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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

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 cōmandement 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 cōmanded 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 profanatiō 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 cōmandement 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