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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43097	The English school-master compleated containing several tables of common English words, from one, to six, seven, and eight syllables, both whole and divided, according to the rules of true spelling; with prayers, and graces both before and after meat, and rules for childrens behaviour at all times and places, with several other necessaries suitable to the capacities of children and youth. Also brief and easie rules for the true and exact spelling, reading, and writing of English according to the present pronunciation thereof in the famous University of Oxford, and City of London. To which is added, an appendix containing the principles of arithmetick, with an account of coins, weights, measure, time, &c. Copies of letters, titles of honour, suitable for men of all degrees, and qualities, bills of parcels, bills of exchange, bills of debt, receipts, and several other rules and observations fit for a youths accomplishment in the way of trade. John Hawkins school-master at St. Georges Church in Southwark.	Hawkins, John, 17th cent.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1175; ESTC R213434	60,375	140

seized upon the said Nobleman in the middle of them and flung him violently from his Horse being senseless but there being with him besides his Servant a young Man of very great Courage relying upon God and the Integrity of his own good Conscience run Couragiously into the midst of this Devilis● Cavalry and rescued his Lord setting him again upon his Horse but having lost their way they wandred up and down all Night and still as they rode along they could hear the troublesome noise of these Infernal Troopers but God preserved the said young Man that they had no power to hurt him and in the Morning they brought the Nobleman to a Monastery where he languished three days and died Such is the end of those that prophane the Holy Name of God by horrible Oaths and Imprecations There was a Ten years Truce concluded between Ladislaus King of Hungary and Amurath the Emperor of the Turks which was confirmed by an Oath between them but Ladislaus having a fair opportunity by the Instigation of Pope Eugenius breaks the League thereby violating his Oath and raiseth a great Army against Amurath and with very great speed marches through Walachia and Bulgaria to a Town called Varna where Amurath met and engaged him the Battel was very fierce and doubtful none perceiving for a great while which way it would incline at last Amurath finding the Battel like to go against him lift up his Hands and Eyes towards Heaven and said Behold O Iesus Christ These are the Articles which thy Christians have made with me Swearing by thy Name to observe and keep them and by this their Perjury they deny thee to be their God wherefore if thou art a God as they say thou art revenge this Injury done to me and to thy Holy Name and immediately the Scale turned Amurath gained the Victory Ladislaus is slain and with him Eleven Thousand Christians Sabbath-breaking a Breach of the Fourth Commandment GOD has commanded to set apart a time for his more publick Worship though our whole Life should be a serving of him yet some time is requisite to be set apart and observed for an unanimous solemn and publick serving and this time must be a set time and a seventh part of our time which we call the Sabbath and God has threatned vengeance to those that by their Impiety shall violate this his Holy Commandment Verily saith the Lord my Sabhath ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your Generations that you may know that I am the Lord that sanctifieth you Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you every one that defileth it shall be surely put to death for whosoever doth any Work therein that Soul shall be cut off from amongst his people Exod. 31. 13 14. A sad Example of Gods displeasure for the Breach of this Commandment we have in the fifteenth of Numbers where an 〈◊〉 being found gathering of Sticks upon the Sabbath day was by the immediate Command of God stoned to Death by the people The History of the Kings of Iudah and Israel contain many Examples of the Almighties Punishment upon those who have not feared to contemn his Word and to prophane his Holy Sabbath And the Histories of latter Times are not wanting in their Examples of Gods Punishment of Sabbath-breakers In the year of our Salvation 1553. in a City in Switzerland about three Miles distant from Lucerne three Gamesters playing at Dice upon a Bench in the Fields near the Walls of the City upon a Sabbath day whereof one when he had lost a considerable Sum of Money while he was yet provoking the Almighty with Oaths and Curses he chanced to have a fortunate throw according to his wish and being thereat incouraged he Swore that if the Dice run against him again he would fling or strike his Dagger as far as he could into the very Body of God The Dice fail him and forthwith he draws his Dagger and taking it by the point he throws it with all his might towards Heaven the Dagger vanished in the Air and was never more seen and five drops of Blood fell upon the Bench where they were playing and immediately the Devil seized upon him and carried him away with that violence and noise that it affrighted the whole City into a Tumult The other two were extreamly affrighted and endeavoured to wipe the Blood from off the Bench but in vain for the more they endeavoured to clean it the more plain did the Purple Colour of the Blood appear the whole City being filled with the noise of this Wickedness and every own crowds towards the place where they find the two Players that were left endeavouring in vain to clean the Bench of the said five drops of Blood with Water and being Examined the Magistrates decree them to be immediately bound and cast under the Walls of the City and as they were carrying them through the Gate one of them fell down being deprived of Strength and such a company of Worms and Lice came from him that they devoured him and he died in that very place a foul and miserable Death which the people seeing without any more ado immediately destroyed the other That part of the Bench whereon the Blood sell was cut off and remains to this day a Testimony and Monument of this great and abominable 〈◊〉 Disobedience to Parents a Breach of the Fifth Commandment THIS is the first Commandment that hath a promise annexed to it whereby the Eternal God promiseth to those that are obedient thereunto Benediction Prosperity and long Life And the Scripture is very plentiful of Examples of Gods Punishments upon those that have been guilty of the Breach thereof Ham the youngest Son of Noah seeing his Fathers Nakedness when he was overcome with Wine called to his Brethren that were without and told them thereof scoffing and making a Laughing-stock of his Father insulting over his Vice and Imbecility for which he and his Posterity were accursed and became a Servant of Servants to his Brethren Gen. 9. Absalom being in Rebellion against his Father King David and pursued by his Fathers Servants was taken from his Mule by the Boughs of an Oak under which he rode and was hanged to Death 2 Sam. 18. 9. A poor and Ancient Man being grievously oppressed with Poverty went to his Son who was very Opulent and Wealthy praying him not to despise his Poverty but to relieve him in his great Necessity but the Son thinking it would be a great disgrace to him to have it publickly known that he was dedescended of such Poor Parentage and therefore ordered his Servants to give him harsh and threatning Language and set him gone the poor old Man departs grieving and weeping extreamly at the unkindness and undutifulness of his Son But behold the Justice of God overtook him for the old Man was no sooner gone but his Son fell mad and so died Murder the Breach of the

will have an end The more Knave the better luck The Masters Eye makes the Horse fat The more haste the worst speed The more you stir a Turd the worse it will slink The Eye is bigger than the Belly The new Broom sweeps clean The nearer the Church the farther from God The old Woman would not have looked in the Oven for her Daughter if she had not been there her self The Priest forgetteth that ever he was Clark The Pitcher goes not so often to the Well but it comes home broken at last Take Pepper in the Nose The rouling Stone gathers no Moss They that are bound must obey The Stable robs more than a Thief Time and Tide stays for no Man Threatned Folks live long Too much familiarity breeds contempt The young Cock croweth after the old one There are more ways to the Wood than one There is difference between staring and stark mad There is no Fool like the old one There is no Smoke but some Fire The weakest goes to the Wall Three may keep Counsel if two be away Time past cannot be recalled Touch a gall'd Horse on the Back and he 'll wince Tread on a Worm and he 'll turn again Trim tram like Master like Man Two Heads are better than one Two hungry Meals make the third a Glutton V VErtue never waxeth old Under the Rose be it spoken W WE can have no more of a Cat than her Skin What is gotten over the Devils Back is spent under his Belly When the Fox preacheth beware of the Geese When the Belly is full the Bones would be at rest What is bred in the Bone will never out of the Flesh. When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks When the Steed is stolen shut the Stable Door Were it not for hope the Heart would break When thy Neighbours House is on Fire take care of thine own When Thieves fall out true Men hear of their Goods Where nothing is to be had the King must lose his Right While the Grass grows the Steed starves Who is worse shod than the Shoemakers Wife Who so deaf as he that will not hear Who wait for dead Mens Shoes may go barefoot Wishers and Woulders are no good Housholders Wit is never good till 't is bought Y YOU cannot hide an Eel in a Sack Young Saint old Devil You cannot fare well but you must cry Roast-meat You cannot see the Wood for Trees You cannot eat your Cake and have your Cake You must not look a given Horse in the Mouth Chap. 23. Some few Examples of Gods Punishment upon Sinners for breach of the several Commandments OUR Duty towards God is to beli● in him to fear him and to love him with all our Hearts 〈◊〉 our Minds with all our Souls and with all our strength to worship him and him only to give him thanks to put our whole tr●st in hi● to call upon him to honour his holy Name and his Word and to serve him truely all the days of ●ur Lives Therefore is Atheism the worshipping of false Gods or the want of a true Knowledge Faith Fear and Love of the true God a Breach of this Commandment Many Examples we have in Scripture of Gods vengeance upon those who have worshipped strange Gods Nadab and Abihu the Sons of Aaron for Offering strange Fire before the Lord in the Wilderness contrary to his express Commandment were miserably consumed by Fire from Heaven Lev. 10. 1 2. The Children of Israel being enticed by the Moabites to offer Sacrifice to their Gods joined themselves to Baal Peor and therefore the anger of the Lord being kindled against them their Princes were hanged and twenty four Thousand Men were slain amongst whom were Zimri and Cosbi Numb 25. and many other Examples of the like Nature there are in Scripture Pherecydes a Philosopher boasted impudently amongst his Scholars of his Prosperity Learning and Wisdom saying That though he served not God yet he led a more quiet and prosperous Life than those that were addicted to Religion and therefore he passed not for any such Vanity but soon after his Impiety was justly punished for the Lord struck him with such a strong Disease that out of his Body issued such a slimy and filthy Sweat and ingendred such a number of Lice and Worms that his Bowels being consumed by them he most miserably Died. Idolatry the Breach of the Second Commandment AMongst the many Examples we have in Scripture of Gods punishment upon Sinners for Idolatrous worship take these two viz. About three Thousand of the Israelites were slain in the Wilderness for making to themselves and Idolizing the Golden Calf which Aaro● made Exod. 32. Ahaziah the Son of Ahab King of Israel for serving and worshipping of Baalzebub the God of Ekron was made an Example of Gods wrath and died according to the Word of the Lord by the Prophet Elijah 2 Kings 1. Many other such Examples there are in the Books of the Kings and the Chronicles For as a King will not suffer another to bear the Title in his Realm so God will not permit any other in the World to be honoured but himself only Per●ury the Breach of the Third Commandment THE Eternal God hath commanded that we should so bridle and govern our Tongue that whatsoever we speak may be to his Honour and Glory and not that we should rashly bind our selves by his most holy Name with Oaths and Execrations or abuse him by any other imp●ous means in va● M●tters for he hath threatned condign punishment to thos● that sh●ll so prophane his most holy Name The Son of Shelomith the Israelitish Woman when he had Blasphemed the Name of the Lord with Oaths and Curses was by all the people and by the immediate command of God stoned to death Whosoever Curseth his God shall bear his sin and he that Blasphemeth the Name of the Lord he shall surely be put to death and all the Congregation shall certainly stone him as well the stranger as he that is Born in the Land when he Blasphemeth the Name of the Lord shall be put to death Levit. 24. See Matth. 5. 33 c. A certain Nobleman being at a Market Town at play and having lost a great Sum of Money in great Passion commands his Servant to get the Horses ready in order to go out of Town in the mean time bel●hing out most horrible and abominable Oaths and Execrations his Servant disswades him from going Home telling him that it would be dangerous Travelling in the Night because of the uncouthness of the way and the dangerous Waters that they must pass by but he fell into a greater Passion Swearing and Cursing more and more and commanded his Servant to be obedient to what he said the Servant obeyeth and having mounted their Horses they depart the ●own being in all three of them they had not gone far but a great Company of Horsemen being Hellish Apparitions came to them and making a most horrible noise