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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08934	Divine examples of God's severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers, in their unlavvful sports, collected out of several divine subjects, viz. Mr. H.B. Mr. Beard, and the practice of piety : a fit monument for our present times, &c.		1671 (1671)	Wing D1720BA; ESTC R175964	8,169	1

Divine EXAMPLES of GOD'S SEVERE JUDGMENTS UPON SABBATH-BREAKERS In their unlavvful Sports Collected out of several Divine Subiects VIZ. Mr. H. B. Mr. Beard and the Practice of Piety A fit Monument for our present Times c. Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabboth Day etc The profane Isralite that durst assay In gathering sticks to breake the Sabboth day Is stonde to death for like Contumacy The Lord hath sworne that every Soule shall dye Severall Young men playing at foote-ball on the Jce upon the LORDS-DAY are all Drownd A Woman and her two Daughters pill and dry flax on the Lords day are all burnt A Millers House and Mill Bur●● etc. Differences of the Jewish from the Chr●stian state The Jewish Sabbath was kept in remembrance of the Worlds Creation The Christian's Sabbath is kept in remembrance of the Worlds Redemption The Jews as a Figure of Grace that they should rest from servitude of sin The Christians as a Figure of Glory when they shall rest from occasions of sinning The Jews had bodily Sacrifices of Beasts We Christians of Prayer They the Levitical Priesthood of the Law We Christian Ministery of the Gospel They Temples and Synagogues We Christian Churches They S●craments of Circumcision Passover We of Baptism and the Lords Supper N●w to keep holy a Sabbath to the Lord is to celebrate an Holy rest unto God not only to abstain from all labour of the body but also practising all Godly Exercises as Prayer hearing the Word receiving the Sacraments c. And to prophane this day is to labour in servile Works of our ordinary calling to travel about ordinary business to keep Fairs and Markets on this day or to use sports and recreations or any thing else more than things of necessity Scriptural Examples of suddain Judgments for several sins When Belshazar was Feasting with his Nobles the Fearful hand writing was upon the wall While Herod vanted himself and the people honoured him like God the Angel smote him and he dyed of Worms W●ile the Philistines were banqueting Sampson pull d the Temple upon their Heads When the men of Ziglah were Feasting and Dancing David came upon them and slew them When the Israelites were at their Manna and Quails even while the meat was in their mouths God took away their Lives When Job's Children were making merry one with an other the Wind came and blew down the House While the whole World was marrying and giving in marriage the Flood came and drowned them While the Steward was recounting what pollicy to use the Mas●er called him to account While the Churl was musing of his full Barns and saying to his soul be merry that night his soul was taken from him Abel s blood suddainly cries for vengeance Jeroboam was stricken while he struck Baalam was stopt in the way Judas presently hang'd himself Herod Saul Athaliah and Jezabel had their offices taken from them for sin Remember Lot's Wife Haman hanging upon his own Gallows and Achan's sepulchre Sins against mercy bring the severest Judgments Read Leviticus 26 from ver 14 to 40. Israel the miracle of mercy that grew from 70. souls in a few years to six hundred thousand the more oppressed the more they prospered like Camomile or the Palm-tree but when they abused Mercy and slighted Sabbaths they became the greatest Objects of Wrath. There died partly by the Sword and partly of Famine Eleven hundred thousand of the poorer sort Two thousand in one night were Imbowelled six thousand were burned in a Porch of the Temple the whole City was sackt and burnt and ninety seven thousand taken Captives And to this day are they not the off-scouring of the World If he were slain which on the Sabbath day For need did gather sticks Oh! how shall they Escape God's wrath which for ba●e pelf or pleasure Profane God's Sabbaths in most frequent measure Examples 1. A Woman near Northampton the same day the Book for sports was read upon that Sabbath day having but three pence in her purse hired a Fellow to fetch a Minstril who coming she with others fell to Dance and so continued within night and the same night was got with Child which at the Birth she murthered and being detected and apprehended she before the Justice confest it and withall told the occasion saying it was her falling to sports on the Sabbath upon reading the Book for sports had brought her to this end for which unnatural fact she was put to death 2. At Northampton a young man that was at first of a loose kind of life but after by the example of other good people had begun to reform his loose life in the Observation of the Sabbath but hearing the Book of sports he fell again to prophane the Sabbath at an Assizes there when the Judges were in the Church being taken as he was picking a Pocket he confest that upon the publishing the said Book of sports he was encouraged to wickedness and for this suffered death 3. A Maid at Enfield near London hearing of the Liberty given by this Book said she would dance and on the Sabbath day danced so long that within two or three days she dyed 4. Upon May day being the Lords day a Maid of the Minister of Cripple Gate Parish London was Married to a Widdower having three Children and upon this day they kept their Marriage Feast in the Church-house joyning to the Church and spent all the Afternoon in Dancing but in one Week after the Plague began in that Parish in the new Married mans House and within one Month the Man his Wife and two Children dyed thus the Plague began in that Parish 5. In the same Month a Minister Rector of a Church in London upon the Saturday would go with two Neighbours boon Companions to be Jovial the next day they conditioned he should bestow a Sermon upon them they on the Lords day spent the Forenoon idly and in the Afternoon this Minister with his Neighbours visited a London Minister that had a Benefice there for whom he Preacht Sermon being ended they are invited to the Ministers House to a Bottle of Sack they drank so long that the two Neighbours tongues began to fail them That night their Minister could not sleep and was struck with a suddain coldness and with much ado being returned to London he dyed before the next Lords day 6. On Jan. 25. 1●34 being the Lords day in the time of the great Frost fourteen young men presuming to play at Foot-ball upon the Ice on the River Trent near to Gainsborough were all drowned 7. At Dover the same Lord's day the Book was read one in St. Jame s Parish that played on a Kit with it called together divers and that very day was struck by Divine hand and within two days dyed 8. At T●urlow in Suffolk one made a Feast on the Sabbath day to his Friends for joy of the publishing this Book of sports on the Lord's day and the next day