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A33339 A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ... Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 1654 (1654) Wing C4549; ESTC R22652 370,512 672

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Sabbath-breakers The command of the Sabbath hath a special Memento or Remember prefixed unto it that by timely thinking of it we might lay aside our worldly businesse and get our hearts into an holy array and readinesse for entertainment of God into them It is the market-market-day of the soul wherein the Lord useth to meet his people to dispense his blessings and graces in and by his Ordinances to those which humbly and reverently attend upon him therein The carefull sanctification of it keeps up the power of godlinesse in our hearts and lives And if worldly labour is unlawfull upon that day much more are carnal delights and pastimes Melius arare quàm saltare in Sabbato It is better to plow then to dance on the Sabbath was St. Austines judgement and when men neglect to punish the profanation of it the Lord usually takes the sword into his own hand and by visible judgements plagues the profaners of it as will further appeare by these Examples following Sabbath instituted Gen. 2. 3. Called holy Exod. 16. 23. 31. 14. Nehem. 9. 14. Isa. 58. 13. The Lords day Rev. 1. 10. The first day of the week This name is given to rhe seventh day Exod. 21. 10. 31. 15. Lev. 23. 3. Deut. 5. 14. To the tenth day in the seventh moneth Lev. 16. 29. 31. 23. 27 32. Num. 29. 7. To some dayes annexed to the solemne festivals as to the first and eighth day Lev. 23. 39. To the seventh year Lev. 26. 4. To the fiftieth year Lev. 25. 10. To the week Luk. 24. 1. 18. 12. the word week is in the Greek Sabbath It was kept 1. By ceasing from servile labour Exod. 20. 8. 31. 14. Luk. 23. 56. Jer. 17. 22. and from doing evil Isa. 56. 2. 2. By preparing to keep it holy Exod. 35. 2. Mark 1. 35 39. with delight Isa. 58. 13 14. 3. By worshipping God Ezek. 46. 3. in the Sanctuary Lev. 26. 2. Numb 28. 18. 4. By praying Ezra 6. 10. Isa. 56. 7. Acts 16. 13. 5. By singing Psalmes 1 Chron. 23. 30. Psal. 92. 95. 2. 6. By reading the Scriptures Acts 13. 15. 15. 21. Deut. 31. 11 c. 7. By Preaching Acts 15. 21. 13. 42 44. Mark 6. 2. Luk. 4. 16 31. 6. 6 13. 10. Mal. 2. 7. Neh. 8. 3. 6. 8. By conference Acts 17. 17. 18. 4 19. 9. Administring the Sacraments John 7. 22. 10. Searching the Scriptures after hearing Act. 17. 11. 11. By holy meditation Deut. 5. 12. Exod. 20. 20. 31. 13 14. It 's commanded Lev. 22. 32. Exod. 20. 8 20. Jer. 17. 24. Deut. 5. 20. It 's not to be polluted Exod. 20. 21 24. Profaned Ezek. 22. 8. 23. 38. with servile work Lev. 23. 7 8. 21. 35 36. Numb 28. 25. 29. 1. Husbandry Exod. 34. 21. Neh. 13. 15. Buying selling or thinking of it Amos 8. 6. Carrying burthens Jer. 17. 11 12. Neh. 13. 15. Journeys about worldly or unnecessary businesses Exod. 16. 29. Doing our own pleasure Isa. 58. 13. January the thirteenth 1583. being the Sabbath about foure a clock in the afternoone the Scaftold in the Bear-garden being overloaden with people suddenly fell down whereby eight persons were slaine outright and many others sorely hurt and bruised to the shortening of their lives Symps. Eccl. Hist. Not long since in Bedfordshire a match at football being appointed on the Sabbath in the afternoone whil'st two were in the Belfree tolling of a Bell to call the company together there was suddenly heard a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning was seene by some that sat in the Church-Porch coming through a dark lane and flashing in their faces which much terrified them and passing through the Porch into the Belfree it tripped up his heeles that was toiling the Bell and struck him starke dead and the other that was with him was so sorely blasted therewith that shortly after he died also Dr. Twist on the Sab. At a place called Tidworth on the Sabbath day many being met together to play at Football in the Church-yard one had his leg brok●n which presently Gangrenizing he forthwith died thereof Eodem At Alcester in Warwickshire upon the coming forth of the Declaration for sports a lusty young woman went on the Sabbath day to a Greene not farre off where she said she would dance as long as she could stand but while she was dancing God struck her with a violent disease whereof within two or three dayes after she died Also in the same place not long after a young man presently after the evening Sermon was ended brought a paire of Cudgels into the street neare to the Ministers house calling upon divers to play with him but they all refusing at the length came one who took them up saying Though I never played in my life yet I will play one bout now But shortly after as he was jesting with a young maide he took up a birding-peece which was charged saying Have at thee and the peece going off shot her in the face whereof she immediately died for which act he forfeited all his goods and underwent the trial of the Law At Wootton in the same County a Miller going forth on the ●abbath-day to a Wake when he came home at night found his House Mill and all that he had burnt down to the ground At Woolston in the same County many loose persons kept a Whitson-Ale and had a Moris-dancing on the Sabbath day in a Smiths barne to the great griefe of the godly Minister who laboured all that he could to restraine it But it pleased God that shortly after a fire kindled in that Smiths shop which burnt it down together with his house and barne and raging furiously going sometimes with sometimes against the winde it burnt downe many other houses most of which were prime actors in that profanation of the Lords day I my felfe knew these foure last Examples Anno 1634. on a Lords day in the time of a great frost fourteen young men while they were playing at Football on the Ice on the River Trent neare to Gainsborough meeting all together in a scussle the Ice suddenly brake and they were all drowned In the Edge of Essex near Brinkley two fellows working in a Chalk-pit 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 next Sunday He had no sooner said this but suddenly the earth fell down upon him and flew him outright with the fall whereof his fellows limb was broken who had been also partner with him in his jollity on the Lords day In the County of Devon one Edward Amerideth a Gentleman having been pained in his feet and being somewhat recovered one said unto him he was glad to see him so nimble Ameredith replied that he doubted not but to dance about the May-pole the next Lords day but before he