coming says Mr. Ward to Ipswich A Man coming home drunk would needs go and swim in the Mill-pond his Wife and Servants knowing he could not swim perswaded him and once got him out of the Water but he going in again was drowned in the Pond In Barnwel near Cambridg a lusty young man living at the sign of the Plough with two of his Neighbours and one Woman in their Company agreed to drink up a Barrel of strong Beer and drinking up the same three of them died within four and twenty Hours and the fourth hardly escaped after great Sickness A Butcher in Haslingfield hearing the Minister inveigh against Drunkenness being at his Cups in the Alehouse fell a scoffing at the Minister and his Sermons and as he was drinking the Drink or something in the Cup got into his Throat and stuck so there that he could neither get it up nor down but was choaked therewith presently At Tillingham in Dengy Hundred in Essex Three young men meeting to drink strong Waters fell by degrees to half Pints and one of them fell down dead in the Room and the other two prevented by Company coming in escaped not without much Sickness At Bungy in Norfolk three coming out of an Ale-house in a dark Evening swore they thought it was not darker in Hell it self one of them fell off the Bridg into the Water and was drowned the second fell off his Horse and the third sleeping on the Ground by the River side was frozen to Death A Bailiff of Hedley being drunk upon the Lord's Day at Melford would needs get upon his Mare to ride through the Street affirming as the report goes says my Author that his Mare would carry him to the Devil and his Mare casting him off broke his neck Company drinking in an Alehouse at Harwich in the Night over against one Mr. Russels Mayor of the Town was by him once or twice desired to depart and at length coming down he took one of them making as if he would carry him to Prison who drawing his Knife fled from him and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand At Tenby in Pembrokshire a Drunkard being excessive drunk broke himself all to pieces from an high and steep Rock in a most fearful manner and yet the occasion and Circumstances of his fall so ridiculous as I says my Author think not fit to relate lest in so serious a Judgment I should move laughter to the Reader A Glasier in Chancery-lane in London fell to a common course of Drinking and being admonished by his Wife and many of his Friends to leave off his sinful Course yet he presuming much of God's Mercy continued in his sinful practise till upon a time having overcharged his Stomach with Drink he fell a vomiting broke a Vein lay two days in extream pain of Body and sorrow of Mind till in the end recovering a little Comfort he died Four sundry instances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their

to Prison about them she began there to rot and stink so that they were forced to thrust her out of Prison into an Hospital where she in great Misery repented of her foul Sin Also one John Duncalf of Kings Swinford in January 1677. coming to the House of one Humfry Baby at Grangewell about three miles from Woolverhampton he begg'd of the Woman there Victuals and Drink who formerly knowing him and compassionating his Condition freely gave him some but while she was stooping to draw him some drink he stole her Bible and sold it afterwards fort three Shillings to a Maid not far off whereby the Woman came to hear-of it and paying her the Money received it again but could not hear what was become of the man But a while after John Duncalf hearing it discoursed that he stole a Bible grew very angry and gave out threatning words against a young man that reported it but being severely charged with it he did not only deny it with some fierceness but execrated and cursed himself wishing his Hands might rot off if it were true which words he had no sooner uttered but by his own Confession to divers that came to see him in his miserable Condition he said that immediately thereupon he had an inward Horror and Trembling upon him a dread and fear of the Divine Vengeance of God and the Justice of him from whom no secrets are hid and that within a few days after his Cursing himself his Flesh began to look black at the wrists of his Hands and he continued divers Weeks with Faintness and fearing an Ague was going for his Acquaintance but not being able to go further he laid himself down in a Barn and there continued two days and nights before he was found from whence he was removed to another Barn near Woolverhampton and had a Keeper appointed him his Flesh began first to rise in great knobs at his Wrists and Knees and to break and run with putrid Matter the Flesh shrunk from the Bones his pain was exquisite the smell very offensive Worms bred in the putrid Flesh and his Hands and Legs fell off And thus continued he begging the Prayers of those Divines that came to visit him and acknowledging the just Judgment of God for his Stealing Lying and Cursing c. for some Weeks a dreadful spectacle of the Divine Vengeance Anno 1677. At Atherbury in Oxfordshire a Woman that kept a petty Alehouse having much addicted her self to Oaths and Curses and one Morning a neighbouring Woman coming thither for some strong Drink she had occasion for and offering a piece of Money she would have two pence or three pence more for a former Debt which the other resolutely denied The Hostess began to swear and use several profane and abominable wishes and imprecations as God damn me and the Devil burn me if it be not so which last words she often repeated thrusting the other Woman violently out of her House shutting the Door and locking it against her Her Husband not long after coming home wondered to find the Door fast but at last with one or two of his Neighbours he forced it open and to his great surprizal finds in the midst of the Floor the Relicks of his Wife one side of her Body and the Clothes on it from the sole of her Foot to the crown of her Head burnt to ashes and nothing left but the Skeleton or part of the Bones whereas the other side remained whole and the Clothes not so much as touch'd or sing'd tho it was observed that the Flesh and Skin was all turned black Much the like Story as Reverend Mr. Turner tells us was published not many years ago concerning a Maid in Dublin A dissolute young man Servant to a Gentleman who was much given to beastly Drunkenness meeting with some of his Companions at Sangall in Switzerland to be merry when they had drunk freely and extravagantly he began to rail at and quarrel with his Companions and using many blasphemies against God he added this execration also If I serve my Master any longer I give my Body and Soul to the Devil and staying there all night in the morning he began to think of what he had said the night before yet having no other means of subsistence he resolved to return to his Master's Service but at his return when he was not far from his Masters House a man met him clad in black and fearful to behold who said to him Come fellow I am now ready to take that which is my right and which thou gavest me yesterday and so taking him by the Hand to his great Horrour and Amazement the Devil threw him to the ground and so vanished and not long after this miserable young man being found by some of his Neighbours his Hands and Feet were drawn together and being brought to a Lodging he had the use of all his Limbs taken from him and so continued till he died miserably A Serving-man in Lincolnshire for every trifle used to swear by God's blood and would not be warned by his Friends till at length falling into a grievous Sickness he was again much perswaded by his Friends to repent which counsel he still rejected and hearing the Bell toll in the very pains of Death he started up God's wounds the Bell tolls for me but he shall not have me yet whereupon the Blood issued out in a most fearful manner from all the joints of his Body from Mouth Nose Wrists Knees Heels and Toes and other parts of his Body and so he died as Mr. Perkins relates Another example of like Punishment befel one Mr. Barrington a great Swearer who going forth a Hunting or Hawking on the lord's-Lord's-day or a Festival and not finding game and speeding to his mind he went to an Ale-house at Puckeridg five miles from Ware in the way to Cambridg and call'd for drink beginning to swear after his unhappy Custom saying By God's blood this is an unlucky day and presently after he bled at the Nose which so vexed him that he began to rail and blaspheme the Name of God swearing Passion Wounds Nails Flesh Blood c. till at last he proceeded further to bleed at the Ears Eyes Wrists joints of his Hands and of all his Body at the Navil and Fundament in a wonderful great quantity and streams of Blood blaring out his Tongue in a fearful manner as black as Pitch so that no Person durst come near him this continued till the Devil and Death made an end of him next day says the Publisher hereof the Body was laid in a Cart carried to Standon and buried in the Highway Michael a Jewish Rabbin as he was swearing and blaspheming the Name of Jesus fell down and broke his Neck Three Soldiers passing through a Wood in the Country of Samurta there arose a tempest of Thunder and Lightning and one of them to shew his contempt of God and his Judgments burst forth into swearing and blasphemy