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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97251	The odious, despicable, and dreadfull condition of a drunkard, drawn to the life to deterre others, and cause them to decline the wayes of death, or, A hopefull way to cure drunkennesse (the root of all evill, and rot of all good) in such as are not (by long custome) past cure : composed, and published for their good, who (not for want of ignorance) prinde themselves in drunken good-fellowship : which probably may open their eies, as the tasting of honey did Jonathan, and cause them to say as the governour to the bridegroome, John 2.10, The good wine was kept back untill now / by Junius Florilegus.	Younge, Richard.	1649 (1649)	Wing Y167A; ESTC R43834	50,174	55

they are fools the case being rightly considered for what Owen speaks in the Epigram may be applyed to sundry Drunkards Good wine they say makes vinegar most tart Thou the more witty the more wicked art Yea had they been borne meere naturals they had either been in no fault or in a great deale lesse fault then they are And so you see that drunkards are strangely stupendious and forgetfull that drunkenness deprives men both of wit and memory and yet they madly pursue this vice as the kindler of them But no wonder when the forbidden Tree which promised our first Parents knowledge tooke their knowledge from them the same Devil having a hand in both § 34. Thus having got through the principall stages of the drunkards progress before we goe any further let us looke backe upon what we have past As how they imitate their Father the Devill in tempting and in forcing to sinne and in drawing to perdition after a review taken let any stander by say whether Satan be so much beholding to any men alive as to them whether he hath any servants that do him such faithfull service any Factors that make him a better returne of soules any Generals that subdue so many souldiers to him any advocates that pleade so hard for him as the true drunkard I presume you cannot nominate one I confess a beautifull whorish woman another of the Devils lime-twigs who hath a flattering tongue Prov. 6.24 smooth and enticing words Prov. 7.5 lips which drop like an hony comb and a mouth more soft then oyle Prov. 5.3 does the Devill singular service in the business of tempting for infinite are the soules which these artificiall Paradises have beguiled for as through an Hell upon Earth God brings many to Heaven so through an Heaven upon Earth many bring themselves to Hell And she hath a priviledg above other tempters for Cockatrice-like she killeth with her very sight yea she is able to take a man with her very eyelids Prov. 6.25 which makes the Wise man say that many have perished by the beauty of women Eccles 9.8 Yet nevertheless let her bid welcome to all commers so that any base fellow may ride her post to the Devill with a golden bit thee shall never be able to fill hell her body will not hold out nor helpe to people that infernall Kingdome as some Drunkards do that are gifted thereafter The which considered together with his other sinnes of idlenesse epicurisme adul●●r● murther his vaine babling scurrilous jesting wicked talking impious swearing atheisme and the like for he hath treble heads to Ce●berus that ugly porter o● Hell proves him the King or chiese of sinners as the Basilisk is called the King of Serpents And not only shewes them to be children of the Devill as all unregenerate men are but to be really metamorphosed into Devils as Lots wife was really metamorphosed into a Pillar of Salt and Vlysses companions into hogs and dogs and Cadmus with his wife into Serpents as Poets faine Yea certainely if the Devill would change his properties he would put himselfe into the person and appropriate to himselfe the very qualities of some drunken good fellow as what thinke you Is not drunkenness the root of all evill and the rot of all good yea is not this a sinne which turnes a man wholly into sinne and as Ahab sold himselfe to worke wickednesse so doth not the drunkard wholly dedicate resigne surrender and give himselfe up to serve sinne and Satan his whole imployment is onely to drinke drab quarrell sweare scoffe slander and seduce as if to sinne were his trade and he could do nothing else Like the Devill who was a sinner from the beginning a sinner to the end Yea he is sinne in the abstract as Augustine speakes Neither is that man of sinne 2 Thess 2.3 fuller of sinne then such an one for if these be their words and actions what think you are the secrets of their hearts certainely if all their thoughts did but breake forth into action they would not come far short of the Devils themselves Yea if halfe so much were knowne to man as God knowes of them how would all drunkards hang downe their heads with shame as what strange monsters would appeare what ugly odious hideous fiends would represent themselves O what swarmes what litters what legions of noysome lusts are couched in the stinking sty of a drunkards heart which God onely hath reserved as a prerogative royall to him selfe exactly to search to the bottome Jer. 17.9 10. You may marvaile at this which hath beene discovered but you would marvaile much more if all should be told As I could carry you a great way farther and yet leave more of him before then behinde For hee is like some putrid Grave the deeper you dig the fuller you shall finde him both of stench and horror But I am injoined to contract him in a sheet or two of paper lest it should cause many to make an end before they begin as not seldome doth a little more writ cause a great deale less to be read Besides he who hath a long journey to goe and but a little time allowed him must make but short baits by the way and cannot stand to take e●ery acquaintance he meets by the hand And they that are to paint or print a pitcht field within the compass of a small table can make but few souldiers whole and compleat but are faine to set down for the most their heads only or their helmets § 35. Wherefore as drunkards have seen their sinne laid open so let them now hearken to their punishment for both by Gods and mans Law next after indictment and conviction followes sentence and after sentence is past comes execution if a reprieve or pardon be not sued out in the interim 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 Bupalus the Painter read the lively character of his odious and deformed demeanour and after he hath seene as in a cleare Glasse the ugly face of his foule heart with those spots and wrincles which otherwise he could not have espyed or confest in himselfe and further seene how miserably Satan hath deluded him and shal notwithstanding persever in this his brutish sensuality and resolve against yeelding and prefer the humouring of his soul before the saving of it and shall thinke it a disparagement to repent him of his errors and would rather obstinately continue in them then disclaime them so shutting his eyes that he may not see and stopping his eares that ●e may not heare and hardning his heart that he may not consider presumptuously as Pharaoh did malitiously as Cain did desperately as Ahab did and blasphemously as Julian did Iet him know that he shall surely