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A67662	A Warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others ...	Ward, Samuel, 1572-1643.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing W931; ESTC R8118	52,123	82

mischief along with it both to Soul and Body Estate and good Name 1. It doth great mischief to the Soul For 1 It besots and Stupifies the Soul and estranges a mans Heart from God who is his chiefest good Hos. 4. 11. Whoredom and Wine and new Wine take away the Heart We may take Heart here for the Understanding as Rom. 2. 21. Their foolish Heart was darkened And so it is true that Wine takes away the Heart that is it stupisieth the mind it blinds and darkens the understanding and maketh men sottish as Jeremiah complains of the Jews who were much addicted to drunkenness Jer. 4. 22. My People is Foolish they have not known me they are sottish Children and have no understanding they are wise to do evil but to do good they have no Knowledge Or we may take Heart for the Affections and so it is true that Wine takes away the Heart for Drunkenness takes off the Heart from God and all things that are good Drunkards have no Love to God no delight in God no desire of enjoying God no Fear of God no Heart to that which is good Drunkenness is a fleshly lust and fleshly lusts war against and tend to the ruine of our precious Souls 1 Pet 2. 11. Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and Pilgrims abstain from fleshly Lusts which War against the Soul 2. It brings great mischief to the Body by the painful Diseases that it breeds in the Body and by the Wounds and Bruises men get by falls when they have drunk so much they are not able to go or to guide the Horses they ride on and also by the wounds they get in quarrels and contentions with their Companions when they are in their Cups Prov. 23. 29 30. Who hath Woe who hath Sorrow who hath Contentions who hath Bablings who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of Eyes They that tarry long at the Wine Not only the Eyes are made red but the whole Body is inflamed and greatly distempered by excessive drinking Isa. 5. 11. Woe to them that follow strong drink that continue till night till Wine enflame them Our Bodies should be the Temples of the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6. 19. What know you not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you And it is dangerous defiling the Temple of God with excess of Wine or strong Drink 1 Cor. 3. 17. If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy 3. It brings ruine on a mans Estate Prov. 23. 21. The Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to poverty Many persons by their drunken and sottish courses waste fair Estates that were left them by their Parents Others that have been brought up to Callings spend all they gain by their Callings in excessive drinking whereby it comes to pass that they make no provision for their Families but their Wives and Children are brought into great wants and straits such as these are as bad yea worse than Infidels 1 Tim. 5. 8. But if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own House he hath denyed the Faith and is worse than an Infidel 4. It blasts a mans Reputation it is a shame for a man to have the brand of a Drunkard set upon him Even Children will hout and deride a drunken ma● when they see him reel and stagger as he goeth in the Street Arg. 4. Drunkenness is the Cause of many other Sins The greatness of the Sin of Drunkenness will appear from hence that it disposeth a man to many other great and crying sins as for Instance 1. Drunkenness disposeth men to commit Uncleanness Prov. 23. 31 33. Look not upon the Wine when it is red Thine Eyes shall behold strange Women When men are overcome with Wine they are easily drawn to commit the worst of uncleanness Lot though a Righteous man being overtaken with Drunkenness commited Incest twice Eph. 5. 18. Be not drunk with Wine wherein is excess As Beza observes Omnis profusio eaque summâ cum turpitudine conjuncta All excess of riot even that which is joyned with the greatest filthiness No filthiness comes amiss to a drunken man who is shameless whilest he is overcome with strong drink The Jews who were much addicted to Drunkenness were greatly addicted to Whoredom also Hos. 4. 11 18. Whoredom and Wine take away the Heart Their drink is sowre they have committed Whoredom continually Their drink is sowre some interpret of the sowre belches drunkards have after their Cups And another effect of immoderate drinking Wine besides the sowring of it in the Stomach is that it provokes men to Whoredom Hierom hath a smart passage to this effect Nunquam ego ebrium castum putabo I shall never think a Drunkard can be a chaste man 2. Drunkards are easily perswaded to be Idolaters for they making their Belly their God Phil. 3. 19. will easily be perswaded to bow down their Bodies to an Idol and comply with any Religion which will suit best with their Interest Hos. 3. 1. The Children of Israel who look to other Gods and Love Flagons of Wine Dan. 5. 4. They drank Wine and praised the Gods of Gold and of Silver and of Brass of Iron of Wood and of Stone 3. Drunkenness is accompanied with abundance of Vain Bablings and Foolish and Idle talk which men have together when they are in their Cups Prov. 23. 29 30. Who hath Bablings They that tarry long at the Wine And if any think there is no great hurt in those Bablings and Foolish talking that Drunkards have when they sit together at Inns or Alehouses let such consider 1. That Vain Bablings hardens the Heart and dispose a man to ungodly practices 2 Tim. 2. 16. But shun profane and vain Bablings for they will increase to more Ungodliness 2. Though Foolish Talking and Jesting is made Light of and accounted by many a matter of Mirth yet it is a sin brings down Gods wrath Eph. 5. 4 6. Neither filthiness nor Foolish talking nor Jesting which are not convenient Let no man deceive you with Vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the Children of Disobedience 3. Men must give an Account for every Idle Word at the day of Judgment and without Repentance they shall be condemned for their Idle Words as well as their other sins Mat. 12. 36 37. But I say unto you that every Idle word that men shall speak they shall give an account thereof in the day of Judgment For by thy Words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned 4. There are few Drunkards but they will mock and scost and rail at the Ministers and Servants of Christ and sing Songs of them especially when they are in their Cups Prov. 20. 1. Wine is a mocker that is it makes men Mockers Mercer's note upon that Text is Vini potor derisor Dei hominumque esse solet A Drunkard is wont