Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	4,646	5	5.4196	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67741	The blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankind, or, A charge drawn up against drunkards and presented to His Highness the Lord Protector, in the name of all the Sober Party in the three nations, humbly craving that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others ... / by R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y140; ESTC R41270	20,083	18

wickedness and so exceedingly provoke God that they are rackt in conscience and tortured with the very flashes of hell-fire That they drink to the end only that they may forget God his threats and judgments that they may drown conscience and put of all thoughts of death and hell and to hearten and harden themselves against all the messages of God and threats of the Law which is no other in mitigating the pangs of conscience than as a saddle of gold to a galled horse or a draught of poison to quench a mans thirst That if they might have their wils none should refuse to be drunk unpunished or be drunk unrewarded at the common charge As how will they boast what they drank and how many they conquer'd at such a meeting making it their only glory That the utmost of a Drunkards honesty is good-fellowship that temperance and sobriety with them is nothing but humour and singularity and that they drink not for strength or need but for lust and pride to shew how full of Satan they are and how near to swine That though these swinish swill-bouls make their gullet their god and sacrifice more to their god-belly than those Babylonians did to their god Bell Bell Drag ver. 3. yet they will say yea swear that they drink not for love of drink though they love it above health wealth credit child wife life heaven salvation all They no more care for wine than Esau did for his pottage for which he sold his birth-right Isa. 56 12. 5. Br. That Drunkards are the Devils captives at his command and ready to do his will and that he rules over and works in them his pleasure 2 Tim. 2. 26. Eph. 2. 2. that he enters into them and puts it into their hearts what he will have them to do Joh. 13. 2. Act. 5. 3. 1 Chro. 21. 1. opens their mouths speaks in and by them Gen. 3. 1 to 6. stretcheth out their hands and they act as he will have them Act. 12. 1 2. Rev. 2. 10. he being their father Gen. 3. 15. Joh. 8. 44. their king Joh. 12. 31. 14. 30. and their god 2 Cor. 4. 4. Eph. 2. 2. And which is worst of all that Drunkenness not only duls and dams up the head and spirits with mud but it beastiates the heart being worse than the sting of an Asp poisoneth the very soul and reason of a man whereby the faculties and organs of repentance and resolution are so corrupted and captivated that it makes men utterly uncapable of returning unlesse God should work a greater miracle upon them then was the creating of the whole world Whence Austin compares it to the very pit of hell out of which when a man is once fallen into there is no hope of redemption That Drunkenness is like some desp●rate plague which knows no cure As what sayes Basil Shall we speak to Drunkards we had as good speak to liveless-stones or sensless-plants or witless beasts as to them for they no more believe the threats of Gods Word than if some Impostor had spoken them They will fear nothing till they be in hell-fire resembling the Sodomites who would take no warning though they were all struck blind but persisted in their course untill they felt fire and brimstone about their ears Gen. 19. 11. That there is no washing these Blackmoors white no charming of these deaf Adders blind men never blush fools are never troubled in conscience neither are beasts ever ashamed of their deeds That a man shall never hear of an habituated infatuated incorrigible cauterized Drunkard that is reclaimed with age 6. Br. That as at first and before custom in sin hath hardened these Drunkards they suffer themselves to be transformed from men into swine as Elpenor was transformed by Circes into a hog so by degrees they are of swine transformed again into Devils as Cadmus and his wife were into serpents as palpably appears by their tempting to sin and drawing to perdition That these Agents for the Devil Drunkards practise nothing but the Art of debauching men that to turn others into beasts they will make themselves devils wherin they have a notable dexterity as it is admirable how they will wind men in and draw men on by drinking first a health to such a man then to such a woman my mistress then to every ones mistress then to some Lord or Lady their Master their Magistrate their Captain Commaader c. and never cease until their brains their wits their tongues their eyes their feet their senses and all their members sail them that they will drink until they vomit up their shame again like a filthy dog or lie wallowing in their beastliness like a bruitish swine That they think nothing too much either to do or spend that they may make a sober man a drunkard or to drink another drunkard under the table which is to brag how far they are become the Devils children that in case they can make a sober and religious man exceed his bounds they will sing and rejoyce as in the division of a spoil and boast that they have drenched sobriety and blinded the light and ever after be a snuffing of this taper Psal. 13. 4. But what a barbarous graceless and unchristian-like practice is this to make it their glory pastime and delight to see God dishonoured his Spirit grieved his Name blasphemed his creatures abused themselves and their friends souls damned Doubtless such men have climbed the highest step of the ladder of wickedness as thinking their own sins will not press them deep enough into hell except they load themselves with other mens which is Devil-like indeed whose aim it hath ever been seeing he must of necessity be wretched not to be wretched alone That as they make these healths serve as a pulley or shoing-horn to draw men on to drink more then else they would or should do so a health being once begun they will be sure that every one present shall pledge the same in the same manner and measure be they thirsty or not thirsty willing or not willing able or unable be it against their stomacks healths natures judgments hearts and consciences which do utterly abhor and secretly condemn the same That in case a man will not for company grievously sin against God wrong his own body destroy his soul and wilfully leap into hell fire with them they will hate him worse than the hangman and will sooner adventure their bloud in the field upon refusing or crossing their healths than in the cause and quarrel of their Country 7. Br. How they are so pernicious that to damn their own souls is the least part of their mischief and that they draw vengeance upon thousands by seducing s●●e and giving ill example to others That one Drunkard makes a multitude being like the bramble Judg. 9. 15. which first set it self on fire and then fired all the Wood Or like a malicious man sick of the plague that