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A17298	A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 4140.7; ESTC S115279	33,687	58

and that by the Ministers themselves For was it not the judgement and confession of King Iames of famous memory and of the whole state and Kingdome in an exhortation published in that great plague beginning with his raigne 1603 where are these words The Lords Sabbath is not kept holy but polluted c. and therefore the cause is apparent why the plague is broken in amongst us And was not the same exhortation afterwards republished by our gracious King Charles whom God long preserve a religious and righteous Governour over us in the first yeare of his raigne with the approbation of the whole Parliament where the same is acknowledged of that other great Plague in the beginning of his Raigne 1625. namely that one principall speciall cause thereof was the not keeping holy but polluting the Lords day And if this were a principall cause of those great plagues then why not of this which now we suffer yea what Plague upon plagues may we not justly expect to breake forth upon us in these dayes wherein we have increased surpassed our fathers sins and that in such a height as they reach up to heaven to pull downe flames and flakes of vengeance upon our heads And so much the more sith upon the publishing of the said booke so manyfold mischiefes have attended and followed as never any age since Christ much lesse such a Christian state as we professe to be hath seene or ever heard the like For besides the open violation of Gods holy commandement the 4. Morall acknowledged in our Homily to be the ground of our Christian Sabbath day as it is there no lesse then 8. severall times distinctly stiled as also in another Homily twice which by the way makes me wonder at the audacious insolence arrogant ignorance of some new Masters in these dayes and in particular of D r. Poch in his Sunday no Sabbath who is not ashamed to avouch with open mouth that the name of Sabbath was never given to the Lords day untill it was brought in by Iohn Knox others of the Puritan faction in the yeare 1554. What saith he then to the Homilies of our Church which were set forth in K. Edw. 6. his Raigne and so I am sure before 1554. by 3. or 4. yeares now these to omitt innumerable testimonies more both out of ancient Fathers and the Prelates of this Land too large to be comprehended in a Parenthesis being now to furnish a pretty Treatise these our Homilies I say so frequently and clearly called the Lords day the Sabbath day before Iohn Knox called it so 1554. And the same Homilies being set forth a fresh by Queene Elizabeth 1562. will Dr. P. dare to charge the learned and pious compilers of them a pack of Puritans or as some other NOVELL SABBATARIANS But this by the way by which violation I say of the Sabbath or Lords day God is intolerably dishonoured and his Religion disgraced through outragious libertinisme What an invention of Antichristian tyranny hath broken in at the opening of this great sluice What havock is made in our Church by sundry of the Hierarchy in suspending godly Ministers depriving them of their liberty livelyhood and Freeholds against all Lawes of God and man so as they their wives and children are exposed to beggery and all misery and their flocks to be devoured of the wolves and to become a prey to that roaring Lion and all this because they dare not offer violence to their consciences in doing that which should dishonour God indanger their owne and their peoples soules abase before God and man the authority and dignity to their Ministry condemne the innocent people of God and call the wicked righteous teach inferiours rebellion to their Superiours and in a word hasten the pulling downe of vengeance from heaven upon the Land O ye heavens stand amazed at this sight Tell it not in Gath nor publish it in the Streets of Askelon least the daughters of the Philistims rejoyce least the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph What could the Pope have done more then some of our Prelates have done in this kind for the darkening of the glory of Christs Kingdome and for the setting up of Antichrists throne againe in this Land But our Lord sayth Ye shall know them by their fruits Besides what impudency and impiety hath broken out from sundry aÃ«ry and ambitious spirits who have dared in their late published bookes upon bookes to belch out their blasphemies against God and the power purity and profession of the Religion established amongst us for so many yeares Nor only is the floodgate of all profanenesse and impiety broken up in the violation of the 4. commandement but of the 5. also when as by occasion of the publishing of the sayd booke which inhibits Magistrates and superiours to restraine or punish youth for taking such liberty on the Lords day as the booke alloweth and which all other books writings monuments of Fathers Councells Kings Emperours Divines ancient and moderne Protestants and Papists have universally with one vote and voyce cryed downe till now but yesterday a new generation of Maleferiati hath risen up out daring and defining the whole world and God himselfe inferiour persons exalt themselves in high contempt against their Superiours as the common vulgar against the Magistrate and Minister servants against their Masters children against their Parents and wanton wives against their husbands which hath caused such outcryes and complaints of masters for their servants unbridled and uncontrowled outrage on the Lords day which must also in-jure them with pride and presumption of spirit the whole weeke after and so their whole life while like untamed colts they have thus learned to take the bitt betweene their teeth and so to runne a gallop into all excesse of riot So as if the booke be not all the sooner called in and the authors of those late books against the sanctification of the Lords day condignly punished and a speedy reformation hereofset on foot how can we looke for a stay of the plague untill the Land be consumed Now the Lord make us wise to lay these things to heart least he teare in peeces and there be none to deliver For as never any Christian Church hath produced such monstrous impieties so never any Church hath bene the theater of such tragicall examples of divine wrath as our Land is like to be if we speedily repent not Vnlesse therefore we repent we shall all likewise perish as these examples have done before us Now for these so many so markable examples of Gods judgements inflicted upon the violaters and profaners of the Lords day and that in so short a time even since the booke for such sports was published we may thus argue and conclude That for which the Lord inflicteth and executed so many notorious and severe judgements must needs be a notorious and hainous sin and so a breach of his holy commandement But for the violation and

profanation of the Lords day by sports and pastimes or by servile works the Lord inflicteth and executeth many notorious and severe judgements as of late we have seene Erg. the violation profanation of the Lords day is a notorious and heinous sin and so a breach of Gods holy commandement The Major Proposition is a Maxime in Divinity God punisheth no man but for sin and sin is a transgression of Gods law 1. Ioh. 3. 4. For the Minor proposition it is so cleare as it cannot be denied except men will be senselesse and blind Atheists But they that feare God shall declare the worke of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing as Ps. 64. 9. Now if the violation or profanation of the Lords day be a sin and so a transgression of Gods holy commandement then of what holy coÌ„mandement but of the 4. And if of the 4. then the holy keeping of the Lords day for the Christian Sabbath is grounded upon the 4. commandement and coÌ„manded in it as God hath abundantly testified by his many remarkable judgments even within this two yeares as hath bene shewed Ob. But here some may object God may punish men for the breach of humaine ordinances which are not the expresse commandements of God So in this instance God may punish the violation or profanatioÌ„ of the Lords day by such sportes or wakes as being a breach of a humaine ordinance or Ecclesiasticall institution Answ. I answere it is true all humaine ordinances being not against Gods word are to be observed for conscience sake of Gods commandement commanding subjection to all ordinances of men for the Lords sake And if it were a humaine ordinance to dedicate this day of holy rest to God by a perpetuall vow and Decree then the greater is their sin that devoure that which is sanctified and after the vow make inquiry how it may be violated So as they ly under the wrath of God for so doing and are lyable to the like judgements without repentance THE EPILOGVE THus have I presented you with a large scene of late severall examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers and such disorderly people who have bene so presumptuous as to profane the Lords owne sacred day against the monitions of Gods faithfull Ministers with unnecessary labour vaine sports and idle pastimes To which I might annexmany ancient Precedents of like nature which I pretermit onley one excepted which is remarkable In the yeare of our Lord 1583. in the famous Metropolis of this our Land the City of London two Citizens the one leaving his wife the other her husband and committing adultery together on the Lords-day it pleased God to strike them dead with fire from heaven whilst they were in in the very act of uncleannes their bodies being left dead in the place halfe burnt up sending out a most loathsome savour for a spectacle of Gods avenging justice unto others to teach them both to shun the sin of adultery and of Sabbath-breaking too and to take heed how they commit any sin or wickednesse at any time and especially on Gods sacred day or how they follow dauncing may-games morisdaunces ales and such lascivious pastimes which commonly end in whoredome adultery as being strong allurements thereunto this judgment was so famous and remarkable that Laurentius Bayenlinke a forraine Historian in his Opus Chronologicum orbis universi Antwerp 1611. p. 110. hath thought good to register it to posterity if any deeme those judgements strange or that God should inflict such punishments on this sin which some now justify as a part of Christian liberty both in the Pulpit in printed works I shall only intreat such to remember that the whole Convocation house all the Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons and greatest Clerks of England in their booke intituled THE INSTITVTION OF A CHRISTIAN MAN subscribed with all their names and dedicated to K. Hen. 8. an 1537. and K. Hen. 8. himselfe in his owne booke inscribed A necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christian man set forth by the Kings Majesty of England with the advise and approbation of the Lords spirituall and temporall and Nether house of Parliament an 1543. and by the King himselfe dedicated under his name and title to all his faithfull and loving subjects and published by vertue of the Statute of 32. H. 8. c. 26. in the exposition of the 4. Commandement have in the very dawning of Reformation injoyned all Bishops and Preachers diligently to instruct and teach the people committed to their spirituall charge and I wish that some Bishops would now doe it that against this commandement generally do offend all they which having no lawfull impediment doe not give themselves upon the holy day to heare the word of God to remember the benefits of God to give thanks for the same to pray to exercise such holy works both publikely in the Church and privately in their houses as be appointed for such holy dayes but as commonly is used passe the time either in idlenesse in gluttony in riot or other vaine and idle pastime DOE BREAKE THIS COMMANDEMENT For surely such keeping of holy day is not according to the intent meaning of this coÌ„mandement as some new Doctors now dogmatize but after the usage Custome of the Iewes though some late Rabbies would make the world beleeve that the strict sanctification of the Lords day and the restraining of vaine Sports and Pastimes on it is Iewish when Ignatius Augustine Cirillus Alexandrinus Ephraim Syrus Socrates Scholasticus Theodosius the Emperor Beda Vincentius Belvacensis and generally all authors since have branded dauncing sports and recreations on the Lords day both as jewish and heathenish and D r Iohn White in his way to the true Church defended published by his elder brother D r Fr. White now Bp. of Ely Mr Zanchie Wolfg. Musculus M r Iohn Sprint as Popish and licentious tending to the overthrow of piety and desolation of publike Governement and doth not please God but doth much more offend him and provoke his indignation and wrath towards us For as S. Augustine saith of the Iewes they should be better occupied labouring in the feilds and to be at plough then to be idle at home And women should better bestow their time in spinning of wool then on the Sabbath-day to loose their time in leaping or dauncing and other idle wantonnesse Now if the whole Clergy King State and Parliament were so quicke-sighted as in those times of darknes to see a Lords day Sabboth in the 4. commandement to be Wholly onely and intirely dedicated to God and his true worship as they there teach and so pious as to beleeve that the exercise of vaine idle sports Pastimes and dauncing on it did much more offend God then ploughing or spinning and provoke his wrath and indignation towards us no wonder if we in the cleare sunshine of the

common sinne for which so many have smarted from heaven in an exemplarie manner I shall therefore confine my selfe only to such domesticke examples as have fallen out in sundry corners of this our Realme within these two yeares of purpose to refute the madnesse of those Prophets who in the Presse and Pulpit and the profanes of those people who in their dauncing-greenes and may-pole arbors have bene so audacious as to affirme the Profanation of the Lords day by Maygames Daunces May-poles Wakes and common Labour out of time of divine Service especially after evening Prayer to be no sin at all against the 4. Commandement or any other Law of God or man but necessary and commendable point of true Christian Liberty they should have sayd of carnall and heathenish licentiousnesse rather from which the people must not be debarred But let these blinde guides and libertines learne from these examples to correct this their erronious judgment and practise for feare the Lord make them the next examples in this kinde to teach others to keepe his Sabbaths better and more intirely for the future And if these tragical spectacles of divine justice will not perswade them that such profaning of the Lords most Sacred day is a Syn yea and a crying Syn too as all our writers yea and our Prelates generally till now of late have unanimously defined and the whole State in Parliament in two late famous Statutes and two more ancient Acts to omit our Homilyes Common Praier booke Canons Articles and Injunctions which conclude the same I say have adjudged such a presumptuous transgression as will draw downe Gods vengeance on mens heads Our late Soveraigne K. Iames of happy memory and our present gracious Soveraigne Lord R. Charles with all the Prelates Cleargy and people of the Realme in the first yeares of both their Raignes in the severall Bookes of Common Praier and order for the publike fasts set out by their royall authorityes and the Bishops advice with the Consent and harty desire of the whole Realme for the abating aversion and ceasing of those dreadfull eating Plagues which then swallowed up many thousands of people every weeke will informe them That amonge other Syns The profaning OF THE SABBATH So King Iames his Booke styles the sunday and not keeping holy the Lords day was one cheife cause why those two great terrible Plagues and why not also this great Plague which is now begun and spread much abroade brake in upon us to the destruction not of some few Particular persons but of many thousands and the punishment of the whole Realme and Nation in generall And because some of these men plead most falsly that the chiefest writers of the reformed Churches are of their opinion M r. Rodolphus Gualter and Wolfgangus Musculus men of principall note and learning amonge them will both assure them that the Lords day is not onely WHOLLY ONLY AND INTIRELY TO BE SPENT IN RELIGIOVS PVBLIKE AND PRIVATE DVTIES OF GODS WORSHIP AND THAT DAVNCING SPORTES AND PASTIMES ON IT ARE SINFVLL AND EXECRABLE the constant judgment of all forraigne Protestant divines whatsoever as I am able to prove what ever D r Helyn or others have rashly averred to the contrary But likewise further informe them That God may justly revenge the great contempt of his Deity in profaning his Sacred day with daunces and such like Revells and discorders WITH HORRIBLE PVNISHMENTS NEITHER IS IT TO BE DOVBTED saith M r Gualther THAT THE PROFANATION OF THE LORDS DAY IS NOT THE LEAST CAVSE OF THE EVILS AND CALAMITIES OF OVR AGE Yea their owne most illustrious Cardinall Robert Bellarmine whom they allmost deify when they doe but name him is so farre a Puritan in this particular that he not only spends 4. or 5. whole Sermones against dauncing mummeries maskes and such like Bacchanals which he simply condemnes at all times but especially on sacred festivals and Lords dayes as most detestable profanations of them but likewise professeth that the practise of them upon sacred times was the occasion of all the publike calamities and judgments which they suffered But by these Daunces Mummeries Bacchanels and discorders saith he we polute the holy dayes of the Lord and yet neverthelesse do we inquire the reasons why God doth punish us why we are slaine in our very houses doe not the Scriptures cry aloude Sinne maketh a people miserable And there is no evill in the Citie which the Lord hath not done Therefore these our sinnes of profaning the holy dayes of the Lord with daunces revels and bacchanals have procured us famine and poverty and pestilence and sedition and ALL PLAGVES AND SCOVRGES And verily saith he in another Sermon I vehemently feare that if we proceed to celebrate the Bacchanals with mummeries and maskes and daunces as we doe at other times and to provoke God to wrath with so many wicked Pastimes our sinne will be growen to the full at last and the anger of the Lord be so farre incensed that he will utterly destroy us as we see he hath destroyed many nations for what I pray hath destroyed Grecia But even that very thing which we doe They were men exceedingly given to drunkenesses feasting and DAVNCING and that upon sacred times as may be knowne by the Orations of Basill and Chrisostome But what hath God done because they were addicted to these things and especially to DAVNCING he hath imposed such a severe tyrant to wit the Turke upon their necks that they now groane under the yoke and are pressed with so heavy a burthen THAT THEY HAVE NEITHER TIME NOR WILL TO DAVNCE OR CAPER Thus Bellarmine to his greate admirers shame and refutation If then this sinne of profaning the Lords day by dauncing Maygames Ales Pastimes or unnecessary travel and labour drawe downe Gods Plagues and vengeance upon whole Kingdomes and Churches as these authors together with M r. Iohn Feild in his declaration of the judgement of God at Paris Garden and Humphry Robarts in his complaint for the Reformation of divers vaine and wicked abused exercises practised on the Sabbath day which tend to the hinderance of the Gospell and increase of many abominable vices printed by Richard Iones London 1580. together with M r. Philip Stubs in his Anatomic of abuses and M r. Iohn Nortbrooke in his Treatise where in dicing DAVNCING vaine playes and Enterludes with other idle Pastimes and exercises commonly used on the SABBATH DAY are by the Word of God and ancient writers reprooved printed for George Bishop London 1579. most punctually testifie and the Practise of Piety dedicated to his Majesty and 39. times printed by publike authority resolves no wonder if it hath lately caused God to unsheath his sword of exemplarie justice upon these particular persons that I speake not of the whole Kingdome in generall now scourged with a fresh plague and lately a drought whose tragicall examples I here present unto

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