[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores…

It was a Thing once charged upon Sabbath-breakers, in Neh. 13 18. Ye bring Wrath upon Israel, by Profaning the Sabbath. And have not we seen the Wrath of God, Correcting Profanations of the Christian Sabbath, with Rebukes of Thunder and Lightning? And indeed, Some Intelligent Persons have noted it, That the dreadful Storms of Thunder and Lightning, which have killed many among us from year to year, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; they have mostly happened on or near the Lords Day: As an intimation, ⟨p. 39⟩that breaches of the Lords-Day, have procured the Firing of the Great Artillery of Heaven upon us. However, Our Land sees little Rest, through the Judgments of God upon us, for the Violations of the Sacred Rest, which he ha's appointed for us. And the many Disasters, which happen on the Lord• Day among us, may be so many Judgments, upon us, for our not Sanctifying the Day unto the Lord ▪ But all the more Special Examples, of Judgments coming for Sins against the Sabbath, I will wrap up, in this one piece of History. I have been desired by many Malefactors, to be with them at their Execution; and Then, in those last and sad Minutes of their Lives, they have sometimes cried out, This, This is a Judgment of God, upon my Sabbath-breaking; I may thank my Sabbath-breaking for all this; 'Twas for my misspending of the Sabbath with vain Persons, and in vain Actions, that God ha's left me to that Wickedness which ha's brought upon me, all of this horrible Misery! Think of This, you that still say of the Lords-Day, What a Weariness is it?