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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

of the Adversary let us run into God's House embrace his Mercy embrace his Ordinances honour his Holy Name and his Word obey his Commands fulfill all Righteousness and sanctifie his most Holy Day Let us break off our Sins by Repentance and stop those Judgements which threaten us who knows but the Lord will have Mercy and will repent him of the Evil that he hath designed against us that he will dispel the Clouds and make the Sun of Peace and Righteousness to break out upon us making us rejoyce for the time wherein we have suffered Adversity To this End it would not be amiss to cry out From Hardness of Heart from Contempt of thy Holy Word and Commandments from Fornication and all other Deadly Sin from Intemperance and Prophaning of thy most holy Day from all the Judgments which we have most righteously deserved from Lightning and Tempest from Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murder and from sudden Death Good Lord Deliver us And O Blessed Adorable and Glorious Trinity Remember not our Offences nor the Offences of our Fathers neither take thou Vengance of our sins but Spare us Good Lord Spare thy People whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious Blood and be not angry with us for ever Have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us Have Mercy upon us most Merciful Father Save and Deliver us from all our Sins Confirm and Strengthen us in all Goodness and bring us at length to Life Eternal Amen Amen! A Modest Advice to the Ministers and Civil Magistrates TO make the preceding Discourse the more Effectual it might perhaps be expected that I should add something to the Ministers and Civil Magistrates of this Church and Kingdom and that I should shew how far both of them are obliged in their several Stations the one by the Sword of the spirit the other by that of Justice to do what in them lies to suppress the Reigning Immoralities of the present Age Of which the Vices spoken against in the foregoing Treatise are not the least in Reality tho they may be so in all outward appearance by reason of that little notice the unthinking World takes of them To the Ministers of our Church there is a very little need to say any thing For besides those Worthy and Reverend Prelates whom God's Providence and the Care and Piety of our Princes has placed at the Helm there is a Clergy under them that for Learning Virtue and Sincere not meerly formal Devotion we may dare all the Churches in Christendom to shew its equal Our whole Nation and especially the Metropolis thereof has many of those pious Souls whose Lives and Doctrines go hand in hand to stem that torrent of Atheism and Prophaness which has of late years been so Impetuously breaking in upon us Their Practical Preaching and Moral but withall most Excellent Discourse● now in Print concerning the Reasonableness of the Christian Religion the Loveliness of all that is Good and Virtuous and the Deformity of all that is Bad and Vicious with the like is sufficient proof of their Zeal for the Honour of God and the Good of His Church so that we should wrong them if we thought they stood in need of Instructions to Direct them or of Motives to Incite them to do a Duty which is so Incumbent upon them as to press home for a Reformation of this Degenerate Kingdom when the Glory of their Great Master is so nearly Concerned therein But amidst these Excellent Persons there are it must be Confessed some others that give too open a Scandal to our Holy Religion by their Vile Principles and their Viler Practices Some of these are notoriously Bad and live in Direct Opposition to what they are bound to Preach to others Whilst Others spend their time in dry Notions and insipid Controversies which profit their Congregations but very little if any thing at all As for the first if the Common Obligations they lie under as Men endued with Reasonable Souls if the ordinary Ties of Christianity they are bound with in their Baptism or if the extraordinary Ones they are obliged with in their Ordination are not of force to put them upon mending these their Irregularities yet 't is hoped the Example of the more Strict and Conscientious will shame them to some degree of fervour and cause them to put on the Form at least if they will hot the Power of Godliness But if that will do no good upon them yet 't is presumed the Worthy Fathers of the Church will by their Care and Inspection either remove those that are a Publick Shame unto it or else prevent the Like Mischief for the future by admitting none into Holy Orders but such as they have sufficient Testimony of that they will not by their unsanctified Lives give cause for the contempt of the Clergy I say 't is presumed the Bishops will in their several Diocesses take care of those things which Confidence I ground upon those many excellent Charges which have of late been given in many Visitations After all this I cannot but wonder how any one can so far offer violence to his Reason and Conscience as to live in the Wilfull Breach of any known Duty when he has so many upbraidings from all hands to check him and stare his sins out of Countenance What a dreadful Account they must give of their Cure and that Charge of Souls which is committed to them Sacred Writ will sufficiently inform them and what a weight lies upon their shoulders tho at present so little regarded by them Bishop Burnets Pastoral Care lately published will put them in mind of if they can give themselves but time to read it over and calmly to consider thereon As for those who busie themselves about unprofitable Speculations and matters meerly Controvertal 't were to be wished they would leave off their Heats and Animosities throw aside all Prejudice and Faction for this Sect or that Party and give over Quarreling and Disputing about Modes and Figures about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Religion the Knowledge or Ignorance of which would neither promote nor hinder our Great Concern 'T were to be wished I say that they would lay aside all such Curious Niceties and Disputable Points fit for none but Schoolmen and wrangling Sophisters to employ their parts upon and that they would reason of Righteousness Temperance and Judgment to come Preach up with the Primitive Christians the necessity and usefulness of a Holy Life lashing Vice and protecting Virtue where e're they find it tho their very Patrons were guilty of the one and their greatest Enemies Masters of the other Such profitable Rules of Morality would better become the Gravity of the Preacher as well as suit with the Capacity and Regulate the Lives and Practices of the Audience than an unintilligible Discourse of an Hour or two long about the Particular Tenets of Calvin Arminius or some other Learned Sophister of the Church which can neither

since his Actions are Diametrically contrary to the Royal Will and Pleasure specified at first by his Majesties Letter to the Bishop of London which was ordered to be Communicated to the rest of the Clergy and afterwards signified to the Civil Magistrate By the Queens most Gracious Message to the Justices of Middlesex and Lastly by a more forcing Proclamation in which they Recommended the suppressing Profane Swearing and Cursing as the first and chiefest of those Offences which were accounted more especially to hasten and bring down God's Judgments upon this Unfortunate Kingdom 21 But Thirdly there are many of those Profligate Wretches who dare own themselves Church-men and if they pretend to any Religion it is the Reformed Orthodox and Protestant Faith they are of The third Motive drawn from the Obedience due to the Church They appear openly in our Congregations and shew a bold Face in the most solemn of our Assemblies and intrude into the most Sacred of our Ordinances the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper But let those Profaners of all that is good and sacred be assured that the Church is not their Mother that within her Bosom there are cherished no such Vipers that her Sanctuary is no Asylum for such Vermine to have recourse to For her Doctrine's drawn out of the Pure fountain of God's Word (a) Article 39. her Articles (b) Homily 7. her Homilies and her whole Constitutions are directly Opposite to the Profane and gives no manner of Encouragement for him to persevere in his Extravagancies However the lewd World may esteem of things now yet when the Last Day comes no Question but the Church will say to those her Hangers on I know you not You would have none of my Counsel but despised all my reproof therefore Eat ye of the Fruit of your own way and be filled with your own devices If therefore any Man has any Zeal to stand up for her and to promote her Cause and to enlarge her Borders He cannot do it better than by a Sober and Conscientious Conversation to let his Communication be Yea Yea and Nay Nay 22. Come we now to consider the last Motive The fourth Motive drawn from the Judgments of God which if all the rest fail may prove strong enough to work upon the most obdurate and hardned Conscience unless it be Judgment Hell and Damnation-proof Men may be so brazen faced as not to blush at their being worse than Heathens they may be so resractory as not to be reduced by the strictest Humane Laws They may be so unchristian and so unnatural as to chuse to be disowned by their Mother the Church rather than part with their customary Vices But I hope they are not so much in the power of Devil as that the terrors of the Lord against such Offenders both in this Life and in another can make no impression upon them 23. Let those Wretches be never so free from the Laws of the Kingdom and the Censures of the Church 1. Judgments upon Swearers in this life yet the Hand of the Lord will find them out and even on this side the Grave pay them home for their rash Oaths and blasphemous Execrations We have some tho' not many fresh Instances of God's signalizing his Vengeance on such horrid Criminals For what was the reason of the small company of the Israelites killing 100000 Aramites in one day 1 Kings 20.20 If you consult Holy Writ you will find it was for Blaspheming God And what was the cause of Sennacherib's meeting with such an Unnatural and barbarous Death Was it not the Blaspheming the Lord Jehovah both by his General Rabshekab and by his own Hand-writing in a Letter he sent to Hezekiah And doth not God in our times take the Sinner at his word and cut him off in an Instant with the damnable Execration in his Mouth True it is such Instances of God's immediate Vengeance in this World are very rare and few examples of this nature are upon Record But let us take a view of the impenitent Blasphemer lying upon his Death-bed in his last Agonies and ready to give up his polluted Breath at his last gasp Let us there examine him what Fruitor Profit he has in those things whereof he is now ashamed Can you think his gentile Oaths and accomplished Execrations will now do him any advantage in that Eternity into which he is just ready to Launch No I am perswaded you will hear him tell you another story and if the Devil has not quite gagged his Conscience you will hear him in the bitterness of his Soul utter out this or some such complaint Damned Caitif that I am In what an unavoidably miserable condition am I involved What a lamentable prospect of endless Wo have I now in my sight What a horrible Scene is just ready to open and deliver me up to the devouring Flames Ob cursed Tongue How hast thou been employed for thine own Ruine Heaven thou canst not appeal to for the power thereof thou hast often defied God thou can'st not call upon whose Name thou hast often and shamefully prophaned by thine unclean Lips Oh Heavens Drop down upon me and crush me into nothing Oh Mountains fall upon me and cover me from the face of him that sitteth upon the Throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb Oh Earth Let thy Bowels gape and hide me in thy dark Caverns But alas in vain do I vent my wishes to those who cannot will not help me Come then ye Infernal Furies and hurry my accursed Soul to its deserved Mansions Come ye bewitching and infatuating Spirits and take your cheap Bargain home to your fiery Habitations Thus raving and despairing railing and cursing himself he ends his abominable odious and sinful Life 24. But if this is not melancholy enough to strike Horror into the Adamantine Heart 2. Eternal Judgments upon Swearers yet let him his prospect beyond this and the Grave For admit he may escape the thunderbolts of Divine Wrath tho' the Lightning may not devour him nor the Arrows of the Lord take hold of him in this life yet can he expect to escape the Judgment of God for ever Shall not Hell be his Portion and Eternall Misery his stipend for all his Blasphemies Shall he not with Dives lift up his Eyes in Hell being in Torments and roar out in vain for one drop of water to cool his inflamed Tongue That Fire that world of iniquity which delighted in venting out its Curses and Oaths here on Earth Will not the punishment be adaequate and suitable to the Crime And is it not fit that That Member suffer most which was chiefly instrumental in plucking down the misery upon the whole Consider this then ye that forget God that forget your selves and forgoe your own Interest both Temporal and Eternal for what vanishes like Smoke into empty Air consider ye that Glory in your Shame that Triumph in your wickedness that Out-dare Heaven with

are the Devils Friend give him a Testimony by some Overt Action that you are so Sins as well as Miseries seldom come unattended and of all others this of Intemperance has the largest Retinue Fornication and Vncleanness Adultery and Incest Swearing and Blaspheming Murder and Revenge Violence and Rapine Theft and Oppression are all of its black Train 'T is but a Provocation that is wanting for the Drunkard to put One or more or all these into execution together And if he does neither 't is not because he was wanting therein but because the opportunity the circumstance the company did not suit nor was it the Devils Royal Will and Pleasure at that time to tempt him to the performance of that which he knows he may probably have a fitter season for 23. I proceed now in the last place to take notice of those woes denounced in Holy Scripture against such scandalous Offences The 4th ill Effect of this Sin is that it makes a Man liable to the Woes denounced in Holy Scripture against this Impiety and here before I do that I should give some account of those dreadful Examples of the Judgments which God inflicts upon the Epicures and by what unheard of and various Methods they come to their untimely ends by breaking their Necks by Drowning themselves by having their Brains dashed out and by many other accidents But every Annal every History has Instances enough to convince any that will make the application home how frequently the drunken Man catches harm and what a horrible thing it is to fall into the hands of an angry God Therefore I shall confine my self to mention the principal places in Holy Writ which seem chiefly to level at the Intemperate The first which I shall mention is what the Wise man doth imply in that passionate expostulation he makes Prov. 23.29 Who hath Woe Who hath Sorrow Who hath Redness of Eyes Who hath Contentions Who hath Wounds without Cause He tells you in the next Verse they that tar ry long at the Wine they that go to seek mixed Wine Here you see a large accumulation of Miseries Grief Strifes Violence and Wrong which follow the Drunkard at the very heels For the Wine may look delicately sparkle finely and move it self aright in the Glass but at the last it biteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder The next Woe we find is that which the Prophet Isaiah denounces in these plain terms Chap. 5 11.12 Woe to them that rise up early in the Morning that they may follow strong Drink that continue until night till Wine enflame them and the Harp and the Viol the Tabret and Pipe are in their Feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord nor consider the operation of his hands As if he should have said Woe to those Greedy Lusty Drinkers who to prevent the want of time wherein to satiate their Lust rise early with the Morning Sun and suck their Wine like the Morning Dew Who are not contented when a Temptation offers to embrace it but seek out for one go about from this Companion to that Woe to those who sit whole days in Tipling-houses and protract their Clubs till after night Who sit up 2 or 3 Nights together and as the Vulgar have it Sing Old Rose and go to Supper twice Rant and Carouse Damn and Drink all in a breath A Health to this and a Confusion to that Man and all his Adherents who in the midst of all their jollity forget the God of Moderation and with Belshazzar praise their gods of Gold and Silver of Luxury and Excess Who consider not the Lord nor regard the operation of his hands How he often is unseen at these Banquets and will call them to an account and put a Cup of Trembling and Astonishment in their hands how he often meets the Dead-drunk Tipler and sends him to Hell in the very Debauch how he often breaks the Arms of one the Legs of another robs this Man of his Senses and fills the other with Despair These things are little regarded but 't is the Lord that doth this and they are let men observe them or no the Wonderful Operations of his hands The same Prophet denounces a Woe in the same Chapter Vers 22. in Words very near the former Woe to them that are mighty to drink Wine and Men of strength to mingle strong Drink Which seems to intimate thus much that let Men be never so well able to bear strong Drink and have Constitutions as strong as the Oak and Heads as hard as Brass be they never so sound of Body and capable to swill down as many Gallons as their Companions can do Pints and neither prejudice their Healths nor drown their Memory nor weaken their Understanding yet notwithstanding all this there doth a Woe belong to them and a Dreadful one too and that because they make use of this their strength to the weakning their Brother and the Drinking him down as they are please to call it 24. This Naturally leads me to consider that Gradation and Climax of Woes which another Prophet hath denounced against and appropriated to the degrees of such Strong and Mighty Drinkers The Words are these Woe to him that giveth his Neighbour Drink Habb 2.15 Not to supply his Natural Necessity that being a piece of Charity and no way deserving reproof but as an Occasion to that Excess which either his own Inclinations or the pleasantness of the Liquor would prompt him to Woe to him that putteth his Bottle to his Neighbour That is that not only lays the Temptation before his Guest but as is too frequent in our Modern Entertainings compells urges and presses him to that Excess that Provokes him either by his Command or his Example or which is worse by Menaces and Threatnings to take unwillingly the almost nauseous Dose Woe to him that maketh his Neighbour Drunk that not only gives an Occasion that presses that compells him to Drink but that also urges that Excess to such a degree that no less price than his Neighbours Reason must satisfie for the wast of his Liquor that delights in that Sin himself and takes pleasure in those who do the same things that makes the Inebriating of his Guests the ultimate end of his Revels and is pleased to see the Antick Postures of his Drunken Neighbour a Wickedness which the Spartans would do only to their Slaves and that upon no such end as the making sport at those twice Captivated Wretches but only thereby to have an Occasion of Exposing the Monstrous folly of Intemperance so as to scare their Children from such a Beastly Vice Woe in the last place to him that maketh him Drunk that he may look upon his Nakedness whose design is to bring the Deluded Soul into the Snare and then expose him to the Mercy of his own or others craft revenge or sport who binds the Soul first in Drunkenness and then throws him into the Chambers