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A70365	Two broad-sides against tobacco the first given by King James of famous memory, his Counterblast to tobacco : the second transcribed out of that learned physician Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his Treatise of the scurvy : to which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking, taken out of another work of the same author, his Preservation of health and prolongation of life : with a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's treatise of Bloud, against smoking tobacco : also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards, who have died suddenly, in a sermon preached by Mr. Samuel Ward : concluding with two poems against tobacco and coffee / corrected and published, as very proper for this age, by J.H.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699? Treatise of the scurvy.; Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered.	1672 (1672)	Wing J147; ESTC R19830	56,525	81

taste of the Cup but you shall drink off the dregs of God's Wrath and Displeasure To whom is Strife You talk of good fellowship and friendship but Wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate and sets you a quarreling and medling When wit 's out of the head and strength out of the body it thrusts even Cowards and Dastards unfenced and unarmed into needless Frayes and Combats And then to whom are Wounds broken Heads blue Eyes maimed Limbs You have a drunken by-word Drunkards take no harm but how many are the mishaps and untimely misfortunes that betide such which though they feel not in drink they carry as marks and brands to their Grave You pretend you drink Healths and for Health but to whom are all kind of Diseases Infirmities Deformities pearled Faces Palsies Dropsies Head-aches If not to Drunkards Upon these premises he forcibly infers his sober and serious advise Look upon these woful effects and evils of Drunkenness and look not upon the Wine look upon the blue Wounds upon the red Eyes it causeth and look not on the red colour when it sparkleth in the Cup. If there were no worse then these yet would no wise man be overtaken with Wine As if he should say What see you in the Cup or Drink that countervaileth these dreggs that lie in the bottom Behold this is the Sugar you are to look for and the tang it leaves behind Woe and alas sorrow and strife shame poverty and diseases these are enough to make it odious but that which followeth withall will make it hideous and fearful For Solomon duely considering that he speaks to men past shame and grace senseless of blowes and therefore much more of reasons and words insisteth not upon these petty woes which they bewitched and besotted with the love of Wine will easily over-see and over-leap but sets before their Eyes the direful end and fruit the black and poysonful tail of this sin In the end it stingeth like the Serpent it biteth like the Cockatrice or Adder saith our new Translation All Interpreters agree That he means some most virulent Serpent whose Poyson is present and deadly All the woes he hath mentioned before were but as the sting of some Emmet Waspe or Nettle in comparison of this Cockatrice which is even unto death death speedy death painful and woful death and that as naturally and inevitably as Opium procureth sleep as Hellebore purgeth or any Poyson killeth Three forked is this sting and three-fold is the death it procureth to all that are strung therewith The first is the death of Grace The second is of the Body The third is of Soul and Body eternal All sin is the poyson wherewithall the old Serpent and red Dragon envenomes the soul óf Man but no sin except it be that which is unto death so mortal as this which though not ever unpardonably yet for the most part is also irrecoverably and inevitably unto death Seest thou one bitten with any other Snake there is hope and help as the Father said of his Son when he had information of his Gaming of his Prodigality yea of his Whoring But when he heard that he was poysoned with Drunkenness he gave him for dead his case for desperate and forlorn Age and experience often cures the other but this encreaseth with years and parteth not till death Whoring is a deep Ditch yet some few shall a man see return and lay hold on the wayes of life one of a thousand but scarce one Drunkard of ten-thousand One Ambrose mentions and one have I known and but one of all that ever I knew or heard of Often have I been asked and often have I enquired but never could meet with an instance save one or two at the most I speak of Drunkards not of one drunken of such who rarely and casually have Noah-like been surprised over-taken at unawares But if once a Custome ever Necessity Wine takes away the Heart and spoils the Brain overthrows the Faculties and Organs of Repentance and Resolution And is it not just with God that he who will put out his natural light should have his spiritual extinguished He that will deprive himself of Reason should lose also the Guide and Pilot of Reason God's Spirit and Grace He that will wittingly and willingly make himself an Habitation of Unclean Spirits should not dispossess them at his own pleasure Most aptly therefore is it translated by Tremelius Haemorrhois which Gesner confounds with the Dipsas or thirsty Serpent whose poyson breedeth such thirst drought and inflamation like that of Ratsbane that they never leave drinking till they burst and die withall Would it not grieve and pitty any Christian-soul to see a towardly hopeful young man well natured well nurtured stung with this Cockatrice bewailing his own case crying out against the baseness of the sin inveighing against Company melting under the perswasions of Friends yea protesting against all enticements vow covenant and seriously indent with himself and his Friends for the relinquishing of it And yet if he meet with a Companion that holds but up his Finger he follows him as a Fool to the Stocks and as an Oxe to the Slaughter-house having no Power to withstand the Temptation but in he goes with him to the Tipling-house not considering that the Chambers are the Chambers of Death and the Guests the Guests of Death and there he continues as one bewitched or conjured in a Spell out of which he returns not till he hath emptied his Purse of Money his Head of Reason and his Heart of all his former seeming Grace There his Eyes behold the strange Woman his Heart speaketh perverse things becoming heartless as one saith Solomon in the heart of the Sea resolving to continue and return to his Vomit whatsoever it cost him to make it his daily work I was sick and knew it not I was struck and felt it not when I awake I will seek it still And why indeed without a Miracle should any expect that one stung with this Viper should shake it off and ever recover of it again Yea so far are they from recovering themselves that they infect and become contagious and pestilent to all they come near The Dragon infusing his Venome and assimulating his Elfes to himself in no sin so much as in this that it becomes as good as Meat and Drink to them to spend their Wit and Money to compass Ale-house after Ale-house yea Town after Town to transform others with their Circean-Cups till they have made them Bruits and Swine worse then themselves The Adulterer and Usurer desire to enjoy their Sin alone but the chiefest pastime of a Drunkard is to heat and overcome others with Wine that he may discover their nakedness and glory in their foyl and folly In a word excess of Wine and the spirit of Grace are opposites the former expels the latter out of the Heart as smoke doth Bees out of the Hive and makes the man a

meer Slave and Prey to Satan and his snares when by this Poyson he hath put out his Eyes and spoyled him of his strength he useth him as the Philistins did Sampson leads him in a string whither he pleaseth like a very drudge scorn and make-sport to himself and his Imps makes him grind in the Mill of all kind of Sins and Vices And that I take to be the reason why Drunkenness is not specially prohibited in any one of the Ten Commandments because it is not the single breach of any one but in effect the violation of all and every one It is no one sin but all sins because it is the In-let and Sluce to all other Sins The Devil having moistened and steeped him in his Liquor shapes him like soft Clay into what mould he pleaseth having shaken off his Rudder and Pilot dashes his Soul upon what Rocks Sands and Syrts he listeth and that with as much ease as a man may push down his Body with the least thrust of his Hand or Finger He that in his right wits and sober mood seems religious modest chast courteous secret in his drunken fits swears blasphemes rages strikes talks filthily blabs all secrets commits folly knows no difference of Persons or Sexes becomes wholly at Satans command as a dead Organ to be enacted at his will and pleasure Oh that God would be pleased to open the Eyes of some Drunkard to see what a Dunghill and Carrion his Soul becomes and how loathsome effects follow upon thy spiritual death and sting of this Cockatrice which is the Fountain of the other two following temporal and eternal death And well may it be that some such as are altogether fearless and careless of the former death will yet tremble and be moved with that which I shall in the second place tell them Among all other sins that are none brings forth bodily death so frequently as this none so ordinarily slays in the act of sin as this And what can be more horrible then to die in the act of a Sin without the act of Repentance I pronounce no definitive Sentence of Damnation upon any particular so dying but what door of hope or comfort is left to their Friends behind of their Salvation The Whore-Master he hopes to have a space and time to repent in age though sometimes it pleaseth God that death strikes Cozbi and Zimri napping as the Devil is said to slay one of the Popes in the instant of his Adultery and carry him quick to Hell The Swearer and Blasphemer hath commonly space though seldom Grace to repent and amend and some rare examples stories afford of some taken with Oaths and Blasphemies in their mouths The Thief and Oppossor may live and repent and make restitution as Zacheus though I have seen one slain right-out with the Timber he stole half an hour before and heard of one that having stoln a Sheep and laying it down upon a stone to rest him was grin'd and hang'd with the strugling of it about his Neck But these are extraordinary and rare cases God sometimes practising Marshal-Law and doing present execution lest Fools shall say in their Hearts There were no God or Judgment but conniving and deferring the most that men might expect a Judge coming and a solemn day of Judgment to come But this sin of Drunkenness is so odious to him that he makes it self Justice Judge and Executioner slaying the ungodly with misfortune bringing them to untimely shameful ends in brutish and beastial manner often in their own vomit and ordure sending them sottish sleeping and senseless to Hell not leaving them either time or reason or grace to repent and cry so much as Lord have mercy upon us Were there as in some Cities of Italy an Office kept or a Record and Register by every Coroner in Shires and Counties of such dismal events which God hath avenged this sin withall what a Volume would it have made within these few years in this our Nation How terrible a Threater of God's Judgments against Drunkards such as might make their Hearts to bleed and relent if not their Ears to tingle to hear of a taste of some few such noted and remarkable Examples of God's Justice as have come within the compass of mine own notice and certain knowledge I think I should offend to conceal them from the World whom they may happily keep from being the like to others themselves An Ale-wife in Kesgrave near to Ipswich who would needs force three Serving-men that had been drinking in her House and were taking their leaves to stay and drink the three Ou ts first that is Wit out of the Head Money out of the Purse Ale out of the Pot as she was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand was suddenly taken speechless and sick her Tongue swoln in her mouth never recovered speech the third day after died This Sir Anthony Felton the next Gentleman and Justice with divers others Eye-witnesses of her in Sickness related to me whereupon I went to the House with two or three Witnesses and inquired the truth of it Two Servants of a Brewer in Ipswich drinking for a rumpe of a Turkie strugling in their drink for it fell into a scading Caldron backwards whereof the one died presently the other lingringly and painfully since my coming to Ipswich Anno 1619. A Miller in Bromeswell coming home drunk from Woodbridge as he oft did would needs go and swim in the Milpond his Wife and Servants knowing he could not swim disswaded him once by intreaty got him out of the water but in he would needs go again and there was drowned I was at the house to inquire of this and found it to be true In Barnewell near to Cambridge one at the Sign of the Plough a lusty young man with two of his Neighbours and one Woman in their Company agreed to drink a Barrel of strong Beer they drank up the Vessel three of them dyed within twenty four hours the fourth hardly escaped after great sickness This I have under a Justice of Peace his Hand near dwelling besides the common fame A Butcher in Hastingfield hearing the Minister inveigh against Drunkenness being at his Cups in the Ale-house fell a jesting and scoffing at the Minister and his Sermons And as he was drinking the Drink or something in the Cup quackled him stuck so in his Throat that he could get it neither up nor down but strangled him presently At Tillingham in Dengy Hundred in Essex three young men meeting to drink Strong waters fell by degrees to half-pints One fell dead in the Room and the other prevented by Company coming in escaped not without much sickness At Bungey in Norfolk three coming out of an Ale-house in a very dark Evening swore they thought it was not darker in Hell it self One of them fell off the Bridge into the water and was drowned the second fell off his Horse the third sleeping on the Ground by the

Rivers-side was frozen to death This have I often heard but have no certain ground for the truth of it it A Bayliff of Hadly upon the Lords-day being drunk at Melford would needs get upon his Mare to ride through the Street affirming as the Report goes That 〈◊〉 Mare would carry him to the Devil His Mare casts him off and broke his Neck instantly Reported by sundry sufficient Witnesses Company drinking in an Ale-house at Harwich in the night over against one Master Russels and by him out of his Window once or twice willed to depart at length he came down and took one of them and made as if he would carry him to Prison who drawing his Knife fled from him and was three days after taken out of the Sea with the Knife in his hand Related to me by Master Russel himself Mayor of the Town At Tenby in Pembrokeshire a Drunkard being exceeding drunk broke himself all to pieces off an high and steep Rock in a most fearful manner and yet the occasion and circumstances of his fall were so ridiculous as I think not fit to relate lest in so serious a Judgment I should move laughter to the Reader A Glasier in Chancery-Lane in London noted formerly for Profession fell to a common course of drinking whereof being oft by his Wife and many Christian friends admonished yet presuming much of God's mercy to himself continued therein till upon a time having surcharged his Stomach with drink he fell a vomiting broke a Vein lay two days in extreme pain of Body and distress of Mind till in the end recovering a little comfort he died Both these Examples related to me by a Gentleman of worth upon his own knowledge Four sundry instances of Drunkards wallowing and tumbling in their drink slain by Carts I forbear to mention because such examples are so common and ordinary A Yeoman's Son in Northamptonshire who being drunk at Wellingborough on a Market-day would needs ride his Horse in a bravery over the plowed-lands fell from his Horse and brake his Neck Reported to me by a Kinsman of his own A Knight notoriously given to Drunkenness carrying sometime Payls of drink into the open Field to make people drunk withall being upon a time drinking with Company a woman comes in delivering him a Ring with this Posie Drink and die saying to him This is for you which he took and wore and within a week after came to his end by drinking Reported by sundry and justified by a Minister dwelling within a mile of the place Two Examples have I known of Children that murthered their own Mothers in drink and one notorious Drunkard that attempted to kill his Father of which being hindred he fired his Barn and was afterward executed one of these formerly in Print At a Tavern in Breadstreet in London certain Gentlemen drinking Healths to their Lords on whom they had dependance one desperate Wretch steps to the Tables end lays hold on a pottle-pot full of Canary-sack swears a deep Oath What will none here drink a health to my noble Lord and Master and so setting the pottle-pot to his mouth drinks it off to the bottom was not able to rise up or to speak when he had done but fell into a deep snoaring sleep and being removed laid aside and covered by one of the Servants of the House attending the time of the drinking was within the space of two hours irrecoverably dead Witnessed at the time of the Printing hereof by the same Servant that stood by him in the Act and helpt to remove him In Dengy Hundred near Mauldon about the beginning of his Majesties Reign there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or six that plotted a solemn drinking at one of their Houses laid in Beer for the once drunk healths in a strange manner and died thereof within a few weeks some sooner and some later witnessed to me by one that was with one of them on his death-bed to demand a Debt and often spoken of by Master Heydon late Preacher of Mauldon in the hearing of many The particular circumstances were exceeding remarkable but having not sufficient proof for the particulars I will not report them One of Ayl●sham in Norfolk a notorious Drunkard drowned in a shallow Brook of water with his Horse by him Whilest this was at the Presse a man Eighty five years old or thereabout in Suffolk overtaken with Wine though never in all his life before as he himself said a little before his fall seeming to bewail his present condition and others that knew him so say of him yet going down a pair of stairs against the perswasion of a woman sitting by him in his Chamber fell and was so dangerously hurt as he died soon after not being able to speak from the time of his fall to his death The Names of the Parties thus punished I forbear for the Kindreds sake yet living If conscionable Ministers of all places of the Land would give notice of such Judgments as come within the compass of their certain knowledge it might be a great means to suppress this Sin which reigns every where to the scandal of our Nation and high displeasure of Almighty God These may suffice for a tast of God's Judgments Easie were it to abound in sundry particular Casualties and fearful Examples of this nature Drunkard that which hath befaln any one of these may befal thee if thou wilt dally with this Cockatrice what ever leagues thou makest with Death and dispensations thou givest thy self from the like Some of these were young some were rich some thought themselves as wise thou none of them ever looked for such ignominious ends more then thou who ever thou art if thou hatest such ends God give thee Grace to decline such courses If thou beest yet insensate with Wine void of Wit and Fear I know not what further to mind thee of but of that third and worst sting of all the rest which will ever be gnawing and never dying which if thou wilt not fear here sure thou art to feel there when the Red Dragon hath gotten thee into his Den and shalt fill thy Soul with the gall of Scorpions where thou shalt yell and howl for a drop of water to cool thy Tongue withall and shalt be denied so small a refreshing and have no other liquor to allay thy thirst but that which the lake of Brimstone shall afford thee And that worthily for that thou wouldest incur the wrath of the Lamb for so base and sordid a sin as Drunkenness of which thou mayest think as venially and slightly as thou wilt But Paul that knew the danger of it gives thee fair warning and bids thee not deceive thy self expresly and by name mentioning it among the mortal sins excluding from the Kingdom of Heaven And the Prophet Esay tells thee That for it Hell hath enlarged it self opened its mouth wide and without measure and therefore shall the multitude and their pomp and

the jollyest among them descend into it Consider this you that are strong to pour in drink that love to drink sorrow and care away And be you well assured that there you shall drink enough for all having for every drop of your former Bousings Vials yea whole Seas of God's Wrath never to be exhaust Now then I appeal from your selves in drink to your selves in your sober fits Reason a little the case and tell me calmly would you for your own or any mans pleasure to gratifie Friend or Companion if you knew there had been a Toad in the wine-pot as twice I have known happened to the death of Drinkers or did you think that some Caesar Borgia or Brasutus had tempered the Cup or did you see but a Spider in the Glass would you or durst you carouse it off And are you so simple to fear the Poyson that can kill the Body and not that which killeth the Soul and Body ever yea for ever and ever and if it were possible for more then for ever for evermore Oh thou vain Fellow what tellest thou me of friendship or good fellowship wilt thou account him thy Friend or good Fellow that draws thee into his company that he may poyson thee and never thinks he hath given thee right entertainment or shewed thee kindness enough till he hath killed thy Soul with his kindness and with Beer made thy Body a Carkass fit for the Biere a laughing and loathing stock not to Boys and Girls alone but to Men and Angels Why rather sayest thou not to such What have I to do with you ye Sons of Belial ye poysonful Generation of Vipers that hunt for the precious life of a man Oh but there are few good Wits or great Spirits now a-days but will Pot it a little for company What hear I Oh base and low-spirited times if that were true If we were faln into such Lees of Time foretold of by Seneca in which all were so drowned in the dregs of Vices that it should be vertue and honour to bear most drink But thanks be to God who hath reserved many thousands of men and without all comparison more witty and valorous then such Pot-wits and Spirits of the Buttery who never bared their knees to drink health nor ever needed to whet their Wits with Wine or arm their courage with Pot-harness And if it were so yet if no such Wits or Spirits shall ever enter into Heaven without Repentance let my Spirit never come and enter into their Paradise ever abhor to partake of their bruitish pleasures lest I partake of their endless woes If young Cyrus could refuse to drink Wine and tell Astyages He thought it to be Poyson for he saw it metamorphose men into Beasts and Carcases what would he have said if he had known that which we may know that the wine of Drunkards is the wine of Sodom and Gomorrah their grapes the grapes of gall their clusters the clusters of bitterness the Juyce of Dragons and the venome of Asps In which words Moses is a full Commentary upon Solomon largely expressing that he speaks here more briefly It stings like the Serpent and bites like the Cockatrice To the which I may not unfitly add that of Pauls and think I ought to write of such with more passion and compassion then he did of the Christians in his time which sure were not such Monsters as ours in the shapes of Christians Whose God is their Belly whom they serve with Drink-Offerings whose glory is their shame and whose end is damnation What then take we pleasure in thundering out Hell against Drunkards is there nothing but death and damnation to Drunkards Nothing else to them so continuing so dying But what is there no help nor hope no Amulet Antidote or Triacle are there no Presidents found of Recovery Ambrose I temember tells of one that having been a spectacle of Drunkenness proved after his Conversion a pattern of sobriety And I my self must confess that one have I known yet living who having drunk out his bodily Eyes had his spiritual Eyes opened proved diligent in hearing and practising Though the Pit be deep miry and narrow like that Dungeon into which Jeremy was put yet if it please God to let down the cords of his Divine mercy and cause the Party to lay hold thereon it is possible they may escape the snares of death There is even for the most debauched Drunkard that ever was a soveraign Medicine a rich Triacle of force enough to cure and recover his Disease to obtain his Pardon and to furnish him with strength to overcome this deadly Poyson fatal to the most And though we may well say of it as men out of experience do of Quartane Agues that it is the disgrace of all moral Physick of all Reproofs Counsels and Admonitions yet is there a Salve for this Sore there came one from Heaven that trode the Winepress of his Fathers fierceness drunk of a Cup tempered with the bitterness of God's Wrath and the Devils Malice that he might heal even such as have drunk deepest of the sweet Cup of Sin And let all such know that in all the former discovery of this Poyson I have only aimed to cause them feel their sting and that they might with earnest Eyes behold the Brasen Serpent and seriously repair to him for Mercy and Grace who is perfectly able to eject even this kind which so rarely and hardly is thrown out where once he gets possession This Seed of the Woman is able to bruise this Serpents head Oh that they would listen to the gracious offers of Christ if once there be wrought in thy Soul a spiritual thirst after mercy as the thirsty Land hath after rain a longing appetite after the water that comes out of the Rock after the Blood that was shed for thee then let him that is athirst come let him drink of the water of life without any money of which if thou hast took but one true and thorow draught thou wilt never long after thy old puddle waters of Sin any more Easie will it be for thee after thou hast rasted of the Bread and Wine in thy Father's House ever to loath the Husks and Swill thou wert wont to follow after with greediness The Lord Christ will bring thee into his Mothers House cause thee to drink of his spiced Wine of the new Wine of the Pomegranate Yea he will bring thee into his Cellar spread his Banner of Love over thee stay thee with flagons fill thee with his love till thou beest sick and overcome with the sweetness of his Consolations In other Drink there is excess but here can be no danger The Devil hath his invitation Come let us drink and Christ hath his inebriamini Be ye filled with the Spirit Here is a Fountain set open and Proclamation made And if it were possible for the bruitishest Drunkard in the World to know who it is that offereth and