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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

Lord Lord open unto us Luke 13. and he shall make answer and say I know not whence years depart from me all ye workers of iniquity there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth procured by this vice of drunkennesse sprung from the loynes of gaming Nor doe I say that drunkennesse comes alone by gaming but that it is Regia via a high way to it Wherefore that we may avoid the one let us fly the other as two venemous Serpents seeking to sting us unto death 2. Gaming produceth lying for the world is now growne to such an height of impiety that there is no man almost even in very mercenary affaires will feare for his owne profit to tell a lye but with gamesters it is grown a fashion followed by every one of them A lye that is but a trifle in their account shall they loose their mony for want of a lye that were a jest indeed O but let them look to it least they jest away their souls by it who is the Father of lyes but the Devill we need to make no doubt for Christ himselfe said it John 8. A lying tongue God hates saith Solomon Prov. 6. and if he hate it then woe be unto thee whosoever thou art which affectest it it had better thou never hadst been borne That God is a God of mercy it is most true but that he is a God of judgement also is most certaine God will create Adam after his own likenesse Gen. 1. and give him dominion over the fish over the fowles of the aire over the cattle over all the earth and over every creeping thing which creepeth on the earth and placed him in Eden But if Adam breake the Commandement of God if Adam does that which God hates then he must be thrust out of Eden to go forth and till the ground Gen. 3. God dealt fairely kindly and mercifully with Israel his chosen people untill that they did that which he hated running a whoring after their own inventions then did he deliver them over into the hands of their enemies who carried them away captive God loves man so long as man loves God but when man once begins to doe that which hee hates then God powres forth his violls of wrath God hates lying wherfore that we may shun the effect which is lying let us avoid the cause gaming for qualis causa talis effectus the Logician saith if the cause be good it followes that effect the end must be good but if the cause be bad the effect must be so likewise A Lawyer an honest one I mean if the cause be good by pleading must needs overthrow his Adversary and so the effect prove good also but if bad although all his Equivocations Fallacies the effect as I said before must needs prove bad Wherefore that wee may not be tainted for Lyers let us not be Gamsters For where the dead carkas is there will the Eagles gather together and so where common Gaming is there is also common Lying which produceth Swearing Thirdly by Gaming comes Swearing After a company have beene Gaming together those which lose their mony when they can get no redresse for their losse their only ease is to curse ban and sweare at the Cards or Dice Nay and before they Have lost their money they are not Gamesters if they have not a fit of Swearing that such a one playes not faire or that the other hath wonne farre more then he confesseth for that they cannot doe by Lying if it be possible they will by Swearing I needed not to have made any distinction at all betwixt Lying and Swearing for saith an ancient Father Swearing and Lying goe together and proceeding further he saith Therefore they which are used to swearing doe very naught and no doubt but that Gods vengeance hangeth over their heads And certaine it is that he which is a great Swearer is also a great Lyer O consider with thy selfe O Gamester and consequently Swearer how thou offendest thy good and gracious God who when thou wert in the gulfe of misery and ready for to discend into the deepe abysse of Hell Joh. 3. He so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Sonne that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life In this saith Saint John 1 Ioh. 4. was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Sonne into the world that wee might live through him Nor did he onely send his Sonne to looke into the world and no more but he sent him to dye for the world and to be made a propitiation for all our sins and yet for all this wee with our roaring swearing-Gamsters pluck him from his throne of glory againe if it were possible by those thundring Oaths O was it not enough that he sufferd once such torments as the best of Orators wanted words to expresse thē but that Adamantine-hearted men more cruell then the Iewes for they crucyfied him but once must by their swearing crucifie him dayly Me thinkes I see the hard and flintie rocks to gush out in teares and yet their eyes are dry O hearke how savage beasts of the field doe seeme in their kind to lament and morn to see their masters more brutish than themselves What shall I say shall I tell these men Saint Iames admonition Iam. 5. Above all things my brethren sweare not neither by heaven c. but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest yee fall into condemnation I feare their hearts are so hardned they will not regard it nor all the rout of this bewitching Vice of Gaming O God of thy great mercy open their eyes and turn their reynes that from the bottome of their hearts they may repent them of their wickednesse be converted from this evill course of Gaming consequently from that horrid sin of swearing which unto thee I know is most odious and hatefull let their yea be yea and their nay nay so shall thy Saints rejoyce they hereafter to their comforts enjoy eternall happinesse Fourthly Gaming is the high-way to Adultery Lust is the Ring-leader of mischiefe it is a bait of much evill it is the Devils vaile which he often throws over mens faces to blind them in the way of igorance it is that Diabolical sin which ne'r leaves man till such time it hath robd him of that glorious Diadem of happinesse his precious soule and his only Darling it is that damned and bewithced sin that makes a separation between God and man it is that Grand Champion which causes that soul which was created glorious and delightsome in the sight of God become most detestable and odious in his presence By this Vice the soule is endangered and oftentimes with cruell ulcers and sores the body is infected and his means by Harlots suddenly wasted Woe be to that man which spends his time so vainly and consumes his estate so wickedly in this bosome-sin which is the only