Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A45735
|
A warning-piece to the sloathful, idle, careless, drunken and secure ones of these last and worst times wherein the danger that attends everyone that delights in any of these vices may be avoided, and the reward of those that have their conversation in holinesse may be attained.
|
Hart, John, D.D.
|
1678
(1678)
|
Wing H961; ESTC R29868
|
20,886
|
47
|
away thy sould from thee I Thef 5.3 When they shall say peace and safety then shall sudden destruction come upon them as the travel upon a woman with child and they shall not escape it shall be felt before it be seen like a Thief in the night Woe to them that are at case in Sion Amos 6.1 Gideon smote the careless boast secuity was the overthrow of Laish Judg. 8.11 and 18.7 10 27. The good man of the house awaketh to save his goods from the Thief the Husbandman for his Harvest the Merchant for his Wares the Souldier for his spoil shall me lose and eternal crown with sleeping He that hath the key of David hath opened the may the way is opened but yet narrow Awake and strive to enter in Matthew 25. When the Juilvee is past the foolish cry open open some awake a little and begin a little to enter in but finding the way stract first with Lots wife they look back 2 Pet 2.5 then with Demas they turn back and with the dog they run back to their vomit When thou thinkest upon that crown think therewithal upon this word Few few enter in few are chosen in the great deluge ver 8. few souls were saved in the overthrow of Sodom but Lot was saved Amongst the sirty three thousand five hundred and fifty of the people of Israel only Joshua and Caleb entred into the Land Therefore uncessantly importune that holy one of Israel like the urgent widow be not fole or sloathful but diligent and bigilant Leave him not till with Jacob thou get a blessing A word or two of the Definition of Drunkenness The drink to the betrayer of the mind and doth disapparel the Sould yea the thoughts of the heart which God hath secluded from the very devils by drunkenness do suffer a seach the Devil could never find a cunninger bait to angle both for the acts and meanings of men than drunkenness is You shall scarcely find a man that is much addicted to drink that is not ruined What a monster is man in drunkenness he hath a swimming eye a face both roast and sod and a tongue clammed to the roof and gums a drumming ear a feavered body a bolling stomach a mouth nasty with offensive sumes till it sicken the brain a passed head and legs tottering up and down their mictuned burthen be hath no memory at all for the abundance of drink hath drowned up that noble recorder and while Bacchus is his chief God Apollo never keeps him company friends and soes familiars and strangers are then of equal estéem Drunkenness is the funeral of all intelligible men A drunken mind and a drunken stomach are both alike neither can retain what they receive I will loath to admit of familiar to infectious as this The wise man advise to us to the contrary saying Prov. 23.20.21 Keep not company with drunkards nor gluttons for the drunkard and the glutton shall be poot And St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 5.11 If any man that is called a Brother be a forcinator or covetous or an idolater or railer or a drunkard or an â—xtortiore with such a one eat nor St. Paul asks a question and answers it himself saying 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Know ye that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolators nor adulterers nor wantons nor buggerers nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor excortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5 19 20 21. The works of the flash are manisest which are adultery fornication uncleanness wantonness idolatry witchcrast hatred debate emulation wrath contention sedition heresies envies murthers drunkenness gluttony and such like whereof I tell you as I have told you before that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God The Apostle in these two places reckons more than twenty damnable sins and the drunkard the glutton and the railer do as it were bring up the rear of this wicked and ungodly Kegiment I beséech you cast your eyes back if seriosty consider whether thou art at league with any of these soul-destraying sotdiers for if thou be thy state is dangerous Therefore séeing that we hand so many strange enemtes to encounter withal we have great cause to take St. Pauls counsel Ephes 6.11 c. for to be strong in the Lord and to put on the whole armour of God That we amy be abse for to wrattle and to overcome those potent enemies Whatsoever friend I make choice of I hope for to have them endowed with these two vertues that is mildness and temperance An excellent Caveat Luke 21.54 Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeiting and drunkenness c. Drunkenness of the Hebrews is called wine-viving then S. Pauls counselde not to be despised Ephes 5.15 16 17 18. Take heed therefore that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time for the dayes are evil wherefore be ye not unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is and be not drunken with wine wherein do excess Paul doth not forhid the use of wine but the abuse of it for to Timothy he said thus 1 Tim 5.23 Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake and thine of ten infirmities Solomon saith Prov. 31.6 7 Give ye strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto them that have grief of heart Let him drink that he may forget his poverty and remember his misery no more Psal 104 15. Wine maketh glad the heart of man Strong drink is the good creature of God pure to the pure Which serveth I Naturally for the bodies nourishing and strength and to be used with sobriety 2. Physically for the corroboration of the body and refreshing of the mind Wine saith Austin moderately drunken is medicinable but drunken more than need requireth it consumeth it 's poison Drunkenness is not only when wine hath banished wit which may soon overtake a weak brain but also when one doth sit long at drink albeit their brain were strong enought to hear it which is called Prov. 23.30 Once that tarrieth long at wine that goeth and seeketh mixt-wine Such kinds of drinking are as well condemned as staggering ebriety such like drunkenness is called a boiling chasing or waring too bot with wine Some delight to be drunk alone some provoke others to do the same some drink by measure out of measure the drunkard saith do me reason while as both his ormand and the others grant is altogether reasonless All these sorts are affected with this malady and with this bilect vice diseased custom maketh this disease contagious to mang use altereth nature and custom brings Ydle superfluity to urgent necessity First the drunkard drinks for thirst then for delight at last for wantonness and then without measure by an unsattate holuptuousness When I name wine it is to be taken Synecdochically for
all for is of strong drink one drunkard is the cause of another taping Isa 50.12 Come I will bring wine and we will sill out selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day c much more abundant as the challenged drunkard both allenge Prov. 23.20 that company causeth him who forced him with either drink or get thoe gone 1 Cor. 5.11 wiilst they are expcessy forbidden to keep company with drunkards and gluttons Ephes 5.11 and that thou shouldest babe no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness But a graceless heart turning the grace of Bod into wanton ness and having the mind feeble and meak suffereth sensuality to reign ober reason and grace St. Jude saith Jude 12. These are spots in your seasts of charity when they feast with you without all fear c. v. 12. these are murmurers complainers walking after their own Lusts whose mouths speak proud things c. 2 Per. 2.10 12 13. These are makers of sects â—eship having not the spirit of regeneration they shall receive the wages of unrighteousness 1 Thes 5.6 7 8. Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober here sleep is taken for contempt of salvation when men continue in fins and will not awake to godliness for they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night but let us which are of the day sober putting on the breast-plate of saith and love and the hope of salvation for an helmet Eph. 6.17 The wise man saith Eccles 10.17 Blessed art thou O Land when thy King or Governours eat in time for strengh and not for drunkenness They that drink for drinks sake are too usuall at drinkings who as Demosthenes said to King Philip Spunges who want but a wide womb to their wanton will Some think that drink is given of God not only for necessity but also for delectation thinking thereby they may exceed as they please they consider not that strong drink was given to men to thear the bea rt and not to oppress it and to praise God for it and not too offend him with it of by it Some think that drunkeneess is physical wherein they foolishly erre esteeming the poison of the soul to be good phystek for the body when the medicine is so filthy the healing of curing is thought to be as filthy A drunkard is like a Lâ—â—ch that still sucketh and cannot be satisfied When necessity is satisfied insolency salts his appetite he backs his drunkenness with Tobacco that by all the four elements earth wanter aire and fire he map be intoxicated Drunkenness as it harkeneth the wit and petherteth the imagination so beyond all the affections it stirreth up choler by a conveniency of the sulphurous heat that is both in drink and in the bilious humour concurring to make the greater flame to kindle up the heart for the smaltest injury Cambysâ—s the King of Persia in his drunkenness was incensed at the gentle reproof of his minion Praxaspes and kilted his son Alexander at the wine killed in his foolish fury his most lobing Clitus for the which whin be was sober again be attempted to kill himself Anger is a madness short and voluntary and an insatiable evit Philoxenus wished a Cranes crag and Melanthâ—us a Swans neck of three cubits long that they might by the longer space enjoy the pleasure of their drink his life is vita Ranarum a Frogs life saith Erasmus Frogs love to live in moorish places be in his pots like aflye suctuvivit be liveth by sucking Wine is the mirrour of the mind be is like Bonosus who was born not in like but to drink faith Aurelianus Be drinks for delight for company for brabery for contention and for inflamed charity to absent friends his belly is his God Phil. 3.19 and is unfit for the service of that high God I. Thes 5.17 He abuseth his creatures shameth himself and is enabled to sin when he should mourn be is merry saping to morrow we shall dye and he drinks wine in bowls when he should be sorry for the affliction of Joseph Amos 6.6 like the Epicure which saith let us eat drink sure The Lord God of hosts callo unto weeping and mourning and behold joy and gladness flaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine Isa 22.12 13. instead of repentance they contemned the admonition of their teachers saying Let us eat and drink for our Prophets say we shall dye to morrow But consider immediately after what if Prophet saith Ch. 24.7 9. The wine saileth the wine hath no might all that were of merry heart do mourn They shall not drink wine with mirth strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it The Loro pronounceth woe upon woe to drunkards Chap. 5.11 22. Woe unto them that rise up early to follow drunkenness and to them that continue until night till the wine do inflame them Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and to them that are strong to pour in strong drink Four several times doth the Prophet pronounce woes to drunkards in one chapter The wife man saith Prov. 23.29 30.32 To whom in woe to whom is sorrow to whom is strife to whom is murmuring to whom are wounds without cause and to whom is redness of â—y â—even to them that tarry long at the wine c. In the end thereof it will bite a serpent and sting like an adder Now seeing that there is such a strong chain that is linked together with so many woes which reacheth as far as betwixt the drunkard and destruction except repentance break this chain it will assuredly draw down vengance upon thy body or soul or both Now therefore seeing it is so Christs Caveat is not to be rejected Luke 21.34 Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and lâ—st that day come on you at unaweres Bing Belshâ—zzar made a great feast to a thousand of his Princes and they drank wine in the golden vessels which his father had brought from the Temple in Jâ—ruâ—â—â—m Dâ—n 5. At the same hour appeated the singers of a mans hand which wrote c. Then the Kings countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him to the joynts of his loins were loosed and his knées smote one against another and the same night was Bâ—lshazzar the King slain here we see how near drunkenness and destruction was lirâ—ked the same hour his thoughts troubled him and the same night he was slain The vine brings forth three Grapes the first of pleasure the second of drunkenness the third of sorrow It is folly to rebuke a drunken man example we have of Abigâ—il a woman of singular wisdom 1 Sam. 25.36 c. For she came to Nabal her husband and behold he made a feast in his house like the feast of King and Nâ—bals heart was merry within him for he