noble Persons but single-soaled Gentelmen well bred Gentelmen but bare thredded Yeomen bountifull Yeomen but beggerly Husbandmen hospitious Husbandmen but shifting Trades-men artificious Trades-men but conicatching companions conicatching companions but vagabond rogues Thus thou mayest plainly perceiue how these their intoxicating Tobacco fumes are able in an vnperceiueable and Circean manner to transforme nobilitie into gentrie gentrie into yeomanrie yeomanrie into husbandry husbandrie into maunuarie manuarie into manubiarie manubiarie into a vagrant and retchlesse roguerie and what not besides Capn. Do you then determine that these their Tobacco fumes are the vnchangeable cause of such a changed condition Hydr. I do not make those their said fumes the efficient cause although yet an vnchangeable occasion of such a change For seeing the spirit which dwelleth in them doth lust after euill continually who seeth not then but that this filthie Tobacco fume so forcibly bewitching their braines is the vndoubted occasion of inflaming their said luft to such a profluuious waste for the timely purchase of that which makes them eftsoones to waxe wanton with the good blessings of God And euen as Israel affected flesh for their lust so these our fantasticall spirits requiring Tobacco fumes for their filthie desire do most prodigally dispend their patrimonies about the vntimely procuring of those vanishing flames which they so wastfully consume vpon their inordinate lusts Howbeit this one thing withall I pray thee obscrue namely that as the Lord God indirectly giues them this way their hearts desire so surely while the Tobacco fume is yet in their mouthes his ineuitable wrath falles fearefully vpon them For not onely he deliâ—ers them vp in iustice to their owne hearts lust but leaues them withall so sottish in iudgment as themselues know not which way to mannage their present possessions making theÌ„ insatiably mad in dispending their patrimonies about such smokie delights and in wasting their worldly preferments vpon those their preposterous lusts And thus at length they begin to perceiue in their proper experience that as the water which driues the mill decaies the mill so surely with whatsoeuer vaine man insatiably sinneth with the same eftsoones he is foundly punished Capn. Why Sir may not wise men maintaine their Tobacco fumes as well as their meate drinke cloathing without either offending God or the pitifull subuersion of their present estates Hydr. Dost thou accomt those for wise men which so wantonly and foolishly waste their worldly maintenance vpon those their forenamed fooleries But that thou may be able to vnderstand these matters the better thou must learne here to distinguish betweene the necessary and the needlesse supplies of nature For all those things which do necessarily tend to an orderly preseruation of natures well being according to the prouident purpose of God himselfe namely meate drinke and clothing they may and they must bee maintained by a moderate and frugall expence correspondent to each man his present abilitie Yea and all the necessarie expences bestowed that way they do vndoubtedly receiue such a blessed increase from the goodnesse of God as a man shall be sure therein to eate the labour of his owne proper hands and it shall go well with him euery kind of way Howbeit all those things whatsoeuer which are but needlesse supplies to natures well being not onely needlesse I say but noysome withall such as are our immoderate gormandizings our superfluous quaffing vp of wine and strong drinkes our insatiable sucking in of filthy Tobacco fumes with sundry such other fantasticall fooleries as they are not the ordinarie appointed labours of those mens hands which walke vprightly in the waies of the Lord so hath the Lord himselfe not onely alotted no one blessing vnto them but rather imposed a fearefull curse of penurie vpon them For as it is the blessing of the Almightie that maketh men rich so surely all those senslesse fooles which so insatiably deuoure their owne proper substance they shall be enforced eftsoones to vomite it vp againe for the Lord God will draw it out of their bellies be they neuer so great or so mightie Yea and not onely the great ones shall be sure to feele this fearefull effect concerning their owne present estates but euen the labouring men likewise that are so resolutely giuen to these their drunken delights they shall neuer be rich and all they that make not much of a little by little and little shall soone come to nothing so vncertaine are the estates be thou sure of all those our insatiable suckers vp of filthie Tobacco fumes Capn. But why should the expences bestowed vpon meate drinke and clothing receiue such a blessing from God and the excessiue cost layed forth for filthie Tobacco fumes vndergo so fearefull a curse Hydr. The reason is this Meate drinke and clothing they are necessarie supplies for natures well being and the ordinarie props appointed of God for the timely support and needfull preseruation of this present life so as a moderate expence bestowed that way it is the Almightie his mercifull designement to such as vprightly walke in his waies Whereas that superfluous waste which these men do riotously lauish forth vpon their filthie Tobacco fumes it is not the approued ordinarie way which the Almighty appointeth for mans preseruation but rather such an inordinate desire of mans lusting heart as procureth his present destruction To the one sort therefore the Lord hath promised a blessing vpon their basket and store and telleth them withall that they shall vndoubtedly eate the labour of their owne proper hands which do so industriously and so painefully walke in his waies To the other he not onely denounceth a curse vpon their fields their basket their store the fruite of their land the increase of their kine and the flockes of their sheepe but also vpon their reuenewes and rents how exceeding soeuer telling them withall that they do but euen purse vp the same in a bottomlesse bag So as the very curse of the Lord thou seest is in the house of the wicked but he blesseth the habitation of the righteous I will make thee perceiue my purpose herein by some plaine demonstration and for better performance hereof let vs put this downe here for the present proportion Be it supposed that some great man receiued yearely but fiue hundred pounds annuall rents to defray his domesticall charges withall which said fiue hundred pounds being handsomly husbanded and frugally employed would accomplish that worke in a very commendable and competent manner but being any way superfluously or wastefully spent vpon excesse of apparell meates drinkes and other such riotous courses would come very short in the reckoning Suppose now withall that this man forsooth to fulfill the inordinate lust of his owne licentious heart would yearely dispend one hundred pound at the least vpon the vanishing flames of filthie Tobacco fumes not abating at all
there may not any thing be possibly found more hurtfull to the happie estate of those the forenamed stomacks then superfluous excesse or pining wants For as by superfluous excesse the good â—state of those the said stomacks is fearefully ouerwhelmed and tumbled headlong into most dangerous surfeits and deadly distempers so surely by oppressing and pining wants they are fearefully enfeebled and finally disabled from the timely performance of their proper designements for publike good First therefore for the timely suppressing of whatsoeuer superfluous excesse annoying the healthfull estate of both these stomacks a prouident care must forthwith be had that not onely all carowsing and quaffing all gulling and gormandizing all excessiue and riotous banquetting but also that all superfluous buildings all needlesse braueries all extrauagant sports and all other profluuious dispendings be heedfully auoyded in euery state more especially in those the forenamed stomacks themselues For these onely respects I haue here euen purposely although yet synecdochically censured all those the former most foule and shamefull disorders vnder the onely name of Tobacco fumes putting downe a part for the whole and naming that one vice especially as a most liuely represent of those other the smokelike vanishing vapours and as the very principall annoyance to both the stomacks and so consequently to the flourishing estate of the naturall and Politicall bodies themselues And not onely all such superfluous excesse but which more is by much all those oppressing and pining wants whatsoeuer which may in any sort surprize the good estate of those stomacks must forthwith be warily suppressed Namely the want of competent tillage for corne the want of conuenient pasturing for beeues for oxen for milch-kine for sheepe with such other conuenient meanes to manure mannage enable and strengthen their seuerall tillages and pasture grounds for such a conuenient increase as may fully suffice from time to time about the necessarie supportation of their owne and the publike good The want in like manner of politicke of peaceable and publike good orders about the orderly and quiet collecting of such singular blessings as the Lord in much mercie bestoweth vpon any their ordinarie labours for publike good must be heedfully respected and timely redressed by publike authoritie So as your excellent Highnesse may herein againe be pleased to see the great conueniencie of all those good penall statutes were they but carefully executed which do necessarily concerne the orderly vpholding of husbandrie in it owne proper nature or do purposely tend to the timely suppressing of whatsoeuer riots routs and vnlawfull assemblies that might respectiuely ouerlay the poore husbandmens labours and peaceable proiects concerning any their peculiar professions for publike good In consideration whereof I haue here purposely and largely laid open the vrgent necessitie for the timely suppressing of that late disordered and vnlawfull attempt of lawlesse persons in and about the vnorderly and tumultuous disparking of pastures and seuerall grounds vnder an idle pretence of the necessarie though needlesse augmentation of tillage demonstrating most plainly that their falsely supposed defect of tillage is no such an oppressing want as doth presently hurt the poore husbandmans happy estate all other things else proportionably and euenly respected and that therefore there needed no such disordered and headie attempts for the timely supply of that their falsly supposed want Hauing hitherto anatomized the whole purport of this my purposed proiect for publike good I am now not vnwilling the same should be soundly peized with those the approued weights of the Sanctuary which will not deceiue Especially if our learned Physitions be made the indifferent cyzers and censurers concerning all Physicall questions as also if those our experimented Politicians and Politicke States-men may become the prouident weigh-masters of what points soeuer appertaining to matters of policie More respectiuely most dread Soueraigne I do here very freely and submissiuely put ouer the whole to your Maiesties approued consideration and view as vnto the most competent Iudge of publike regard very humbly intreating your excellent Highnesse that from out of your long experimented Physicall skill you would first of all be pleased very soundly to censure that former part of this present Discourse which more especially concernes those exceeding great hurts that do vnperceiueably surprise the bodies of men by meanes of their inward taking of Tobacco fumes And then next with no lesse humble submission I humbly intreate that your vnmatchable wisedome for publike good would likewise be pleased from out of your long setled iudgement and experimented practise about the orderly suppressing of whatsoeuer shamefull disorders adiudged pestiferous to the publike good of our countrey to priuiledge with the approued stampe of your authenticall approbation that other part of this present Discourse which more respectiuely relateth the purses profluuitie about the superfluous charges of filthie Tobacco fumes and the pestiferous poysoning of the long setled peace of our publike State so farre forth especially as the truth it selfe and present occasions do instantly craue from time to time Very submissiuely intreating moreouer that the whole Treatise it selfe may find at your Maiesties hands that fauourable entertainment which your gracious wisedome shall thinke good to grace it withall and thereupon also may publikely and boldly march vnder the martiall ensigne of your kingly care for publike good against all the fiery encounters of whatsoeuer fuming Tobacconists So shall the almightie Iehouah his absolute wisedome be freely iustified of all her children so shall your kingly reputation be iustly eternized among all posterities so shall the publike State of our countrey be much more bettered and more soundly conserued in a solide condition so shall the almightie Law-maker be more largely magnified for his manifold mercies bestowed among vs so shall the poore husbandmens hearts as it were with kingly cordials be forthwith reuiued so shall our disordered Tobacconists be presently daunted and for euer hereafter discouraged yea and so shall my poore selfe be more securely protected from whatsoeuer the fierie strokes of venimous tongues to my better emboldning and further encouragement in such other like future attempts for publike good And euen so I most humbly surceasse my purposed suite for the present good of our publike State beseeching the almightie Iehouah to blesse your excellent Highnesse in bodie and soule and to enrich you in both with a principall spirit correspondent to your Princely place to the publike good of our countrey and your owne euerlasting comfort in Iesus Christ. Euen so Lord Iesus Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Your Maiesties most humble and most dutifull Subiect IOHN DEACON TO THE CHRISTIAN READER grace in Christ with an holy discerning spirit So be it GEntle Reader if thou wilt more seriously bend thy best thoughts awhile towards some serious consideration concerning thine accustomed inward taking of filthie Tobacco fumes it may be thy good hap by the merciful goodnesse of our gracious God to haue thereby thy fantasticall
almightie Iehouah designed to Adam himselfe the primarie and soueraigne dominion ouer all other his creatures in generall by putting them vnder his feete and then next in a more speciall manner ouer Euah her selfe by subiecting her desire to Adam her husband appointing him withall to haue the maiesticalâ— soueraigntie ouer her person After this the Lord ratified afresh that selfesame maiesticall soueraigntie in Caine by constituting him a princely ruler ouer Abel his brother by subiecting Abel his ordinarie desires vnto Caine and by authorising the said Caine to rule ouer the person of Abel By this meanes insinuating to all the succeeding ages that as he is the God of order so would he haue order obserued among his creatures And thereupon by this his primarie president of such a princely soueraignty in the said person of Caine dis plainly demonstrate to all the world throughout their generations from age to age how he had decreed for euer that in all humane societies to the end of the world there should be some to beare rule and some to obey Now then to the end the of-spring succeeding might not too too grosly imagine that this selfesame princely preheminence of some speciall person ouer the people after the first age of the world was come to the full period or vttermost date the Lord therefore immediatly after the floud when the windowes of heauen were closed vp and the waters quite fled from the vpper face of the earth he powerfully renewed the world afresh by that selfesame primarie blessing wherwith the propagation of man was blessed at first and reestablished also in man his primarie dominion ouer birds beasts and fishes Yea and euen then also recalling eftsoones to remembrance the bloudie massacres of Nimrod and others as also intending a maruellous increase of the world afresh by those eight suruiuers after the floud he purposely diuised a very prouident restraint concerning all such outragious murders as might any waies hinder his forenamed purpose for propagation telling Noah and the rest that he would vndoubtedly require the bloud of man at the hands of euery man outragiously spilling the same And because there should no scruple of conscience remaine in any those iust reuengers of bloud the Lord God therefore doth authentically establish afresh a perpetuall supereminent power ouer man and beast for the orderly execution of that his vnchangeable ordinance concerning the lawfull reuenge of any such wilfull murthers telling them thus Whosoeuer sheddeth mans bloud in man or by man shall his bloud be shed or let his bloud be shed Lo this I assure thee is the true sence and meaning of that portion of Scripture Capn. Surely Sir this senâ—e which you giue it seemeth very congruent with the proportion of faith and scope of the text Although yet I haue heard say of some who do verily thinke that the Lord in that text hath not exactly and purposely put downe any politique or positiue law concerning the authenticall punishment of outragious murders Hydr. There are some I confesse who affirme as thou sayest and those also of reuerend regard with the Churches of God But whosoeuer more considerately examineth the apt coherence of this one with all the precedent verses he will I verily suppose be soone of a contrary mind For sith the Lord God by the very tenure of that text doth directly determine a timely reuenge of euery such wilfull murders by the subordinate ministerie of some one man or other what man is he that may vnblameably vndertake the timely execution of that selfe same determined reuenge but only some such a one as the Lord himselfe hath publikely and powerfully enabled thereunto Besides that if we consider somewhat more strictly the very maine reason it selfe which the Lord God hath purposely rendered for the vndoubted approbation of such a ministeriall reuenge we shall find in my iudgement the matter more euident than that it may probably be impugned of any For whereas Noah and his sonnes conceiuing some doubt concerning the matter propounded might haue made this exception saying Lord thou hast told vs euen now that the outragious spiller of any mans bloud shall vndoubtedly be sure to haue his owne bloud spilt againe by man but here shew vs we pray thee what one man in the world may reuengingly shed such a murderers bloud and not be made guiltie of bloudshed himselfe That may the magistrate to saith the Lord into whose authentical hands alone I haue for such a determined reuenge euen purposely put my reuenging sword Lo here is the proper coherence and the purposed scope of this present text Capn. Very well But why may such a man do it more than another and not be made guiltie of murder himselfe Hydr. For answer herein let me first aske thee this question namely Whether thou beleeuest that the Lord God himselfe may take an immediate reuenge of innocent bloud vpon the murdering person Capn. That I do verily beléeue both because he hath iustly decreed such iust reuenge and for that also he being onely the supereminent God may Do whatsoeuer seemeth good in his owne eies without the checke or controlement of any Hydr. Well and that which he may immediatly so worke by himselfe alone may he not likewise mediately accomplish the same by the ordinary meanes of another Capn. Yes Sir he may worke either by himselfe or by another what pleaseth himselfe But sith he hath vnchangeably determined such a reuenge vpon any the causelesse spiller of bloud how may this his mediate reuenger of bloud performe such an action more then another and not be guiltie of bloudshed himselfe Hydr. Such a man may vnblameably do it saith God because I my selfe for that selfe same purpose haue vndoubtedly substituted him thereunto according to the very image of that mine owne maiesticall soueraignty That is I haue in a more especiall manner aduanced him to such an excellent seruice by inuesting his person more properly with a most liuely resemblance of mine owne reuenging power by making him especially the authenticall representation or the expresse image of that mine owne immaculate iustice against malefactors Thus then these words of the Lord namely for in the image of God hath he made man they are euen purposely annexed to that the precedent decree of the Lord as the very maine reason why such a substituted magistrate may powerfully and vnblameably require like of a murderer as a decreed reuenge of the murder committed namely because for that selfe same businesse he is the authenticall image of the Almightie his absoluâ—e authority Capn. Surely Sir those words as you say they séeme to haue in them a very probable reason of that the presedent decrée concerning the iust reuenger of bloud and are therefore euen purposely annexed thereto for a further confirmation thereof Howbeit some others by your leaue they do imagine that these words for
and couer a multitude of sinnes Hydr. Good Sir my good will that way by the grace of God shall neuer be wanting when or wheresoeuer I méete with any of them how furiously soeuer their filthie Tobacco fumes do make them to fret to frowne or to to fume at the same Hydr. Indeed Capnistus whensoeuer thou dost soundly vndergo such a Christian course thou must looke forthwith for the strokes of the tongue For thou shalt no sooner begin to proclaime desolation against those their shameful disorders but the sweete word of the Lord will be made a reproach to thy person and thy selfe shall be had in derision for it Then shalt thou be forced to heare the raylings of many and be assaulted with feare on euery side yea then be thou sure that euen those thy former familiars will narrowly watch for thy halting and daily endeauour to execute all their outragious villanies vpon thee But be thou nothing dismaid with any their terrours feare not their fierie threatnings neither bee thou troubled at all with the rufull remembrance thereof nay rather be thou euery houre ready to offer thy backe to those smiters and thy cheekes to those nippers and neuer hide thy face from their shame and spitting But endure thou with meeknesse the outragious raylings of those raging Rabshakeians and vndergo with patience the causeles curses of any those shamelesse Shimeis because the Lord himselfe hath bidden them curse it may be the Almightie will much more mercifully behold thy affliction and do thee much good for their cursing that day Capn. Good Sir being thus resolutely bent as I am to fight the Lords battailes neuer make you any doubt I beséech you but that I haue long since set downe seriously cast with my selfe whether I be able with bare ten thousand to méete him y ◠cometh against me with twenty thousand or not Do as you may be certaine of this that if I had either felt a fainting heart or found too féeble a force I would rather send an Ambassadour and desire conditions of peace then desperately aduenture my selfe vpon any so bloudy a bickering And therefore I pray you ceasse wéeping and breaking my heart because by the helpe of my God I will rather endure ten thousand tortures and torments then suffer his glorious name to be so déepely dishonoured by any their disordered dealings or permit his gracious blessings to be so prodigally and so profluuiously dispended vpon the inordinate lusts of those our insatiable and lasciuious suckers in of filthie Tobacco fumes if any my priuate admonitions or open reproofes may hinder the same Hydr. If thy resolution be thus why then the will of the Lord be done but in any wise obserue I pray thee a Christian course in those thy rebukes Capn. My Worshipfull Fathers and fellowes for forreine aduentures We that go downe to the Sea in ships occupie our businesse in huge great waters we haue eftsoones séene the great works of the Lord and his wonders done in the déepe How he commandeth the stormie winds to arise and lifteth vp those the mighty waues of the Sea which make our tottring ships mount vp to the heauens and downe againe to the déepe So as our soules they melt for trouble to sée our selues tossed to and fro to stagger like drunken men and to be hourely brought to our wits end for feare We remember I hope that when wee cried heartily out to the Lord in the midst of those our dangerous troubles he brought vs forth from our present distresse by turning those great tempests into a quiet calme and by causing the waues of the Sea to be still Lo then began wee to be heartily glad because wee were safely brought to the hauen where we longed to be These things my deare brethren we all know to be true in our owne proper experience Oh let vs therefore most highly exalt the Lord in the congregation of his people and praise his great name in the assemblie of the Elders Let not our goodnesse herein be as a morning cloud or like to the morning deaw that goeth away Let vs not within a while forget God our Sauiour who hath dealt so wonderfully with euery of vs aboue many the sonnes of mortall men But let vs eftsoones be perswaded that those terrible stormes of wind they did onely pronosticate the ineuitable stormes of God his excéeding great anger against our excessiue sins yea and let vs acknowledge withall that there can be no greater wickednesse concerning our ordinary callings then wittingly to trafficke home that from forreine parts which doth both willingly and wickedly procure a generall wastfull consuming of all the good blessings of God More especially whē those selfe same blessings are prodigally dispended vpon that which not onely doth our countrey people no one good at all but also which hurteth their health consumeth their wealth and hazardeth eftsoones their happie estates Perhaps your good worships do wonder much what this hurtfull trafficke might be I will here tell you the same without further delay It is that our filthie Tobacco fumes which we so dangerously aduenture to get which our owne countrie-men so gréedily deuoure and which hath so egregiously endangered our publike State I know there is an excéeding great gaine to be gotten thereby yea I feare me alas that too too many of our miserable Merchants by the very sale thereof haue gotten the diuell and all But accursed be that gaine whatsoeuer which is so dangerously obtained with the excéeding great griefe and hazard of body and soule in hell The pernicious the profluuious and pestiferous effects of these our filthie Tobacco fumes do vniuersally appeare throughout this whole countrey of ours and woe bee to them that are found the primary causers thereof Let not vs my worshipfull Fathers and fellowes in forreine aduentures for a priuate gaine to our proper purses procure the cause of a publike bane to our owne countrey people Let not our inordinate care of superfluous wines be made an ordindary razour to our countrie-mens throates Let not our preposterous profession be any occasion at all to our countries perdition Let vs no longer cozen our poore countrey neighbours by bringing them home a filthie pestiferous fumes for their rich and substantiall fruits Let vs not still shew our selues to be those insatiable hungrie Merchants who hearing once what wonderful gaine may be got from the intoxicated minds of Mooneheaded Minotaures do most shamefully take ouer with them an abundance of gold and siluer to sell the sonnes of Israel for slaues and to make open sale of the soules of men for old shooes lest the Almightie reuenger of innocent bloud do breake our whole Nauie in péeces and disable them finally for all forreine aduentures Let vs not hereafter any more vndergo such dangerous voyages for vaine and vanishing smoke
especially among such as do make their glorie their shame minding nothing at all but earthly things Neither do I much maruell at this their bewitched blindnesse For how is it possible that they whom this smokie fume hath made so fantasticall I will not say so senslesse in iudgement should euer be able to determine substantially concerning this matter And therefore sith this their seducing Tobacco smoke is such an intoxicating Circes a monster of so many heads and hath taken withall so deepe roote in those our besotted Tobacconists minds as it will be found but an Herculean labour to eradicate and roote out the same from a soile so suting vnto it I hold it euery way a very good course yet still to bend moe engines about it and euen to pull vp if possibly it may be all the farre spread sprouts and riotous springs thereof Capn. Undertake what exploit you please to supplant the same for neither they nor I do craue any fauour herein Hydr. Go to then let this which followeth now and which also in such gallant brauerie against those gallant Tobacconists here marcheth on gallantly towards the very forefront of the battell it selfe be entertained afresh for a third encounter against the inward taking of Tobacco fumes That which maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome is very pernicious vnto the body But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward is very pernicious vnto the body Capn. Pardon me Sir though I do absolutely deny this Argument Hydr. Oh nay Capnistus beware of such an absurd and senslesse deniall For as the Argument it selfe is absolutely sound in moode and figure so surely either of both propositions may thus be easily proued Whatsoeuer infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind that same doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the bodie But that which maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind Therefore that which maketh the cleare sweete and holsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome that same doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the body Capn. I do not as yet conceiue the soundnesse of your first proposition namely that that which infecteth the instruments of both bodie and mind doth most perniciously procure the destruction of the body Hydr. The soundnesse thereof is hereby apparent namely for that no one action of life can be exercised without the mind and body But neither body nor mind may possibly performe their dutie that way without their proper instruments Howbeit the instruments of both they are the spirits the clearenesse sweetnesse and holsomnesie of which said spirits being made obscure stinking and vnwholsome how should either bodie or minde be able to exercise any one action of life in good order Capn. Uery true as you say But how are you able to proue your second Proposition namely that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward doth so infect and corrupt the spirits Hydr. The same may very plainly be proued by this following argument Whatsoeuer infecteth and defileth the whole bodie with a blacke filthie and smokie colour that same doth make the cleare sweete and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnwholsome But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward infecteth and defileth the whole bodie with a blacke filthie and smokie colour Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward doth make the cleare sweete and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnholsome Capn. Howsoeuer amazed herein at all aduentures I denie your argument Hydr. Thine amazednesse it seemes hath made thee at all aduentures to bewray thy palpable ignorance in denying the argument For the first Proposition thereof is such and so sound as no man of sound iudgement will once dare to denie it being euen in common sense no lesse apparently euident then the Sun-shine at mid-day For must not that which infecteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke filthie and smokie colour euen necessarily make the cleare sweet and wholsome spirits to become obscure stinking and vnwholsome What one man being well in his wits may not plainly perceiue the apparent necessitie and truth of such a consequent Capn. But how proue you the second Proposition namely that the smoke of Tobacco taken inward infecteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke filthie and smokie colour Hydr. That is fully ratified by the authoritie of Aristotle in his former Treatise where as I haue eftsoones told thee before he affirmeth all sorts of smoke and therefore the smoke of Tobacco to infect with a blacke colour the same also auoucheth Galene in sundry places And besides their two approued testimonies that which I haue heard eftsoones very credibly reported by many as also that whereof my selfe was once an eye-witnesse namely an approued experience in the opening of sundry mens bodies which being fearefully strangled vp with this poysonsome smoke very sodainly died doth apparently prooue the truth of this proposition for so much as those dead bodies being so cut vp were euery of them found strangely infected with a certaâ—ne blacke and smokie colour Seeing therefore the inward taking of Tobacco smoke doth make the cleare sweete and holsome spirits obscure stinkâ—ng and vnholsome sith it infecteth all the instruments of the bodie and mind briefly seeing it corrupteth and defileth the whole body with a blacke filthie and smokie colour who can without blushing denie but that the taking of Tobacco inwardly is very pernicious vnto the bodie Capn. Howsoeuer my selfe be vnable with sway of argument to denie the same yet be you well assured of this that you shall find ten thousand Tobacconists flat opposite to you Hydr. That may very well be For so one onely Michaiah did find foure hundred opposite to that which he spake from the mouth of the Lord and yet their exceeding great multitude was no manner of preiudice to the truth which he taught Howbeit that I may here as much as possiblie lieth in my power take away whatsoeuer occasion of either gainsaying or doubting and that the truth of this matter might be made to appeare as manifest as the Sunne in his strength I haue euen purposely placed this following argument in the rereward of the battell as an armour of proofe to giue a fresh encounter against Tobacco fumes Capn. Discharge your vttermost force and spare not Hydr. Well then stand strongly vpon thy guard for this it is Whatsoeuer spreadeth and disperseth throughout the whole bodie a most venimous matter and a mortall enemie to the nature of man that same doth bring destruction vnto the bodie But the smoke of Tobacco taken inward spreadeth and disperseth throughout the whole body a most venimous matter and a mortall enemie to the nature of man Therefore the smoke of Tobacco taken inward
the Almightie his sanctified meanes to build thee vp with an holy a blessed and a sanctified seede Haue not I here brought forth an armie of children vnto thee Haue I not enabled thee husband to speake with thy stoutest enemies in the open gates yea haue I not made thee alas an happie man by filling thy quiuer full of faire of faithfull and gracious young impes What might any one woman in the vniuersall world haue done more for thee my deare husband then thy deare wife hath done Oh out alas why art thou then become now so graceles a father towards this thine owne of-spring and so grieuous an husband to me their poore mother in preferring a fantasticall smoke before these so substantiall blessings Oh husband husband oh hard hearted husband nay rather a bloudie husband thou art vnto me For that thou neglecting thy proper calling care concerning an husband hast causelesly brought abundance of cares vpon me thy sillie poore carefull wife A care how to liue my selfe a care how to vphold our present estate a care for these my poore comfortlesse brats a care for their present prouision and foode hil-backe and fil-bellie is now mine hourely care yea and a care for some corner God knowes wherein we may hide our beggerly heads For thou alas husband hauing hitherto vainely wasted their proper reuenewes vpon a vanishing filthie fume I my poore selfe must be faine now to forgo my Feoffement also I must perforce be enforced to yeeld to the present sale thereof to acknowledge before some Iudge my vnwilling willing consent thereunto full sore God he knowes against my owne will Howbeit necessitie they say hath no law I must now do it alas or let thee lie fast by the heeles I must do it God wot otherwise my poore selfe and my sorowful children must starue in the open streets Tell me Capnistus if thou shouldest but heare a poore sorrowfull wife thus pitifully complaine vpon her pitilesse fume-sucking husband wouldest thou not forthwith imagine that her poore fainting heart had too effectually felt the fearefull effects of that his former fantasticall fooleries Capn. Yes in very déede would I Sir and I suppose not without a very vrgent occasion but what are the poore childrens complaints I pray you Hydr. They are those sighing sobs and those sorowfull outcries which euen present necessitie and the fearefull foresights of their future wants doth hourely vrge them vnto For the better explanation wherof imagine thou shouldest here likewise behold before thy face a yong tender brat or little pretie nest-cukkle beginning to bite in the lip to whimper a little and then creeping pretily betweete the degenerate father his legs should cry out and say thus vnto him in the name of all the rest of his brethren and sisters Dad hearke Dad in thine eare Am not I thy best boy am I not Dad And doest thou not loue me thy best boy Dad Harke Dad thou wert wont whē thou wentst to the Faires to buy thy best boy fine knacks fine boxes fine rattles a fine feather a fine gilden dagger and a fine golden hobbie-horse wert thou not Dad And wilt thou now let me thy white-headed boy runne barefoote and barelegged without hose and shooes Why harke Dad hath the fire of Tobacco filched thy purse Hath filthie Tobacco flames enforced all thy golden angels to creepe couertly out of thy coffers into thy profluuious pouch and from thence to flie forth all about Tell me good Dad hath the poysonsome stinke of those filthie Tobacco fumes made me thy owne pretie boy my brethren and sisters to stinke now so horribly in thy vnnatural nostrils as thou art vtterly vnable how willing soeuer to buy my brother Humfrey an hat or little Francke a fustian coate or my sister Kate a new coife or poore prettie Tib a tawdrie lace or yet me thy best boy a new nothing to hang on my sleeue I pray thee hearke Dad and I 'le tel thee a thing in thine eare My brother Robin he wrings his hands thus and cries mainly out because thou art now no more able to maintaine him any longer to schoole and yet he hath halfe learned his Puerilis he saith without booke And my sister Meg she sits mourning in corners because being now ripe and readie for mariage thou art not able to prefer her that way with one groates-worth of goods she being otherwaies capable enough of many good mariages And Dad little Kit he cries out for a prenticeship but cannot preuaile therein for want of preferment Yea and mine eldest brother Will he goeth wailing vp and downe because his birth-right he saith is bangled out about nothing Dad hearke in thine eare Will he prates many bugs-words to my brothers and sisters behind thy backe He maruels he saith how thou canst for very shame go daily as thou doest to heare Sermons and profite no more by preaching Nay hearke Dad he telleth them that Saint Paul saith plainly thou hast denied the faith art become an apostate and worse them an infidel because thou shewest thy selfe so carelesse in prouiding for vs the folke of thy familie Yea and that the Lord God proceedeth iustly in iudgement against thee by causing thy fantasticall sucking in of filthie Tobacco flames to feede thee as fat as a foole For lo saith he our Father long since did lie in his bed deuising that monstrous flame neuer regarding at all how the Lord in the meane time was deuising a plague against him and his familie from which neither he himselfe nor we his forlorned of-spring shall euer be able to plucke out our neckes And therefore with very great griefe and anguish of heart we may now take vp this reproachfull parable against him yea we may now lament with a dolefull lamentation and say one to another Alas we be euen vtterly wasted Behold here how the righteous Iudge for our fathers fantasticall fooleries hath iustly dispersed the long setled portions of vs his poore of-spring for euer For lo our owne father himselfe being fearefully giuen ouer to the insatiable lust of his owne licencious heart hath now made such an absolute sale of his lands and so beastly bangled out our birth-rights in so many odde parcels as there is vtterly no hope at all of any redemption nor possibilitie that any one of our fathers poore of spring shall euer be able to cast forth a coard by lot in any our alienated inheritances In so much as wise men wondring greatly thereat may say one to another Behold we haue seene the foolish man substantially rooted and surely setled but lo now the Lord curseth his habitation and telleth him his children shall be destitute and farre from succour yea that they shall be destroyed in the gate and none shall deliuer them The hungrie shall eate vp this foolish mans haruest yea they shall euen take it away as it were from among the thornes and
in the image of God hath he made man they were not put downe there for any such supposed confirmation of the magistrate his subordinate power as your selfe do séeme to affirme but as an amplification rather to aggrauate the sinne of such murder committed telling the murderer thus that not onely he hath bene most iniurious to the man whom he murdered but that also the Lord his supereminent Maiestie is mightily wronged thereby because his owne image in man by such an outragious murder is most monstrously mangled marred and in a manner defaced Hydr. Although this which those men affirme be in it owne selfe such a sanctified truth as proportionably consorteth with the analogie of faith yet is it not truly collected I verily thinke from that portion of Scripture if we more strictly consider the same according to the maine purpose of the Almightie himselfe Because these words the image of God they haue not any such reference there to the murdered man but rather to the magistrate himselfe so seuerely reuenging the murder committed The Lord very plainly declaring therby that not onely a iust reuenge must seuerely be executed vpon the outragious murderers but that also the said reuenge must onely be orderly vndertaken by a man authentically endued with the authoritie of God Yea and this sence of the place may yet more euidently breake forth to euery mans apprehension if we aduisedly consider first the seuerall significations of the image of God and then next if we examine more strictly the word gnasa it selfe put downe in the forenamed text Capn. Shew me first I beséech you the seuerall significations of the image of God Hydr. Touching the seuerall significations of that selfe-same image so frequent and ordinary in sacred Scriptures we haue here to obserue that a man is said to be made according to the image of God in a threefold respect namely first respecting the nature of his soule the same being a spirituall essence immortall eternall inuisible and very significantly resembling the immortalitie eternitie and inuisibilitie of his Lord and Creatour And in an especiall regard hereof each man so created is fitly called a liuing soule Secondly a man is not vnaptly said to be created also according to the image of God in an onely respect of the essentiall qualities of that his said soule namely righteousnesse and holinesse because man also was therein accordingly created after the image of God And thirdly a man may very well be said to be created also in the image of God in a more speciall respect of the holy attributes thereof bestowed vpon him namely dominion dignitie and glorie because man also himselfe euen by a more speciall dispensation from God obtained from God a most princely soueraigntie ouer all the inferiour creatures as also more specially concerning mankind Capn. This Sir I confesse is maruellous strange and more then euer I heard But what do you inferre from this thréefold signification of the image of God Hydr. Euen that which notably tendeth to the timely confirmation of our purpose concerning the true â—ence of this text For we may not in any wise vnderstand this portion of Scripture according to that primarie signification of the image of God namely according to the spirituall essence immortalitie eternitie and inuisibilitie of mans soule because therein the soule of man was made immortall and the Lord speaketh here precisely of that image of God in man wherin mans bloud may be spilt which cannot properly be said concerning mans soule Neither may we vnderstand this portion of Scripture according to that secondarie signification of the said image of God namely according to the essentiall qualities of that selfesame soule I meane true righteousnesse and holinesse because those the essential qualities appertaining to the soule of man as they were vtterly lost in our forefather Adam so surely being now eternally restored to a man in Christ they are no way subiected to any such outragious spilling of bloud And therefore we must necessarily vnderstand this making of man in the image of God according to the third signification of the image of God namely according to that diuine dominion power or soueraignetie which by y e speciall dispensation of God is more especially designed to some such speciall persons as are by his absolute authoritie to take a iust reuenge vpon all malefactours Capn. Surely Sir this thréefold signification of the image of God doth shew forth the true sence of that text by sundry degrées like the day-dawne in the morning But how may this sence be yet further confirmed from a more strict examination of the word gnasa put downe in that text Hydr. Exceedingly wel Because the word gnasa which is there translated made it may not properly be referred to that speciall worke of creation wherein Adam was primarily or secondarily made according to the said image of God concerning either the essentiall being or the essentiall qualities of that his said soule which are no way subiected to any such outragious spilling of bloud and therefore it cannot bee rightly referred to either of them Capn. Oh yes Sir maruellous fitly especially if the word gnasa be vsed indifferently for that thréefold signification of the image of God Hydr. It were certainly true as thou sayest if the word gnasa indeede were vsed indifferently for euery of those seuerall significations of the said image of God And therefore we haue here now to consider afresh that as the holy Ghost hath purposely distinguished those seuerall significations of the image of God the one from the other so hath he precisely obserued three seuerall words in the originall tongue to set forth the different degrees of those the said actions of God according to their different conditions Capn. What are those thrée seuerall words I beséech you Hydr. The first word is bara that is to create or to make and more properly it betokeneth the bringing out of something without any matter at all preexisting in nature And euen so accordingly this word bara it is vsed sometimes for creation sometimes againe for procreation or the bringing of one thing from out of another and sometimes also for recreation or making againe because euery of these three seuerall actions there appeareth a wonderfull inherent power in God who worketh whatsoeuer pleaseth himselfe in heauen and earth and calleth those things which are not as though they were Secondly the Lord sometimes vseth the word sarath which properly and naturally signifieth to burne vp to boyle to melt mettall to trie forth by fire and so metaphorically to trie out the children of men to search through their hearts and their waies also sometimes if signifieth to to forme or to fashion a thing and to bring it vnto that exact and absolute condition which doth proportionably consent with the primarie patterne thereof And thirdly the Lord sometime
also he vseth the word gnasa put downe in this portion of Scripture as also in sundry other places where occasion requireth The which word in like manner is diuersly obserued in the sacred Scriptures according to the diuerse and sundry occasions offered For sometimes it signifieth the timely producing and the orderly bringing forth of the fruites of the earth according to Natures primary appointment sometimes it signifieth the procuring the getting and the gathering together of things as men vsually do when they gather vp goods and treasures sometimes it signifieth to prouide to prepare or to make readie a thing as men commonly do when they prepare and make readie their meate for the hungrie trauelling persons sometimes it signifieth to do to make to fashion to forme or to finish a thing as the Lord did his workes in the first creation sometimes it signifieth to present with sacrifice or to offer vp sacrifice as men vsually do in the seruice of God yea sometimes againe it signifieth to aduance to extoll to grace or to magnifie as men commonly do vnto some such speciall persons as they aduance vnto dignitie and euen so is the word gnasa vsed in this our present text Capn. I perceiue the variety of significations concerning those the forenamed thrée words but what do you obserue from the same Hydr. Surely euen that which sufficiently tendeth to the true opening of this portion of Scripture according to that onely sence which I set downe before For seeing the holy Ghost hath not here put downe the word bara which properly betokeneth the creating of something from out of nothing preexisting in nature neither yet hath vsed the word tsarath which properly signifieth to forme or fashion a thing as it were by melting the same in a mould therefore this portion of Scripture being not purposely declared by any of those two words it cannot properly be vnderstood of that primarie image of God which more particularly respecteth the first creation of man and so consequently the speciall reason comprehended therein it can haue no such peculiar reference to that murdered man in whom the created image of God is so defaced Moreouer sith the holy Ghost doth precizely put downe in this portion of Scripture neither bara nor tsarath but the onely word gnasa which properly betokeneth to aduance to extoll or to magnifie with honor as I told thee before therefore the text cannot significantly be resolued thus For in the primarie image of God hath the Lord created or formed that murdered man but rather more proportionably thus For in the secondary image of God hath the Lord aduanced and magnified that his subordinate reuenger of innocent bloud And so the maine reason rendred there in that text it hath thou maist see a much more peculiar reference to such a reuenger of innocent bloud as is peculiarly authorised thereunto according to that diuine image of soueraignetie wherein such a reuenger by a peculiar dispensation from God is authentically aduanced extolled and most honorably magnified Now then the Almightie Iehouah protesting to Noah and the rest that the outragious spiller of any mans bloud should by man haue his owne bloud spilt againe in a iust reuenge doth presenly put downe the maine reason why such a subordinate reuenger of bloud may boldly and vnblameably accomplish that businesse namely because such a man such a ministeriall reuenger of bloud I meane is authentically formed or made in the image of God or to speake more significantly and properly according to the originall text because such a subordinate reuenger is authentically aduanced dignified extolled or magnified with the authenticall image or liuely resemblance of that the Almightie his maiesticall soueraignetie wherewith he may boldly and vnblameably execute vengeance vpon all such malefactors as are formerly condemned to death for any their enormious or capitall crimes Lo Capnistus this I assure thee is the very true sence and meaning of that portion of Scripture Capn. Surely Sir this sence which you giue in my proper conceipt it is without all contradiction More especially if those the former thrée words be not méere Synonima words I meane of one and the selfesame signification but are vsed rather as you say for such different termes as are purposely put downe by the spirit of truth to distinguish those the forenamed thrée actions of God according to their different and diuerse conditions Hydr. There is I assure thee no question thereof Yea and therefore the onely wise God to take quite away all colourable shewes of any such idle conceipt hath of very purpose compacted and coupled euen those the former three words I meane bara tsarath and gnasa all ioyntly together in one and the selfe same verse yea and which more is by much for those the three former different respects which we precizely spake of before saying thus Euery one shall be called by my name for berathiu ietsarethiu aph-gnasithiu that is I haue created him I haue formed him yea I haue exalted him We may not therefore too too grosly imagine that these three seuerall words were here put downe by the Prophet onely for bate Synonima as words I meane of one and the same signification for so should he haue made but an idle tautologie that is but a superfluous and a needlesse repetition of one and the selfe same matter propounded thus I haue created him I haue created him I haue created him But those three seuerall words they are vsed there rather as different termes or as an elegant gradation to set forth more succinctly the excellent and most admirable order of the Lord his exceeding great kindnesse towards the elect For first of all the Prophet he telleth the people that from the very first houre of their creation the Lord hath ordained them to his owne euerlasting glorie according to the eternall purpose of his owne will Then next that he formeth or fashioneth them afresh being fearefully fallen from their former integritie that is he calleth iustifieth and preserueth them to himselfe by this holy Spirit of regeneration And lastly that he aduanceth extolleth or magnifieth them with a soueraigne dominion dignitie and honour both in this and the life to come Capn. The matter as you make it both seeme verie probable But yet do tell me I pray you wherefore you your selfe haue purposely translated the word gnasa put downe in that place aduanced or magnified rather then made or formed that man in the image of God as it is vsually turned in many of our Latine and English Bibles Hydr. I haue purposely translated the word gnasa so for three principall reasons First because among the manifold significations of that word set downe before it is no improper but a most proper signification of the word it selfe Secondly for that the very coherence and purpose of that present text doth euen proportionably require that selfe