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B06790	The blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankinde; or, A charge drawn up against drunkards, and presented to His Highness the Lord Protector, in the name of all the sober partie 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 walls. / By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1656 (1656)	Wing Y139; ESTC R229124	20,070	16

A Christian almost is like a woman that dieth in travel almost she brought fort● a son but that almost killed the mother and the son too If thou believ'st almost thou shalt be saved almost as we may 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 hi● pardon did him no good To be almost a Christian is to be like the foolish Virgins that had ●amps but without oyle in them for which they were shut out of heaven though they came to the very door Matth. 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 ou● the water The souldier that does but almost fight is a coward And therefore 〈◊〉 thou lovest thy self look to it and that in time least hereafter you most dolefull● rue it● For know this that you shall once give an account for every idle penie an● hour you spend and for every cup of drink you shall spoil or waste and for ever● one that is incouraged to do the like by your example For which see Matth. 12.36 Luke 16. 2. Rom. 14.12 1 Pet. 4.5 Rev. 20.13 and 22.12 That by the blessing of God our children and childrens children may l●at drunkennesse and love sobrietie let this bee fixed to some place convenient 〈◊〉 every house for all to read The Persians Parthians Spartans and Lacedemonian● did the like and found it exceeding efficacious And Anacharsis holds it the mo●● 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 men's crying down Books Learning th●● Ministery Sanctification c. if this their deep and divellish design do me●● with no stop and seeing we should specially prepare for defence where Sat● specially prepares for offence Considering also the numberlesse number of tho●● that by professing themselves Protestants discredit the Protestant Religion Wh●● because they have been Christened as Simon Magus was received the Sacram●●● of the Lord's Supper like Judas and for company go to Church also as Dogs do a●● called Christians as we call the Heathen Images gods yea and being blinded 〈◊〉 the Prince of darknesse 2 Cor. 4.4 think to be saved by Christ though they ta●● up Arms against him and are no more like Christians then Michols Image 〈◊〉 Goats hair was like David Who make the world only their god and pleasure or pr●fit alone their Religion Who are so gracelesse that God is not in all their though● except to blaspheme him and to spend his daies in the Divel's service Who ●●ing Christians in name will scoffe at a Christian indeed Who honour the d●●● Saints in a cold profession while they worrey the living Saints in a cruel persecuti●● Who so hate Holiness that they will hate a man for it and say of good living 〈…〉 of a good man as some stomachs will rise at the sight of sweet meats Whose ●●ligion is to oppose the power of Religion and whose knowledge of the Truth 〈◊〉 know how to argue against the Truth Who justifie the wicked and condemne●● just who call Zeal madness and Religion foolishness Who love their sins so m●●● above their souls that they will not onely mock their Admonisher scoff at 〈◊〉 means to be saved and make themselves merry with their own damnations 〈◊〉 even hate one to the death for shewing them the way to eternal life who 〈◊〉 condemne all for Round-heads that have more Religion then an Heathen or kno●ledg of heavenly things then a childe in the womb hath of the things of this life or conscience then an Atheist or care of his soul then a Beast and are mocke● of all that march not under the pay of the Divel Who with Adam will becom● Satans bond-slaves for an Apple and like Esau sell their Birth-right of Grace her● and their Blessing of Glory hereafter for a messe of Pottage Who prefer the ple●sing of their palates before the saving of their souls who have not onely cast of Religion that should make them good men but reason also that should make them men Who waste virtues faster then riches and riches faster then any virtues ca● get them Who do nothing else but sin and make others sin too who spend thei● time and patrimonies in Riot and upon Dice Drabs Drunkennesse who place all their felicity in a Tavern or Brothel house where Harlots and Sycophants ri●●e 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 instead of quenching their thirst drown their senses and had rather leave their wits then the wine behinde 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 ●hink every one exorbitant that walks not after their rule Who will traduce ●ll whom they cannot seduce even condemning with their tongues what they ●ommend in their consciences Who as they have no reason so they will hear ●●one Who are not more blinde to their own faults then quick-sighted in other ●ens Who being displeased with others will flie in their Makers face and tear ●heir Saviours Name in pieces with oaths and execrations as being worse then any ●ad dog that flies in his Masters face that keeps him Who swear and curse even ●ut of custome as Currs bark yea they have so sworn away all grace that they ●ount it a grace to swear and being reproved for swearing they will swear that ●hey swore not Or perhaps they are covetous Cormorants greedy Gripers miserly Muck-worms ●●l whose reaches are at riches Who make gold their god and commodity the ●●ern of their consciences Who hold every thing lawful if it be gainful Who ●efer a little base pelf before God and their own salvations and who being ●●ted with Gods blessings do spurn at his precepts Who like men sleeping in a ●●at are carried down the stream of this World until they arrive at their graves●● Death without once waking to bethink themselves whether they are a go●●● to Heaven or Hell Or Ignorant and Formal Hypocrites who do as they see others do without ei●●●● conscience of sin or guidance of reason Who do what is 〈…〉 for fear of the Law then for love of the Gospel Who fear the Magistrate more then they fear God or the Divel regard more the blasts of men's breath then the fire of God's wrath will tremble more at the thought of a Bayliffe or a Prison then of Satan or Hell and everlasting perdition Who will say they love God and Christ yet

The Blemish of Government the Shame of Religion the Disgrace of Mankinde or a Charge drawn up against Drunkards and presented to his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR in the name of all the Sober Partie 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 Walls By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex 1. BRANCH Of the Charge THat as the Basiliske is chief of Serpents so of sinners the Drunkard is chief That Drunkennesse is of sins the Queen as the Gowt is of diseases even the root of all evill 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 then a Drunkard That the Drunkard is like Ahab who sold himself to work wickednesse That he wholly dedicates resignes surrenders and gives himself up to serve sin and Satan That h●●●ly imploiment is to drink drab quarrel swear curse scoffe slander and seduce as i●to sin were his trade and he could do nothing else like the Divel 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 joints 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 windowes the Land out of quiet plentie ou● of the Nation is all their businesse 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 drie 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 then would maintein five sufficient families 2. Br. That it is not to be imagined what all the Drunkards in one shire or County do devour worse th●● throw away in one yeare when it hath been known if we may give credit to Authors and the oaths of others that two and thirtie in one cluster have made themselves drunk that six and thirty have drank themselves dead in the place with carowsing of healths that at one supper one and fourtie have killed themselves with striving for the co●quest that two have drank each of them a peck at a draught that your 〈◊〉 have drank four gallons of wine at a sitting that one man hath drank two ga●lons o● 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 antient men drank as many cups of wine at one sitting as they had lived years which was in ●●ree hundred cups of wine amongst four men and lastly that three women ●●e into a Tavern in Fleet street when I was a boy take it upon Clap●●ns Oath and credit who drew the Wine and drank fourtie nine quarts of Sack two of them sixteen a piece and the third to get the victorie 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 onely putting their finger to their throat And they will vomit as if they were so many live Whales spuing up the Occan which done they can drink afresh Or if not so yet custome hath made it to passe through them as through a tunnel or streiner whereby it comes out again as sheer wine as it went in as hath been observed Nor hath the richest Sherrie or old Canarie any more operation with them then a cup of six hath with me And no marvell for if physick be taken too oft it will 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 walls and eat them makes plain 3. Br. That as Drunkards have lost the prerogative of their creation and are changed with Nebuchadnezar Dan. 4.16 from men into beasts so they turn the sanctuarie of life into the shambles of death yea thousands when they have made up the measure of their wickednesse are taken away in God's 〈◊〉 ●●ath in their drink as it were with the weapon in their bellies it faring 〈◊〉 them as it did with that Pope whom the Divel is said to have slain in the very instant of his Adulterie and carrie him quick to hell being suddenly struck with death as if the execution were no lesse intended to the soul then to the bodie 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 onely lazie get-nothings but they are also riotous spend-alls 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 then would plentifully maintein 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 filter 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 daies 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 Taverne or Tap-hous 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 money be spent and then if his wife will ●●●ch him home with a lanthorne and his men with a barrow he comes wi●● 〈…〉 ●●●●ll image had That the pot is no sooner from their lips but they are melancholy and th●● hearts as heavie as if a milstone lay upon it Or father they are vexed lik● Saul with an evil-spirit which nothing will drive away but drink and Tobacco They so wound their consciences with all kinde of prodigious wickednesse and so exceedingly provoke God that