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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

the bottome was not able to rise vp or to speake when hee had done but fell into a deepe snoaring sleepe and being remoued layde aside and couered by one of the seruants of the house attending the time of the drinking was within the space of two howers irrecouerably dead witnessed at the time of the printing hereof by the same seruant that stood by him in the Act and helpt to remoue him In Dengy Hundred neare to Maldon about the beginning of his Maiesties reigne there fell out an extraordinary iudgement vpon fiue or sixe that plotted a solemne drinking at one of their houses laid in Beare for the once drunke healths in a strange manner and died therof within a few weekes some sooner and some later witnessed to mee by one that was with one of them on his death-bed to demaund a debt and often spoken of by Master Heydon late Preacher of Mauldon in the hearing of many the particular circumstances were exceeding remarkeable but hauing not sufficient proofe for the particulars I will not report them One of Aylesham in Norfolke a notorious Drunkard drowned in a shallow Brooke of water with his horse by him Whilest this was at the Presse a man 85 yeares old or thereabout in Suffolke ouertaken with Wine though neuer in all his life before as hee himselfe said a little before his fall seeming to bewaile his present condition and others that knew him so say of him yet going downe a paire of staires against the perswasion of a woman sitting by him in his chamber fell and was so dangerously hurt as hee dyed soone after not being able to speake from the time of his fall to his death The names of the parties thus punished I forbeare for the kinreds sake yet liuing If conscionable Ministers of all places of the land would giue notice of such Iudgements as come within the compasse of their certaine knowledge it might bee a great meane to suppresse this sinne which raignes euery where to the scandall of our Nation and high displeasure of Almightie God These may suffice for a taste of Gods Iudgements Easie were it to abound in sundry particular casualties and fearefull examples of this nature Drunkard that which hath befallen any one of these may befall thee if thou wilt dally with this Cockatrice what euer leagues thou makest with Death and dispensations thou giuest thy selfe from the like Some of these were young some were rich some thought themselues as wife as thou none of them euer looked for such ignominious ends more then thou who euer thou art if thou hatest such ends God giue thee grace to decline such courses If thou beest yet insensate with wine voyde of wit and feare I know not what further to minde thee of but of that third worst sting of all the rest which will euer bee gnawing and neuer dying which if thou wilt not feare here sure thou art to feele there when the Red Dragon hath gotten thee into his denne and shall fill thy soule with the gall of Scorpions where thou shalt yell and howle for a drop of water to coole thy tongue withall and shalt be denied so small a refreshing and haue no other liquor to allay thy thirst but that which the lake of Brimstone shall affoord thee And that worthily for that thou wouldest incurre the wrath of the Lambe for so base and sordid a sinne as drunkennesse of which thou mayest thinke as venially and sleightly as thou wilt But Paul that knew the danger of it giues thee faire warning and bids thee not deceiue thy selfe expressely and by name mentioning it among the mortall sinns excluding from the Kingdome of heauen And the Prophet Esay tels thee that for it Hell hath enlarged it selfe opened it mouth wide and without measure and therefore shal the multitude and their pomp and the iollyest among them descend into it Consider this you that are strong to powre in drinke that loue to drinke sorrowe and care away And bee you well assured that there you shall drinke enough for all hauing for euery drop of your former bousings vials yea whole seas of Gods wrath neuer to be exhaust Now then I appeale from your selues in drinke to your selues in your sober fits Reason a little the case and tell mee calmely would you for your owne or any man pleasure to gratifie friend or companion if thou knewe there had beene a Toad in the Wine-pot as twise I haue knowne happened 〈◊〉 the death of drinkers or did you thinke that some Caesar Borgia or Brasutus had tempered the cup 〈◊〉 did you see but a Spider in the glasse would you or durst you carouse it off And are you so simple to feare the poison that can kill the body and not that which killeth the soule and body euer yea for euer and euer and if it were possible for more then for euer for euermore Oh thou vaine fellow what tellest thou mee of friendship or good-fellowship wilt thou account him thy friend or good fellow that drawes thee into his company that hee may poyson thee and neuer thinkes hee hath giuen thee right entertainement or shewed thee kindnesse enough till hee hath killed thy soule with his kindnesse and with Beere made thy body a carkase fit for the Beere a laughing and lothing-stocke not to Boyes and Girles alone but to men and Angels Why rather sayest thou not to such What haue I to doe with you yee sonnes of Beliall yee poysonfull generation of Vipers that hunt for the precious life of a man Oh but there are few good Wits or great Spirits now a dayes but will Pot it a little for company What heare I Oh base and low spirited times if that were true If wee were fallen into such Lees of Time foretold of by Seneca in which all were so drowned in the dregs of vices that it should bee vertue and honour to beare most drinke But thankes bee to God who hath reserued many thousands of men and without all comparison more wittie and valorous then such Pot-wits and Spirits of the Buttery who neuer bared their knees to drinke health nor euen needed to whet their wits with wine or arme their courage with Pot 〈◊〉 And if it were so yet if no such wits or Spirits shall euer enter into heauen without repentance let my Spirit neuer come and enter into their Paradise euer abhorre to partake of their brutish pleasures lest I partake of their endlesse woes If young Cyrus could refuse to drinke wine and tell A stiages he thought it to bee poyson for hee saw it metamorphose men into beastes and carkases what would hee haue said if hee had knowne that which we may know that the wine of Drunkards is the wine of Sodom and Gomorrah their grapes the grapes of gall their clusters the clusters of bitternesse the iuice of Dragons and the venome of Aspes In which wordes Moses is a full Commentary vpon Salomon largely expressing that

for desperate and forlorne Age and experience often cures the other but this encrcaseth with yeares and parteth not till death Whoring is a deepe Ditch yet some few shall a man see returne lay hold on the wayes of life one of a thousād but scarse one Drunkard of ten thousand One Ambrose mentions and one haue I knowne and but one of all that euer I knew or heard of Often haue I been asked and often haue I enquired but neuer could meete with an instance saue one or two at the most I speake of Drunkards not of one drunken of such who rarely casually haue Noah-like been surprised ouer-taken at vnawares But if once a Custome euer necessity Wine takes away the heart and spoyles the braine ouerthrowes the faculties and Organes of repentance and resolution And is it not iust with God that hee who will put out his naturall light should haue his spirituall extinguished He that will depriue himselfe of reason should loose also the Guide and Pilot of reason Gods Spirit and Grace hee that will wittingly and willingly make himselfe an habitation of vncleane spirits should not dispossesse them at his owne pleasure Most aptly therefore is it translated by Tremelius Haemorrhois which Gesner confounds with the Dipsas or thirstie Serpent whose poyson breedeth such thirst drought and inflamation like that of Rats-bane that they neuer leaue drinking till they burst and die withall Would it not grieue and pitie any Christian soule to see a towardly hopefull young man well natured well nurtured stung with this Cockatrice bewailing his owne case crying out against the basenesse of the sinne inueighing against company melting vnder the perswasions of friends yea protesting against all entisements vow couenant and seriously indent with himselfe and his friends for the relinquishing of it and yet if he meete with a companion that holds but vp his finger he followes him as a foole to the stocks and as an Oxe to the slaughter-house hauing no power to withstand the temptation but in hee goes with him to the tipling house not considering that the Chambers are the Chambers of death and the guesse the guests of death and there hee continues as one bewitched or coniured in a spell out of which hee returnes not til he hath emptied his purse of money his head of reason his heart of all his former seeming grace There his eyes behold the strange woman his heart speaketh peruerse things becomming heartles as one saith Salomon in the heart of the sea resoluing to continue and returne to his vomit what euer it cost him to make it his daily worke I was sicke and knewe it not I was strucke and felt it not when I awake I will seeke it yet still And why indeed without a miracle should any expect that one stung with this viper should shake it off and euer recouer of it againe Yea so farre are they from recouering themselues that they infect and become contagious and pestilent to all they come neare The Dragon infusing his venom assimulating his elses to himselfe in no sin so much as in this that it becomes as good as meate and drinke to them to spend their wit mony to compasse alehouse after alehouse yea towne after towne to transforme others with their Circean Cups till they haue made them bruits and swine worse then themselues The Adulterer and Vsurer desire to enjoy their sinne alone but the chiefest pastime of a drunkard is to heat and ouercome others with wine that hee may discouer their nakednesse and glory in their foyle and folly In a word excesse of wine and the spirit of Grace are opposites the former expelles the latter out of the heart as smoke doth Bees out the Hiue and makes the man a mere slaue and prey to Satan and his snares when by this poyson he hath put out his eyes and spoyled him of his strength he vseth him as the Philistims did Sampson leads him on a string whither hee pleaseth like a very drudge scorne and makesport to himselfe and his Impes makes him grinde in the mill of all kind of sinnes and vices And that I take to bee the reason why Drunkennesse is not specially prohibited in any one of the tenne Commandements because it is not the single breach of any one but in effect the violation of all and euery one it is no one sinne but all sinnes because it is the Inlet and sluce to all other sinnes The Diuell hauing moystened and steeped him in his liquor shapes him like soft clay into what mould hee pleaseth hauing shaken off his rudder and Pilot dashes his soule vpon what rocks sands and Syrts he listeth and that with as much ease as a man may push downe his body with the least thrust of his hand or finger Hee that in his right wits and sober moode seemes religious modest chast courteous secret in his drunken fitts sweares blasphemes rages strikes talkes talkes filthily blab s all secrets commits folly knowes 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 soule becoms how loathsom effects follow vpon this spirituall death and sting of this Cockatrise which is the fountaine of the other two following temporal and eternall death And well may it bee that some such as are altogether fearelesse and carelesse of the former death will yet tremble and bee moued with that which I shall in the second place tell them Among all other sinnes that are none brings forth bodily death so frequently as this none so ordinarily slaies in the Act of sinne as this And what can bee more horrible then to dye in the acte of a sinne without the acte of repentance I pronounce no definitiue sentence of damnation vpon any particular so dying but what dore of hope or comfort is left to their friends behind of their saluation The whoremaster hee hopes to haue a space and time to repent in age though sometimes it pleaseth God that death strikes Cosby and Zimry napping as the deuill is sayd to slay one of the Popes in the instant of his adultery and carry him quicke to hell The swearer and blasphemer hath commonly space though seldome grace to repent and amend and some rare examples stories afford of some taken with oathes and blasphemies in their mouthes The theefe and oppressor may liue and repent and make restriction as Zacheus though I haue seene one slayne right out with the timber he stole halfe an houre before and heard of one that hauing stolne a sheepe and laying it downe vpon a stone to rest him was gran'd and hang'd with the strugling of it about his neck But these are extraordinary rare cases God sometimes practising Marshall law and doing present execution lest fooles shall say in