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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	world_n	write_v	young_a	26	3	5.6633	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02430	The glasse of mans folly and meanes to amendment, for the health and wealth of soule and body. This glasse of mans folly, is that we may know, the cause of the cruelty, which dayly doth flow. ...	B. H., fl. 1595.	1615 (1615)	STC 12562A; ESTC S118418	51,161	76

makes none ingenious to goodnesse the euill effects are monstrous It dulles and takes away the sences sets the eyes in the head anstere and strange to behold It makes a man a monster metamorphosed from the Image of God to the image of the Diuell their actions are irksome to good people though the rude reioyce to see it Quaffing is the occasion if not the cause of felonious theeues and flattering theeues alias couseners the first are dangerous the last liker hypocrites to insinuate and say they loue you but it is the adiunct of your purse promising but neuer paying I restraine to particularize any by-qualitie or name yet many deteine that is not their owne but prosper not The effect of drunkennesse and gluttony is pouerty Pro. 23. Woe sorrow contentions babling woundes without cause rednesse of eyes are adioynts to them that tarry long at the wine At the last it byteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder Thine eyes shall beholde strange Women and thine heart shall vtter peruerse thinges Wine and Women leade wise men out of the way The best wine and worst women are prouokers Much eating and drinking makes Idiocie and dotage whereby men are allured to the vndiscreet as Herode to graunt the head of blessed Iohn Baptist to a deceytfull Dauncer Hosea 4. Whoredome Wine and new wine infatuates the heart Excesse makes men estranged from themselues excluding all honesty humanity Some cannot liue on their lands nor others by good Occupations Psalm 107. and therefore spoyled in prisons A fruitfull Land is turned into barrennesse for wickednes Drunkennesse destroieth Gods benefits and doth auert his blessings Yee Common-wealth consumers deuote not your selues to the Diuell Your sursetting excesse so raiseth the price that the poore cānot maintaine theyr Families but are distressed some distracted Yée are the death and vndooing of thousands How can you answere for those yée cause to starue and for the death of your selues by your excesse All the world haue the lesse and worse successe for you Millions of men haue beene vndone by haunting such Houses Be counselled where they lost their liuing and learned leaudnesse Young men thinke on this for your sakes I write this before your Land be gone before yée be in thraldome and dis-franchised of your liberties Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12. before thine eyes be dimme and thou tremble Doe not procrastinate It is apparent that superfluous powring in of drinke hath prouoked God to powre downe extraordinary Flouds and for your foaming out to make the Sea breake out whereby People haue perished Cattell drowned Goods and Bridges borne into the Ocean The Skye cries against vs Thunders are fearfull Diuels irefull Trées rent Houses brent People killed many things destroyed God is displeased winde and weather auerre it oft Ships are sunke Oh we are obdurate we pull downe greater vengeance and amend not Manie vse Dolus to pamper theyr paunches with Diues till with that Epulo they taste dolorificus Oh soule thinke how the diuell doth pollute thée make not so much of thy bodie Excesse brings not salubritie nor sanctitie wholsomnesse nor holinesse but contrarie Prouerb 20. Wine is a mocker strong drinke is raging and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby is not wise Such are deceyued and vnwise as quaffe Quartes in a day but one were better and hée fitter to any good action Yet protract they the time at Ale-houses and make their bodies vnprofitable receptacles Prouokers fat themselues others for the day of slaughter hindring manie but profite not any Oh a dearth is to be dread Bée not a sucking Sodomite the mouth shal be full of earth Quaffing leades to the lake of quaking Pray and repent Our prosperitie tranquillitie and truth many yeares taught will be witnes to reprooue vs for want of loue to God and for our selfe-love to impiety Consider this yée that forget GOD. Be not brutish they are worse then Brutes that are bond-slaues to euill Affections Therefore hate that which God abhorreth to him be all honour for euer Amen DEO omnis Potestas Gloria ¶ Drunkennesse and Excesse of drinking reprooued COmbibo perswades his complices that they committe no Drunkennesse so long as they can talke and walk although theyr Bellyes be bladder-blowne But remember oh Swyne and manners worse what the Prophet saith Woe be vnto them them that are mightie to drink wine Esay 5.22 and men of strength to mingle strong drinke Now knowe that God hateth the inordinate Drinker although hée doe not stagger Some are gyddie by Age Sicknes or Imbecillity yet little drinkers the Drones are the Drunkards Woe and the woe of woes are denounced to them Esay 5.11 Woe vnto them that rise vp early in the Morning that they may follow strong drinke They haue woe and sorrowe Prou. 23. that tarrie long at the Wine Yet Bibulus whose best behauiour is barbarous vseth the Ale-house and abuses it as an euill-house woes will not warne him hée neglecteth his Vocation to the detriment of his Wife and Children But if any prouide not for his owne and especially for those of his owne House hee hath denyed the Faith 1. Tim 5.8 and is worse then an Infidell Many prouide for the wormes that shall wring their corpulent Carcases Christ giueth a Caueat Luke 21.34 Take heed to your selues least at any time your harts be ouercharged with surfetting and drunkennesse Let menacing or Admonition amend vs. Ephesians 5.18 And be not drunke with wine wherein is excesse but be filled with the Spirit Alas the Carcas is filled and the spirite of God excluded Heluo hasteth to hell and gormondise his guts till hee euacuates as hée receyued A Swyne is a swallower immoderate to moysture Matth. 8. The Gergesenes lost many into whom the Diuels entred droue them into the Sea drowned them in that moysture and the Diuels driue Swinish mindes to drowne them with drinke 1. Cor. 10. Our eating and drinking must be to Gods glorie to eate and drink to liue and not liue to eate and drink Drunkennes reuellings are fruits of the flesh Gal 5. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God A fearfull Enthymeme to them not mortified Imbrace the saying of S. Paule not the pot Let vs walke honestly as in the day not in ryotting drunkēnes not in chābering wantonnesse nor in strife enuying but put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 13.13 and make not prouision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts therof Except wée abandon the déedes of darknes we put not on the Lord Iesus but the diuell To sée him makes such to quake but they entertain him serue him and feare not The Lord saith by the prophet Ioel 1.5 Awake ye drunkards weepe and howle ye drinkers of wine Hee menaceth and admonisheth them to preuent the Anger to come Ierem 35.6 The Rechabites abstained from drinking of wine at