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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87056	Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers. In a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation. By W. L.	Hammond, Samuel, d. 1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing H623bA; ESTC R230554	59,944	204

Smiths Barn and though it grieved the holy man of God who was Minister of the place as the Sodomites did Lot yet he could not help it but in their profanenesse they proceeded not long after a fire kindles in the place of this impiety and burnes down not onely his House Shop and Barn but rages so vehemently as it reaches many other houses with ruin all being chief actors in this horrid profanenesse In the year 1634. upon a Lords day when the River Trent was frozen over fourteen young men were at foot-ball upon the Ice near Gainsborough and meeting all in a cluster together the wrath of God met with them and suddenly the Ice broke and they were immediately drowned Oh the justice of the Lord upon the prophaners of his Holy day The same painful and useful Author of Gods examples relates a sad one of Gods Judgements upon two fellows in Essex near Brinkely that were working in a Chalk-pit one of them boasting that he had vext his Mistresse by coming so late in from his Sabbath-dayes Sports and Recreations ● but sayes he I will anger her worse next Sabbath day which words were no sooner out but Justice seizes upon him for the Earth falls upon him and he never stirred more to his Sabbath prophanesse his fellowes limbs were broken both being sharers in the sin of the Sabbath are made also to be so in their sufferings and punishments The Lord will be known in the paths and wayes of his Judgements to such as will not be led and allured by his tender mercies And of one Mr. Ameredith a Gentleman of Devonshire being recovered from a pain which he had suffered in his feet one of his friends saying he was glad to see him so nimble the Gentleman replies He hoped his hopes should not be frustrated of the great expectations he had to dance about the May-Pole the next Sunday But behold the Lord in a just punishment for such impious and wicked resolutions and no doubt also for his former prophanesse on that day smites him suddenly with feeblenesse and faintnesse of heart ere he stirred from the place and with such a strange dizzinesse in the head that he was forc't to be led home and from thence to his last home before the Lords Day shined upon him Now tell me any that can what little hopes the poor souls thus ushered to the chambers of death have to keep an eternal Sabbath with God that will not keep his Sabbath from prophaning on earth Truly these are sad symptoms of Gods heavy displeasure against soul as well as body his mercy if any be in such dismal dispensations are occult and hidden the Lord in mercy warn poor sinners to avoid the wrath of such an Infinite God that such as will not be intreated to keep the Lords day as they ought may be terrified from prophaning of it Another as severe he relates which together with the three former are attested by sufficient witnesses At Walton upon Thames in Survey upon a great frost in the year 1634. three young men having in the forenoon heard a Sermon from 2 Cor. 5.10 We must all appear before the Judgement-seat of Christ c. they went over the Ice into an house of disorder and gaming where they prophanely spent away the rest of the Lords day and night also in revelling and drinking the one of them next day boasting merrily of his pleasure upon the Sabbath day and his adventure over the Ice All three on Tuesday return the way they went and upon the Ice suddenly sunk to the bottom like stones one of them onely miraculously preserved These judgements may be mercies to some that are yet prophaners of the Lords day if God please At Burton upon Trent Mr. Abberly a godly Minister often took occasion to reprove and threaten such as make no conscience of the Lords day by prophaning it in a more peculiar manner such as bought and sold meat upon this day which it seems was a sin as great and as commonly practised in this place as it was lately at Buntingford where in my journey some Gentlemen of Newcastle being my fellow-travellers we took occasion after Sermon to acquaint the Minister withal I pray God it may not be so still lest such a judgement befal the place as did this prophane wretch which was thus A Taylor being a nimble and active man dwelling at the upper end of the Town must needs in a bravado go to the further end to buy some meat before morning-prayer but coming home with both his hands full in the midst of the street he fell down stark dead I was sayes Doctor Teate an eye-witnesse both of his fall and burial and that it wrought a reformation in the place both among the Butchers and others It was a remarkable Providence and I wish I say that other places may be reformed of this bold and impudent sin or truly they may repent of it when it s too late A Pious Divine sayes he The Lord hath spoken so loud from heaven against Sabbath-sinners that I cannot be silent We hereabout have had in a short time terrible tokens of God severe vengeance upon such as mind not the service of his Day amongst our selves a sad example A Townsman going to gather Cherries on the Lords Day fell from the tree and in the fall was so battered and bruised that he never spake more but lay groaning in his blood until the next day and then died Another man not far from this place in Cherry-time as he was gathering fruit fell from the tree and with the fall was so hurt that he lay in anguish and dreadful dolour all the week till Sabbath day and then ended his miserable life And of a young man that on the Lords Day in a place nigh unto Mr. Goodwins scrambling with others for Peares thrown out in the Church-yard broke his main thigh-bone and the bone of his leg on the same side which was so miserably and strangely broken as that the Bone-setter who was a godly man told Mr. Goodwin though he had seen many yet he never saw the like God here dealt in mercy as well as in judgememt in that he 〈◊〉 him space to repent and see his sin The Lord warn us all by these examples A company of prophane young men in 1635. near Salisbury upon the Lords Day morning went to Clarington Park to cut down a May-Pole and having loaden the Cart with the tree and themselves with the bitter fruits of sin they are severely punisht by the hand of God For entring into the City of Salisbury through a place called Milners Bars unawares the Cart gives a turn and the end of the tree struck one of the Sabbath-breakers such a mortal blow that his brains flew out and there on the place he yeilded himself a conquered sinner by the Just hand of the Lord lying there as a sad spectacle of Gods indignation and sayes Mr Clark I enquired of

windows broken the Iron barres of the windows bended and bloody and the poor wretch never more heard of These are sad instances of Gods displeasure if he would please in mercy to set them home upon some poor sinners In the year 1551. in Bohemia five drunkards were met together to drink who seeing a picture painted upon the wall for the devill drank healths to him the next night they were all found dead with their necks broken and their bodies crusht in pieces blood running out of their mouthes nostrils ears c. In the County of Cavan in Ireland a Gentleman of Castle-terra was much given to delight in drunken company wherein healths went down swiftly and glasses broke against the walls at every health by this sin he was so much addicted to wickednesse and impenitency as his sport was to repeat the Ministers Sermons in scorn and derision especially at one time having heard a Sermon upon faith demanded of the Minister if he could remove mountaines else he would not believe he had faith This Gentleman is by Gods hand struck with the small pox which gets into his throat in such extremity that he could not swallow any meat or drink to cool and refresh the violence of his internall heat that throat that had been the gutter and channel of many a pounds worth of drink could not now in torment like Dives suffer one drop to refresh him In this sad and bitter conflict he breaks out into these expressions to an honest man standing by Oh Thomas would I could now receive one of those glasses of drink which formerly I profusely and profanely have thrown against the walls And growing worse and worse without hopes of life perceiving no remedy but death for all his soares he breaks out again in his agony and torment oh that now I had but as much faith as a grain of Mustard-seed and so expired the 57. year of his Age I pray and cordially desire that such sinners as parallel this example may not be reacht with the like Justice Many there are in this Nation grown up to a height of Malice and Rage against Gods Ministers and some in this place boyled up to a proportion of envy ready to break The Lord break their hearts and humble their soules under that two-edged sword of his word that they may be saved in the day of the Lord A Gentleman of Quality being drunk and rising to urine evacuating that into the fire that prepared fuell for himself he fell into the fire and not being able to rise again his belly was gathered together like a piece of Lether the chamberlain coming in helped in that could not pity or help himself and though in great torture and pain through the piercing anguish of Gods Judgement yet he called for and drank off two and twenty double Jugs of Beer and so in this sad and lamentable estate died Roaring and Crying that he was damned for breaking his vow of Reformation Oh that the Lord would work a Reformation indeed that poor creatures may not thus fall under divine Justice too much to be feared as well to soul as body Remarkable is the example of that tragical story of two Drunkards who the fourth of July 1580. at Nekershofew in Almain came into an Inne called for bread and wine and drinking to an infinite excesse at last one of them drinks a health to God demanding what wine God would pledg him in and reaching forth his arm with a cup full sayes God I know not what wine thou likest best but this I think is too good for thee unlesse thou hadst sent better but such as it is I give thee take it pledge me presently and carouse it off every drop as I have done to thee or thou dost me wrong Here 's a piece of blasphemy which I am confident the most wretched creature in the world durst not speak sober Oh this sad sin we little know what the fruits of one drunken hour may produce This vile wretch no sooner ended his hellish courtesie but that just and wise God who must be provoked before he will execute his severe Judgements whom he had blasphemed pledged him with a witnesse for he left him as a pledge to the world of his wrath and displeasure against this sin His arme which he stretched out was never able to be pulled in again his body stupified as well as his senses not able to stirre from the place continuing a long time in this sad condition his eyes rolling to and fro in a terrible manner his breath and speech lost yet seemed to all alive The people flock in droves to see this sad spectacle of fury and vengeance some offer to remove him but could not horses are tied to him but could not stir him they put fire to him which would not take hold so perswaded God had set him there as a warning to Drunkards they left him so and to this day sayes my Author he stands as a Pillar and Mark to bid others avoid the like wickednesse least they participate of Gods wrath which though it moves a slow pace will in the end light heavier in as much as Gods patience provoked turns to the most irresistable punishment His companion who had escaped the imediate hand of God fell into the hands of Justice also for as the other died a terrible so this a shamefull death being hanged by the common people before the door of the house where the sin was committed O that you would consider this ye that forget God least he teare you in pieces and there be none to help At one of Alexanders great meetings appointed for his Officers and Favourits no lesse died with excesse of drink than 41. and after many a health Promachus at the bottom of four gallons of wine found the prize and jewel appointed for the Conquerour Another time he ended his own health and life by drinking a health out of Hercules Cup which to effect 35. drunk their last also These are direful and pregnant testimonies of Gods Judgements upon this impious custom of drinking healths Against that good law of the Spartans Vt bibat abitrio pocula quisque suo Every man to his own liberty Or that of the Goths where it was death to drink or force a health It s placed in the Records of time that Popelus second King of Poland doubting the fruits of his male-government to be the peoples deposing him by his Queens counsel faines himself sick sends for twenty of the Elective Princes out of Pomerania intreating their visit who as well now as at other times came and for their just reward and punishment of their great excesse in drink and custom of healths they now drunk their last without being drunk at all The King makes a Speech intreates his Son may be elected Heir to the Crown after his departure which they promise if the Nobility consented to their resolves The Queen to seal the bargaine brings a