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A70365	Two broad-sides against tobacco the first given by King James of famous memory, his Counterblast to tobacco : the second transcribed out of that learned physician Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his Treatise of the scurvy : to which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking, taken out of another work of the same author, his Preservation of health and prolongation of life : with a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's treatise of Bloud, against smoking tobacco : also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards, who have died suddenly, in a sermon preached by Mr. Samuel Ward : concluding with two poems against tobacco and coffee / corrected and published, as very proper for this age, by J.H.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699? Treatise of the scurvy.; Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered.	1672 (1672)	Wing J147; ESTC R19830	56,525	81

taste of the Cup but you shall drink off the dregs of God's Wrath and Displeasure To whom is Strife You talk of good fellowship and friendship but Wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate and sets you a quarreling and medling When wit 's out of the head and strength out of the body it thrusts even Cowards and Dastards unfenced and unarmed into needless Frayes and Combats And then to whom are Wounds broken Heads blue Eyes maimed Limbs You have a drunken by-word Drunkards take no harm but how many are the mishaps and untimely misfortunes that betide such which though they feel not in drink they carry as marks and brands to their Grave You pretend you drink Healths and for Health but to whom are all kind of Diseases Infirmities Deformities pearled Faces Palsies Dropsies Head-aches If not to Drunkards Upon these premises he forcibly infers his sober and serious advise Look upon these woful effects and evils of Drunkenness and look not upon the Wine look upon the blue Wounds upon the red Eyes it causeth and look not on the red colour when it sparkleth in the Cup. If there were no worse then these yet would no wise man be overtaken with Wine As if he should say What see you in the Cup or Drink that countervaileth these dreggs that lie in the bottom Behold this is the Sugar you are to look for and the tang it leaves behind Woe and alas sorrow and strife shame poverty and diseases these are enough to make it odious but that which followeth withall will make it hideous and fearful For Solomon duely considering that he speaks to men past shame and grace senseless of blowes and therefore much more of reasons and words insisteth not upon these petty woes which they bewitched and besotted with the love of Wine will easily over-see and over-leap but sets before their Eyes the direful end and fruit the black and poysonful tail of this sin In the end it stingeth like the Serpent it biteth like the Cockatrice or Adder saith our new Translation All Interpreters agree That he means some most virulent Serpent whose Poyson is present and deadly All the woes he hath mentioned before were but as the sting of some Emmet Waspe or Nettle in comparison of this Cockatrice which is even unto death death speedy death painful and woful death and that as naturally and inevitably as Opium procureth sleep as Hellebore purgeth or any Poyson killeth Three forked is this sting and three-fold is the death it procureth to all that are strung therewith The first is the death of Grace The second is of the Body The third is of Soul and Body eternal All sin is the poyson wherewithall the old Serpent and red Dragon envenomes the soul óf Man but no sin except it be that which is unto death so mortal as this which though not ever unpardonably yet for the most part is also irrecoverably and inevitably unto death Seest thou one bitten with any other Snake there is hope and help as the Father said of his Son when he had information of his Gaming of his Prodigality yea of his Whoring But when he heard that he was poysoned with Drunkenness he gave him for dead his case for desperate and forlorn Age and experience often cures the other but this encreaseth with years and parteth not till death Whoring is a deep Ditch yet some few shall a man see return and lay hold on the wayes of life one of a thousand but scarce one Drunkard of ten-thousand One Ambrose mentions and one have I known and but one of all that ever I knew or heard of Often have I been asked and often have I enquired but never could meet with an instance save one or two at the most I speak of Drunkards not of one drunken of such who rarely and casually have Noah-like been surprised over-taken at unawares But if once a Custome ever Necessity Wine takes away the Heart and spoils the Brain overthrows the Faculties and Organs of Repentance and Resolution And is it not just with God that he who will put out his natural light should have his spiritual extinguished He that will deprive himself of Reason should lose also the Guide and Pilot of Reason God's Spirit and Grace He that will wittingly and willingly make himself an Habitation of Unclean Spirits should not dispossess them at his own pleasure Most aptly therefore is it translated by Tremelius Haemorrhois which Gesner confounds with the Dipsas or thirsty Serpent whose poyson breedeth such thirst drought and inflamation like that of Ratsbane that they never leave drinking till they burst and die withall Would it not grieve and pitty any Christian-soul to see a towardly hopeful young man well natured well nurtured stung with this Cockatrice bewailing his own case crying out against the baseness of the sin inveighing against Company melting under the perswasions of Friends yea protesting against all enticements vow covenant and seriously indent with himself and his Friends for the relinquishing of it And yet if he meet with a Companion that holds but up his Finger he follows him as a Fool to the Stocks and as an Oxe to the Slaughter-house having no Power to withstand the Temptation but in he goes with him to the Tipling-house not considering that the Chambers are the Chambers of Death and the Guests the Guests of Death and there he continues as one bewitched or conjured in a Spell out of which he returns not till he hath emptied his Purse of Money his Head of Reason and his Heart of all his former seeming Grace There his Eyes behold the strange Woman his Heart speaketh perverse things becoming heartless as one saith Solomon in the heart of the Sea resolving to continue and return to his Vomit whatsoever it cost him to make it his daily work I was sick and knew it not I was struck and felt it not when I awake I will seek it still And why indeed without a Miracle should any expect that one stung with this Viper should shake it off and ever recover of it again Yea so far are they from recovering themselves that they infect and become contagious and pestilent to all they come near The Dragon infusing his Venome and assimulating his Elfes to himself in no sin so much as in this that it becomes as good as Meat and Drink to them to spend their Wit and Money to compass Ale-house after Ale-house yea Town after Town to transform others with their Circean-Cups till they have made them Bruits and Swine worse then themselves The Adulterer and Usurer desire to enjoy their Sin alone but the chiefest pastime of a Drunkard is to heat and overcome others with Wine that he may discover their nakedness and glory in their foyl and folly In a word excess of Wine and the spirit of Grace are opposites the former expels the latter out of the Heart as smoke doth Bees out of the Hive and makes the man a

other receives a prejudice at least does not find that satisfaction and refreshment under such a qualification because of the various natures particular appetitions and idiosyncratical properties of several bodies one thing will not agree with all Therefore he that cannot drink warm let him take it cold and it is well to him but he that drinks it warm does better And this is to be understood in Winter when the extremity of cold hath congelated and fixed the spirits of the Liquor in a torpid inactivity which by a gentle warmth are unfettered volatile and brisk whereby the drink is more agreeable and grateful to the Stomachs fermenting heat being so prepared then to be made so by it There are three sorts of Drinkers one drinks to satisfie Nature and to support his body without which he cannot well subsist and requires it as necessary to his Being Another drinks a degree beyond this man and takes a larger dose with this intention to exhilarate and chear his mind to banish cares and trouble and help him to sleep the better and these two are lawful Drinkers A third drinks neither for the good of the body or the mind but to stupisie and drown both by exceeding the former bounds and running into excess frustrating those ends for which drink was appointed by Nature converting this support of life and health making it a procurer of sickness and untimely death Many such there are who drink not to satifie Nature but force it down many times contrary to natural inclination and when there is a reluctancy against it as Drunkards that pour in Liquor not for love of the drink or that Nature requires it by thirst but onely to maintain the mad frollick and keep the Company from breaking up Some to excuse this intemperance hold it as good Physick to be drunk once a moneth and plead for that liberty as a wholsome custome and quote the authority of a famous Physician for it Whether this Opinion be allowable and to be admitted in the due Regiment for preservation of Health is fit to be examined It is a Canon established upon good reason That every thing exceeding its just bounds and golden mediocrity is hurtful to Nature The best of things are not excepted in this general rule but are restrained and limited here to a due proportion The supports of life may prove the procurers of death if not qualified and made wholsome by this corrective Meat and drink is no longer sustenance but a load and overcharge if they exceed the quantum due to each particular person and then they are not what they are properly in themselves and by the appointment of Nature the preservatives of life and health but the causes of sickness and consequently of death Drink was not appointed man to discompose and disorder him in all his faculties but to supply nourish and strengthen them Drink exceeding its measure is no longer a refreshment to irrigate and water the thirsty body but makes an inundation to drown and suffocate the vital powers It puts a man out of the state of health and represents him in such a degenerate condition both in respect of body and mind that we may look upon the man as going out of the World because he is already gone out of himself and strangely metamorphosed from what he was I never knew sickness or a Disease to be good preventing Physick and to be drunk is no other then an unsound state and the whole body out of frame by this great change What difference is there between sickness and drunkenness Truly I cannot distinguish them otherwise then as genus and species Drunkenness being a raging Disease denominated and distinguished from other sicknesses by its procatartick or procuring cause Drink That Drunkenness is a Disease or sickness will appear in that it hath all the requisites to constitute a Disease and is far distant from a state of health for as health is the free and regular discharge of all the functions of the body and mind and sickness when the functions are not performed or weakly and depravedly then Ebriety may properly be said to be a Disease or sickness because it hath the symptoms and diagnostick signs of an acute and great Disease for during the time of drunkenness and some time after few of the faculties perform rightly but very depravedly and preternatually if we examine the intellectual faculties we shall find the reason gone the memory lost or much abated and the will strangely perverted if we look into the sensitive faculties they are disordered and their functions impedited or performed very deficiently the eyes do not see well nor the ears hear well nor the palate rellish c. The speech faulters and is imperfect the stomach perhaps vomits or nauseates his legs fail Indeed if we look through the whole man we shall see all the faculties depraved and their functions either not executed or very disorderly and with much deficiency Now according to these symptoms in other sicknesses we judge a man not likely to live long and that it is very hard he should recover the danger is so great from the many threatning symptoms that attend this sickness and prognosticate a bad event here is nothing appears salutary but from head to foot the Disease is prevalent in every part which being collated the syndrom is lethal and judgment to be given so Surely then Drunkenness is a very great Disease for the time but because it is not usually mortal nor lasts long therefore it is slighted and look't upon as a trivial matter that will cure it self But now the question may be asked Why is not Drunkenness usually mortal since the same signs in other Diseases are accounted mortal and the event proves it so To which I answer All the hopes we have that a man drunk should live is first From common experience that it is not deadly Secondly From the nature of the primitive or procuring Cause strong Drink or Wine which although it rage and strangely discompose the man for a time yet it lasts not long nor is mortal The inebriating spirits of the liquor flowing in so fast and joyning with the spirits of mans body make so high a tide that overflows all the banks and bounds of order For the spirits of mans body those agents in each faculty act smoothly regularly and constantly with a moderate supply but being overcharged and forced out of their natural course and exercise of their duty by the large addition of furious spirits spurs the functions into strange disorders as if nature were conflicting with death and dissolution but yet it proves not mortal And this first because these adventitious spirits are amicable and friendly to our bodies in their own nature and therefore not so deadly injurious as that which is not so familiar or noxious Secondly Because they are very volatile light and active Nature therefore does much sooner recover her self transpires and sends forth the overplus

meer Slave and Prey to Satan and his snares when by this Poyson he hath put out his Eyes and spoyled him of his strength he useth him as the Philistins did Sampson leads him in a string whither he pleaseth like a very drudge scorn and make-sport to himself and his Imps makes him grind in the Mill of all kind of Sins and Vices And that I take to be the reason why Drunkenness is not specially prohibited in any one of the Ten Commandments because it is not the single breach of any one but in effect the violation of all and every one It is no one sin but all sins because it is the In-let and Sluce to all other Sins The Devil having moistened and steeped him in his Liquor shapes him like soft Clay into what mould he pleaseth having shaken off his Rudder and Pilot dashes his Soul upon what Rocks Sands and Syrts he listeth and that with as much ease as a man may push down his Body with the least thrust of his Hand or Finger He that in his right wits and sober mood seems religious modest chast courteous secret in his drunken fits swears blasphemes rages strikes talks filthily blabs all secrets commits folly knows no difference of Persons or Sexes becomes wholly at Satans command as a dead Organ to be enacted at his will and pleasure Oh that God would be pleased to open the Eyes of some Drunkard to see what a Dunghill and Carrion his Soul becomes and how loathsome effects follow upon thy spiritual death and sting of this Cockatrice which is the Fountain of the other two following temporal and eternal death And well may it be that some such as are altogether fearless and careless of the former death will yet tremble and be moved with that which I shall in the second place tell them Among all other sins that are none brings forth bodily death so frequently as this none so ordinarily slays in the act of sin as this And what can be more horrible then to die in the act of a Sin without the act of Repentance I pronounce no definitive Sentence of Damnation upon any particular so dying but what door of hope or comfort is left to their Friends behind of their Salvation The Whore-Master he hopes to have a space and time to repent in age though sometimes it pleaseth God that death strikes Cozbi and Zimri napping as the Devil is said to slay one of the Popes in the instant of his Adultery and carry him quick to Hell The Swearer and Blasphemer hath commonly space though seldom Grace to repent and amend and some rare examples stories afford of some taken with Oaths and Blasphemies in their mouths The Thief and Oppossor may live and repent and make restitution as Zacheus though I have seen one slain right-out with the Timber he stole half an hour before and heard of one that having stoln a Sheep and laying it down upon a stone to rest him was grin'd and hang'd with the strugling of it about his Neck But these are extraordinary and rare cases God sometimes practising Marshal-Law and doing present execution lest Fools shall say in their Hearts There were no God or Judgment but conniving and deferring the most that men might expect a Judge coming and a solemn day of Judgment to come But this sin of Drunkenness is so odious to him that he makes it self Justice Judge and Executioner slaying the ungodly with misfortune bringing them to untimely shameful ends in brutish and beastial manner often in their own vomit and ordure sending them sottish sleeping and senseless to Hell not leaving them either time or reason or grace to repent and cry so much as Lord have mercy upon us Were there as in some Cities of Italy an Office kept or a Record and Register by every Coroner in Shires and Counties of such dismal events which God hath avenged this sin withall what a Volume would it have made within these few years in this our Nation How terrible a Threater of God's Judgments against Drunkards such as might make their Hearts to bleed and relent if not their Ears to tingle to hear of a taste of some few such noted and remarkable Examples of God's Justice as have come within the compass of mine own notice and certain knowledge I think I should offend to conceal them from the World whom they may happily keep from being the like to others themselves An Ale-wife in Kesgrave near to Ipswich who would needs force three Serving-men that had been drinking in her House and were taking their leaves to stay and drink the three Ou ts first that is Wit out of the Head Money out of the Purse Ale out of the Pot as she was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand was suddenly taken speechless and sick her Tongue swoln in her mouth never recovered speech the third day after died This Sir Anthony Felton the next Gentleman and Justice with divers others Eye-witnesses of her in Sickness related to me whereupon I went to the House with two or three Witnesses and inquired the truth of it Two Servants of a Brewer in Ipswich drinking for a rumpe of a Turkie strugling in their drink for it fell into a scading Caldron backwards whereof the one died presently the other lingringly and painfully since my coming to Ipswich Anno 1619. A Miller in Bromeswell coming home drunk from Woodbridge as he oft did would needs go and swim in the Milpond his Wife and Servants knowing he could not swim disswaded him once by intreaty got him out of the water but in he would needs go again and there was drowned I was at the house to inquire of this and found it to be true In Barnewell near to Cambridge one at the Sign of the Plough a lusty young man with two of his Neighbours and one Woman in their Company agreed to drink a Barrel of strong Beer they drank up the Vessel three of them dyed within twenty four hours the fourth hardly escaped after great sickness This I have under a Justice of Peace his Hand near dwelling besides the common fame A Butcher in Hastingfield hearing the Minister inveigh against Drunkenness being at his Cups in the Ale-house fell a jesting and scoffing at the Minister and his Sermons And as he was drinking the Drink or something in the Cup quackled him stuck so in his Throat that he could get it neither up nor down but strangled him presently At Tillingham in Dengy Hundred in Essex three young men meeting to drink Strong waters fell by degrees to half-pints One fell dead in the Room and the other prevented by Company coming in escaped not without much sickness At Bungey in Norfolk three coming out of an Ale-house in a very dark Evening swore they thought it was not darker in Hell it self One of them fell off the Bridge into the water and was drowned the second fell off his Horse the third sleeping on the Ground by the

Rivers-side was frozen to death This have I often heard but have no certain ground for the truth of it it A Bayliff of Hadly upon the Lords-day being drunk at Melford would needs get upon his Mare to ride through the Street affirming as the Report goes That 〈◊〉 Mare would carry him to the Devil His Mare casts him off and broke his Neck instantly Reported by sundry sufficient Witnesses Company drinking in an Ale-house at Harwich in the night over against one Master Russels and by him out of his Window once or twice willed to depart at length he came down and took one of them and made as if he would carry him to Prison who drawing his Knife fled from him and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand Related to me by Master Russel himself Mayor of the Town At Tenby in Pembrokeshire a Drunkard being exceeding drunk broke himself all to pieces off an high and steep Rock in a most fearful manner and yet the occasion and circumstances of his fall were so ridiculous as I think not fit to relate lest in so serious a Judgment I should move laughter to the Reader A Glasier in Chancery-Lane in London noted formerly for Profession fell to a common course of drinking whereof being oft by his Wife and many Christian friends admonished yet presuming much of God's mercy to himself continued therein till upon a time having surcharged his Stomach with drink he fell a vomiting broke a Vein lay two days in extreme pain of Body and distress of Mind till in the end recovering a little comfort he died Both these Examples related to me by a Gentleman of worth upon his own knowledge Four sundry instances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their drink slain by Carts I forbear to mention because such examples are so common and ordinary A Yeoman's Son in Northamptonshire who being drunk at Wellingborough on a Market-day would needs ride his Horse in a bravery over the plowed-lands fell from his Horse and brake his Neck Reported to me by a Kinsman of his own A Knight notoriously given to Drunkenness carrying sometime Payls of drink into the open Field to make people drunk withall being upon a time drinking with Company a woman comes in delivering him a Ring with this Posie Drink and die saying to him This is for you which he took and wore and within a week after came to his end by drinking Reported by sundry and justified by a Minister dwelling within a mile of the place Two Examples have I known of Children that murthered their own Mothers in drink and one notorious Drunkard that attempted to kill his Father of which being hindred he fired his Barn and was afterward executed one of these formerly in Print At a Tavern in Breadstreet in London certain Gentlemen drinking Healths to their Lords on whom they had dependance one desperate Wretch steps to the Tables end lays hold on a pottle-pot full of Canary-sack swears a deep Oath What will none here drink a health to my noble Lord and Master and so setting the pottle-pot to his mouth drinks it off to the bottom was not able to rise up or to speak when he had done but fell into a deep snoaring sleep and being removed laid aside and covered by one of the Servants of the House attending the time of the drinking was within the space of two hours irrecoverably dead Witnessed at the time of the Printing hereof by the same Servant that stood by him in the Act and helpt to remove him In Dengy Hundred near Mauldon about the beginning of his Majesties Reign there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or six that plotted a solemn drinking at one of their Houses laid in Beer for the once drunk healths in a strange manner and died thereof within a few weeks some sooner and some later witnessed to me by one that was with one of them on his death-bed to demand a Debt and often spoken of by Master Heydon late Preacher of Mauldon in the hearing of many The particular circumstances were exceeding remarkable but having not sufficient proof for the particulars I will not report them One of Ayl●sham in Norfolk a notorious Drunkard drowned in a shallow Brook of water with his Horse by him Whilest this was at the Presse a man Eighty five years old or thereabout in Suffolk overtaken with Wine though never in all his life before as he himself said a little before his fall seeming to bewail his present condition and others that knew him so say of him yet going down a pair of stairs against the perswasion of a woman sitting by him in his Chamber fell and was so dangerously hurt as he died soon after not being able to speak from the time of his fall to his death The Names of the Parties thus punished I forbear for the Kindreds sake yet living If conscionable Ministers of all places of the Land would give notice of such Judgments as come within the compass of their certain knowledge it might be a great means to suppress this Sin which reigns every where to the scandal of our Nation and high displeasure of Almighty God These may suffice for a tast of God's Judgments Easie were it to abound in sundry particular Casualties and fearful Examples of this nature Drunkard that which hath befaln any one of these may befal thee if thou wilt dally with this Cockatrice what ever leagues thou makest with Death and dispensations thou givest thy self from the like Some of these were young some were rich some thought themselves as wise thou none of them ever looked for such ignominious ends more then thou who ever thou art if thou hatest such ends God give thee Grace to decline such courses If thou beest yet insensate with Wine void of Wit and Fear I know not what further to mind thee of but of that third and worst sting of all the rest which will ever be gnawing and never dying which if thou wilt not fear here sure thou art to feel there when the Red Dragon hath gotten thee into his Den and shalt fill thy Soul with the gall of Scorpions where thou shalt yell and howl for a drop of water to cool thy Tongue withall and shalt be denied so small a refreshing and have no other liquor to allay thy thirst but that which the lake of Brimstone shall afford thee And that worthily for that thou wouldest incur the wrath of the Lamb for so base and sordid a sin as Drunkenness of which thou mayest think as venially and slightly as thou wilt But Paul that knew the danger of it gives thee fair warning and bids thee not deceive thy self expresly and by name mentioning it among the mortal sins excluding from the Kingdom of Heaven And the Prophet Esay tells thee That for it Hell hath enlarged it self opened its mouth wide and without measure and therefore shall the multitude and their pomp and