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The fearefull summer, or, Londons calamity, the countries courtesy, and both their misery by Iohn Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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he may be a patrone and a guide Vnto a people purg'd and purifi'd This by a president is manifest When famous late Elizabeth deceast Before our gratious Iames put on the crowne Gods hand did cut superfluous branches downe Not that they then that were of life bereft Were greater sinners then the number lest But that the Plague should then the kingdome cleare The good to comfort and the bad to feare That as a good king God did vs assure So he should haue a Nation purg'd and pure And now that Royall Iames intombed lyes And that our gratious Charles his roome supplies As He did for his Father formerly A sinfull nation cleanse and purifie So God for him these things to passe doth bring And mends the subiects for so good a King Vpon whose Throne may peace and plenty rest And he and his Eternally be blest AMEN Against Swearing THere is no sin that euer the Diuell invented for the abuse of God and the perdition of man but the Authors and Actors of it may frame some frivolous or impertinent excuse for examples our first parents in Paradise did disobediently offend in hope thereby to gaine further knowledge and to be like God Cain slew his brother and had some poore excuse for the fratricide and murther because he saw that Abell and his offering was in better acceptation Samson was ouercome by Dalilah but he had lewd lust or lustfull loue to entice him Dauid had not committed the two crying sins of Adultery and murther had not the beauty of Bethsheba bin his insuaring object Achitophel had not bin a Traitour to the Lord 's Anointed and a wicked counsellour to Absolom but the expectation of raising his estate was his motiue Ahab had not put Nabaoth to death vnjustly but that hee knew it the neerest way to be possessour of his Vineyard Achan's theft Gehazies lie Manasses cruelty and Idolatry Peter's denying Iudas his betraying of our Sauiour had all some colour of Excuse but a swearer is worse then all these for he hath no starring hole or by way that can make him appeare guiltlesse either before God or men Remember this all you that make swearing the glory of your speech the damnable grounds of your earthly society the accursed Garbe of your misnamed Gentleman like carriage Remember that God doth heare and see and can and will reuenge and for this inexcusable crime especially the wrath of the Almighty is showred and powred vpon vs. THou that these lines dost either heare or reade Consider with thy selfe and take good heed Reade them and let them neuer be forgot They doe concerne thy soule then sleight them not The Friends of hell beleeue there is a God And feare and tremble at his angry Rod They doe confesse his glorious Excellence And his Almighty powers Omnipotence But Man his choicest and his chiefest Creature Is so rebellious against God and Nature That he gainst Heau'n dare both blaspheme and sweare And worse then Fiends they not belieue or feare So that the Earth doth breed feed and retaine Worse Monsters then there doth in Hell remaine If men beleeu'd the word that God hath spoke They would beleue that word should nere be broke In His enacted Law is one Decree That all who take his Name in vaine shall be Accounted guilty and his fearefull wrath Will hold them worthy of eternall death Againe 't is said Let the Blasphemor dye Let him be stoned for his Blasphemy And euill tongues who dare to curse adventer Shall into Heauens blessednes not enter And Christ when on the Earth he liued heere Forbade vs that at all we should not sweare And in th' eleventh of Deuteronomy againe We are commanded not to sweare in vaine The Heathen to blaspheme their gods abhorr'd Yet Christians wilfully blaspheme the Lord. Who euer to reuile the Gods were knowne In Rome were from the Rock Tarpetus throwne Th' Egyptians Law was he should lose his head 'Mongst Seythians life and goods were forfeited These grieuous punishments did Pagans vse Against all them that did their Gods abuse King Donald's Law in Scotland's not forgot Who burne them through the lips with irons hot And when King Edmund here had Regall State All Swearers he did excommunicate And Philip King of France a Prince renown'd Ordain'd that all Blasphemers should be drown'd The Emperour Max milian did decree That all vaine Sweaters should beheaded be The Earle of Flanders Philip did ordaine Their losse of life and goods that swore in vaine Saint Lewis the King of France enacted there That for the first time any one did sweare Into Imprisonment one month was cast And stand within the Pillory at last But if the second time againe they swore One with an iron hot their tongues did bore And who the third time in that fault did flip Were likewise boared through the vnder-lip For the fourth time most grieuous paines belongs He caus'd to be cut off their lips and tongues Henry the fift of England that good King His Court to such conformity did bring That euery Duke should sorry shillings pay For euery Oath he swore without delay Each Baron twenty Knights or ' Squires offence Paid â—ennâ—â— and euery Yeoman twenty pence The Boyes and Pages all were whipt most fine That durst abuse the Majesty diuine Thus Pagan Princes with sharp lawes withstood Profauing of their Gods of stone or wood And Christian Kings and Rulers formerly Haue most seuerely punisht blasphemy And shall a Heathen or an Infidell That knowes no joyes of Heauen or paines of Hell More reuerence to his deuillish Idols show Then we doe to the true God whom we know If we remembred well but what we were And what we are we would not dare to sweare Poore trunks of earth fill'd with vncertain breath By nature heires to euerlasting death Most miserable wretches most ingrate 'Gainst God that did elect vs and create Redeem'd conseru'd preseru'd and sactifi'd And giues vs hope we shall be glorifi'd H' hath giuen vs being life sense reason wit Wealth and all things his Prouidence thinkes fit And for requitall we quite voide of grace Curse sweare and doe blaspheme him to his face Oh the supernall patience of our God That beares with Man a sin polluted clod When halfe such treasons 'gainst an earthly King Would many a Traytor to confusion bring Suppose a man should take a Whelp breed him And stroake him make much of him feed him How will that curre loue him beyond all other Neuer for saking him to serue another But if he should most disobediently Into his Masters face or throat to fly Sure euery man that liues vpon the ground Would say a hanging's fit for such a hound And worser then so many dogges are they That 'gainst their God with oathes doe barke and bray And if repentance doe not mercy win They 'll hang in Hell like Hell-hounds for that sin Of all black crimes froÌ„
Belzebubs damn'd treasure This swearing sin no profit yeelds or pleasure Nor gaines the swearer here but earths vexation With change of his saluation for damnation It is a sinne that yeelds vs no excuse For what excuse can be for Gods abuse And though our other faults by death doe end Yet Blasphemy doth after death extend For to the damn'd in Hell this curse is giuen They for their paines blasphem'd the God of Heauen Examples on the earth haue many beene As late in sundry places hath beene seene At Mautna two braue Russians in their game Swore and blasphem'd our blessed Sauiours name Where God iust iudgment full of feare dread Causd both their eyes to drop from out their head In Rome a child but 5 yeares old that swore Was snatch vp by the Deuill and seene no more And at Ragouse a Mariner did sweare As if he would Gods name in sunder teare When falling ouer-boord was drown'd and tost And nothing but his tongue was onely lost Remember this you sinfull sonnes of men Think how that Christ redeem'd you from Hells den His mercy he hath giu'n in magnitude Requite him not with vile ingratitude He made the Eare and Eye and heares and sees The swearers execrable oathes and lyes The God head of the Father they contemne Against the Sonnes Redemption the blaspheme The Holy Spirit grieuously they grieue And head-long into Hell themselues they driue Iâ— is in vaine for mortall men to think Gods Iustice is a sleepe although it winke Or that his arme is shortned in these times That he cannot reach home to punish crimes Oh thinke not so 't is but the Deuills illusion To draw vs desperately to our confusion Some say that 't is their anger makes them sweare And oathes are out before they are aware But being crost with losses and perplex'd They thinke no harme but sweare as being vex'd And some there are that sweare for complement Make aothes their grace and speeches ornament Their sweet Rhetoricall fine eloquence Their reputations onely excellence Their valour whom the Deuill doth inflame T' abuse their Makers and Redeemers name Thinke but on this you that doe God forget Your poore excuses cannot pay this debt Remember that our sinfull soules dâ—d cost A price too great to be by swearing lost And blessed was our last good Parliament Who made an act for swearers punishment And blest shall be each Magistrates good name That carefully doe execute the same Those that are zealous for Gods glory heere No doubt in heauen shall haue true glory there Which that we may haue humbly I implore Of Him that rules and raignes for ouermore The Eternall Lord of Lords and King of Kings Before whose Throne blest Saints Angels sings All power praise glory maiesty thanksgiuing Ascribed be to him that 's euer liuing FINIS My farewell to the famous Vniuersity of Oxford I Thanke God that Ingratitude being the worst of euils it doth not raigne in me although it may knock at the doore of my estate yet I trust I neuer shall harbour it This renowned Seminary and City allowed me free and generous entertainment for some certaine weekes in these dangerous and contagious times and although the hand of the Almighty did in some sprinkling and mercifull measure awaken the security of some in that Citty yet was and is his Grace so abundantly extended towards it that there did not dye in the City and Suburbs being 13 Parishes aboue 7 of the Pestilence in one weeke all this dangerous yeare in which is much to be commended the care and diligence of the Graue and right Worship M r Vicechancellour with M r Maior and the rest of his worthy brethren who neglected or omitted no meanes that prouidence and Charity could vse for the preseruation of the healthy and the comfort of the sick this I being a witnesse of in the way of thankfulnesse thought fit to expresse assuring them in generall that they shall neuer want the prayers and best wishes of him that wil be euer at their seruice IOHN TAYLOR Tasteing Smelling Feeling a Iames. b Exod. 20. c Leviticus 24. d 1 Cor. 6. 10. e Matth. 5. f God himselfe complaineth that men blaspheme him Esay 52. 5. The names of blasphemy is writ vpon the 10 heads of Antichrist Apre 13.1 Cursing is forbidden by the Apostle when he saith Blesse Isoy and curse net Rom. 12. 14. Our Sauiour commandeth vs to blesse them that curle vs Matth. 5. 44. Blesse them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luke 6. 28. Accustome not thy mouth to woaring for in it are many falls neither take vp for a custome the naming of the holy One for thou shalt not be vnpunished for such things Esclesiasticus 23. 9. The Plague shall neuer go forth from the house of the swearer Idem Whose sweares falsly calls the God of Truth to witnes a lie Who so sweares as he thinks may be deceiued Who so sweares vnreuerently dishonoureth God Who so sweares deceitfully abuseth Christian fidelity Who so sweares idlely abuseth the credit of a faithfull oath Who so sweares accustomably God will plague him â—Elfred an english Earle conspiring to put our K. Adolstanes eyes at Winchester forsware the treason in Saint Peters Church at Rome and fell downe dead presently Earle Godwin murthered Prince Alfred brother to king Edward Confessor and being at dinner the King charged him with the murther then Godwin swore by bread and prayed it might choake him if he were guilty and immediately it choaked him in the place his lands also sunk into the sea and are called Godwin-sands K. Stephen forsware himselfe to King Henry I and liued in continuall trouble dyed in perplexity of minde Edward brake his oath made at York that he came not with intent to cease the Kingdome and bâ—eaking that oath was punisht with a troublesome raigne his brethren and children all except one murthered and not any of his issue reigned after him Roger Mortimer a great Peere of thâ—s land for breaking his oath to King Edward the 2. was most ignominioâ—sly hanged bowelld quartered M. Fox in his Booke of Martyrs declares of one Richard Long of Calice that forsware himselfe to accuse one Smith for eating flesh in Lent after which oath Long went presently drowned himselfe One Grimwood at Hiteham in Suffolks forsware himselfe and his bowels burst out One widdow Barnes for the like sin cost herselfe out of her window in Cornhill and brake her necke Anns Anetis forsware herselfe in Woodstrees for sixe pound of Towe desiring God she might links down which fearfully hapned One Lea in Sunne-alloy without Bishopsgate forswere himselfe and after ript out his guts