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A87056	Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers. In a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation. By W. L.	Hammond, Samuel, d. 1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing H623bA; ESTC R230554	59,944	204

dayes of their youth unlesse by blaspheming and cursing it A Noble person of the City of Eflinghen at a losse by gaming began to swear and curse bitterly in which rage and madnesse he mounts his horse for home the Devil meets him pulls him off who with his servants was misguided all the night by evil spirits and in the morning finding themselves not lost they get their Master safe to Bethen-Hansen where in great torment for three dayes he yeilded Justice victor A woman in Marchia being a prophane curser and swearer was justly left by God to Sathan for in sight of many people she is snatched into the air and thrown down again which brake her neck God we see can break us from our sins and lives together if we do not from the first break off by repentance One Margret VVood of Allercleugh in the Parish of Stanhop in the County of Durham was notoriously known for many years upon every slight occasion to use this imprecation I wish I may sink into the earth Upon the last day of August 1655. she with one Elinor Mason of the same Parish being both washing of lead oare to fit it for the Lead-mill and standing upon the same spot of ground where many horses laden with Lead had passed the immediate day before the earth suddenly failed under them and swallowed them both up next day when their dead bodies were digged out Elinor Mason was found with her body erect but Margeret VVood was many yards deeper within ground and her head direct downwards One Elinor Short of the same Parish did frequently use this imprecation I wish my feet may rot off if this or that be not so or so It pleased the Just God about 20 years ago to visit her with a pain in her feet which by degrees did rot quite off as afterwards did her legs also and she is yet alive at this day as a Monument of Gods signal Judgement she creepes upon her hands and thighs and doth often acknowledge Gods just dealing with her Robert Durance Butcher in Carlisle was a known Swearer and Drunkard who about 30 years ago being playing at Cards with some of his companions and having lost all his money except 30 s began fearfully to swear he would be revenged upon himselfe whereupon he run out at the gates of the City towards the River Eden and though he was followed by divers some on Horse-back yet did he destroy himself by leaping into the River in which River hard by the place where he leapt in he lay for the space of four years at the end of which a Fisherman found the lower parts of his body only the other parts being consumed William Knot of Dalston in Cumberland being a common swearer when he was a servant to Alderman Grey of York he fell into a lead full of boyling liquor by which means in ten days he dyed John Prestman of Weighton in Cumberland A Sheriffes Bayliffe being accounted a common swearer one night when he was drunk at Carlisle went out in the night and notwithstanding the perswasion of his Landlord leapt over the Bridge with his horse and was drowned in the River Caude One Hudson of Dalston in Cumberland did wager with another man who should swear more oathes by God the other man was by the just judgment of God struck dead ere he parted Hudston was struck dumb to his dying day and though he lived many years after yet could speak nothing but swear by God which he did upon every occasion Oh the justice of God to some and the patience and forbearance to others waiting to be gracious let such as swear by the name of God look upon this example this sad example On May Eve 1634. one Troe of Gloce●ter a Carpenter in the Parish of St. Michael being demanded by some whether he would go with them and fetch the May-pole swore by the Lords wounds he would go though he never went more But mark the justice of God on May day morning as he was working on the May-pole before it was finished he was by a Divine stroke of Justice smote with such a lamenesse and swelling in all his limbs that he could neither goe nor lift his hand to his mouth to feed himselfe but was forced to keep his bed for half a year together and to this day goeth lame May 4. 1636. OF THE SABBATH DAY WITH GODS JUDGEMENTS UPON THE PROFANERS thereof OF THE SABBATH DAY With GODS JUDGEMENTS upon the profaners thereof I Am now to treat with the Sabbath-breaker who for many reasons will appear to be lesse excusable before God for this sin then either the Drunkard or Swearer Here is a double sin profaneing it and neglecting that which is ordained by God for the eternall good of our soul besides it is a premeditated act and goes along with a great aggravation as we shall see in a word presently It is now become so great a custome to prophane the Lords day that he almost becomes a scoffe to others that offers to reform or punish it and that men may not so much slight it I have collected a few reasons to perswade men to observe it and disswade from the profanation of it for God will not be mocked That we may know this day is no mock-day The Lord that made heaven and earth That great Jehovah stiles himself Lord of the Sabbath and the Lord hath in a more speciall manner singled out this Commandement with a memento Remember by no meanes forget the Sabbath for the Lord rested that day and he blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it It 's a great consideration to make us weigh the duty of keeping it for six dayes the Lord made heaven and earth and when the seventh day came he rested on it The Lord as it were hasted to finish the world in six dayes that he might himself be an example to lead us to the understanding of the great weight which God himself put upon this day And that we may see it is no ordinary nor common thing to break this day see how strictly God in his holy Word commands it This is that which the Lord hath said To morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord six dayes may work be done but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest Holy to the Lord he that works shall be put to death that soul shall be cut off from amongst the people it shall be observed throughout their Generations for a perpetual Covenant The Lord threatens sore Judgements and why Because they have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned amongst them Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it It 's called by the Prophet the Holy of the Lord Honourable there might be many more places quoted but these few are enough to let people see that it is not a trifling matter to profane the day and that we

Smiths Barn and though it grieved the holy man of God who was Minister of the place as the Sodomites did Lot yet he could not help it but in their profanenesse they proceeded not long after a fire kindles in the place of this impiety and burnes down not onely his House Shop and Barn but rages so vehemently as it reaches many other houses with ruin all being chief actors in this horrid profanenesse In the year 1634. upon a Lords day when the River Trent was frozen over fourteen young men were at foot-ball upon the Ice near Gainsborough and meeting all in a cluster together the wrath of God met with them and suddenly the Ice broke and they were immediately drowned Oh the justice of the Lord upon the prophaners of his Holy day The same painful and useful Author of Gods examples relates a sad one of Gods Judgements upon two fellows in Essex near Brinkely that were working in a Chalk-pit one of them boasting that he had vext his Mistresse by coming so late in from his Sabbath-dayes Sports and Recreations ● but sayes he I will anger her worse next Sabbath day which words were no sooner out but Justice seizes upon him for the Earth falls upon him and he never stirred more to his Sabbath prophanesse his fellowes limbs were broken both being sharers in the sin of the Sabbath are made also to be so in their sufferings and punishments The Lord will be known in the paths and wayes of his Judgements to such as will not be led and allured by his tender mercies And of one Mr. Ameredith a Gentleman of Devonshire being recovered from a pain which he had suffered in his feet one of his friends saying he was glad to see him so nimble the Gentleman replies He hoped his hopes should not be frustrated of the great expectations he had to dance about the May-Pole the next Sunday But behold the Lord in a just punishment for such impious and wicked resolutions and no doubt also for his former prophanesse on that day smites him suddenly with feeblenesse and faintnesse of heart ere he stirred from the place and with such a strange dizzinesse in the head that he was forc't to be led home and from thence to his last home before the Lords Day shined upon him Now tell me any that can what little hopes the poor souls thus ushered to the chambers of death have to keep an eternal Sabbath with God that will not keep his Sabbath from prophaning on earth Truly these are sad symptoms of Gods heavy displeasure against soul as well as body his mercy if any be in such dismal dispensations are occult and hidden the Lord in mercy warn poor sinners to avoid the wrath of such an Infinite God that such as will not be intreated to keep the Lords day as they ought may be terrified from prophaning of it Another as severe he relates which together with the three former are attested by sufficient witnesses At Walton upon Thames in Survey upon a great frost in the year 1634. three young men having in the forenoon heard a Sermon from 2 Cor. 5.10 We must all appear before the Judgement-seat of Christ c. they went over the Ice into an house of disorder and gaming where they prophanely spent away the rest of the Lords day and night also in revelling and drinking the one of them next day boasting merrily of his pleasure upon the Sabbath day and his adventure over the Ice All three on Tuesday return the way they went and upon the Ice suddenly sunk to the bottom like stones one of them onely miraculously preserved These judgements may be mercies to some that are yet prophaners of the Lords day if God please At Burton upon Trent Mr. Abberly a godly Minister often took occasion to reprove and threaten such as make no conscience of the Lords day by prophaning it in a more peculiar manner such as bought and sold meat upon this day which it seems was a sin as great and as commonly practised in this place as it was lately at Buntingford where in my journey some Gentlemen of Newcastle being my fellow-travellers we took occasion after Sermon to acquaint the Minister withal I pray God it may not be so still lest such a judgement befal the place as did this prophane wretch which was thus A Taylor being a nimble and active man dwelling at the upper end of the Town must needs in a bravado go to the further end to buy some meat before morning-prayer but coming home with both his hands full in the midst of the street he fell down stark dead I was sayes Doctor Teate an eye-witnesse both of his fall and burial and that it wrought a reformation in the place both among the Butchers and others It was a remarkable Providence and I wish I say that other places may be reformed of this bold and impudent sin or truly they may repent of it when it s too late A Pious Divine sayes he The Lord hath spoken so loud from heaven against Sabbath-sinners that I cannot be silent We hereabout have had in a short time terrible tokens of God severe vengeance upon such as mind not the service of his Day amongst our selves a sad example A Townsman going to gather Cherries on the Lords Day fell from the tree and in the fall was so battered and bruised that he never spake more but lay groaning in his blood until the next day and then died Another man not far from this place in Cherry-time as he was gathering fruit fell from the tree and with the fall was so hurt that he lay in anguish and dreadful dolour all the week till Sabbath day and then ended his miserable life And of a young man that on the Lords Day in a place nigh unto Mr. Goodwins scrambling with others for Peares thrown out in the Church-yard broke his main thigh-bone and the bone of his leg on the same side which was so miserably and strangely broken as that the Bone-setter who was a godly man told Mr. Goodwin though he had seen many yet he never saw the like God here dealt in mercy as well as in judgememt in that he 〈◊〉 him space to repent and see his sin The Lord warn us all by these examples A company of prophane young men in 1635. near Salisbury upon the Lords Day morning went to Clarington Park to cut down a May-Pole and having loaden the Cart with the tree and themselves with the bitter fruits of sin they are severely punisht by the hand of God For entring into the City of Salisbury through a place called Milners Bars unawares the Cart gives a turn and the end of the tree struck one of the Sabbath-breakers such a mortal blow that his brains flew out and there on the place he yeilded himself a conquered sinner by the Just hand of the Lord lying there as a sad spectacle of Gods indignation and sayes Mr Clark I enquired of

a judgement of God upon him for prophanation of his day and ever after he became a more frequent resorter to the congregation and hearing Gods word At Thornton nigh Worcester upon the publishing of the book of sports on the Lords day the people prepared for a solemn prophanation by ordering purveyors on purpose to provide things fit for it A proper maid went to the Mill on Satterday to fetch home the meal on the Lords day the maid passing by a hedge with the meal upon her head was overtaken with a sudden and sad stroak of Divine Justice for she fell down dead into a ditch there she lay all Sabbath day on Munday she was carried to her grave where all their intended mirth was buried with her c. such a terrour it wrought in the people and such Reformation in the place that no more Summer-Ales were kept they took down the May-pole and none durst set it up again or have to do with the publick prophanation of that day One at Ham nigh Kingstone a scoffer of goodnesse and a common prophaner of the Lords day did on that holy day presume to visit his grounds where finding some cattle grazing which were not his own running to drive them out he fell down and suddenly died upon the place Upon May day being the Lords day a maid in Cripple-gate London being married to one that had three children one of them being at nurse in the Country they did on the Lords day spend the whole afternoon in feasting and dancing but God is just and will be seen in his judgements to warn others for a week after the plague began in the Parish the first house it entered into is this new married couples with which both himself wife and two children were swept away by death These things are not to be scoffed at they are not things of chance or blind fortune no no they are providence and though they are judgements in themselves yet in the issue I hope they will be mercifull warnings to others Not far from Dorchester lived one widow Jones whose Son Richard upon the Lords day notwithstanding her admonitions and perswasions did with his companions go to Stoak to play where after they had done and drank somewhat freely they return home and by the way fell out whereupon John Edwards one of his consorts stabbed him under the left side vvhereof at seven a clock the next night he died One David Price a servant to T. Hill a Grasier offering to drive his cattel from Banbury was dissvvaded by his Landlord and told him he vvould be stopped and forced to satisfie the Lavv to vvhich he replied let me see who will hinder In the morning he set out and not yet out of the Tovvnes end one met him and said What David to day to day he ansvvered not but passed on and although he never complained nor any other saw any signes of the least sicknesse yet in a stones cast of the Town he fell down dead suddenly and was buried in Banbury Church-yard the next day after At Wicks betwixt Colchester Harwich upon Whitsunday last in the after-noon two fellowes meeting at the Foot-ball the one killed the other At Oxford one Lords day one Hawkes a Butcher would needs mend his ditch his wife disswaded him from it on that day but he would and did go but behold the remarkable justice of God! he is struck dead in the ditch a sad example amongst other of Gods terrible Judgements One Mr. Powel upon the Lords day did at Lemster serve a Writ of Sub poena upon one Mr. Shuit a Gentleman which he did on purpose upon that day as is credibly reported as soon as he came out of the Church into the Church-yard to whom Mr. Shuit said I thought you had been an honester man than to do so upon this day who replied I hope I am never a whit the more dishonest which he had no sooner spake but suddenly he fell down dead and never spake word more his wife seeing it was immediately struck with sicknesse May 31. 1635. being the Lords day one Rich. Clark Apprentice to Timothy Donorell of Sherston in Wiltshire was drunk in company with one H. Parrum to whom he said he vvould hang or drown himself desiring to know which was the best who replied that he hoped he would do neither But oh the judgements of the Lord upon the prophaners of this day and upon the sin of Drunkennsse for on Monday morning he was seen going thorough the Town as if he were going about his Masters businesse and having got up upon the midst of a Tree without the Town he there did hang himself At Billericay in Essex one Theo. Pease the Ministers son would needs ring the Bells on the Sabbath day but was hindred by the Officers the next Lords day he had gathered many together and in despite of any would ring and whilst he was ringing a giddinesse surprized him like one drunk of which he fell sick and in three dayes died The Tapster and Chamberlain of Queens Head Southwark rode upon the Lords day to be merry and having been too bold with drink one of them riding homewards fell off his horse and broke his neck Being the Lords day an Apothecaries man in Lime-street London rid with another to Barnet to be merry and being drunk upon their return they met with a man travelling to whom offering some abuse the man strikes one of their horses one of them bid the other run him through which with his Rapier he did through the left breast so that he fell down dead and being both apprehended they confessed and were sent to New-gate At Baildon in Yorkshire two men sitting drinking at a Wake they quarrelled with one another but being parted and one of them sitting by the fire side the other presently falls upon him with a Hatchet and cleaves him down the back insomuch as his bowels fell forth the murderer being hotly pursued leapt into a River and drowned himself Four travelling from London to Maidenhead one of them would needs travel on the Lords day the rest refused spending the Sabbath there this man rode in the morning to Henly and there heard a Sermon after that travelled again in the afternoon and on his way leading his horse down a smooth descent his horse suddenly fell and broke both his fore legs He was suddenly amazed at so strange and unexpected a Providence and could not but attribute it to the immediate hand of God whereupon seeing him past recovery he knockt his horse on the head and so left him The next day being overtaken at Abington by his fellow-travellers they wondering demanded the reason how it came to passe he was no further on his way He smote his breast and related the strange Providence of God towards him saying He had heard many a good Sermon but none of them ever wrought so much upon