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A92759	A treatise against drunkennesse described in its nature, kindes effects and causes, especially that of drinking of healths. To which are added, two short sermons of S. Augustine's, De tempore. Faithfully translated, by Matthew Scrivener.	Scrivener, Matthew.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. De tempore.; Scrivener, Matthew.	1685 (1685)	Wing S2119; ESTC R201394	52,860	223

〈◊〉 heareth the words of this curse that 〈◊〉 blesse himself in his heart saying I all have peace though I walk in the ●●agination of my heart to add drunken●sse unto thirst The Lord will not spare 〈◊〉 but the anger of the Lord shall ●●oke against that man and all the ●●rses that are written in this book shall 〈◊〉 upon him and the Lord shall blot out 〈◊〉 name from under heaven and shall separate him to evil So that we see there can be nothing more pernicious to a man than those customary defences men are prone to make of such their Sins Of which sort is that we read of Matth. 24. v. 48 49 50. where Christ saith of the evil servant If he shall say in his heart My Lord delayeth his coming and shal● begin to smite his fellow-servant and to eat and to drink with the drunken The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of And shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth What is this portion Mark we and tremble to offend God in this manner and see how God proportions the form of his punishment suitable to the sin The sin is taking up their cups too freely To such therefore God shall give his cup also called Psalm 11. 6. The portian of their cup. Upon the wicked saith David he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible pit this shall be the portion of their cup. So Psalm 75. 8. In the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red Clarret if you please so much in fashion now adays it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked shall wring them out and drink them And who so fit to take up this Cup at Gods hands as they who are perfect in that sinful Art of taking off their Cups in this World And if we look into the Revelations of St. John we shall easily understand what God means by the Cup of his wrath so often threatned against the Whore of Babylon for the Cup of abomination she reaches out to such as she deceives and destroys resembling much the practice of urgers of glasses upon others which in very deed is no better than a gentle Poyson to both Body and Soul of him that giveth it as well as of him that so taketh it As that was a strong violent Poison given in Cups unto such as were condemned to death by publick Justice for their faults upon which Custom the Metaphorical expressions now named were undoubtedly founded But let us proceed hearing what St. Paul saith to the Corinthians chap. 6. ver 9 10. 1 Epist Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom This some modern sinners feigning I suppose rather than being really ignorant St. Paul informs them of in particular adding Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor abusers of themselves with Mankind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God In which crew of abominable Malefactors you see Drunkards as well as they think of themselves are numbered both to their dishonor and terror Which again he rangeth together in like manner in his Epistle to the Galations chap. 5 ver 20 21. with the rabble of sinners which the Drunkard himself seemeth sometimes to detest Thus therefore shall it infallibly come to passe one day what Nahum threatneth While they be folden together and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry Nah. 1. 10. SECT V. Of the several evil Enormities and Ominousnesses and Absurdities of Drunkennesse in any Nation BUt let us descend lower and judge a little from Reason and the Wisdom and Authority of unchristian Sages of the World yea others of an inferiour Order wha● an account is to be had of this Sin Surely with all the wise part of th● World Temperance is reckoned amongst the Moral Virtues and no● onely so but the Cardinal too tha● is of such honorable and prime Nature as have influence upon all humane Actions publick or private an enemy to all which is the contrary Vice Intemperance a branch of which is this Drunkennesse we ●ow speak of So that what Law Order Beauty and benefit Tempe●ance giveth unto a State and Per●on by reining in the exorbitant ●usts and affections of Venery Glut●ony Drinking and the irascible part of mans Soul as Philosophers call all revengeful Appetites Intemperance especially of Drink le ts ●oose cuts the chords of Discipline erected in the Soul asunder and throws open the doors for all Lusts to sally out at pleasure Whereupon Clemens Alexandrinus in his Paedagogy or Institution of Novices much approves the wisdom of the Ancienter Greeks who gave the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Intemperate man intimating thereby that he was in very deed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the easie change of one letter i. e. one past saving or cure And if I would translate the wor● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into English for my life could do it no better than by setting the first Letter by it self and rendring it A Sot And what may we term a Sot or whom but him tha● indulging to his senses degenerate● from that stately Original and Posture God hath to man given boweth down his Reason to his Senses and hangs down his Head to the Earth after the manner of Beasts Wherefore the Stoick in Tully fitly derides Epicurus the Father Dum Palato quid sit optimum judicat coeli Palatum ut ait Ennius non suspexit De Natura Deor lib. 2. of Sensualists telling him That while he was so good a Critick of things affecting the Palate he could by no means look up to the Palate of Heaven as the Ancient called the Roof or Arched part of it It is said of Swine That of all Creatures they can least look ●pwards and if by accident they ●ast their eye upon the Heavens they ●o it with horror and shreeks at the strangenesse of the sight probably with like passion as men from an high place beholding a very low and deep Precipice of darknesse and ruine In ●ike manner is the very lifting up of the Eye at any time towards Heaven of the sensual man especially Swinish Drunkard an horror to him and not to be viewed without a tacit dread of the glory denyed him and the punishment impending on him and expecting him This must needs be his humour unlesse he relieves himself with an Article of Mahomets Creed promising him all Rarities and Delicacies in Heaven answerable to his Earthly senses As that man in the Gospel of St. Luke chap. 14. 15. who sat a● the Table with Christ himself an● was so affected with his entertainment that he cryed out Blessed 〈◊〉 he that shall