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A87472	The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ...; Two broad-sides against tobacco.	Hancock, John, fl. 1638-1675.; Hancock, John, fl. 1669-1705.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco. 1676.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; Thomson, George, fl. 1648-1679. Aimatiasis. Selections. 1676.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards. 1676.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered. 1676.; Everard, Giles. De herba panacea. English. Selections. 1676.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1676 (1676)	Wing J144A; ESTC R42598	56,406	78

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 recessary 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 stupifie 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 procatarctick 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 reMifh 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 it 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 if 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 received then if the morbifick matter were more ponderous and fixed the gravamen from thence would be much worse and longer in removing as an

satisfied and out of his Belly should sally Springs of the water of Life quenching and extinguishing all his inordinate longings ofter stoln water of Sin and Death All this while little hope have I to work upon many Drunkards especially by a Sermon read of less life and force in God's Ordinance and in its own nature then preached my first drift is to stir up the Spirits of Parents and Masters who in all Places complain of this evil robbing them of good Servants and dutiful Children by all care and industry to prevent it in their Domestical Education by carrying a watchful and restraining hand over them Parents if you love either Soul or Body thrift or piety look to keep them from this Infection Lay all the bars of your authority cautions threats and charges for the avoyding of this epidemical Pestilence If any of them be bitten of this Cockatrice sleep not rest not till you have cured them of it if you love their Health Husbandry Grace their present or future lives Dead are they while they live if they live in this Sin Mothers lay about you as Bathsheba with all entreaties What my Son my Son of my loves and delights Wine is not for you c. My next hope is to arouse and awaken the vigilancy of all faithful Pastors and Teachers I speak not to such Stars as this Dragon hath swept down from Heaven with its tayl for of such the Prophets the Fathers of the Primitive yea all Ages complain of I hate and abhor to mention this abomination to alter the Proverb As drunk as a Beggar to a Gentleman is odious but to a Man of God to an Angel how harsh and hellish a sound it is in a Christians ears I speak therefore to sober Watchmen Watch and be sober and labour to keep your Charges sober and watchful that they may be so found of him that comes like a Thief in the night Two means have you of great vertue for the quelling of this Serpent zealous Preaching and Praying against it It 's an old received Antidote that mans spittle especially fasting spittle is mortal to Serpents Saint Donatus is famous in story for spitting upon a Dragon that kept an High-way and devoured many Passengers This have I made good Observation of That where God hath raised up zealous Preachers in such Towns this Serpent hath no nestling no stabling or denning If this will not do Augustine enforceth another which I conceive God's and Man's Laws allow us upon the reason he gives If Paul saith he forbid to eat with such our common Bread in our own private Houses how much more the Lord's Body in Church-Assemblies If in our Times this were strictly observed the Serpent would soon languish and vanish In the time of an Epidemical Disease such as the Sweating or Neezing Sickness a wise Physician would leave the study of all other Diseases to find out the Cure of the present raging Evil. If Chrysostome were now alive the bent of all his Homilies or at least one part of them should be spent to cry drown Drunkenness as he did swearing in Antioch never desisting to reprove it till if not the fear of God yet his imporunity made them weary of the fin Such Anakims and Zanzummims as the spiritual Sword will not work upon I turn them over to the Secular Arm with a signification of the dangerous and contagious spreading of this poyson in the Veins and Bowels of the Common-wealth In the Church and Christ his name also intreating them to carry a more vigilant Eye over the Dens and Burrows of this Cockatrice superfluous blind and Clandestiné Ale-houses I mean the very Pest-houses of the Nation which I could wish had all for their fign a picture of some hideous Serpent or a pair of them as the best Hieroglyphick of the genius of the place to warn Passengers to shun and avoid the danger of them Who sees and knows not that some one needless Ale-house in a Countrey-Town un does all the rest of the Houses in it eating up the thrift and fruit of their Labours the ill manner of sundry places being there to meet in some one Night of the Week and spend what they they have gathered and spared all the days of the same before to the prejudice of their poor Wives and Children at home and upon the Lords day after Evening Prayers there to quench and drown all the good Lessons they have heard that day at Church If this go on what shall become of us in time If woe be to single Drunkards is not a National woe to be feared and expected of a Nation over-run with Drunkenness Had we no other Sin reigning but this which cannot reign alone will not God justly spue us out of his mouth for this alone We read of whole Countreys wasted dispeopled by Serpents Pliny tells us of the Amyclae Lycophron of Salamis Herodotus of the Neuri utterly depopulate and made unhabitable by them Verily if these Cockatrices multiply and get head amongst us a while longer as they have of late begun where snall the people have sober Servants to till their Lands or Children to hold and enjoy them They speak of drayning Fens but if this Evil be not stopped we shall all shortly be drowned with it I wish the Magistracy Gentry and Yeomanry would take it to serious consideration how to deal with this Serpent before he grow too strong and fierce for them It is past the egge already and much at that pass of which Augustine complains of in his time that he scarce knew what remedy to advise but thought it required the meeting of a general Council The best course I think of is if the great Persons would first begin through Reformation in their own Families banish the spirits of their Butteries abandon that foolish and vitious Custom as Ambrose and Basil calls it of drinking Healths and making that a Sacrifice to God for the health of others which is rather a Sacrifice to the Devil and a bane of their own I remember well Sigismund the Emperor's grave Answer wherein there concurred excellent Wisdom and Wit seldom meeting in one saying which he gave before the Council of Constance to such as proposed a Reformation of the Church to begin with the Franciseans and Minorites You will never do any good saith he unless you begin with the Majorites first Sure till it be out of fashion and grace in Gentlemens Tables Butteries and Cellars hardly shall you perswade the Countrey-man to lay it down who as in Fashions so in Vices will ever be the Ape of the Gentry If this help not I shall then conclude it to be such an Evil as is only by Soveraign Power and the King's Hand curable And verily next under the word of God which is Omnipotent how potent and wonder-working is the Word of a King when both meet as the Sun and some good Star in a benigne Conjunction what Enemy shall stand before the Sword of

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 Dropfies 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 party 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 poyfonful tail of this sin In the end it stingeth like the Serpent it biteth like the Cockatrice or Adder faith 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 of 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 Hamorrbois 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 and 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 Elses 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 meer Slave and Prey to Satan and his snares when by this Poyson he hath put out his Eyes and spoyled him of his