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A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

Immorality Debauchery and Profaneness Exposed To the Reproof of Scripture and the Censure of the Law Containing a Compendium of the Penal Laws now in Force against Idleness Profaneness and Drunkenness Houses of unlawful Games profane Swearing and Cursing speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament disturbing of Ministers profane jesting with the Name of God absenting from the Church profanation of the Lord's Day Debauched Incontinency and Bastard-getting With several Texts of Scripture prohibiting such Vices Also a brief Collection of several signal Judgments of God against Offenders in the said Vices and Debaucheries Published for the Advancement of Reformation of Manners so happily begun and carried on by several Societies By G. MERITON Gent. Righteousness exalteth a Nation but Sin is a Reproach to any People Prov. 14. 34. God will wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy Scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his Wickedness Psal 68. 21. LONDON Printed for John Harris and Andrew Bell at the Harrow in Little Britain and at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil 1698. To the Honourable PAUL FOLEY Esq SPEAKER OF THE Honourable House of Commons And to the rest of the Honourable and Worthy Members of that High Council of the Realm now assembled in Parliament This COMPENDIUM is humbly dedicated by G. MERITON THE PREFACE TO THE READER Reader OVR Gracious Soveraign King William having observed the spreading growth of profane vitious and profligate Debauchery and Immorality within this Realm out of his devout and pious Zeal for the Honour of God the advancement of true Religion and the Credit and Welfare of this his Kingdom of England in his most gracious Speech to both the Houses of Parliament at the opening of this present Session tells them That he esteems it one of the greatest Advantages of Peace that he shall now have leisure to rectify such Corruptions or Abuses as may have crept into any part of the Administration during the War and effectually to discourage Profaneness and Immorality And to that purpose his Majesty has not only issued out his Proclamation for the discouraging of all Debauchery Profaneness and Immorality and commanded the same to be read in every Church and publick Chappel four times in the year but has also required all his Judges Justices of the Peace and other Magistrates and Officers within their several Limits and Jurisdictions according to their several Powers and Authorities to put the Laws made against Profaneness and Immorality effectually in execution And has likewise recommended the further Care of the more effectual suppressing Debauchery Profaneness and Immorality to the Consideration of the Parliament who have prepared a Bill for that purpose And every good Christian ought devoutly to join with the Church in that Prayer appointed by her Liturgy to be read for the Parliament when sitting That God would be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the advancement of his Glory the good of his Church the Safety Honour and Welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their Endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us for all Generations And as every one ought thus to pray so also every individual Person within this Realm ought as a Reverend and Grave Divine lately declared in his Pulpit according to his Capacity and the Post he is placed in to contribute his Help and Assistance towards the carrying on this great and pious work of Reformation In compliance wherewith and to manifest my good Will by contributing towards the carrying on this great and good Work I have compil'd this Essay as a Compendium of the Laws now in force against Idleness Profaneness Drunkenness Swearing c. and for the more effectual enforcing the Observation of the same I have after the said Laws set down several Texts of Scripture against such Sins and after them lest some by their long continued wicked Courses be so hardned in their Sins that neither Law nor Gospel will restrain them I have given an Account of several exemplary Judgments of God upon such as have accustomed themselves in the practice of such profane Vices in hopes that upon the perusal thereof such as walk and tread in the same Steps may be brought to a sight and sense of their Sins repent of their Wickedness and resolve to lead a new Course of Life There are some other Laws against suspicious Persons that walk by Night and sleep by Day keep lewd Company and frequent lewd Houses 39 Eliz. Ch. 4. 43 Eliz. Ch. 2. 7 Jac. 1. Ch. 4. and against wandring Rogues 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 7. But the other Vices aforementioned being the customary and provoking Sins of the Nation and these others last mentioned not so common and the Laws made against them not so properly falling under the Title of this Compendium I have therefore purposely omitted the inserting of them And such Readers as are desirous to inform themselves herein may have recourse to the several Statutes as they are here cited But I shall proceed no further only desire that this small Treatise may in some measure effect its intended purpose and prove serviceable to the Publick which is the hearty prayer of G. Meriton A Catalogue of the Authors Names out of whose Works the signal Examples of God's severe Justice mentioned in this ensuing Treatise are excerpted ABbot Anton. de Torquenda Augustinus Baxter Beadle Batman Baker Beard Bernard Beza Bolton Burton Clark Camden Discipulus de Tempore Eusebius Fauconer Fox Gregory Tomonensis German History Heylin Heywood Johan Wierus Johan Fincelius Lonicerus Luther Laertius Maginus Platina Perkins Quintus Curtius Socrates Spotswood Speed Stanley Stow. Teate Theatr. Historiarum Turner Twisden Ward THE Laws against Profaneness CHAP. I. A summary Account of the Laws made against profuse idle customary and expensive Tipling and against sinful customary and profane Drunkenness and against keeping Places or Houses of unlawful Games SOme of our Chronologers tell us that the Danes were the first and principal Introducers and Promoters of the immoderate profuse and sinful Vice of excessive Carousing Quaffing and Drinking which by their Example did so influence the People of this Kingdom that in a small time it arrived to that height of Vanity that Edgar the seventeenth King of the West-Saxons and first sole Saxon Monarch of England in order to the restraining and curbing the growth of the said debauched Vanity and sinful Vice did ordain certain Cups or Pots with Gages Pins or Marks in them and appointed a Penalty to be inflicted upon every one that should presume to drink beyond the limited Gage which Ordinance of his possibly might in some measure abate the exorbitant Practice of this growing Wickedness yet the Practice thereof was never wholly laid aside especially in the times of Peace and Tranquillity And upon the Union of the Kingdoms of