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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30674	England's bane, or, The deadly danger of drunkenness described in a letter to a friend wherein are many convincing arguments against it and many aggravations of it in professors of religion, and many other things tending to a reformation of that beastly sin / by Edward Bury.	Bury, Edward, 1616-1700.	1677 (1677)	Wing B6205; ESTC R23888	45,031	92

talents lent to some five to some two and to others one and where much is given much will be required The great Housholder provides meat for all his Family but he keeps Stewards under him to see they shall not want and to give them their meat in due season and you are one of these If now you beat your fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunken your Lord will come when you are not aware and give you your portion with hypocrites Mat. 24. 49 c. The poor have a right to what you enjoy and can spare and though they cannot challenge it and take it yet God will vindicate their cause if it be denied or with-held How much might you promote Religion and Gods interest in your neighbourhood were your life and conversation exemplary But now you do more harm than good by your example and it had been better the Countrey had not known you and that you had never known your Estate if you thus proceed Aggrav 10. The Excessive wasting of your Estate is no doubt a great sin in you at any time but at this time of scarcity especially is a very great Aggravation When there is complaining in our streets and the Children cry for bread when there is none to break it and many poor Families are ready to perish for want and a supply can hardly be found When Corn hath been at such an excessive rate 8 and 9 Shillings the measure Eye the many poor Housholders that before made a handsome shift to live are now forced to beg with their Wives and Families and some 't is believed have perished for want of Bread Now at this time when the hand of God is so evidently stretcht out against us that you and such as you if you were unconcerned should thus waste and devour the good creatures wilfully which should keep poor Christians and one of you swallow down more in one day than would keep a considerable Family with Bread a week Will not the Lord visit for these things and will not his soul be avenged on such a people as this The great Housholder hath provided bread enough for all his Family but that some of them by Gluttony and Drunkenness devour what the others should eat Will he not call them to an account at last See how he likes of it Isa 22. 12 13. In that day did the Lord call for weeping and for mourning and to baldness and girding with sackcloth and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep c. and it was revealed in my ear by the Lord of hosts surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die God also threatens those That they shall go captives with the first that go that drink wine in Bowles and annoint themselves with chief ointment and forget the afflictions of Joseph Amos 6. 6 7. And the blood of those which have perished for want of those creatures which you have wilfully wasted God will lay at your door In a word consider your pious Education your former holy Conversation the Convictions upon your spirit knowing and acknowledging your courses bad The profession of Religion you have made the incouragements which you gave the sading of the hearts of the Godly the strengthening the hands of the wicked the vows and covenants you have made to God and promises to men the grief you bring your friends and relations the hardning of your heart by custom the disabling your self to do good to soul or body and the wilful wasteing of the creatures in this time of need will all rise up in judgment against you Obj. 1. But it may be you will object and say You do not drink to Drunkenness you can carry it away well enough you stagger not over it neither do you vomit as others do And though I fear this excuse cannot always be pleaded yet if it were taken for granted 't is but a Fig-leaf to cover your nakedness and will prove too thin and short A Man may drink to excess that can carry it away as you say We read of Benhadad whom God himself tells us was drinking himself drunk with the thirty two Kings that were with him and yet could give directions to his Souldiers yea escaped away on Horse-back with his Army The trial of Drunkenness which we have amongst many is not the same with Gods many think that Man is not drunk that can crawl out of the Carts way or rise himself out of the Fire or hit Fingers with another but they are not competent Judges in that case that are themselves so nearly concerned 'T is not only Drunkenness that trips up a Mans heels that he cannot go nor stand but when a Man over-affects Drink or spends too much time or too much money or wastes the good creatures needlesly that drinks too much for his purse or too much for his health or too much for his reason For a Man hath no more reason to drown his time to drown his estate or his credit than he hath to drown his wit for all these are Talents for which he must be accountable But suppose you are stronger than others and can drink more is this therefore a Warrant so to do see whether God seals it or no Isaiah 5. 22. Wo unto them that are mighty to drink Wine and Men of strength to mingle Strong Drink Must God be dishonoured the Creature abused because thou hast a stronger brain 't is pity mercies should be so abused but besides this guilt are you not in the mean time guilty of the Drunkenness of others have you not forced them to it that you may laugh at their folly See then what the Lord saith to you Hab. 2. 15 16. Wo unto him that giveth his neighbour Drink that puttest thy Bottle to him and makest him drunken also that thou mayst look on their nakedness Thou art filled with shame for glory drink thou also and let thy fore-skin be uncovered the cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned unto thee and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory Now if you glory in your strength to drink and this too common consider this Text and see what will be the issue The Cup of Gods Indignation will be such as you cannot bear thy own sins are great enough you need not other mens Obj. 2. Perhaps you will say We have the Examples of many yea many great Men and many learned Men and of some good Men also for our imitations Yea this Disease is Epidemical and grown common both in Court and Country and when a fashion is become National 't is no discredit to wear it and 't is true the more is the pitty Examples of great ones are very prevalent and if bad infectious these are Stars of the first Magnitude and like the primum mobile carry all before them and they have oft times a hand in the transgression and leave an infectious air that few can escape that comes near them What a