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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15845	The drunkard's character, or, A true drunkard with such sinnes as raigne in him viz. pride. Ignorance. Enmity. Atheisme. Idlenesse. Adultery. Murther. with many the like. Lively set forth in their colours. Together with Compleat armour against evill society. The which may serve also for a common-place-booke of the most usuall sinnes. By R. Iunius.	Younge, Richard.	1638 (1638)	STC 26111; ESTC S120598	366,817	906

goodnesse And so doing thou mayst perchance winne thy Brother even as that penitent wanton in St. Ambrosse did his old love who when she courted him according to her accustomed manner and wondred at his overmuch strangnesse saying why doe you not know who I am answered yes I know you are still the same woman but I am become another man I am not I now neither would You be You any longer if yee knew so much as I doe 4 But if yet they persist and seeme incorrigible flye their company for feare of infection least it happen with thee as once it did with a chast person among Penelopes suters who went so often with his friend till in the end he was caught himselfe for if thou keepest them company there is no possibility of thy holding out to the end though thou shouldest for a time as a man may make some progresse in a good way and yet returne before he is halfe at his journeys end as Saul kept himselfe well for two yeares Iudas for three yeares and as it is storied Nero for five yeares yet all fell into damnable wickednesse scarce three worse in the world But of this more in it's proper place Besides how hard a thing is it for thee a coward to shew thy dislike of this sin in some companies where thou shalt be scoff't at thy selfe if thou dislike their drinking and scoffing at others Fiftly another thing which I had need to advise thee of is to take heede of delayes for to leave sinne when sin leaves us will never passe for true repentance besides if the evill spirit can but perswade thee to deferre it untill hereafter he knowes it is all one as if thou hadst never purposed to leave thy sinne at all as you have it largely proved Sections 151. 152. 153. Sixtly omit not to pray for the assistance of God's spirit to strengthen thee in thy resolution of leaving this sinne St. Ambrosse calls prayer the key of Heaven yet prayer without answerable endeavour is but as if a wounded man did desire helpe yet refuseth to have the sword puld out of his wound Seventhly be diligent in hearing God's Word which is the sword of the Spirit that killeth our corruptions and that unresistable cannon-shot which battereth and beateth downe the strong holds of sinne Eighthly be frequent in the use of the Lord's Supper wherein we dayly renew our covenant with God that we will forsake the Devill and all his workes of darkenesse Ninthly ponder and meditate on Gods inestimable love towards us who hath not spared to give his Sonne to death for us and the innumerable benefits which together with him he hath plentifully bestowed upon us both in temporall and spirituall things say unto the Lord what shall I render unto thee for all thy benefits but love my Creator and become a new creature Tenthly meditate on that union which is betweene Christ and us whereby wee become members of his glorious body and so shall we stand upon our spirituall reputation and be ashamed to dishonour our Head by drawing him as much as in us lyeth into the communication of this swinish sinne consider that our bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost the which we shall exceedingly dishonour if by drinking and swilling we make them to become like wine vessells Eleventhly consider that the Lord beholdeth thee in all places and in every thing thou doest as the eyes of a well drawne picture are fastned on thee which way soever thou turnest much more while in a brutish manner thou liest wallowing in this sinne and consider him as a just judge who will not let such grosse vices goe unpunished Twelftly beever or at least often thinking of the last and terrible day of Iudgment when we shall all be called to a reckoning not only for this sinne but for all other our sinnes which this shall occasion to our very words and thoughts And lastly if thou receivest any power against this great evill forget not to be thankfull and when God hath the fruite of his mercies he will not spare to sow much where he reapes much § 176. More especially that thou maist master and subdue this abominab●e sin does but set before thee in a generall view the heinousnesse thereof and the manifold evills and mischiefes which doe accompany it of which I have already spoken as that it is a vice condemned by God and men Christians and infidells that thereby we grievously offend God by making our bellies our god by unfiting and disabling our selves for his service by abusing his good creatures which with a pleantifull hand he hath bestowed upon us the necessary use whereof many better then we want that thereby we sinne in a high degree against our neighbours generally and particularly against the whole Church and common wealth strangers and familiar acquaintance and most of all against our owne family that hereby we most grievously sinne against our selves by making us unfit for our calings and for the performance of all good duties by disgracing our profession and bringing our selves into contempt by making our selves the voluntary slaves of this vice by impovershing our estate and bringing upon us want and beggery by infatuating our understandings and corrupting our wills and affections by deforming disabling weakning and destroying our bodies and bringing our selves to untimely death by excluding our selves out of the number of Christs members by quenching the gifts of the Spirit and strengthening the flesh and lusts thereof by causing our soules to be possessed with finall impenitency which is inseparably accompanied with eternall damnation Also remember that as in it selfe it is most sinfull so it is also the cause of almost all other sinnes as of the manifold and horrible abuses of the tongue of many wicked and outragious actions and particularly of those fearefull sinnes of murther and adultery Also call to mind that as it is the cause of sinne so also of many heauy and grievous punishments as making a man lyable to a fearefull woe and Gods heauy curse subjecting his name to infamy his state to beggery his body to diseases infirmities deformities and immature death his soule to senselesse sottishnesse and depriv●ng the whole man of the joyes of Heaven entereth him into the possession of eternall hellish torments and this will be a good meanes to make thee moderate thy greedy desires mortifie thy carnall affections and curbe thy unruly appetite by putting a knife to thy thro●●e as Salomon adviseth saying I could but I will not take more then is good or fit Yea the consideration of these things and of the wofull condition that drunkards are in will provoke thee to hate their opinions to strive against their practice to pity their misguiding to neglect their censures to labour their recovery and to pray for their salvation For O how ugly doth this monster appeare to the eye of that soule which hath forsaken

a vessell of wine before nature summons him to depart and will needs be tormented before the time All which their zeale industry and fervent affection to doe the will of their Father should teach and stirre up Go●s people to the like zeale industry and fervent affection to doe the will of their Father Their voluntary lewdnesse calls for our dutifull and more zealous obedience that our God may have as faithfull ●ervants as he hath unfaithfull enemies Shall wicked men be at more cost and paines to please an ill master then we can afford to please so good a God so gracious so loving a Father Shall they labour so hard for that which shall confound them and shall we thinke any paines too much for that which shall 〈◊〉 us Is it their meate and drinke to doe mischiefe and shall good duties downe as a Potion with us This were to acknowledge more venome in the seede of the Serpent then there is health in the seede of the woman Indeed the world could not stand before us if our truth might be but as hotly followed as their falsehood O that our God whose cause we maintaine would inkendle our hearts with the fire of holy zeale but so much as Sathan hath inflamed theirs with the fire of fury and faction O Saviour it was thy meate and drinke to doe the will of thy Father how doe we follow thee if we suffer either pleasures or profits to take the wall of thy services But of this elsewhere § 119. FOr I consider that both by Gods and mans Law next after inditement and conviction followes sentence and after sentence is past comes execution if a reprive or pardon be not use out in the 〈◊〉 Wherefore as drunkards have seene their sinne laid open so let them now hearken to their punishment If there be any of these Antipodes to God and his Kingdome who like Trees have rooted both head and heart into the earth and set heaven at their heeles that have in this Treatise as in a picture taken a full view of his owne horrid and detestable condition and with B●palus the Pain●e● read the lively character of his odious and deformed demeanour and after hee hath seene as in a cleare glasse the ugly face of his foule heart with those spots and wrinkles which otherwise hee could not have confest in himselfe and further seene how miserably hee hath been deluded in his judgement touching the religious and shall notwithstanding resolve against yeelding and presence the humouring of his soule before the saveing of it and shall thinke it a disparagement to repent him of his errors and would rather obstinetely continue in them then disclame them so shutting his eyes that hee may not see and stopping hes eares that hee may not heare and hardening his heart that he may not consider presumptuously as Pharaoh did maliciously as 〈◊〉 did desperately as Ahab did and blasphemously as Iulian did let him know this that he shall surely perish The reason of it is taken out of the Proverbs an Arrow drawne out of Salomen's sententions Quiver read the words and tremble A man that hardneth his neck when he is rebuked shall suddenly be destroyed and cannot be cured Prov. 29. 1. yea faith the Lord himselfe Prov. 1. 24. 25. 26. because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out mine hand and ye would not regard but despised al my counsell I will also laugh at your destraction and mock when your feare commeth And of this we have sundry instances The Sonnes of Ely would not harken unto nor obey the voyce of their father why because saith the Text the Lord was determined to destroy them 1 Samuel 2. 25. Their hearts must be hardened that they may be destroyed I know saith the Prophet to Amaziah that God hat determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not obeyed my counsell 2 Chr. 25. 16. 20. O remember that there is a day of account a day of death a day of judgement comming wherein the Lord Iesus Christ shall bee revealed from heaven with his mighty Angells in flaming fire to render vengeance unto them which obey not unto his Gospell and to punish them with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2. Thes. 1. 7 8 9. Iude 15. Wisdome 5. 1. to 10. at which time thou shalt heare him pronounce this fearefull doome Depart from me ye cursed Matth. 25. 41. which is an everlasting departure not for a day nor for yeares of dayes nor for millions of yeares but for eternity and that from Christ to the damned to the divells to hell without either end or ease or patience to endure it at which time within thee shall bee thine owne guilty conscience more then a thousand witnesses to accuse thee the Divell who now tempts thee to all thy wickednesse shall on the one side testifie with thy conscience against thee and on the other side shall stand the holy Saints and Angels approving Christ's justice and detesting so filthy a creature behinde thee an hidious noyse of innumerable fellow damned reprobates tarrying for thy company before thee all the world burning in a flaming fire aboue thee that irefull Judge of deserved vengeance ready to pronounce the same sentence upon thee beneath thee the fiery and sulphureous mouth of the bottomlesse pit gaping to receive thee into which being cast thou shalt ever bee falling downe and never meet a bottome and in it thou shalt ever lament and none shall pitie thee for thou shalt have no society but the Divell and his Angells who being tormented themselves shall have no other ease but to wreak their fury in tormenting thee thou shalt alwayes weep for paine of the fire and yet gnash thy teeth in indignation for the extremity of cold thou shalt weep to think that thy miseries are past remedy to think that to repent is to no purpose thou shalt weep to thinke how for the shadow of a few short pleasures if they could bee called pleasures thou hast incurred these sorrowes of eternall paines which shall last to all eternity thy conscience shall ever sting thee like an Adder when thou thinkest how often Christ by his Preachers offered thee remission of sinnes and the Kingdome of Heaven freely if thou wouldest but believe and repent and how easily thou mightest have obtained mercy in those dayes how neere thou wast many times to have epented and yet did dest suffer the divell and the world to keep thee still impenitent and how the day of mercy is now past and will never dawne againe for thou shalt one day finde that conscience is more then a thousand witnesses and God more then a thousand consciences § 120. IF you will not believe mee yet at least believe Pharaoh who in the rich mans scalding rtorments hath a Discite a me learne of me he can testifie out of wofull experience that if wee will