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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14982	A triple cure of a triple malady that is of [brace] vanity in apparell, excesse in drinking, impiety in swearing [brace] / by E.W., Doctor, and Professor of Diuinity.	Weston, Edward, 1566-1635.	1616 (1616)	STC 25290.7; ESTC S2967	115,158	324

foule monstrous absurdities apt to cause shame and detestation in a generous mind as of other shamefull defectes and diseases of mans body or soule 24. The Prophet Helias only hearing 3. Reg. 19. a noyse that resembled the diuine Maiesty of Almighty God for reuerence sake couered his face with his garment Surely his sacred name or the name of Christ our Sauiour is of no lesse force to represent this Maiesty then was that noyse of wind which the Prophet heard and therfore requireth no lesse respect and veneration in whosoeuer vpon any occasion shall heare them or take them in his mouth This due reputatiō of the soueraignty of Almighty God is the welspring of all vertue as vertue is the fountaine that causeth and mantaineth Ciuility And therfore when any Nation by impiety of swearing or other neglect and contempt of religion commeth to loose the respect due to Almighty God howsoeuer they may flatter thēselues with other exteriour shaddows and apparences of ciuill life it is euident that they haue made a deep entrance into Barbarisme and that ciuill felicity cannot long endure amongst them if they take not vp and alter their course betimes 25. God Almighty graunt therfore that our Nation may happily be cured and deliuered from this enormous vice of Swearing which proceedeth as hath byn proued from sensuall seruile ignorance and contempt of Diuinity that Christian policy guided by conscience and knit vp in vertue may make it prosperous in this world blissefull in the life to come But because in morall doctrine it is both gratefull and profitable to the Reader to finde truth and reason confirmed with examples I will conclude this Treatise or Cure of swearing as I did the former of Drunke●nesse with two or three that may be to the purpose Vincent Spec. historial l. 24. c. 24. 26. Two noble women of France sisters to a Duke of that Countrey cōplayned to K. Charlemaine that their brother had defea●ed them of their inheritance The Duke denyed it and the King ●o make triall of the truth commanded him to lay his hand vpon the body of S. Salinus and declare by his ●ath whether he had wronged his sisters as they had complayned or no. The Duke excused himselfe with an oath that he had done them no wrong immediatly his body began to swell his bowels and excrements brake our and the bloud at his mouth his nostrels his eyes and his ●ares with great force and so two houres after ended his miserable life Ex Autographo excuso Attrebati anno 1601. cum approbatione D. Guliel●i Gazeti Pastorts S. Magdalenae Canonici Ariensis 27. Vpon a monday the 29. of Nouember 1599. Antony Crucke one of the Farmers for that time of the Toles of Sermond otherwise called S. Adrians in Flanders and the villages about it comming to the towne to make vp accountes with others his parteners lodged at the Golden ship where there fell out a difference amongst them about a summe of money which the others affirmed that Antony had receaued and he denyed with an oath wishing that he might be burned with the fire before them in the chimney and the Diuell carry him away if he had receaued any such money or euer deceaued them Late after supper the rest retyred themselues euery one to his lodging with purpose to go forwardes in their accountes the next day following and leauing the said Antony in the chamber where their meeting was he caused his bed to be made and called for a fagot to warme himselfe which being almost burnt out the Host left him alone to take his rest In the morning his brother-in-law coming out of the coūtry to speake with him and thinking him to sleep because he answered not caused the Host to open his chamber dore where they found him burnt and all his body consumed into ashes sauing only his legges from the garters downe which were next the fier for they remayned whole and vntouched and the skull of his head which notwithstanding when they handled fell presently into dust But because we write especially for English men it will not be amisse to giue them an example of their owne Country Polidorus Virgilius l. 8. Hist Angl. 28. After the death of Canutus the third Goodwin Earle of Kent was sayd to haue murdered by trechery the Prince Alfrid Sonne to King Etheldred then in banishment and procured the crowne for Edward brother to Alfrid which was called Edward the Confessour King Edward in respect that the Earle had holpen him to the Kingdome pardoned his former offence and tooke his daughter to wife But though he were freed from the iudgement of men yet could he not auoyd the iudgement of Almighty God It happened one day that the Earle being at dinner with the King his sonne Harald the Kings cup-bearer as he brought him drinke stumbled with one foot but recouered himselfe from falling with the other So quoth his Father the one brother hath holpen the other The Earle spake it in iest but the King tooke it in earnest and changing his countenance and turning the sense of the wordes to the memory of his Brother Alfrid that had byn slaine answered the Earle So might my brother also haue holpen me if thou hadst not byn to blame The malefactour fearing the Kinges anger began to excuse himselfe with oathes adding that if he were guilty of the Princes death or of any other crime against the King he prayed God that the morsell of bread which he held in his hand might choake him as it did For putting it into his mouth he could neither swallow it downe nor east it vp but there at the Table agonizing with de●th forthwith gaue vp his miserable soule These three examples be against Periury But I will conclude with a fourth of S. Gregory which for the dignity of the Authour the horrour of the fact not to entertaine the Reader with longer narratiōs may suffice to make vs take heed of swearing D. Gregor Magnus l. 4. dialog c. 18. 29. It is a dreadfull example which this holy Father recordeth of a child of fiue yeares old sonne to a noble man of Rome who by the negligence of his parents or perhaps for punishment of other their sinnes had gotten a custome in those tender yeares to sweare and blaspheme God The child one day being in his Fathers armes began to cry out Help me father help me father And trembling for feare shrowded his face in his fathers bosome His father wondring to see him in s●ch an agony asked him what the matter was what he felt The child answered Those Blackemores father are come to carry me away And with that swea●i●g and blaspheming gaue vp his ghost ●y which example sayth S. Gregory God Almighty would shew for what sinne he was deliuered vpto those executioners that his parentes might be corrected and others by his example and theirs take heed The Conclusion to the Reader CHAP. V.