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
B06790	The blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankinde; or, A charge drawn up against drunkards, and presented to His Highness the Lord Protector, in the name of all the sober partie in the three nations. Humbly craving, that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others; compelled to work and earn what they consume : and that none may be suffered to sell drink, who shall either swear, or be drunk themselves, or suffer others within their walls. / By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1656 (1656)	Wing Y139; ESTC R229124	20,070	16

they are rackt in conscience and tortured with the very flashes of hell-fire That they drink to the end onely that they may forget God his threats and judgments that they may drown conscience and put off all thoughts of death 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 then as a saddle of gold to a galled-horse or a draught of poison to quench a man's thirst That if they might have their wills 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 onely glory That the utmost of a Drunkards honestie is good-fellowship that temperance and sobrietie with them is nothing but humour and singularitie 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-bellie then those Babyloni●●● did to their god Bell Bell the Dragon ver 3. yet they will say yea swear that they drink not for love of drink though they love it above health wealth credit childe wife life heaven salvation all They no more care for wine then Esau did for his pottage for which he sold his birth-right Isa 56.12 5. Br. That Drunkards are the Divels captives at his command and ready to do his will and that he rules over and workes 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 John 13.2 Acts 5.3 1 Chron. 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 Acts 12.1 2. Rev. ● 10 he being their father Gen. 3.15 John 8.44 their king John 12.31 14.30 and their god 2 Cor. 4.4 Eph. 2.2 And which is worst of all that drunkennesse not onely dulls and dams up the head and spirits with mud but it beastiates the heart and being worse then the sting of an Aspe 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 Drunkennesse is like some desperate plague which knowes no cure As what saies Bafil Shall we speak to drunkards we had as good speak to livelesse-stones or sencelesse plants or witlesse beasts as to them for they no more believe the threats of Gods Word then it some Imposter 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 blinde but 〈◊〉 in their course untill they selt fire and brimstone about their 〈◊〉 That there is no washing these Blackmores white no charming these dea●e 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 insatuated incorrigible cauterized Drunkard that is reclaimed with age 6. Br. That as at first and before custome in sin hath hardened these Drunkards they suffer themselves to be transformed from men into swine as Elpenor was transformed by Circes into a hogge so by degrees they are of swine transformed again into Divels 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 Divel Drunkards practise nothing but the Art of debauching men that to turne others into beasts they will make themselves divels wherein they have a notable dexteritie as it is admirable how they will winde men in and draw men on by drinking first a health to such a man then to such a woman my mistris then to every ones mistris then to some Lord or Ladie their master their magistrate their Captain Commander c. and never cease until their brains their wits their tongues their eies their feet their sences all their members fail them that they will drink until they vomitup their shame again like a filthie dog or lie wallowing in their beastlinesse 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 divels children that in case they can make a sober and religious man exceed his bounds they will sing and rejoice as in the division of a spoil and boast that they have drenched sobrietie and blinded the light and ever after be a snuffing of this taper Psal 13.4 But what a barharous gracelesse and unchristian-like practice is this to make it their glory pastime and delight to see God dishonored his Spirit grieved his Name blasphemed his creatures abused themselves and their friends souls damned Doubtlesse such men have climbed the highest step o● the ladder of wickednesse as thinking their own sins will not presse them deep enough into hell except they load themselvs with other mens which is Divel-like indeed whose aime it hath ever been seeing he must of necessitie be wretched not to be wretched alone That as they make these healths serve as a pulley or shooing-horn to draw men on to drinke 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 thirstie or not thirstie willing or not willing able or unable be it against their stomachs healths natures judgments hearts and consciences which do utterly abhor and secretly condemne the same That in case a man will not for company grievously sin against God wrong his own bodie destroy his soul and wilfully leap into hell-fire with them they wil hate him worse then the hangman and will sooner adventure their blood in the field upon refusing or crossing their healths then in the cause and quarrel of their Countrie 7. Br. How they are so pernicious that to damne their own souls is the least part of their mischief and that they draw vengeance upon thousands by seducing some and giving ill example to others That one Drunk●●● 〈◊〉 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 runs into the throng to disperse his infection whose mischief out weigh's all penaltie And this shews that they not onely partake