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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 governors of families ought to be that a rod is fitter for them then a wife But of this by the way onely that maids may not so miserably cast away themselves for they had better bee buried alive then so married as most poor men's 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 that live onely 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 Divel That to what hath been spoken of drunkards and drink-sellers in the particular cases of drinking and tempting might be added seventie times seven more of the like abominations For the drunkard is like some putrid grave the deeper you digg the fuller you shall finde 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 then 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 breath nothing but infection and studie nothing but their own and other mens destruction These Brokers of villany whose very acquaintance is destruction as how can they be other then dangerously infectious and desperately wicked whose very mercies are crueltie 16. Br. That I have unmasked their faces is to infatuate their purpose that I have inveighed and declaimed against drunkennesse 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 Onely take notice for the present that the best way to avoid evill is to shun the occasions Do not onely shun drunkennesse 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 Factors they are and thou wilt surely hate them Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things POSTSCRIPT COnsidering the premises 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 Highn●●● himself do not by some other way redresse it as blessed be God he hath alre●dy begun the work in some Counties I look never to see it mended unt●● Christ comes in the clouds Onely 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 satietie and pestilence after famine Or rather that our Land which hath been so long sick 〈◊〉 this disease and so often surfeted of this sin should spue us all out who are the Inhabitants Or in case God be pleased to dispence with the Nation the wickednesse 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 guiltie of those sins they may redresse 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 applie it to himself For confident I am that fifteen of twenty all this Citie over are Drunkards yea seducing Drunkards in the dialect of Scripture and 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 cies stare his tongue stutter and his leggs stagger but by God's 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 Alehouse by every idle soliciter and there be deteined to drink when he hath neither need of it or minde to it to the spending of his money wasting of his pretious time neglect of his calling abusing of the creatures which thousands want discredit of the Gospel 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 covetousnesse or fear or good fellowship or to drive away time or to still conscience then for thirst is a Drunkard in Solomon's esteem Prov. 23.30 31. Perhaps thou doest 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 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 custome of most Tradesmen yea and the Divel so blindes them that they will plead a necessitie of it and that it is for their profit Nor can it bee denied but in cases of this nature things are rather measured by the intention and affection of the doer then of the issue and event And why should not a man bee deemed a drunkard for his immoderate and inordinate affection to drink or drunken company as well as another an Adulterer for the like affection to his neighbours wife Mat. 5.21 22 28. Yet these men are in their own and other mens esteem not onely good and civil men but good Christians forsooth Certainly the more light we have the more blinde men are or else this could not be For I would gladly aske such Are you Christians in what part of the Word finde you a warrant for it 〈◊〉 Where finde you that this custome was ever used by any one of these 〈◊〉 in former ages Well may you with Agrippa be almost Christians but sur● enough you are not with Saint Paul altogether such and then what will becom● of you For almost a son is a bastard almost sweet is unsavorie almost hot is luke-warm and those that are lukewarm will God spue out of his mouth Rev. 3.15 16.