The practical Sabbatarian, or, Sabbath-holiness crowned with superlative happiness by John Wells ...

CHAP. XLIX. Gods Tremendous Judgments executed upon those who have prophaned and violated his holy Day.

WE have already seen by Scripture light, frowns in the face of God, wrath in the heart of God flaming in the eye of God, and a Sword in the hand of God against those who dare pollute his holy Sabbath.

Let us now trace the methods of Providence, and still more wrath and vengeance breaks out against the same Offendors; and indeed (a little to preface what is subsequent) The sin of prophaning of Gods day is no sin of surprisal, but it is a deliberative offence, a sin carried on with consultation. Sometimes an Oath is sworn unadvisedly, as that of Herod to Herodias her Daughter, Mark 6. 26. which cost John the Baptist his life: an act of intemperance is hatched by the warmth of a temptation; he is brutified, when reason on a sudden hath left its habitation: Nay, sometimes one wounds another, and it is only a lightning of passion, as high Feavers soon run into a distraction. But now the violation of the Sabbath is a premeditated act, and is the leisurely effect of a corrupt heart; it is a sin accompanied with time to consider, and with an enlightned mind to understand it. Recreations upon a Sabbath, they are no vain surprisal, but studied wickedness; sleeping at Ordinances is a giving way to the flesh; Riots and Surfeits on the Lords day, they are designed debauchery, nothing but a striking hands with Hell in cold blood; we consult with our ease, when we trifle away the Sabbaths; we neglect not Ordinances on the Lords day, and court our Bed, or our Belly, instead of the Sanctuary, with∣out advice and debate with our selves; nor can the fantastick piece of pride, spend hours on Gods holy day, with the Glass

and the Dressing-box, nay, and it may be the Box of Patches, and the Perfuming-pot, without concluding before hand they will appear to the worlds eye in the most flatter∣ing dress. Sabbath-prophanation is a sin of knowledge and deliberation, which puts it into a scarlet dye; surely it must needs be a great sin to forget that, which God bids us re∣member; to prophane that, which God biddeth us to keep holy; to labour on that day, when God bids us to rest; and to unhallow that day, which God hath blessed: what is this, but to throw down the Gantlet, and to challenge God him∣self? God indeed hath punished this sin with the most stu∣pendous revenges, I shall marshal his dreadful executions into their several ranks, whereby we observing the many exam∣ples of divine fury and indignation, we may carefully take the alarm, and so avoid the stroke, (for God usually strikes one, to awaken and warn another) and hearing these thun∣ders, we may fly that guilt, which is pursued with such Hue and Cries of divine displeasure, and may write upon our hearts, not our phylacteries, that dreadful position of the Apostle, Heb. 10. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

[unspec 1] Sometimes God hath punished the prophanation of his Sabbath, with consuming the goods of the Offendor. One who carried Corn into his Barn upon the Lords day, had it all consumed with fire from heaven, together with his house. A Miller likewise who lived at Wotton, was going forth to a Wake upon the Lords day, and coming home at Night found his house, his Mill, and all that he had, burnt down to the ground. Thus the fire of Gods wrath hath o∣ver-taken this sin and great transgression.

To add one Example more; In the year 1635, a Miller at Churchdown near Glocester, would needs make a Whitson Ale, notwithstanding the private and publick admonitions of the Minister, and all christian friends; so, great provi∣sion was made, and Musick was set out as the Minister and people were going to Church in the Afternoon, and when Sermon was done, the Drum beat up, the Musick played, and the people fell on dancing until the Evening, at which

time they all resorted to the Mill: But oh, the Justice of God! before they had supped, at nine of the Clock, a sud∣den fire seized upon the house which was so furious, that it burned down his house and Mill, and the most of all his other provisions and housholdstuff: ••nd most just it is, that if we commit Sacriledge, and 〈…〉〈…〉 the time of his day, he should act severely, and dispoy•• 〈…〉〈…〉 fruits of our labour; sinners make waste of his glory, and most righ∣teous it is, God should make waste of their habitations and goods.

[unspec 2] God for the prophanations of his Sabbath, draws a little nearer to Offendars, and strikes their persons, as shall be seen in a few instances.

One serving a Writ of Subpoena upon another, coming from Church on the Lords day, after some words of re∣proof for so doing, and a light answer thereunto, the person who served the Writ, died in the place, without speaking any more words: O the fearful and just judgment of the Lord! this prophane person himself was subpoenaed unexpectedly by a Writ he could not refuse, to appear before Gods dreadful Tribunal.

A Grasiers Servant would needs drive his Cattle on the Lords day in the Morning from the Inne where he lay on the Saturday Night, but he was not gone a stones cast from the Town, but he fell down dead suddenly, when he was in perfect health before: Thus the Lords day is written in dominical letters, in the blood of Transgressors who pro∣phane it.

To add one dreadful example more; One Richard Bourn Servant to Gaspar Birch of Ely, was so accustomed to travel on the Lords day, that he made no conscience of it, s••ldom or never coming to the publick Congregation, to hear Gods word on that day, but went to St. Ives Market, where he stayed and spent the day; where being drunk, he was over∣taken by Divine Justice, for coming home fraught with Commodities, he fell into the River and was drowned. And thus as his sinnes did meet to provoke the Lord, viz. his Drunkenness and Sabbath-breaking, so the

stream did meet to destroy and overthrow him.

[unspec 3] Sometimes God doth not presently cut off those who prophane his day, but he puts a brand of infamy upon them, to make them a shame, and a terrour to themselves, that they may be hissed off from the Stage of the World, and with self-con∣founding, and horrour may go down unexpectedly to their Graves; this is verified by this story.

There was an Husbandman who went to plough on the Lords day, and cleansing his Plow with an Iron, the Iron stuck so fast in his hand for two years, that he carried it a∣bout with him as a signal testimony of the Lords just dis∣pleasure against him, and so he lived infamously in the world till he died, and made his passage to another world; the Iron in his hand only discovering the Adamant in his heart.

[unspec 4] Sometimes God leaves those who prophane his holy day to the commission of prodigious evils; and so he punisheth one fin with another, which is the sorest punishment, and the ulti∣mate effect of Divine Vengeance: for when God punisheth sin with suffering, then he chastiseth with Rods, but when he punisheth sin with sin, then he scourges with Scorpions, as may be instanced in these succeeding stories.

In Helvetia near Belessina, Three men were playing at Dice on the Lords day, and in their play, one called Ʋtricke Schraetorus having hopes of a good Cast, having lost much money before, he now expected fortune, or rather the De∣vil to succour him, and therefore he breaks out into this horrid blasphemy, If Fortune deceive me now, I will thrust my Dagger into the body of God, as far as I can; And so with a powerful force he throws it up towards Heaven, which Dagger was never seen more, and immediately five drops of blood fall before them all upon the Table, and as sudden∣ly came the Devil among them, and carries away this vile wretch, with such a terrible and hideous noise, as the whole City was astonished at it: Those who remained, endeavour∣ed to wipe off the blood, but to little purpose, for the more they rubbed, the more perspicuous and visible the blood was: Report carries it over the City, multitudes flockt to

see this wonder, who find those who had thus prophaned the Sabbath, rubbing the blood to get it out. These two men who were Companions to him who was carried away by the Devil, were by the Decree of the Senate bound in Chains, and as they were leading to prison, one of them was suddenly struck dead, and from his whole body, a wonderful number of worms and vermine was seen to crawl. The City thus ter∣rified with Gods judgments, and to the intent that God might be glorified, and a future vengeance averted from the place, they caused the third Offendor, one of the gaming Companious to be forthwith put to death; And they caused the Table with the drops of blood upon it, to be preserved as a Monument of Gods wrath against this sin, thus this blasted Table like Lots wife, was a standing warning-piece, to cause all to take heed of Sabbath-breaking, and ingratitude.

At Simsbury in Dorsetshire, One rejoycing at the erecting of a Summer-Pole on a Lords day, He said he would go see it, though he went through a quick-set hedge; Going with wood in his arms, to cast into the Bonefire, prophanely ut∣tered these words, Heaven and earth are full of thy glory O Lord; he was immediately overtaken by the stroke of God, and in two or three hours died and his wife also. And thus as God once punished Pharaoh with hail mixed with fire, so he hath punished the prophanation of his day with sin and judgment joyntly, with leaving the Offendor to vile sins, o∣vertaking the Offendor with sore smarts, that his burdens like those of the Israelites in Egypt, might be doubled.

[unspec 5] Sometimes God punisheth the prophanation of his Sabbath with executing vengeance on great numbers: God hath not decimated such sinners, but destroyed them in the lump, as may be verified in these ensuing stories.

Fourteen youths adventuring to play at Foot-ball on the River Trent upon the Lords day, when it was, as they thought, very hard frozen, meeting at last together in a shove, the Ice brake, and they were all drowned.

At the Bear-Garden in Southwark on a Sabbath-day in the Afternoon, many persons pressing on the Scaffold to see the sport, forced it suddenly down, with which fall, eight

were killed, and many spoiled in their bodies, who died soon af∣ter. And by the way let me observe, This seeing of Shews upon the Lords day was complained of above 1200 years ago, and Edicts set out against it by the Emperors Valen∣tinian and Gratian; the early zeal of the Primitive Christians took notice of this detestable and prodigious practice.

God sometimes takes away Sabbath-breakers immediately by his own hand, as may be seen in these instances:

A Fellow near Brinkley in Essex, usually coming home late from his sports on the Lords day, his good Mistris re∣proving him for it; one Sabbath he goes to a Chalk-pit to work with another man, and tells him, he used to vex his Mistris for his sports on the Sabbath, but now he would vex her worse with his work, which words were no sooner spoken, but Justice seizes upon him, for the earth fell upon him, and he stirred no more, but presently died. Thus the Lord by his own hand cut off this Miscreant wretch, and threw him into Corah, Dathan, and Abirams Grave. Let me add another dreadful example:

One Sabbath-day in the Afternoon, a Match at Foot-ball was made in Bedfordshire; as two of the company were tolling the Bell to call the rest together, some that sate in the Church-porch heard a terrible noise, as a clap of Thun∣der, and they saw a flash of Lightning coming through an obscure Lane, which flashed in their faces to their terrour and amazement, and the Lightning passing on to those who were tolling, it trips up the heels of the one, and leaves him stark dead, and so blasted the other, that he died within a few days. Thus the swift Messengers of Divine wrath overtook those incautelous sinners, and blasted them in the middest of their presumptuous impieties. Lightning from heaven te∣stifies against the deeds and facts of Hell.

At Dover the same day the Book of sports was read in St. James Parish, one prophanely went to play upon a Kit, which drew a multitude of people, especially of the younger sort together: But oh the terrour of the Lord, this pro∣phane person was struck by a divine hand, and in two days died.

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Thus daring sinners by an unexpected doom are folded up in their dust to awaken others, that they may not adventure upon the same impieties.

A Vintner who was a great swearer and drunkard, as he was standing at his door upon the Lords day with a pot of wine in his hand to invite his guests, was by the wonderful justice and power of God carryed into the Air with a whirl∣winde, and never seen or heard of more. How soon can the word of God make the creature, and how suddenly can the winde of God destroy the sinner. Let us read and trem∣ble.

[unspec 7] Sometimes God revenges the prophanation of his day me∣diately by the hand of others; as may be verified in this ensu∣ing story.

Not far from Dorcester lived one widow Jones, whose Son Richard upon the Lords day (notwithstanding all the perswasions and admonitions of his good Mother) did with his companions go to Stoake to play; where after he had done, and drank freely with his company, they return home, and by the way fall out; whereupon John Edwards one of the company stabbed this Richard Jones under the left rib, whereof at seven of the clock the next night he died. Thus every thing becomes a sword, even a companion to destroy a presumptuous Sabbath-breaker.

One disposed to sin and debauchery would needs keep an Ale in the Church-house on the Lords day: But O the severity and formidable justice of God! At night his youngest Son was taken Prisoner for stealing of a purse out of anothers pocket while he lay drunk in the said Church-house, and the week ensuing his eldest Son was stabbed to death. Thus Sabbath-prophanation blasts families as well as persons, and plucks down the house upon the sinners head.

[unspec 8] Sometimes God leaves the sinner who prophanes his day to destroy himself: When God in patience suspends the execu∣tion of his own hand, and in pity restrains others, that they shall not destroy the Sabbath-breaker, then he himself be∣comes his own murderer: And when he is not with Aa∣rons

Sons destroyed by God himself, Levit. 10. 2. Nor is he with Senacherib slain by others, Isa. 37. 37, 38. Then with Saul in rage and despair he falls upon his own sword, 1 Sam. 31. 4.

One Richard Clark was drunk in company with one Hen∣ry Parram on the Lords day, to whom he said, he would ei∣ther hang or drown himself, desirous to know which was best, but Parram replyed, he hoped he would do neither. But oh the judgment of the Lord! especially upon those who prophane his day: For on Monday morning he was seen going through the Town, as if he was going about his ma∣sters business, and having got up into the midst of a tree without the town, He did there hang himself. Thus Achi∣tophels doom was this mans death, and as disappointment sent the one, so Guilt, Sabbath guilt sent the other to his place.

[unspec 9] God for the prophaning of his holy day takes away sinners in the very act of their sin, as may be observed in these ensuing stories.

Some boys of St. Albans going into Verulams pond to swim upon the Lords day, one of them was drowned, and another very narrowly escaped.

Two young men of St. Dunstans in the West London, go∣ing to swim on the Lords day, were both drowned. Thus neither the tenderness of youth, nor the sutableness of the re∣creation can apologize for the great sin of Sabbath-break∣ing: God will be sanctified by, or upon all Christians for their carriage or miscarriage upon his sacred Sabbath.

[unspec 10] God executeth vengeance upon the very Heathens for the abuse of his day. Natures light might induce us to keep a solemn day for the worship of God, and if that light be damp∣ed by prophaneness, God observes, and will revenge that sin.

It is recorded of Pompey, the great Roman, that he shrunk under the depression of Gods sore displeasure for prophaning Gods Sabbath and Sanctuary: And this story is related by an Heathen too. Among the very Heathens there is a Veneration observable in Gods holy Sabbath.

[unspec 11] God executes his vengeance upon the greatest persons for the prophanation of his day.

The Centuriatours of Magdeburg tell us of one of the Kings of Denmark, who when he contrary to the admonition of the Priests (who desired him to defer it) would needs on a Lords day go to battel with his enemy, he was slain in the fight: Thus justice and revenge in its triumphs over this sin, can reach the Scepter as well as the spade.

Nicanor a great Commander of Syria engaging against the Jews in battel upon the Sabbath, supposing that was a time in which they would not fight, and so it would facili∣tate his victory, he falls and dies in the battel, and his head was cut off, and his hand and his shoulder, and they are brought with joy to Hierusalem, 2 Macchab. 15. 2, 28, 30. Valour cannot withstand Gods stroke, when his Sabbath is contemned, and defied by presumptuous sinners; nor can the blindness of paganism extenuate or apologize for the sin.

[unspec 12] God punisheth the prophanation of his day with prodigious and monstrous births, that his vengeance may be written in a fairer, and more legible Character, as may be seen in this story.

A great man using every Lords day to hunt in Sermon time, had a child by his wife, with a head like a dog, and it cryed like a hound; and it had ears and chaps like the fore∣mentioned beast. This monstrous sin is most justly punish∣ed with a monstrous birth, to make good that of holy Job; Job 4. 8. Even as I have seen, they who plough iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.

[unspec 13] God sometimes punisheth the prophaning of his day in the posterity of the offendor, as may be seen in the ensuing stories.

On the Sabbath in the afternoon at Twickenham in Mid∣dlesex, the people being much given to May-games, they assembled to take down the May-pole, and as they were ta∣king it down, one of the Church-Wardens wives was with her young child in her arms, within her own gate looking upon them. But whilst she was looking on, one of the greatest ropes failed and broke, and the pole fell down upon

the pale that parted the gate and the street, and the upper end of the pole with the fall lapped over, and struck the child on the head in it mothers arms and killed it. Thus lit∣tle children, who knew not the sin, yet must die for it. Let this story be annexed.

A vain and wanton maid hired on the Lords day a fellow to go to the next town to fetch thence a minstrel, that she and others might dance and be merry, but she committing lewdness that night with one of her companions, proved with child, And at the time of its birth she murthers it, and so was hanged for the murther, confessing, and mournfully ac∣knowledging at the time of her death, That the occasion of her great misery, was her prophanation of the Lords day. Thus this crimson sin o•• Sabbath-breaking, can cut off root and branch, and pursue with ruine and shame the actors of it, and all those who are entangled in it.

[unspec 14] God overtakes those who prophane his blessed day oftentimes with sudden death, and shoots no warning-pi••ces to summon them to prepare for their departure out of this world, to his own d••eadful and tremendous Tribunal, as may be seen in these following stories.

A Tailor of Buntingford being a nimble and active man, dwelling at the upper end of the town, in a bravado would go to the other 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, Dr. Teate was an eye-witness of his fall and burial: Oh what swift destruction pursues this cursed sin!

A townsman of Watford going to gather Cherries on the Lords day, fell from the tree, and in the fall was battered and bruised insomuch that he never spake more, but lay groan∣ing in his bloud till the next day, and then he dyed.

A company of prophane young men near Salisbury, upon the Lords day in the morning went to Claringdon Park to cut down a May-pole, and having loaden a Cart with the tree, and themselves with the bitter fruits of sin, they are severely punished by the hand of God, for entring into the City of Salisbury through a place called Milners Barnes,

unawars the Cart turns, and struck one of the Sabbath-breakers such a mortal blow, that his brains flew out, and there dyed on the place. This story was attested by divers godly persons living in the City of Salisbury to a Reverend Minister who made enquiry about it.

One at Ham nigh Kingelone going on the Lords day to visit his grounds, where finding some cattel grazing which were not his own, and running to drive them out, he fell down and dyed suddenly upon the place. Thus Gods angry eye is seconded by his revenging hand, he sees and strikes to∣gether, and they who will not keep a day, shall not live an hour.

[unspec 15] God punisheth the prophanation of his Sabbath with painful and tormenting death, as may be exemplified in these stories.

At Tidworth on the Lords day, many were met in the Church-yard to play at foot-ball, where one of this wicked company had his leg broken, which by a secret judgement of the Lord, so festered, that it turned into a gangrene in despight of all means used, and so in pain and terror he gave up the Ghost and dyed. For the sin of Sabbath-breaking God embitters his very executions; and the offendor must not on∣ly die, but he must die upon the rack.

One gathering fruit on the Lords day, fell from the tree, and was so hurt, That he lay in anguish and dreadful dolour all the week till Sabbath day, and then he ended his miserable life. Thus God puts Gall and Wormwood into the Cup of those who prophane his blessed day.

[unspec 16] God sometimes stops those who prophane his Sabbath in their carier and proceeds of sin, as is seen in this following story.

One Mr. Ameredith, a Gentleman of Devonshire being recovered from a pain he had in his feet; one of his friends said, he was glad to see him so nimble; the Gentleman re∣plies, he hoped he should not be frustrated of his expectati∣on in dancing about the May-pole the next Sunday: But behold the justice of God in his just punishments of such vain and sinful resolutions; for the Lord presently smote

him with such feebleness and faintness of heart, ere he stirred from the place where he was, and likewise with such a great and unusal dizziness in the head, that he was forced to be led home, and from thence to his last home, before the Lords day shone upon him. Thus the very intentions of act∣ing this sin, were dreadfully and strangely punished, God punished this sin in the Embryo of it, while it lay onely in the Womb of a resolution.

[unspec 17] God punishes the most inconsiderable breaches of his holy day, as may be observed in the ensuing story.

Two Brethren on the Lords day in the Forenoon, came to an Uncle they had to dine with him, they living in a Mar∣ket-Town not far off; after Dinner they took horse again, but had not gone far, but one of the horses fell down dead, and these Brethren going back again to their Uncles house, put the other horse into the Stable, and within an hour or two, that horse likewise died in the place. Thus the insensible beast shall bear the burden of mans sin, and Sabbath-prophana∣tion shall be branded upon the bruit creatures.

We have known, saith Ludovicus Pius the German Em∣perour, in one of his Declarations, Some busied in works of husbandry on the Lords-day, to have been slain with lightning, some punished with contraction of Limbs, some consumed with visible fire, and on a sudden turned into ashes, and so to have perished in a judicial way: where∣fore it is a necessary duty that in the first place Priests, then Kings, Princes, and all faithful persons do most de∣voutly exhibit due observation and reverence unto this day.

We may observe in this Edict of this worthy Prince, not unfitly called Pius, that the Crimes committed on this day, were onely rustical works, which might easily meet with an Apologie, and lay a specious claim to a dispensation, yet the judgments mentioned are fearful and tremendous: And the use this noble Emperour makes of these doleful Providences, is most excellent and commendable, becoming the Throne of Majesty, a fit Motto for Princes Courts, and Kings Pallaces, where holy zeal would be as genuine and proper as soft

Rayment, and to live piously as becoming, as to live deli∣cate••y.

[unspec 18] God for the prophaning of his Sabbath, hath poured forth wrath upon whole Towns and Corporations; as may be abun∣dantly testified by these ensuing Instances.

G••••gorius Thronensis who lived a thousand years since and upward, in the end of the fifth Century according to Beliarmines Chronology, this learned man a verred, That for the dishonour done to the Lords day, fire from Heaven burn••d ••oth men and houses in the Town of Lim••ges in France.

But to come nearer home, at Tiverton in Devonshire, which was often admonished of the prophanation of the Lords day, which day was very much polluted by their keeping a Market the day following, and notwithstanding they would not reform; presently after the Ministers death, upon the third of April, 1598, a su••den fire from Heaven consumeth the whole Town in less than half an hour, ex∣cepting onely the Church, Court-house, and Alms-house; and in this fire was consumed four hundred dwelling hou∣ses, and fifty persons were destroyed: The same Town fourteen years after on the fifth of Augu••t 1612. for the same sin was wholly consumed, excepting some thirty poor peoples houses, the School-house, and the Alms-house. Thus God redoubled his wrath, as he did Pharaohs Dream, to confirm this great Truth, viz

That Sabbath prophana∣tion is a crying and God-provoking sin, and shall be pur∣sued with the severest extremity.

Stratford upon Avon was twice on fire, and both times on the Lords day, whereby it was almost consumed, and chiefly for prophaning that blessed day, and contemning the word of God out of the mouth of his faithful Ministers. And is it not just, that Market-Towns should be laid waste, where the Souls Market-day is despised and prophaned? And it is no wonder, if we make Gods day the stage of sin, if he make our houses the fuel of wrath.

[unspec 19] God hath brought ruine upon Churches for the sacrilegious abuse of his holy Sabbath; the blow which was first given

to the German-Churches was on the Lord•• day, which was too carelesly observed among them; and on that day Prague in Bohemia was lost, a fatal loss, which filled the Papists with fury and rage, and caused the true Professors of Reli∣gion to rowl in ashes. Thus Sabbath-prophanation paved the way to their ensuing and intolerable miseries.

[unspec 20] The prophanation of Gods day hath blasted whole Kingdoms, and populous Nations. The Council of Matiscon imputed the irruption of the Goths into the Empire, to the prophanation of the Sabbath: Germany may now see, that one great cause of their late trouble was, that the Sabbath wanted its rest in the days of their quietness; and many moderate men have thought, that the abuse of the Lords day was a prin∣cipal procurer of Gods anger, since poured forth upon poor England, in a long, tedious, and bloody War; and such observed that our Fights of greatest importance were fought on the Lords day, As the Fight at Edgehill, Newbury, &c. as pointing at our sin in the punishment, and Gods wrath was written in Dominical letters: And it is remarkable, that Edgehill Fight which was fought on the Sabbath-day, first brake the Peace, and made an irreconcilable breach between the two contending Parties. Indeed God is very jealous of his own blessed day, which when men dare to prophane, it is not in populous Towns to watch against, nor in City-Gates, to shut out, nor in mighty Kingdoms to resist, or beat back his furious and severe indignation. Therefore let all the premised Examples in their several varieties cause us to walk with all due circumspection, and to keep Gods holy day with just solemnity and holy devoti••n, and so we may secure our selves against these heavy strokes, which have broken others like a Potters vessel.

Notes

• Exod. 20. 8, 9.
• Ezek. 22. 26.
• Deut. 5. 12.
• Exod. 20. 8.
• Isa 51. 6.
• 1 Sam. 3. 11.
• Deut. 32. 42.
• Rom. 12. 19.
• Levit. 10. 2.
• Heb. 12. 29.
• Isa. 6. 10.
• Mr. Clarke his examples of Divine justice▪
• Rom. 11. 33.
• Luke 17. 32.
• Exod. 9. 24.
• Exod. 5. 7.
• Mr. Bernard on the Sab∣bath. Mr. London in Gods Judg∣ments on Sabbath-brea∣kers. Jan. 13. 1583.
• Nullus die solis spectaculum praebeat, nec divinam vene∣rationem, con∣secta solennita∣te consundat. Valent. Grat.
• Numb. 16. 32, 33.
• Doctor Twisse on the Sab∣bath.
• Mr. Clarke his examples of divine justice
• May 31. 1634.
• Septemb. 1635.
• Levit. 10. 3.
• Corn. Tacit.
• Centur. Mag∣deburg. Hi∣stor. Cent. 12.
• Macchab. 2. 28, 30.
• Theatr. Hi∣stor.
• John 4. 8.
• May the 14. 1626.
• Mr. Clarks examples.
• Rom 8 22.
• Didicimus quesdam in hoc die opera rura∣lia exercen∣tes, fu••mine in∣teremptos, quos∣dam artuum contractione multatos, quos∣dam visibili igne obsum∣ptos & sub••to in cinerem reso∣lutos o••cubuisse. Proinde necesse est, &c. Lud. P.
• Luke 7. 25.
• Greg. Turon.
• An. Dom. 1598.
• Gen. 41. 32.
• These two Instances are cited by Bi∣shop Baily.
• Mr. Sheph.
• Jer. 19 11.