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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	law_n	soul_n	4,073	5	4.9506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67741	The blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankind, or, A charge drawn up against drunkards and presented to His Highness the Lord Protector, in the name of all the Sober Party in the three nations, humbly craving that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others ... / by R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y140; ESTC R41270	20,083	18

The Blemish of Government the Shame of Religion the Disgrace of Mankind or a Charge drawn up against Drunkards and presented to his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR in the name of all the Sober Party in the three Nations Humbly craving that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others compelled to work and earn what they consume And that none may be suffered to sell Drink who shall either Swear or be Drunk themselves or suffer Others within their Wals. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex 1. BRANCH of the Charge THat as the Basilisk is chief of Serpents so of sinners the Drunkard is chief That Drunkenness is of sins the Queen as the Gout is of diseases even the root of all evil the rot of all good A sin which turns a man wholly into sin That all sins all beast-like all serpentine qualities meet in a Drunkard as rivers in the sea and that it were far better be a Toad or a Serpent than a Drunkard That the Drunkard is like Ahab who sold himself to work wickedness That he wholly dedicates resigns surrenders and gives himself up to serve sin and Satan That his only imploiment is to drink drab quarrel swear curse scoff slander and seduce as if to sin were his trade and he could do nothing else like the Devil who was a sinner from the beginning a sinner to the end That these sons of Belial are all for the belly for to drink God out of their hearts health out of their bodies wit out of their heads strength out of their joynts all the money out of their purses all the drink out of the Brewers barrels wife and children out of doors the house out at windows the Land out of quiet plenty out of the Nation is all their business In which their swinish swilling they resemble so many frogs in a puddle or water-snakes in a pond for their whole exercise yea Religion is to drink they even drown themselves on the dry land That they drink more spirits in one night then their flesh and brains be worth That more is thrown out of one swines nose and mouth and guts than would maintain five sufficient families 2. Br. That it is not to be imagined what all the Drunkards in one Shire or County do devour and worse than throw away in one year when it hath been known if we may give credit to Authours and the Oaths of others that two and thirty in one cluster have made themselves drunk that six and thirty have dranke themselves dead in the place with carowsing of healths that at one Supper one and fourty have killed themselves with striving for the conquest that two have drank each of them a peck at a draught that four men have drank four gallons of wine at a sitting that one man hath drank two gallons of wine and two more three gallons of wine a piece at a time that one Drunkard in a few hours drank four gallons of wine that four ancient men drank as many cups of wine at one sitting as they had lived years which was in all three hundred cups of wine amongst four men and lastly that three women came into a Tavern in Fleetstreet when I was a boy take it upon Claptons Oath and credit who drew the Wine and drank fourty nine quarts of Sack two of them sixteen a piece and the third to get the victory seventeen quarts of Sack Which being so what may the many millions of these ding-thrifty dearth-makers consume in a year in all the three Nations Nor need it seem incredible that common drunkards should drink thus for they can disgorge themselves at pleasure by only putting their finger to their throat And they will vomit as if they were so many live Whales spuing up the Ocean which done they can drink afresh Or if not so yet custom hath made it pass thorow them as thorow a tunnel or strainer whereby it comes out again as sheer wine as it went in as hath been observed Nor hath the richest Sherry or old Canary any more operation with them then a cup of six hath with me And no marvell for if physick be taken too oft it wil not work like physick but nature entertains it as a friend not as a Physitian yea poison by a familiar use becomes natural food As Aristotle in an example of a Maid who used to pick spiders off the wals and eat them makes plain 3. Br. That as Drunkards have lost the prerogative of their creation and are changed with Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4. 16. from men into beasts so they turn the sanctuary of life into the shambles of death yea thousands when they have made up the measure of their wickedness are taken away in God's just wrath in their drink as it were with the weapon in their bellies it faring with them as it did with that Pope whom the Devil is said to have slain in the very instant of his Adultery and carry him quick to hell being suddenly struck with death as if the execution were no lesse intended to the soul than to the body That by the Law of God in both Testaments He that will not labour should not eat Gen. 3. 19. Prov. 20. 4. 2 Thes. 3. 10. because he robs the Common-wealth of that which is altogether as profitable as land or treasure But Drunkards are not only lazy get-nothings but they are also riotous spend-als and yet these drunken drones these gut-mongers these Quagmirists like vagrants and vermine do nothing all their life-long that may tend to any good as is storied of Margites and yet devour more of the fat of the Land than would plentifully maintain those millions of poor in the Nation that are ready to famish A thing not fit to be suffered in any Christian Common-wealth yea far fitter they were stoned to death as by the Law of God they ought Deut. 21. 20 21. since this might bring them to repentance whereas now they spend their dayes in mirth and suddenly they go down into hell Job 21. 13. Drunkards being those swine whom the legion carries headlong into the Sea or pit of perdition 4. Br. That every hour seems a day and every day a month to a drunkard that is not spent in a Tap-house yea they seem to have nailed their ears to the door of some Tavern or Tap-house and to have agreed with Satan Master it is good being here That where ever the Drunkards house is his dwelling is at the Ale-house except all his mony be spent and then if his wife will fetch him home with a lanth●rn and his men with a barrow he comes with as 〈◊〉 sense as 〈◊〉 Image had That the pot is no sooner from their lips but they are melancholy and their hearts as heavy as if a milstone lay upon it Or rather they are vexed like Saul with an evil spirit which nothing will drive away but drink and Tobacco They so wound their consciences with all kind of prodigious

Well may you with Agrippa be almost Christians but sure enough you are not with St Paul altogether such and then what will become of you For almost a son is a bastard almost sweet is unsavoury almost hot is lukewarm and those that are lukewarm will God spue out of his mouth Rev. 3. 15 16. A Christian almost is like a woman that dieth in travel almost she brought forth a son but that almost killed the mother and the son too If thou believ'st almost thou shalt be saved almost as we say of a Thief that hath a pardon brought him whiles he is upon the gallows he was almost saved but he was hanged and his pardon did him no good To be almost a Christian is to be like the foolish Virgins that had Lamps but without oyl in them for which they were shut out of heaven though they came to the very door Mat. 25. 10 11 12. Can the door which is but almost shut keep out the Thief Can the ship that is but almost tite keep out the water The souldier that does but almost fight is a coward And therefore if thou lovest thy self look to it and that in time lest hereafter you most dolefully rue it For know this that you shall once give an account for every idle peny and hour you spend and for every cup of drink you shall spoil or waste and for every one that is encouraged to do the like by your example For which see Mat. 12. 36. Luke 16. 2. Rom. 14. 12. 1 Pet. 4. 5. Rev. 20. 13. 22. 12. That by the blessing of God our children and childrens children may loath drunkenness and love sobriety let this be fixed to some place convenient in every house for all to read The Persians Parthians Spartans and Lacedemonians did the like and found it exceeding efficacious And Anacharsis holds it the most effectual means to that end Imprimatur EDMUND CALAMIE FINIS Offer of Help to Drowning-Men Imprimatur THO GATAKER SEeing and fore-seeing the sad effects of mens crying down Books Learning the Ministry Sanctification c. if this their deep and devilish design do meet with no stop and seeing we should specially prepare for defence where Satan specially prepares for offence Considering also the numberless number of those that by professing themselves Protestants discredit the Protestant Religion Who because they have been Christened as Simon Magus was received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper like Judas and for company go to Church also as Dogs do are called Christians as we call the Heathen Images gods yea and being blinded by the Prince of darkness 2 Cor. 4. 4. think to be saved by Christ though they take up Arms against him and are no more like Christians than Michols Image of Goats hair was like David Who make the world only their god pleasure or profit alone their Religion Who are so graceless that God is not in all their thoughts except to blaspheme him and to spend his dayes in the Devils service Who being Christians in name will scoff at a Christian indeed Who honour the dead Saints in a cold profession while they worry the living Saints in a cruel persecution Who so hate Holiness that they will hate a man for it and say of good living as Festus of great learning It makes a man mad whose hearts will rise at the sight of a good man as some stomacks will rise at the sight of sweet meats Whose Religion is to oppose the power of Religion and whose knowledge of the Truth to know how to argue against the Truth Who justifie the wicked and condemn the just who call Zeal madness and Religion foolishness Who love their sins so much above their souls that they will not only mock their Admonisher scoff at the means to be saved and make themselves merry with their own damnations but even hate one to the death for shewing them the way to eternal life who will condemn all for Round-heads that have more Religion than an Heathen or knowledg of heavenly things than a child in the womb hath of the things of this life or conscience than an Atheist or care of his soul than a Beast and are mockers of all that march not under the pay of the devil Who with Adam will become Satans bondslaves for an Apple and like Esau sell their birth-right of Grace here and their Blessing of Glory hereafter for a mess of Pottage Who prefer the pleasing of their palates before the saving of their souls who have not only cast off Religion that should make them good men but reason also that should make them men Who waste virtues faster than riches and riches faster than any virtues can get them Who do nothing else but sin and make others sin too who spend their time and patrimonies in Riot and upon Dice Drabs Drunkenness who place all their felicity in a Tavern or Brothel-house where Harlots and Sycophants rifle their Estates and then send them to rob Who will borrow of every one but never intend to satisfie any one Who glory in their shame and are ashamed of that which should and would be their glory Who desire not the reputation of honesty but of good fellowship Who in stead of quenching their thirst drown their senses and had rather leave their wits than the wine behind them Who place their Paradise in their throats Heaven in their guts and make their belly their god who pour their Patrimonies down their throats and throw the house so long out at windows that at length their house throws them out of doors Who think every one exorbitant that walks not after their Rule Who will traduce all whom they cannot seduce even condemning with their tongues what they commend in their consciences Who as they have no reason so they will hear none Who are not more blind to their own faults than quick-sighted in other mens Who being displeased with others will flie in their Makers face and tear their Saviours Name in pieces with oaths and execrations as being worse than any mad dog that flies in his Masters face that keeps him Who swear and curse even out of custom as Currs bark yea they have so sworn away all grace that they count it a grace to swear and being reproved for swearing they will swear that they swore not Or perhaps they are covetous Cormorants greedy Gripers miserly Muck-worms all whose reaches are at riches Who make gold their god and commodity the stern of their consciences Who hold every thing lawfull if it be gainfull Who prefer a little base pelf before God and their own salvations and who being fatted with Gods blessings do spurn at his precepts Who like men sleeping in a Boat are carried down the stream of this World untill they arrive at their Gravesend Death without once waking to bethink themselves whether they are a going to Heaven or Hell Or Ignorant and Formal Hypocrites who do as they see others do without either