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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46993	A vvarning to drunkards by the sad and suddain death of John Woolman, of Sarret, in the county of Hartford. With a letter of exhortation written to the people on that sorrowful occasion. By William Jole, minister of Sarret.	Jole, William, d. ca. 1702.	1680 (1680)	Wing J888; ESTC R216580	3,713	9

A UUarning to Drunkards BY The Sad and Suddain DEATH OF John Woolman OF SARRET in the County of Hartford With A LETTER of Exhortation written to the People on that sorrowful Occasion By WILLIAM JOLE Minister of Sarret LONDON Printed for N. P. and Sold by Rich. Ianua in Queens-Head Court in Pater-Noster Row 1680. A Short Narrative of the manner of his Death JOhn Woolman Son of Iohn Woolman of Sarret was by Trade a Taylor a young Man of a very Intemperate Life as some know that have kept his Company Oh that all such may be allarmed by his fatal End to amend their Lives Monday October the Eleventh he was at a House near Sarret called Michlefield-Green where being too eager of Strong-drink what he had before he came thither and what he added to his Load there grew too much for his Brain It seems he told them He would go upon the Barley-Mow to sleep and being by some disswaded in regard it was a high Mow possibly this might make his whimsical Brain the more resolute to climb up for when the Brain is turned with drink impossible things seem easie to such a Man and a drunken Man will venture on that which a sober Man is afraid to look at Up he did climb and is supposed to sleep there all Night but the next Morning was found stone dead upon the Flower his Hat remained on the top of the Barley-Mow How he fell down is unknown because no body was in the Barn when he Fell It was a Clay Flower where his Head pitched on a Peble-stone which brake a hole in his Skul and let out much Blood and Water The Letter to the People Loving Neighbours SOlomon saith That a word fitly spoken is like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver Prov. 25.11 That is to say it hath all that may Invite our Attention Surely then it is a fit time to speak to the Ear when God by any dreadful Iudgement doth speak to the Eye Although my Mouth is stopped at present and I am denied to Speak unto you in the Pulpit yet no Law can hinder me from Writing unto you and the End of my Writing at this time is to exhort you to hear God now loudly speaking unto every one of us by the dismal Iudgment upon John Woolman calling on every one of us to Repent and Turn from our sinful Courses and more particularly calling upon every Drunkard to forsake his Drunkenness beholding the Woful Effects of that Sin in this sad Example It will not become a Minister to Aggravate the Faults of the Dead my desire is to press upon the Living to lay his woful End to heart Would you not have the Iudgments of God to Cut you off in your Sins and to stop your Breath before you have time to ask Pardon then be Exhorted and Perswaded to Repent to day while it is called to day and do not harden your Hearts any longer against such Warnings as this We say It is best striking while the Iron 's hot Therefore admit this Word of Exhortation while there is some Warmth remaining upon your Souls by that which you have seen or heard of the sudden Death of this poor Wretch Happy and wise are those who take Warning by other Mens Harms Let me desire you to Read frequently those words Proverbs 29.1 He that being often Reproved hardeneth his Neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without Remedy Mayer on those words saith For all sins there is forgiveness but for hardness of Heart and Neck there is none and therefore such cannot escape Destruction And then a Man is judged to be thus Hardned when being often Reproved he relenteth not but goeth on obstinately still in his Sins Hear this all ye Swearers and Drunkards of Sarret and though it is not a seemly thing to name Persons and say you John or you Thomas or you Richard yet I beseech the Lord to set it home on every Soul particularly both mine and yours throughout the Parish and let those Drunkards who are so busy to erect a New Alehouse in the Town take notice how God threatneth such doings and let them desist from their Enterprize lest God mark them out to be the next Examples of his Wrath. They sufficiently tell the World what they are that thrust out their Minister and endeavour to set up another Alehouse God has set me as your Watchman Ezek. 33.7 8 9. Turn to it and read it your selves Therefore that I may free my own Soul and that the Blood of impenitent Sinners may not be required at my hands have I written this Letter to be read in your hearing Doth not God say to the wicked Drunkard Thou shalt surely die when he shews him a Drunkard struck dead suddenly I beseech you therefore all my Christian Neighbours take these following Considerations home to your Hearts to make you hate Drunkenness First Consider what a Brutish Beastly kind of Sin Drunkenness is and there is no Beast that I ever read of that will drink to be drunk but the Swine to which a Drunkard is most like a Drunkard makes his Belly like a Hogshead to be filled with Strong-Drink his Throat is the Tunnel to let it down until by overbriming his Vessel he force it to run out at his Mouth again if once the strong Liquor begin to work in his Guts it flies up to his Brain and quickly drowns the Reason and robs him of all that should bespeak him a Man and layes a Swine in his Room you cannot say that now he utters but mutters his words his Tongue greatly labouring to speak but lying drowned ●nder Water is not able to bring forth any sensible Words you may discover an Ape in every Posture of him and he goes Like what no Comparison can be vile enough unless you will say That he goes like himself or like another Drunkard Secondly Consider what heinous Aggravations this Sin admitts of As First The mispending that precious Time in bad Company and Tippling-Houses which he ought to redeem to work out his Salvation a Saint may be distinguished from a Sinner by this Character as well as others The Saint is desirous to redeem Time the Sinners great Study is how to drive away Time the Saint spends his time in Duty and Lawfull Busyness the Sinner mispends his time in drinking and unlawful Sports so that a Drunkard wilfully throws away his precious Time as if it were a Burthen to him and seeks for Damnation in that Time which is allotted him to seek for Salvation and how inexcusable is that Sinner that will not be saved Secondly Consider how one Drunkard makes many more Partakers of his Sin Drunkenness is a sociable Vice and the Drunkard calls himself a Good Fellow It is very rare that a Man should drink himself drunk alone love of the Company makes many drunk who say they do not love Drink And the Devil hath found a rare Expedient to help forward this Sin by