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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

closely pursued this pernicious Art of sucking in the smoke of this Herb that never any Chymist was more solicitous in greater hast to fetch his matters over the Helm by Distillation Behold what the event was the next morning I have heard complaints come from them that their Brains were something stupid dozed their Stomach nauseous being thirsty also feaverish All this they attribute to their transgressing limits of Sobriety in drinking or to the sophisticated adulterated Liquors not finding the least fault with the extravagant use of Tobacco which above all did them the most hurt privately Something I can speak experimentally to this purpose for having been wedded to it many years past supposing I had got an Antidote against Hypochondriack melancholy with an Apophlegmatism to discharge crude matter I applauded it in all Company without advertency at that time how false and treacherous it was which afterward perceiving I withdrew my self from the use thereof by degrees at length was altogether divorced from it Praevisa spicula levius feriunt Could we see the poysoned Arrows that are shot from this Plant questionless we would indeavour to avoid them that they might less intoxicate us Latet anguis in Herba We are suddenly surprized by this Serpentine Plant before we are aware thus that which we take for an Antidote becomes meer Poyson to us supplanting and clancularly confounding the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or good government of this Republick consisting in the strength and goodness of a seminal Archeus vigorous ferments the just constitution and harmony of every part Needs must then Indigestions Crudities Degeneration and Illegitimation of the nutricious juyce follow promoting Causes and products of the great Poyson of the Scurvy My advice therefore to any immoderate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Fumesucker is That he would as he tenders the Salvation of Body and Soul wean himself by degrees from excess herein If so doubtless he will find if the Scurvy infest him much an abatement of the tedious symptoms therefore Such as are so accustomed to Tobacco that they cannot forbear it let what can be said against it So that neither the good and solid Perswasions of a great wise and learned King nor the wholsome and rational Arguments of two able and skilful Physicians will be of force to prevail with them My Advice to such is while they take it To meditate on this Poem following by which they may be able to make this double spiritual use of it Viz. I. To see the Vanity of the World II. The Mortality of Mankind Which I think is the best use can be made of it and the Pipe c. The Indian Weed withered quite Green at Noon cut down at Night Shews Thy decay all Flesh is hay Thus think then drink Tobacco The Pipe that is so lilly-white Shews Thee to be a mortal Wight And even such gone with a touch Thus think then drink Tobacco And when the Smoke ascends on high Think thou behold'st the Vanity Of worldly stuff gone with a puff Thus think then drink Tobacco And when the Pipe grows foul within Think on thy Souldefil'd with Sin And then the Fire it doth require Thus think then drink Tobacco The Ashes that are left behind May serve to put thee still in mind That unto Dust return thou must Thus think then drink Tobacco Answered by George Withers thus Thus think drink no Tobacco Woe to Drunkards A SERMON Preached many Years since By Mr. Samuel Ward PREACHER OF IPSWICH PROV 23. Verse 29 32. To whom is Woe to whom is Sorrow to whom is Strife c. In the end it will bite like a Serpent and sting like a Cockatrice SEer art thou also blind Watchman art thou also drunk or asleep Or hath a Spirit of slumber put out thine Eyes Up to thy Watch-Tower what descriest thou Ah Lord what end or number is there of the Vanities which mine Eyes are weary of beholding But what seest thou I see men walking like the tops of Trees shaken with the wind like Masts of Ships reeling on the tempestuous Seas Drunkenness I mean that hateful Night-bird which was wont to wait for the twilight to seek Nooks and Corners to avoid the howling and wonderment of Boys and Girls Now as if it were some Eaglet to dare the Sun-light to fly abroad at high Noon in every Street in open Markets and Fairs without fear or shame without controul or punishment to the disgrace of the Nation the out-facing of Magistracy and Ministry the utter undoing without timely prevention of Health and Wealth Piety and Vertue Town and Countrey Church and Common-wealth And doest thou like a dumb Dog hold thy peace at these things dost thou with Solomon's sluggard fold thine hands in thy Bosome and give thy self to ease and drowsiness while the envious man causeth the noisomest and baseth of weeds to over-run the choisest Eden of God Up and Arise lift up thy Voice spare not and cry aloud What shall I cry Cry woe and woe again unto the Crown of pride the Drunkards of Ephraim Take up a parable and tell them how it stingeth like the Cockatrice declare unto them the deadly poyson of this odious sin Shew them also the soveragin Antidote and Cure of it in the Cup that was drunk off by him that was able to overcome it Cause them to behold the brasen Serpent and be healed And what though some of these deaf Adders will not be charmed nor cured yea though few or none of this swinish herd of habitual Drunkards accustomed to wallow in their mire yea deeply and irrecoverably plunged by legions of Devils into the dead sea of their filthiness what if not one of them will be washed and made clean but turn again to their Vomit and trample the Pearls of all admonition under feet yea turn again and rend their Reprovers with scoffs and scorns making Jests and Songs on their Alebench Yet may some young ones be deterred and some Novices reclaimed some Parents and Magistrates awakened to prevent and suppress the spreading of this Gangrene And God have his work in such as belong to his Grace And what is impossible to the work of his Grace Go to then now ye Drunkards listen not what I or any ordinary Hedge-Priest as you style us but that most wise and experienced Royal Preacher hath to say unto you And because you are a dull and thick eared Generation he first deals with you by way of question a figure of force and impression To whom is woe c. You use to say Woe be to Hypocrites It 's true woe be to such and all other witting and willing sinners but there are no kind of Offenders on whom woe doth so palpably inevitably attend as to you Drunkards You promise your selves Mirth Pleasure and Jollity in your Cups but for one drop of your mad mirth be sure of Gallons and Tuns of Woe Gall Wormwood and bitterness here and hereafter Other Sinners shall

hath had merciful Respect to the Lives Estates Souls and Bodies of his good Subjects and therein gone beyond his Predecessors I shall but name to his perpetual Honour these three viz. In the first place His Act of Oblivion passing by all that was done against Him or his Father excepting only those that were his Royal Fathers Judges In the next place He was pleased to publish a Proclamation to all His loving Subjects against that sinful Custom of drinking his Health His Majesty wisely considering how apt many would be to fall into that evil extreme doth in that Proclamation rebuke such as can express their Love to him in no better way then drinking His Health In the next place I cannot but take notice and mention to His Majesties Renown His late gracious Declaration For Liberty and Indulgence to tender Consciences that could not in all things conform to the Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church of England by Law established This by the way But now to speak a little more against drinking Healths which is to our purpose in hand There was many years since a Book Published by Mr. William Prynne against drinking of Healths Entituled Healths Sickness but not now to be had or seldom thought of he shews the greatness of that Sin and the dangerous consequence of it both to the Souls and Bodies of Men. There is another large Treatise published by Mr. Robert Younge Entituled The Drunkard's Character Also a Sermon preached long since by Doctor Robert Harris called The Drunkard's Cup out of Isaiah 5. from the 11. to the 18. verse And a Sermon published many years since Preached at Pauls-Cross by Doctor Abraham Gibson Entituled The Lands mourning for vain Swearing out of these words Because of Oaths the Land mourns And now the Land may mourn not only for vain Swearing but for vain Drinking of Healths and Drunkenness After His Majesties Restauration there was I remember a great Feast at which time there was a Health drank for His Majesty and when it came to the turn of an able learned grave Minister there present he utterly disliked and refused it Answering That he would pray for His Majesties Heath And if all that are Well-wishers to his Majesties Health would obey his Proclamation against that Vice in leaving off drinking either of the Kings Health or any others leave of swearing and prophaning the Sabbath and would constantly earnestly and heartily pray for His Majesties Health according as the Apostle St. Paul exhorts Timothy 1 Tim. 2. 3. That Supplication and Prayer be made for Kings and all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty I say then we should be in hopes to see better Times and better Trading The generality cry out of their want of Trading and of the Sins of the Rulers but our chief Work and Duty is to look more narrowly at home and to find out the Plague of our own Hearts Who smites upon his Thigh who saith what have I done We are apt to forget the late dreadful Judgments of God as that of the Destroying-Sword the sad destroying Pestilence when from the 20th of December 1664. to the 15th of December 1665. there died of all Diseases 97396 and of the Plague 68596 and in one week which I find to be the greatest of all was in September 19. 1665 there died of the Plague in London and Liberties 7165 of all Diseases 8297 that one week Can London ever forget those sad and lamentable consuming Flames that brake forth the Second of September 1666 The ruinous heaps on 373 Acres within and 63 Acres without the old Line the ghastly walls of 89 Parish-Churches and stately Houses and Halls with the Royal Exchange and as it was computed Thirteen thousand and two hundred Houses with a vast deal of Goods Houshold-stuff and rich Commodities and I think Book-sellers may easily remember the many Ware-houses of good Books of all sorts then turned to Ashes at St. Faiths Church and in other places about the City There was a Book published by Mr. Thomas Brooks Dedicated to Sir William Turner Lord Mayor who deserved much Love and Honour for being so great a Furtherer of building the City and Royal Exchange that lay long in Ruins Entituled London's Lamentations being a serious Discourse of the late fiery Dispensation that turned our Renowned City into a ruinous Heap In the second part or application of that Book Page 36. is shewed That the burning of London was a National Judgment and that God in smiting London did smite England round And what Sins bring desolating Judgments upon Persons and Places Intemperance and Drunkenness is one Sin and that we are to see the hand of the Lord in that dreadful Fire and to take heed of those Sins that bring the fiery Rod with the several Lessons and Duties we are to learn by it We may easily see that the Lord will not suffer us to be forgetful of his great Judgments by the several fresh Remembrances he hath given us by sad Fires in divers places since in and near the City Not long after the dreadful Fire there was a Merchants great house almost finished in Mincing Lane burned and quite defaced after that two great Fires brake forth in Southwark at several times and places Another at the Savoy which did much harm Another at the corner of St. Bartholomew Lane a Herald-Painter's House Mr. Francis Nowers himself his Child and Nurse was burned Another in White-Chappel and several persons burned there Another sad Fire was in or near Thames street which burned to the ground a great Sugar-Baker's House with many thousand pounds worth of Sugar belonging to several Partners it began September the Second the Lords-day 1671. And now last Whit-Sunday morning at St. Katherines near Tower-hill brake forth a very grievous lamentable Fire which as it is Reported consumed above one hundred Dwelling-houses and divers Ships and some people were burned and killed by it After that another great Fire that consumed about a dozen Houses and part of Sir Paul Pindar's house without Bishopsgate i● June 1672. A few dayys after brake forth another Fire which burned several Houses in Crutched-Friers One at Camomile-street At the Swan at Holborn-Bridge A Brick house in Grub-street We may do well to take that Counsel of our Saviour to the impotent man that he had cured and had been at the Pool of Bethsaida who had an Infirmity thirty eight years John 5. 14. Christ bid him go and sin no more least a worse thing befal him it was old Mr. Wheatlyes Text of Banbury after it was burned Read the 26 of Leviticus how greatly the Lord threatned the people of Israel if they were Disobedient to him He threatens great Judgments and to make their Cities wast and the Land desolate and in the verses 18 21 24 28. it is four times threatned That he will punish them seven times more for their Iniquities God hath

Nature being taken at times of necessity so being ever and continually used it doth but weaken weary and wear Nature What speak I of Medicine Nay let a man every hour of the day or as oft as many in this Country use to take Tobacco Let a man I say but take as oft the best sorts of Nourishments in Meat and Drink that can be devised he shall with the continual use thereof weaken both his Head and his Stomach all his members shall become feeble his Spirits dull and in the end as a drowsie lasie Belly-god he shall evanish in a Lethargy And from this weakness it proceeds that many in this Kingdom have had such a continual use of taking this unsavory Smoke as now they are not able to forbear the same no more then an old Drunkard can abide to be long sober without falling into an incurable Weakness and evil Constitution for their continual custom hath made to them habitum alteram naturam So to those that from their Birth have been continually nourished upon Poyson and things venemous wholesome Meats are onely poysonable Thus having as I trust sufficiently answered the most principal Arguments that are used in defence of this vile custome It rests onely to inform you what Sins and Vanities you commit in the filthy abuse thereof First Are you not guilty of sinful and shameful lust for lust may be as well in any of the Sences as in feeling that although you be troubled with no Disease but in perfect health yet can you neither be merry at an Ordinary nor lascivious in the Stews if you lack Tobacco to provoke your Apetite to any of those sorts of Recreation lusting after it as the Children of Israel did in the Wilderness after Quails Secondly It is as you use or rather abuse it a branch of the sin of Drunkenness which is the root of all Sins for as the onely delight that Drunkards take in Wine is in the strength of the tast and the force of the fume thereof that mounts up to the Brain for no Drunkards love any weak or sweet Drink So are not those I mean the strong heat and fume the only qualities that make Tobacco so delectable to all the Lovers of it And as no man likes strong heady Drink the first day because nemo repente fit turpissimus but by custom is piece and piece allured while in the end a Drunkard will have as great a thrist to be drunk as a sober man to quench his thirst with a draught when he hath need of it So is not this the very case of all the great takers of Tobacco which therefore they themselves do attribute to a bewitching quality in it Thirdly Is it not the greatest sin of all that you the people of all sorts of this Kingdom who are created and ordained by God to bestow both your Persons and Goods for the maintainance both of the honour and safety of your King and Common-wealth should disable your selves in both In your Persons having by this continual vile Custom brought your selves to this shameful imbecillity that you are not able to ride or walk the Journey of a Jews Sabbath but you must have a reeky coal brought you from the next poor House to kindle your Tobacco with whereas he cannot be thought able for any Service in the Wars that cannot endure oftentimes the want of Meat Drink and Sleep much more then must he endure the want of Tobacco In the times of the many glorious and victorious Battles fought by this Nation there was no word of Tobacco but now if it were time of Wars and that you were to make some sudden Cavalcado upon your Enemies if any of you should seek leisure to stay behind his Fellow for taking of Tobacco for my part I should never be sorry for any evil chance that might befall him To take a Custome in any thing that cannot be left again is most harmful to the people of any Land Mollities and delicacy were the rack and overthrow first of the Persian and next of the Roman Empire And this very custom of taking Tobacco whereof our present purpose is is even at this day accompted so effeminate among the Indians themselves as in the Market they will offer no price for a Slave to be sold whom they find to be a great Tobacco-taker Now how you are by this Custome disabled in your Goods let the Gentry of this Land bear witness some of them bestowing three some four hundred pounds a year upon this precious Stink which I am sure might be bestowed upon many far better Uses I read indeed of a Knavish Courtier who for abusing the favour of the Emperour Alexander Severus his Master by taking Bribes to intercede for sundry Persons in his Masters Ear for whom he never once opened his mouth was justly choked with smoke with this doom Fumo pereat qui fumum vendidit But of so many Smoke-Buyers as are at this present in this Kingdom I never read nor heard And for the Vanities committed in this filthy Custome is it not both great Vanity and Uncleanness that at the Table a place of Respect of Cleanliness of Modesty men should not be ashamed to sit tossing of Tobacco-Pipes and puffing of the smoke of Tobacco one to another making the filthy smoke and stink thereof to exhale athwart the Dishes and infect the Air when very often men that abhor it are at their Repast Surely smoke becomes a Kitchin far better then a Dining Chamber and yet it makes a Kitchin also oftentimes in the inward parts of men soyling and infecting them with an unctious and oylie kind of soot as hath been found in some great Tobacco-Takers that after their Death were opened And not onely meat-time but no other time nor action is exempted from the publique use of this uncivil trick so as if the Wives of Diep list to contest with this Nation for good Manners their worst Manners would in all reason be found at least not so dishonest as ours are in this point the publick use whereof at all times and in all places hath now so far prevailed as divers men very sound both in Judgment and Complexion have been at last forced to take it also without desire partly because they were ashamed to seem singular like the two Philosophers that were forced to duck themselves in that Rain-water and so became Fools as well as the rest of the people and partly to be as one that was content to eat Garlick which he did not love that he might not be troubled with the smell of it in the breath of his Fellows And is it not a great vanity that a man cannot heartily welcome his Friend now but straight they must be in hand with Tobacco No it is become in place of a Cure a point of good Fellowship and he that will refuse to take a Pipe of Tobacco among his Fellows though by his own election he would rather smell the savor of

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

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

what kind of water he offereth he would ask and God would give it frankly without money he should drink liberally be satisfied and out of his Belly should sally Springs of the water of Life quenching and extinguishing all his inordinate longings ofter stoln water of Sin and Death All this while little hope have I to work upon many Drunkards especially by a Sermon read of less life and force in God's Ordinance and in its own nature then preached my first drift is to stir up the Spirits of Parents and Masters who in all Places complain of this evil robbing them of good Servants and dutiful Children by all care and industry to prevent it in their Domestical Education by carrying a watchful and restraining hand over them Parents if you love either Soul or Body thrift or piety look to keep them from this Infection Lay all the bars of your authority cautions threats and charges for the avoyding of this epidemical Pestilence If any of them be bitten of this Cockatrice sleep not rest not till you have cured them of it if you love their Health Husbandry Grace their present or future lives Dead are they while they live if they live in this Sin Mothers lay about you as Bathsheba with all entreaties What my Son my Son of my loves and delights Wine is not for you c. My next hope is to arouse and awaken the vigilancy of all faithful Pastors and Teachers I speak not to such Stars as this Dragon hath swept down from Heaven with its tayl for of such the Prophets the Fathers of the Primitive yea all Ages complain of I hate and abhor to mention this abomination to alter the Proverb As drunk as a Beggar to a Gentleman is odious but to a Man of God to an Angel how harsh and hellish a sound it is in a Christians ears I speak therefore to sober Watchmen Watch and be sober and labour to keep your Charges sober and watchful that they may be so found of him that comes like a Thief in the night Two means have you of great vertue for the quelling of this Serpent zealous Preaching and Praying against it It 's an old received Antidote that mans spittle especially fasting spittle is mortal to Serpents Saint Donatus is famous in story for spitting upon a Dragon that kept an High-way and devoured many Passengers This have I made good Observation of That where God hath raised up zealous Preachers in such Towns this Serpent hath no nestling no stabling or denning If this will not do Augustine enforceth another which I conceive God's and Man's Laws allow us upon the reason he gives If Paul saith he forbid to eat with such our common Bread in our own private Houses how much more the Lord's Body in Church-Assemblies If in our Times this were strictly observed the Serpent would soon languish and vanish In the time of an Epidemical Disease such as the Sweating or Neezing Sickness a wise Physician would leave the study of all other Diseases to find out the Cure of the present raging Evil. If Chrysostome were now alive the bent of all his Homilies or at least one part of them should be spent to cry drown Drunkenness as he did swearing in Antioch never desisting to reprove it till if not the fear of God yet his imporunity made them weary of the sin Such Anakims and Zanzummims as the spiritual Sword will not work upon I turn them over to the Secular Arm with a signification of the dangerous and contagious spreading of this poyson in the Veins and Bowels of the Common-wealth In the Church and Christ his name also intreating them to carry a more vigilant Eye over the Dens and Burrows of this Cockatrice superfluous blind and Clandestine Ale-houses I mean the very Pest-houses of the Nation which I could wish had all for their sign a picture of some hideous Serpent or a pair of them as the best Hieroglyphick of the genius of the place to warn Passengers to shun and avoid the danger of them Who sees and knows not that some one needless Ale-house in a Countrey-Town undoes all the rest of the Houses in it eating up the thrift and fruit of their Labours the ill manner of sundry places being there to meet in some one Night of the Week and spend what they they have gathered and spared all the days of the same before to the prejudice of their poor Wives and Children at home and upon the Lords day after Evening Prayers there to quench and drown all the good Lessons they have heard that day at Church If this go on what shall become of us in time If woe be to single Drunkards is not a National woe to be feared and expected of a Nation over-run with Drunkenness Had we no other Sin reigning but this which cannot reign alone will not God justly spue us out of his mouth for this alone We read of whole Countreys wasted dispeopled by Serpents Pliny tells us of the Amyclae Lycophron of Salamis Herodotus of the Neuri utterly depopulate and made unhabitable by them Verily if these Cockatrices multiply and get head amongst us a while longer as they have of late begun where shall the people have sober Servants to till their Lands or Children to hold and enjoy them They speak of drayning Fens but if this Evil be not stopped we shall all shortly be drowned with it I wish the Magistracy Gentry and Yeomanry would take it to serious consideration how to deal with this Serpent before he grow too strong and fierce for them It is past the egge already and much at that pass of which Augustine complains of in his time that he scarce knew what remedy to advise but thought it required the meeting of a general Council The best course I think of is if the great Persons would first begin through Reformation in their own Families banish the spirits of their Butteries abandon that foolish and vitious Custom as Ambrose and Basil calls it of drinking Healths and making that a Sacrifice to God for the health of others which is rather a Sacrifice to the Devil and a bane of their own I remember well Sigismund the Emperor's grave Answer wherein there concurred excellent Wisdom and Wit seldom meeting in one saying which he gave before the Council of Constance to such as proposed a Reformation of the Church to begin with the Franciscans and Minorites You will never do any good saith he unless you begin with the Majorites first Sure till it be out of fashion and grace in Gentlemens Tables Butteries and Cellars hardly shall you perswade the Countrey-man to lay it down who as in Fashions so in Vices will ever be the Ape of the Gentry If this help not I shall then conclude it to be such an Evil as is only by Soveraign Power and the King's Hand curable And verily next under the word of God which is Omnipotent how potent and wonder-working is the Word of a King when