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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	bring_v	salvation_n	ungodliness_n	2,454	5	11.7039	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89544	The reformed gentleman, or, The old English morals rescued from the immoralities of the present age shewing how inconsistent those pretended genteel accomplishments of [brace] swearing, drinking, [brace] whoring and Sabbath-breaking are with the true generosity of an English man : being vices not only contrary to the law of God and the constitutions of our government both ecclesiastical and civil, but such as cry loud for vengeance without a speedy reformation : to which is added a modest advice to ministers and civil magistrates, with an abridgement of the laws relating thereto, the King's proclamation and Queens letter to the justices of Middlesex, with their several orders thereupon / by A.M. of the Church of England.	A. M., of the Church of England.; Bouche, Peter Paul, b. ca. 1646.	1693 (1693)	Wing M6; ESTC R20084	100,071	189

Souls do who venture their Lives and Fortunes for their King and Country 'T is well known nothing Encourages and Enspirits them more than a dram or two of the Bottle The Life of a Soldier is in his Mornings draught Who is able to endure the hard Marches wet Trenches and the continual Fatigues of a Campaign that is not well warmed within What Man of a thousand would stand out a Field Battle who had not drank largely before For none fight stouter and stand longer the brunt of the Battle then the half-drunk Cavalier 18. To all which I Answer The third Objection Answered that if any Excess was warrantable it would be doubtless in this but Man that boundless headstrong Creature having passed the limits of Reason and Moderation knows not as I hinted before where nor when to stop Hence we perceive the mad Disorders and Mismanagements even of most disciplin'd Armies in an Engagement commonly to arise which perhaps at a general Rendezvous were as well ranged as the best but Drunkenness being the Preparative to the Battle put all out of Frame makes the Soldier giddy and hot spurs him to rash and mad Attempts and engages his Intoxicated Headpiece in such dangers which none but his Hair-brain'd self would run into In this Confusion Right and Left are both alike to your Leader and all such useful words of Command are of no Effect and helter skelter every Man is his own Officer From this disorder in the Camp was it that Benhadad and his Army of Syrians were defeated by a band of Young Israelites * Plutarch from this it was that the Gauls who Besieged the Roman Capitol were by Camillus put to the Sword And believe me 't is a sad Circumstance to die in such a Condition for let them harbour never such good hopes of being saved if they can but cry the Lord have mercy upon my Soul 't is too common the last breath they draw is with a G damme in their Mouths But admit the Wretches be Victors in the Field and become Masters of Bag and Baggage too yet in this hot Blood what Barbarities will they not commit What Outrages will they not offer They 'll put all to the Sword deflour Virgins abuse Widows depopulate Cities and burn down Palaces and the Officers Charge is no more regarded after than it was before the Victory That this is true which I here assert is Evident from those who have already been abroad and are here and there Quartered and Garison'd amongst us When the Liquor is in what Regard have they to Civil or Military to Canon or Common Law They abuse all they meet and if they can fasten upon none else like Savages in their drunken fits they fall foul upon each other But how degenerate is this Valour from the true Conduct and Valour ●hich a sober Consideration of the justness of their ●ause did formerly beget The ancient Fulminant ●egions which gained the Roman Generals so many ●onquests were of another Make and vanquished ●●eir Barbarian Enemies not by being Pot-Valiant ●ut by their Prayers which the being in a drunken ●audlin Humour is a very ill Circumstance to per●●rm 19. Thus have I done considering the Ends which ●re falsly assigned for Drinking to wind up all and ●raw towards a Conclusion Let ●●e Exhort all to the Necessary ●uty of Temperance A Dehortation to fly the Odious sin of Drunkenness drawn from the ill Effects thereof and Dis●ade them from the odious Sin ●f Drunkenness which can be ●one no better then by consi●ering the dismal Effects it produces The Princi●al of which will appear by considering First How ●ar it makes a Breach of that Duty we owe to God ●ur Neighbours and our selves Secondly How much ●e advance Satans Kingdom thereby Thirdly How ●navoidably we incur the falling into divers other Sins And Lastly the Woes against Intemperance mentioned and denounced in the plain and revealed Word of God 20. As to the first of these it has that dismal Effect to make us Guilty of breaking the whole Law The first ill Effect is the Breach of the whole Law Hence has one ingeniously observed that there was no reason for God to forbid it in any Particular precept of the Decalogue since in Effect it was the violation of both Tables For hereby first we offend G● the Father in the Extravagant 〈◊〉 and abuse of those Creatures 〈◊〉 has ordained to be received wi●● Moderation and Thanksgiving Drunkenness is the Violation of our Duty toward God We affront God t● Son by perverting the end for which he came in●● the World which was that the Grace of God reveal● by him in his Gospel might through him bring Salvatio● and appear unto all Men that denying all Vngodlines● and Wordly Lusts they might live Soberly as well a● Righteously and Godly in this World Tit. 2.11 1● We provoke God the Holy Ghost to forsake these o● Intemperate Bodies as filthy Habitations and t● seek out for more wholesome and cleanly Mansions 〈◊〉 we defile his Temple and Eject him by our Imp●●rities and quench his Motions by our Sensualities In a Word we injure the whole Trinity by walking contrary to those Rules of Temperance and Sobriety which are implanted in our Natures by the mere light of Reason or taught us by the written and revealed Word of God By defacing th●● Image of the Deity and putting out that Light o● a Reasonable Soul which the Divine Rays ha● kindled within us by transforming our Godlike Nature and Vpright Forms into the Shape and Deformities of Downright Brutes Drunkenness the breach of our Duty to our Neighbours Nor are we less Guilty of the Breach of our Duty to our Neighbours whether it relate to the Publick Good of Communities or the Private Welfare of Families Drunken Magistrates no Friends to the Publick to the Acts of Justice or those of Charity He cannot be look'd upon as a Friend to the Publick whether we consider him as a Magistrate or as a Subject thereof If a Magistrate what more common than to have the Laws perverted our Courts of Judicature turned Revengers of private Animosities and the like Hence is it that so many partial Hearings and praeter-judicious Proceedings have been not long since in our Courts of Justice whilst the intoxicated Gentleman of the Long Robe has taken upon him to give his Verdict from what he has heard of the Beginning and end of the Cause without any regard to the substance of the Pleading which he has fairly slept away Hence it is from Epicurean Ministers of Justice I mean that the Orphan the Poor and the Widow are put by their Right Hence it is that a Land mourns and the Publick Grievances of any Nation do arise This makes the Wise Man so pathetically to urge It is not for Kings O Lemuel it is not for Kings to drink Wine nor for Princes strong drink lest they drink and forget the Law and pervert