conscience of sin or guidance of reason Who do what is morally good more for fear of the Law then for love of the Gospel Who fear the Magistrate more than they fear God or the Devil regard more the blasts of mens breath than the fire of Gods wrath will tremble more at the thought of a Bailiff or a Prison than of Satan or Hell and everlasting perdition Who will say they love God and Christ yet hate all that any way resemble him are flint unto God wax to Satan have their ears alwayes open to the Tempter shut to their Maker and Redeemer will chuse rather to disobey God than displease great Ones fear more the Worlds scorns than His anger and rather than abridge themselves of their pleasure will incur the displeasure of God Who will do what God forbids yet confidently hope to escape what He threatens Who will do the Devils works only and yet look for Christs wages expect that Heaven will meet them at their last hour when all their life long they have galloped in the beaten Road towards Hell Who expect to have Christ their Redeemer and Advocate when their consciences tell them that they seldom remember him but to blaspheme him and more often name him in their Oaths and Curses than in their Prayers Who will persecute Honest and Orthodox Christians and say they mean base and dissembling Hypocrites Who think they do God service in killing his servants Joh. 16. 2. Who will boast of a strong faith and yet fall short of the Devils in believing Jam. 2. 19. Who turn the grace of God into wantonness as if a condemned person should head his Drum of Rebellion with his Pardon resolving to be evil because God is good Who will not believe what is written till they feel what is written and whom nothing will confute but fire and brimstone Who think their villany is unseen because it is unpunished and therefore live like beasts because they think they shall die like beasts Considering the swarms Legions Millions of these I say and many the like which I cannot stand to repeat As also in reference to Lev. 19. 17. Isa. 58. 1. And out of compassion to their precious souls there are above twenty several Books purposely composed wherein are proper remedies of the same alloy for each soul seduced or afflicted to be had without any expence which Books like glasses will shew them from Gods Word the very faces of their hearts And like Peter to Cornelius Act. 11. tell them words whereby with blessing from above both they and their Associates by their means may be saved ver. 14. And that they might the better recompence the Readers pains whether he propound to himself pleasure or profit they are as many Reverend Divines deem a brief Collection of the most winning and convincing Arguments out of the choisest Authors very pithily orderly and elegantly conveyed and embellished with much both variety of graceful and delightful illustration Yea if such as they concern shall be pleased to make use of them they may with Gods blessing not only have their vices lessened their knowledge increased and their minds cheered and comforted but probably they shall find in them the flower cream or quintessence of what would otherwise cost them twenty years reading to extract It remains only that the Patients for whom this Physick is proper be prevailed withall to take it For although here is all necessary provision made and the guests lovingly invited yet of themselves they will refuse to come as in that Parable of the Lords Supper Luk. 14. 16. to 25. Because as good meats are unwelcome to sick persons so is good counsel to obstinate sinners Here is light but they love darkness rather than light lest their deeds which are evil should be reproved Only they that do well and love truth will come to the light that their deeds may be made manifest Joh 3. 19 20 21. Also many young novices in sin will entertain them as Lot did those Angels that came to fetch him out of Sodom Gen. 19. And probably some Parents and Masters will desire them to prevent the spreading of these Gangrenes in their children and servants But as for the parties principally concerned and invited and that stand in the greatest need and are most to be pitied they will even storm at this very offer of help and hiss like serpents because it troubles their nests Being like him Luk. 8. 27 28. who having bin possest with devils a long time was at length very loath to part with his Guests Indeed if some whose hearts God hath already changed would put them into their hands and use their best Art to make them relished For like Babes meat must not only be given them but prepared too and put into their mouths some return of good might happily come thereof As weak means shall serve the turn where God intends success Even a word seasonably spoken God blessing it like a Rudder sometimes steers a man quite into another Course Antiochus by hearing from a poor man all the faults which he and his Favourites had committed carried himself most virtuously ever after Antoninus amended his future life and manners by only hearing what the people spake of him The very crowing of a Cock occasioned Peters repentance Augustine that famous Doctor was converted by only reading that Text Rom. 13. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day-time c. Learned Junius with reading the first Chapter of St Johns Gospel was won to the Faith of Christ And Melancthon much after the same manner I have read of two famous Strumpets that were suddenly converted by this only Argument That God seeth all things even in the dark when the doors are shut and the curtains drawn And Mountaign tels of a libidinous Gentleman that sporting with a Courtizan in a house of sin happened to ask her name which she said was Mary whereat he was so stricken with reverence and remorse that he instantly both cast off the Harlot and amended his whole future life Bilney's Confeâ—sion converted Latimer yea Adrianus was not only converted but became a Martyr too by only hearing a Martyr at the Stake alledge that Text Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard c. 1 Cor. 2. 9. Yea it was an observation of Mr John Lindsay that the very smoke of Mr Hamilton converted as many as it blew upon Yea even those Jews that crucified the Son of God were converted by hearing those few words of Peter Act. 2. And it pleased God when my self was in as hopeless a condition as any of those Sensualists before mentioned I mean as much fore-stalled with prejudice against Religion and the Religious that a poor mans perswading me to leave reading of Poetry and fall upon the Bible was a means of changing my heart before I had read out Genesis being but twenty years of age whom â— more bless God for than for my Parents from whom I received life And this because
wickedness and so exceedingly provoke God that they are rackt in conscience and tortured with the very flashes of hell-fire That they drink to the end only that they may forget God his threats and judgments that they may drown conscience and put of all thoughts of death and hell and to hearten and harden themselves against all the messages of God and threats of the Law which is no other in mitigating the pangs of conscience than as a saddle of gold to a galled horse or a draught of poison to quench a mans thirst That if they might have their wils none should refuse to be drunk unpunished or be drunk unrewarded at the common charge As how will they boast what they drank and how many they conquer'd at such a meeting making it their only glory That the utmost of a Drunkards honesty is good-fellowship that temperance and sobriety with them is nothing but humour and singularity and that they drink not for strength or need but for lust and pride to shew how full of Satan they are and how near to swine That though these swinish swill-bouls make their gullet their god and sacrifice more to their god-belly than those Babylonians did to their god Bell Bell Drag ver. 3. yet they will say yea swear that they drink not for love of drink though they love it above health wealth credit child wife life heaven salvation all They no more care for wine than Esau did for his pottage for which he sold his birth-right Isa. 56 12. 5. Br. That Drunkards are the Devils captives at his command and ready to do his will and that he rules over and works in them his pleasure 2 Tim. 2. 26. Eph. 2. 2. that he enters into them and puts it into their hearts what he will have them to do Joh. 13. 2. Act. 5. 3. 1 Chro. 21. 1. opens their mouths speaks in and by them Gen. 3. 1 to 6. stretcheth out their hands and they act as he will have them Act. 12. 1 2. Rev. 2. 10. he being their father Gen. 3. 15. Joh. 8. 44. their king Joh. 12. 31. 14. 30. and their god 2 Cor. 4. 4. Eph. 2. 2. And which is worst of all that Drunkenness not only duls and dams up the head and spirits with mud but it beastiates the heart being worse than the sting of an Asp poisoneth the very soul and reason of a man whereby the faculties and organs of repentance and resolution are so corrupted and captivated that it makes men utterly uncapable of returning unlesse God should work a greater miracle upon them then was the creating of the whole world Whence Austin compares it to the very pit of hell out of which when a man is once fallen into there is no hope of redemption That Drunkenness is like some despâ—rate plague which knows no cure As what sayes Basil Shall we speak to Drunkards we had as good speak to liveless-stones or sensless-plants or witless beasts as to them for they no more believe the threats of Gods Word than if some Impostor had spoken them They will fear nothing till they be in hell-fire resembling the Sodomites who would take no warning though they were all struck blind but persisted in their course untill they felt fire and brimstone about their ears Gen. 19. 11. That there is no washing these Blackmoors white no charming of these deaf Adders blind men never blush fools are never troubled in conscience neither are beasts ever ashamed of their deeds That a man shall never hear of an habituated infatuated incorrigible cauterized Drunkard that is reclaimed with age 6. Br. That as at first and before custom in sin hath hardened these Drunkards they suffer themselves to be transformed from men into swine as Elpenor was transformed by Circes into a hog so by degrees they are of swine transformed again into Devils as Cadmus and his wife were into serpents as palpably appears by their tempting to sin and drawing to perdition That these Agents for the Devil Drunkards practise nothing but the Art of debauching men that to turn others into beasts they will make themselves devils wherin they have a notable dexterity as it is admirable how they will wind men in and draw men on by drinking first a health to such a man then to such a woman my mistress then to every ones mistress then to some Lord or Lady their Master their Magistrate their Captain Commaader c. and never cease until their brains their wits their tongues their eyes their feet their senses and all their members sail them that they will drink until they vomit up their shame again like a filthy dog or lie wallowing in their beastliness like a bruitish swine That they think nothing too much either to do or spend that they may make a sober man a drunkard or to drink another drunkard under the table which is to brag how far they are become the Devils children that in case they can make a sober and religious man exceed his bounds they will sing and rejoyce as in the division of a spoil and boast that they have drenched sobriety and blinded the light and ever after be a snuffing of this taper Psal. 13. 4. But what a barbarous graceless and unchristian-like practice is this to make it their glory pastime and delight to see God dishonoured his Spirit grieved his Name blasphemed his creatures abused themselves and their friends souls damned Doubtless such men have climbed the highest step of the ladder of wickedness as thinking their own sins will not press them deep enough into hell except they load themselves with other mens which is Devil-like indeed whose aim it hath ever been seeing he must of necessity be wretched not to be wretched alone That as they make these healths serve as a pulley or shoing-horn to draw men on to drink more then else they would or should do so a health being once begun they will be sure that every one present shall pledge the same in the same manner and measure be they thirsty or not thirsty willing or not willing able or unable be it against their stomacks healths natures judgments hearts and consciences which do utterly abhor and secretly condemn the same That in case a man will not for company grievously sin against God wrong his own body destroy his soul and wilfully leap into hell fire with them they will hate him worse than the hangman and will sooner adventure their bloud in the field upon refusing or crossing their healths than in the cause and quarrel of their Country 7. Br. How they are so pernicious that to damn their own souls is the least part of their mischief and that they draw vengeance upon thousands by seducing sâ—â—e and giving ill example to others That one Drunkard makes a multitude being like the bramble Judg. 9. 15. which first set it self on fire and then fired all the Wood Or like a malicious man sick of the plague that
runs into the throng to disperse his infection whose mischief out-weighs all penalty And this shews that they not only partake of the Devils nature but that they are very devils in the likeness of men and that the very wickedness of one that feareth God is far better than the good intreaty of a Drunkard That with sweet words they will tole men on to destruction as we tole beasts with fodder to the slaughter-house And that to take away all suspition they will so mollifie the stiffness of a mans prejudice so temper and fit him to their own mould that once to suspect them requires the spirit of discerning And that withall they so confirm the profesâ—ion of their love with oaths protestations and promises that you would think Jonathans love to David nothing to it That these pernicious seducers devils in the shape of men have learned to handle a man so sweetly that one would think it a pleasure to be seduced But little do they think how they advance their own damnations when the blood of so many souls as they have drawn away will be required at their hands For know this thou tempter that thou dost not more increase other mens wickedness on earth whether by perswasion or provocation or example than their wickedness shall increase thy damnation in hell Luk. 16. 27 28. Non fratres dilexit sed seipsum respexit And this let me say to the horror of their consciences that make merchandize of souls that it is a question when such an one comes to hell whether Judas himself would change torments with him 8. Br. That the Drunkard is so pleasing a murtherer that he tickles a man to death and makes him like Solomons fool die laughing Whence it is that many who hate their other enemies yea and their friends too imbrace this enemy because he kisseth when he betrayeth And indeed what fence for a pistol charged with the bullet of friendship Hence it is also that thousands have confest at the Gallows I had never come to this but for such and such a Drunkard For commonly the Drunkards progress is from luxury to beggery from beggery to thievery from the Tavern to Tyborne from the Ale-house to the Gallows Briefly That these Bauds and Panders of vice breathe nothing but infection and study nothing but their own and other mens destruction That the Drunkard is like Julian who never did a man a good turn but it was to damn his soul That his proffers are like the Fowlers shrape when he casts meat to birds which is not out of pity to relieve but out of treachery to insnare them Or like traps we set for vermine seeming charitable when they intend to kill Jer. 5. 26. And thou maist answer these cursed tempters who delight in the murther of souls as the woman of Endor did Saul 1 Sam. 28. Wherefore seekst thou to take me in a snare to cause me to die vers. 9. That he is another Absolom who made a feast for Amnon whom he meant to kill And there is no subtilty like that which deceives a man and hath thanks for the labour For as our Saviour saith Blessed is the man that is not offended at their scoffs Mat. 11. 6. So blessed is the man that is not taken with their wiles For herein alone consists the difference He whom the Lord loves shall be delivered from their meretricious allurements Eccl. 7. 26. And he whom the Lord abhors shall fall into their snares Pro. 22. 14. 9. Br. That Taverns and Tap-houses are the drinking schools where they learn this their skill and are trained up in this trade of tempting For Satan does not work them to this heighth of impiety all at once but by degrees When custom of sin hath deaded all remorse for sin as it is admirable how the soul that takes delight in leudness is gained upon by custom They grow up in sin as worldlings grow in wealth and honour They wax worse and worse sayes the Apostle 2 Tim. 3. 13. they go first over-shoo's then over-boots then over-shoulders and at length over-head and ears in sin as some do in debt Now these Tap-houses are their meeting-places where they hear the devils lectures read the shops and markets where Satan drives his trade the schools where they take their degrees these are the Guild-hals where all sorts of sinners gather together as the humors do into the stomack before an ague-fit and where is projected all the wickedness that breaks forth in the Nation as our reverend Judges do find in their several Circuits That these Taverns and Ale-houses or rather hell-houses are the fountains and well-heads from whence spring all our miseries and mischiefs these are the nurseries of all riot excess and idleness making our Land another Sodom and furnishing yearly our Jails and Gallowses Here they sit all day in troops doing that in earnest which we have seen boyes do in sport stand on their heads and shake their heels against heaven where even to hear how the Name of the Lord Jesus is pierced and Gods Name blasphemed would make a dumb man speak a dead man almost to quake 10. Br. That it were endless to repeat their vain-babling scurrilous jesting wicked talking impious swearing and cursing that when the drink hath once bit them and set their tongues at liberty their hearts come up as easily as some of their drink yea their limitless tongues do then clatter like so many windows loose in the wind and you may assoon perswade a stone to speak as them to be silent it faring with their clappers as with a sick mans pulse which alwaies beats but ever out of order That one Drunkard hath tongue enough for twenty men for let but three of them be in a room they will make a noise as if all the thirty bels in Antwerp steeple were rung at once or do but pass by the door you would think your self in the Land of Parrats That it is the property of a Druukard to disgorge his bosom with his stomack to empty his mind with his maw His tongue resembles Bacchus his Liber pater and goes like the sayl of a Wind-mill For as a greaâ—gale of wind whirleth the sayls about so abundance of drink whirleth his tongue about and keeps it in continual motion Now he rayls now he scoffs now he lies now he slanders now he seduces talks baudy swears bans foams and cannot be quiet till his tongue be wormed So that from the beginning to the end he belcheth forth nothing but what is as far from truth piety reason modesty as that the Moon came down from Heaven to visit Mahomet As oh the beastliness which burns in their unchaste and impure minds that smokes out at their polluted mouths A man would think that even the Devil himself should blush to hear his child so talk How doth his mouth run over with falshoods against both Magistrates Ministers and Christians what speaks he less than whoredoms adulteries incests
one serving as a shoing-horn to the other which makes them like ratsban'd Rats drink and vent vent and drink Sellengers round and the same again Oh that a maids fore-wit were but so good as her after-wit then the Drunkard should never have wife more to make a slave of nor wives such cause to curse Ale-house keepers as now they have And indeed if I may speak my thoughts or what reason propounds to me Drunkards are such children and fools to what Governours of families ought to be that a rod is fitter for them than a wife But of this by the way only that maids may not so miserably cast away themselves for they had better be buried alive than so married as most poor mens wives can inform them 15. Br. That to speak to these Demetriuses that get their wealth by drinking yea by helping to consume their drink and that live only by sin and the sins of the people were to speed as Paul did at Ephesus after some one of them had told the rest of their occupation Yea to expect amendment from such in a manner were to expect amendment from a Witch who hath already given her soul to the devil That to what hath been spoken of Drunkards and Drink-sellers in the particular cases of drinking and tempting might be added seventy times seven more of the like abominations For the Drunkard is like some putrid grave the deeper you dig the fuller you shall find him both of stench and horrour Or like Hercules's monster wherein were fresh heads still arising one after the cutting off of another But there needs no more than this taste to make any wise man or any that love their own souls to detest and beware these Bawds and pandors of vice that breathe nothing but infection and study nothing but their own and other mens destruction These Brokers of villany whose very acquaintance is destruction As how can they be other than dangerously infectious and desperately wicked whose very mercies are cruelty 16. Br. That I have unmasked their faces is to infatuate their purpose that I have inveighed and declaimed against Drunkenness is to keep men sober For vices true picture makes us vice detest O that I had Dehortation answerable to my detestation of it Only here is a discovery how Drunkards tempt if you will see directions how to avoid their temptations read my Sovereign Antidote against the contagion of evil company Only take notice for the present that the best way to avoid evil is to shun the occasions Do not only shun Drunkenness but the means to come to it and to avoid hurt keep thy self out of shot come not in drunken company nor to drinking places As for their love and friendship consider but whose Facters they are and thou wilt surely hate them Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things POSTSCRIPT COnsidering the premisses if there were any love of God any hatred of sin any zeal any courage any conscience of an Oath in most of our Justices of the Peace they would rather put down and purge out of their Parishes and Liberties this viperous brood of vice-breeders and soul-murtherers I mean Ale-house keepers then increase them as they do when any common Drunkard Cheat or Witch may procure a Licence to sell drink if they will but bribe some one of their Clerks But if it be left to them if his Highness himself do not by some other way redress it as blessed be God he hath already begun the work in some Counties look never to see it mended untill Christ comes in the clouds Only it is much to be feared that as we turn the sanctuary of life into the shambles of death so God may send a famine after such a satiety and pestilence after famine Or rather that our Land which hath been so long sick of this disease and so often surfeited of this sin should spue us all out who are the Inhabitants Or in case God be pleased to dispense with the Nation the wickedness that is done by these Drunkards and Drink-sellers shall be reckoned unto those that are the permitters for their own For Governors make themselves guilty of those sins they may redress and will not But I know to whom I speak and my hopes are depending In the mean time it is sad to consider how many Drunkards will hear this Charge for one that will apply it to himself For confident I am that fifteen of twenty all this City over are Drunkards yea seducing Drunkards in the dialect of Scripture by the Law of God which extends even to the heart and affections Mat. 5. 21 22 28. Perhaps by the Laws of the Land a man is not taken for drunk except his eyes stare his tongue stutter and his legs stagger but by Gods Law he is one that goes often to the drink or that tarrieth long at it Prov. 23. 30 31. He that will be drawn to the Tavern or Ale-house by every idle soliciter and there be deteined to drink when he hath neither need of it or mind to it to the spending of his money wasting of his precious time neglect of his calling abusing of the creatures which thousands want discredit of the Gespel the stumbling of weak ones the incouraging of indifferent ones the hardning of his associates and all the truths enemies that know or hear of it Briefly he that drinks more for lust or pride or covetousness or fear or good fellowship or to drive away time or to still conscience than for thirst is a Drunkard in Solomon's esteem Prov. 23. 30 31. Perhaps thou dost not think so but can you produce that holy man of God that will not deem him a drunkard who can neither buy nor sell nor meet any friend or customer but he must go to the Tavern or Ale-house perhaps six times in a day and who constantly clubs it first for his mornings draught secondly at Exchange-time thirdly at night when shops are shut in as is the common but base custom of most Tradesmen yea and the Devil so blinds them that they will plead a necessity of it and that it is for their profit Nor can it be denied but in cases of this nature things are rather measured by the intention and affection of the doer than of the issue and event And why should not a man be deemed a Drunkard for his immoderate and inordinate affection to drink or drunken company as well as another an Adulterer for the like affecton to his neighbours wife Matth. 5. 21 22 28. Yet these men are in their own and other mens esteem not only good and civil men but good Christians forsooth Certainly the more light we have the more blind men are or else this could not be For I would gladly ask such Are you Christians In what part of the Word find you a warrant for it Where find you that this custom was ever used by any one of the Saints in former ages
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