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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27153	The journal or diary of a thankful Christian presented in some meditations upon Numb. 33:2 / by J.B., Master of Arts, and Minister of the Gospel at Barnstone in Essex.	Beadle, John, d. 1667.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1557; ESTC R20752	111,367	248

such in the Scriptures Few men went to the grave in peace that by their monstrous impieti● made war against heaven and his Church As what became of Pharaoh the bloody and Achitophel the crafty of Balaam the covetous and Corah the rebell of Haman the proud and Herod the fox As their live were wicked so their ends were fearful I● like manner what became of Absalom the disobedient and Ela the drunkard 〈◊〉 Zimri and Cosbi the unclean of Anani● and Saphira those lyars Were not all these taken away with a stroke in their sin Wha● became of those Romane Nimrods as Maxentius the Tyrant and Julian the Apostate with others who hunted the Saints of God to death in those ten persecutions mentioned in Ecclesiasticall Histories How few o● their hoary heads went to the grave in peace To come neerer to our owne times What became of wily Winchester and bloody Bonner with many others that ruled the roste in those Dog-dayes of Q Mary's reign Few of those bloody and deceitfull men lived out half their dayes But when the scumme was at the highest it fell into the fire for though God did bear them up for some time in their essence yet he would not bear them out at all in their malice God hath leaden feet but iron hands though he comes slowly yet he strikes surely It is good to mark the ends of men Mark the perfect man saith the Psalmist and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Balaam did so as wicked as he was which made him wish that he might dye the death of the righteous and that his latter end might be like his In like manner mark the end of the transgressors for they shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off that is they shall not dye the common death of all men but shall be cut off in the midst of their dayes If their lives be tragical their deaths are seldome comicall Zoroastes the inventer of Magick as some Historians affirm of him laught at his birth but dyed a wofull and a lamentable death being banished from his Countrey Alphonsus Dyazius a Spaniard a rigid Papist procured a notorious cut-throat to mur●her his Brother John Dyazius a sincere Protestant because he could by no means turn him from the truth but the righteous Lord would not suffer such an unnaturall villany to go unpunished for not long after he was haunted by the terrors of his owne conscience that being at Trent when the Councel sate there for he was one of the Popes Lawyers he hanged himself about the neck of his owne Mule How have some godly Divines taken good pains in writing the stories of God● judgements upon notorious malefactors a● Drunkards Swearers Sabbath-breakers and such like Would others be perswaded in their generation to take speciall notice and keep some account of such memorable accidents the benefit would be singular The righteous shall see and fear saith the Psalmist What shal they see That God destroyed the mighty man that boasts himself in mischief that God takes him away and plucks him out of his dwelling place and roots him out of the land of the living A Servi●g-man being at a Tavern in Essex and threatning to swear the Constable out of the Town if he came there in a drunken fit running after one to make him pledge him a pinte of sack at a draught fell down the stairs and dyed instantly Novemb. 1. 1626. A Fisher-man that I knew bringing Mackerell to a Port-town in Suffolk where the people because they were new and the first that came that yeer to Town pressing eagerly to buy them and some against his will being entred into his boat he took up a stone and sware by the name of God he would make them stand further off instantly sunk down and soon after dyed How many in my time have I noted Would others do the like how would men consider such things and understand the righteous judgements of the Lord 5. Finally consider seriously and observe very strictly what the Nationall Epidemicall sin of the time and present generation may be Where iniquity abounds it is hard to determine but questionlesse every age hath a peculiar distemper In times of commotion when the bands of love are broken into severall parties and factions as they have been lately amongst us it is more easily discerned A noble Gentleman of singular abilities and one much employed in affairs of State in his time whom I knew well advised his friends at such a time to buy up all the Pamphlets that were printed if of any considerable worth for when people fall out they commonly speak out and if they be once drunk with passion and their distempers boyl to any height the most secret venome will swim on the top By which means you may easily seel the pulse of the present time and discover what is the Nationall and most predominant sinne and it will be worth our praise to know it Which that we may the better doe let us look back a little to the generations behinde us 1. Some times have been more notorious for drunkennesse Scaliger in his Book de Lingua Latina observes this of the Germans in his time that their vivere was bibere not only in their pronunciation as he noted but in their practice as other well observed who lived that they might drink Seneca foretold so much of some times that men should be so drowned with this sin of drunkennesse that plurimum meri sumpsisse virtus esset it should be esteemed a virtue to strive with the Brewers horse who should carry more liquor and with some it hath been of that esteem that not as drunk as a Begger but as drunk as a Prince hath been a kind of proverbial commendation of some When Aeschines commended Philip King of Macedon for a Joviall man who would drink freely Demosthenes being by told him that this was a good quality in a Spunge but not in a Prince Drunkennesse is a sin that layes men open to all iniquity more then any sin Ebrietas in se culpas complectitur omnes What sin is not a Drunkard subject to Their eyes shall behold strange women saith Solomon and their hearts shall utter perverse things And a sin it is that God hath more frequently and suddenly plagued with death in the very act then any other sin Edgar a King of England observing in his time that excessive drinking abounded in the Land through the example of the Danes that dwelt in divers parts of the Kingdome to prevent that evill ordained that their cups they drank in should have certain pins or nails put in them beyond which if any drank at one draught he should pay so much money 2. Some generation hath been more infamous for that sin of Swearing and that by the name of God even at every word here in England Insomuch that a family in this Land and that no mean one