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The second part of the theatre of Gods ivdgments collected out of the writings of sundry ancient and moderne authors / by Thomas Taylor.
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Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632. Theatre of Gods judgements.
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which destroyed the Beasts and Cattaile He proved likewise a great enemy to the Church being ungracious in the beginning wretched in the middle of his life and hatefull in the end thereof Neither could some Church-men cleare themselves of those Capitall Crimes which they very bitterly reproved in others For Sigandus made Bishop of Shirburne about the twelfth yeare of Edward sirnamed the Confessor shortly after usurped the Bishoprick of Winchester by strength who was a lewd and unlearned man as most of the Prelates of England were in those dayes and wholy devoted to Avarice Lust and Vaine-glory who could not containe himselfe within the Lists of keeping variety of Concubines which in those dayes was held but a veniall or quotidian sinne but he imploy'd his Panders to corrupt married women to his lustfull embraces thinking no wickednesse could be truely committed till hee had ascended the highest branch thereof and when it was openly spoken that he was unworthy the name of a Priest who made such boast of the pompe of the World the use of Voluptuousnesse Gluttony and Luxury whilst in the interim there was no care of instructing mens soules in the way towards Heaven Hee had learn'd from some one of his Chaplaines a better Scholler then himselfe this poore and slight Answer to evade it Nunc aliud tempus alii pro tempore mores Now the times are chang'd and wee have learnt to suit our Manners and Conditions to the present a notorious Church-temporizer in those dayes But though he reign'd long in great pompe and prosperity he was in the time of William the Conquerour deprived of all his Ecclesiasticall honours and confined to Winchester and there kept prisoner till he dyed who in that extreame dejection when he should onely have repented him of his former Avarice and studied newnesse of life would usually sweare he was a very poore man and not worth one peny and that hee was free from all Concupiscence of Lust both which were proved untrue For after his death a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 found about his necke by which in divers places of the earth was discovered much Treasure and those Women that ministred unto him were no other then Prostitutes and Concubines Henry the second was a potent and most victorious Prince But after he had falne into the libidinous embraces of the Lady Rosamond Daughter to the Lord Fitzwaters he was never quiet but continually afflicted with Warres both forraine and domestick insomuch that both his Queene and Sons rebelled against him and put the whole Realme into great combustion and for her part shee did not escape a due scourge for her offence for though the King provided all meanes possible for her security and safety by building the intricate Labyrinth at Woodstock and gave her in charge to a most trusty Guardian yet the Queen at length by her Spies found her out and with more then a womanish chastisement which should ever savour of some mercy tore off those delicate locks with which the King had been so much intangled and forced her to drinke a draught of deadly poyson by which her life was compell'd out of her body and thus Lust ever carryeth her rod at her owne girdle To descend unto these latter times how many strange and bloudy murders have beene committed through Lust I will give them but a meere nomination because most of them have beene Staged Book'd and Balleted and disperst abroad through the Kingdome As Master Arden of â—eversham slaine by his wife and her adulterous Companion Cosby the act it selfe being committed in his owne house by a barbarous and inhumane villaine most commonly knowne by the name of Black Will who after the deed done and his reward received fled into the Low-Countries where he thought himselfe secure But Gods hand reached him even thither where for some other deed of the same nature he was burnt on a Stage in Flushing and shee her selfe with Cosby and his Sister together with a Gentleman Master Green who had carried Letters betwixt the two Adulterers though hee took it upon his death he knew not the intents of them were all publikely executed at the Gallowes The like murder was committed on the person of one Master Page of Plymouth by his young wife and one Master George Strangwidge who as the common voice went were privately contracted together before her inforc'd Marriage But howsoever as they were convicted of the murder so for the same they were condemn'd and publikely executed And but of late dayes those two bloudy Ministers of the Devill most commonly knowne by the names of Countrey Tom and Cambury Besse who made a trade to have her his Whore walke in the evening into the Fields and where she saw any Gentleman or other likely to have money about him or good cloathes on his backe shee would insinuate into his Company and with her libidinous allurements offer her selfe to his prostitution which if he accepted of that arch-limbe of the Devill who hid himselfe privately for that purpose and stealing upon them with a Bastinado hooped and plated with Iron beate out his Braines even in the very act of Lust neither having pitty of body or soule Then rifled they their Pockets and stript them of their cloathes of which they made profitable chaffer being vendible at the Brokers for the last of which being committed upon a young Gentleman of good quality by his cloathes they were discovered and apprehended hee being executed neare unto the place where the last Fact was committed and after being thence removed to a more remote place his body hangs in chaines upon a Gibbet even to this day and shee was hang'd in Clerken-well fields over against Islington If any would have further inspection into the cursed fruits of Lust let him but enquire after the monethly Sessions at New-gate where scarce one passeth without those that goe for Maid-servants either strangling their Bastard-Issue or putting them downe into privities not caring to save their smal credit in this world to hazard everlasting perdition in the world to come yet notwithstanding all their close packings they are in the end found out and brought to the Gallowes I am loath to be more tedious in this then the rest therefore I conclude with this Distick as a generall Caveat unto all libidinously addicted Quid facies facies veneris cum veneris ante Non Sedeas sedeas ne pereus pereus What wilt thou doe when thou before Loose Venus shalt appeare Stay not but take thine heeles lest her Allurements cost thee deare CHAP. VII Gods Judgements against the Sinne of Gluttony TThis Sinne of Gluttony tooke its originall in our great Grandam Eve as we read Genesis 2. 16. And the Lord God commanded the man saying thou shalt eat freely of every Tree of the Garden but of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill thou shalt not eate of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye the
death Againe 3. 6. So the Woman seeing that the Tree was good for meat and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a Tree to be desired to get Knowledge took of the fruit thereof and did eate and gave also to her husband with her and he did eate For which they were most grievously punished and all man-kinde for their sakes For Verse 16. Vnto the Woman God said I will greatly encrease thy sorrowes and thy conception In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children and thy defire shal be subject to thy husband and he shall rule over thee Also to Adam he said Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the Treewhereof I commanded thee saying Thou shalt not eate of it Cursed is the earth for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life Thornes also and Thistles shall it bring forth unto thee and thou shalt eate the herbe of the field in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne to the earth for out of it wast thou taken because thou art dust and to dust shalt thou returne We read Numb 11. 32. then the people arose all that day and all that night and all the next day and gathered the Quailes he that gathered the least gathered ten Homers full and they spread them abroad for their use round about the Host whilst the flesh was yet in their teeth before it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with an exceeding great plague There they buried the people that fell a lusting Deut. 6. When thou shalt eate and be satisfied beware diligently that thou forgettest not the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt and the house of bondage Againe 21. 20. The Parents shall say to the Elders of his City This our Son is stubborne and disobedient and will not obey our commandement but is a Rioter and a Drunkard Then all the men of the City shall stone him with stones unto death so shalt thou take away evill from amongst you that all Israell may heare it and feare Ecclesiasticus 31. 12. If thou sittest at a costly Table open not thy mouth wide upon it and say not behold much meat Remember that an evill eye is a shame and what thing created is worse then a wicked eye for it weepeth for every cause Stretch not thine hand wheresoever it looketh and thrust it not with it into the Dish Eate modestly that which is set before thee and devour not lest thou bee'st hated Leave then off first for nurtures sake and be not insatiable lest thou offend When thou sittest amongst many reach not thy hand out first of all How little is sufficient for a man well taught and thereby he belcheth not in his Chamber nor feeleth any paine A wholsome sleep commeth of a temprate Belly he riseth up in the morning and is well at ease with himselfe but paine is watching and choler like diseases and pangs of the belly are insatiable men If thou bee inforced to eate arise goe forth and empty thy stomack and then take thy rest so shalt thou bring no sicknesse unto thine house Shew not thy valiantnesse in Wine for wine hath destroyed many the Furnace proveth the edge of the tempering so doth Wine the hearts of the proud by drunkennesse Wine soberly drunk is profitable for the life of man what is life that is overcome with Wine Wine was made from the beginning to make man glad and not for drunkennesse Wine measurably taken and in time bringeth gladnesse and chearefulnesse of the minde but drinke with excesse maketh bitternesse of minde brawlings and scoldings Drunkennesse increaseth the rage of a Foole till he offend it diminisheth his strength and maketh wounds c. Againe 37. 28. be not greedy in all delights and bee not too hasty of all meats for excesse of meats bringeth sicknesse and gluttony commeth with cholerick Diseases By surfeit have many perished and he that dyeteth himselfe prolongeth his life Thus farre the old Testament let us now heare what the Gospel saith Luke 6. 24. Woe be to you that are rich for ye have received your consolation Woe be to you that are full for yee shall be hungry Woe be unto you that now laugh for yee shall waile and weepe Againe 21. 34. Take heed lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeiting and drunkennesse and cares of this life lest that day come upon you unawares For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth Watch therefore and pray continually that yee may bee counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and that ye may stand before the Sonne of Man Rom. 13. 12. The night is past and the day is at hand let us therefore cast away the workes of darknesse and let us put on the Armour of light so that we walke honestly as in the day not in drunkennesse or gluttony nor in chambering or wantonnesse nor in strife or envying but put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it And Luke 17. In the dayes of Noe they eate and dranke they marryed Wives and were given in marriage even untill the day that Noe entred into the Arke and the floud came and destroyed them all Thus farre the Scriptures I come now to the Fathers St. Ambrose in one of his Sermons saith That ill Ministers wait upon the Throat which alwayes covets but is never satisfied for what is more insatiable then the belly to day it receives to morrow it requires being full it commends abstinence being empty it cannot endure the name of any such vertue Hunger is a friend to chastity an enemy to wantonnesse But saturity betrayeth modesty and corrupts good manners It is not the meat but the immoderate appetite that is condemned For as St. Augustine saith It was not for a Quaile or a Phesant that Eve longed for but for an Apple and thereby brought a curse unto all man-kinde It was not for a Kid or a Lamb of the flock that Esau hungred but for a messe of Broth for which he sold his birth-right Elias was fed with flesh but Iohn the Baptist with Locusts and wilde Honey and David thirsted not for wine but water for which he reprehended himselfe neither was our Saviour in the Wildernesse tempted by the Devill with flesh but bread and as Gregory in his Moralls saith It is not the meat but the lust after it that is in fault for we oft-times may eate of dainty Cates without offence and yet upon course and common fare may sinne by surfeit And in another place where Gluttony is predominant all those honours that men winne are lost and whilst the belly is not bridl'd all vertues runne to havocke but when that is curb'd and