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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96443	A sermon, preached at Kingston upon Hull: upon the day of thankes-giving after the battell, and that marvailous victory at Hessam-Moore, neare Yorke. / By J.W. B.D.	J. W. (Joshua Whitton)	1644 (1644)	Wing W2049; Thomason E10_34; ESTC R979	27,341	40

them weary of Preaching and for feare that they should urge some Law to curbe men from sinning they let them have liberty as by Law that they might sinne without curbing and as if the corrupt nature of man were not apt of its selfe enough to sinne the winde of such wickednesse hath blowne in the sayles of it Blessed be the name of the Master and Lord also of that day that we have lived to see a godly direction for the reformation of it Thirdly was it shamefull swearing and swinish drunkennesse wee have herein exceeded our neighbouring Kingdoms and other Countries The Belgian Souldiers and the Indian Pipers shew'd us but the way the Disciples have exceeded their Masters Drinke and Tobacco are become almost as relatives Posito uno poniter etiam alterum or like body and shadow they sollow one the other I may safely say no two creatures in England have beene more abused of latter yeares especially Tobacco many give fire here that will not charge an enemy and if you aske most of them why they take it being young and in perfect health and strength they will say they can give you no reason for it but because others take it surely they sinne in so needlesse mispending of that creature which hath its naturall and medicinall effects as other Herbes have being rightly used this is like the answer of a no Religion Gentlewomen I have heard of in Lancashire who saying her Husband was a Protestant was asked the reason why she also went not to the Church to whom shee would give no reason but this Because it was not the fashion of the Gentlewomen in that Countrey to doe so Many take it onely to keep them from being idle and I have knowne divers to have brought such a necessity upon themselves hereby that they could not be without it If an old fire-house and common Tobacco-taker be but without smoke a moneth together they are both in danger to fall in pieces In the dayes of yore England was the most temperate of all the Northerne Countries and in the dayes of our fathers it was as great a wonder to have seene a man drunke as it was of late upon a market day to have seene a man with mony sober The Apostle tells us in his time that those that were drunke were drunke on the night but in our times they were drunk on the night and all the day too It was our honour when it was but said the drunken Dutch it was our shame when it might have beene sayd the drunken English Before the phrase runne as drunke as a Begger but now of late Beggers could get no roome to be drunke in for swarmes of Gentlemen Of late our land was over-flowne with drinkes but woe unto us that we have sinned now it is as over-flowed with bloud Oh a drunken devill is hard to cast out this kind indeed will not out without fasting and prayer Fourthly was it swearing or blasphemy it was so common in Israel that the Prophet complained that the Land mourned because of Oathes And in England Oathes have striven with words and our children have no sooner learned to speake than they have learued to sweare Bravadoes thinke that they cannot be terrible enough without swearing Joshua wonne farre more battailes with fewer Oathes nay some gracelesse gentlemen have thought it a grace to their speech it may be so for they often use it before they dine and as if old oathes were out of date and had worne away their vigour they have devised new ones to helpe them on with more expedition towards the Brimstone mines Tavernes Tipling-houses Courts Countreys Cities Towns Chambers streets have all of them abounded herein Lord how many oathes have beene sworne in one town upon one market day how many in a weeke then how many thousand thousands in a year and we have used it in all these places many yeares how should the Lord chuse but be angry with us Fiftly was it whoredome or all manner of uncleannesse Thus was it in Israel Jeremiah 5.7 Though I fed them to the full yet they committed Adultery and assembled themselves by companies in Harlots Houses They frequented Stewes and whore-houses and spent their strength in the houses of Strangers and hath not this beene a great part of our gull-gallants practice in the time or the apprentiship of their folly and what have they more to boast of than their uncleannesse I have with much griefe observed it to have beene the customary and almost continuall discourse of these men at their Tables and have boundred their discourse give me leave to say within the compasse of these four H. H. H. H. A Hound an Horse an Hawk and an Whore God hath taken up their mindes now with somewhat else and what fruit have they now of such passages concerning these as of which they may bee ashamed how freely would these spend their blouds in needlesse and rash duells Let us see how much of it they will now spend to succour the Land of their nativity Sixtly was it pride Isaiah 3.16 The daughters of Zion were haughty and walked with stretched out necks and wanton or wandring eyes walking and mincing it as they went and made a tinkling with their feet Are the daughters of England behinde with them in this And was it pride in the daughters of Israel and no pride in the daughters of England Was it sinne in them and none in these or is not the God of Israel the God of England Yes but was there ever peccatum sine palio a naked sinne that had no excuse to cover it I thinke not The first sinne that ever was committed was no sooner in the world but our first Parents had provided a cloake too of excuse for it but it could not hide it from God no more than fig-leaves could their shame Oh alas in ours it is but the posture of good breeding it is but a comely framing of their pace and a carrying of their bodies with a grace For answer I say they may be postured in humility paced without affected nicity and apparrelled in modesty But when these are done affectedly to set themselves out for the applause of Popularity we know certainly that it s none of the least impiety and will bring the like plague to these that he did to those Doe they thinke that this Scripture is out of date 1. Tim. 2.9 10. Wherein they are taught to array themselves in comely ●pparell with shamefastnesse and modesty Now all sorts of apparrell are not comely for all sorts of people Neither can every one with shamefastnesse and modesty weare so good or such and such as God hath made much above them in Birth Worth or Calling though they were able to get it not with broyded Haire or Gold or Pearle or costly apparell See the Geneva note upon that place but as becometh women that professe the seare of God with good works 1. Pet. 3.5 After this manner in time