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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90647	A prospective-glasse for gamesters: or, A short treatise against gameing: in which is contained a plaine and perfect manifestation of the inconveniencies, miseries and calamities which the user or practiser of unlawfull games doth bring upon himselfe, not onely in regard of his mortall body, but also upon his eternall soule. Wherein also these six evill consequences of gaming are exactly and pertinently handled, viz. [brace] Drunkennesse. Lying. Swearing. [double brace] Adultery. Poverty. Theevery. [brace] Written at the request of a gamester, upon his detestation of his former idle life and practice in this kind. / By John Philpot Master in Arts. Dedicated to the honest and judicious youngmen and apprentices of the honourable city of London. Published according to order.	Philpot, John, Master in Arts.; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645,	1646 (1646)	Wing P1988A; Thomason E345_15; ESTC R200995	7,665	18

read iest way to hellish misery and everlasting Beggery it is the cause their friends forsake them those which are the Children of God to abhor and detest them Nay it makes their neighbours to shun them and very youth to deride them laugh them to scora their kins folke doe despise them and are very sh●e and nice to drink with them t is so odious a Vice that no good man regards them it doth cause God to forsake them and if they doe not speedly repent themselves and aske God mercy and forgivenesse for so damned a crime the Devill will soone take them and who then is there able to deliver them O the horridnesse of this sin of Adultery which is ushered in by the damnable Vice of Gaming which is a madnesse God he knowes too much embraced by foolish and voluptuous worldlings who doe as it were with ardent desire surrender or imploy themselvs with every part and facultie of their bodies and mind to this so damnable an Exercise Gaming I meane Which exercise is as a bait or snare to entrap men in to cozen and cheat them of the estate which their fore-fathers with sweatie browes so turmoyled and laboured for It is as a Thiefe robbing and stripping them stark naked of those happy and celestiall cogitation which perhaps otherwise they would be indued withall which would redound to the welfare both of bodies and soules This Vice of Gaming as I said before oftentimes ushers in the ugly monstrous sin of Adultery and puts us in mind of strange women whose rowling and glancing eyes allure us to their owne wicked intents of whom wise Solomon giveth us warning Prov. 6. Lust not after her beautie in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eye-lids for by meanes of a whorish woman man is brought to a piece of bread and the Adulteres will hunt for the precious life Marke to the 2 chap. 32 vers and there Solomon saith VVho so committeth Adultery with a woman lacketh und understanding he that doth it destroyeth his owne soule Furthermore Gaming Esca est malorum a net of evils in which oftentimes men are caught in Gaming makes men carelesse of their affaires and heedlesse of their estates for the present and for ever after ruinous It makes a man as I told you before in the last particular prone to sweare and forsweare and in the eagernesse of their play ready to bulke out such oathes which are ready to teare the Divine Essence out of his sacred Throne of Glory But especially this vice doth Dame Lust attend upon This mighty darling sinne doth still wait on that mans elbow who is given to the vice of Gaming A Gamester discruciatur animo is troubled and perplext in his minde his eyes are still effeminate his thoughts are incrused and inflamed after lascivious and wanton women which are caterpillers to devoure his estate and Darling friend his soule Gaming doth often rob man of his silken robe of honour and causes him to be cladded with ragges of much infamy and disgrace Though thou mayst by this exercise of Gaming flourish in primo juventutis in the prime of thy age and accumulate an estate the vice being so tempting thou mayst before old dayes be deceived of thy former estate and bring upon thy selfe the state of beggery as I shall shew anon O therefore let all men as regard prosperity in this world and eternall joyes in the world to come forsake this damnable exercise of Gaming which hatcheth such a serpentine Egge as Adultery which that all may God of his great mercy grant and thus I conclude Gaming as it is the high-way to Adultery Fifthly Gaming is the high-way to beggery Gaming is the high-way to idlenesse and consequently to beggery For I my selfe have known many Tradesmen and others which after they have taken a haunt of Gaming neither can nor will finde the way againe to follow their lawfull occupations but spend the remnant of their lives in sloath from a Dice-patron hee becomes an idle person and a sluggard to whom Salomon thus speaketh Prov. 6. Go to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no guid overseer or ruler provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest how long wilt thou sleep O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep yet a little sleep c. By this we may see that the wayes of Idlenesse is want and poverty Again Salomon saith Prov. 13. The soule of the sluggard or slothfull desireth and hath nothing And again he saith ch 22. v. 5. The slothfull man saith there is a Lyon without I shall be slain in the streets No excuse shall be wanting to maintaine his idlenesse by which buildings decay and houses drop down Eccles 10. Idlenesse saith one Radix omnium malorum est is the root of all evill S. Paul saith Qui non laborat non comedat he that laboreth not let him not eate After Adam had offended it was Gods pleasure that he should not be idle wherefore he saith Gen. 3. In sudore vultus tui vesceris pa●●●ue in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eate thy bread And S. Paul saith again Magis autem laboret ut det indigentibus let him labour the more that he may have wherewithall to help the poore But alas our Idle Gamsters are so far from that as they will not work to supply their own wants what shall they which but lately had the world in a string to have what they would and do what they would and command whom they would now by any one be commanded they frown if although a proud heart and a beggers purse agree not togegether Content they are to live although a dogs life having hunger and ease Work no they will rather steale which brings mee to the sixt danger that ensues by Gaming Sixtly Gaming is the high way which leadeth to theevery After beggery hath visited a Gamester he is desperate and prone to all evill but especially theevery although God in the 8. Commandement expresly commands to the contrary saying Thou shalt not steale And where the Commandements of God are broken there can be no love to God For if ye love me saith Christ keep my Commandements as if he had said It is not enough to say that you love me making only a show of the same but let me see it done effectually by keeping my Commandements to steale and keep Gods Commandements too we cannot Of stealing Gaming is oftentimes a great cause Doth Gaming cause Theevery O then flie it like a serpentine Egge of the Divels owne hatching The Law condemns a Theefe in this world and except God be mercifull he is condemned also in the world to come O who now then will not flie Gaming Seventhly and lastly Gaming leads to eternall damnation I meane superfluous Gaming except the great mercy of God by speedy repentance prevent it not Hitherto have I described the Devils new created champions attending upon Gaming and now by the help of God briefly the dangers which hang over the head except he shake off this bewitching vice It must needs be granted by the precedent propositions that it is a cause of breaking of Gods Statutes and therefore it is flat disobedience against which are many and great curses pronounced Deut. 28. He which disobeyeth the commandements of God cursed shall he be in the City and cursed shall he be in the field the Lord shall make the pestilence to cleave unto him c. But yet the dangers of this world are not comparable to those of the world to come which shall happen to the disobedient Here they shall bee only punished corporally there spiritually except they speedily repent then shall God blot out all their wickednesse out of his remembrance which that all may doe not onely Gamesters but all others God of his great mercy grant FINIS