A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof.
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             A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof.
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           A
           DIVINE
           TRAGEDIE
           LATELY
           ACTED
           ,
           Or
           A
           Collection
           of
           sundry
           memorable
           examples
           of
           Gods
           judgements
           upon
           Sabbath-breakers
           ,
           and
           other
           like
           Libertines
           ,
           in
           their
           unlawfull
           Sports
           ,
           happening
           within
           the
           Realme
           of
           England
           ,
           in
           the
           compass
           only
           of
           two
           yeares
           last
           past
           ,
           since
           the
           Booke
           was
           published
           ,
           worthy
           to
           be
           knowne
           and
           considered
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           especially
           such
           ,
           who
           are
           guilty
           of
           the
           sinne
           or
           Arch-patrons
           thereof
           .
        
         
           
             Psal.
             50.
             vers
             .
             22.
             
          
           Now
           consider
           this
           ,
           ye
           that
           forget
           God
           ,
           least
           he
           teare
           you
           in
           peeces
           ,
           and
           there
           be
           none
           to
           deliuer
           you
           .
        
         
           
             Gregorius
             M.
             Moralium
             .
             lib.
             36.
             c.
             18.
             
          
           Deus
           ,
           etsi
           quaedam
           longanimiter
           tolerat
           ,
           quaedam
           tamen
           in
           hac
           vita
           flagellat
           ,
           &
           hîc
           nonnunquam
           ferire
           inchoatur
           quos
           aeterna
           damnatione
           consumat
           .
        
         
           
             Tibullus
             Elegiarum
             .
             lib.
             3.
             
             Eleg.
             7
             -
          
           —
           Foelix
           quicunque
           dolore
           Alterius
           disces
           posse
           carere
           tuo
           .
        
         
           
             Concil
             .
             Paris
             .
             2.
             lib.
             3.
             c.
             5.
             
          
           Salubriter
           admonemus
           cunctos
           fideles
           ,
           ut
           diei
           Dominico
           debitum
           honorum
           &
           reverentiam
           exhibeant
           .
           Quoniam
           hujus
           dehonoratio
           ,
           &
           à
           Religione
           Christiana
           valde
           abhorret
           ,
           &
           suis
           violatoribus
           animarum
           perniciem
           proculdubio
           generat
           .
        
         
           
             Alex.
             Alensis
             ex
             Hieron
             .
             P.
             3.
             
             Q.
             32.
             
             M.
             4.
             
             Art.
             1.
             
             Resol
             .
          
           Quis
           dubitat
           Sceleratiùs
           esse
           commissum
           ,
           quod
           graviùs
           est
           punitum
           ?
           ut
           Num.
           15.
           35.
           ibid.
           
        
         
           Anno
           M.
           DC
           .
           XXXVI
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           CHristian
           Reader
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           true
           saying
           of
           that
           royal
           King
           Salomon
           Prov.
           19.
           29.
           
           
             Iudgments
             are
             prepared
             for
             Scorners
          
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           for
           such
           who
           contemne
           the
           precepts
           and
           admonitions
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           his
           faithfull
           Ministers
           .
           And
           as
           they
           are
           thus
           prepared
           ,
           so
           are
           they
           oft
           times
           executed
           upon
           such
           ,
           even
           in
           this
           present
           life
           :
           that
           Gods
           power
           ,
           truth
           ,
           and
           justice
           might
           be
           manifested
           ,
           and
           wicked
           men
           frighted
           from
           their
           evill
           courses
           :
           So
           the
           Psalmist
           :
           Psalm
           .
           9.
           16.
           
           
             The
             Lord
             is
             knowne
             by
             the
             judgment
             that
             he
             executeth
             ;
             the
             wicked
             is
             snared
             in
             the
             worke
             of
             his
             owne
             hands
             :
          
           the
           reason
           is
           thus
           rendered
           by
           the
           Prophet
           Isay.
           c.
           26.
           9.
           
           
             For
             when
             thy
             judgements
             are
             in
             the
             earth
             ,
             the
             inhabitants
             of
             the
             world
             will
             learne
             righteousnesse
          
           ;
           though
           never
           so
           indocible
           and
           refractory
           before
           .
           Neither
           doth
           God
           so
           inflict
           his
           judgements
           ,
           *
           as
           to
           have
           them
           presently
           forgotten
           ;
           but
           he
           stampes
           a
           Memento
           on
           them
           ;
           
             having
             so
             done
             his
             marvelous
             works
          
           (
           as
           wel
           of
           justice
           ,
           as
           of
           mercy
           )
           
             that
             they
             ought
             to
             be
             had
             in
             remembrance
             .
          
           Psalm
           .
           111.
           4.
           
           Himselfe
           therefore
           hath
           vouchsafed
           to
           record
           (
           even
           in
           sacred
           writ
           )
           many
           notable
           examples
           of
           his
           avenging
           justice
           ,
           both
           generall
           ,
           Nationall
           ,
           and
           personall
           ,
           for
           al
           posteritie
           to
           contemplate
           ;
           
           prefacing
           some
           of
           them
           with
           a
           special
           Memorandum
           for
           our
           more
           serious
           consideration
           of
           them
           ;
           with
           Luk.
           17.
           32.
           
           
             Remember
             Lots
             wife
          
           :
           which
           judgments
           though
           executed
           many
           thousand
           yeares
           past
           ,
           
             yet
             they
             remaine
             still
             fresh
             upon
             record
             ,
          
           as
           done
           but
           yesterday
           ,
           even
           
             for
             this
             very
             end
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             be
             examples
             unto
             us
             ,
             not
             to
             last
             after
             evil
             things
             as
             they
             lusted
             ,
          
           nor
           to
           trace
           the
           footsteps
           of
           their
           sinfull
           wayes
           ,
           lest
           we
           should
           incurre
           the
           selfe
           same
           
             exemplarie
             punishments
          
           as
           they
           susteined
           .
           
             1.
             
             Cor.
             10.
             5.
             to
             12.
             
          
           And
           as
           God
           himselfe
           ,
           so
           holy
           men
           of
           God
           in
           all
           ages
           ,
           following
           his
           example
           ,
           have
           carefully
           observed
           ,
           and
           registred
           to
           posteritie
           the
           speciall
           most
           remarkable
           judgments
           of
           God
           upon
           obstinate
           sinnes
           and
           sinners
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           (
           with
           which
           not
           only
           ecclesiasticall
           ,
           but
           even
           profane
           Stories
           ,
           are
           fully
           fraught
           )
           happened
           in
           the
           ages
           ,
           and
           the
           places
           wherein
           they
           lived
           :
           Many
           whereof
           
             M
             r.
             Iohn
             Fox
             in
             his
             Acts
             and
             monuments
             ,
          
           neere
           the
           end
           ,
           
             M
             r
             Raynolds
          
           ,
           in
           his
           
             Treatise
             concerning
             the
             miraculous
             discovery
             and
             punishments
             of
             murthers
             and
             Murtherers
             .
          
           D
           r
           
             Thomas
             Peard
             in
             his
             Theatre
             of
             Gods
             judgments
             ,
          
           with
           sundry
           others
           ,
           have
           collected
           and
           digested
           into
           intire
           Tractates
           ,
           the
           very
           reading
           &
           serious
           perusall
           whereof
           ,
           would
           no
           doubt
           daunt
           the
           most
           professed
           Atheist
           ,
           &
           reclaime
           the
           most
           incorrigible
           sinner
           .
           I
           therefore
           desiring
           to
           tread
           in
           their
           pious
           footsteps
           ,
           having
           received
           from
           good
           intelligence
           many
           memorable
           presidents
           of
           Gods
           avenging
           Iustice
           upon
           Sabbath-breakers
           ;
           &
           the
           profaners
           of
           Sacred
           times
           devouted
           to
           his
           service
           ,
           happening
           within
           the
           compasse
           of
           our
           little
           Iland
           within
           two
           yeares
           space
           ,
           (
           since
           the
           publication
           of
           the
           
             Declaration
             for
             Sports
             and
             Pastimes
             after
             evening
             Prayer
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             in
             Parish
             Churches
             by
             divers
          
           (
           a
           Ministers
           )
           hath
           sett
           open
           the
           floudgates
           to
           this
           presumptuous
           Sinne
           of
           Sabbath-breaking
           ;
           thought
           it
           a
           part
           of
           my
           bounden
           duty
           to
           preserve
           
           and
           propagate
           their
           memorie
           both
           for
           the
           honour
           of
           Gods
           truth
           and
           justice
           ;
           the
           vindication
           of
           the
           intire
           sanctifycation
           of
           his
           sacred
           day
           ,
           (
           which
           he
           hath
           visiblie
           pleaded
           for
           from
           heaven
           ,
           since
           men
           have
           been
           audaciously
           profane
           ,
           as
           to
           pleade
           ,
           and
           I
           would
           I
           could
           not
           say
           to
           b
           write
           and
           preach
           against
           it
           upon
           earth
           )
           the
           clearing
           of
           those
           Ministers
           innocency
           ,
           who
           now
           unjustly
           suffer
           thorough
           the
           malice
           of
           ungodly
           persecutors
           ,
           and
           raging
           Prelates
           ,
           for
           refusing
           to
           joine
           with
           others
           in
           spurring
           on
           the
           people
           to
           the
           greedy
           pursuite
           of
           this
           crying
           dangerous
           Syn
           ,
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           their
           Soules
           ,
           their
           bodies
           ,
           and
           shame
           of
           our
           religion
           ,
           and
           the
           monition
           of
           this
           present
           ,
           and
           all
           future
           ages
           ,
           to
           beware
           of
           this
           so
           dangerous
           a
           transgression
           .
           How
           God
           hath
           punished
           this
           very
           Syn
           in
           former
           ages
           ,
           in
           such
           who
           have
           either
           by
           dancing
           ,
           Sports
           ,
           Pastimes
           ,
           orunnecessary
           Labors
           and
           travels
           profaned
           his
           Sacred
           day
           ,
           I
           meane
           not
           to
           record
           :
           he
           that
           listeth
           may
           read
           store
           of
           such
           examples
           registred
           to
           his
           hands
           in
           the
           
             Counsell
             of
             Paris
             ,
             under
             Lewis
             and
             Lotharius
             anno
          
           829.
           l.
           1.
           
             c.
             50.
          
           (
           which
           relates
           in
           generall
           ;
           
             That
             many
             present
             in
             this
             Councell
             were
             eye-witnesses
             ,
             and
             others
             of
             them
             had
             it
             by
             relation
             ,
             that
             some
             men
             upon
             the
             Lords
             day
             being
             aboute
             their
             husbandry
             ,
             have
             bene
             slaine
             with
             thunder
             ,
             some
             punished
             with
             the
             contraction
             of
             their
             joynts
             and
             sinnes
             ,
             some
             even
             with
             visible
             fire
             have
             had
             their
             bodyes
             and
             bones
             burnt
             up
             in
             a
             moment
             ,
             and
             sodainly
             resolved
             into
             ashes
             ,
             and
             that
             many
             other
             terrible
             examples
             of
             like
             nature
             hath
             happened
             and
             did
             fall
             out
             dayly
             :
             By
          
           WHICH
           IT
           WAS
           DECLARED
           ,
           THAT
           GOD
           IS
           MVCH
           OFFENDED
           WITH
           THE
           DISHONOVR
           OF
           SO
           GKEAT
           A
           DAI
           ;
           )
           Petrus
           Plessensis
           in
           Litania
           major
           Sermo
           20.
           
           
             In
             Mathew
             Paris
          
           ,
           Historia
           Major
           Anno
           1200.
           p.
           194.
           in
           
             Roger
             Houenden
          
           Anno
           1200.
           p.
           822.
           
           
           In
           
             Mathew
             Westminster
          
           .
           Flores
           Historiarum
           :
           Anno
           1200.
           
           In
           
             Vincentius
             Beluacensis
          
           ,
           Speculum
           Morale
           l.
           3.
           pr.
           9.
           
           Distinctio
           9.
           ofdances
           ,
           In
           the
           
             flower
             of
             the
             Commandements
          
           ,
           printed
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           K.
           Hen.
           8.
           fol.
           159.
           to
           163.
           
           In
           
             Henricus
             Gran.
          
           Distinct.
           9.
           
           Exemp
           .
           51.
           in
           the
           Magdeburge
           
             Centuries
             Centurie
          
           .
           12.
           c.
           6.
           
           In
           D
           
           r.
           Bownde
           his
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           Edition
           .
           2.
           p.
           252.
           to
           263.
           the
           first
           booke
           :
           in
           
             M
             r
             Iohn
             Feild
          
           his
           declaration
           of
           Gods
           judgments
           at
           Paris
           garden
           :
           in
           M
           r
           
             Philip
             Stubs
          
           his
           Anatomie
           of
           abuses
           .
           p.
           185.
           in
           the
           
             Practice
             of
             Piety
          
           :
           429.
           to
           434.
           and
           D
           
           r.
           Beard
           his
           Theatre
           of
           Gods
           judgements
           .
           All
           which
           have
           registred
           sundrie
           notable
           Iudgements
           of
           God
           upon
           sundry
           Sabbath-breakers
           (
           which
           have
           presumed
           to
           daunce
           ,
           worke
           ,
           or
           travell
           ,
           on
           the
           Lords
           holy
           day
           )
           of
           purpose
           to
           shew
           the
           danger
           of
           profaning
           holy
           times
           ,
           and
           to
           deterre
           men
           from
           this
           common
           sinne
           ,
           for
           which
           so
           many
           have
           smarted
           from
           heaven
           in
           an
           exemplarie
           manner
           .
           I
           shall
           therefore
           confine
           my selfe
           only
           to
           such
           domesticke
           examples
           ,
           as
           have
           fallen
           out
           in
           sundry
           corners
           of
           this
           our
           Realme
           within
           these
           two
           yeares
           ,
           of
           purpose
           to
           refute
           the
           *
           
             madnesse
             of
             those
             Prophets
          
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           Presse
           and
           Pulpit
           ;
           and
           the
           profanes
           of
           those
           people
           ,
           who
           in
           their
           dauncing-greenes
           ,
           and
           may-pole
           arbors
           ,
           have
           bene
           so
           audacious
           ,
           as
           to
           affirme
           ,
           
             the
             Profanation
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             by
             Maygames
             ,
             Daunces
             ,
             May-poles
             ,
             Wakes
             ,
             and
             common
             Labour
             out
             of
             time
             of
             divine
             Service
             ,
          
           (
           
             especially
             after
             evening
             Prayer
          
           )
           to
           be
           no
           sin
           at
           all
           against
           the
           4.
           
           
             Commandement
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             Law
             of
             God
             or
             man
             ;
             but
          
           c
           
             necessary
             and
             commendable
             point
             of
             true
             Christian
             Liberty
          
           (
           they
           should
           have
           sayd
           of
           carnall
           and
           heathenish
           licentiousnesse
           rather
           )
           
             from
             which
             the
             people
             must
             not
             be
             debarred
          
           ;
           But
           let
           these
           blinde
           guides
           ,
           and
           libertines
           learne
           from
           these
           examples
           ,
           to
           correct
           this
           
           their
           erronious
           judgment
           ,
           and
           practise
           ;
           
             for
             feare
             the
             Lord
             make
             them
             the
             next
             examples
             in
             this
             kinde
             ,
             to
             teach
             others
             to
             keepe
             his
             Sabbaths
             better
             ,
          
           and
           more
           intirely
           for
           the
           future
           .
           And
           if
           these
           tragical
           spectacles
           of
           divine
           justice
           will
           not
           perswade
           them
           ,
           that
           such
           profaning
           of
           the
           Lords
           most
           Sacred
           day
           ,
           is
           a
           Syn
           ,
           yea
           and
           a
           crying
           Syn
           too
           ,
           as
           all
           our
           writers
           ,
           (
           yea
           and
           our
           Prelates
           generally
           ,
           till
           now
           of
           late
           have
           unanimously
           defined
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           
             State
             in
             Parliament
             in
          
           d
           
             two
             late
             famous
             Statutes
          
           and
           e
           
             two
             more
             ancient
             Acts
          
           ,
           to
           omit
           our
           f
           Homilyes
           g
           
             Common
             Praier
             booke
          
           ,
           h
           Canons
           ,
           i
           
             Articles
             ,
             and
          
           k
           Injunctions
           ,
           which
           conclude
           the
           same
           )
           I
           say
           have
           adjudged
           such
           a
           presumptuous
           transgression
           ,
           as
           will
           draw
           downe
           Gods
           vengeance
           on
           mens
           heads
           ;
           Our
           late
           Soveraigne
           
             K.
             Iames
          
           of
           happy
           memory
           and
           our
           present
           gracious
           Soveraigne
           Lord
           
             R.
             Charles
          
           with
           all
           the
           
             Prelates
             ,
             Cleargy
             and
             people
             of
             the
             Realme
             in
             the
             first
             yeares
             of
             both
             their
             Raignes
             ,
          
           in
           the
           severall
           Bookes
           of
           
             Common
             Praier
             ,
             and
             order
             for
             the
             publike
             fasts
             set
             out
             by
             their
             royall
             authorityes
             ,
             and
             the
             Bishops
             advice
             ,
             with
             the
             Consent
             and
             harty
             desire
             of
             the
             whole
             Realme
             for
             the
             abating
             aversion
             ,
             and
             ceasing
             of
             those
             dreadfull
             eating
             Plagues
             which
             then
          
           swallowed
           up
           many
           thousands
           
             of
             people
             every
             weeke
          
           will
           informe
           them
           ;
           That
           amonge
           other
           Syns
           ,
           
             The
             profaning
          
           OF
           THE
           SABBATH
           (
           So
           
             King
             Iames
             his
             Booke
          
           styles
           the
           sunday
           )
           and
           
             not
             keeping
             holy
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             was
             one
             cheife
             cause
             why
             those
             two
             great
             terrible
             Plagues
          
           (
           and
           why
           not
           also
           this
           great
           Plague
           which
           is
           now
           begun
           and
           spread
           much
           abroade
           )
           
             brake
             in
             upon
             us
          
           ;
           to
           the
           destruction
           not
           of
           some
           few
           Particular
           persons
           ,
           but
           of
           many
           thousands
           ,
           and
           the
           punishment
           of
           the
           whole
           Realme
           ,
           and
           Nation
           in
           generall
           .
           And
           because
           some
           of
           these
           men
           plead
           most
           falsly
           ,
           
             that
             the
             chiefest
          
           
           
             writers
             of
             the
             reformed
             Churches
             are
             of
             their
             opinion
             ,
          
           l
           
             M
             
             r.
             Rodolphus
             Gualter
             ,
             and
          
           m
           
             Wolfgangus
             Musculus
          
           (
           men
           of
           principall
           note
           and
           learning
           amonge
           them
           )
           will
           both
           assure
           them
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Lords
             day
             is
             not
             onely
          
           WHOLLY
           ,
           ONLY
           ,
           AND
           INTIRELY
           TO
           BE
           SPENT
           IN
           RELIGIOVS
           PVBLIKE
           AND
           PRIVATE
           DVTIES
           OF
           GODS
           WORSHIP
           ,
           AND
           THAT
           DAVNCING
           ,
           SPORTES
           ,
           AND
           PASTIMES
           ,
           ON
           IT
           ,
           ARE
           SINFVLL
           ,
           AND
           EXECRABLE
           ;
           (
           the
           constant
           judgment
           of
           all
           forraigne
           Protestant
           divines
           whatsoever
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           able
           to
           prove
           ;
           what
           ever
           n
           
             D
             r
             Helyn
          
           or
           o
           others
           have
           rashly
           averred
           to
           the
           contrary
           ;
           But
           likewise
           further
           informe
           them
           ;
           
             That
             God
             may
             justly
             revenge
             the
             great
             contempt
             of
             his
             Deity
             in
             profaning
             his
             Sacred
             day
             with
             daunces
             and
             such
             like
             Revells
             and
             discorders
             ,
          
           WITH
           HORRIBLE
           PVNISHMENTS
           ,
           NEITHER
           IS
           IT
           TO
           BE
           DOVBTED
           (
           
             saith
             M
             r
             Gualther
          
           )
           THAT
           THE
           PROFANATION
           OF
           THE
           LORDS
           DAY
           ,
           IS
           NOT
           THE
           LEAST
           CAVSE
           OF
           THE
           EVILS
           AND
           CALAMITIES
           OF
           OVR
           AGE
           ,
           Yea
           their
           owne
           most
           illustrious
           Cardinall
           
             Robert
             Bellarmine
          
           (
           whom
           they
           allmost
           deify
           when
           they
           doe
           but
           name
           him
           :
           )
           is
           so
           farre
           a
           Puritan
           in
           this
           particular
           ,
           that
           he
           not
           only
           spends
           p
           4.
           or
           5.
           
             whole
             Sermones
             against
             dauncing
             ,
             mummeries
             ,
             maskes
             ,
             and
             such
             like
             Bacchanals
             ,
          
           (
           which
           he
           simply
           condemnes
           at
           all
           times
           ,
           
             but
             especially
             on
             sacred
             festivals
          
           and
           
             Lords
             dayes
             as
             most
             detestable
             profanations
             of
             them
          
           ;
           )
           but
           likewise
           professeth
           ;
           
             that
             the
             practise
             of
             them
             upon
             sacred
             times
             ,
          
           was
           the
           occasion
           of
           all
           the
           
             publike
             calamities
          
           and
           judgments
           which
           they
           suffered
           .
           But
           by
           these
           
             Daunces
             ,
             Mummeries
             ,
             Bacchanels
             ,
             and
             discorders
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             we
             polute
             the
             holy
             dayes
             of
             the
             Lord
             :
             and
             yet
             neverthelesse
             do
             we
             inquire
             the
             reasons
             why
             God
             doth
             punish
             us
             ?
             why
             we
             are
             slaine
             in
             our
             very
             houses
             ?
             doe
             not
          
           
           
             the
             Scriptures
             cry
             aloude
             ,
             Sinne
             maketh
             a
             people
             miserable
             :
          
           And
           there
           is
           no
           evill
           in
           the
           Citie
           ,
           which
           the
           Lord
           hath
           not
           done
           .
           
             Therefore
             these
             our
             sinnes
             of
             profaning
             the
             holy
             dayes
             of
             the
             Lord
             with
             daunces
             ,
             revels
             and
             bacchanals
             ,
             have
             procured
             us
             famine
             ,
             and
             poverty
             ,
             and
             pestilence
             ,
             and
             sedition
             ,
             and
          
           ALL
           PLAGVES
           AND
           SCOVRGES
           .
           
             And
             verily
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           in
           another
           Sermon
           .
           
             I
             vehemently
             feare
             ,
             that
             if
             we
             proceed
             to
             celebrate
             the
             Bacchanals
             with
             mummeries
             ,
             and
             maskes
             ,
             and
             daunces
             ,
             as
             we
             doe
             at
             other
             times
             ,
             and
             to
             provoke
             God
             to
             wrath
             ,
             with
             so
             many
             wicked
             Pastimes
             ,
             our
             sinne
             will
             be
             growen
             to
             the
             full
             at
             last
             ,
             and
             the
             anger
             of
             the
             Lord
             be
             so
             farre
             incensed
             ,
             that
             he
             will
             utterly
             destroy
             us
             ,
             as
             we
             see
             he
             hath
             destroyed
             many
             nations
             ,
             for
             what
             I
             pray
             hath
             destroyed
             Grecia
             ?
             But
             even
             that
             very
             thing
             which
             we
             doe
             ?
             They
             were
             men
             exceedingly
             given
             to
             drunkenesses
             ,
             feasting
             and
          
           DAVNCING
           ,
           (
           
             and
             that
             upon
             sacred
             times
          
           )
           
             as
             may
             be
             knowne
             ,
             by
             the
             Orations
             of
             Basill
             ,
             and
             Chrisostome
             .
             But
             what
             hath
             God
             done
             ?
             because
             they
             were
             addicted
             to
             these
             things
             ,
             and
             especially
             to
          
           DAVNCING
           ,
           
             he
             hath
             imposed
             such
             a
             severe
             tyrant
          
           (
           
             to
             wit
             the
             Turke
          
           )
           
             upon
             their
             necks
             ,
             that
             they
             now
             groane
             under
             the
             yoke
             ,
             and
             are
             pressed
             with
             so
             heavy
             a
             burthen
             ,
          
           THAT
           THEY
           HAVE
           NEITHER
           TIME
           ,
           NOR
           WILL
           TO
           DAVNCE
           OR
           CAPER
           .
           Thus
           Bellarmine
           to
           his
           greate
           admirers
           shame
           and
           refutation
           .
           If
           then
           this
           sinne
           of
           profaning
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           by
           dauncing
           ,
           Maygames
           ,
           Ales
           ,
           Pastimes
           ,
           or
           unnecessary
           travel
           and
           labour
           ,
           drawe
           downe
           Gods
           Plagues
           and
           vengeance
           upon
           whole
           Kingdomes
           and
           Churches
           ,
           as
           these
           authors
           ,
           (
           together
           with
           
             M
             
             r.
             Iohn
             Feild
             ,
             in
             his
             declaration
             of
             the
             judgement
             of
             God
             ,
             at
             Paris
             Garden
          
           ;
           and
           
             Humphry
             Robarts
             in
             his
             complaint
             for
             the
             Reformation
             of
             divers
             vaine
             ,
             and
             wicked
             abused
             exercises
             ,
             practised
             on
             the
             Sabbath
             day
             ,
             which
             tend
             to
             the
          
           
           
             hinderance
             of
             the
             Gospell
             ,
             and
             increase
             of
             many
             abominable
             vices
             :
             printed
             by
             Richard
             Iones
             ,
             London
             1580.
             together
             with
             M
             
             r.
             Philip
             Stubs
             ,
             in
             his
             Anatomic
             of
             abuses
             ,
             and
             M
             
             r.
             Iohn
             Nortbrooke
             in
             his
             Treatise
             where
             in
             dicing
          
           DAVNCING
           ,
           
             vaine
             playes
             and
             Enterludes
             ,
             with
             other
             idle
             Pastimes
             and
             exercises
             commonly
             used
             on
             the
          
           SABBATH
           DAY
           ,
           
             are
             by
             the
             Word
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             ancient
             writers
             reprooved
             ,
             printed
             for
             George
             Bishop
             ▪
             London
             :
             1579.
          
           )
           most
           punctually
           testifie
           :
           and
           the
           
             Practise
             of
             Piety
             dedicated
             to
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             and
             39.
             times
             printed
             by
             publike
             authority
             resolves
             :
          
           no
           wonder
           if
           it
           hath
           lately
           caused
           God
           to
           unsheath
           his
           sword
           of
           exemplarie
           justice
           upon
           these
           particular
           persons
           ,
           (
           that
           I
           speake
           not
           of
           the
           whole
           Kingdome
           in
           generall
           now
           scourged
           with
           a
           fresh
           plague
           and
           lately
           a
           drought
           )
           whose
           tragicall
           examples
           I
           here
           present
           unto
           your
           view
           ,
           to
           deterre
           all
           others
           from
           this
           Sinne.
           It
           is
           a
           true
           saying
           of
           
             Cyprian
             ,
             Praebentur
             cunctis
             Exempla
             ,
             cum
             fuerint
             quibusdam
             irrogata
             Supplicia
             .
             The
             Divine
             Punishments
             of
             a
             few
             are
             warnings
             to
             all
             :
          
           God
           grant
           that
           these
           may
           be
           so
           to
           us
           .
           Hee
           (
           saith
           the
           same
           Father
           )
           is
           
             over
             audacious
             ,
             who
             strives
             to
             passe
             over
             there
             ,
             where
             he
             hath
             seene
             another
             to
             have
             fallen
             ;
             hee
             is
             outragiously
             bead-stronge
             ,
             who
             is
             not
             strucke
             with
             feare
             ,
             when
             he
             beholds
             another
             perish
             in
             that
             course
             ;
             which
             he
             is
             running
             ;
             he
             onely
             is
             a
             lover
             of
             his
             owne
             safety
             ,
             who
             takes
             warning
             by
             the
             Deathes
             of
             others
             :
             and
             he
             alone
             is
             a
             prudent
             man
             ,
             who
             is
             made
             wise
             by
             the
             Ruines
             of
             other
             men
             .
          
           God
           of
           his
           mercie
           vouchsafe
           that
           the
           exemplarie
           deathes
           of
           these
           few
           here
           specified
           (
           and
           of
           thousands
           more
           in
           this
           time
           of
           mortality
           ,
           occasioned
           by
           this
           Sinne
           of
           Sabbath-breaking
           were
           as
           the
           former
           pests
           ;
           
             Together
             with
             a
             Plague
             in
             Pope
             Pelagius
             the
             second
             his
             time
             An.
             Domin
             .
          
           
           591.
           as
           
             Petrus
             Blessensis
             in
             his
             20.
             
             Sermon
             de
             Litania
             majori
             ,
             records
             :
          
           )
           may
           prove
           life
           to
           many
           ;
           and
           the
           judgements
           on
           some
           ,
           become
           remedies
           to
           cure
           all
           ,
           who
           are
           sicke
           of
           the
           selfesame
           Sinne.
           
        
         
           Amen
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Examples
           of
           Gods
           judgments
           VPON
           SABBATH-BREAKERS
           .
        
         
           THese
           Examples
           of
           Gods
           judgements
           hereunder
           set
           downe
           ,
           have
           fallen
           out
           within
           the
           space
           of
           lesse
           then
           two
           yeares
           last
           past
           ,
           even
           since
           the
           Declaration
           for
           sports
           (
           tolerated
           on
           the
           Lords
           day
           )
           was
           published
           ,
           and
           read
           by
           many
           Ministers
           in
           their
           congregations
           ;
           for
           hereupon
           ill
           disposed
           people
           (
           being
           as
           dry
           fewell
           ,
           to
           which
           fire
           being
           put
           ,
           quickly
           flameth
           forth
           ;
           or
           as
           waters
           ,
           pent
           up
           and
           restrained
           being
           let
           loose
           ,
           breake
           forth
           more
           furiously
           )
           were
           so
           incouraged
           ,
           if
           not
           inraged
           ,
           as
           taking
           liberty
           dispensed
           ,
           thereby
           so
           provoked
           God
           ,
           that
           his
           wrath
           in
           sundry
           places
           ,
           hath
           broken
           out
           to
           the
           destruction
           of
           many
           ,
           would
           to
           God
           to
           the
           instruction
           of
           any
           .
           And
           the
           judgements
           are
           so
           much
           the
           more
           remarkable
           ,
           that
           so
           many
           in
           number
           ,
           as
           here
           are
           observed
           ,
           (
           besides
           many
           more
           ,
           no
           doubt
           which
           have
           not
           come
           to
           our
           eares
           )
           should
           fall
           within
           so
           narrow
           a
           compasse
           of
           time
           ,
           so
           thick
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           so
           many
           places
           :
           as
           we
           read
           not
           of
           such
           a
           number
           
           of
           judgements
           in
           this
           kinde
           for
           this
           one
           sin
           throughout
           the
           whole
           history
           of
           time
           ,
           from
           the
           Apostles
           hitherto
           :
           So
           many
           there
           are
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           ,
           it
           were
           too
           heathenish
           to
           impute
           them
           to
           chance
           ,
           &
           too
           much
           stupidity
           ,
           and
           envy
           of
           Gods
           glorie
           ,
           not
           to
           acknowledge
           the
           speciall
           hand
           of
           God
           in
           them
           ,
           upon
           such
           transgressors
           of
           his
           owne
           sacred
           day
           :
           And
           it
           were
           to
           be
           wished
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           examples
           in
           this
           kinde
           ,
           within
           this
           compasse
           of
           time
           ;
           were
           diligently
           collected
           and
           compiled
           into
           one
           Narration
           ,
           for
           the
           further
           illustration
           of
           Gods
           glory
           ,
           and
           for
           admonition
           to
           all
           Sabbath-breakers
           ,
           who
           if
           they
           repent
           not
           ,
           nor
           surcease
           from
           such
           their
           profanesse
           ,
           it
           may
           justly
           be
           feared
           ,
           that
           the
           number
           of
           such
           examples
           will
           be
           daily
           increased
           ,
           till
           they
           make
           a
           heape
           for
           all
           the
           World
           ,
           to
           stand
           amazed
           at
           .
           In
           the
           meane
           time
           ,
           who
           so
           is
           wise
           ,
           and
           will
           observe
           these
           things
           ,
           even
           they
           shall
           understand
           the
           loving
           kindnesse
           of
           the
           Lord
           :
           Psal.
           107.
           43.
           
           As
           for
           the
           truth
           of
           them
           ,
           I
           have
           good
           testimony
           under
           the
           hands
           of
           men
           ,
           of
           sufficient
           credit
           ,
           for
           the
           most
           of
           them
           ;
           and
           the
           rest
           hath
           come
           to
           our
           eares
           by
           credible
           report
           .
           If
           it
           shall
           so
           fall
           out
           ,
           that
           one
           or
           two
           ,
           or
           so
           ,
           should
           proove
           otherwise
           ,
           either
           for
           the
           substance
           ,
           or
           circumstance
           ;
           let
           not
           the
           Reader
           blame
           me
           ,
           who
           have
           used
           my
           best
           diligence
           to
           inquire
           out
           the
           certain
           truth
           of
           them
           all
           ,
           and
           I
           am
           sure
           the
           most
           of
           the
           examples
           are
           confirmed
           by
           witnesses
           without
           all
           exception
           ,
           and
           none
           of
           them
           is
           to
           me
           of
           any
           suspected
           credit
           ;
           So
           as
           here
           are
           no
           fained
           miracles
           ,
           nor
           fabulous
           stories
           ,
           nor
           ould
           Wives
           tales
           ,
           for
           profane
           Scoffers
           to
           ieare
           at
           ,
           and
           play
           upon
           ,
           thereby
           to
           disgrace
           and
           discredit
           all
           truthes
           in
           this
           kinde
           ,
           as
           some
           of
           late
           have
           done
           (
           History
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           .
           part
           .
           2.
           chap.
           7.
           pag.
           223.
           )
           but
           these
           examples
           are
           such
           ,
           as
           will
           abide
           the
           
           and
           search
           of
           this
           present
           age
           ,
           wherein
           are
           yet
           living
           so
           many
           both
           eare
           and
           eye
           witnesse
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             19.
             
          
           
             A
             Miller
             at
             Churchdowne
             ,
             neere
             Glocester
             ,
             would
             
             needs
             (
             contrary
             to
             the
             admonitions
             both
             of
             his
             Minister
             in
             private
             ,
             and
             generally
             in
             publicke
             ,
             yea
             and
             that
             very
             day
             ,
             and
             of
             other
             christian
             friends
             )
             keepe
             a
             solemne
             Whitson
             ale
             ,
             for
             which
             he
             had
             made
             large
             preparation
             and
             provision
             ,
             even
             of
             threescore
             dozen
             of
             cheescakes
             ,
             with
             other
             things
             proportionable
             ;
             in
             the
             Church-house
             ,
             halfe
             a
             mile
             from
             his
             mille
             ,
             his
             musical
             instruments
             were
             sett
             forth
             on
             the
             side
             of
             the
             Church-house
             ,
             where
             the
             Minister
             and
             people
             were
             to
             passe
             to
             the
             Church
             to
             evening
             Prayer
             .
             When
             prayer
             &
             Sermon
             were
             ended
             ,
             the
             Drumbe
             is
             struck
             up
             ,
             the
             peeces
             discharged
             ,
             the
             Musicians
             play
             ,
             and
             the
             rowt
             fall
             a
             dauncing
             ,
             till
             the
             evening
             ;
             where
             they
             all
             with
             the
             Miller
             resort
             to
             his
             mille
             ;
             where
             that
             evening
             before
             they
             had
             supt
             ,
             about
             9.
             of
             the
             cloke
             on
             Whitsunday
             ,
             a
             fire
             tooke
             suddainly
             in
             his
             house
             over
             their
             heads
             ,
             and
             was
             so
             briefe
             and
             quicke
             ,
             that
             it
             burnt
             downe
             his
             house
             and
             mille
             ,
             and
             devoured
             with
             all
             the
             greatest
             of
             all
             his
             other
             provision
             and
             housholdstuffe
             .
             This
             is
             confirmed
             by
             sundry
             good
             testimonies
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             20.
             
          
           
             Richard
             Benfield
             an
             Apparitor
             in
             the
             parish
             of
             Hemsteed
             
             kept
             an
             Ale
             in
             the
             Church-house
             ,
             joyning
             to
             the
             Church-yard
             with
             dauncing
             and
             revelling
             night
             and
             day
             without
             controule
             :
             pretending
             that
             the
             Bishop
             would
             
             beare
             him
             out
             )
             and
             not
             unlikely
             ,
             because
             at
             his
             complaint
             to
             the
             Bishop
             of
             his
             Minister
             ,
             for
             preaching
             against
             dauncing
             and
             Maypoles
             ,
             he
             was
             suspended
             for
             his
             labour
             )
             It
             happened
             that
             upon
             the
             Lords
             day
             at
             even
             ,
             being
             the
             20.
             day
             of
             Aprill
             ,
             that
             his
             youngest
             Sonne
             was
             accused
             for
             stealing
             a
             purse
             ,
             and
             20.
             
             Shillings
             in
             it
             ,
             from
             a
             Butcher
             who
             lay
             drunke
             upon
             the
             board
             or
             table
             in
             the
             Church-house
             ,
             for
             which
             he
             was
             like
             to
             be
             hanged
             (
             the
             purse
             being
             found
             about
             him
             .
             )
             Vpon
             the
             21.
             day
             of
             the
             said
             moneth
             ,
             Benfield
             his
             eldest
             Sonne
             Richard
             went
             downe
             into
             Hempsteeds
             Peirse
             ,
             about
             some
             busines
             ,
             &
             his
             youngest
             brother
             with
             him
             ,
             where
             they
             mett
             with
             a
             litle
             boy
             called
             Baker
             (
             that
             had
             beene
             a
             fishing
             )
             having
             some
             small
             fishes
             in
             his
             hand
             .
             Benfields
             youngest
             Sonne
             would
             have
             taken
             these
             fishes
             from
             Baker
             ,
             whereupon
             they
             fell
             together
             by
             the
             eares
             .
             The
             eldest
             brother
             Rich.
             Benfield
             went
             to
             helpe
             his
             yonger
             brother
             ,
             being
             too
             weake
             for
             Baker
             .
             This
             Baker
             did
             sweare
             a
             great
             oath
             that
             he
             would
             stabbe
             him
             ,
             if
             he
             did
             meddle
             with
             him
             ,
             upon
             which
             words
             Benfield
             fell
             upon
             Baker
             ,
             gave
             him
             a
             boxe
             or
             two
             ,
             and
             ranne
             away
             .
             Baker
             followed
             him
             with
             his
             knife
             in
             his
             hand
             ,
             overtooke
             him
             ,
             and
             thrust
             his
             knife
             three
             inches
             deepe
             into
             his
             body
             ,
             which
             wound
             prooved
             mortall
             ,
             so
             that
             he
             never
             spake
             more
             words
             then
             these
             ;
             oh
             Iack
             Baker
             hath
             killed
             me
             ,
             and
             so
             fell
             downe
             .
             Two
             men
             being
             present
             there
             ,
             tooke
             him
             up
             in
             their
             armes
             ,
             brought
             him
             up
             into
             the
             Church-house
             alive
             ,
             and
             so
             soone
             as
             they
             had
             put
             him
             out
             of
             their
             armes
             upon
             the
             Table
             ,
             he
             groaned
             ,
             and
             died
             .
          
           
             Remarkable
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             where
             the
             Father
             drew
             ale
             upon
             the
             Lordsday
             and
             so
             profaned
             it
             :
             In
             the
             same
             place
             his
             Sonne
             the
             next
             day
             drew
             his
             last
             breath
             ;
             for
             that
             the
             punishment
             inflicted
             was
             stamped
             with
             the
             resemblance
             of
             the
             sinne
             convicted
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             21.
             
          
           
             At
             Baunton
             in
             Dorcetshire
             some
             being
             at
             bowles
             
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             one
             flinging
             his
             bowle
             at
             his
             fellowbowler
             ,
             hit
             him
             on
             the
             eare
             ,
             so
             as
             the
             bloud
             issued
             forth
             at
             the
             other
             eare
             ,
             whereof
             he
             shortly
             died
             .
             The
             Murtherer
             fledd
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             22.
             
          
           
             One
             good
             man
             Paul
             neere
             Stoke
             in
             Dorcetshire
             ,
             
             rejoycinge
             much
             at
             the
             erection
             of
             a
             summer-pole
             ,
             at
             a
             Parish
             cald
             Simsbury
             in
             Dorcetshire
             ,
             &
             saying
             before
             one
             his
             Neighbours
             ,
             he
             would
             goe
             see
             it
             ,
             though
             he
             went
             naked
             through
             a
             quickset
             hedge
             :
             which
             is
             a
             cōmon
             proverb
             they
             use
             :
             Going
             with
             wood
             in
             his
             armes
             to
             cast
             into
             the
             bonfire
             ,
             where
             he
             lived
             ,
             and
             using
             these
             words
             :
             Heaven
             and
             earth
             are
             full
             of
             thy
             glory
             ,
             O
             Lord
             :
             he
             was
             presently
             smitten
             by
             the
             Stroke
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             within
             2.
             or
             3.
             dayes
             dyed
             ,
             and
             his
             wife
             with
             him
             .
             These
             two
             last
             examples
             are
             testifieth
             by
             a
             Minister
             in
             his
             letter
             to
             a
             brother
             Minister
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             A
             Mayd
             at
             Enfield
             neere
             London
             ,
             hearing
             of
             
             the
             liberty
             ,
             which
             was
             given
             by
             the
             booke
             ,
             which
             was
             published
             for
             sports
             ,
             would
             needs
             goe
             daunce
             ,
             with
             others
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             saying
             shee
             would
             goe
             daunce
             ,
             so
             long
             as
             shee
             could
             stand
             on
             her
             leggs
             ;
             shee
             daunced
             so
             long
             ,
             that
             thereof
             within
             2.
             or
             3.
             dayes
             shee
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             23.
             
          
           
             In
             the
             edge
             of
             Essex
             neere
             Brinkley
             ,
             two
             fellowes
             working
             in
             a
             chalke
             pitt
             ,
             the
             one
             was
             boasting
             to
             his
             
             fellow
             ,
             how
             he
             had
             angred
             his
             Mistrisse
             with
             staying
             so
             late
             at
             their
             sports
             the
             last
             sunday
             night
             ,
             but
             he
             sayd
             he
             would
             anger
             her
             worse
             the
             next
             Sunday
             .
             He
             had
             no
             sooner
             sayd
             this
             ,
             but
             suddainly
             the
             earth
             fel
             downe
             upon
             him
             ,
             and
             slew
             him
             out
             right
             ,
             with
             the
             fall
             whereof
             his
             fellowes
             limbe
             was
             broken
             ,
             who
             had
             been
             also
             partner
             with
             him
             in
             his
             jollity
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             escaping
             with
             his
             life
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             tell
             the
             truth
             ,
             that
             God
             might
             be
             glorified
             and
             that
             by
             this
             warning
             he
             might
             repent
             of
             his
             sin
             and
             reforme
             such
             his
             profanesse
             ,
             and
             remaine
             as
             a
             pillar
             of
             salt
             ,
             to
             season
             others
             with
             feare
             by
             his
             example
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             24.
             
          
           
             The
             last
             Spring
             a
             Miller
             hard
             by
             Wootton
             in
             Worcestershire
             ,
             went
             on
             the
             Lordsday
             to
             a
             wake
             ,
             whence
             returning
             home
             againe
             ,
             the
             same
             day
             at
             night
             found
             his
             Mill
             and
             house
             all
             on
             a
             fier
             ;
             this
             was
             testified
             by
             a
             Minister
             (
             in
             a
             Reply
             to
             another
             Minister
             )
             who
             was
             an
             eye
             witnes
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             25.
             
          
           
             At
             Woolston
             in
             the
             same
             Country
             ,
             where
             the
             sayd
             Ministers
             father
             had
             beene
             Minister
             40.
             yeares
             ,
             and
             by
             Gods
             blessing
             upon
             his
             labours
             ,
             had
             reformed
             things
             very
             well
             ,
             yet
             upon
             the
             publication
             of
             this
             booke
             in
             printe
             ,
             many
             of
             the
             inhabitants
             the
             springe
             following
             ,
             were
             imboldned
             to
             set
             up
             Maypoles
             ,
             Morrice
             daunce
             ,
             and
             a
             Whitson
             ale
             ,
             continuing
             their
             rude
             revelling
             a
             weeke
             together
             ,
             with
             many
             affronts
             to
             their
             ancient
             and
             reverent
             Pastor
             :
             but
             it
             pleased
             God
             ,
             that
             not
             long
             after
             ,
             a
             sparke
             from
             a
             smithes
             shop
             ,
             caught
             in
             that
             roome
             where
             
             the
             ale
             was
             brewed
             ,
             and
             though
             meanes
             were
             ready
             at
             hand
             ,
             yet
             it
             could
             not
             be
             quenched
             ,
             but
             set
             the
             house
             on
             fire
             ,
             and
             presently
             flew
             to
             the
             barne
             in
             which
             their
             disorder
             was
             ,
             and
             burnt
             the
             same
             with
             13.
             dwelling
             houses
             more
             ,
             most
             of
             whose
             inhabitants
             were
             actors
             or
             abetters
             in
             the
             same
             :
             This
             is
             testifieth
             by
             many
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             12.
             
          
           
             At
             Topudle
             in
             Dorceshiere
             ,
             one
             Iohn
             Hooper
             aliàs
             Cole
             ,
             upon
             the
             promulgation
             of
             the
             sayd
             Booke
             ,
             was
             let
             downe
             into
             a
             Well
             to
             cleanse
             it
             ,
             for
             to
             brew
             beere
             for
             a
             Whitson
             ale
             ,
             by
             Francis
             Laurence
             ,
             aliàs
             Smith
             ,
             and
             Stephen
             P●pe
             Churchwardens
             ,
             which
             Well
             was
             in
             the
             backe
             side
             of
             Richard
             Laurence
             aliàs
             Smith
             .
             Which
             Iohn
             Hooperfel●
             from
             the
             rope
             into
             the
             Well
             ,
             where
             he
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             26.
             
          
           
             Richard
             Iones
             son
             of
             Widdow
             Iones
             ,
             Iul.
             1634.
             not
             farre
             from
             Dorchester
             ,
             being
             severely
             admonished
             by
             his
             Mother
             ,
             when
             shee
             understood
             he
             had
             a
             purpose
             on
             satturday
             night
             ,
             to
             goe
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             with
             other
             companions
             to
             Stoake
             to
             play
             at
             a
             sport
             ,
             called
             fiues
             ,
             but
             persisting
             in
             his
             resolution
             ,
             and
             going
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             accordingly
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             at
             Stoake
             ,
             where
             he
             played
             at
             the
             said
             sport
             ,
             at
             night
             returning
             home
             with
             his
             companions
             ,
             W
             
             m.
             Burges
             ,
             W
             
             m.
             Hill
             ,
             Iohn
             Edwards
             ,
             after
             they
             had
             there
             wel
             drunke
             ,
             they
             fall
             first
             a
             justling
             one
             another
             in
             the
             way
             ,
             then
             to
             boxes
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             end
             Edwards
             stabbing
             Iones
             under
             the
             left
             side
             ,
             he
             dyed
             thereof
             ,
             the
             monday
             night
             following
             about
             seaven
             of
             the
             Clocke
             .
             Behold
             here
             a
             terrible
             example
             of
             disobedience
             ,
             to
             Gods
             holy
             commandements
             ,
             not
             only
             the
             fourth
             ,
             but
             the
             fifth
             also
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             27.
             
          
           
             At
             Ovendeane
             in
             Sussex
             about
             9.
             or
             10.
             miles
             from
             Alfriston
             ,
             aliàs
             Ason
             ,
             one
             Iohn
             Arcold
             ,
             of
             the
             age
             of
             one
             or
             two
             and
             twenty
             yeares
             ,
             eldest
             sonne
             to
             Iohn
             Arcold
             ,
             a
             blacksmith
             dwelling
             in
             Ason
             ,
             with
             other
             younkars
             would
             needs
             fall
             a
             ringing
             of
             the
             bells
             on
             a
             Sabbath
             day
             ,
             presuming
             the
             Booke
             for
             Sports
             gave
             them
             full
             liberty
             so
             to
             doe
             .
             One
             of
             the
             Churchwardens
             Robert
             Kenward
             hindred
             them
             from
             their
             jangling
             ;
             whereupon
             the
             said
             Arcold
             ,
             and
             his
             companions
             fell
             in
             some
             contestation
             with
             him
             ,
             telling
             him
             that
             though
             he
             hindred
             them
             now
             ,
             yet
             they
             would
             ring
             the
             next
             Sunday
             ,
             whether
             he
             would
             or
             no.
             But
             the
             said
             Iohn
             Arcold
             the
             ringleader
             before
             the
             next
             Sunday
             came
             ,
             was
             strucke
             with
             a
             sicknesse
             ,
             in
             which
             he
             continued
             a
             fortnight
             or
             3.
             weekes
             till
             he
             died
             ,
             in
             which
             time
             Robbert
             Kenward
             the
             Churchwarden
             ,
             repairing
             to
             him
             ,
             and
             putting
             him
             in
             minde
             of
             his
             bold
             affronting
             of
             him
             ,
             he
             seemed
             to
             be
             sorry
             for
             it
             ,
             and
             promised
             ,
             if
             God
             would
             be
             pleased
             ,
             to
             restore
             him
             againe
             to
             his
             health
             ,
             he
             would
             never
             doe
             the
             like
             .
             God
             make
             his
             surviving
             companions
             ,
             and
             all
             others
             ,
             wise
             by
             his
             example
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             28.
             
          
           
             At
             Walton
             upon
             Thames
             in
             Surrey
             ,
             not
             farre
             from
             
             Oatlands
             ,
             in
             the
             last
             great
             frost
             3
             ,
             youngmen
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             after
             they
             had
             beene
             at
             the
             Church
             in
             the
             forenoone
             ,
             where
             the
             Minister
             pressing
             the
             words
             of
             his
             text
             ,
             out
             of
             2.
             
             Cor.
             5.
             10.
             that
             we
             must
             all
             appeare
             
             before
             the
             judgement
             seat
             of
             Christ
             &c.
             they
             the
             while
             whispering
             one
             to
             another
             ,
             as
             they
             sate
             .
             In
             the
             afternoone
             they
             went
             together
             over
             the
             Thames
             ,
             upon
             the
             Ice
             ,
             unto
             a
             house
             of
             disorder
             ,
             and
             gameing
             ,
             where
             they
             spent
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             and
             part
             of
             the
             night
             also
             in
             revelling
             ,
             one
             of
             them
             in
             a
             Tauerne
             merrily
             discoursing
             the
             next
             day
             of
             his
             Sabbath-acts
             ,
             and
             voyage
             over
             the
             Ice
             ;
             but
             on
             the
             Tewsday
             next
             after
             ,
             these
             three
             returning
             home
             wards
             ,
             and
             attempting
             to
             passe
             again
             over
             the
             yce
             ,
             they
             all
             sanke
             downe
             to
             the
             bottome
             as
             stones
             ,
             whereof
             one
             only
             of
             them
             was
             miraculously
             preserved
             ,
             but
             the
             other
             two
             were
             drowned
             .
             Rejoyce
             ,
             O
             younge
             man
             ,
             in
             
             thy
             youth
             ,
             and
             let
             thy
             hart
             cheare
             thee
             in
             the
             dayes
             of
             thy
             youth
             ,
             and
             walke
             in
             the
             wayes
             of
             thy
             hart
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             sight
             of
             thine
             eyes
             :
             But
             know
             thou
             ,
             that
             for
             all
             these
             things
             God
             will
             bringe
             thee
             unto
             judgement
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             29.
             
          
           
             In
             the
             yeare
             of
             our
             Lord
             1633.
             
             Octob.
             26.
             after
             the
             booke
             for
             sports
             was
             known
             to
             be
             published
             in
             print
             ,
             David
             Price
             a
             Welshman
             ,
             servant
             to
             one
             Thomas
             Hill
             ,
             a
             knowne
             Grasier
             of
             that
             Country
             ,
             coming
             to
             Banbury
             with
             his
             drove
             on
             Satturday
             night
             ,
             declared
             his
             purpose
             of
             driving
             them
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             early
             in
             the
             morning
             being
             the
             Sabbath
             or
             Lords
             day
             :
             his
             Host
             where
             he
             lodged
             ,
             disswaded
             him
             ,
             because
             it
             was
             the
             Sabbath
             day
             ,
             and
             told
             him
             that
             he
             would
             certainly
             be
             stopped
             ,
             and
             made
             to
             pay
             for
             it
             according
             to
             the
             Statute
             .
             Hee
             answered
             that
             he
             would
             drive
             them
             ,
             and
             let
             me
             see
             (
             saith
             hee
             )
             who
             will
             hinder
             me
             .
             So
             in
             the
             morning
             two
             other
             accompaning
             him
             ,
             he
             went
             to
             fetch
             the
             Cattell
             out
             of
             the
             
             ground
             ,
             one
             that
             knew
             him
             ,
             mett
             him
             at
             the
             Townes
             end
             (
             not
             yet
             oUt
             of
             the
             Towne
             )
             and
             admonished
             him
             ,
             saying
             ,
             What
             ,
             David
             ,
             today
             ,
             today
             ?
             he
             made
             no
             answere
             ,
             but
             went
             onward
             ,
             and
             though
             for
             any
             thing
             ,
             that
             appeared
             to
             any
             other
             ,
             or
             that
             himselfe
             complained
             of
             ,
             he
             was
             then
             in
             good
             health
             ,
             as
             ever
             he
             was
             ,
             yet
             within
             little
             more
             then
             a
             stones
             cast
             of
             the
             Towne
             ,
             he
             fell
             downe
             dead
             suddainly
             ,
             and
             was
             burried
             in
             Banbury
             Church-yard
             the
             next
             day
             after
             ;
             None
             could
             discerne
             ,
             any
             sensible
             or
             evident
             cause
             of
             so
             suddaine
             a
             surprizall
             ;
             and
             himselfe
             gave
             no
             signe
             of
             any
             paine
             ,
             weakenesse
             ,
             or
             illnesse
             ,
             till
             the
             instant
             time
             that
             he
             gave
             up
             the
             ghost
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             (
             5.
             )
          
           
             On
             Ian.
             25.
             1634.
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             in
             the
             time
             of
             the
             last
             great
             Frost
             14.
             younge
             men
             presuming
             to
             play
             at
             football
             upon
             the
             yce
             on
             the
             river
             Trent
             ,
             neere
             to
             Ganisborrow
             ,
             comming
             alltogether
             in
             a
             scuffle
             ,
             the
             yce
             suddainly
             brake
             ,
             and
             they
             were
             all
             drowned
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             30.
             
          
           
             At
             Wicks
             a
             Towne
             betwixt
             Colchester
             and
             Harwich
             in
             Essex
             ,
             upon
             Whitsunday
             last
             in
             the
             afternoone
             two
             fellowes
             meeting
             at
             the
             football
             ,
             the
             one
             killed
             the
             other
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             31.
             
          
           
             At
             Oxford
             this
             last
             Sommer
             on
             the
             Sabbathday
             ,
             one
             Bally
             Hawkes
             a
             Butcher
             ,
             would
             needs
             goe
             into
             his
             feild
             with
             an
             hatchet
             and
             showell
             to
             mend
             his
             ditch
             :
             his
             Wife
             disswaded
             him
             what
             shee
             could
             ,
             being
             the
             Sabbathday
             ,
             
             but
             he
             said
             he
             would
             goe
             and
             make
             an
             end
             of
             his
             worke
             ,
             which
             he
             did
             ,
             for
             suddainly
             he
             was
             struck
             dead
             in
             his
             ditch
             ,
             and
             so
             made
             an
             end
             of
             his
             worke
             ,
             and
             his
             life
             together
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             32.
             
          
           
             Also
             at
             Oxford
             a
             carpenter
             undertaking
             to
             mend
             a
             Stage
             in
             S.
             Iohns
             Colleidge
             on
             the
             Satturday
             night
             ,
             for
             the
             finishing
             wherof
             he
             must
             of
             necessity
             spent
             some
             part
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             morning
             ,
             that
             the
             Stage
             might
             be
             ready
             against
             the
             Munday
             following
             ,
             he
             that
             night
             fell
             backward
             from
             the
             Stage
             ,
             being
             not
             farre
             from
             the
             ground
             ,
             and
             brake
             his
             neck
             ,
             and
             so
             ended
             his
             life
             in
             a
             fearefull
             Tragedy
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             33.
             
          
           
             At
             Iuye
             Hinckley
             a
             mile
             from
             Oxford
             (
             about
             the
             time
             when
             May-poles
             are
             sett
             up
             )
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             after
             evening
             Prayer
             ,
             when
             most
             of
             the
             Towne
             were
             at
             the
             May-pole
             ,
             one
             Iohn
             Cooper
             ,
             servant
             to
             master
             Tinmore
             of
             the
             said
             Towne
             ,
             going
             along
             the
             street
             ,
             a
             Mayd
             out
             of
             a
             windowe
             in
             Iohn
             Nicols
             his
             house
             ,
             not
             farre
             from
             the
             May-pole
             ,
             called
             him
             to
             come
             in
             thither
             ;
             where
             also
             was
             another
             Mayd
             ,
             and
             a
             young
             man
             named
             Christopher
             younge
             ,
             servant
             to
             Master
             Willis
             of
             the
             sayd
             Towne
             ;
             Iohn
             Cooper
             at
             first
             refused
             to
             come
             to
             them
             ,
             but
             the
             mayd
             earnestly
             intreating
             him
             ,
             he
             yeilded
             to
             her
             ,
             and
             being
             come
             in
             ,
             sate
             downe
             by
             the
             other
             two
             ,
             where
             having
             sate
             a
             while
             ,
             the
             foresaid
             Christopher
             younge
             spied
             a
             Gun
             over
             the
             chimney
             ,
             which
             he
             supposing
             not
             to
             be
             charged
             ,
             fondly
             tooke
             downe
             ,
             and
             fell
             a
             
             tampearing
             with
             it
             ,
             and
             first
             levelled
             at
             the
             mayds
             ,
             and
             after
             held
             it
             up
             against
             Iohn
             Cooper
             ,
             as
             he
             sate
             ,
             and
             unwittingly
             lifting
             up
             the
             Cocke
             ,
             it
             strucke
             fire
             ,
             and
             the
             peece
             discharged
             ,
             and
             shot
             the
             said
             Iohn
             Cooper
             through
             the
             shoulder
             ,
             so
             that
             he
             dyed
             presently
             ,
             being
             heard
             only
             to
             say
             ,
             O
             Lord.
             
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             (
             6.
             )
          
           
             At
             Dover
             the
             very
             same
             Lords
             day
             ,
             that
             the
             booke
             
             was
             read
             ,
             one
             in
             S.
             Iames
             Parish
             that
             played
             on
             a
             kitt
             ,
             went
             and
             played
             ,
             and
             thereby
             calld
             together
             a
             sort
             of
             wenches
             and
             young
             men
             :
             But
             he
             was
             thereupon
             that
             very
             day
             struck
             by
             divine
             hand
             ,
             so
             as
             within
             two
             dayes
             he
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             34.
             
          
           
             A
             young
             man
             neere
             Bow
             ,
             going
             to
             swimme
             in
             the
             river
             on
             Essex
             side
             ,
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             in
             the
             afternoone
             ,
             was
             drowned
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             35.
             
          
           
             Two
             boyes
             of
             S.
             Albons
             ,
             going
             to
             Verolanes
             Ponds
             ,
             a
             mile
             off
             to
             swimme
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             Iuly
             19.
             one
             of
             them
             was
             drowned
             ,
             and
             the
             other
             hardly
             escaped
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             36.
             
          
           
             At
             Ramsey
             in
             Suffolke
             ,
             a
             tall
             man
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             going
             with
             others
             to
             swimme
             ,
             and
             being
             advertized
             and
             warned
             of
             a
             hole
             in
             the
             water
             ;
             he
             sware
             that
             there
             was
             no
             place
             there
             could
             drowne
             him
             ,
             but
             by
             and
             by
             on
             a
             suddaine
             he
             was
             missing
             ,
             being
             now
             under
             water
             ,
             and
             so
             drowned
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             37.
             
          
           
             On
             September
             13.
             1635.
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             two
             young
             men
             of
             the
             Parish
             of
             S.
             Dunstans
             in
             the
             West
             ,
             London
             ,
             going
             to
             swimme
             ,
             were
             both
             drowned
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             (
             7.
             )
          
           
             At
             Thurlow
             in
             Suffolke
             ,
             one
             making
             a
             Feast
             to
             his
             freinds
             on
             the
             Sabbath
             day
             ,
             for
             joy
             of
             the
             publishing
             of
             the
             Booke
             for
             sports
             ,
             was
             the
             next
             day
             pressed
             to
             death
             ,
             by
             the
             suddaine
             fall
             of
             a
             faggot
             stack
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             38.
             
          
           
             At
             Twiford
             in
             Buckinghamshire
             ,
             a
             fellow
             playing
             at
             cudgels
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             (
             or
             as
             some
             say
             ,
             upon
             a
             revell
             day
             )
             receaved
             a
             hurt
             in
             the
             face
             ,
             whereof
             he
             dyed
             the
             next
             weeke
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             39.
             
          
           
             At
             Lemster
             ,
             one
             Master
             Powel
             ,
             Ian.
             1634.
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             serving
             a
             writt
             of
             
               sub
               poena
            
             (
             and
             that
             of
             purpose
             on
             that
             day
             as
             is
             credibly
             reported
             )
             upon
             one
             
             Master
             Shuit
             a
             Gentleman
             ,
             this
             he
             did
             in
             the
             Church-yard
             ,
             so
             soone
             as
             they
             were
             come
             out
             of
             the
             Church
             :
             Master
             Shuit
             thereupon
             told
             him
             ,
             I
             thought
             you
             had
             beene
             an
             honester
             man
             then
             so
             ,
             to
             doe
             this
             upon
             this
             day
             ;
             he
             replyed
             ,
             I
             hope
             I
             am
             never
             a
             whit
             the
             more
             dishonest
             ,
             or
             lesse
             holy
             for
             that
             :
             having
             spoken
             this
             ,
             he
             suddainly
             fell
             downe
             dead
             ,
             and
             spoke
             not
             a
             word
             more
             ,
             his
             wife
             seeing
             this
             ,
             was
             suddainly
             struck
             with
             sicknesse
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             40.
             
          
           
             A
             fellow
             in
             Sommersetshire
             being
             to
             make
             a
             tente
             upon
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             for
             a
             faire
             that
             was
             to
             be
             kept
             upon
             the
             Munday
             following
             ,
             sayd
             to
             one
             on
             the
             Satturday
             ,
             that
             they
             would
             reare
             it
             to
             morrow
             ,
             so
             the
             next
             day
             which
             was
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             being
             drunk
             ,
             he
             dyed
             the
             same
             day
             roaring
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             43.
             
          
           
             At
             Glassenbury
             in
             Sommersetshire
             ,
             at
             the
             setting
             up
             of
             a
             May-pole
             ,
             it
             miscarrying
             fell
             upon
             a
             child
             ,
             &
             slew
             it
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             reported
             that
             it
             was
             the
             Churchwardens
             child
             ,
             who
             was
             the
             cheefe
             stickler
             in
             the
             businesse
             .
             Also
             when
             the
             May-pole
             in
             the
             same
             Towne
             ,
             was
             againe
             the
             second
             time
             a
             setting
             up
             ,
             a
             fire
             tooke
             in
             the
             Towne
             ,
             so
             as
             all
             the
             people
             about
             the
             May-pole
             were
             forced
             to
             leave
             it
             ,
             and
             to
             runne
             to
             the
             quenching
             of
             the
             fire
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             44.
             
          
           
             A
             May-Lord
             of
             misrule
             ,
             not
             farre
             from
             thence
             became
             madd
             upon
             it
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             45.
             
          
           
             Also
             at
             Battersey
             neere
             London
             ,
             the
             last
             yeare
             a
             notable
             example
             of
             Gods
             judgement
             befell
             a
             fidler
             ,
             the
             youth
             of
             the
             town
             of
             both
             sexes
             ,
             being
             assembled
             solemnly
             to
             set
             up
             a
             garland
             upon
             their
             may-pole
             ,
             and
             having
             gott
             a
             Taber
             and
             Pipe
             for
             the
             purpose
             ,
             he
             with
             the
             pipe
             in
             his
             mouth
             ,
             fell
             down
             dead
             and
             never
             spake
             word
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             41.
             
          
           
             At
             Corsham
             in
             Wiltshire
             in
             the
             Whitsunweeke
             ,
             at
             a
             whitson-ale
             ,
             one
             Marke
             Hulbert
             ,
             a
             lusty
             young
             man
             ,
             undertaking
             to
             act
             the
             fooles
             part
             ,
             was
             so
             extreamly
             drunke
             and
             hurt
             with
             falls
             taken
             in
             the
             time
             of
             his
             drunkenesse
             ,
             that
             shortly
             he
             tooke
             his
             bed
             ,
             where
             he
             lay
             very
             loathsomly
             ,
             in
             most
             grieuous
             paine
             ,
             until
             the
             sixth
             day
             of
             Iune
             ,
             being
             the
             Lordsday
             ,
             on
             which
             he
             dyed
             at
             4.
             of
             the
             clocke
             in
             the
             afternoone
             (
             the
             usuall
             time
             for
             youth
             to
             take
             their
             liberty
             )
             and
             was
             burried
             the
             same
             day
             before
             9.
             of
             the
             clocke
             ,
             &
             yet
             he
             burst
             ,
             before
             he
             was
             layd
             into
             his
             grave
             .
             See
             Iob.
             31.
             3.
             
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             46.
             
          
           
             On
             May
             31.
             1635.
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             one
             Richard
             Clerke
             (
             an
             apprentise
             unto
             Timothy
             Denorell
             shoomaker
             of
             Sherston
             in
             the
             Country
             of
             Wiltshire
             ,
             within
             3.
             miles
             of
             Tedbury
             ,
             )
             being
             drunke
             at
             the
             Church-house
             in
             the
             same
             Parish
             ,
             told
             Henry
             Larrum
             of
             the
             same
             Parish
             ,
             that
             was
             then
             in
             the
             same
             place
             drunke
             likewise
             with
             the
             Church-house
             
             ale
             ,
             that
             he
             the
             said
             Richard
             ,
             would
             either
             hange
             himselfe
             ,
             or
             drowne
             himselfe
             ,
             demanding
             of
             the
             sayd
             Henry
             which
             of
             the
             two
             was
             best
             ;
             unto
             whom
             he
             replyed
             ,
             that
             he
             hoped
             he
             would
             do
             neither
             ;
             on
             the
             day
             following
             ,
             being
             munday
             in
             the
             morning
             ,
             the
             said
             Richard
             Clerke
             was
             seene
             to
             goe
             through
             the
             streat
             ,
             without
             a
             bande
             ,
             as
             if
             he
             had
             beene
             going
             about
             his
             masters
             businesse
             ,
             and
             putting
             on
             his
             band
             without
             the
             Towne
             ,
             he
             gott
             up
             into
             the
             middle
             of
             a
             tree
             ,
             and
             there
             did
             hang
             himselfe
             .
             A
             miserable
             effect
             of
             carnall
             liberty
             and
             profane
             meetings
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             47.
             
          
           
             The
             31.
             
             May
             1635.
             the
             booke
             of
             recreation
             was
             read
             in
             the
             Parish
             Church
             of
             Alvelye
             in
             Comit.
             Salop
             ,
             in
             the
             afternoone
             ,
             after
             all
             divine
             exercises
             publicke
             ended
             ,
             there
             fell
             out
             a
             bloody
             fight
             betwixt
             3.
             of
             Alvelye
             above
             said
             ,
             and
             one
             of
             Envield
             of
             the
             Country
             of
             Stafford
             neere
             Adjacent
             ,
             in
             so
             much
             that
             the
             man
             of
             Envield
             was
             sore
             wounded
             ,
             and
             had
             his
             jaw-bone
             broken
             ,
             so
             that
             he
             could
             not
             eate
             his
             meat
             for
             the
             sustaining
             of
             nature
             ;
             In
             his
             extremity
             he
             layd
             his
             death
             to
             the
             charge
             of
             the
             other
             3.
             
             The
             Churchwardens
             of
             the
             Parish
             of
             Alvelye
             above
             said
             ,
             presented
             these
             4.
             for
             profaning
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             to
             my
             Lord
             his
             grace
             of
             Canterbury
             (
             to
             use
             the
             words
             of
             the
             relation
             )
             being
             the
             time
             of
             his
             metropoliticall
             visitation
             ,
             since
             which
             time
             two
             of
             the
             parties
             fledd
             ;
             the
             third
             was
             committed
             to
             prison
             in
             Shewsbury
             ,
             and
             was
             the
             next
             assises
             to
             come
             to
             his
             answere
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             48.
             
          
           
             In
             March
             ,
             betwixt
             1634.
             and
             1635.
             at
             Billericay
             in
             Essex
             ,
             one
             Theophilus
             Pease
             ,
             the
             Ministers
             sonne
             of
             that
             towne
             ,
             went
             to
             ring
             the
             bells
             on
             the
             Sabbath
             day
             ,
             whom
             the
             Churchwardens
             for
             that
             time
             hindered
             ;
             But
             against
             the
             next
             Sabbath
             ,
             he
             gathered
             a
             company
             together
             ,
             saying
             he
             would
             ringe
             in
             dispite
             of
             the
             Churchwardens
             .
             While
             he
             was
             a
             ringing
             ,
             he
             was
             taken
             with
             a
             giddinesse
             like
             one
             drunke
             ,
             and
             so
             sickned
             ,
             and
             about
             three
             dayes
             after
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             49.
             
          
           
             Anno
             1635.
             
             Ianuarie
             or
             there
             about
             in
             Chichester
             Diocesse
             ,
             one
             Thomas
             Perkin
             ,
             a
             willfull
             and
             usuall
             profaner
             of
             Gods
             Sabbath
             in
             Hailing
             South
             ,
             being
             ringing
             on
             a
             Sabbath
             day
             ,
             the
             rope
             tooke
             him
             up
             ,
             and
             flinging
             him
             about
             8.
             foot
             high
             ,
             he
             fell
             downe
             on
             his
             head
             ,
             and
             was
             taken
             up
             dead
             ,
             and
             so
             remained
             long
             ,
             but
             life
             at
             last
             was
             gotten
             into
             him
             ,
             yet
             the
             bruise
             in
             his
             head
             is
             so
             great
             and
             dangerous
             as
             death
             is
             expected
             ,
             and
             little
             hope
             of
             life
             remaineth
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             50.
             
          
           
             At
             Craies
             ,
             two
             miles
             from
             Billerikey
             ,
             a
             servant
             of
             Master
             Holdsworth
             Minister
             there
             ,
             ringing
             on
             the
             Sabbath
             ,
             his
             Master
             sent
             to
             forbid
             him
             :
             but
             he
             would
             ring
             still
             ,
             and
             before
             he
             had
             done
             ringing
             ,
             he
             was
             strucke
             sicke
             ,
             and
             a
             while
             after
             dyed
             .
             This
             was
             a
             little
             after
             the
             booke
             for
             sports
             was
             publikely
             read
             in
             the
             Church
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             51.
             
          
           
             In
             Iune
             1635.
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             the
             Tapster
             and
             Chamberlaine
             of
             the
             Queenes
             head
             in
             Southwarke
             ,
             ridd
             into
             Kent
             to
             be
             merry
             ,
             and
             having
             drunke
             liberally
             ,
             riding
             homewards
             ,
             the
             one
             of
             them
             fell
             from
             his
             horse
             ,
             and
             broke
             his
             necke
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             52.
             
          
           
             Also
             in
             Iune
             1635.
             and
             as
             some
             report
             the
             very
             same
             Lords
             day
             ,
             in
             Southwarke
             at
             the
             red
             lion
             ,
             neere
             S.
             Georges
             Church
             ,
             in
             the
             afternoone
             ,
             a
             man
             with
             another
             sate
             drinking
             so
             longe
             ,
             that
             the
             other
             about
             sixe
             of
             the
             clocke
             departing
             ,
             fell
             a
             sleepe
             so
             ,
             that
             he
             never
             awaked
             againe
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             (
             8.
             )
          
           
             At
             Hellingsby
             5.
             or
             6.
             miles
             from
             Ason
             in
             Sussex
             ,
             the
             booke
             being
             read
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             in
             the
             Church
             by
             the
             Minister
             ,
             on
             the
             next
             day
             being
             Munday
             ,
             an
             honest
             man
             ,
             one
             Tomkins
             being
             on
             his
             way
             ,
             a
             neighbour
             overtakes
             him
             ,
             and
             scoffingly
             askes
             him
             ,
             if
             he
             would
             goe
             daunce
             with
             him
             the
             next
             Sunday
             ;
             to
             whom
             the
             man
             aswered
             ,
             take
             heed
             that
             thou
             be
             not
             dauncing
             in
             hell
             before
             that
             day
             come
             ,
             or
             before
             it
             be
             longe
             ;
             By
             the
             next
             weeke
             Gods
             hand
             fell
             on
             this
             Scoffer
             ,
             that
             himselfe
             and
             two
             more
             of
             his
             family
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             53.
             
          
           
             In
             the
             moneth
             of
             Iuly
             1634.
             one
             Master
             Quince
             
             the
             Chirurgiō
             of
             the
             Tower
             of
             London
             ,
             having
             an
             horse
             to
             sell
             ,
             &
             meeting
             with
             a
             chapman
             ,
             went
             to
             Coleman-street
             ,
             where
             the
             horse
             was
             kept
             ,
             to
             see
             and
             contract
             for
             him
             ,
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             in
             the
             afternoone
             ;
             the
             horse
             being
             sadled
             ,
             M.
             Quince
             gets
             upon
             his
             back
             ,
             to
             shew
             his
             chapman
             how
             well
             he
             would
             pace
             ;
             which
             done
             ,
             as
             he
             was
             a
             lighting
             of
             his
             backe
             ,
             his
             foote
             ,
             which
             lighted
             on
             the
             ground
             slipped
             ,
             the
             other
             foote
             hung
             in
             the
             stirrup
             ,
             so
             as
             he
             fell
             to
             the
             ground
             ,
             and
             with
             the
             fall
             brake
             his
             thighbone
             short
             off
             ,
             so
             that
             he
             was
             carried
             from
             the
             place
             to
             an
             house
             neere
             adjoyning
             ,
             where
             he
             lay
             in
             great
             paine
             ,
             and
             agonye
             for
             8
             ▪
             weekes
             space
             or
             more
             ,
             allmost
             despairing
             of
             his
             life
             ,
             and
             never
             stirring
             out
             of
             his
             bedde
             :
             at
             last
             it
             pleased
             God
             ,
             by
             degrees
             to
             recover
             and
             restore
             him
             to
             the
             use
             of
             his
             legge
             againe
             ,
             he
             having
             little
             use
             of
             it
             ,
             (
             &
             that
             with
             great
             paine
             )
             for
             halfe
             a
             yeares
             space
             and
             more
             .
             His
             sonne
             had
             disswaded
             him
             from
             riding
             ,
             because
             it
             was
             the
             Lords
             day
             ;
             and
             himself
             hath
             since
             acknowledged
             it
             a
             just
             judgement
             of
             God
             upon
             him
             for
             profaning
             that
             sacred
             time
             ,
             which
             hath
             made
             him
             more
             carefully
             to
             frequent
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             to
             avoyd
             the
             profanation
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             ever
             since
             .
             This
             the
             party
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             most
             of
             the
             Tower
             can
             testify
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             (
             9.
             )
          
           
             On
             February
             9.
             1634.
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             an
             Apothecaries
             man
             in
             Limestreat
             London
             ,
             rid
             to
             Barnet
             with
             another
             companion
             ,
             to
             make
             merry
             ,
             who
             returning
             home
             drunke
             ,
             neere
             highe
             gate
             ,
             met
             a
             Tinker
             ,
             and
             offring
             him
             some
             abuse
             ,
             the
             Tinker
             strikes
             one
             of
             their
             horses
             ,
             whereat
             the
             one
             bid
             the
             other
             run
             him
             through
             ;
             who
             drawing
             his
             rapier
             ,
             ran
             the
             Tinker
             through
             the
             
             breast
             ,
             that
             he
             fell
             downe
             dead
             :
             therupon
             being
             by
             and
             by
             apprehended
             ,
             and
             confessing
             the
             fact
             ,
             they
             were
             both
             sent
             to
             Newgate
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             10.
             
          
           
             At
             Thorneton
             neere
             Westchester
             ,
             the
             people
             there
             ,
             
             upon
             the
             first
             publishing
             of
             the
             booke
             prepared
             for
             a
             solemne
             summer
             ale
             .
             The
             bringing
             in
             of
             their
             
               Lady
               flora
            
             should
             have
             been
             guarded
             with
             a
             Marshall
             troope
             :
             the
             lustiest
             wench
             ,
             and
             stoutest
             young
             man
             in
             the
             towne
             were
             chosen
             to
             be
             the
             purveyors
             for
             cakes
             ,
             and
             for
             ribbons
             for
             favours
             ,
             the
             solemnity
             was
             to
             be
             on
             the
             munday
             ,
             but
             the
             preparation
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ;
             this
             lusty
             tall
             mayd
             ,
             on
             the
             satturday
             before
             went
             to
             the
             mill
             ,
             to
             fetch
             home
             the
             meale
             for
             cakes
             on
             her
             head
             ,
             shee
             being
             stronge
             and
             able
             for
             the
             purpose
             :
             but
             in
             the
             way
             ,
             passing
             by
             a
             hedge
             ,
             shee
             was
             suddainly
             struck
             by
             a
             divine
             stroke
             ,
             and
             fell
             into
             the
             ditch
             ,
             where
             shee
             was
             found
             dead
             ;
             shee
             was
             suffered
             to
             lye
             abroad
             in
             that
             pickle
             all
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             til
             munday
             morning
             ,
             when
             the
             Coroner
             being
             send
             for
             ,
             shee
             was
             thence
             carried
             to
             her
             grave
             immediately
             ,
             where
             all
             her
             solemnity
             was
             burried
             with
             her
             ,
             &
             all
             her
             vaine
             thoughts
             in
             that
             very
             day
             ,
             wherein
             the
             great
             solemnity
             should
             have
             been
             .
             And
             see
             what
             a
             good
             effect
             this
             wrought
             in
             the
             whole
             towne
             ;
             First
             ,
             all
             their
             mirth
             was
             turned
             into
             mourning
             ,
             no
             summer
             ale
             kept
             ,
             and
             besides
             that
             ,
             they
             being
             moved
             by
             the
             dreadfull
             stroke
             of
             God
             ,
             tooke
             their
             may-pole
             downe
             ,
             which
             they
             had
             before
             sett
             up
             ,
             and
             never
             after
             would
             presume
             to
             set
             it
             up
             againe
             ,
             or
             to
             have
             any
             more
             summer-ales
             ,
             or
             may-games
             .
             God
             grant
             they
             continue
             in
             their
             sober
             mindes
             ,
             and
             that
             all
             other
             would
             learne
             to
             be
             wise
             by
             their
             example
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             11.
             
          
           
             In
             Yorkshire
             at
             a
             Wake
             ,
             in
             the
             Parish
             of
             Otley
             at
             
             Baildon
             ,
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             two
             of
             them
             sitting
             at
             drinke
             ,
             late
             in
             the
             night
             ,
             fell
             out
             and
             being
             parted
             ,
             the
             one
             a
             little
             after
             finding
             his
             fellow
             ,
             sitting
             by
             the
             fire
             with
             his
             backe
             towards
             him
             ,
             comes
             behinde
             him
             ,
             and
             with
             a
             hatchet
             chines
             him
             downe
             the
             backe
             ,
             so
             as
             his
             bowells
             fell
             out
             ;
             the
             murtherer
             flying
             immediately
             ,
             and
             being
             hotly
             pursued
             ,
             lept
             into
             a
             river
             ,
             and
             so
             drowned
             himselfe
             .
             O
             fearefull
             fruits
             of
             carnall
             liberty
             !
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             18.
             
          
           
             One
             in
             Glocestershire
             being
             very
             forward
             to
             advance
             a
             solemne
             sommer-meeting
             ,
             wherein
             his
             sonne
             was
             to
             be
             a
             cheefe
             stickler
             ,
             went
             himselfe
             in
             great
             jollity
             to
             see
             it
             ,
             and
             there
             beholding
             it
             ,
             he
             fell
             downe
             suddainly
             ,
             and
             so
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             12.
             
          
           
             One
             at
             Ham
             neere
             Kingston
             ,
             being
             a
             scoffer
             of
             all
             
             goodnesse
             ,
             and
             a
             common
             profaner
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             ,
             going
             abroad
             to
             see
             his
             grounds
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             and
             finding
             some
             neighbours
             cattell
             to
             have
             broken
             in
             ,
             he
             runnes
             to
             drive
             them
             out
             ,
             and
             that
             with
             such
             eagernesse
             ,
             that
             he
             fell
             downe
             dead
             instantly
             upon
             the
             place
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             13.
             
          
           
             One
             Wright
             at
             Kingston
             ,
             being
             a
             scoffer
             of
             Religion
             ,
             and
             rejoycing
             much
             at
             the
             suspending
             of
             his
             
             Minister
             ,
             and
             others
             ,
             for
             not
             reading
             the
             booke
             of
             sports
             in
             their
             Churches
             ,
             saying
             ,
             hee
             hoped
             to
             see
             them
             allso
             served
             shortly
             :
             was
             within
             a
             day
             or
             two
             after
             struck
             with
             a
             dead
             Palsy
             ,
             all
             over
             the
             one
             side
             ,
             and
             with
             blindnesse
             and
             dumnesse
             ,
             that
             he
             could
             neither
             goe
             ,
             see
             ,
             nor
             speake
             ,
             and
             so
             lay
             in
             a
             miserable
             manner
             for
             a
             fortnight
             ,
             and
             then
             dyed
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             14.
             
          
           
             In
             Moorefields
             neere
             London
             ,
             sundry
             youths
             playing
             
             at
             Catt
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             two
             of
             them
             fell
             out
             ,
             and
             the
             one
             hitting
             the
             other
             under
             the
             eare
             with
             his
             catt
             ,
             he
             therewith
             fell
             downe
             for
             dead
             in
             the
             place
             ,
             the
             other
             was
             sent
             to
             prison
             :
             but
             the
             dead
             for
             the
             time
             ,
             by
             Gods
             mercy
             recovering
             ,
             the
             prisoner
             was
             released
             ;
             which
             may
             be
             a
             warning
             both
             to
             them
             ,
             and
             all
             other
             youth
             ,
             to
             take
             heed
             how
             they
             so
             profane
             the
             Lords
             day
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             A
             woman
             about
             Northampton
             ,
             the
             same
             day
             that
             shee
             heard
             the
             booke
             for
             sports
             read
             ,
             went
             immediately
             ,
             and
             having
             3.
             pence
             in
             her
             purse
             ,
             hired
             a
             fellow
             to
             goe
             to
             the
             next
             Towne
             to
             fetch
             a
             Minstrell
             ,
             who
             comming
             ,
             shee
             with
             others
             fell
             a
             dauncing
             ,
             which
             continued
             within
             night
             ;
             at
             which
             time
             shee
             was
             got
             with
             child
             ,
             which
             at
             the
             birth
             shee
             murthering
             ,
             was
             detected
             and
             apprehended
             ,
             and
             being
             convented
             before
             the
             justice
             ,
             shee
             confessed
             it
             ,
             and
             with
             all
             told
             the
             occasion
             of
             it
             ,
             saying
             it
             was
             her
             falling
             to
             sport
             on
             the
             Sabbath
             ,
             upon
             the
             reading
             of
             
             the
             booke
             ,
             so
             as
             for
             this
             treble
             sinful
             act
             ,
             her
             presumtuous
             profaning
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             :
             which
             brought
             her
             adulte●y
             &
             that
             murther
             .
             Shee
             was
             according
             to
             the
             Law
             ,
             both
             of
             God
             and
             man
             ,
             put
             to
             death
             ,
             much
             sinne
             and
             misery
             followeth
             upon
             sabbath-breaking
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             Also
             at
             Northampton
             ,
             in
             the
             last
             Easter
             assises
             ,
             there
             was
             a
             youngman
             who
             formerly
             ,
             by
             seeing
             the
             example
             of
             good
             people
             ,
             in
             the
             due
             sanctification
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             or
             Sabbath
             ,
             had
             begun
             to
             reforme
             his
             former
             loose
             kind
             of
             life
             ,
             and
             to
             frame
             his
             conversation
             ,
             according
             to
             Gods
             word
             ,
             and
             that
             in
             the
             well
             keeping
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             ,
             abstaining
             therein
             from
             sports
             and
             pastimes
             ,
             and
             spending
             the
             whole
             day
             in
             the
             publike
             and
             private
             duties
             of
             it
             ;
             but
             when
             once
             he
             heard
             of
             the
             publishing
             of
             the
             booke
             for
             sports
             ,
             and
             pastimes
             ,
             he
             fell
             backe
             againe
             to
             his
             former
             wallowing
             ,
             and
             being
             taken
             as
             he
             was
             picking
             a
             pocket
             ,
             when
             the
             Iudges
             weare
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             upon
             examination
             confessed
             what
             he
             had
             formerly
             beene
             ,
             and
             how
             he
             had
             been
             reformed
             ,
             and
             that
             upon
             the
             publishing
             of
             the
             sayd
             booke
             ,
             he
             was
             incouraged
             to
             run
             riot
             a
             fresh
             ,
             by
             which
             meanes
             he
             fell
             into
             this
             impiety
             and
             iniquity
             ,
             for
             the
             which
             he
             suffered
             death
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             15.
             
          
           
             Aprill
             1●
             .
             1635.
             being
             Satturday
             ,
             one
             travelling
             with
             three
             others
             from
             London
             to
             Maydenhead
             ,
             he
             
             (
             the
             rest
             spending
             the
             Sabbath
             there
             )
             would
             travell
             on
             his
             way
             ,
             the
             next
             day
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             contrary
             both
             to
             Gods
             commandement
             ,
             and
             also
             of
             the
             Lady
             whom
             he
             served
             :
             who
             had
             given
             him
             strict
             charge
             ;
             to
             observe
             the
             Sabbath
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             travell
             on
             it
             .
             He
             rode
             in
             the
             morning
             to
             Henley
             ,
             and
             there
             heard
             the
             Sermon
             ,
             after
             that
             he
             fell
             to
             travail
             in
             the
             afternoone
             ,
             but
             as
             he
             went
             in
             the
             way
             ,
             leading
             his
             horse
             in
             his
             hand
             gently
             downe
             a
             plaine
             descent
             ,
             and
             even
             way
             ,
             his
             horse
             suddainly
             fell
             ,
             and
             broke
             both
             his
             fore
             leggs
             ,
             the
             man
             sore
             agast
             at
             this
             not
             more
             suddaine
             ,
             then
             strange
             disaster
             ,
             which
             he
             could
             not
             but
             attribute
             to
             the
             immediate
             hand
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             being
             past
             all
             hope
             of
             recovery
             was
             forced
             himselfe
             to
             knocke
             his
             horse
             in
             the
             head
             ,
             and
             so
             to
             leave
             him
             ,
             and
             being
             the
             next
             day
             overtaken
             at
             Abington
             by
             his
             company
             ,
             whom
             he
             had
             left
             the
             day
             before
             ,
             and
             they
             asking
             him
             how
             it
             fell
             out
             ,
             he
             was
             no
             further
             on
             his
             way
             ,
             he
             smote
             his
             breast
             ,
             and
             told
             them
             how
             it
             had
             befallen
             him
             in
             the
             way
             ,
             saying
             that
             he
             had
             heard
             many
             a
             good
             Sermon
             ,
             yet
             none
             of
             them
             or
             any
             thing
             else
             did
             so
             worke
             upon
             his
             conscience
             ,
             as
             this
             thing
             did
             ;
             and
             that
             this
             example
             should
             be
             a
             warning
             unto
             him
             for
             ever
             travailing
             on
             the
             Sabbathday
             againe
             .
             This
             is
             testified
             under
             the
             hands
             of
             those
             3.
             which
             had
             travailed
             with
             him
             ,
             and
             over
             tooke
             him
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             16.
             
          
           
             At
             Dartmouth
             1634.
             upon
             the
             comming
             forth
             and
             publishing
             of
             the
             booke
             for
             sports
             ,
             a
             company
             of
             younkers
             on
             May-day
             morning
             before
             day
             ,
             went
             into
             the
             Country
             ,
             to
             fetch
             home
             a
             May-pole
             with
             Drum
             and
             Trumpett
             ;
             whereat
             the
             neighbouring
             ▪
             
             inhabitants
             were
             affrighted
             supposing
             some
             enemies
             had
             landed
             to
             sacke
             them
             ,
             the
             Pole
             being
             thus
             brought
             home
             and
             set
             up
             ,
             they
             began
             to
             drinke
             healthes
             about
             it
             ,
             and
             to
             it
             ,
             till
             they
             could
             not
             stand
             so
             steady
             as
             the
             pole
             did
             ,
             whereupon
             the
             Major
             and
             Iustice
             bound
             the
             ringleaders
             over
             to
             the
             Sessions
             ,
             whereupon
             these
             complaining
             to
             the
             Archbishops
             Vicar
             Generall
             ,
             then
             in
             his
             visitation
             he
             prohibited
             the
             justices
             to
             proceed
             against
             them
             in
             regard
             of
             the
             Kings
             booke
             .
             But
             the
             justices
             acquainted
             him
             ,
             they
             did
             it
             for
             their
             disorder
             ,
             in
             transgressing
             the
             bounds
             of
             the
             booke
             ,
             hereupon
             these
             libertines
             scorning
             at
             Authority
             ,
             one
             of
             them
             fell
             suddainly
             into
             a
             ‡
             Consumption
             ,
             whereof
             he
             shortly
             after
             dyed
             ;
             now
             allthough
             this
             revelling
             was
             not
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             yet
             being
             upon
             any
             other
             day
             and
             especially
             May-day
             ,
             the
             May-pole
             set
             up
             thereon
             ,
             giving
             occasion
             to
             the
             profanation
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             the
             whole
             yeare
             after
             it
             was
             sufficient
             to
             provoke
             God
             ,
             to
             send
             plagues
             and
             judgements
             among
             them
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             17.
             
          
           
             In
             the
             same
             yeare
             1634.
             and
             in
             the
             same
             Shire
             ,
             one
             Edward
             Amerideth
             a
             Gentleman
             ,
             having
             bene
             pained
             in
             his
             feet
             ,
             and
             being
             upon
             his
             recovery
             ,
             whereupon
             one
             sayd
             unto
             him
             ,
             he
             was
             glad
             to
             see
             him
             so
             nimble
             .
             Amerideth
             replyed
             ,
             that
             he
             doubted
             not
             ,
             but
             to
             daunce
             about
             the
             May-pole
             the
             next
             Lords
             day
             :
             But
             behold
             the
             hand
             of
             the
             Lord
             ,
             for
             before
             he
             moved
             out
             of
             that
             place
             ,
             he
             was
             smitten
             with
             such
             a
             feeblenesse
             of
             hart
             ,
             and
             dizsines
             in
             his
             head
             ,
             that
             desiring
             helpe
             to
             carry
             him
             to
             an
             house
             ,
             he
             
             dyed
             before
             the
             Lords
             day
             came
             ;
             so
             fearefull
             it
             is
             to
             fall
             into
             the
             hands
             of
             the
             living
             God.
             
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             54.
             
          
           
             Many
             more
             examples
             might
             here
             be
             added
             ,
             not
             only
             such
             as
             have
             fallen
             out
             within
             these
             two
             yeares
             last
             past
             ,
             since
             the
             sayd
             booke
             was
             published
             by
             the
             Ministers
             in
             their
             Churches
             ,
             but
             also
             ,
             since
             the
             booke
             was
             first
             of
             all
             printed
             and
             published
             ,
             the
             very
             bruite
             whereof
             ,
             without
             being
             read
             by
             Ministers
             ,
             was
             enough
             ,
             and
             to
             much
             to
             imbolden
             youth
             to
             take
             their
             liberty
             in
             profaning
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             but
             for
             the
             present
             ,
             I
             will
             add
             but
             one
             more
             .
             At
             Chidlington
             upon
             the
             edge
             of
             Hertfordshire
             ,
             not
             farre
             from
             Hitchin
             ,
             a
             company
             of
             fellowes
             upon
             a
             holy
             day
             being
             to
             play
             a
             match
             at
             foot
             ball
             ,
             one
             of
             them
             was
             tolling
             the
             bell
             ,
             to
             assemble
             the
             rest
             ,
             some
             being
             come
             into
             the
             Church
             the
             randevoze
             of
             their
             meeting
             ,
             suddainly
             it
             thundering
             was
             seene
             a
             blacke
             ball
             come
             tumbling
             downe
             a
             hill
             neere
             by
             :
             which
             tooke
             its
             course
             directly
             into
             the
             Church
             ,
             there
             it
             flew
             into
             the
             bell
             free
             and
             first
             slew
             him
             ,
             that
             tolled
             the
             bell
             ,
             then
             it
             flustered
             about
             the
             Church
             and
             hurted
             divers
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             at
             last
             bursting
             ;
             left
             a
             filthy
             stinke
             like
             to
             that
             of
             brimstone
             ,
             and
             so
             left
             a
             terror
             to
             all
             such
             spend
             thrifts
             of
             precious
             time
             ,
             and
             especially
             such
             as
             is
             dedicated
             to
             sacred
             uses
             ,
             who
             so
             is
             wise
             and
             will
             observe
             these
             things
             ,
             even
             they
             shall
             understand
             the
             loving
             kindnesse
             of
             the
             Lord.
             Psal.
             107.
             43.
             
          
        
         
           
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             4.
             
          
           
             Vpon
             May
             day
             last
             ,
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             a
             mayd
             of
             
             the
             Minister
             of
             the
             Parish
             ,
             Cripplegate
             ,
             London
             ,
             was
             married
             to
             a
             Widower
             having
             3.
             children
             ,
             the
             youngest
             being
             at
             Nurce
             in
             the
             Country
             ;
             upon
             this
             day
             they
             kept
             their
             feast
             in
             the
             Church-house
             joyning
             to
             the
             Church
             ,
             where
             they
             spent
             all
             the
             afternoone
             in
             dauncing
             :
             but
             within
             one
             weeke
             after
             ,
             the
             Plague
             began
             in
             that
             Parish
             in
             the
             new
             married
             mans
             house
             ,
             where
             within
             a
             moneth
             it
             tooke
             away
             the
             man
             and
             his
             wife
             ,
             and
             his
             two
             children
             that
             were
             in
             the
             house
             .
             And
             thus
             was
             the
             Plague
             brought
             first
             into
             that
             Parish
             this
             yeare
             .
          
           
             To
             this
             we
             will
             adde
             another
             example
             ,
             because
             it
             fell
             within
             the
             same
             moneth
             ,
             in
             the
             same
             city
             .
             A
             Minister
             ,
             Rector
             of
             a
             Church
             in
             London
             ,
             on
             the
             saturday
             would
             goe
             with
             two
             of
             his
             neighbours
             ,
             boon
             companions
             ,
             to
             be
             joviall
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             being
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             they
             conditioning
             that
             he
             should
             bestow
             a
             Sermon
             upon
             them
             .
             They
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             being
             now
             in
             the
             country
             ,
             spent
             the
             forenoone
             idly
             :
             in
             the
             afternoone
             they
             goe
             to
             visit
             another
             London
             Minister
             ,
             who
             had
             another
             benefice
             there
             in
             the
             Country
             ;
             he
             puts
             his
             brother
             to
             preach
             :
             which
             done
             invites
             him
             ,
             with
             his
             companions
             ,
             to
             a
             bottle
             of
             Sacke
             .
             They
             drank
             so
             long
             ,
             that
             the
             two
             neighbours
             tongues
             began
             to
             faile
             them
             .
             Home
             to
             their
             lodging
             within
             a
             few
             miles
             they
             betake
             them
             .
             That
             night
             their
             Minister
             could
             not
             sleepe
             ;
             and
             raising
             early
             to
             walke
             abroad
             ,
             he
             returned
             with
             such
             a
             coldnesse
             upon
             him
             ,
             that
             he
             looked
             ,
             and
             felt
             like
             cold
             pale
             death
             ;
             the
             two
             neighbours
             much
             dismayd
             ,
             and
             with
             much
             adoe
             get
             him
             home
             to
             
             London
             ,
             where
             in
             that
             case
             continuing
             ,
             he
             dyeth
             before
             the
             next
             Sabbath
             day
             .
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             55.
             
          
           
             Vpon
             May-Eve
             Thomas
             Troe
             of
             Glocester
             ,
             Carpenter
             
             in
             the
             Parish
             of
             S.
             Michaell
             ,
             some
             comming
             unto
             him
             ,
             and
             asking
             him
             ,
             whether
             he
             would
             goe
             with
             them
             to
             fetch
             the
             May-pole
             ,
             he
             swore
             by
             the
             Lords
             woundes
             ,
             that
             he
             would
             ,
             though
             he
             never
             went
             more
             .
             Now
             while
             he
             was
             working
             on
             the
             May-pole
             on
             May
             day
             morning
             ,
             before
             he
             had
             finished
             his
             worke
             ,
             the
             Lord
             smote
             him
             with
             such
             a
             lamenesse
             and
             swelling
             in
             all
             his
             limbes
             ,
             that
             he
             could
             neither
             goe
             ,
             nor
             lift
             his
             hands
             to
             his
             mouth
             ,
             to
             feed
             himselfe
             ,
             but
             kept
             his
             bed
             for
             halfe
             a
             yeare
             together
             and
             still
             goes
             lame
             to
             this
             day
             ;
             May
             4.
             1636.
             
          
        
         
           
             EXAMPLE
             .
             56.
             
          
           
             About
             a
             yeare
             since
             1635.
             in
             Ashton
             under
             the
             Hill
             ,
             in
             the
             Parish
             of
             Beckford
             ,
             in
             the
             Country
             of
             Glocester
             ,
             the
             Minister
             there
             Master
             Blackwell
             ,
             having
             occasion
             in
             his
             Sermon
             in
             the
             afternoone
             on
             the
             Lords-day
             to
             reproove
             the
             profaning
             of
             that
             day
             by
             sports
             &c.
             as
             soone
             as
             the
             Sermon
             was
             done
             ,
             a
             youngman
             of
             that
             place
             used
             these
             words
             ,
             Now
             Master
             Blackwell
             hath
             done
             ,
             we
             'le
             begin
             ;
             and
             so
             taking
             the
             Cudgells
             ,
             playes
             with
             them
             ;
             and
             at
             the
             second
             or
             third
             bout
             ,
             he
             received
             a
             thrust
             in
             one
             of
             his
             eyes
             ,
             that
             thrust
             it
             quite
             out
             ,
             so
             as
             it
             hanged
             by
             ,
             and
             could
             never
             recover
             it
             againe
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THese
           Examples
           of
           divine
           justice
           ,
           so
           notorious
           ,
           so
           remarkableboth
           for
           number
           and
           variety
           ,
           having
           fallen
           out
           in
           so
           narrow
           a
           compasse
           of
           time
           ,
           and
           so
           dispersed
           over
           the
           whole
           Land
           ,
           as
           every
           particular
           place
           ,
           and
           country
           might
           take
           speciall
           notice
           thereof
           :
           if
           they
           will
           not
           take
           ,
           and
           make
           impression
           in
           our
           stony
           hearts
           ,
           to
           moove
           us
           to
           speedy
           repentance
           (
           as
           for
           many
           other
           enormities
           ,
           and
           crying
           sins
           ,
           so
           in
           speciall
           )
           for
           this
           our
           ring-leading
           sinne
           of
           the
           heathenish
           profanation
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           ,
           or
           Lords
           day
           :
           what
           plea
           can
           we
           make
           for
           our selves
           ,
           why
           the
           Lord
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           ,
           should
           not
           send
           some
           universall
           ,
           epidemicall
           sweeping
           calamity
           uponthe
           land
           ,
           sparing
           neither
           small
           nor
           great
           ?
           And
           now
           ,
           that
           the
           plague
           and
           pestilence
           begins
           to
           breake
           forth
           ,
           and
           spreeds
           itselfe
           much
           amongst
           us
           ,
           the
           Lord
           shooting
           these
           his
           terrible
           venemous
           arrowes
           ,
           from
           which
           not
           even
           Princes
           nor
           Prelates
           palaces
           can
           secure
           themselves
           ,
           from
           becoming
           his
           butts
           and
           marks
           :
           What
           can
           we
           more
           impute
           it
           unto
           ,
           as
           the
           cause
           thereof
           ,
           then
           to
           this
           grand
           sinne
           ,
           of
           the
           profanation
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           or
           Lords
           day
           ,
           occasioned
           so
           much
           the
           more
           by
           the
           publishing
           of
           the
           late
           booke
           for
           sports
           ,
           and
           that
           ,
           by
           the
           Ministers
           themselves
           ?
           For
           was
           it
           not
           the
           judgement
           and
           confession
           of
           King
           Iames
           of
           famous
           memory
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           whole
           state
           and
           Kingdome
           in
           an
           exhortation
           published
           in
           that
           great
           plague
           ,
           beginning
           with
           his
           raigne
           ,
           1603
           ,
           where
           are
           these
           words
           :
           The
           Lords
           Sabbath
           is
           not
           kept
           holy
           ,
           but
           polluted
           &c.
           and
           therefore
           the
           cause
           is
           apparent
           ,
           why
           the
           plague
           is
           broken
           in
           amongst
           us
           ?
           And
           was
           not
           the
           same
           exhortation
           afterwards
           republished
           by
           our
           gracious
           King
           Charles
           (
           whom
           God
           long
           preserve
           a
           religious
           and
           righteous
           Governour
           
           over
           us
           )
           in
           the
           first
           yeare
           of
           his
           raigne
           ,
           with
           the
           approbation
           of
           the
           whole
           Parliament
           ,
           where
           the
           same
           is
           acknowledged
           of
           that
           other
           great
           Plague
           ,
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           his
           Raigne
           1625.
           namely
           ,
           that
           one
           principall
           &
           speciall
           cause
           thereof
           ,
           was
           
             the
             not
             keeping
             holy
             ,
             but
             polluting
             the
             Lords
             day
             ?
          
           And
           if
           this
           were
           a
           principall
           cause
           of
           those
           great
           plagues
           then
           ,
           why
           not
           of
           this
           which
           now
           we
           suffer
           ?
           yea
           what
           Plague
           upon
           plagues
           may
           we
           not
           justly
           expect
           to
           breake
           forth
           upon
           us
           in
           these
           dayes
           ,
           wherein
           we
           have
           increased
           &
           surpassed
           our
           fathers
           sins
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           such
           a
           height
           ,
           as
           they
           reach
           up
           to
           heaven
           ,
           to
           pull
           downe
           flames
           and
           flakes
           of
           vengeance
           upon
           our
           heads
           .
           And
           so
           much
           the
           more
           ,
           sith
           upon
           the
           publishing
           of
           the
           said
           booke
           ,
           so
           manyfold
           mischiefes
           have
           attended
           and
           followed
           ,
           as
           never
           any
           age
           since
           Christ
           ,
           much
           lesse
           such
           a
           Christian
           state
           as
           we
           professe
           to
           be
           ,
           hath
           seene
           ,
           or
           ever
           heard
           the
           like
           .
           For
           besides
           the
           open
           violation
           of
           Gods
           holy
           commandement
           ,
           the
           4.
           
           Morall
           ,
           acknowledged
           in
           our
           ‡
           Homily
           to
           be
           the
           ground
           of
           our
           Christian
           Sabbath
           day
           (
           as
           it
           is
           there
           ,
           no
           lesse
           then
           8.
           severall
           times
           distinctly
           stiled
           ;
           as
           also
           in
           another
           *
           Homily
           twice
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           way
           makes
           me
           wonder
           at
           the
           audacious
           insolence
           ,
           &
           arrogant
           ignorance
           of
           some
           new
           Masters
           in
           these
           dayes
           ,
           and
           in
           particular
           of
           D
           
           r.
           Poch
           .
           in
           his
           
             Sunday
             no
             Sabbath
          
           ,
           who
           is
           not
           ashamed
           to
           avouch
           with
           open
           mouth
           ,
           that
           the
           name
           of
           Sabbath
           was
           never
           given
           to
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           untill
           it
           was
           brought
           in
           by
           Iohn
           Knox
           ,
           &
           others
           of
           the
           Puritan
           faction
           in
           the
           yeare
           1554.
           
           What
           saith
           he
           then
           to
           the
           Homilies
           of
           our
           Church
           ,
           which
           were
           set
           forth
           in
           K.
           Edw.
           6.
           his
           Raigne
           ,
           and
           so
           I
           am
           sure
           before
           1554.
           by
           3.
           or
           4.
           yeares
           ;
           now
           these
           (
           to
           omitt
           innumerable
           testimonies
           more
           ,
           both
           out
           of
           ancient
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           the
           Prelates
           of
           this
           Land
           ;
           too
           large
           to
           
           be
           comprehended
           in
           a
           Parenthesis
           ,
           being
           now
           to
           furnish
           a
           pretty
           Treatise
           )
           these
           our
           Homilies
           (
           I
           say
           )
           so
           frequently
           and
           clearly
           called
           the
           Lords
           day
           the
           Sabbath
           day
           ,
           before
           Iohn
           Knox
           called
           it
           so
           ,
           1554.
           
           And
           the
           same
           Homilies
           being
           set
           forth
           a
           fresh
           by
           Queene
           Elizabeth
           ,
           1562.
           will
           Dr.
           P.
           dare
           to
           charge
           the
           learned
           and
           pious
           compilers
           of
           them
           ,
           a
           pack
           of
           Puritans
           ,
           or
           (
           as
           *
           some
           other
           )
           NOVELL
           SABBATARIANS
           ?
           But
           this
           by
           the
           way
           )
           by
           which
           violation
           (
           I
           say
           )
           of
           the
           Sabbath
           or
           Lords
           day
           ,
           God
           is
           intolerably
           dishonoured
           ,
           and
           his
           Religion
           disgraced
           through
           outragious
           libertinisme
           :
           What
           an
           invention
           of
           Antichristian
           tyranny
           hath
           broken
           in
           at
           the
           opening
           of
           this
           great
           sluice
           ?
           What
           havock
           is
           made
           in
           our
           Church
           by
           sundry
           of
           the
           Hierarchy
           in
           suspending
           godly
           Ministers
           ,
           depriving
           them
           of
           their
           liberty
           ,
           livelyhood
           ,
           and
           Freeholds
           ,
           against
           all
           Lawes
           of
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           so
           as
           they
           ,
           their
           wives
           and
           children
           are
           exposed
           to
           beggery
           and
           all
           misery
           ,
           and
           their
           flocks
           to
           be
           devoured
           of
           the
           wolves
           ,
           and
           to
           become
           a
           prey
           to
           that
           roaring
           Lion
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           ,
           because
           they
           dare
           not
           offer
           violence
           to
           their
           consciences
           ,
           in
           doing
           that
           ,
           which
           should
           dishonour
           God
           ,
           indanger
           their
           owne
           ,
           and
           their
           peoples
           soules
           ,
           abase
           before
           God
           and
           man
           the
           authority
           and
           dignity
           to
           their
           Ministry
           ,
           condemne
           the
           innocent
           people
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           call
           the
           wicked
           righteous
           ,
           teach
           inferiours
           rebellion
           to
           their
           Superiours
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           word
           hasten
           the
           pulling
           downe
           of
           vengeance
           from
           heaven
           upon
           the
           Land
           ?
           O
           ye
           heavens
           ,
           stand
           amazed
           at
           this
           sight
           !
           Tell
           it
           not
           in
           Gath
           ,
           nor
           publish
           it
           in
           the
           Streets
           of
           Askelon
           ,
           least
           the
           daughters
           of
           the
           Philistims
           rejoyce
           ,
           least
           the
           daughters
           of
           the
           uncircumcised
           triumph
           .
           What
           could
           the
           Pope
           have
           done
           more
           ,
           then
           some
           of
           our
           Prelates
           have
           done
           in
           this
           kind
           ,
           for
           the
           darkening
           of
           the
           
           glory
           of
           Christs
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           setting
           up
           of
           Antichrists
           throne
           againe
           in
           this
           Land
           ?
           But
           our
           Lord
           sayth
           ,
           Ye
           shall
           know
           them
           by
           their
           fruits
           .
           Besides
           ,
           what
           impudency
           and
           impiety
           hath
           broken
           out
           from
           sundry
           aëry
           and
           ambitious
           spirits
           ,
           who
           have
           dared
           in
           their
           late
           published
           bookes
           upon
           bookes
           ,
           to
           belch
           out
           their
           blasphemies
           against
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           power
           ,
           purity
           ,
           and
           profession
           of
           the
           Religion
           established
           amongst
           us
           for
           so
           many
           yeares
           .
           Nor
           only
           is
           the
           floodgate
           of
           all
           profanenesse
           and
           impiety
           broken
           up
           ,
           in
           the
           violation
           of
           the
           4.
           commandement
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           5.
           also
           ,
           when
           as
           ,
           by
           occasion
           of
           the
           publishing
           of
           the
           sayd
           booke
           (
           which
           inhibits
           Magistrates
           and
           superiours
           ,
           to
           restraine
           or
           punish
           youth
           for
           taking
           such
           liberty
           on
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           as
           the
           booke
           alloweth
           ,
           and
           which
           all
           other
           books
           ,
           writings
           ,
           monuments
           of
           Fathers
           ,
           Councells
           ,
           Kings
           ,
           Emperours
           ,
           Divines
           ancient
           and
           moderne
           ,
           Protestants
           and
           Papists
           ,
           have
           universally
           with
           one
           vote
           and
           voyce
           cryed
           downe
           ,
           till
           now
           but
           yesterday
           a
           new
           generation
           of
           Maleferiati
           hath
           risen
           up
           ,
           out
           daring
           and
           defining
           the
           whole
           world
           ,
           and
           God
           himselfe
           )
           inferiour
           persons
           exalt
           themselves
           in
           high
           contempt
           against
           their
           Superiours
           ,
           as
           the
           common
           vulgar
           against
           the
           Magistrate
           and
           Minister
           ,
           servants
           against
           their
           Masters
           ,
           children
           against
           their
           Parents
           ,
           and
           wanton
           wives
           against
           their
           husbands
           ,
           which
           hath
           caused
           such
           outcryes
           and
           complaints
           of
           masters
           ,
           for
           their
           servants
           unbridled
           and
           uncontrowled
           outrage
           on
           the
           Lords
           day
           ;
           which
           must
           also
           in-jure
           them
           with
           pride
           and
           presumption
           of
           spirit
           the
           whole
           weeke
           after
           ,
           and
           so
           their
           whole
           life
           ,
           while
           like
           untamed
           colts
           they
           have
           thus
           learned
           to
           take
           the
           bitt
           betweene
           their
           teeth
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           runne
           a
           gallop
           into
           all
           excesse
           of
           riot
           .
           
           So
           as
           if
           the
           booke
           be
           not
           all
           the
           sooner
           called
           in
           ,
           and
           the
           authors
           of
           those
           late
           books
           against
           the
           sanctification
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           condignly
           punished
           ;
           and
           a
           speedy
           reformation
           hereofset
           on
           foot
           :
           how
           can
           we
           looke
           for
           a
           stay
           of
           the
           plague
           untill
           the
           Land
           be
           consumed
           ?
           Now
           the
           Lord
           make
           us
           wise
           ,
           to
           lay
           these
           things
           to
           heart
           ,
           least
           he
           teare
           in
           peeces
           ,
           and
           there
           be
           none
           to
           deliver
           .
           For
           as
           never
           any
           Christian
           Church
           hath
           produced
           such
           monstrous
           impieties
           :
           so
           never
           any
           Church
           hath
           bene
           the
           theater
           of
           such
           tragicall
           examples
           of
           divine
           wrath
           ,
           as
           our
           Land
           is
           like
           to
           be
           ,
           if
           we
           speedily
           repent
           not
           .
           Vnlesse
           therefore
           we
           repent
           ,
           we
           shall
           all
           likewise
           perish
           ,
           as
           these
           examples
           have
           done
           before
           us
           .
        
         
           Now
           for
           these
           so
           many
           ,
           so
           markable
           examples
           of
           Gods
           judgements
           inflicted
           upon
           the
           violaters
           and
           profaners
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           so
           short
           a
           time
           ,
           even
           since
           the
           booke
           for
           such
           sports
           was
           published
           ,
           we
           may
           thus
           argue
           and
           conclude
           .
        
         
           That
           ,
           for
           which
           the
           Lord
           inflicteth
           and
           executed
           so
           many
           notorious
           and
           severe
           judgements
           ,
           must
           needs
           be
           a
           notorious
           and
           hainous
           sin
           ,
           and
           so
           a
           breach
           of
           his
           holy
           commandement
           .
        
         
           But
           for
           the
           violation
           and
           profanation
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           by
           sports
           and
           pastimes
           ,
           or
           by
           servile
           works
           ,
           the
           Lord
           inflicteth
           and
           executeth
           many
           notorious
           and
           severe
           judgements
           ,
           as
           of
           late
           we
           have
           seene
           .
           Erg.
           the
           violation
           &
           profanation
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           is
           a
           notorious
           and
           heinous
           sin
           ,
           and
           so
           a
           breach
           of
           Gods
           holy
           commandement
           .
        
         
           The
           Major
           Proposition
           is
           a
           Maxime
           in
           Divinity
           .
           God
           punisheth
           no
           man
           ,
           but
           for
           sin
           :
           and
           sin
           is
           a
           transgression
           of
           Gods
           law
           :
           1.
           
           Ioh.
           3.
           4.
           
           For
           the
           Minor
           proposition
           ,
           it
           is
           so
           cleare
           ,
           as
           it
           cannot
           be
           denied
           ,
           except
           men
           will
           be
           senselesse
           
           and
           blind
           Atheists
           But
           they
           that
           feare
           God
           ,
           shall
           declare
           the
           worke
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           they
           shall
           wisely
           consider
           of
           his
           doing
           ;
           as
           Ps.
           64.
           9.
           
           Now
           if
           the
           violation
           or
           profanation
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           be
           a
           sin
           ,
           and
           so
           a
           transgression
           of
           Gods
           holy
           commandement
           :
           then
           of
           what
           holy
           cōmandement
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           4.
           
           And
           if
           of
           the
           4.
           then
           the
           holy
           keeping
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           for
           the
           Christian
           Sabbath
           ,
           is
           grounded
           upon
           the
           4.
           commandement
           ,
           and
           cōmanded
           in
           it
           ,
           as
           God
           hath
           abundantly
           testified
           by
           his
           many
           remarkable
           judgments
           ,
           even
           within
           this
           two
           yeares
           ,
           as
           hath
           bene
           shewed
           .
        
         
           Ob.
           But
           here
           some
           may
           object
           :
           God
           may
           punish
           men
           for
           the
           breach
           of
           humaine
           ordinances
           ,
           which
           are
           not
           the
           expresse
           commandements
           of
           God.
           So
           in
           this
           instance
           ,
           God
           may
           punish
           the
           violation
           or
           profanatiō
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           by
           such
           sportes
           ,
           or
           wakes
           ,
           as
           being
           a
           breach
           of
           a
           humaine
           ordinance
           ,
           or
           Ecclesiasticall
           institution
           .
        
         
           Answ.
           I
           answere
           it
           is
           true
           ,
           all
           humaine
           ordinances
           ,
           being
           not
           against
           Gods
           word
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           observed
           for
           conscience
           sake
           of
           Gods
           commandement
           ,
           commanding
           subjection
           to
           all
           ordinances
           of
           men
           for
           the
           Lords
           sake
           .
        
         
           And
           if
           it
           were
           a
           humaine
           ordinance
           ,
           to
           dedicate
           this
           day
           of
           holy
           rest
           to
           God
           by
           a
           perpetuall
           vow
           and
           Decree
           :
           then
           the
           greater
           is
           their
           sin
           ,
           that
           devoure
           that
           which
           is
           sanctified
           ,
           and
           after
           the
           vow
           make
           inquiry
           ,
           how
           it
           may
           be
           violated
           .
           So
           as
           they
           ly
           under
           the
           wrath
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           so
           doing
           ,
           and
           are
           lyable
           to
           the
           like
           judgements
           ,
           without
           repentance
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THE
           EPILOGVE
           .
        
         
           
             THus
             have
             I
             presented
             you
             with
             a
             large
             scene
             of
             late
             severall
             examples
             of
             Gods
             judgements
             upon
             Sabbath-breakers
             ,
             and
             such
          
           a
           disorderly
           people
           ,
           
             who
             have
             bene
             so
             presumptuous
             as
             to
             profane
             the
             Lords
             owne
             sacred
             day
             ,
             against
             the
             monitions
             of
             Gods
             faithfull
             Ministers
             ,
             with
             unnecessary
             labour
             ,
             vaine
             sports
             and
             idle
             pastimes
             .
             To
             which
             I
             might
             annexmany
             ancient
             Precedents
             of
             like
             nature
             which
             I
             pretermit
             ,
             onley
             one
             excepted
             ,
             which
             is
             remarkable
             .
          
           In
           the
           yeare
           of
           our
           Lord
           1583.
           in
           the
           famous
           Metropolis
           of
           this
           our
           Land
           ,
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           two
           Citizens
           the
           one
           leaving
           his
           wife
           ,
           the
           other
           her
           husband
           ,
           and
           committing
           adultery
           together
           on
           the
           Lords-day
           ,
           it
           pleased
           God
           to
           strike
           them
           dead
           with
           fire
           from
           heaven
           ,
           whilst
           they
           were
           in
           in
           the
           very
           act
           of
           uncleannes
           ,
           their
           bodies
           being
           left
           dead
           in
           the
           place
           halfe
           burnt
           up
           ,
           sending
           out
           a
           most
           loathsome
           savour
           ,
           for
           a
           spectacle
           of
           Gods
           avenging
           justice
           unto
           others
           ,
           to
           teach
           them
           both
           to
           shun
           the
           sin
           of
           adultery
           and
           of
           Sabbath-breaking
           too
           ,
           
             and
             to
             take
             heed
             how
             they
             commit
             any
             sin
             or
             wickednesse
             at
             any
             time
             and
             especially
             on
             Gods
             sacred
             day
             ,
             or
             how
             they
             follow
             dauncing
             ,
             may-games
             ,
             morisdaunces
             ,
             ales
             ,
             and
             such
             lascivious
             pastimes
             ,
          
           b
           which
           commonly
           end
           in
           whoredome
           ,
           adultery
           as
           being
           strong
           allurements
           thereunto
           ,
           
             this
             judgment
             was
             so
             famous
             and
             remarkable
             ,
             that
          
           Laurentius
           Bayenlinke
           ,
           
             a
             forraine
             Historian
             ,
             in
             his
          
           Opus
           Chronologicum
           orbis
           universi
           Antwerp
           .
           1611.
           p.
           110.
           
             hath
             thought
             good
             to
             register
             it
             to
             posterity
             ;
             if
             any
             deeme
             those
             judgements
             strange
             ,
             or
             that
             God
             should
             inflict
             such
             punishments
             on
             this
             sin
             ,
             which
             some
             now
             justify
             ,
             as
             a
             part
             of
             Christian
             liberty
             ,
             both
             in
             the
             Pulpit
             &
             in
          
           c
           printed
           works
           .
           
             I
             shall
             only
             intreat
             such
             to
             remember
             ,
             that
             the
             whole
          
           
           Convocation
           house
           ,
           all
           the
           Archbishops
           ,
           Bishops
           ,
           Archdeacons
           ,
           and
           greatest
           Clerks
           of
           England
           in
           their
           booke
           intituled
           THE
           INSTITVTION
           OF
           A
           CHRISTIAN
           MAN
           ,
           subscribed
           with
           all
           their
           names
           ,
           and
           dedicated
           to
           K.
           Hen.
           8.
           an
           .
           1537.
           and
           K.
           Hen.
           8.
           himselfe
           in
           his
           owne
           booke
           inscribed
           A
           necessary
           doctrine
           and
           erudition
           for
           any
           Christian
           man
           set
           forth
           by
           the
           Kings
           Majesty
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           the
           advise
           and
           approbation
           of
           the
           Lords
           spirituall
           and
           temporall
           ,
           and
           Nether
           house
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           an
           .
           1543.
           
             and
             by
          
           the
           King
           himselfe
           ,
           dedicated
           under
           his
           name
           and
           title
           to
           all
           his
           faithfull
           and
           loving
           subjects
           ,
           and
           published
           by
           vertue
           of
           the
           Statute
           ,
           of
           32.
           
           H.
           8.
           c.
           26.
           in
           the
           exposition
           of
           the
           4.
           
           Commandement
           ,
           
             have
             in
             the
             very
             dawning
             of
             Reformation
             injoyned
          
           all
           Bishops
           and
           Preachers
           diligently
           to
           instruct
           and
           teach
           the
           people
           ,
           committed
           to
           their
           spirituall
           charge
           (
           
             and
             I
             wish
             that
             some
             Bishops
             would
             now
             doe
             it
          
           )
           that
           against
           this
           commandement
           generally
           do
           offend
           all
           they
           ,
           which
           having
           no
           lawfull
           impediment
           ,
           doe
           not
           give
           themselves
           upon
           the
           holy
           day
           to
           heare
           the
           word
           of
           God
           to
           remember
           the
           benefits
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           give
           thanks
           for
           the
           same
           ,
           to
           pray
           ,
           to
           exercise
           such
           holy
           works
           both
           publikely
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           privately
           in
           their
           houses
           ,
           as
           be
           appointed
           for
           such
           holy
           dayes
           :
           but
           (
           as
           commonly
           is
           used
           )
           passe
           the
           time
           either
           in
           idlenesse
           ,
           in
           gluttony
           ,
           in
           riot
           or
           other
           vaine
           and
           idle
           pastime
           ,
           DOE
           *
           BREAKE
           THIS
           COMMANDEMENT
           .
           For
           surely
           such
           keeping
           of
           holy
           day
           ,
           is
           not
           according
           to
           the
           intent
           &
           meaning
           of
           this
           cōmandement
           ,
           (
           
             as
             some
             new
          
           *
           Doctors
           
             now
             dogmatize
          
           )
           but
           after
           the
           usage
           &
           Custome
           of
           the
           Iewes
           ,
           (
           
             though
             some
             late
             Rabbies
             would
             make
             the
             world
             beleeve
          
           that
           the
           strict
           sanctification
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           and
           the
           restraining
           of
           vaine
           Sports
           and
           Pastimes
           on
           it
           ,
           is
           Iewish
           ,
           when
           a
           Ignatius
           ,
           
           b
           Augustine
           ,
           c
           Cirillus
           ,
           Alexandrinus
           ,
           d
           Ephraim
           ,
           Syrus
           ,
           e
           Socrates
           ,
           Scholasticus
           ,
           f
           Theodosius
           the
           Emperor
           ,
           g
           Beda
           ,
           Vincentius
           Belvacensis
           ,
           
             and
             generally
             all
             authors
             since
          
           ,
           have
           branded
           dauncing
           ,
           sports
           ,
           and
           recreations
           on
           the
           Lords
           day
           both
           as
           jewish
           and
           heathenish
           ▪
           and
           i
           D
           r
           Iohn
           White
           in
           his
           way
           to
           the
           true
           Church
           ,
           defended
           &
           published
           by
           his
           elder
           brother
           ,
           D
           r
           Fr.
           White
           now
           Bp.
           of
           Ely
           ,
           k
           Mr
           Zanchie
           ,
           l
           Wolfg.
           Musculus
           ,
           m
           M
           r
           Iohn
           Sprint
           ,
           as
           Popish
           and
           licentious
           ;
           tending
           to
           the
           overthrow
           of
           piety
           ,
           and
           desolation
           of
           publike
           Governement
           ,
           )
           and
           doth
           not
           please
           God
           ,
           but
           doth
           much
           more
           offend
           him
           ,
           
             and
             provoke
             his
             indignation
             and
             wrath
             towards
             us
             .
          
           For
           as
           n
           S.
           Augustine
           saith
           of
           the
           Iewes
           ,
           they
           should
           be
           better
           occupied
           ,
           labouring
           in
           the
           feilds
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           at
           plough
           ,
           
           then
           to
           be
           idle
           at
           home
           .
           And
           women
           should
           better
           bestow
           their
           time
           in
           spinning
           of
           wool
           ,
           then
           on
           the
           Sabbath-day
           to
           loose
           their
           time
           in
           leaping
           or
           dauncing
           ,
           and
           other
           idle
           wantonnesse
           .
           
             Now
             if
             the
             whole
             Clergy
             ,
             King
             ,
             State
             ,
             and
             Parliament
             were
             so
             quicke-sighted
             as
             in
             those
             times
             of
             darknes
             to
             see
             a
          
           Lords
           day
           Sabboth
           
             in
             the
             4.
             commandement
             ,
             to
             be
          
           Wholly
           ,
           onely
           and
           intirely
           dedicated
           to
           God
           and
           his
           true
           worship
           ,
           
             as
             they
             there
             teach
             ;
             and
             so
             pious
             as
             to
             beleeve
             ,
             that
             the
             exercise
             of
             vaine
             idle
             sports
             ,
             Pastimes
             ,
             and
             dauncing
             on
             it
             ,
          
           did
           much
           more
           offend
           God
           ,
           then
           ploughing
           or
           spinning
           ,
           and
           provoke
           his
           wrath
           and
           indignation
           towards
           us
           ;
           
             no
             wonder
             if
             we
             in
             the
             cleare
             sunshine
             of
             the
             Gospell
             behold
             so
             many
             sad
             spectacles
             of
             his
             wrath
             ,
             and
             indignation
             against
             the
             offendors
             of
             this
             commandement
             in
             this
             kind
             ,
             to
             teach
             these
          
           blind
           Seers
           ,
           and
           seducing
           guides
           (
           as
           o
           Bp.
           Latimer
           
             long
             since
             named
             them
             )
             that
             God
             is
             now
             as
             jealous
             for
             the
             sanctification
             of
             his
             day
             ,
             and
             as
             much
             offended
             with
             the
             profanesse
             of
             it
             ,
             and
             infringers
             of
             the
             fourth
             Commandement
             ,
             by
             unnecessary
          
           
           
             labours
             ,
             travell
             ,
             or
             idle
             pastimes
             ,
             as
             he
             had
             bene
             in
             any
             age
             ,
             if
             not
             rather
             much
             more
             ,
             in
             regard
             of
             the
             great
             light
             of
             the
             Gospell
             ,
             that
             hath
             for
             these
             many
             yeares
             so
             clearly
             shined
             amongst
             us
             ,
             which
             if
             they
             will
             not
             yet
             beleeve
             ,
             I
             shall
             at
             once
             close
             up
             their
             mouthes
             with
             the
             resolution
             of
             our
             Homilies
             ratified
             by
          
           p
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           
             and
             the
          
           35.
           
           Article
           of
           our
           Church
           ,
           
             to
             which
             these
             Novellers
             have
             subscribed
             ,
             and
          
           whose
           Patronage
           they
           pretend
           against
           all
           q
           novell
           Sabbatarians
           :
           But
           alas
           (
           saith
           r
           
             the
             Homily
          
           )
           all
           these
           notwithstanding
           (
           
             and
             I
             pray
             God
             ,
             I
             may
             not
             still
          
           say
           notwithstanding
           
             all
             these
             fresh
             examples
          
           )
           it
           is
           lamentable
           to
           see
           the
           wicked
           boldnesse
           of
           those
           ,
           that
           will
           be
           counted
           Gods
           people
           who
           passe
           nothing
           at
           all
           of
           keeping
           and
           hallowing
           the
           Sunday
           .
           And
           these
           people
           are
           of
           two
           sorts
           ,
           the
           one
           sort
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           businesse
           to
           doe
           ,
           though
           there
           be
           no
           extreame
           need
           ,
           they
           must
           not
           spare
           for
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           they
           must
           ride
           journeyes
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           they
           must
           drive
           and
           carry
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           they
           must
           come
           and
           ferry
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           they
           must
           buy
           and
           sell
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           they
           must
           keepe
           markets
           and
           faires
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           finally
           they
           use
           all
           dayes
           alike
           ,
           worke
           dayes
           and
           holy
           dayes
           are
           all
           one
           .
           The
           other
           sort
           is
           WORSE
           (
           so
           the
           Homily
           
             against
             these
          
           ‡
           new
           masters
           ,
           
             who
             make
          
           labour
           in
           mens
           callings
           on
           the
           Lords
           day
           WORSE
           and
           more
           unlawfull
           then
           dauncing
           &
           Pastimes
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           judgement
           of
           s
           S.
           Augustine
           ,
           Gregory
           the
           great
           t
           Alensis
           and
           all
           u
           writers
           since
           who
           unavoce
           resolve
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           better
           and
           more
           lawfull
           to
           plough
           and
           spin
           on
           the
           Sabbath-day
           ,
           then
           to
           daunce
           :
           )
           for
           allthough
           they
           will
           not
           travell
           and
           labour
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           as
           they
           doe
           on
           the
           worke
           day
           ,
           yet
           they
           will
           not
           rest
           
             in
             holinesse
          
           as
           God
           commandeth
           ;
           but
           they
           rest
           in
           ungodlinesse
           and
           filthinesse
           ,
           prauncing
           in
           their
           pride
           ,
           pranking
           and
           pricking
           ,
           pointing
           and
           painting
           
           themselves
           to
           be
           gorgeous
           and
           gay
           ,
           they
           rest
           in
           excesse
           and
           superfluity
           ,
           in
           gluttony
           and
           drunkennesse
           (
           as
           they
           
             doe
             at
             wakes
             ,
             Ales
             ,
             and
             May-poles
          
           )
           like
           ratts
           and
           swine
           ,
           they
           rest
           in
           brawling
           and
           rayling
           ,
           in
           quarrelling
           and
           fighting
           ,
           they
           rest
           in
           wantonnes
           (
           
             and
             what
             else
             is
             dauncing
             ,
             moris-dauncing
             ,
             maygaming
             &c.
          
           )
           into-ish
           talking
           ,
           in
           filthy
           fleshlines
           ,
           so
           that
           it
           doth
           too
           evidently
           appeare
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           more
           dishonoured
           and
           the
           devill
           better
           served
           on
           Sunday
           ,
           then
           upon
           all
           the
           dayes
           of
           the
           weeke
           besides
           .
           And
           I
           assure
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           beasts
           that
           are
           commanded
           to
           rest
           on
           the
           Sunday
           ,
           honour
           God
           better
           then
           this
           kind
           of
           people
           ,
           for
           they
           offend
           not
           God
           ,
           they
           breake
           not
           their
           holy
           dayes
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           O
           ye
           people
           of
           God
           ,
           lay
           your
           hands
           upon
           your
           hearts
           ,
           repent
           and
           amend
           this
           grievous
           and
           dangerous
           wickednesse
           ,
           stand
           in
           awe
           of
           the
           commandement
           of
           God
           ,
           gladly
           followe
           the
           example
           of
           God
           himselfe
           ,
           be
           not
           disobedient
           to
           the
           godly
           order
           of
           Christs
           Church
           used
           and
           kept
           from
           the
           Apostles
           times
           untill
           this
           day
           ,
           feare
           the
           displeasure
           and
           just
           plagues
           of
           Allmighty
           God
           if
           ye
           be
           negligent
           ,
           and
           forbeare
           not
           labouring
           and
           travailing
           on
           the
           *
           SABBATH
           DAY
           ,
           and
           doe
           not
           resort
           together
           to
           celebrate
           and
           magnifie
           Gods
           blessed
           name
           in
           quiet
           holinesse
           and
           godly
           reverence
           .
           
             I
             shall
             conclude
             all
             with
             the
             words
             of
             the
             Councell
             of
          
           Paris
           under
           Lewis
           and
           Lotharius
           .
           
             Anno
             829.
             li.
             1.
             c.
             50.
             
             &
             .
             li.
             3.
             c.
             5.
             
             &
             19.
             
             Multa
             alia
             terribilia
             judicia
             &c.
          
           Many
           other
           terrible
           judgments
           have
           bene
           ,
           and
           hetherto
           are
           ,
           whereby
           is
           declared
           how
           much
           God
           is
           offended
           with
           the
           dishonour
           of
           this
           day
           .
           Wherefore
           the
           Imperiall
           highnesse
           is
           specially
           to
           be
           implored
           of
           the
           ‡
           Preists
           ,
           that
           this
           power
           ordained
           of
           God
           for
           the
           honour
           and
           reverence
           of
           so
           great
           a
           day
           ,
           may
           put
           a
           feare
           into
           all
           men
           ,
           least
           none
           of
           what
           condiō
           soever
           
           presume
           on
           this
           holy
           and
           venerable
           day
           to
           use
           these
           and
           the
           likesports
           ,
           dauncings
           and
           leapings
           hereafter
           ,
           because
           while
           they
           doe
           these
           things
           ,
           they
           both
           darken
           the
           glory
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           give
           occasion
           to
           the
           blasphemers
           of
           Christs
           name
           the
           more
           to
           dishonour
           him
           .
        
         
           We
           require
           also
           ,
           and
           earnestly
           intreat
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           observation
           of
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           a
           longe
           time
           beseeched
           you
           ,
           you
           use
           due
           care
           that
           unlesse
           great
           necessity
           constraine
           you
           ,
           free
           your selves
           on
           that
           day
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           may
           be
           from
           worldly
           cares
           and
           sollicitousnesse
           .
           And
           that
           which
           becometh
           the
           honour
           of
           so
           great
           a
           day
           ,
           that
           both
           you
           your selves
           doe
           it
           ,
           and
           by
           your
           example
           doe
           teach
           and
           compell
           yours
           to
           doe
           it
           .
        
         
           We
           wholsomly
           admonish
           all
           faithfull
           people
           ,
           that
           they
           give
           due
           honour
           and
           reverence
           to
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           because
           the
           dishonour
           of
           this
           day
           doth
           both
           much
           swarue
           and
           abhorre
           from
           Christian
           religion
           ,
           and
           doth
           without
           doubt
           procure
           the
           perill
           of
           soules
           to
           the
           violaters
           thereof
           ;
           
             And
             with
             that
             of
             the
          
           Councell
           of
           Burges
           ,
           
             an
             .
             1582.
             apud
             Bachellum
             Decreta
             Ecclesiae
             Gall.
             l.
             4.
             
             Tit.
             7.
             c.
             21.
             
          
           Allthough
           Lords
           dayes
           and
           holy
           dayes
           are
           instituted
           only
           for
           this
           purpose
           ,
           that
           faithfull
           Christians
           abstaining
           from
           externall
           and
           gainfull
           works
           ,
           might
           more
           freely
           and
           with
           greater
           piety
           give
           themselves
           to
           divine
           worship
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           meditation
           of
           the
           infinite
           benefits
           of
           Gods
           goodnesse
           towards
           mankinde
           ,
           and
           so
           being
           WHOLLY
           taken
           up
           with
           the
           wholsome
           duties
           of
           religion
           ,
           should
           diligently
           beware
           as
           Ignatius
           admonisheth
           the
           Philippians
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           not
           abuse
           holy
           dayes
           with
           any
           disgrace
           or
           injuries
           ,
           yet
           notwithstanding
           in
           our
           times
           ,
           it
           preposterously
           and
           usually
           comes
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           both
           solemne
           and
           religious
           
           dayes
           are
           not
           only
           spent
           in
           transacting
           ,
           unlawfull
           and
           secular
           businesse
           ,
           but
           likewise
           in
           luxury
           ,
           lasciviousnesse
           ,
           prohibited
           sports
           and
           pastimes
           Revells
           ,
           and
           the
           exercising
           of
           other
           wickednesses
           ,
           whereupon
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           greatest
           part
           ,
           so
           many
           calamities
           wherewith
           we
           are
           so
           long
           since
           consumed
           are
           justly
           inflicted
           on
           us
           by
           God
           ,
           who
           is
           incensed
           against
           us
           by
           so
           great
           wickednes
           .
           To
           appease
           whose
           present
           anger
           and
           likewise
           to
           avert
           his
           greater
           indignation
           hanging
           over
           our
           heads
           :
           we
           command
           all
           Parish
           Priests
           of
           our
           Province
           ,
           that
           they
           frequently
           and
           seriously
           admonish
           the
           people
           ,
           that
           on
           Lords
           dayes
           they
           not
           only
           keepe
           themselves
           from
           all
           prohibited
           works
           ,
           but
           likewise
           that
           they
           be
           
             ex
             animo
          
           cordially
           and
           religiously
           ,
           present
           at
           all
           sacred
           misteries
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           preaching
           of
           Gods
           word
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           pretermit
           not
           the
           works
           of
           piety
           in
           releiving
           the
           poore
           ,
           comforting
           the
           afflicted
           ,
           and
           in
           doing
           other
           pious
           things
           ,
           wherein
           Christian
           profession
           and
           charity
           do
           most
           of
           all
           shine
           forth
           .
           And
           we
           exhort
           all
           Magistrates
           according
           to
           their
           and
           our
           duety
           ,
           as
           farre
           as
           possibly
           we
           may
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           take
           care
           ,
           that
           those
           holy
           and
           solemne
           dayes
           should
           be
           holily
           and
           piously
           celebrated
           ,
           this
           being
           principally
           in
           their
           power
           ,
           and
           belonging
           to
           their
           charge
           .
           Neither
           verily
           can
           any
           manner
           of
           Governing
           the
           common
           wealth
           ,
           be
           better
           or
           more
           praise
           worthy
           then
           that
           which
           gives
           the
           first
           place
           and
           care
           to
           divine
           worship
           and
           religion
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           Christian
           Reader
           ,
           as
           these
           examples
           have
           beene
           displaced
           ,
           so
           one
           of
           
           them
           hath
           beene
           omitted
           in
           the
           printing
           ,
           which
           because
           it
           is
           notable
           and
           worthy
           consideration
           ,
           I
           shall
           here
           adde
           for
           a
           conclusion
           .
           M
           
           r.
           
             William
             Noy
          
           ,
           that
           great
           Gamaliel
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           his
           Majesties
           late
           Aturney
           generall
           ,
           as
           he
           had
           a
           great
           hand
           in
           compiling
           and
           republishing
           the
           late
           Declaration
           for
           pastimes
           on
           the
           Lords
           day
           (
           thrust
           out
           by
           his
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           Prelates
           practise
           ,
           to
           thwart
           Iudge
           Richardsons
           good
           order
           for
           the
           suppressing
           of
           Wakes
           and
           Revels
           in
           Somersetshire
           ,
           and
           the
           Iustices
           of
           that
           Shires
           Petition
           to
           his
           Majesty
           for
           the
           continuance
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           way
           for
           a
           Starchamber
           censure
           against
           M
           
           r.
           Prynne
           )
           so
           he
           eagerly
           persecuted
           this
           wel-deserving
           Gentleman
           of
           his
           own
           Profession
           and
           Society
           ,
           (
           to
           whom
           he
           was
           formerly
           a
           friend
           in
           appearance
           ,
           but
           an
           inveterate
           enemy
           in
           truth
           )
           for
           his
           Histrio-Mastix
           ,
           compiled
           onely
           out
           of
           the
           words
           and
           sentences
           of
           other
           approved
           Authors
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           against
           the
           use
           and
           exercise
           of
           Stage-plaies
           ,
           Enterludes
           ,
           Morisdances
           ,
           Maygames
           ,
           May-poles
           ,
           Wakes
           ,
           lascivious
           mixt
           Dancing
           ,
           and
           other
           Ethnick
           pastimes
           ,
           condemned
           in
           all
           ages
           ,
           without
           any
           thought
           or
           suspition
           of
           giving
           the
           least
           offence
           ,
           either
           to
           the
           Kings
           most
           excellent
           Majesty
           ,
           the
           Queene
           ,
           or
           State
           ,
           as
           he
           averred
           in
           his
           Answer
           upon
           Oath
           .
           And
           although
           this
           book
           was
           written
           4.
           yeares
           ,
           licensed
           almost
           three
           ,
           printed
           fully
           off
           a
           quarter
           of
           a
           yeare
           ,
           and
           published
           6.
           weekes
           before
           the
           Queenes
           Majesties
           *
           Pastorall
           ,
           against
           which
           it
           was
           falsely
           voiced
           to
           have
           beene
           principally
           written
           ;
           diligently
           perused
           and
           licensed
           by
           M
           
           r.
           
             Thomas
             Buckner
          
           the
           then
           Archbishop
           of
           Canterbury
           his
           Chaplaine
           ,
           both
           before
           and
           after
           it
           came
           from
           the
           Presse
           ,
           entred
           in
           the
           Stationers
           Hall
           under
           the
           Wardens
           hand
           ,
           printed
           publikely
           in
           three
           authorized
           Printing-houses
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           controll
           ,
           and
           published
           by
           the
           said
           Licensers
           direction
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           nothing
           new-printed
           in
           it
           ,
           as
           appeared
           upon
           oath
           at
           the
           hearing
           :
           and
           although
           M
           
           r.
           Noy
           himselfe
           (
           to
           whom
           he
           presented
           one
           of
           the
           Bookes
           )
           upon
           the
           first
           reading
           of
           it
           ,
           commended
           it
           ,
           thanked
           him
           for
           it
           ,
           oft
           affirmed
           that
           he
           saw
           no
           hurt
           in
           it
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           hearing
           confessed
           ,
           that
           the
           worst
           and
           most
           dangerous
           phrase
           and
           passage
           in
           it
           ,
           might
           have
           a
           good
           and
           faire
           construction
           ,
           and
           Schollers
           would
           all
           take
           it
           in
           a
           good
           sence
           ;
           yet
           he
           handled
           the
           matter
           so
           (
           by
           *
           suppressing
           the
           Gentlemans
           exhibits
           and
           defence
           ,
           wresting
           his
           words
           and
           meaning
           ,
           refusing
           to
           discover
           the
           particulars
           of
           the
           booke
           on
           which
           he
           would
           insist
           ,
           though
           ordered
           so
           to
           doe
           by
           the
           Court
           ,
           it
           being
           else
           impossible
           to
           instruct
           Counsell
           how
           to
           make
           a
           reply
           ,
           and
           by
           tampering
           under
           hand
           with
           some
           of
           his
           
           Counsell
           by
           no
           meanes
           to
           make
           any
           justification
           or
           defence
           to
           cleare
           his
           innocency
           though
           the
           party
           earnestly
           intreated
           ,
           and
           gave
           them
           instructions
           to
           the
           contrary
           )
           that
           the
           poore
           Gentleman
           at
           last
           received
           the
           heaviest
           y
           censure
           that
           this
           latter
           age
           hath
           knowne
           ,
           all
           circumstances
           considered
           ,
           being
           expelled
           the
           Vniversity
           of
           Oxford
           and
           
             Lincolnes
             Inne
          
           ,
           thrust
           from
           his
           profession
           in
           which
           hee
           never
           offended
           ,
           fined
           5000.
           pound
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           ordered
           to
           stand
           on
           two
           severall
           Pillories
           ,
           and
           there
           to
           lose
           both
           his
           eares
           ,
           his
           bookes
           to
           be
           there
           burned
           before
           him
           ,
           and
           to
           suffer
           imprisonment
           during
           life
           besides
           .
           Which
           Sentence
           thought
           by
           most
           that
           heard
           the
           cause
           to
           bee
           meant
           only
           in
           terrorem
           ,
           without
           any
           intention
           at
           al
           of
           execution
           ,
           being
           respited
           for
           above
           three
           moneths
           space
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           manner
           remitted
           by
           the
           Queenes
           most
           gracious
           mediation
           ;
           was
           yet
           by
           this
           Atturnies
           and
           a
           great
           Prelates
           importunity
           ,
           beyond
           all
           expectation
           suddenly
           and
           severely
           executed
           ,
           without
           any
           the
           least
           mitigation
           ,
           few
           of
           the
           Lords
           so
           much
           as
           knowing
           of
           it
           .
           The
           Gentleman
           hereupon
           is
           set
           on
           the
           Pillory
           at
           Westminster
           and
           there
           lost
           an
           eare
           ;
           Mr.
           Noy
           like
           a
           joyfull
           Spectator
           laughes
           at
           his
           sufferings
           ,
           and
           this
           his
           great
           exploit
           he
           had
           brought
           to
           passe
           ,
           which
           divers
           there
           present
           observed
           and
           condemned
           in
           him
           .
           The
           Gentleman
           like
           an
           harmelesse
           Lambe
           tooke
           all
           with
           such
           patience
           ,
           that
           hee
           not
           so
           much
           as
           once
           opened
           his
           mouth
           to
           let
           fall
           any
           one
           word
           of
           discontent
           .
           Yet
           that
           just
           God
           and
           Soveraigne
           Lord
           of
           heaven
           and
           earth
           ,
           z
           
             Who
             beholdeth
             mischiefe
             and
             spite
             to
             requite
             it
             with
             his
             hand
             ,
          
           and
           avengeth
           the
           innocent
           bloud
           of
           his
           servants
           ,
           took
           this
           his
           mirth
           and
           malice
           so
           hainously
           ,
           that
           the
           same
           day
           (
           as
           some
           about
           him
           ,
           and
           of
           his
           owne
           society
           reported
           )
           he
           who
           thus
           shed
           his
           brothers
           and
           companions
           bloud
           ,
           by
           the
           just
           hand
           of
           God
           fell
           a
           voyding
           and
           pissing
           out
           his
           owne
           :
           which
           so
           amazed
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           used
           all
           meanes
           he
           could
           to
           smother
           it
           from
           the
           world
           ,
           charging
           his
           Laundres
           ,
           and
           those
           about
           him
           ,
           not
           to
           speake
           of
           it
           ,
           refusing
           to
           acquaint
           his
           Physicians
           with
           it
           :
           hereupon
           hee
           growes
           very
           palid
           and
           ill
           ,
           the
           Physicians
           wonder
           at
           it
           ;
           he
           complaines
           to
           them
           onely
           of
           the
           gravell
           and
           stone
           in
           his
           kidnies
           ,
           till
           at
           last
           he
           grew
           so
           ill
           with
           this
           divine
           stroke
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           forced
           to
           disclose
           his
           griefe
           to
           them
           ,
           yet
           so
           as
           they
           must
           faithfully
           promise
           to
           disclose
           it
           to
           no
           man
           ,
           for
           feare
           people
           should
           say
           it
           were
           a
           just
           judgement
           of
           God
           on
           him
           for
           shedding
           Mr.
           Prynnes
           blood
           :
           But
           God
           would
           not
           have
           this
           secret
           long
           concealed
           ;
           his
           Laundres
           ,
           men
           ,
           &
           some
           Gentlemen
           of
           his
           society
           discover
           and
           talke
           of
           it
           :
           he
           much
           vexed
           in
           mind
           ,
           in
           stead
           of
           repenting
           of
           what
           
           he
           had
           done
           ,
           and
           seeking
           to
           right
           the
           party
           wronged
           for
           his
           irreparable
           dammage
           ,
           like
           a
           Hart
           or
           Beast
           once
           mortally
           wounded
           ,
           proceeds
           on
           in
           his
           former
           fury
           ,
           seeks
           to
           bring
           the
           poore
           distressed
           Gentleman
           into
           fresh
           trouble
           &
           a
           further
           censure
           ,
           brings
           him
           Oretenus
           ,
           into
           the
           Starchamber
           ,
           reviles
           him
           with
           all
           maner
           of
           uncivell
           words
           ,
           moves
           to
           have
           him
           close
           prisoner
           among
           the
           rogues
           in
           Newgate
           ,
           sels
           his
           Chamber
           as
           forfeited
           to
           the
           House
           by
           his
           expulsion
           ,
           seiseth
           his
           books
           :
           and
           when
           as
           the
           Court
           would
           not
           grant
           his
           unreasonable
           malitious
           motion
           ,
           above
           5.
           weeks
           after
           in
           the
           long
           vacation
           ,
           when
           most
           of
           the
           Lords
           were
           gone
           ,
           and
           his
           Majesty
           in
           his
           progresse
           ,
           drawes
           up
           an
           order
           of
           his
           own
           making
           in
           Starchamber
           for
           the
           Gentlemans
           close
           imprisonment
           (
           the
           last
           order
           he
           ever
           made
           )
           caused
           the
           register
           to
           enter
           it
           ,
           and
           sends
           it
           to
           the
           Tower
           to
           be
           executed
           the
           same
           day
           he
           went
           to
           Tunbridge
           waters
           ,
           without
           the
           Lords
           or
           Courts
           privity
           .
           The
           day
           following
           drinking
           of
           those
           waters
           he
           was
           in
           miserable
           torture
           ,
           in
           so
           much
           that
           most
           dispaired
           of
           his
           life
           ,
           and
           some
           reported
           he
           was
           dead
           :
           and
           hearing
           there
           ,
           that
           his
           disease
           of
           voyding
           bloud
           was
           then
           publikely
           known
           and
           talked
           of
           in
           London
           ,
           he
           was
           so
           vexed
           at
           it
           ,
           that
           hee
           fell
           out
           with
           his
           Physicians
           and
           servants
           ,
           rayling
           on
           them
           like
           a
           frantick
           man
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           betrayed
           him
           ,
           and
           disclosed
           his
           secrets
           ;
           Yea
           it
           so
           fretted
           and
           gnawed
           his
           heart
           &
           conscience
           ,
           that
           it
           made
           his
           very
           heart
           &
           intrails
           to
           perish
           :
           and
           about
           a
           fortnight
           after
           brought
           him
           to
           his
           end
           .
           Being
           opened
           after
           his
           death
           ,
           ther
           was
           not
           a
           drop
           of
           bloud
           found
           in
           his
           body
           ,
           for
           he
           had
           voided
           al
           out
           before
           ,
           his
           false
           malicious
           hard
           heart
           with
           inward
           fretting
           &
           vexing
           was
           so
           consumed
           &
           shrinked
           up
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           like
           an
           old
           rotten
           leather
           purse
           or
           meere
           scurfe
           ,
           the
           Physicians
           never
           seeing
           the
           like
           before
           ,
           his
           flesh
           and
           kidnies
           were
           as
           black
           as
           an
           hat
           ,
           his
           intrails
           (
           except
           his
           lungs
           onely
           )
           all
           putred
           ;
           and
           his
           carkas
           a
           miserable
           spectacle
           ,
           but
           no
           stone
           that
           could
           trouble
           him
           was
           found
           about
           him
           :
           his
           funerall
           according
           to
           his
           desire
           was
           so
           private
           ,
           that
           there
           were
           hardly
           Gentlemen
           enough
           to
           carry
           him
           to
           his
           grave
           ,
           but
           that
           some
           came
           in
           by
           accident
           .
           His
           clients
           the
           Players
           ,
           for
           whom
           he
           had
           done
           knight-service
           ,
           to
           requite
           his
           kindnes
           ,
           the
           next
           Terme
           following
           make
           him
           the
           subject
           of
           a
           merry
           Comedy
           ,
           stiled
           ;
           
             A
             Projector
             lately
             dead
          
           ;
           wherein
           they
           bring
           him
           in
           his
           Lawyers
           robes
           upon
           the
           Stage
           ,
           and
           openly
           dissecting
           him
           ,
           find
           100.
           
           Proclamations
           in
           his
           head
           ,
           a
           bundle
           of
           old
           motheaten
           records
           in
           his
           maw
           ,
           halfe
           a
           barrell
           of
           new
           white
           sope
           in
           his
           belly
           ,
           which
           made
           him
           to
           scoure
           so
           much
           ,
           and
           yet
           ,
           say
           they
           ,
           he
           is
           still
           very
           black
           &
           foule
           within
           .
           And
           as
           if
           this
           voiding
           of
           all
           his
           owne
           blood
           ,
           &
           publike
           disgrace
           on
           the
           Stage
           were
           
           not
           sufficient
           to
           expiate
           the
           wronged
           Gentlemans
           bloud
           &
           infamy
           :
           himselfe
           in
           his
           last
           will
           layes
           a
           brand
           on
           his
           owne
           son
           and
           heire
           :
           bequeathing
           all
           his
           goods
           and
           lands
           not
           therein
           given
           to
           others
           ,
           to
           Edward
           his
           eldest
           son
           to
           be
           scattered
           and
           spent
           ,
           
             nec
             de
             eo
             melius
             speravi
          
           :
           enough
           to
           make
           a
           dutifull
           child
           turne
           unthrift
           ,
           &
           a
           signe
           of
           a
           dispayring
           man.
           Which
           son
           of
           his
           upon
           his
           own
           challenge
           &
           rashnes
           hath
           since
           beene
           slaine
           in
           a
           duell
           in
           France
           by
           Captaine
           Byron
           ,
           who
           escaped
           scotfree
           and
           had
           his
           pardon
           .
           Thus
           hath
           God
           punished
           bloud
           with
           bloud
           :
           thus
           hath
           he
           dealt
           with
           one
           of
           the
           chiefe
           occasioners
           of
           this
           *
           Declaration
           ,
           &
           burner
           of
           that
           book
           ,
           which
           learnedly
           manifested
           the
           unlawfulnes
           of
           the
           severall
           sports
           and
           pastimes
           countenanced
           in
           it
           ,
           especially
           on
           the
           Lords
           own
           sacred
           day
           out
           of
           old
           and
           new
           Writers
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           &
           specified
           divers
           judgements
           of
           God
           upon
           the
           authors
           ,
           actors
           ,
           &
           spectators
           of
           them
           ,
           not
           unworthy
           consideration
           in
           these
           sable
           times
           of
           plagues
           and
           judgements
           .
           O
           consider
           this
           &
           all
           other
           the
           foregoing
           examples
           ,
           ye
           impious
           Prelates
           ,
           that
           so
           far
           forget
           the
           Lord
           ,
           as
           still
           to
           silence
           ,
           excommunicate
           &
           persecute
           godly
           Ministers
           for
           not
           reading
           this
           Declaration
           (
           though
           there
           be
           no
           Canon
           ,
           Statute
           ,
           Law
           or
           Precept
           extant
           that
           requires
           it
           )
           to
           the
           ruine
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           their
           poore
           innocent
           peoples
           soules
           :
           ye
           that
           in
           these
           dolefull
           daies
           of
           Plague
           and
           pestilence
           suppresse
           ,
           neglect
           all
           publike
           fasting
           ,
           preaching
           and
           praying
           ,
           which
           now
           if
           ever
           should
           be
           cried
           up
           &
           practised
           ,
           and
           in
           stead
           thereof
           give
           your selves
           over
           to
           *
           dancing
           ,
           feasting
           ,
           playing
           ,
           *
           
             Sabbath
             breaking
             ,
             to
             draw
             downe
             more
             wrath
             and
             plagues
             upon
             us
             .
          
           You
           who
           oppresse
           &
           maliciously
           persecute
           godly
           men
           ,
           for
           crossing
           you
           in
           your
           delights
           of
           sin
           ,
           lest
           ye
           now
           perish
           as
           these
           have
           done
           ,
           &
           so
           much
           the
           rather
           ,
           because
           you
           have
           al
           these
           presidents
           to
           admonish
           you
           ,
           and
           yet
           will
           not
           be
           warned
           .
           Well
           ,
           if
           you
           will
           not
           be
           admonished
           but
           proceed
           as
           you
           have
           done
           ,
           if
           you
           perish
           ,
           thanke
           your selves
           ;
           I
           can
           say
           no
           more
           to
           you
           but
           this
           :
           *
           
             Discite
             justitiam
             moniti
             &
             non
             temnere
             divos
             .
          
        
      
       
         
           Courteous
           Reader
           ,
           I
           pray
           correct
           with
           thy
           pen
           these
           mistakes
           and
           omissions
           of
           the
           Printers
           ,
           ere
           thou
           read
           the
           Books
           ,
           Errata
           and
           Omissions
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Title
           page
           ,
           l.
           17.
           r.
           inchoat
           .
           l
           18.
           r.
           cansummat
           In
           the
           Epistle
           ,
           p.
           2.
           l.
           3.
           for
           with
           .
           r.
           as
           l.
           15.
           r.
           hapning
           .
           p.
           3.
           l.
           4.
           r.
           so
           audaciously
           .
           l.
           24.
           f.
           sins
           ,
           r.
           sinewes
           .
           l.
           27.
           f.
           hath
           ,
           r.
           have
           .
           l.
           31
           r.
           In
           Petrus
           Blesensis
           .
           p
           4.
           
           ●
           .
           29.
           r.
           pointes
           .
           p
           5.
           l.
           13.
           r.
           and
           such
           p.
           8.
           l.
           31.
           f.
           were
           as
           ,
           r.
           
             as
             were
          
           In
           the
           examples
           ,
           p.
           11.
           
           Exam.
           5.
           l.
           8
           were
           all
           drowned
           :
           adde
           this
           omission
           :
           
             as
             some
             letters
             report
             :
             Others
             say
             they
             were
             onely
             in
             great
             danger
             of
             drowning
             ,
             a
             spring
             tide
             breaking
             the
             Ice
             ,
             but
             with
             much
             labourwer
             at
             last
             saved
             after
          
           2.
           or
           3.
           
             houres
             space
             by
             the
             helpe
             of
             hotes
             .
          
           p.
           15
           l.
           13.
           f.
           reare
           ,
           r
           reare
           p.
           28.
           l.
           1.
           f.
           1634
           r.
           1636
           l.
           2.
           r.
           Parish
           
             of
             S.
             Giles
          
           p.
           32.
           l.
           1.
           f.
           now
           ,
           r.
           enough
           .
           l
           6.
           r.
           Dr.
           H.
           l.
           11.
           f.
           invention
           ,
           r.
           inundation
           .
           l.
           23.
           f.
           to
           ,
           r.
           of
           .
           p.
           33.
           l.
           19.
           f.
           defining
           ,
           r.
           defying
           .
           p.
           38.
           l.
           31.
           prophanesse
           ,
           r.
           prophaners
           .
           p.
           39.
           l
           1.
           had
           ,
           r.
           hath
           .
           l.
           18.
           come
           ,
           r.
           rowe
           .
           p.
           40
           l.
           30.
           this
           ,
           r.
           his
           .
           l.
           32.
           none
           .
           r.
           any
           .
           p.
           41.
           l.
           20.
           r.
           Bochellum
           .
           p.
           36
           ,
           in
           the
           marg
           .
           r.
           Beluacensis
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           
             Psal.
             119.
             120.
             
          
           My
           flesh
           trembleth
           for
           feare
           of
           thee
           ,
           and
           I
           am
           afraid
           of
           thy
           Iudgements
           .
        
         
           
             Levit.
             26.
             27.
             28.
             
          
           
             And
             if
             ye
             will
             not
             for
             all
             this
             hearken
             unto
             me
             ,
             but
             walke
             contray
             unto
             me
             :
          
           
             Then
             I
             will
             walke
             contrary
             unto
             you
             also
             in
             fury
             ,
             and
             I
             ,
             even
             I
             will
             chastise
             you
             seven
             times
             more
             for
             you
             sinnes
             .
          
        
      
       
         
           An
           advertisement
           to
           the
           Reader
           ,
           COVRTEOVS
           READER
           .
        
         
           Be
           pleased
           to
           understand
           ,
           that
           thorow
           some
           oversight
           at
           the
           presse
           ,
           the
           foregoing
           Examples
           are
           not
           orderly
           placed
           .
           Indeed
           it
           was
           the
           authors
           minde
           that
           they
           should
           have
           beene
           otherwise
           to
           wit
           ,
           1.
           2.
           3.
           and
           so
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           in
           order
           one
           after
           another
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           numbred
           in
           the
           booke
           ,
           and
           to
           this
           end
           gave
           direction
           ,
           but
           the
           same
           was
           not
           considered
           of
           these
           who
           where
           imployed
           for
           the
           printing
           ,
           untill
           it
           was
           to
           late
           .
           Now
           this
           we
           thought
           good
           to
           certifie
           thee
           of
           ,
           that
           so
           the
           mistake
           may
           be
           imputed
           ,
           to
           the
           parties
           deserving
           it
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           the
           Author
           ,
           who
           it
           blamelesse
           herein
           .
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A17298-e150
           
             *
             As
             he
             hath
             done
             on
             the
             4.
             
             Commandement
             itselfe
             ,
             and
             on
             these
             Infringers
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             a
             Nullam
             habet
             spem
             salutis
             ager
             quem
             ad
             intemperantiā
             Medicus
             hortatur
             :
             Sence
             .
          
           
             b
             See
             the
             doctrine
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             ;
             The
             History
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             ;
             the
             treatise
             of
             the
             Sabbath-day
             and
             discourse
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             lately
             printed
             :
             whichthough
             they
             condemne
             the
             very
             name
             of
             Sabbath
             ,
             as
             Iewish
             yet
             they
             are
             all
             characterised
             with
             that
             name
             and
             title
             .
          
           
             *
             2.
             
             Pet.
             2.
             v.
             16.
             
          
           
             c
             See
             the
             History
             ,
             Treatise
             ,
             Discourse
             ,
             &
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             accordingly
             ,
             and
             sunday
             no
             Sabbath
             .
          
           
             d
             1.
             
             Car.
             c.
             1.
             3.
             
             Car.
             c.
             1
             
          
           
             e
             1.
             27.
             
             H.
             6.
             5.
             5.
             
             &
             6.
             
             E.
             6.
             c.
             3.
             
          
           
             f
             Of
             the
             Time
             and
             Place
             of
             Prayer
             .
             part
             .
             1.
             
             Of
             Disobedience
             and
             unlawfull
             Rebellion
             .
             part
             ,
             3.
             p.
             293.
             293.
             
          
           
             g
             The
             Prayer
             after
             the
             4.
             and
             10.
             
             Commandement
             .
          
           
             h
             Canon
             .
             13.
             163.
             
          
           
             i
             Article
             35
             
               of
               Ireland
            
             .
             56
             
          
           
             k
             Queene
             Elis
             ▪
             Injunct
             :
             20.
             
          
           
             l
             Homil.
             162.
             in
             Matth.
             fol.
             308.
             
             Hom.
             28.
             in
             Mar.
             f.
             35.
             
             Hom.
             56.
             in
             Lu.
             f.
             141.
             
             Hom.
             36.
             in
             Ioan.
             f.
             77.
             
             Hom.
             88.
             in
             Act.
             
          
           
             m
             Comment
             .
             in
             Matth.
             12.
             
             &
             14.
             p.
             376.
             423.
             in
             Ioan.
             7.
             f.
             293.
             
          
           
             n
             History
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             .
             part
             .
             2.
             c.
             6.
             
             Inst.
             9.
             10.
             
          
           
             o
             D.
             ●ooklinghton
             Sunday
             no
             Sabbath
             p.
             8.
             
          
           
             p
             Concio
             6.
             9.
             19.
             20.
             21.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A17298-e1500
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
             Aprill
             .
             20.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             Eccl.
             11.
             9.
             
          
           
             1635.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1635.
             
          
           
             1635.
             
          
           
             ‡
             Deut.
             28.
             22.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
           
             1634.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A17298-e3420
           
             ‡
             Homily
             of
             the
             time
             and
             place
             of
             Prayer
             .
             Part.
             1.
             pag.
             124.
             125.
             126.
             
          
           
             *
             Hom.
             against
             Rebellion
             part
             .
             3.
             pag.
             292.
             
          
           
             *
             Doctor
             Wh.
             Bp.
             of
             Ely.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A17298-e3600
           
             a
             So
             the
             Statute
             of
             1.
             
             Caroli
             c.
             1.
             stiles
             them
             .
          
           
             b
             Vincentius
             Volnacensis
             Spec.
             moral
             .
             li.
             3.
             ps
             .
             9.
             
             Distin.
             6.
             
             Master
             Northbrooke
             Stubs
             ,
             Brant
             Lovel
             ,
             and
             others
             in
             their
             Treatises
             against
             dauncing
             .
          
           
             c
             The
             late
             Treatise
             ,
             history
             and
             discourse
             of
             the
             Sabboth
             ,
             sunday
             No
             Sabbath
             ,
             Doctor
             Pri.
             and
             a
             soveraigne
             Antidote
             against
             Sabbatarian
             novelties
             .
          
           
             *
             Ergo
             it
             is
             in
             force
             and
             the
             profaning
             of
             the
             Lords
             day
             a
             sin
             against
             it
             .
          
           
             *
             As
             the
             Treatise
             history
             discourse
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             .
          
           
             a
             Epist.
             6.
             ad
             magnesianes
             .
          
           
             b
             Tract
             .
             3.
             in
             Ioh.
             de
             10.
             chordis
             .
             c.
             3.
             
             In
             Ps.
             32.
             91.
             
             De
             consensu
             Euang.
             li
             2.
             c.
             77.
             
          
           
             c
             In
             Ioh.
             Euang.
             li.
             8.
             c.
             5.
             
          
           
             d
             Homily
             de
             festis
             diebus
             .
          
           
             e
             Eccl.
             Hist.
             l.
             7.
             c.
             13.
             
          
           
             f
             Codicis
             Theodosij
             li.
             15.
             tit
             .
             5.
             lex
             .
             5.
             
          
           
             g
             Enare
             in
             Ps.
             91.
             
          
           
             i
             Edit
             .
             5.
             
             Lon.
             1624.
             
             Sect.
             38
             n.
             1.
             p.
             110.
             
             Se.
             43.
             digr
             .
             46.
             n.
             6.
             p.
             165.
             186.
             
          
           
             k
             In
             4.
             preceptum
             .
          
           
             l
             In
             Iohn
             E●
             .
             c.
             7.
             fol.
             273.
             
          
           
             m
             Proposition
             for
             the
             Christ.
             Sabbathd
             .
             p.
             4.
             
          
           
             n
             In
             Iohan.
             tract
             .
             3.
             in
             Ps.
             32
             ▪
             &
             91.
             de
             10.
             chordis
             c.
             3.
             
          
           
             (
             h
             )
             Speculū
             morale
             li.
             3.
             part
             .
             9.
             c.
             6.
             
          
           
             o
             In
             his
             Sermons
             .
          
           
             p
             13.
             
             Eliz.
             c.
             12.
             which
             ratifies
             the
             39
             Articles
             .
          
           
             q
             The
             treatise
             and
             history
             of
             the
             Sabbath
             .
          
           
             r
             Part.
             1.
             of
             the
             time
             and
             place
             of
             prayer
             .
             p.
             126.
             
          
           
             ‡
             Treatise
             of
             the
             Sabbath-day
             .
             p.
             231.
             
          
           
             s
             Tract
             .
             3.
             in
             Ioh.
             In
             Ps.
             32.
             
             &
             91.
             de
             10.
             chordis
             c.
             3.
             
          
           
             t
             Apud
             Alex
             .
             Alensis
             summ
             .
             Theologiae
             part
             .
             4.
             q.
             11.
             m.
             2.
             
             Art.
             11.
             
          
           
             u
             Media
             villa
             Peraldus
             Nider
             Volaterranus
             F.
             Martyr
             ,
             Musculus
             ,
             Stuckius
             ,
             Aretius
             ,
             Hyperius
             ,
             Szegedine
             ,
             Angel.
             de
             Clavasio
             .
             Dr
             ▪
             Bound
             ,
             Dr
             Criffith
             ,
             Williams
             Practise
             of
             Piety
             ,
             Osmund
             Lake
             ,
             and
             infinite
             others
             ▪
             
          
           
             *
             See
             the
             Homily
             8.
             times
             styles
             the
             Lords
             day
             and
             the
             3.
             homily
             of
             rebellion
             twice
             .
          
           
             ‡
             Note
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A17298-e4390
           
             Examp.
             57.
             
          
           
             *
             One
             of
             the
             actors
             wherof
             and
             hee
             who
             first
             shewed
             his
             Booke
             to
             the
             King
             within
             few
             moneths
             after
             came
             to
             bee
             his
             fellow
             prisoners
             in
             the
             Tower
             for
             a
             reall
             comentary
             on
             his
             misapplyed
             text
             
          
           
             *
             The
             Iudge
             who
             upon
             his
             reference
             suppressed
             these
             exhibits
             contrary
             to
             law
             &
             promise
             to
             the
             Gentleman
             ,
             was
             himselfe
             not
             long
             after
             unexpectedly
             thrust
             out
             of
             his
             place
             before
             he
             knew
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             y
             The
             great
             Lord
             that
             began
             this
             censure
             lost
             his
             Lady
             in
             childb●d
             some
             three
             dayes
             after
             ,
             who
             much
             grieved
             at
             this
             sentence
             and
             blamed
             him
             for
             it
             .
             Which
             Lord
             riding
             the
             last
             Christ-tide
             into
             the
             Country
             to
             keepe
             his
             Christmas
             on
             the
             Lords
             day
             ,
             his
             Coach
             and
             honor
             in
             the
             plaine
             street
             at
             Brainford
             were
             both
             overturned
             and
             laid
             in
             the
             dirt
             ,
             himselfe
             sore
             bruised
             ,
             and
             thereupon
             forced
             to
             keepe
             his
             chamber
             a
             good
             space
             ,
             there
             being
             some
             doubt
             of
             his
             recovery
             for
             a
             time
             .
          
           
             z
             Psal.
             10.
             14.
             
          
           
             *
             The
             occasion
             of
             most
             of
             these
             tragicall
             examples
             .
          
           
             *
             Neh.
             13.
             17.
             18.
             
          
           
             *
             Bishops
             saith
             
               Augustine
               Cont.
               Btil
               .
               l.
               3.
               c.
               6.
               )
            
             were
             all
             wont
             vaine
             dances
             to
             reprove
             ,
             But
             now
             they
             are
             so
             farre
             from
             it
             ,
             that
             they
             to
             dance
             doe
             love
             .
             
               Thomas
               Lovel
               his
               Dialogue
            
             .
             Witnes
             their
             late
             Oxford
             pro
             phane
             plaies
             and
             dances
             .
          
           
             *
             Virgil.