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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

and canst not choose Remembring alwayes that they are but the Devils deputies yea hum●ne Devils as once our Saviour called Peter being instrumentall to Satan Satan himselfe Mat. 16.23 Change no words with them for there is no disputing with Satan or his Agents as you may see by his success in Paradise when he so easily perswaded Eve by himselfe and Adam by her to beleeve what he spake though they had heard God himself say the contrary immediately before When Castles once come to a parly there is great feare they will yeeld and Gates that are alwayes open will sometimes admit an enemy Neither will the complaint of our first parents be taken for a good answer or plea another day it will be fruitlesse to say such and such a friend deceived me Eve was perswaded by the Serpent to eat the forbidden fruit and Adam by Eve yet each had a severall curse both tempters and tempted § 41. Now by observing or not observing this rule it will appeare whether there be any hope of thy holding out for all depends upon this yea could the most infatuated habituated incorrigible cauterised drunkard that is even dead in this sinne but forsake his ill company I should not once doubt of his recovery for do but drive away these uncleane birds from the Carkasse a million to amity the Lord may be pleased to breath into his nostrils againe the breath of life and he become a living soule O that all drunkards were driven to the Barbadoes there to drinke water and worke untill some divine Vlysses could procure them their reason and perswade ●hem once againe to become men sober men yea sound Christians so ●hould our Nation flourish againe and be better provided with honest men ●or places of trust both in Church and State then now it is where so few have publick spirits and prove faithful And what justerpunishment can there ●e devised then that they shall be debarred both of the bloud of the Grape ●nd the spirit of Barley for consuming the Countries fat Were not ●leare Rocke-water good enough for such Gormondizers Or if authority ●hinkes not this fit I could wish there were Pesthouses provided for them ●n all places as there are for infected persons Or that they were put by ●hemselves in some City if any were big enough to receive them all as Philip King of Macedon built a City of purpose and peopled it with the most wicked graceless and irregular persons of all his subjects and ha●ing so done called it Poneropolis that is the City of wicked persons And certainely if it were well considered how many of these Brokers of cillany which live only upon the spoiles of young hopes every populous ●lace affords and what evill they do by their seducing some and giving ill ●xamples to others by devouring the good Creatures of God which they ne●er sweat for by disturbing the peace of Church and Common-wealth by ●ulling downe heavy judgements upon the Land and considering the little good they doe being as so many loose Teeth in the mandable of the Common-wealth which were better out then in and what small hope there is ●f their amendment if any at all the like meanes of prevention would ●e thought profitable for our times I do not wish them stoned to death as God commanded such rioters and drunkards to be under the Law Deut. 21.20 21. Nor bamshed the Land as the Romans did all vitious and vo●uptuous persons that the rest might not be endangered And Lycurgus all ●nventers of new fashions lest these things should effeminate all their young men for then I feare the land would be much unpeopled And so much for ●he avoiding of drunken company § 42. Secondly be carefull to abstain from drinking places which are e●en the nurseries of all riot excess and idleness making our land another Sodome and furnishing yearly our Jails and Gallowses Far be it from me to ●lame a good calling to accuse the innocent in that calling I know the Lord ●ath many in the world in these houses but sure I am too many of them ●re even the dennes and shops yea the thrones of Satan very sinkes of sin which like so many common-shoares or receptacles refuse not to welcome ●nd incourage any in the most loathsome pollutions they are able to invent ●nd put in practice Who if there were any hope of prevailing would be minded of their wic●edness in entertaining into their houses encouraging and complying with ●hese Traitors against God and of their danger in suffering so much im●iety to rest within their Gates For if one sinne of Theft or of perjury is enough to rot the Rafters to grinde the stones to levell the wals and roofe of any house with the ground as is laid down Zach. 5.4 what are the oathes the lyes the thefts the whoredomes the murthers the numberless and nameless abominations that are committed there But should I speake to these I should but speed as Paul at Ephesus I should be cryed downe with Great is Diana after some one Demetrius had told the rest of this occupation Sirs ye know that by this craft we have our wealth Surely if feare of having their Signes pulled downe their licenses called in c. cannot prevaile it little bootes me to speake § 43. Only to you Churchwardens Constables and other Officers that love the Lord the Church the State your selves and people Help the Lord the King and his Lawes against this mighty sinne present it indict it smite it every one shoot at it as a common enemy do what you can to suppress and prevent it Tell me not he is a friend a gentleman such an ones kinsman that offends for he is better and greater and nearer to you that is offended Learne to feare to love and obey your Maker and Saviour your Soveraigne and Protector Yea learne this Norman distinction when William the first censured one that was both Bishop of Bajeux and Earle of Kent his Apology to the plaintife popeling was that he meddled not with the Bishop but the Earle do you the like let the gentleman escape but stock the drunkard meddle not with your friend and kinsman but for all that pay the drunkard and make his Host pay that suffers him to be drunke O● if you do not to your power you shall have Ahabs wages his faults shall be beaten upon your backs 1 King 20.42 § 44. But most of all are they to be desired who are within the commission of Peace in Gods name whose servants they professe themselves to be to remember him themselves their country their oathes and to bend their strength and power against this many-headed Monster that they will purge their Country much more their owne houses of this pernicious and viperous brood Yea if there be any love of God any hatred of sinne any zeal any courage any conscience of an oath away with drunkennesse out of your Houses Townes Liberties balk none beare with none that offend say they be poore in whose houses the sinne is practised it is better one or two should lose their gaine then Townes of men should lose their wits their wealths their soules O beloved did you heare and see and smell and know what is done in some one Taverne or Alehouse hell-house I might call it in this land you would wonder that the earth could bear the house or the Sunne endure to looke upon it But alas how many of these Houses be there in some one Towne how many of these Townes in some one Shire and so upward You often complaine of Bastardies Sheep stealers robbers quarrellers and the like will you be eased of these diseases beleeve it these gather into the Alehouse as the humours do into the stomach against an Ague fit take them there drive them thence with some strong physick and you heale our land at once of infinite distempers Here I might also minde you of most prisons Just Lot was vexed with the uncleanly conversation of his wicked neighbours Sodome was worse then a Jaile to his righteous soule and report lyes if our Jailes be not much like to Sodome the very dens of mischiefe the schooles of wickedness a malefactor or broken Shop-keeper learnes more villany there then ever he knew before Drunkennesse and blasphemy usurpe the places of Mortification and Humility though most unfit it should be so Such as would know more of this and other subjects more serious let them read Sinne Stigmatized from which I have pluckt this as a Bunch of Grapes from a large Vine POSTSCRIPT THE Spartans and Lacedemonians used to shew their Slaves in their drunkenness unto their children thinking that their ugly deformity both in body and minde would be an effectual argument to make them loath this vice which even at the first view seemed so horrid The Persians and Parthians also to the same end kept alwayes in their houses the like ugly and deformed descriptions lively painted out and found it by experience the most operative and effectuall course to keep theirs from excesse And nothing as Anacharsis holds will sooner reclaime a man from Drunkennesse then the seeing and remembring of a drunkards odious condition and beastly behaviour Would we then that are Christians have our children and servants decline this bewitching besotting infectious and incurable sinne this wastefull insatiable unreasonable unnaturall sinne this base brutish atheisticall execrable prodigious and infernall sinne this transcendent sin which is the cause of all other sins yea a confluence or collection of every sinne even turning a man wholly into sinne this sinne that is the Funerall of all a mans good parts and indisposeth him to all grace and godlinesse yea to all the means thereof 〈◊〉 use we them and that often to read over in our families this description of a drunkard and for ought we know ours and after generations may by Gods blessing be less inamored with this loathsome and worse then beastly abomination FINIS Imprimatur John Downam