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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14757	VVoe to drunkards A sermon by Samuel Ward preacher of Ipswich.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1622 (1622)	STC 25055; ESTC S111607	15,586	56

WOE TO DRVNKARDS A Sermon by SAMVEL WARD Preacher of Ipswich LONDON Printed by A. Math for Iohn Marriott and Iohn Grismand and are to be sold at their Shops in St. Dunstons Church-yard and in Pauls Alley at the Signe of the Gunne 1622. PROV 23. vers 29.32 To whom is Woe to whom is Sorrow to whom is Strife c. In the end it will bite like a Serpent and sting like a Cockatrice SEer art thou also blind Watch-man art thou also drunk or asleep Or hath a Spirit of slumber put out thine eyes Vp to thy Watch-Tower what descriest thou Ah Lord what end or number is there of the vanities which mine eyes are weary of beholding But what feest thou I see men walking like the topps of trees shaken with the Winde like Masts of Ships reeling on the tempestuous Seas Drunkennesse I meane that hatefull Night-bird which was wont to waite for the twilight to seeke nookes and corners to auoide the houting and wonderment of Boyes and Girles Now as if it were some Eglet to dare the Sun-light to flie abroad at high noone in euery streete in open Markets and Faires without feare or shame without controule or punishment to the disgrace of the Nation the outfacing of Magistracy and Ministry the vtter vndoing without timely preuention of health and wealth Piety and Vertue Towne and Country Church and Commonwealth And doest thou like a dumbe dogge hold thy peace at these things doest thou with Salomons sluggard fould thine hands in thy bosome and giue thy selfe to ease and drousinesse while the enuious man causeth the noysomest and basest of weeds to ouer-runne the choysest Eden of God Vp and Arise lift vp thy voyce spare not and cry aloud What shall I crie Crie woe and woe againe vnto the Crowne of pride the Drunkards of Ephraim Take vp a parable and tell them how it stingeth like the Cockatrice declare vnto them the deadly poyson of this odious sinne Shew them also the soueraigne Antidote and Cure of it in the cup that was drunke off by him that was able to ouercome it Cause them to behold the brasen Serpent and bee healed And what though some of these deafe Adders will not bee charmed not cured yea though few or none of this swinish heard of habituall drunkards accustomed to wallow in their mire yea deepely and irrecouerably plunged by legions of Diuels into the dead sea of their filthinesse what if not one of them will be washed and made cleane but turne againe to their vomit and trample the pearles of all admonition vnder feete yea turne againe and rend their reprouers with scoffes and scornes making iests and songs on their Alebench Yet may some young ones bee deterred and some nouices reclaimed some parents and Magistrates awakened to preuent and suppresse the spreading of this gangrene and God haue his worke in such as belong to his grace And what is impossible to the worke of his grace Goe to them now ye Drunkards listen not what I or any ordinary hedge-priest as you stile vs but that most Wise and experienced royall Preacher hath to say vnto you And because you are a dull and thick-eared generation hee first deales with you by way of question a figure of force and impression To whom is woe c. You vse to say Woe be to hypocrites It 's true woe be to such and all other witting willing sinners but there are no kind of offenders on whom woe doth so palpably ineuitably attend as to you drunkards You promise your selues mirth pleasure and iollity in your Cups but for one drop of your mad mirth bee sure of gallons and tunnes of woe gall wormewood and bitternesse here and hereafter Other sinners shall tast of the Cup but you shall drinke of the dregs of Gods wrath and displeasure To whom is strife You talke of good fellowship friendship but wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate and serts you a quarrelling medling When wit 's out of the head and strength out of the body it thrustes euen Cowards and dastards vnfenced and vnarmed into needles frayes and combats And then to whom are wounds broken heads blue eyes maymed limmes You haue a drunken by-word Drunkards take no harme but how many are the mishaps and vntimely misfortunes that betyde such which though they feele not in drinke they carrie as markes and brands to their graue You pretend you drinke healthes and for health but to whom are all kind of diseases infirmities deformities pearled faces palsies dropsies headaches If not to drunkards Vpon these premises he forcibly inferrs his sober serious aduice Looke vpon these woefull effects and euils of drunkennes and looke not vpon the Wine looke vpon the blew wounds vpon the red eyes it causeth and looke not on the red colour when it sparkleth in the cup. If there were no worse then these yet would no wise man be ouertaken with Wine as if he should say What see you in the Cup or drink that counteruaileth these dregges that lie in the bottome Behold this is the Sugar you are to looke for and the tang it leaues behind Woe and alas sorrow and strife shame pouertie and diseases these are enough to make it odious but that which followeth withall will make it hideous and fearefull For Salomon duely considering that he speakes to men past shame and grace senselesse of blowes and therefore much more of reasons and words insisteth not vpon these petty woes which they bewitched and besotted with the loue of Wine will easily ouer-see and ouerleape but sets before their eies the direfull end and fruite the blacke and poysonfull taile of this sin In the end it stingeth like the Serpent it biteth like the Cockatrice or Adder saith our new Translation All Interpretors agree that hee meanes some most virulent Serpent whose poyson is present and deadly All the Woes hee hath mentioned before were but as the sting of some Emmet Waspe or Nettle in comparison of this Cockatrice which is euen vnto death death speedy death painefull and wofull death and that as naturally and ineuitably as Opium procureth sleepe as Ellebore purgeth or any Poyson killeth Three forked is this sting and threefold is the death it procureth to all that are stung therewith The first is the death of grace the second is of the body the third is of soule and body eternall All sin is the poyson wherewithall the old Serpent and Red Dragon enuenoms the soule of man but no sin except it bee that which is vnto death so mortall as this which though not euer vnpardonably yet for the most part is also irrecouerably and ineuitably vnto death Seest thou one bittē with any other Snake there is hope help As the Father said of his son when he had information of his gaming of his prodigalitie yea of his whoring but when hee heard that hee was poysoned with drunkennesse hee gaue him for dead his case