's more strictly visit him it's charity to visit the sick I take him to be no man God indeed made him one but that stamp and superscription of God set upon him to distinguish him from other creatures is so defaced that if all other of Gods creatures had done the like who could have traced in the search of the knowledge oâ— God in his creatures If then he be nâ— man he is no beast for in this sence they are sober content with the liberty of Natures choyce if neither Man nor Beast then sure God never made him his soul is drowned so nâ— man his sence is lost so no beast If we grant he have a rational being it is like those Idols mentioned that have eyes and see not eares and hear not neither do they perceive any thing the man is turned out of possession here lies the Cabinet the jewel's lost He is Antipode to all other creatures nay to God himself if you will have him a Beast he must be a beast of Prey whose belly is the very Sepulcher of Gods Creatures as if his life were but potestas vivendi ut velis Like him that mourned because his sences were not incorporated into that one of tasting which pleasure he wished had been spread over all his body whereby he might have ranged over all the sweets of nature with a prolonged delight Hannah gives the fittest name to him in her Answer to Eli Count not thine handmaid a daughter of BELIAL In a word he is a poor dead creature a Lazarus whom God in mercy raise to life again that out of this Chaos of insensible bestiality God would please to speak a word of power another Fiat even a voyce saying Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ will give thee light Let 's now see how much this sinne contributes to the breach of Natures Lawes and how much condemned and rooted out by Heathens Temperance and Sobriety those just Stewards are dismantled of their Authority whilst this sin with Schollars shut the door against their Master when they rebell it forces Nature to run the Gant-lope which without violence would best provide for her self if she could but spread her own table Go to the Crib you that are given up to Ebriety who cares for no more than what justly relieves the urgency of Nature I am too much afraid that it may justly be said of us as it was once of Philosophy That it was taught at Athens but practised in Sparta Temperance and sobriety is taught in England but practised in Turkie Alphonsus King of Aragon alwayes tempered his wine with water least it should flie above his understanding and betray his reason It was a Christian reply of Alcamen to his frugal reprovers saying That Gods blessings should prompt us to live up unto reason and moderation not of â—ust by turning Gods mercies to a wanton liberty of excesse The wicked man sayes Plutarch liveth to eat and drink but the good man eateth and drinketh to live And Salust said Nothing can be more abject and hurtful than to be a slave to thy mouth and belly Gorgius being demanded how he came to live in health to so great an Age Answered By forbearing to eat or drink through pleasure There is a breach of this temperance A power to drink to a greater excesse in measure and abuse of Gods creatures than many a weaker constitution can endure without being drunk with the fourth part of other's riot to drown and force Nature beyond her due proportion is a drunkennesse before God though thou beest never overtaken with the power of it to the sight of the Law If a Heathen could say It becomes not a King to extinguish that by excesse of drink which suports the name of an Emperour How much ought a Christian to value his profession at a higher rate How sweet and comely a thing is it for men to live soberly wisely and temperately by mixing our enjoyments with an equal proportion and measure of sobriety The opposite was that which stained the glory of Great Alexander The Lawes of Heathens and former Nations condemn our impunity and cheapnesse of this sin we do as it were sell drunkennesse for where forfeitures bite not above the pleasure of it men will be content to pay for it The Ancient Romans banished all Epicures out of their Cities accounting them the plagues of youth Romulus made a Law to punish drunkennesse in women with death Minos King of Creet suffered none to drink one to another unto drunkennesse without the censure of the Law Severer Lawes are not in the World against this sin than in Turkie A story whereof I remember of one that at a Festival time had been too liberal with his cups and being carried before the Grand Vizier had lead poured into his mouth and eares and so died not that one act needed such severity so much as to suppresse the growth and progresse of sin The Law rather intends Reformation than Punishment if the one might be without the other for Lex non Irascitur Let 's see the spiritual evils of this sin A Drunkard wounds his own soul his heart is like mare mortuum where no grace can live he drowns the voice of Nature and Conscience the two great lights which God sets up in every man He sells himself with Ahab to work wickednesse Tell him of God he replies as the Cyclops in the Tragedy to Vlysses I know no other God but my belly Or like that Monk mentioned who upon the news that all Abbies were voted down and yet his maintenance continued for life stroaked his belly with these words Modo hic sit bene his care was past so long as his camp was victualled with Solomons fool Come let 's drinks for to morrow we shall die but Remember Post mortem nulla voluptas Is it not a sad thing to see men drown body and soul together men may play with their eternal estates and dance about the flames and never see their danger till irrecoverable How many like Amnon die drunk carry their own condemnation with them That as Sir Gervise Elloway said His own hand which he took such a pride in appeared to his condemnation when nothing else could have wrought it and such judgements are heavy seeming as if the execution were alike intended against the soul as well as the body They spend their dayes in Mirth and suddenly they go down to Hell Job 31.13 What art thou guilty of that occasions this sin which is accompanied with so great tokens of Gods sore displeasure thou that in company forcest down drink or takest pleasure in thy sad profit by suffering them in thy house read the Prophet Wo to him that giveth his neighbour drink that putteth the bottle to him and maketh him drunken also It swells greater yet as its the fountain of other sins As Nero wished the people of Rome had but one neck that with one stroke
Written by Wm London a bookseller in Newcastle upon Tyne Local Cases Houghton le Spring p 42 Carlisle pp 44 45 77 Stanhopep 76 Dalston c. p 44 78 Cockermouth p 44 Callerton p 85 GODS JUDGEMENTS Upon DRUNKARDS SWEARERS And SABBATH-BREAKERS In a collection of the most remarkable Examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins with their Aggravations as well from Scripture as Reason And a Caution to Authority lest the Impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole Nation By W. L. 1 Cor. 10.11 Now all these things happened unto them for Examples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come Luke 13.3 Jesus said Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all Galileans because they suffered such things I tell you Nay c. Printed for William London 1659. TO THE Right Worshipfull The Mayor Recorder Aldermen Sheriffe and Common-Councell TOGETHER With the most Ingenuous Inhabitants of the Famous and Flourishing Town of New-Castle upon TINE THe Authour in Testimony of his sincere desires for the Peace and Prosperity of the Town in general and every person in particular Dedicates this his labour to their kind acceptance Christian Reader WHen I consider how the great Moderator of the World the holy and just God is concerned in the Regular or Irregular conversations of men and how much he hath interested himself in the providential notice he hath taken of them I cannot but judge that the brandishing of his sword the recording of the signal Judgments of God may be both acceptable to the Lord and useful to many an habituated rebellious sinner for the allaruming his drowsie conscience Shall a Trumpet be blowne in the City and the people not be afraid the Lord is known by his judgment which he executeth God will not suffer the worst part of the world to sink into Atheisme the wretched Emperour shall have claps of Thunder to fright him into suspitions of a deity Julian the Apostate shall be made to throw his blood into the ayre with a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Judgments have been one of the usuall wayes of Gods asserting his Authority in the world and that the usefulnesse of the following Treatise may be the more discovered I have a few things to intimate about the number of the judgements of God 1. That Gods judgments are not not like arrows shot into the Aire at randome he does not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} God hath blessed ends either to reclaim the party smitten iâ— judgements short of death seize on them or to be â— Pillar of salt to others that they may hear fear and do nâ— more so those Jews that exemplarily fell in the wildernesse they are said 1 Cor. 10.6 to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} types to future generations they are engraven characters of divine vengeance that we should read their punishment and avoid their sin 2. Consider the principles that judgements have to work upon Bondage Fear and Self-love the one like the Spaniel forbearing to offend for the Cudgel over it the other from a principle of self-preservation had rather want the bait then swallow the hook God having left some reliques of these in the most debaucht consciences that he might have somewhat to treat with in the vilest sinners when his judgements were abroad 3. Weigh the convictions they leave of an over-ruling Deity Atheism is one of the natural fruits of the first Apostasy and as it is heightned by impenitency so it is strengthned by impunity now God by his judgements gives some evidences of his Being and Soveraignty he hath his coecum in mente flagellum he hath his fulmen in orbe and fulgur in animo Pharaohs bold challenge of Who is the Lord shall shrink into a Moses pray for me when the Lord is in the way of his judgements 4. He will convince the world that Scripture-threatnings are not only a voyce of words but when and where the Lord pleases they are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they are fiery darts the breakings forth of fiery indignation against impenitent sinners especially when they meet with sinnes that do devastate conscience such as the sins here witnessed against Sins that provoke the eyes of Gods glory which in no Nation if raigning he will suffer to go unpunished he is a jealous God where his honour is so eminently concerned he will unsheath his wrath the first of these in a bestial Metamorphosis strives to raze out his Image the second to tear his Name the third to deprive him of his Worship and I cannot but approve and encourage the design of the ingenuous Author who whilst these crying sins dare with an open and brazen face so frequently shew themselves will set a brand upon their foreheads of the notable Judgements of God against them and for my own part I would not be wanting to countenance such publick designes for God for the discovering of the eminent judgments of God against these sins may like the Angell to Balaam stop the Career of some sinner provoke the zeale of those Magistrates and under officers upon whom God and man so loudly call for a severe proceeding against these sins and draw forth from the people of God that glorious confession Psal. 58.11 Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth Books of this nature may do much good where Sermons cannot reach through the prophane absence of many of those that are most guilty of these sins I shall say no more but recommend the ensuing Treatise to thy serious perusall and subscribe my self one willing to be A Servant to any design for God J. HAMMOND TO THE JVSTICES of PEACE In the NATION Especially these Northerne Parts Gentlemen THe chief Pillars of a Nation are the Magistracy and Ministery the one for punishing Sin the other for advancement of Righteousnesse These are the Officers of State which like the two great Luminaries of Heaven give Law to all the rest and amongst the Wisest and Best of men are accounted as useful to a Common-wealth as Castor and Polux to the Mariners in a tempestuous night So that as the flux and reflux of Nile portends plenty or dearth so these Sword-bearers of God are pledges of his favour to that Nation or Place where they are Honoured and Respected and great care ought to be had in the due election of such as may be for the promotion of the great end of such Places for as one lately said well They should not be like brambles which teare the wool off the poor sheeps backs that come to shelter for protection under them The Lacedemonians chose none into the Senate as Magistrates but onely upon account of Honesty and Vertue forgeting the bare consideration of Riches Friends c. where piety was a stranger And Cicero tells us A good Magistrate is the Common-wealths Physitian Badge of Vertue Staff of Peace
which cannot have over good a relish unlesse sweetned with a kinde of submission and therefore when drink or passion is departed then to write or send to them Yet where civillity and meeknesse will not allure to that just decency and order which holds conformity to the wholesome Lawes of the Nation then Currat lex All which I could wish were done without Malice Prejudice Revenge a spirit of domineering or to be accounted some petty some body but with a principle that may not onely approve the integrity of a mans soul to act for the glory of God but also a not expecting your reward from popularity or any other secret advantage below the truth and intent of the action guided by the best principles both Divine and Moral Now Gentlemen to you that are guilty or may be found in these disorders If Lawes were not we had as good live amongst Salvages you could not say your lives were your own if another through fear of the Lawes were not kept from murdering you if we had none to punish transgressors we had as good be without Lawes for your own honours therefore beware you involve not your reputations to the punishment of every mean officer be not angry at Justice which is more the Honour of the Gentry then any because they are looked upon as patrons of it be rather like King Henry the fourth who thanked God that Justice was executed though it lighted upon one of his own loyns To conclude Are not these sins fitter if for any in any sense for Brutes Beasts Beggars and the scum of a Nation than for Gentlemen or Christians for shame then you that are in any degree guilty of such foul spots of dishonour to the Nation to Christianity to your Families good Names and your own Souls let these wicked debauched beastly prophane sins be abandoned from your thoughts and actions and hate it in others that the Nation the Gentry first leading the van may make iniquity and sin blush and even shame these vild courses to the eternal Honour of England And now Gentlemen to whom I have been bold to Dedicate my paines I beg you to look upon the Work in that which you see it doth drive at and not at the unworthinesse of the Authour whose desire in it is nothing lesse than may be concluded in this wish That by your Good Government they that are to come may blesse your remembrance and we present may together with your selves live a comfortable peaceable and quiet life and that in all godlinesse and honesty So prayes Your humble servant W. L. TO THE READER WHen I weigh my owne unworthinesse in the ballance with any thing that may be called a work for God I am extremely discouraged to adventure wondring more that the Lord should not rather make me a warning to others by his Judgements upon me for my own sin then to write examples of others In the deep sence whereof I cannot say that I was constrained to this work purely from those noble and divine principles which should move in the wheeles of all undertakings for the glory of God and good of others lest I deceive my own spirit though â— desire a heart for both Foâ— upon a strict scrutiny it will be found a difficult and more then common attainmentâ— though most men are loath but in all their designes to plume themselves with these fair feathers so that in modesty I choose to be rather jealous it is not so then boast it as a reason that it is I can indeed say and that truly that I am an honourer and lover of Order Decency and good Government in a Nation City or Town and from a naturall and moral principle do detest these three sins of Drunkennesse Swearing and Sabbath-breaking as they strike at the Honour of Order Government and the Reputation of a Nation place or person and I wish this principle were wrought in such ingenuous persons as otherwise are not perswaded of a greater evill in these sins they are evills that wound the glory of God honour of a Christian state and the good of a civill Government yet have I been wound up to more then a common hatred of these notorious sinnes since I have seen the face of them in the glasse of Gods Judgements I have observed Drunkennesse Swearing and the slight observance of the Lords day with the profanation of it to grow the more by opposition which I think is because but slenderly punnished like the Seas where but bounded with weak banks rages and roares the more when they are broken down I have likewise observed that that which should be our greatest honor is turned into sin in that they which are under the strictest tye to Christianity by profession should so profane the Lords day and keep it with lesse exactnesse then the Heathens do their dayes of worshiping the Devil whilst we in troops runne to the profanation of God and his holy Ordinances by more then the one halfe of most Parishes absenting themselves from the Congregation and either prophane the day by drinking or which is as sad by a more then Heathenish idlenesse and sloathfull contempt of their own salvation nay and this is so common that it seems not otherwise then if it were turned into a Law to contemne the meanes of salvatien and slight and abuse such as would turn them aside from hell and eternal damnation and by this meanes they slight the faithful Ministers of the Gospel that labour night and day for the good of our soules which I account the first step to Apostasy from the ways of God I have likewise observed the slack execution of lawes by Justices not performeing their duties discourageing under Officers and leaving them a scorn and a reproach to wicked and ungodly men and if it please not the Lord to stir up the hearts of Justices of the Peace themselves to search diligently to go about and find out disordered houses the plagues of the Nation and hunt men out of their houses to the congregation sin will grow impudent and bold If I say they do not shew their faces to encourage and set a rate upon others under them men will be hardened in their wayes and be taught to grow worse by the faintnesse of justice and this I account a duty which a good conscience rightly principled cannot shift nor excuse before God or their own consciences The consideration of these things with the tendency of all to ruine where these evills are not redressed put me upon this I hope useful and may I not say necessary work especially considering the use of Judgements their Energy if pondered in a sober and deliberate mind they walk not alone the causes and ends are to be examined nor are they only limited to the persons or sins they punish but for warning others from the like sins or any other sinnes whatsoever And we see how God loves to warne before he strike so he did to Nineve and
be no medium in your mirth and chearfull repasts below this sinne of Dishonour Beastly and Debaucht behaviour Let me beg you to hate it and remember that nothing more ennobles a Gentlemans name or blazons forth his Honour and Reputation but studying an Aptitude for his Countries service purchased not by drunkennesse and beastlinesse but by Learning Parts Knowledge Wisdom Sobriety Temperance Vrbanity and all which this sin destroyes if you escape with the shipwrack of a good conscience Let Solomons instruction be remembred My son be not among the wine bibbers for the Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to poverty If perswasions built upon the prinâ—iples of Reason the sad fruits of it â—ame dishonour c. Gods threatning must nextly have place which indeed are not small and yet will but â—ake way for his more severe dispensations in his Judgements Wo to the Drunkards of Ephraim the Lord as a mighty and strong one which as a tempest of haile and a detroying storme as a flood of mighty waters and overflowing shall pull down the pride of the Drunkard for with wine they have erred and with strong drink have gone out of the way thy are swallowed up of wine for all Tables are full of vomit and filthinesse for which the overflowing scourge is threatned as a just reward for so great a sin together with famine which saith the Prophet in the last verse cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts And again the Lord calleth for weeping howling and lamentation which shall come upon Gluttony and Drunkennesse and the Lord of Hosts saith the Prophet hath revealed it in mine eare that this iniquity shall not be purged from you till yâ— die In another place VVo to them thaâ— are mighty to drink wine and men oâ— strength to mingle strong drink for â— the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottennesse and the blossom shall go â— as dust therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled and hath smitten them and the Hills did tremble and their carcases torn in the midst of the streets If these denunciations were deliberately weighed how would the verâ— joynts of sinners tremble and smite one against another as Beltshazars when he saw the hand-writing upon the wall Hear the Prophet Joel Awake ye Drunkards and weep and howle all ye Drinkers of wine God oft comes when we are asleep and many poor souls have never awakened from their Drunkennesse till in Hell with Dives this is a sad awakening Go to weep and howl sayes St. James ye have lived in pleasure and wantonnesse and nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter If yet all will not warne what must Gods appearances then be when he comes in terrour and wrath by his visible examples of judgement which I have collected from Scripture History and Modern experience Elah King of Israel was murdered by Zimri in the midst of his cups as a judgement of God upon his excesse Ammon when his heart was merry with wine was murdered by Absoloms servants Righteous Lot by this sin commits incest with his own daughters and as one well observes made a Sodom of his own Family The heavy curse that to this day lieth upon Noah's son Cham's Posterity was through this sin whereby he discovered his own shame Holofernes having too much exceeded in wine lost both wit and head at once Alexanders sorrow after his sin will tell us the sad fruits of it for seldom some or other of his dear friends escaped his fury when he was drunk Cleomena King of Lacedemonia at a time being drunk was never sober after but as a judgement of the Lord he lost his senses for not having judgement to keep them Another is as justly rewarded with the fruit of the vine Anacreon that grand engulpher of wine was choaked with an empty grape The Earl of Aspermont drained his estate so dry by his excesse in this sin as he justly died in misery for at a meeting he drunk so deep as he could never rise again for he died with it The Emperour Bonosius through his custom in this sin was said not to be born so much to live as to drink This was he that would force drink into Ambassadours the better to pump up their secrets He was shamefully hanged with this Epitaph This is a Tun and no man Zeno Emperour of the East became so hateful by his intemperance that none could endure to see him his wife Ariadne one day when he lay senselesse as he oft did cast him into a Tomb and buried him alive as a just reward of his drunkennesse August 18. 1629. Tho. VVilson labourer a known Blasphemer and Curser by oathes c. was also given up to this beastly sin of Drunkennesse who through the justice of God against both sins in an angry passion stab'd himself with his own knife and so died in the midst of many neighbours May 10. 1629. John Bone of Ely Coachman to Mr. Balnum of Beenham was a very vild Swearer and Drunkard who on a Sabbath day in Sermon-time being drunk and not able to sit in the Coach-box fell under the horses feet and was troden to death You Sabbath-breakers and Swearers hearken to this doleful example of Gods immediate hand Nov. 16. 1618. one Tho. Alred of Godmanchester Butcher being very prophane and given to this sin was desired by a neighbour to unpitch a load of hay and being drunk let his pitchfork fall and stooping to reach it standing with the forks upwards fell upon it that it run into his body and so fell down dead as a warning to others July 16. 1628. One John Vintner of Godmanchester being a known drunkard and given especially in his drink to scoff at Religion and godly people fell from the top of a Peare-tree and broke his neck and so died under the hand of justice an example for all prophane drunkards and scoffers of God and his people A Gentleman of good reputation and demeanour being not addicted to this sin was through temptation overtaken with this snare but lo justice will be satisfied on some to be an example and terrour to others for riding home his horse threw him and beat out his brains He being void of reason and so not capable of advice would follow no way but his own which led to destruction for without fear or sense he spurred his horse over all sorts of crosse and desperate wayes till he thus fell under the stroak of Divine wrath About the year 1630. nigh Maldon five or six notorious Drunkards had plotted a meeting and laid in beer for their prophane drinking healths But Divine Justice that can with his breath blast all our undertakings did so justly give them up to excesse in this sin and meeting as they never met more but all yielded up their spirits to the Justice of that God whom they abused by his creatures
A man coming home drunk would needs swim in a Mill dam which his servants and wife disswaded him from because he could not swim and once got him out after he was in but he gets in again and by the just hand of God there perished I was says my Authour at the house to enquire of the truth thereof and found it too sadly true And one of Alisham in Norfolk a notorious drunkard was drowned in a shallow brook with his horse standing by him A Butcher in Haslingfield scoffing at the Preacher for his reproving of this sin was in the instant of his railing choaked by somewhat that stuck in his throat which could by no means be got up or down but strangled him Oh the Divine Justice how Righteous and Just is the Lord in all his wayes how are his judgements past finding out At Tillingham in Essex 3 young men meeting to drink one fell down dead and never rose again the other two escaped through mercy by the gates of much sicknesse that they might repent and if not to be the lesse excusable if God followed them by the like severity At Bungey in Norforlk three drunken companions coming out of an Ale-hous in a dark evening swore they thought hell was not darker but observe the end of Justice one fell over a Bridge and was drowned the second slain with a fall from his horse a third sleeping by the River side was found frozen to death At Hedly a Bayliffe being drunk got upon his Mare saying she would carry him to the Devill she indeed casts him off and broke his neck This Justice was the more remarkable being upon the Lords day A company meeting in an Ale-house in Harwich at night over against Mr. Russels house was once or twice desired to depart and avoyd such wickednesse but they would not he comes to the place himself and apprehends one of them and offering to carry him to prison he drawes his knife and made his escape But oh the Justice of the Lord the strange and wonderfull wayes of his Providence this man was not heard of for three dayes and at last was taken out of the Sea with his knife in his hand justified by Mr. Russell himself who was the Mayor of the place At Tenby in Pembrokeshire A common and frequent Drunkard in the midst of this sin fell from a high Rock and was broke in pieces and four other instances my Authour sayes he could relate wallowing and tumbling in their drink slain by Carts c. But being the common wayes of Gods Justice he forbeares them in the midst of so many extraordinary and remarkable passages of Gods Justice and power and indeed innumerable might be such instances which the experience of every place prevents in this A Glasier in Chancery Lane London having some sparks of profession but falling from them fell into this sin who being often reproved by his Christian friends and no better God hardened his heart against them and once being drunk by the violence of vomiting broke a vein continued two dayes in extremity of Anguish and torment not without great conflicts and distresse of mind his conscience being awakened and God in much mercy breathing some comfort to his distressed soul he yielded up his soul to God as he had done his body to Sathan attested by a kinsman of his own to my Authour O that if it had been Gods will all examples of justice were accompanied with such sweetnesse and mercy as to give any hope of the safety of the soule when the body in the act of sin is destroyed A Knight given to this wicked sin of Drunkennesse did sometimes order pailes of drink into the fields to make people drunk On a time drinking with company a certain woman comes in and giveth him a Ring with this posie Drink and die which he accepted of and wore and in six dayes died through excesse of drink justified by a Minister dwelling within a mile of the place Two children my Authour sayes he hath known to murther their Mother in drink and another that attempted to kill his Father of which being frustrated he set fire of his barn and afterward came to the Gallowes In Broad-street London Many Gentlemen drinking healths to their sole Lords on whom they depended one wicked wretch takes up a Pottle pot of Sack sweares a deep oath saying will none drink a health to my Noble Lord and Master and without any more words he begunne himselfe and drank up the pot full to the bottome and suddenly fell as if dead snorting but not speaking he is layd by as one overcome and covered with cloathes till they drink as large a proportion as their insatiate appetites would take in when done expecting their friend should rise they found him dead indeed Oh sad to go to Eternity swearing and drunk who would not dread the Issue At Barnwell nigh Cambridge a young man and a woman with a hundred more in company met at the sign of the Plough agreeing to drink off a Barrell of Beer which they did but will not examples of others warn us then let 's expect to be monuments to others three of them died in twenty four houres the fourth escaped with great sicknesse and by the gates of death had life given him witnessed by a Justice of Peace of the County near by Two servants of a Brewers in Ipswich whilst I was Minister there said my Authour drinking for a Rump of a Turky in their drink they strugled for it and both fell into a scalding Caldron the one died presently the other in Torment and Anguish pined away At a Tavern in Essex a Constable was threatned by a drunken Serving-man to be forced out of the house by his oathes and curses if he would not be gone and in his drink pursuing one of his company to force him to drink off a pint of Sack he fell down stairs and immediately fell under the stroke of divine vengeance oh you swearers and cursers remember these examples of God! let them be examples to you will not the wrath of God revealed stand in our way and encompasse us about with terrour and fear Oh be not proud of your strength to devour and engrosse the creatures of God to satisfy your lusts It is recorded of a Noble-man coming to Ipswich to visit his Kinsman in that University that demanded how he profited in his studies to whom they reply very well and that amongst one thousand five hundred he had the garland given him for the ablest drinker Gods Judgements will find us sooner or later In Salisbury one in the midst of his drink began a health to the devill saying if he would not pledge him he would not believe there was either God or devill his associates being terrified at his words with fear runne away the Vintner hearing a hideous noyse and smelling and unusual and noysom savour ran up to the chamber but his guest was gone the