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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20253	A sermon against drunkennes preached at Ware by Daniel Dent ...	Dent, Daniel.	1628 (1628)	STC 6673.2; ESTC S113497	11,734	29

labyrinth of woe and misery that they plunge themselves into 1. If they consider the uglines of the vice which they have committed which is so beastly so abominable that if a man had a fountaine of teares he might shed them all for this This is that which raseth the image of God out of us and transformeth us into the image of bruite beasts this is the fountaine of all vice the fewell of lust the mother of whoredoms rapes murthers and all manner of abominations It were easy long to declaime against this and to shew the cursed effects thereof out of the Scriptures Fathers Schoolmen yea out of the Heathen themselves who by the light of Nature could learne to abhor this vice I might also set before your eyes sundry examples of those that when they have been in their drunken fits have commited such outrages that the very cogitation thereof may extract teares from our eyes onely give me leave to relate unto you one example which Saint Augustine maketh mention of in the city of Hippo where he was Bishop to wit of one Cyrillus a man of great respect and honour in the city who having but one sonne through too much indulgence suffered him to runne into excesse of riot and it happened that he comming home upon a time in his drunken fitt Patrem quem post Deum revereri debuisset occidit matrem à qua portabatur praegnantem oppressit sororem violare voluit duas sorores vulneravit ad mortem He slew his father whom next to God he ought to have reverenced he offered most savage unnaturall violence to his mother that brought him into the world he slew two of his sisters and would have ravished a third I need say noe more The straunge and prodigious effects of this vice may make us both to weep and houle for the commission of it But yet this is not all there is a further cause of mourning for drinkers of wine if they consider the woe and misery that this vice will bring upon them To whome is woe to whome is sorrow saith Solomon Even to them that sit long at the wine and the Prophet Esay denounceth woe against them Woe saith he to the drunkards of Ephraim Woe and misery they shall have enough in this world and in the world to come In this world povertie shame and sicknes shall befall them 1. For povertie that shall come upon them like an armed man He that loveth wine saith Solomon shall not be rich 2. But be it that some have an eye to the main chance for proverbs hold but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the most part suppose I say some be more politick then others yet shame which alwaies followeth sinne as the shadow doth the body will overtake them in the ende Righteous Noah falling but once into this vice and as many think through ignorance hath brought an eternall blot upon himselfe who in one distemper discovered that nakednesse which many hundred yeares had been kept close And how doe many often expose themselves by their reeling and staggering to the derision of boyes and children and are to them as owles are to the birds 3. Sicknes that is a concomitant of this vice It is an excellent saying of Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. water doth not so dissolve the earth as pouring in wine consumeth the body breeding innumerable diseases in all the regions of mans body in the Animalls Vitalls and Naturalls hence come Lethargies Apoplexies Palsies Catarrhes Dropsies Fevers Consumptions and many more the Harbingers of death So that these may well weep for the misery that shall come upon them in this world upon their bodies goods and good name But their greatest misery is in the world to come It were happy for these men that they might dye like beasts as they live but they must know that they must come to judgement and receive the fruit of their wickednesse for he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reape destruction Know ye not saith Saint Paul that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor drunkards shall inherit the kingdome of God no but rather must be cast out into that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone where is weeping and howling and gnashing of teeth for ever How much better is it then to weep now for a moment then to incurre eternall lamentation for the neglect thereof Let them then that are mighty to poure in strong drinke poure out strong lamentations for the misery that shall come upon them if they doe not prevent the same by speedy and unfained repentance But some there are that in stead of mourning for this vice make a sport of it and count it but a trick of good fellowship and so like the Leviathan they can laugh at the glittering sword and speare when it is ready to pierce them through I know there is a time to laugh and a time to mourne but wee can finde no time to lament this sinne which hath kindled Gods wrath against his people Many sinnes cry aloud against us for vengeance but none pierce the heavens more then this beastly though common sinne of drunkennesse and yet it is to be feared that not many mourners are to be found for this vice If the Angell of the Lord should runne to and fro and set a marke upon all those that mourne for this how many of us would he passe by who will not let fall a teare to quench the indignation of God which is most justly kindled against us for this and other abominations May not the Lord complaine of us as he did of his people the Iewes that he called them to weeping and mourning to girding with sackcloth and behold joy and gladnes eating flesh and drinking wine and that not in Timothies cup onely but in Belshazzars bowles also The Prophet Amos saw to his griefe that in his time they dranke wine in bowles and forgate the afflictions of Ioseph it were to be desired that we could not see the same in these times wherein the Church hangs her Harps upon the willowes while she sits by the waters of Babylon But methinks I heare some confesse that indeed they are sometimes overtaken with this vice but they are sorry for it If it be so it will easily appeare by their amendment of life For sorrow begetteth hatred and hatred begetteth a sequestration from it so that I may say to such as Saint Paul doth to the Corinthians in another case If they have sorrowed after a godly manner for this What care hath it wrought in them to avoid the occasions of this vice what apologies to acquit themselves when they are in danger to be drawne into this vice what desire to escape this in all places and at all times what feare least by evill company they be overcome what zeale will they have against this