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A67779	A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing Y191A; ESTC R218572	39,339	35

excess in sin with further obduration not only delivers them up ●o Satan the God of this world who so blinds their minds and deludes their understanding● that the light of the glorious Gosp●l of Christ shall not shine unto them 2 Cor. 4.3 4. Eph. 2.2 2 Thes 2.9 But he gives them up even to a reprobate judgment to the hardness of their hearts and to walk in their own counsels Psal ●1 11 12. Rom. 1.21 to 32. And better be given up to Satan as the incestuous Corinthian was than thus to be given up For he was thereby converted saved as God used the matter making the Scorpion a medicine against the sting of the Scorpion the Horseleech a means to abate the vicious and superfluous bloud so ordering Satans craft and malice to ends which himself intended not Whereas these are given over as a desperate Patient is given over by his Physician when there is no hope of his recovery As thus Because they will not receive the truth in love that they might be saved for this cause God gives them up to strong delusions that they should believe lies that all they might be damned who believe not the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousness they are the very words of the Holy Ghost 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. If any vvould see more touching the woful condition of a deluded worldling and how Satan gulls wicked men with a world of misprisions that he may the better cheat them of their souls Let them read The Drunkards Character and The Cure of Misprision for in this I study all possible brevity being loath either to surfeit or cloy the Swearer who is commonly short-breathed in well-doing and lest adding more should hinder him from hearing this for Satan and his corrupt heart will not condescend he shall hold out to hear his beloved sin so spoken against Memb. 5. Sect. 1. Only I will insert a few notions aphorisms or conclusions touching the former point of Gods forbearing to punish the most flagitious sinners when they so horribly provoke him together with some pregnant examples of some that he hath executed Martial Law upon even in this life Cornelius Gallus not to mention many nor any that every Author sets down died in the very act of his filthiness as Plutarch well notes Nitingal Parson of Crondall in Kent was struck dead in the Pulpit as he was belching out his spleen against Religion and zealous Professors of the Gospel It was the usual imprecation of Henry Earl of Schuartzbourg Let me be drowned in a Jakes if it be not so and such was his end You may remember one Lieutenant of the Tower was hanged it had wont to be his usual imprecation as he confessed at his death Earl Godwin wishing at the Kings Table that the bread he eat might choak him if he were guilty of Alphreds death whom he had before slain was presently choaked and fell down dead Yea his lands also sunk into the Sea and are called Godwins sands where thousands since have made shipwrack It was usual with John Peter mentioned in the Book of Martyrs 〈…〉 say If it be not true I pray God I may rot ere I die and God saying Ame 〈…〉 t he rotted away indeed A Serving-man in Lincolnshire for every trifle used to swear Gods precious bloud and would not be warned by his friends to leave it insomuch that hearing the bell tole in the very anguish of death he started up in his bed and swore by the former oath that bell toled for him whereupon immediately the bloud most fearfully issued as it were in streams from all parts of his body not one place left free and so died Popiel King of Poland had ever this wish in his mouth If it be not true I would the Rats might eat me and so it came to pass for he was so assailed by them at a banquet that neither his guards nor fire nor water could defend him from them as Munster mentions The Jews said Let his bloud be upon us and upon our children and what followed Sixteen hundred years are now past since they wished themselves thus wretched and have they not ever since been the hate and scorn of the world Did they not many of them live to see their City buried in ashes and drowned in bloud to see themselves no Nation Was there ever any people under heaven that was made so famous a spectacle of misery and desolation They have had what they called for to the ful and it 's just that they who long for a curse should have it Yet how many among us do familiarly curse their wives children c Nor is it seldom that God pay them in their own coin men profane Gods Name and he makes their names to stink When the pestilence rageth in our streets blasphemy and execration must confess that they have their due wages Blasphemers live swearing and die raving it is but their wages Sect. 2. He punisheth some in the Suburbs of Hell that they might never come into the City it self The evil he now suffers uncorrected he refers to be condemned Sin knows the doom it must smart here or hereafter Outward plagues are but favour in comparison of spiritual judgments and spiritual judgments but light to eternal torments God doth not punish all flagitious sinners here that he may allow some space to repent and that none may doubt his promise of a General Judgment nor does he forbear all here lest the World should deny his providence and question his justice Memb. 6. Sect. 1. But what do I urge reason to men of a reprobate judgment to admonish them is to no more purpose than if one should speak to life-less stones or sence-less plants or wit-less beasts for they will never fear any thing till they be in Hell-fire wherefore God leaves them to be confuted with fire and brimstone since nothing else will do it If there be any here that believe a Resurrection as I hope better things of some of you all such I would beseech by the mercies of God before mentioned that they would not be so desperately wicked as to mock their admonisher scoff at the means to be saved and make themselves merry with their own damnations but that they would entertain this message as if it were an Epistle sent from God himself to invite and call them to repentance Yea consider seriously what I have said and do not oh do not mock at Gods Word nor sport away your souls into those pains which are easeless endless remediless Shall we give an account at the day of judgment for every idle word we speak Mat. 12.36 never give a reckoning for our wicked swearing and cursing We shall be judged by our words v. 37. Are you willing to be saved if you are Break off your sins by repentance Dan. 4.27 Cease to do evil learn to do well Isa 1.16 17. Seriously grieve and bewail for the millions of times that you have

Drunkenness 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 That by the blessing of God our children and childrens children may loath drunkenness and love sobriety let this be fixed to some place convenient in every house for all to read The Persians Parthians Spartans and Lacedemonians did the like and found it exceeding efficacious And Anacharsis holds it the most effectual means to that end A Hopefull way to Cure that horrid Sin of SWEARING Or an help to save SWEARERS if willing to be saved Being an Offer or Message from Him whom they so Daringly and Audaciously provoke Also a Curb against CURSING Member 1. 1. Sect. Messenger SIr Me thinks you Swear and Curse as if he that made the ear could not hear or as if he were neither to be feared nor cared for who for sin cast the Angels out of Heaven Adam out of Paradise drowned the old world rained down fire and brimstone upon Sodom commanded the earth to open her mouth and swallow down quick Korah and his company he who smote Egypt with so many plagues overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea destroyed great and mighty Kings giving their land for an inheritance to his people and can as easily with a word of his mouth strike you dead while you are blaspheming him and cast you body and soul into hell for your odious unthankfulness yea it is a mercy beyond expression that he hath spared you so long When a Dog flies in his masters face that keeps him we conclude he is mad are you then rational men that being never so little crost will fly in your Makers face and tear your Saviours name in pieces with oaths and execrations which is worse than Frenzy yea this is to send challenges into Heaven and make love to destruction And certainly it is Gods unspeakable mercy that every such oath and blasphemy proves not a Benoni the death of the mother Gen. 35.18 Sect. 2. Think me not too bold or over-harsh for I speak to you both for and from my Maker and Redeemer Yea be perswaded to hearken a while unto me as you would have God another day hearken unto you Are you Christians as you call your selves If you be call to mind what God and Christ hath done for us How when we were in a sad condition when by sin we had forfeited our s●lves and all we had and wilfully plunged our souls and bodies into eternal torments when neither heaven earth nor hell could have yielded any satisfactory thing besides Christ that could have satisfied Gods justice and merited heaven for us then oh then The eternal God would die viz. so far as was possible or necessary that we might not die eternally John 3.16 A mercy bestowed and a way found out that may astonish all the sons of men on earth and Angels in heaven And all this even against our wills when we were his enemies mortally hating him and to our utmost fighting against him and taking part with his onely enemies Sin and Satan as now you do not having the least thought or desire of reconcilement but a perverse and obstinate will to resist all means tending thereunto Sect. 3. O my brethren bethink your selves It is his maintenance we take and live on The air we breath the earth we tread on the fire that warms us the water that cools and cleanseth us the cloaths that cover us the food that does nourish us the delights that cheer us the beasts that serve us the Angels that attend us even all are his That we are not at this present in hell there to fry in flames never to be freed That we have the free offer of grace here and everlasting glory in heaven hereafter we are only beholding to him And shall we deny this Lord that hath bought us shall we most spitefully and maliciously fight on Satans side against him with all our might and that against knowledge and conscience I wish you would a little think of it Sect. 4. For favours bestowed and deliverances from danger bind to gratitude or else the more bonds of duty the more plagues for neglect The contribution of blessings requires retribution of thanks or will bring distribution of judgements and certainly if a friend had given us but a thousandth part of what God hath we should heartily love him all our lives think no thanks sufficient And in reason Hath God done so much for us and shall we deny him any thing he requireth of us though it were our lives yea our souls much more our sins most of all this sottish and damnable sin in which there is neither profit nor pleasure nor credit nor any thing else to provoke or entice us unto it as in other sins for all you can expect by it is the suspicion of common Lyers by being common Swearers or that you shall vex others and they shall hate you Whereas if we could give Christ our bodies and souls they should be saved by it but he were never the better for them Yea swearing and cursing are sins from which of all other sins we have the most power to abstain For were you forced to pay for every oath and curse you utter as the Law enjoyns or if you were sure to have your tongue cut out which is too light a punishment for this sin damnation being the due penalty thereof as the Apostle sets it down James 5.12 you both could and would leave it which alone makes it altogether inexcusable And this know that the easier the thing commanded is the greater guilt in the breach of it and the lighter the injunction the heavier the transgression as Austin speaks and Adams eating the forbidden fruit sufficiently proves so that it is evident you love this sin meerly because it is a great sin and blaspheme out of meer malice to and contempt of God which it most fearful and as a man would think should make it unpardonable I am sure the Psalmist hath a terrible word for all such if they would take notice of it Let them be confounded that transgress without a cause Psalm 25.3 And no marvel that this fearful imprecation should fall from the Prophets mouth for that man is bottomlesly ill who loves vice meerly because it is a vice and because God most strictly forbids it He is a desperate prodigious damnable wretch who rather then not die will anger God on set purpose Wherefore look to it and think of it you cursing and cursed swearers You swear away your salvation curse away your blessing Howling and cursing shall be your chief ease in Hell to vvhom blasphemy was an especial recreation on Earth Sect. 5. Argue with all the vvorld and they vvill conclude there is

As how doth the Holy Ghost stigmatize such a one His mouth is full of cursing Psal 10.7 Rom. 3.14 or He loveth cursing Psal 109.17 And indeed whom can you observe to love this sin or to have their mouths full of cursing but Ruffian and sons of Belial such as have shaken out of their hearts the fear of God the shame of men the love of heaven the dread of hell not once caring what is thought or spoken of them here or what becomes of them hereafter yea observe them well and you will find that they are mockers of all that march not under the pay of the Devil Sect. 2. And whence do these Monsters of the earth these hellish miscreants these bodily and visible devils learn this their damnable cursing and swearing Are not their tongues fired and edged from Hell as S. James hath it Jam. 3.6 Yea it is the very language of the damned as you may see Rev. 16.1 21. Only they learn it here before they come thither and are such proficients therein that the Devil counts them his best Scholars and sets them in his highest form Psal 1.1 And well they deserve it with whom the language of hell is so familiar that blasphemy is become their mother-tongue Besides it is the very depth of sin roaring and drinking is the horse-way to Hell whoring and cheating the foot-way but Swearing and Cursi●g follows Korah Dathan and Abiram And certainly if the infernal Tophet be not for these men it can challenge no guests But see how witless graceless and shameless even the best are that use to curse for I pass over such as call for a curse on themselves saying God damn me Sink me Co found me T●e Devil take me and the like which would make a rational man tremble to name because I were as good knock at a deaf mans door or a dead mans grave as speak to them Sect. 3. Thou art crossed by some one perhaps thy wife child or servant or else thy horse the weather the dice ●owls or some other of the creatures displease thee and thou fallest a cursing and blaspheming them wishing the plague of God or Gods vengeance to light on them or some such hellish speech falls from thy foul mouth And so upon every foolish trifle or every time thou art angry God must be at thy beck and come down from heaven in all haste and become thy Officer to revenge thy quarrel and serve thy malicious humour O monstrous impiety O shameless impudency to be abhorred of all that hear it not once taking notice what he commands in his Word as Bless them that persecute you bless I say and curse not Rom. 12.14 And again Bless them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luk. 6.28 which is the practice of all true Christians 1 Cor. 4.12 Sect. 4. But this is not one half of thine offence For whom dost thou curse Alas the Creatures that displease thee are but Instruments thy sin is the cause and God the Author 2 Sam. 16.11 Psal 39.9 10. Gen. 45.8 Job 1.21 from whom thou hast deserved it and ten thousand times a greater cross but instead of looking up from the stone to the hand which threw it or from the effect to the cause as Gods people do thou like a mastiff dog s●ttest upon the stone or weapon that hurts thee But in this case Who are you angry withal Does your horse the dice the rain or any other creature displease you Alas they are but servants and if their Master bid smite they must not forbear they may say truly what Rabshakeh usurped Isa 36.10 Are we come without the Lord And all that hear thee may say as the Prophet did to Senacherib 2 King 19.22 Whom hast thou blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy self even against the Holy One of Israel Sect. 5. Besides why dost thou curse thine enemy if he be so but because thou canst not be suffered to kill him For in heart and Gods account thou art a murtherer in wishing him the pox plague or that he were hanged or damned Nor will it be any rare thing at the day of judgment for cursers to be indicted of murther For like Shimei and Goliah to David thou wouldst kill him if thou durst thou dost kill him so far as thou canst I would be loath to trust his hands that bans me with his tongue Had David been at the mercy of either Shimei or Goliah and not too strong for them he had then breathed his last Nor is it commonly any sin committed or just offence given thee that thou cursest Who could have less deserved those curses and ston●s from Shimei than David Yea did not that head deserve to be tongueless that body to be headless that so undeservedly cursed such an Innocent as after it fell out For the curses and stones which Shimei threw at David rebounded upon Shimei and split his heart yea and at last knockt out his brains and the like of Goliahs curses which is also thy very case For Sect. 6. What will be the issue the causeless curse shall not come where the Curser meant it Pro. 26.2 yea though thou cursest yet God will bless Psal 109.28 but thy curses shall be sure to rebound back into thine own brest Psal 7.14 15 16. Pro● 14.30 Cursing mouths are like ill made Pieces which while men discharge at others recoil in splinters on their own faces Their words wishes be but whirlwinds which being breathen forth return again into the same place As hear how the Holy Ghost delivers it Psal 109. As he loved cursing so shall it come unto him and as he loved not blessing so shall it be far from him As he cloathed himself with cursing like a garment so shall it came into his bowels like water and like oyl into his bo●es let it be unto him as a garment to cover him and for a girdle wherewith he shall alwaies be girded Ver. 17.18 19. Hear this all ye whose tongues run so fast on the Devils errand you loved cursing you shall have it both upon you about you and in you and that everlastingly if you persevere and go on for Christ himself at the last day even he which came to save the world shall say unto all such Depart from me y● cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25.41 Where they shall do nothing but curse for evermore for they no further apprehending the goodness mercy bounty of God than by the sence of their own torments the effects of his justice shall hate him and hating him they shall curse him Rev. 16.11 They suffer and they blaspheme there is in them a furious malice against him being cursed of him they re-curse him they curse him for making them curse him for condemning them curse him because being adjudged to death they can never find death they curse his punishments because they are so unsufferable curse his mercies