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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67662	A Warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others ...	Ward, Samuel, 1572-1643.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing W931; ESTC R8118	52,123	82

Providence which lately befell a young man who for some years was very hopefull for Religion a diligent attender upon God's Ordinances and well esteemed of among the People of God but afterwards being led away by temptation he was sometime overtaken with the sin of Drunkenness and it seemed good to the Holy and Righteous God to cut him off in the Act of sin when he was as is generally reported so far overcome with strong drink that he was not able to go but was led and laid upon a Bed and dyed in a few Hours without coming to himself again HIS MAJESTIES PROCLAMATION AGAINST Vicious Debauch'd and Prophane Persons and against drinking his Health CHARLES R. SInce it hath pleased the Divine Providence in so wonderful a manner and by wayes and means no less miraculous than those by which he did heretofore preserve and restore his own chosen People to restore Us and Our good Subjects to each other and to shew Us a very hopeful Prospect if not to put us already into possession of that Peace Happiness and Security with which this our Kingdom hath been heretofore blessed It will become Us all in our several Stations to acknowledge this transcendent goodness of Almighty God in so seasonable a conjuncture with such a Circumspection Integrity and Reformation in Our Lives that we may not drive away that Mercy which so near approacheth Us by making Our selves wholly unworthy of it And in Order hereunto We think it high time to shew Our dislike of those against whom We have been ever enough offended though We could not in this manner declare it who under pretence of Affection to Us and Our Service assume to themselves the liberty of Reviling Threatning and Reproaching others and as much as in them lies endeavour to stifle and divert their good Inclinations to Our Service and so to prevent that Reconciliation and Union of Hearts and Affections which can only with Gods Blessing make Us rejoyce in each other and keep Our Enemies from rejoycing There are likewise another sort of Men of whom we have heard much and are sufficiently ashamed who spend their time in Taverns Tipling-houses and Debauches giving no other Evidence of their Affection to Us but in drinking Our Health and Inveighing against all others who are not of their own dissolute temper and who in truth have more discredited Our Cause by the Licence of their Manners and Lives than they could ever advance it by their Affection or courage We hope that this extraordinary way of delivering Us all from all we feared and almost bringing Us to all We can reasonably hope for hath and will work upon the Hearts even of these Men to that degree that they will cordially renounce all that Licentiousness Prophaneness and Impiety with which they have been corrupted and endeavoured to corrupt others and that they will hereafter become examples of Sobriety and Uertue and make it appear that what is past was rather the Uice of the Time than of the Persons and the fitter to be forgotten together And because the fear of punishment or apprehension of Our Displeasure may have influence upon many who will not be restrained by the Conscience of their Duty We do declare That We will not exercise just Severity against any Malefactors sooner than against Men of dissolute debauch'd and profane Lives with what parts soever they may be otherwise qualified and endowed and We hope that all Persons of Honour or in Place and Authority will so far assist Us in discountenancing such Men that their discretion and shame will perswade them to reform what their Conscience would not and that the displeasure of good Men towards them may supply what the Laws have not and it may be cannot well provide against there being by the Licence and Corruption of the Times and the depraved Nature of Men many Enormities Scandals and Impieties in Practice and Manners which Laws cannot well describe and consequently not enough provide against which may by the example and severity of Uertuous Men be easily discountenanced and by degrees suppressed However for the more effectual reforming these Men who are a discredit to the Nation and unto any Cause they pretend to favour and to wish well to We require all Maiors Sheriffs and Justices of Peace to be very vigilant and strict in the discovery and prosecution of all Dissolute and Prophane Persons and such as Blaspheme the Name of God by prophane Swearing and Cursing or revile or disturb Ministers and despise the Publick Worship of God that being first bound to the good Behaviour they may be further proceeded against and exposed to shame in such a manner as the Laws of the Land and the just and necessary Rules of Government shall direct or permit Dated the Twelfth Year of Our Reign See the Dialogue between Tory and Timothy in the Weekly Pacquet of Aug. 5. 1681. This passage Tory. There are a Thousand of my Companions that are not capable to express their Loyalty any way in the World if they should be barr'd from Drinking of Healths and Huzzaing as if Bedlam were broken loose Tim. Loyalty is the indispensable duty of every good Subject and signifies no more than an obedience and Hearty serving of the King according to Law and I am sure our Most Gracious Soveraign will not be serv'd any otherwise Nor can I understand how a Common Drunkard Swearer Whoremonger c. ought to be accounted either Loyal or a Son of the Church of England since thereby he violates daily the Laws of God Nature and the Land and for the same ought to stand Excommunicated by the Church Such as will not refrain from Intemperate drinking and be reclamed by Scripture Arguments and Examples let the regard of their Bodily Health move them From these weighty reasons of Doctor Maynwaring's shewing how it impairs their Health many wayes Preservaton of Health in the choice of Drinks and Regular Drinking DRink for necessity not for bad fellowship especially soon after meat which hinders due fermentation of the stomach and washeth down before digestion be finished but after the first concoction if you have a hot Stomach a dry or costive Body you may drink more freely than others or if thirst importunes you at any time to satisfie with a moderate draught is better than to forbear Accustom Youth and strong Stomachs to small drink but stronger drink and Wine to the infirm and aged it chears the Spirits quickens the Appetite and helps Digestion moderately taken but being used in excess disturbs the course of Nature and procures many Diseases for corpulent gross and fat Bodies thin hungry abstersive penetrating Wines are best as White-Wine Rhenish and such like For lean thin Bodies black red and yellow Wines sweet full bodied and fragrant are more fit and agreeable as Malaga Muscadel Tent Alicant and such like For Drink whether it be wholsomer warmed than cold is much controverted some stifly contending for the one and some for the

back Remember Lots Wife so may I say to deterre you from Drunkenness Remember Elah who was kill'd whil'st he was drinking himself drunk And if God did not spare a King in Israel take heed lest he do not spare you Besides Elah's Example Amnon one of Davids Sons was killed whil'st his Heart was merry with Wine 2 Sam. 13. 28. When Belshazzar had been drinking Wine with a thousand of his Lords in the day time he was slain in the Night Dan. 5. 1 30. Besides these Examples we have known and heard of several others that have dyed dead drunk and never came to Life again others that have fallen off their Horses in their Drunkenness and broke their Necks others that have faln into the Water and been drowned and others cut off by other means Arg. 7. It unfits a man for the Service of God Drunkenness makes a man unfit for any good work unfit for the service of God and men unfit for Death and Judgment it makes a man unfit for Prayer and all other Religious duties 1 Pet. 4. 7. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer No men are fit for Prayer but sober men It is probable Nadab and Abihu had distempered themselves with Wine or strong drink when they presumed to offer up strange Fire and Fire went out from the Lord and devoured them for immediately after the Relation of their Sin and Punishment there is a strict charge given to Aaron and his Sons that they should not drink Wine or strong drink when they went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation on pain of Death Lev. 10. 8 9 10 11. It also unfits a man for the service of his Generation especially for a place of publick Trust many Armies have been ruined Towns and Kingdoms lost by the Drunkenness of Commanders A small Army of the Israelites not exceeding seven thousand setting upon the Syrians when Benhadad their King was drinking himself drunk with his Confederates put the Syrians to flight and slew them with a great Slaughter although besides his own great Army he had thirty two Kings that came to his assistance 1 Kings 16. 17 20. And as this sin renders us unfit for the service of God and men so also it makes us unfit for the day of Death and Judgment Luk. 21. 34. And take heed to your selves lest at any time your Hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and Drunkenness Arg. 8. It will Exclude a man out of Heaven Drunkenness is such an odious Sin that the Lord hath told us expresly that he will not admit any Drunkards into the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not enter into the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Drunkards shall inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. Now the Works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornications Uncleanness and Lasciviousness Revellings and such like of which I tell you before as I have told you in times past that they which do such things shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God It was a Foolish Act in Esau and argued him to be a profane man to sell his Birth-right for a Morsel of Meat Heb. 12. 16. Lest there be any Fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one Morsel of Meat sold his Birth-right Drunkards are guilty of worse profaneness than Esau for they part with a better Blessing than a Birth-right namely the Kingdom of Heaven for a pot of Drink or cup of Wine which do them no good but much hurt Arg. 9. It is a damnable Sin Drunkenness is a damnable Sin a Sin for which men shall be condemned to the Torments of Hell for ever The Drunkard shall be cut asunder and have his portion with unbelievers Luk. 12. 45 46. There is scarce any Sin fills Hell like Drunkenness following Wine and strong drink send great multitudes to Hell the drunken Gentleman and drunken Prince notwithstanding all their bravery shall descend into Hell as well as the drunken Begger They that inflame themselves with Wine and strong drink shall be tormented in flames of fire for ever and then they that drunk Wine in boles and filled themselves with strong drink shall not with all their entreaties get so much as one drop of Water to cool their Tongues Arg. 10. It is a Bewitching Sin very hardly left by those that are addicted to it Drunkenness is an enticing bewitching Sin which is very hardly left by those that are addicted to it Neither the Word nor Rod of God prevaileth with men to leave this Sin but they go on sinning against Light sinning against the Counsels Reproofs and Tears of Friends against the checks of their own Consciences though the Lord afflict them in their Bodies Estates Good Names yet still they persevere in this sin though when upon sick beds they are under terrors of Conscience and feel as it were some flashes of Hell-fire and make great Vows and solemn Protestations that if God will spare their Lives and raise them up again they will leave off their Drunkenness yet when they are restored to Health they return to their old course again Prov. 23. 35. They have stricken me shalt thou say and I was not sick they have beaten me and I felt it not when shall I awake I will seek it yet again Solomon speaks here of Drunkards who are not disheartened by all the difficulties and troubles and blowes that they meet with in following after strong drink but resolve to seek it yet again and to persist in their dissolute courses Drunkards are wont to encourage themselves and one another to persist in their drunken courses under all discouragements Isa. 56. 12. Come ye say they I will fetch Wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Instead of desisting they grow more resolved in their way and the reason why this sin is so hardly left and so few recovered from it may be partly from the strength this sinful habit gets in the Soul by the many repeated Acts of this Sin and also from the Pleasingnesse of this Sin to corrupt Nature for the more pleasing any sin is the more hardly it is left And chiefly from the Just and Righteous Judgment of God who giveth up men who go on sinning against Light unto their own Hearts Lusts saying to them He that is filthy let him be filthy still Drunkenness is called by some Vitium maximae adhaerentiae a Sin that sticks closer and faster to a man than any other Sin These ten Arguments against Drunkennss were taken out of the Sermons of Mr. Owen Stockton of Colchester lately deceased an able and worthy Divine in a Larger discourse again that Sin well I worth the Reading sold by Mr. Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside Preached upon the occasion of a sad and dreadful