and ready in expelling néere the Dore so perspicuous as theyr priuities may be perceiued Then againe into the Den with an Anthem fill fetch haue for halfe not hauing ariditie yet a pint at a draught drawing destruction Cauponula catcheth them the Tap-tarrier inticeth them to powre in pots plentifully trip and turne a Dye daintily sweare and stare iet and iest cogge and lye leaudly in the blind Ale-house not licenced where the Host sits halfe rotten voyd of fealtie full of fallacie like the Image in time of blindnesse which shaked the head meriliest to them that gaue most So excesse makes men beasts and worse Modum adhibent apperitui They measure their appetites by the rule of necessitie but men with reason become vnreasonable of whom it is written Esay 22.23 Let vs eate and drinke for to morrow we shall dye Ede bibe lude is the Epicures felicitie Christ saith Ioh. 6.12 Let nothing be lost but they spill and spoyle Combibo carous till Colon cracke Bibbers are bountifull to abuses not to good vses hee blowes and boasts he must not be miserable not remembring the misery of thousands ready to miscary for want of that hee wastes Math. 5. Blessed are the mercifull but excessiue Suckpots shew themselues miscreants without comiseration sympathy or fellow-feeling of famished folks and children They pittie not their owne spirituall misery how Satan deludes them of the Benisson but are foggie full of fastiuitie loth to linquish like to languish and illiterated not knowing a letter he fils the Chimney end with Praebibo tibi and Lice often fitter for that place then Latine Lazie Lads likes it and calles for liquor liuely Meretrix is an inticer to the slaughter The lewde are delighted for they reproue not impietie but get impiously and spend prodigally till that got with a reach is lost by a stretch True dealers are spighted which mislikes their misdoings and spends as riches extends There be Victualers farre off and neere me that honour God by their victualing they reprooue their guests for great drinking rude talke and swearing not hauing their houses dennes for Diuels Some others like Proteus which would change himselfe to al likenes frame themselues as euery man is affectioned flattering those that plye the pot fastest no assiduitie delayed So youth prooue poore and without a penny departs in anxietie Luke 15.13 The prodigall sonne wasted his substance with riotous liuing so long as lasted his portion he was in estimation but when all was gone hee would haue filled his belly with the husks that the Swine did eate and no man gaue vnto him Euen so when men are poore and purse empty their absence is liked more then their company Yet people whose delight is to péepe into a pot will not be warned but may be compared to Philoxius Arist Eth. 3.10 which wished his necke longer then a Cranes to féele the more pleasure in the long running downe which minde is farre from the faithfull whose affection is in heauen Therefore yée Corpulents all for the corps that frequent quaffing and ryot like vntamed Tigers and bruites vnbridled if you would vse militarie resistance against Mille-artifex which conquers you like Cowards yée would tame your bodies and nourish your soules but not féeling his circumuents yée liue to your lusts yée drinke and eate at ease not hauing the combat Gods children haue O let vs repent lest wee haue our portion in this life Psa 17.14 Lament 3. It is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed To him be all honour for euer Amen Sit laus Sanctae Trinitati Effects of drowsie Drunkennesse THe receipt of mens money superfluously spent is odious to a good conscience Their wiues and children want sustenance shee knowes not at what Alehouse to finde him and séeing her goods consuming and children crying she tels him his fault and intreats him to be frugall The Béere piercing his braine hee counts her counsell hostilitie he stamps staggers stares sweares blasphemes the Almightie which hideous othes wherby Gods wrath is kindled He giues her blowes no béefe whereby loue decreaseth hatred increaseth When they should pray they prate and depart or liue peruersely The patrimony might haue maintained family hospitalitie and béene left to the posteritie but two yeeres drinking caused the dissipation The sequell is euill great disturbance to good people whome they cousen théeue and purloine from procuring the Prison there they haue hunger thirst cold lamenesse lice loathsome noysome a Dogges death is procured which was by meanes of wasting At the Gallowes they cry out of Alehouses euill inticers licentious liuing drunkennesse whoredome theft and chambering which earst would not bee told of neither will many that now are dissolute but powre into the paunch till alasse had-land is lowsie Good Hoasts fore-sée this and giue good counsell but an Antithesis euill Hoast doeth not they and their colleague companions are flexible but to vertue aduerse Hee that idely spends his patrimony deserues this Epithete Spend-thrift but such as consume it in Drunkennesse are execrable creatures O yee consumers yee are theeues to your families enemies to God and to your owne soules and bodies and robbers of all the needy Woe bee to such as cause the poore to cry and procure GOD to withdrawe his blessing from Lande and Sea Yet Colon increaseth Cholera procuring profusion the full gorge foames froth Present pleasure seemes sweete not regarding that bitter gnashing followes quaffing for it doth contaminate the soule Excesse of colde Frumenty fills men full of infirmitie Gen. 19. Lot thereby committed lust and incest It causeth Lethargie and sleeping and quailes good qualities Ierom. Venter mero aestuans spumat in libidinem The belly inflamed with Wine bursteth foorth to lust Beere-belly is inflamed but not ashamed yet the woe of woes is pronounced Oh Esay 5.11 yee that can drinke at all times and thinke it mellifluous to be immoderate as instigators intice others wound not your soules with woes Refraine from quaffing it is a Hecticke inflaming the soundest parts of the body It makes a good sanguine complection puft if not pocky but dead drunke pale Quaffing makes men vnquiet vntemperate incontinent enuious fierce wrathfull to fight curse and brawle It hurts the braines head eyes and hearing it causeth plurisie dropsie to scorne iest and talke of bauldry as a quotidian Feuer it inféebleth the whole man bréeding diseases It infecteth soule and body and procures plagues from the Almighty it destroyeth his benefits and brings plenty to scarcitie and causeth the poore the aged and infants to cry for foode It offendeth the Omnipotent God and is an offence to all Gods children All kinde of sinnes waite on excesse It makes men prompt to euill peruerse to pietie it gaines the Gallowes and hell without repentance Yet Milleartifex with excuse saith it makes him acute but how to serue Asmodeus and Asotus and therefore to be reiected as Aspis very venemous It
the cōmandement of Ionadab Much more ought we to refraine from drunkennesse at Gods commaund The Lord reprooueth the Adultrers that louest agons of wine The prophet complaineth Esay 56.12 Come yee say they I will fetch wine Osea 3. and wee will fill our selues with strong drinke That Come driues to detriment and we goe willingly Math 11.28 Christ saith Come for our comfort but we will not It 's the fashion to call and prouoke each other to excesse of drinking It was not so at that royall Feast Hester 1.8 And the drinking was according to the lawes none did compell The great God little regarded denounceth woe to inticers Woe vnto him that giueth his neighbour drinke that puttest thy bottle to him Abac. 2.15 and makest him drunken also that thou mayest looke on his nakednes Solomon would drawe vs from the meanes that moueth delight to drinking least we be drunken Prou 23. Looke not vpon the wine when it is red Oh that Parents would not be sanage but sage as Salomon to counsell It is odious and absurd for youth to drinke much Except in labor a modicum suffiseth nature To giue wine to a young man is to adde oyle to fire Wine and strong drinke are fitte for the weake and sicke Prou 31. Giue strong drinke to him that is ready to perish wine vnto those that are of heauie hearts Alas such lacks when lazie liuers gulps gallons and iudge that those which ioyne not with them doo thinke themselues righteous but they that féele theyr sinnes most vse meanes to tame their flesh So did prudent Paule 1. Cor 92.7 I keepe vnder my bodie and bring it into subiection It appeares that pamperers are Iustitiaries and féele not theyr sinnes which defileth their soules Did they they would striue and resist it and not so nourish it Immoderate nutriment procures imminent punishment Saint Dauid being thirstie desired water and it was brought him Neuerthelesse hée would not drinke 2. Sam verse 17. And he saide Be it farre from mee ô Lorde that I should doe this Is not this the bloud of the Men that went in ieopardy of theyr liues Therefore hee would not drinke it A carnall minde would thinke wine had bene fitter to strengthen him against his visible enimies but being then not fit Excesse with vs is much more vnfit and to be refrained that wée may ouercome our inuisible enimies the diuels He refused that he had néede of much more ought we to refuse néedlesse excesse such effusion causeth confusion in the lake of lamentation Daniel 5. Balthazar being drinking of his cups heard and had a cooling God graunt vs grace to be prepared and in well dooing at Christs comming Lamentat 3. It is of the Lordes mercies that we are not consumed to him he all honour for euer Amē Laus Deo ¶ A perfect proofe that Gods children must not be associated with Drunkardes nor with other impious SAlomon saith Be not amongst wine bibbers Prou 24. Be thou not enuious against euill men neyther desire to be with them Prou 28. He that is a companion of riotous mē shameth his father The Psalmographe saith Pro 23.20 Psal 26. I haue not sate with vaine persons neither will I goe in with dissemblers But Drunkards count such no companions They lose a lofty title that shake not hands with the diuell The foremost in leaud life is the bad But it 's better to be hated and goe to Heauen then of them to beloued and goe to Hell Vertue shall ascend when Vice shall descend Iames 4. their amitie is enmitie Whosoeuer therfore wil be a friēd of the world is the enemy of God Therfore good men dare not flatter them in follie Ps 139.21 Dauid hated thē that hated God He shewes where the true harted shall dwell Ps 15.4 He shal abide in Gods tabernacle in whose eyes a vile person is contemned but honoreth them that feare the Lord. 2. Tim 3. But this world will grow to an Antipathie Euill people shall be esteemed and good people contemned Yet if thou hast ignominie refraine theyr company for though thou be expert with a good Booke in thy bosome they will frame thée to theyr fashion and so to confusion If they cannot winne thee they will wrong thée They that are dissolute of theyr duties to God are carelesse of theyr soules and of thy safetie It is a probabilitie that their euocation and prouoking is manie mens vndooing Say then with the princely Prophet Psal 119.115 Depart from mee yee euill doers I will keepe the commaundements of my God Ver 63. I am a companion of all them that feare the Lorde Bée thou so and not a Chamelion for all companies Cato counsells thée to walke with good men Shall an Ethnick excell vs in good conuersation that neuer had our meanes of conuersion Hée doth admonish vs and Christ doth menace vs Math 24. Hee that eateth and drinketh with the drunken shall be appointed his portion with Hypocrites there shal be weeping gnashing of Teeth S. Paule reproouing the impietie of people shewing the wrath of God for the same saith Be not therefore partakers with them Ephes 5.7 They that let Drunkardes haue drinke may prosper a time but such gaine is like to prooue paine Hée or shee that giue weapons to those that wound themselues A Caueat to fillers to Drunkards are culpable Thou art forbidden their companie and societie It is odious to attend them Consider this yée that haue houses for such Reprooue and remooue such slowbellies you had better doe any slauerie then be accessary to theyr actions Math 16.26 For what is a man profited if he shall gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule Abhorre their behauiour though they hate thée Ephe 5.11 And haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull works of darknes but rather reproue them If they will not heare they are barbarous Prou 12. Hee that hateth reproofe is brutish Win them with lenitie else refraine their society 2. Cor 6.14 What communion hath light with darknes Gen 25.22 Esau and Iacob strugled in the wombe So doe Gods seruants and sathans adherents and so did Christ and his Apostles with the wicked world Let vs not serue sin but our good God to whō be all honor for euer Amen Laudate IAH ¶ Drunkards hatred to those that abhorre their behauiour THe primarie prophet Ps 119.139 a Paragon of ardent amitie to God saith My zeale hath consumed mee because mine enemies haue forgotten thy worde A man to mourne for his owne sinnes in sinceritie is not cōmon to mourn for sins of others is not much in custome He was a mourner for his owne sins for the sins of his enemies which thing so admirable fewe doo imitate Yet when hée wept it was to his reproch He was a Prouerb song of the drunkards Psal 69. Gods spirite excited him to reprooue such as impeached Gods glory But malefactors could not neither cā
youth Gen. 39.8 when he was offerrd he refused for he feard God The body is not for fornication but for the Lord yet such forsake Christ and make themselues the members of an harlot They are repugnant to those that kéepe themselues chaste for the kingdome of heauen sake which Christ hath set in a place of price and saith Mat. 19. Hee that can take it let him take it but a varlet takes an harlot Hee that hath not the gift to liue single and chast may séeke for mariage lawful for all men 1. Cor. 7.9 Heb. 13.4 and is an Antidotarie against fornication to bee vsed in the feare of God for the procreation of children and for the mutuall societie of each other Yet many of the sauadge sort maryed know not the right vse of mariage but linger after lusts like bruit beasts and like a Nicholaitan not content is cōmon with an other proud Paramour The vnmaried maried of leawd disposition must be aduertised by Solomon Pro. 23.27 A reproofe of Adultery A whore is a deepe ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit Pro. 6. He that committeth adultery destroyeth his owne soule Her house inclyneth vnto death her paths vnto the dead None that go to her returne againe Pro. 2. neyther take they hold of the waies of life Oh drudges of drudgery ye refuse the heauenly felicity Adultery fornication vncleannes laciuiousnes Gal. 5. All kinde of vnleannesse must be abandoned Pro. 15. Psal 113. Ier. 23. Amos 9. A meanes of chastitie are fruits of the flesh the cōmitters thereof shal not inherit the kingdome of heauen It is to be feared that fornicators adulterers are Atheists for durst any doe such a thing before a king they doe it before the All-seeing King of kings The eyes of the Lord are in euery place beholding the euill the good Yet Asotus serues Asmodeus in Cities towns and countries Psa 97. Ye that loue the Lord hate euill A meanes of chastity is mediocrity in dyet labor watching prayer reading hearing meditating refrayning frō wāton cōpany vnchast speaches gawish apparrel gazing on the disguised frō wanton looks therfore rule thy rowling eies Iust Iob saith 31. I made a couenant with mine eies why should I think vpō a maid If thy heart be cleane thy eye is ruled if thy heart be wicked thy eye is wādring which fils thy hart ful of pollution Christ faith Mat. 5.28 Whosoeuer looketh on a woman Mat. 5.28 to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Kéepe in thy eye the heart will be the better vse it to thy booke 2. Sam. 11. Dauid looked on the wife of Vriah hee liked lusted and for it was perplexed and hauing a new heart hee prayeth to the Lord Psa 119.37 Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanitie Gen. 12. Pharaoh was plagued and all his house with great plagues for delighting in Sara vnknowne to them to be a wife Yee Lust-louers leaue it Yée Fornicators and Adulterers in pretence and action how shall ye escape the vengeance to come your idlenesse and drunkennesse bringeth Bastards I grudge not your collections but grieue at your small corrections Oh Salax bee sanctified resist Sathan Susanna consented not but withstood the stout Adulterers Be warned youth was neuer more wayward Consider this you that are marryed and are inordinate in abusing your bed O feare the Lord lest your propagation be vntoward extraordinary and stange abortiue or vntimely Imitate Tobias 8. He being newly maried to Sara rose out of the bed and said Sister arise and let vs pray that God would haue pitty on vs and the latter end of his prayer was this vers 7 And now ô Lord I take not this my Sister for lust but vprightly therefore mercyfully ordaine that we may become aged together And she said with him Amen And I pray God more may be so minded Amen Timete Iehouam ¶ Starch is here reprooued Poking-irons are ill vsed AS by Gods word Drunkennesse and Whoredome is conuinced so is Starch made of that which is the chiefest foode for the sustentation of vs here reprooued For whereas poore people that want bread should be nourished and fed therewith many to fulfill their fond affections feede their great Ruffs which shewes we haue more desire to carnall delights then loue to relieue the needy Many men women children want bread which earth doth vse for pride But Loue-lusts say they buy it and the efore not culpable of the making a ridiculous excuse for if there were no buyer there should be no seller There be wealthy Houswiues and good house-kéepers that vse no starch but faire water their Linnen is white and they looke more Christian-like in small Ruffes then Light of loue lookes in her great starched ruffs looke she neuer so hie with eye-lids awrye The princely Prophet saith Him that hath an hie looke and a proude heart will not I suffer Psal 101. Presuppose prettie pleasure did say Where finde you in Gods word starch forbidden It is like it was not vsed in the time of the Apostles therefore not named But the Diuell hath inuented it and many such deuises in these last lustfull dayes I finde that CHRIST saith Whatsoeuer yee would that men should doe to you euen so doe you to them Therefore consider would you the poore shuld vse vnprofitable meanes to make you suffer hunger and colde No Math 7.12 no pricked pride your fruits are faultie Whatsoeuer will serue necessarily for the sustētation of man ought not vnprofitably to be spent but the Meale Starch is made of will serue necessarily for the sustentation of man Ergò it ought not vnprofitably to be spent This Syllogisme consisteth of no false principles And if you think it not spent vnprofitably vpon great ruffs consider the effects First it hindreth our food Discōmodities of starch starching it wasteth our wood it spends the precious Time that might be spent better And people liue gréedily and néedily to maintaine it It frets out much Linnen and the poking-Irons seare it and wasting that people want it is to be feared it hath often moued GOD to seare the Corne and Grasse vpon the ground Wanton wenches are tempters and Inticers that ruffs must be great and starched Good men must resist them for Eue by inticing brought Adam to ruine There is as much spent in that haynous order as might sustaine manie poore people which aske Bread The answer is I haue it not when Newe-guise hath it about the necke Manie spend Daies and Nights vnprofitably to set great Ruffs yea oft when they should heare and learne Gods word Oh shamelesse Mares more liker then bashfull Maids that spend most parte of theyr life time about Starch and starching patting pulling thrusting rubbing wearing tearing and starching of cloth with hote Irons Lucifer inuenter of Pride hath inuented an exercise wherein Minion Meretrix takes alacritie Much wood
them on our lusts If a Ruffin say that he and his doe vse excesse to please his Wife he is not fit to rule a householde and vnlike the good Centurion to say Doe this and it is done Saith Iosua 24.15 As for me and my household wee will serue the Lord. Pray that she which allures thée and oft rules thee be not a let like Eue but a helpe as Sara not sauadge but sage Pro. 31. The price of the vertuous is farre aboue Rubies If she be such so is thy household prayse God for her if she be not pray God to conuert her Be not Cynicus somâ—â— suffer sorrow admonish her quietly loue her and winne her with lenitie If shée see that you gréeue indéed that shée offend God by her excessiue attire she cannot loue thee and vse it but leaue it if she loue thée Loue God and leaue it hee forbids it it is an offence to Gods children whom hee hath such care of that it were better for their offender that a Mill stone were hanged about his necke and that hee were drowned in the depth of the Sea Math. 1â— Mat. 18. Some lawfull thing to auoyd offence is to be omitted much more vnlawfull as such excesse And who dare disobey Gods word except such as in heart haue him not his word is sufficient to conuince yet the sayings of the Painims incomparable in efficacie to heauenly Diuinity may be expressed because their careful doings excell carelesse Christians Monta. Hate pride desire to be cleanly not gorgeous in apparell Hee toucheth the Momes not men which spend all at the Ale-house till hare skin appeares and dirtie not deyrie women which launch their hayre out long and leaue it in whitmeat Oh foole gorgeous apparrell is not an Ornament Sophocles but a shame and manifest shew of thy folly Hee toucheth those that would be extolled but haue shame in stead of fame for Ruffians speake rashly of their dishonesty Gay apparrelled women stand foorth as bayts to catch men Hee toucheth the disguised with fore-heads frizled Aurelius which buye Complexion and cause an euill action standing more bold then bashfull painted to play with The women of Lacedemon refused the rich Roabes King Dionisius sent them saying they would do them more shame then honour If such were now offered stretched out armes would reach them and gréedy Gehesa would haue them Some so delight the flesh that good sayings nor examples doe not amend their misdoings Demas forsaketh the heauenly conuersation of Saint Paul and imbraceth this present world the Vipers garled skinne whose venemous sting is deadly Oh eleuate thy heart to heauen Rom. 8. If any man haue not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Now let vs examine our selues Doth the Spirit of Christ which is alwaies in sharpe and painefull battels with the flesh and locked in that dungeon of dung delight to set out the same in excesse No for it is a meanes of carnall desires it hath respect to the soule by whom the body liueth It allowes the body that is néedfull and liues for life not for lust longs to bee with God and delights that natiue Kingdome It ioyes in the deliuerie from the inticements of the flesh world and diuell with whom it fights séeking to subdue the flesh by often abstinence watching prayer and forsaking pompe and pride But our painting is apparant that we are not in battell but are inordinate louers of our bodies Good God giue vs grace to amend that with a liuely faith we may apprehend Christs merits and be cloathed with his white Roabe of righteousnesse to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour foreuer Amen Seruite Iehouae Newes to the poore too good to be true All will not beleeue it that doth it view THe Diuels reioycing doth decrease men shew good words deeds In mutuall comfort ioy and peace we croppe vp cursed weedes The Milsayld Ruffs doe all goe downe and little Bands in place Gods word preuailes in euery Towne for Pride hath great disgrace Starch is turned into Bread yee poore haue oft desir'd it Pride-popiniay doth learne to kneade which lately did mislike it Light of Loue is not so fine but frames her selfe to thrift And learnes good houswifery in time frequenting no euill shift Minion now must make White-meate full fit she is to learne it To garden plant to sow and set which brings this Realme much profit Cabadge Mill'ons Onions Leekes betimes in time of yeere Good newes you poore shall haue fat cheekes foode will not be so deare A recompence she now will make for all her time ill spent Rememberance doth make her shake and now she doth repent The needle and the spindle she full quicke oft time doth vse And loues in heauenly word to see and doth all vice refuse She that did watch great Ruffs to set and sleepe the Sabbath day Attentiue is and vigilant to heare Gods word and pray The Poking-yrons barre the doores goods safe in house to keepe From such as doe like knaues and whores molest men in their sleepe Great holes in cloth cut shall not be Good cloth it will be cheape The poore pray God this thing to see their hearts for ioy doe leape Pinkt Hats on thornes shall hang no more plaine stuffe will last 3. yeere You shall them haue good Brethren poore ere rugge begin to peere Valete in Christo ¶ A reproofe of hideous Oathes THE accustomable sinne of Swearing and detestable taking Gods Name in vaine apparantly appeare such little or nothing estimate his Maiestie The manner Acrothorax and Acolastus sweare by him with dialect disorder and a brauery in common talke as it they sware by Iohn or Ione and so vsed in sporting places as to heare may mooue a true beleeuing heart to bléede Not so onely but by all the parts of Christ particularly not considering how his parts were pierced for our sinnes and we exclude our selues from that benefit The Iewes rent him with nayles stripes and thornes and Swaggerers still doe teare him with their tongues Some vse it in buying selling and guilefull getting they are couetous to borrow much but sparing to pay They promise but breake performance Assertorie promissorie Others vse a perillous petition to get goods So GOD iudgeth them not considering the dreadfull Iudgement and seuere sentence pronounced Mat. 25. Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire when they shall obey to their decay Some As God shall haue part of their soule Oh wicked wretch thou owest not thy selfe GOD will haue thée soule body or the Diuell soule body Some by their faith Heb. 11. But without faith it is impossible to please God Others sweare by creatures whereby they displease God greatly which is iealous of his glory and sayth Ierem. 5.7 How shall I pardon thee for this thy children haue forsaken me and sworne by them that are no gods To reprooue this and the like Christ
saith Mat. 5. Reproofe of Swearing Let your communication be Yea yea Nay nay for whasoeuer is more then this commeth of euill When wee sweare we must vse the glorious Name of God with great reuerence and feare Deut. 6.13 Heb. 6.16 viz. Where the glory of God is sought or the saluation of our brethren or before a Magistrate in witnessing the truth not in our communication or otherwise vainely It is forbidden Leuit. 19.12 And yee shall not sweare by my Name falsely neither shalt thou prophane the Name of thy God I am the Lord. Regard it Deut. 5. For the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine The Lord hath sayd Zacha. 5. That the curse shall enter into the house of him that sweares falsely by his Name Leuit. 24. God commaunded that hee which blasphemed his Name should bee stoned It was effected and now is to be wished such should be punished Although it be reprooued it is to be feared few will refrayne for Sathan is subtill to seduce before Christs comming and is industrious to draw vs to that God hath forbidden so that some as in their health did sweare and curse so haue they in their sicknesse and departed fearefully Esay 45.9 Woe be to him that striues with his Maker Consider this yee that forget God lest I take you away Psa 50.22 and there bee none to helpe Oh if you knew him you would quake to blaspheme him his glorious brightnesse excells the Sunne in the Firmament so that sinfull eyes cannot beholde him Esay 6. Seraphins couer their faces in Gods presence Thou blast of breath bee not so saucie with the GOD of Might and Maiestie Ieremie 10.6 Forasmuch as there is none like vnto thee ô Lord thou art great and thy Name is great in might vers 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble Oh bragge beggers bold to dishonour him you must from wealth Psa 8. or wealth from you it is none of yours honour the owner The Psalmographe doth ingeminate this O Lord our God how excellent is thy Name in all the earth Our Sauiour taught vs to say Hallowed be thy Name Let vs not derogate it Bad children grieue to see their father misvsed much more Gods children to sée our heauenly Father abused Some leawd of the vulgar heare and beare with Sweaters and Drunkards but checke such as abhorre it for any small infirmitie past for want of fore-sight and with lying make a myte a mountaine I would I and others had but infirmities I haue millions of sinnes and GOD knowes of more then I can remember Good God assist vs to resist and hate sinne in our selues and others that with silence we sée thee not blasphemed Common Swearers are commonly Cursers and askers of euill petitions impious people are wrathfull like the Diuell asking plagues poxe and all kinde of euill So ofte times they haue that they craue Our tongues are not to be vnruly euils but to pray to God and praise him He that vilifieth his Name shewes himselfe worse then a tode which by singing sets sorth Gods praise Psal 148. Zelous Dauid exhorteth créeping things vnrationall to praise GOD yet men with reason blaspheme him which none can doe that loue him A president repugnant was S. Dauid Blesse the Lord ô my soule and all that is within mee blesse his holy Name Psal 103. Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord. And shall Man hauing reason blaspheme him Psal 150. Oh it is odious to a Christian Therefore when thou hearest any take Gods name in vaine say Blessed be his Name If he regard it not exhort him with leuitie If he be peruerse refraine his companie Ioseph by kéeping Pharaohs Court learned to sweare By the life of Pharaoh Gen. 42. but he returned to such vertue as is to be feared few do for sin is now so auaileable it seemeth to be ineuitable O arrogant earth feare the Almighty Bee not an Infidell worse then the Diuell The Diuels belieue and tremble True Faith and true feare hath care to eschue euill and doe good Prou 8.13 Iames 2.19 The feare of the Lord is to hate euill pride and arrogancie and the euill way and the froward mouth doe I hate A Blaspheamer with his froward mouth and black tongue makes his soule blacke GOD made it to praise him not to dishonour him He saith 1. Sam 2.30 For them that honour mee I will honour and they that despise mee shal be lightly esteemed Pray to GOD and praise him none can saue thee but hée and he abhorreth sinne Heb 1.13 Thou art of purer eyes then to behold euill canst not look on iniquitie Now let vs consider this how wee procure Gods anger and grieue him with our sinne by Sathans seducing To sée him maketh man to quake but the Swearer séemes to be possessed and feare not Both must be admonished You that with silence heare it and yée that vse it leaue it least in Hell yee languish with blaspheming and cursing the time of byrth and being To preuent it Repent Loue God and laude him Else at Iudgement day thy conscience will accuse thee Christ will refuse thée the Hoast of Heauen abhorre thee and Diuells euer torment thée From which good Lord deliuer vs for IESVS sake that bought vs. To the which GOD Almightie thrée persons in Trinitie be all possible praise for euer Amen Benedic anima mea Iehouae An Inuectiue for Sabbath-Prophaners THe abuse of the Sabbath doth greatly derogate the glory of God Vsed of some in the Church of some out of the Church Concerning euill behauiour in the Church There are certaine seduced in greedie getting or néedlesse decking that they goe late attyred meeter for a Play then to pray Whose eyes wander in euery corner and the finest fashion is their prospect They by watching about their follie and others too full fed doe slumber and comber the Church offending God and grieuing the good The hungry sléepe not at dinner to sléepe at a Sermon shewes no hungrie desire the paunch full is vnfit to pray Sermon-sléepers whether Papists or Neuters intrude among the Protestants They ease the corps by leaning So should they the Conscience and auoyde sleeping by standing but Pinguitie preuents it Ignorants went farre to fall to an Image Farre and neere fall thou to the true God Goe sooner and be better prepared to pray and praise him Parents rebuke your boyes Some Ruffians and rude ones yea bragge boyes haue hattes on their heads when Psalmes are read or sung being Prayers and petitions 1. Cor. 11.4 Euery man praying or porphecying hauing his head couered dishonoureth his head To begge of a King couered is vncomely Much more so to begge of the King of Kings Some sittes praying the Lords Prayer Matthew 26.39 CHRIST did prostrate and pray because of our sinnes and shall not we sinners knéele when we pray S. Paule did it Acts 21.5 If wee
be here Math. 17.4 But then wee shal be in light vnchangeable and sée Christ euer in felicity whom his enemies had in obloquie Those Ioyes infinite passe all Ioyes finite The voyce of Ioy and gladnes shal be euer with the righteous Oh happy heires of heauēly inheritance without our deserts Aug. Deus coronat dona sua non merita nostra God crowneth his owne gifts not our merites O blesse the Lord who redeemeth thy life frō destruction Psal 103.4 who crowneth thee with louing kindnes tender mercies Feare not little flock Lu 12.32 Reu 4.8 for it is your Fathers good pleasure to giue you the kingdome O let vs say holy holy holy Lord God Almightie which was is is to come We shal be Citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God dignified and glorified In Ioy we shal reioyce that our names are written in heauen franchessed fréemen irreuocably inrolled as sure rather surer then the estate of Angells We shall haue the fruition of Christs Resurrection and be manumissed from the bondage of death and destruction Frée denizens freed from miseries and proude peoples malice Those Ioyes passe all Iubilees Good Iesus bring vs to that blisse As there is no equalitie betwixt the Creator and vs here sinfull creatures So is there none betwéene the ioyes of Heauen and worldly pleasures These are ioyes transitory the other Ioyes eternall Rom. 8.17 Wee shall be ioynt heires with Christ and partakers of true happinesse There is no sighing singing No heauinesse Ioyfulnes No ignominie glory Holy holy holy shall be euer ascribed to Iehouah The Virgins could learne the new song which follow the Lambe Reuel 14. Oh the Ioyfull harmony that wee shall heare and be glorified euer in glorie Wee shall haue a palace vnspeakable being deliuered into the glorious libertie of the Children of God Luke 20.36 Neither can they doe any more for they are equall to the Angels and are the Children of GOD being the children of the Resurrection If a man here sicke heard those ioyes he would not féele his paine Oh ioyfull shall we be when we be there hearing seeing and hauing vnspeakable ioyes Aug Erit in Coelo domus tua aeterna si modò bene in hoc tabernaculo vixeris Thine house shall bee eternall in heauen if now thou liuest well in this tabernacle Lose not that permanent Paradise for this pleasure which in respect thereof is paine for the Barley corne lose not the pretious Pearle for carnall copulation eternall benediction for a minute of selfe-will Reu 3.20 millions of yéeres ioyfull Ah God forbid he bids vs returne and reteyne him Behold I stand at the doore and knocke Receiue him and hee will receiue thée to sit in glory with his Maiestie which is a dignitie of all dignities Iob. 19.25 This did mitigate Iobs misery For I know my Redeemer liueth that he shall stand at the latter day vpon the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God S. Paul saith Phil. 3. For our conuersation is in heauen from whence also wee looke for the Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body c. A Comfort Our bodies shall be conformable to the body of Christ our Head We shall be like him ill thoughts bad motions and perturbations shall be excluded Wee heare this but hée that beléeues it and hopes to haue it his affection is fixed in heauen Therfore pray and repent so shalt thou haue what A worldly commodity for which thou dost venture soule and body Ah thou shalt haue a Throne of tryumph excéeding all earthly treasures to reigne in ioyes for euer If thou hadst all earthly riches plentiousnes pleasures and pleasantest place on earth with all elegant obiects Princely prospects dainty delicates musicall Instruments swéete singers persumes and fine sauours with all thy vnfained friends and choyce of chiefe louers yet all this were paine in respect of heauen where we shall ouer be with our good God to whom be all prayse honour power and glory now and euer Amen with heart and tongue againe Amen Gloria in excelsis Deo PSAL. 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me PROV 23.26 My sonne giue me thine heart ¶ Pray heartily OH heauenly Trinitie one God in vnitie to thee bee all honour Glorious God at thy brightnes the Sunne Moone and Starres are abashed and impure in thy sight much more I a sinfull creature which by mine iniquities haue stained those bright creatures Omniscient God thou knowost my thoughts before I thinke them and knowest me before I was I was conceiued in sin borne in sinne in sinne I liue I am by nature the childe of wrath O giue me grace to be borne from aboue that I may enter into thy kingdome I am not worthy to looke vp to thee I deserue to bee cast downe to hell but I appeale to the Throne of thy mercy in the Name of Iesus my Sauiour which calleth all penitent sinners to him to giue them rest Oh Sauiour refresh my silly soule which cryes to thee out of my sinfull carkasse that I may apply thy sufferings merits and promises to my soule and conscience and be accepted through thy righteousnes My Lord and my God out of 〈◊〉 side issued the bloud of my redemption and water of absolution to purge me from pollution thou standest at the dore and knockest giue me grace to open the dore of my heart touch it with the finger of thy Spirit that it maybe a fit receptacle to entertaine thee Create in me a cleane heart ô God and renue a right spirit within me that I may resist all exill and walke in righteousnes and holinesse all the dayes of my life Let the assurance of thy loue wipe all teares from mine eyes so come Lord Iesus Good God forgiue me all my sinnes for Iesus sake in whom thou art well pleased cloath me with his righteousnes and behold me in him I doe deserue damnation but hee hath payde my ransome Lord let me finde and feele thy mercy Giue mee grace to redeeme the time and spend it to thy prayse Blesse this Realme our King Queene and Royall Progeny blesse and comfort all thy children Make vs loue those things that thou dost loue and hate that thou hatest that we may keepe faith and a good conscience And if it be thy will forgiue and conuert our enemies Good God prepare me and thy children fit for thy kingdome O Christ giue vs grace to examine our selues whether thou be in vs that we may expresse the power of godlinesse in our liues Lord receiue our soules when we depart this life that we may prayse thee in heauen eternally The which peace God bring vs for Iesus sake that bought vs to whome with thee ô Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one God be all might maiestie prayse honour glory power and dominion now and euer Amen Watch and pray prayse God FINIS
makes none ingenious to goodnesse the euill effects are monstrous It dulles and takes away the sences sets the eyes in the head anstere and strange to behold It makes a man a monster metamorphosed from the Image of God to the image of the Diuell their actions are irksome to good people though the rude reioyce to see it Quaffing is the occasion if not the cause of felonious theeues and flattering theeues alias couseners the first are dangerous the last liker hypocrites to insinuate and say they loue you but it is the adiunct of your purse promising but neuer paying I restraine to particularize any by-qualitie or name yet many deteine that is not their owne but prosper not The effect of drunkennesse and gluttony is pouerty Pro. 23. Woe sorrow contentions babling woundes without cause rednesse of eyes are adioynts to them that tarry long at the wine At the last it byteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder Thine eyes shall beholde strange Women and thine heart shall vtter peruerse thinges Wine and Women leade wise men out of the way The best wine and worst women are prouokers Much eating and drinking makes Idiocie and dotage whereby men are allured to the vndiscreet as Herode to graunt the head of blessed Iohn Baptist to a deceytfull Dauncer Hosea 4. Whoredome Wine and new wine infatuates the heart Excesse makes men estranged from themselues excluding all honesty humanity Some cannot liue on their lands nor others by good Occupations Psalm 107. and therefore spoyled in prisons A fruitfull Land is turned into barrennesse for wickednes Drunkennesse destroieth Gods benefits and doth auert his blessings Yee Common-wealth consumers deuote not your selues to the Diuell Your sursetting excesse so raiseth the price that the poore cānot maintaine theyr Families but are distressed some distracted Yée are the death and vndooing of thousands How can you answere for those yée cause to starue and for the death of your selues by your excesse All the world haue the lesse and worse successe for you Millions of men haue beene vndone by haunting such Houses Be counselled where they lost their liuing and learned leaudnesse Young men thinke on this for your sakes I write this before your Land be gone before yée be in thraldome and dis-franchised of your liberties Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12. before thine eyes be dimme and thou tremble Doe not procrastinate It is apparent that superfluous powring in of drinke hath prouoked God to powre downe extraordinary Flouds and for your foaming out to make the Sea breake out whereby People haue perished Cattell drowned Goods and Bridges borne into the Ocean The Skye cries against vs Thunders are fearfull Diuels irefull Trées rent Houses brent People killed many things destroyed God is displeased winde and weather auerre it oft Ships are sunke Oh we are obdurate we pull downe greater vengeance and amend not Manie vse Dolus to pamper theyr paunches with Diues till with that Epulo they taste dolorificus Oh soule thinke how the diuell doth pollute thée make not so much of thy bodie Excesse brings not salubritie nor sanctitie wholsomnesse nor holinesse but contrarie Prouerb 20. Wine is a mocker strong drinke is raging and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby is not wise Such are deceyued and vnwise as quaffe Quartes in a day but one were better and hée fitter to any good action Yet protract they the time at Ale-houses and make their bodies vnprofitable receptacles Prouokers fat themselues others for the day of slaughter hindring manie but profite not any Oh a dearth is to be dread Bée not a sucking Sodomite the mouth shal be full of earth Quaffing leades to the lake of quaking Pray and repent Our prosperitie tranquillitie and truth many yeares taught will be witnes to reprooue vs for want of loue to God and for our selfe-love to impiety Consider this yée that forget GOD. Be not brutish they are worse then Brutes that are bond-slaues to euill Affections Therefore hate that which God abhorreth to him be all honour for euer Amen DEO omnis Potestas Gloria ¶ Drunkennesse and Excesse of drinking reprooued COmbibo perswades his complices that they committe no Drunkennesse so long as they can talke and walk although theyr Bellyes be bladder-blowne But remember oh Swyne and manners worse what the Prophet saith Woe be vnto them them that are mightie to drink wine Esay 5.22 and men of strength to mingle strong drinke Now knowe that God hateth the inordinate Drinker although hée doe not stagger Some are gyddie by Age Sicknes or Imbecillity yet little drinkers the Drones are the Drunkards Woe and the woe of woes are denounced to them Esay 5.11 Woe vnto them that rise vp early in the Morning that they may follow strong drinke They haue woe and sorrowe Prou. 23. that tarrie long at the Wine Yet Bibulus whose best behauiour is barbarous vseth the Ale-house and abuses it as an euill-house woes will not warne him hée neglecteth his Vocation to the detriment of his Wife and Children But if any prouide not for his owne and especially for those of his owne House hee hath denyed the Faith 1. Tim 5.8 and is worse then an Infidell Many prouide for the wormes that shall wring their corpulent Carcases Christ giueth a Caueat Luke 21.34 Take heed to your selues least at any time your harts be ouercharged with surfetting and drunkennesse Let menacing or Admonition amend vs. Ephesians 5.18 And be not drunke with wine wherein is excesse but be filled with the Spirit Alas the Carcas is filled and the spirite of God excluded Heluo hasteth to hell and gormondise his guts till hee euacuates as hée receyued A Swyne is a swallower immoderate to moysture Matth. 8. The Gergesenes lost many into whom the Diuels entred droue them into the Sea drowned them in that moysture and the Diuels driue Swinish mindes to drowne them with drinke 1. Cor. 10. Our eating and drinking must be to Gods glorie to eate and drink to liue and not liue to eate and drink Drunkennes reuellings are fruits of the flesh Gal 5. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God A fearfull Enthymeme to them not mortified Imbrace the saying of S. Paule not the pot Let vs walke honestly as in the day not in ryotting drunkēnes not in chābering wantonnesse nor in strife enuying but put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 13.13 and make not prouision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts therof Except wée abandon the déedes of darknes we put not on the Lord Iesus but the diuell To sée him makes such to quake but they entertain him serue him and feare not The Lord saith by the prophet Ioel 1.5 Awake ye drunkards weepe and howle ye drinkers of wine Hee menaceth and admonisheth them to preuent the Anger to come Ierem 35.6 The Rechabites abstained from drinking of wine at