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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08586	The sin and folly of drunkenness considered I. What it is. II. What is vicious or sinfull in drinking (whether men will call it drunkenness or no.) III. What may be said against it.	Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5351A; ESTC R215456	19,630	48

should write down an hours discourse that passeth between half a dozen in this element and on purpose to discover the vertue of a Tongue when 't is tip't with Ale should read it over to them when they were Sober 't would clearly be enough to turn their stomacks such a hotch-potch a confusion of witless senceless reasonless immodest and unhandsome stuff as except publisht by Authors of the same Character was never before extant in the world The Tongue at best is an unruly evil as James 3.8 and hath need of a bridle to keep it in as Psal 39.1 but Drunkenness gives it the rein and switch and spur that this free beast knows not where to stay 2. Brawling and Contention Strong drink is raging in Prov. 20.1 and who is it that hath Contention and wounds without cause but they that tarry long at the Wine in Pro. 23.29 30 And that evil Servant is then said to fall a beating his fellow-servants when he began to eat and drink with the drunken in Mat. 24.49 'T is an odd method methinks that men use to drink and be Friends when had they not drank they had never faln out 3. Whoredom Prov. 23.31.33 This Sin brought Lot to bed with his own daughters in Gen. 19.33.35 St. Augustine hath a sad story to this purpose Ecce hodie ebrietatem perpessus matrem praegnantem nequiter oppressit Sororem violare voluit Ex A Lap. in Dan. 5.2 Nunquam putabo Ebrium esse castum was Hierom's censure if you could shew him a Drunkard he would presently shew you a Whoremonger 4. Scorn and contempt of God goodness and good men David a man after Gods own heart was the Song of the Drunkards Psal 69.12 5. Security under all these and their other Sins Death and Judgment never troubling their brains at all Take heed saith Christ lest at any time c. and so that day come upon you unawares in Luk. 21.34 These sins the Spirit of God himself being witness are the ordinary results of the sin of Drunkenness But secondly 2. Our disposition to all Sins whatsoever when we are not sober This will appear 1. By some general Considerations 2. By a view of all the Commandments of God 1. Consider we in general three Things viz. 1. The Seeds and principles of all Sins are in our polluted natures and as carnal and unregenerate we are capable of committing them Whatever hath been in any mans practice is by nature in every mans bosom As the plot of all diseases lies in the humors of the body so the seeds of all Sins in the Corruptions of the Soul None I think will deny but that every prohibition of any kind of Sin which we have in Scripture belongs to all be it Sodomy Incest Blasphemy c. A sufficient Argument that every mans nature is subject to it 2. That these Lusts do not actually break out into all the Sins that they are big with is from some restraint or other that is laid upon us when by shame or fear or natural Conscience or the like our corruptions are rein'd in If water or any other heavy body doth not at any time move down-ward 't is not because it hath not a natural inclination so to do but because something or other hinders it 3 Drunkenness throws all these restraints off Shame is rei turpiter actae And what seems unseemly to a man that cannot discern between good and evil He that being Sober is not ashamed to be drunk how should he being drunk be ashamed of any thing That is he that being a Man is not ashamed to turn himself into a Swine how should he being a Swine be ashamed to wallow in the mire Fear ariseth from the apprehension of some evil likely to fall upon us there ariseth from too much drink too thick a vapour to see any such thing In praelia trudit inermem 'T will put a man upon any thing without fear or wit And as for Conscience that is cum scientia which is no more if so much employed in a Drunkard thô he be awake than in a Sober person when he is asleep 'T is a practical Syllogism which a man in that Condition is as good at as an Asse is to play a Lesson upon the Harp 2. View all the Commandments of God and see which of them it is that a Drunkard is not disposed to transgress For the 1. Precept forbidding us to have any other Gods but one against which we sin when what is due to God we bestow upon any thing else and so the Drink the Throat the Belly the Companions of a Drunkard are his Gods these have his Affections his Time his Estate these he sacrificeth to and serveth and loves with all his heart with all his soul with all his mind and with all his strength Yea which is more gross set up an Idol of what stuff you will and what will sooner qualifie a person for the worship of it than drink will In Hosea 4.11 you have the people given to Drunkenness and see what follows in v. 12 13. 2. Precept forbidding Will-worship and Superstition Are any in the world more inclined to this than persons of loose lewd licentious and drunken principles Those that care not whether they serve God at all or not are not wont to be over-scrupulous how they serve him For the 3. Precept how many common drunkards do you know in the world that are not withall common Swearers Their throat indeed is ordinarily a thorow-fare for Ale and Oaths where Almighty God and his very good Creatures are abused by turns And of this let Experience be Judge For the 4. Precept When persons given to this vice are at Liberty this day is pitcht upon to chuse It is observed in one of our Homilies that upon the Lords day the Devil was more served and God more dishonoured than upon all the week besides which some Synods have taken notice of and complained against desiring the Magistrate that Games and Drinking-matches upon that day might be restrained Heylin Hist Sab. part 2. C. 6. 5. Precept Can drunken Superiours or Inferiors discharge the Duties they owe one to another Pray what Duty is it in Parents Husbands Masters Ministers Magistrates Children Wives Servants People that drink doth qualifie them for Yea what sin as to these Relations that it is not ready to put them upon It makes Parents grievous and Children rebellious the Husband like a Lion and the Wife like a Sow Masters intolerable Servants useless Ministers odious sottish and able to do no good and the People as unable to retain any Magistrates not able to bear the Sword how should they when they are not able to bear themselves And the People under them lost to all good order 6. Precept How many Murders have been committed by men in their Drunkenness Augustine reports of one that killed his own Father and mortally wounded two of his own Sisters A Lap. in Dan. 5.2 Alexander in a