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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

no vice like ingratitude and meer ingratitude returns nothing for good but you return evil yea the greatest and most malicious evil for the greatest and most admired love It was horrible ingratitude for the Jews to scourge and crucifie Christ who did them good every way for he healed their diseases fed their bodies enlightned their minds of God became Man and lived miserably among them many years that he might save their souls though in killing him they did their utmost to sink the onely ship that could save them but you are more ingrateful to God and Christ then they were or can be exprest by the best Orator alive For which read more in a Treatise intituled Gods goodness and Englands unthankefulness from chap. 4. to chap. 7. Sect. 6. O that you would but consider that the Lord Jehovah vvho is a God great and terrible of most glorious Majesty and infinite purity hears and beholds you in all places and in every thing you think speak or do who is a just Judge and will not let this cursed sin go unpunished then would you keep a narrower watch over your thoughts then any other can do over your actions yea you would as soon stab a Dagger to your Hearts as let such oaths and execrations drop from your mouths Consider of it I beseech you lest you swear away your part in that blood which must save you if ever you be saved yea take heed lest you be plagued with a witness and that both here and hereafter for God who cannot lie hath threatned that his curse shall never depart from the house of the Swearer as it is Zech. 5.1 to 5. And I doubt not but you are already cursed though you know it not that either he hath cursed you in your body by sending some foul disease or in your estate by suddenly consuming it or in your name by blemishing and blasting it or in your seed by not prospering it or in your mind by darkning it or in your heart by hardning it or in your conscience by terrifying it or will in your soul by everlastingly damning it if you repent not Wherefore take heed what you do before it prove too late Sect. 7. Or if you regard not your self or your own souls good yet for the Nations good leave your swearing for the Lord as now we find to our smart hath a great controversie with the inhabitants of the Land because of swearing Hos 4.1 2. Yea because of oaths the whole land even the three Nations now mourneth as you may see Jer. 23.10 Neither object that ye are so accustomed to swearing that you cannot leave it for this defence is worse then the offence as take an instance Shall a Thief or Murtherer at the Bar alledge for his defence That it hath been his use and custome of a long time to rob and kill and therefore he must continue it Or if he do will not the Judge so much the rather send him to the Gallows Wherefore I beseech you by the mercies of God who hath removed so many evils and conferred so many good things upon you that they are beyond thought or imagination to leave it especially after this warning which in case you do not will be a sore witness and rise up in judgement against you another day Memb. 2. Swearer Did I swear or curse Sect. 1. Messenger Very often as all here present can witness and Satan also who stands by to take notice reckon up and set on your score every Oath you utter keeping them upon Record against the great day of Assises at which time every Oath will prove as a daggers point stabbing your soul to the heart or as so many weights pressing you down to Hell Rev. 20.13 and 22.12 As also the searcher of hearts who himself will one day be a swift witness against Swearers Mal. 3.5 For of all other sinners the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain as the third Commandment tels you Exod. 20.7 Sect. 2. But wo is me it fares with common Swearers as with persons desperately diseased whose excrements and filth comes from them at unawares for as by much labour the hand is so hardened that it hath no sense of labour so their much swearing causeth such a brawny skin of senslesness to overspread the heart memory and conscience that the swearer swears unwittingly and having sworn hath no remembrance of his Oath much less repentance for his sin Swearer Alas though I did swear yet I thought no harm Sect. 3 Messeng●r O fool What Prince hearing himself abused to his face by the reproachfull words of his base and impotent Subject would admit of such an excuse That whatsoever he spake with his mouth yet he thought no ill in his heart And shall God take this for a good answer having told us before-hand Deut. 28.58 59. That if we do not fear and dread his glorious and fearful Name the Lord our God he will make our plagues wonderful and of long continuance and the plagues of our posterity Besides how frequently dost thou pollute and profane Gods Name and thy Saviours The Jews grievously sinned in crucifying the Lord of Life but once and that of Ignorance but the times are innumerable that thou dost it every day in the year every hour in the day although thy conscience and the holy Spirit of grace hath checkt thee for it a thousand and a thousand times Dost thou expect to have Christ thy Redeemer and Ad●ocate when thy conscience tels thee that thou hast seldom remembred him but to blaspheme him and more often named him in thy Oaths and Curses than in thy Prayers Swearer Surely If I d●d swear it was but by Faith and Troth by our Lady the Mass the Light this Bread by the Cross of this Silver or the like which is no great matter I hope so long as I swore not by God nor by my Saviour Sect. 4. M●ssenger That is your gross ignorance of the Scriptures for God expresly forbids it and that upon pain of damnation Jam. 5.12 First our Saviour Christ in his own person forbids it Mat. 5.34 35 36 37. I say unto you Swear not at all neither by heaven for it is Gods Throne nor by the earth for it is his foo●stool nor by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King neither shalt thou swear by thine head because thou canst not make one hair white or black but let your communication be Yea Yea Nay Nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil And then by his Apostle Above all things my brethren swear not neither by heaven nor by earth nor by any other oath but let your Yea be Yea and your Nay Nay lest you fall into condemnation Jam. 5.12 Where mark the Emphasis in the first words Above all things swear not and the great danger of it in the last word condemnation Sect. 5. If the matter be light vain we must not swear

meat to birds which is not out of pity to relieve but out of treachery to ens●are them Or like traps we set for vermine seeming charitable when they intend to kill Jer. 5.26 And thou mayest answer these cursed tempters who delight in the murther of souls as the woman of Endor did Saul 1 Sam. 28. Wherefore seekest thou to take me in a snare to cause me to die ver 9. That he is another Absalom who made a feast for Amnon whom he meant to kill And there is no subtilty like that which deceives a man and hath thanks for the labour For as our Saviour saith Blessed is the man that is not offended at their scoffs Mat. 11.6 So blessed is the man that is not taken with their wiles For herein alone consists the difference He whom the Lord loves shall be delivered from their meretricious allurements Eccles 7.26 And he whom the Lord abhors shall fall into their snares Pro. 22.14 9. Br. That Taverns and Tap-houses are the drinking-schools where they learn this their skill and are trained up in this trade of tempting For Satan does not work them to this heighth of impiety all at once but by degrees When custom of sin hath deaded all remorse for sin as it is admirable how the soul that takes delight in lewdness is gained upon by custom They grow up in sin as worldlings grow in wealth and honour They wax worse and worse saies the Apostle 2 Tim. 3.13 they go first over shoes then over boots then over shoulders and at length over head and ears in sin as some do in debt Now these Tap-houses are their meeting places where they hear the Devils lectures read the shops and markets where Satan drives his trade the schools where they take their degrees these are the Guild-hals where all sorts of sinners gather together as the humours do in the stomach before an Ague sit and where is projected all the wickedness that breaks forth in the Nation as our reverend Judges do find in their several Circuits That these Taverns and Ale-houses or rather hell-houses are the fountains and well-heads from whence spring all our miseries and mischiefs these are the Nurs●ries of all riot excess and idleness making our Land another Sodom and furnishing yearly our Jayls and Gallowses Here they sit all day in troops doing that in 〈◊〉 which we have seen boys do in sport stand on their head and shake their heels against heaven where even to hear how the Name of the Lord Jesus is pierced and God's Name blasphemed would make a dumb man speak a dead man almost to quake 10. Br. That it were endless to repeat their vain babling scurrilous jesting wicked talking impious swearing and cursing that when the drink hath once bit them and set their tongues at liberty their hearts come up as easily as some of their drink yea their limitless tongues do then clatter like so many windows loose in the wind and you may as soon perswade a stone to speak as them to be silent it faring with their clappers as with a sick mans pulse which always beats but ever out of order That one Drunkard hath tongue enough for twenty men for let but three of them be in a room they will make a noise as if all the thirty Bels in Antwerp steeple were rung at once or do but pass by the door you would think your self in the Land of Parrats That it is the property of a drunkard to disgorge his bosom with his stomack to empty his mind with his maw His tongue resembles Bacchus his Liber pater and goes like the sayl of a Wind-mill For as a great gale of wind whirleth the sayls about so abundance of drink whirleth his tongue about and keeps it in continual motion Now he rayls now he scoffs now he lies now he slanders now he seduces talks bawdy swears bans foams and cannot be quiet till his tongue be wormed So that from the beginning to the end he belcheth forth nothing but what is as far from truth piety reason modesty as that the Moon came down from heaven to visit Mahomet As oh the beastliness which burns in their unchaste and impure minds that smoaks out at their polluted mouths A man would think that even the Devil himself should blush to hear his child so talk How doth his mouth run over with falshoods against both Magistrates Ministers and Christians what speaks he less then whoredoms adulteries incests at every word yea hear two or three of them talk you would change the Lycaotians language and say Devils are come up in the likeness of Men. 11. Br. That at these places men learn to contemn Authority as Boyes grown tall and stubborn contemn the rod here it is that they utter swelling and proud words against such as are in dignity as St. Peter and St. Jude have it They set their mouths against Heaven and their tongues walk through the Earth Psalm 73.9 So that many a good Minister and Christian may say vvith holy David I became a song of the drunkards Psal 69.12 And in case any of them have wit here they vvill shew it in scoffing at Religion and flouting at holiness From whence it is that we have so many Atheists and so few Christians amongst us notwithstanding our so much means of grace and that the Magistracy and Ministry are so wofully contemned by all sorts of people That these tippling Tap-houses are the common Quagmires of all filthiness where too many drawing their patrimonies through their throats exhaus● and lavish out their substance and lay plots and devices how to get more For hence they fall either to open courses of violence or secret mischief till at last the Jayl prepares them for the Gibbet for likely they sing through a Red Lattice before they cry through a Grate 12. Br. I speak not of all I know the calling to be good and that there are good of that calling and these will thank me because vvhat I have said makes for their honour and profit too but sure I am too many of these drinking houses are the very dens and shops yea the thrones of Satan very sinks of sin which like so many Common-shores refuse not to welcome and incourage any in the most loathsome polutions they are able to invent and put in practice as did you but hear and see and smell and know what is done in these Taverns and Ale-houses you would wonder that the earth should bear the houses or the Sun endure to look upon them That lest they should not in all this do homage enough to Satan they not seldom drink their healths upon their knees as the Heathen-witches and Sorcerers of whom these have learned it used to do when they offered drink-offerings to Beelzeoub the Prince of Devils and other their Devil-gods That these godless Ale-drapers and other sellers of drink in entertaining into their houses and complying with those Traytors against God and in suffering so much