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A11626	God and the king in a sermon preached at the Assises holden at Bury S. Edmonds, June 13. 1631. By Thomas Scot Batchelour in Divinitie, and minister of the word at S. Clements in Ipswich.	Scot, Thomas, minister at St. Clement's, Ipswich.	1633 (1633)	STC 21873; ESTC S100056	17,205	34

for without it pietie to God and charitie to man cannot be such as they should Hence it is that God accounts the profaning his day the eversion of all religion as appeares in many places We may conjecture what care man ought to have in the keeping by the Lords care in the deliverie of it for he sent it not abroad naked like many of the other commandments but clothed it as Joseph with a garment of divers colours it is in words larger in reasons fuller then any of the rest First there is a Memento for fear of forgetfullnesse Remember Next the bounty of God for fear of repining Six daies shalt thou c. Thirdly the soveraignty of it for fear of contemning It is the sabbath of the Lord c. Fourthly the generality of it for fear of misapplication Thou and thy sonne c. Fifthly the Lords example and benediction for fear of exception Thus you see it fortified with an high fence that it might be made strong for his own self like mount Zion not to be moved We are not ignorant also of the Kings pious laws in force for the observation of it yet in despite of both in many places how do people grudge to give God the seventh part of their life at least they will incroach a little having some odde job or other to do on that day nay alas what marketting what drinking and bowsing what fidling and dauncing and generally what profaning this day almost every where is to be seen in somuch that this day brings forth more sinne then any I think I may say then all the dayes of the week and if any Turk or Pagan should come into many places among us ask the reason why we leave our work and wear our best clothes on that day and answer should be made We keep this day holy to our God it were enough to make him forswear Christianity or giving their names to that God who is content to be served on such a fashion But ye know your charge Let then profane sabbath-breakers also have judgement without delay Lastly beastly drunkennesse is also against Gods and the Kings law Gods law every where pronounces woes against this sinne denouncing ruine to bodie goods and good name yea by name excluding drunkards out of his kingdome The truth is a drunkard puts himself in the ready way to break every commandment for when he ceaseth to be himself he is in a fair possibilitie to be any thing for drunkennesse never goes alone but is attended by the black guard of other sinnes as oaths railings mutinies quarrells fightings murders chambering wantonnesse ribaldrie adulteries and what not so that in mine opinion a man must first hood-winck his charitie before it can lead him to beleeve a drunkard not to be every way vitious and is it not a common plea with men of this rank to excuse these and other great sinnes by saying they were not themselves Thus is it against Gods law The Kings law hath also wholesomely provided against this overflowing sinne as we know but yet maugre them both with what a deluge of drunkennesse is this land overflown It is grown a sicknesse Epidemicall in court and countrey city and town yea our people are grown artificiall and exquisite in this sinne to drink the three Ou ts to drink by the dozen by the yard and by the bushell oh monstrous even in name how much more in practise insomuch that it seems to me the Germanes are like to lose their charter In Rome there was a street called vicus sobrius because there was never an alehouse in it I think there is scarce such a street to be found in England There is a story in Athenaeus which gives us a lively picture of the behaviour of drunkards at their meetings The roaring boyes meeting at an alehouse sat by it drinking so long till their brains were so steeped that they imagined the room wherein they were to be a ship tossed in the sea the fancied storm still increasing as the cups emptied so that at last they begin to fear shipwrack wherefore to make the ship lighter they heave the pots plate furniture and all that comes to hand out at the windows as if it were over board And thus do good-fellows at these meetings throw the house out at windows and keep quarter to the dishonour of Gods and the Kings law and yet the Justice is every where milde the drunkard merry I beseech your Honours therefore charge the Justices to abridge the excessive number of alehouses the shops of drunkennesse and that they charge the Constables better to look to the demeanour of the rest And if I may not be heard let Justice speak she saith thus I have heard Popery swearing sabbath-breaking and drunkennesse all convicted as dishonourable to Gods and the Kings law I charge you then Let them have judgement otherwise I take you all guilty of the same offences though not by committing yet by conniving It 's true indeed Every fat shall stand on its own bottom that is every one shall answer for his own sinnes yet take heed lest we mistake the account of our own sinnes seeing those are not to be reckoned our own onely which are so by perpetration but those also which are ours by participation Justice calls also for expedition in judgement and desires that poore mens causes might first be heard and not put off to the last for they can worst bear the charge of longer delay but she complains that the poore mans cause lies like the palsie-man at the pool of Bethesda where the motion is not made but by an Angel and so the stronger step in before them I end with one word for my self in the nineteenth of Deuteronomie at the fifth verse the Lord appointing cities of refuge for such to flee unto who had unawares killed his neighbour doth instance in the hewer of wood who if while he is felling the tree the head of the ax slippeth from the helve and striketh his neighbour so that he dieth shall flee to the next citie of refuge and live I have been hewing for the Lords sanctuary and felling down the huge trees of the sinnes forenamed if the head hath slipt from the helve and hurt any my next citie of refuge is your charitable construction and favourable interpretation And even so I commit you to God to whose Majestie let us all pray that this Assises may be much advantage to the honour of Gods law and the Kings Amen FINIS 2. Chron. 19.6 Psal 82.6 Matt. 22.30 Nah. 2.3 Galat. 4.18 Rom. 1.30 Acts 5.39 Exod. 5.2 Job 21.14 Psal 73.9 Psal 12.4 See Isa 28.18 Rom. 1. ●8 Rom. 13.1 Matt. 22.21 Prov. 24.21 2. Thes 2.4