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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26295	Vox clamantis, or, An essay for the honour, happiness and prosperity of the English gentry, and the whole nation in the promoting religion and vertue, and the peace both of church and state. / by P.A. ...	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4314; ESTC R32826	52,049	117

VOX CLAMANTIS OR AN ESSAY FOR THE Honour Happiness and Prosperity OF THE English Gentry And the whole Nation In the promoting Religion and Vertue and the Peace both of Church and State By P. A. Gent. Verbum sat ' Sapienti LONDON Printed by Iohn Playford in Little-Brittain for Benjamin Tooke at the Ship in St. Paul's Church Yard 1684. TO THE Honoured Sir Iohn Moore Kt. one of the Aldermen of the City of London Worthy Sir COnsidering that good and honest designs sute best with Good men and are most acceptable to them and that they are most worthy the countenance and protection of persons in power and authority I could not well propose to my self a fitter person to whom I might dedicate the ensuing Discourse than Sir John Moore the name of Moore hath been highly honoured heretofore in the famous Sir Thomas Moore sometime Lord Chancellor of England which now you have made more illustrions by your being the Grand Instrument in one of the best designs ever attempted and effected in our days next the Miraculous and Happy Restoration of his Sacred Majesty even the Suppression of Fanatiscism and Disloyalty that Pest and Plague of both Church and State by your seasonable and resolute steming that Tide and putting a stop to that Impetuous Current which threatened to overwhelm the Nation whereby you may well be reputed to be in truth not only Maleus Fanaticorum but also the happy instrument and means of preservation both of Church and State the Glory and Happiness of your anciently Renowned City and one of the Loyalist Subjects this Age hath produced May the best of Blessings ever attend the Royal Throne with all the Royal Family so long as the Sun and Moon endures And may their Enemies he be ever cloathed with shame and confusion Be pleased Sir to pardon my great boldness in this Dedication the goodness of the end must plead for the unworthiness of the performance and with my Prayers for all Health and Happiness to you and yours suffer me to subscribe my self Sir Your very Humble and devoted Servant P. A. Nov. 20th 1683. VOX CLAMANTIS CHAP. I. Of the Nature and Kinds of Drunkenness and Excess and the prevalency of it in the World c. AS the happiness and perfection of man principally consists in his being endowed by God with a rational Soul so in the use and exercise of that noble faculty of Reason must doubtless consist his Felicity and to follow the true and clear Dictates thereof and therefore he that makes the greatest use of Reason by sober and serious consideration is without doubt most like himself is most a man From whence it must needs follow therefore that all such things as prejudice clog or interrupt the Soul of Man in the Exercise and Use of his Reason ought as he tenders his own welfare to be shunned and avoided by him with all possible care and diligence as all Riot and Excess whatsoever But more especially when the Supream Wisdom the Divine Laws hath prohibited the same and under pain of Damnation Now Gluttony and Drunkenness and all Excess whatsoever being so frequently and so sharply reprehended by the holy Christian Doctrine and the Contraries thereto viz. Sobriety Temperance and Moderation being such indispensible and necessary duties of the excellent Religion of the ever blessed Jesus a man must be more than sottishly brutish if insensible of the unchristianness of Christians in the Age we live in in this respect when they that are drunk are not drunk in the night only but in the sight of the Sun And how can a man but stand amazed to consider that the Institutions of that Grand Imposter Mahomet should be more carefully and exactly observed and followed by his Disciples and Followers in abstinence from Wine than the holy Christian Laws and Institutes What can it be less than the greatest reproach imaginable to us Christians that this Swinish sin should be once named among us Much more when it is grown to that height and perfection as to become the Epidemical Sin of the Nation as it were at this day Now in short to describe what this sin is I humbly conceive it may be said at least that it is a Spontaneous and Voluntary Clogging or Indisposing the Soul and Mind by Excess in Eating and Drinking whereby it becomes unable to make use of its noble faculty of Reason and Understanding for the well government and regulation of the actions of the man or rather as the late Reverend Dr. Hammond hath described it more strictly when we eat or drink to the overcharging of the body the Sobriety contrary to which is the Eating and Drinking no more than agrees with the health and good temper of it there being also another excess in quality or delicacy of Meats and Drinks viz. A studied care and pursuit of such as are most delightful and the Sobriety contrary to this is when we content our selves with that Meat and Drink which is necessary and useful to the health and strength of our bodies and neglect and despise all other Delicacies But over and besides these there is also another sort of Excess and Drunkenness that men are many times guilty of and that is being inebriated by Passion Anger or the like that Brevis insania of the Soul as the Philosopher calls it or which is worse with Pride Self-conceitedness Envy Malice Revenge and Cruelty which must needs be the worse and of far greater danger to the Soul by how much the Sober Persons in the repute of the world may herein notwithstanding be intoxicated to Excess and to be little sensible of it but let the mind be discomposed or put out of due order and frame be it with what it will that which discomposeth it is the intoxicating Liquor And if it be of this later sort it is doubtless far the worse both in its own nature and in its effects it being to be drunk with the Wine of Hell in which the accursed Spirits solace themselves so far as God permits them in their Regions of darkness But this by the by only I shall recommend this more especially to the consideration of our Phanaticks the Sober and Godly part of the Nation as they would be thought It must be granted as a late Author hath observed that most Nations under the Sun have their intoxicating Liquors and that some rather than not be drunk will swallow Opium Dutroy and Tobacco or some other intoxicating thing so great an inclination hath Mankind to be exalted as the said Author calls it Pliny complains that drunkenness was the Study of his time and that the Romans and Parthians contended for the glory of excessive Wine-drinking Historians tell us as the said Author further hath it of one Novellius Torquatus that went through all the honourable degrees of dignity in Rome wherein the greatest glory and honour he obtained was for the drinking in the presence of Tiberius three Gallons of Wine at