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A13448
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The fearefull summer, or, Londons calamity, the countries courtesy, and both their misery by Iohn Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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STC 23754; ESTC S531
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Belzebubs damn'd treasure This swearing sin no profit yeelds or pleasure Nor gaines the swearer here but earths vexation With change of his saluation for damnation It is a sinne that yeelds vs no excuse For what excuse can be for Gods abuse And though our other faults by death doe end Yet Blasphemy doth after death extend For to the damn'd in Hell this curse is giuen They for their paines blasphem'd the God of Heauen Examples on the earth haue many beene As late in sundry places hath beene seene At Mautna two braue Russians in their game Swore and blasphem'd our blessed Sauiours name Where God iust iudgment full of feare dread Causd both their eyes to drop from out their head In Rome a child but 5 yeares old that swore Was snatch vp by the Deuill and seene no more And at Ragouse a Mariner did sweare As if he would Gods name in sunder teare When falling ouer-boord was drown'd and tost And nothing but his tongue was onely lost Remember this you sinfull sonnes of men Think how that Christ redeem'd you from Hells den His mercy he hath giu'n in magnitude Requite him not with vile ingratitude He made the Eare and Eye and heares and sees The swearers execrable oathes and lyes The God head of the Father they contemne Against the Sonnes Redemption the blaspheme The Holy Spirit grieuously they grieue And head-long into Hell themselues they driue Iâ— is in vaine for mortall men to think Gods Iustice is a sleepe although it winke Or that his arme is shortned in these times That he cannot reach home to punish crimes Oh thinke not so 't is but the Deuills illusion To draw vs desperately to our confusion Some say that 't is their anger makes them sweare And oathes are out before they are aware But being crost with losses and perplex'd They thinke no harme but sweare as being vex'd And some there are that sweare for complement Make aothes their grace and speeches ornament Their sweet Rhetoricall fine eloquence Their reputations onely excellence Their valour whom the Deuill doth inflame T' abuse their Makers and Redeemers name Thinke but on this you that doe God forget Your poore excuses cannot pay this debt Remember that our sinfull soules dâ—d cost A price too great to be by swearing lost And blessed was our last good Parliament Who made an act for swearers punishment And blest shall be each Magistrates good name That carefully doe execute the same Those that are zealous for Gods glory heere No doubt in heauen shall haue true glory there Which that we may haue humbly I implore Of Him that rules and raignes for ouermore The Eternall Lord of Lords and King of Kings Before whose Throne blest Saints Angels sings All power praise glory maiesty thanksgiuing Ascribed be to him that 's euer liuing FINIS My farewell to the famous Vniuersity of Oxford I Thanke God that Ingratitude being the worst of euils it doth not raigne in me although it may knock at the doore of my estate yet I trust I neuer shall harbour it This renowned Seminary and City allowed me free and generous entertainment for some certaine weekes in these dangerous and contagious times and although the hand of the Almighty did in some sprinkling and mercifull measure awaken the security of some in that Citty yet was and is his Grace so abundantly extended towards it that there did not dye in the City and Suburbs being 13 Parishes aboue 7 of the Pestilence in one weeke all this dangerous yeare in which is much to be commended the care and diligence of the Graue and right Worship M r Vicechancellour with M r Maior and the rest of his worthy brethren who neglected or omitted no meanes that prouidence and Charity could vse for the preseruation of the healthy and the comfort of the sick this I being a witnesse of in the way of thankfulnesse thought fit to expresse assuring them in generall that they shall neuer want the prayers and best wishes of him that wil be euer at their seruice IOHN TAYLOR Tasteing Smelling Feeling a Iames. b Exod. 20. c Leviticus 24. d 1 Cor. 6. 10. e Matth. 5. f God himselfe complaineth that men blaspheme him Esay 52. 5. The names of blasphemy is writ vpon the 10 heads of Antichrist Apre 13.1 Cursing is forbidden by the Apostle when he saith Blesse Isoy and curse net Rom. 12. 14. Our Sauiour commandeth vs to blesse them that curle vs Matth. 5. 44. Blesse them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luke 6. 28. Accustome not thy mouth to woaring for in it are many falls neither take vp for a custome the naming of the holy One for thou shalt not be vnpunished for such things Esclesiasticus 23. 9. The Plague shall neuer go forth from the house of the swearer Idem Whose sweares falsly calls the God of Truth to witnes a lie Who so sweares as he thinks may be deceiued Who so sweares vnreuerently dishonoureth God Who so sweares deceitfully abuseth Christian fidelity Who so sweares idlely abuseth the credit of a faithfull oath Who so sweares accustomably God will plague him â—Elfred an english Earle conspiring to put our K. Adolstanes eyes at Winchester forsware the treason in Saint Peters Church at Rome and fell downe dead presently Earle Godwin murthered Prince Alfred brother to king Edward Confessor and being at dinner the King charged him with the murther then Godwin swore by bread and prayed it might choake him if he were guilty and immediately it choaked him in the place his lands also sunk into the sea and are called Godwin-sands K. Stephen forsware himselfe to King Henry I and liued in continuall trouble dyed in perplexity of minde Edward brake his oath made at York that he came not with intent to cease the Kingdome and bâ—eaking that oath was punisht with a troublesome raigne his brethren and children all except one murthered and not any of his issue reigned after him Roger Mortimer a great Peere of thâ—s land for breaking his oath to King Edward the 2. was most ignominioâ—sly hanged bowelld quartered M. Fox in his Booke of Martyrs declares of one Richard Long of Calice that forsware himselfe to accuse one Smith for eating flesh in Lent after which oath Long went presently drowned himselfe One Grimwood at Hiteham in Suffolks forsware himselfe and his bowels burst out One widdow Barnes for the like sin cost herselfe out of her window in Cornhill and brake her necke Anns Anetis forsware herselfe in Woodstrees for sixe pound of Towe desiring God she might links down which fearfully hapned One Lea in Sunne-alloy without Bishopsgate forswere himselfe and after ript out his guts