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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90647	A prospective-glasse for gamesters: or, A short treatise against gameing: in which is contained a plaine and perfect manifestation of the inconveniencies, miseries and calamities which the user or practiser of unlawfull games doth bring upon himselfe, not onely in regard of his mortall body, but also upon his eternall soule. Wherein also these six evill consequences of gaming are exactly and pertinently handled, viz. [brace] Drunkennesse. Lying. Swearing. [double brace] Adultery. Poverty. Theevery. [brace] Written at the request of a gamester, upon his detestation of his former idle life and practice in this kind. / By John Philpot Master in Arts. Dedicated to the honest and judicious youngmen and apprentices of the honourable city of London. Published according to order.	Philpot, John, Master in Arts.; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645,	1646 (1646)	Wing P1988A; Thomason E345_15; ESTC R200995	7,665	18

Lord Lord open unto us Luke 13. and he shall make answer and say I know not whence years depart from me all ye workers of iniquity there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth procured by this vice of drunkennesse sprung from the loynes of gaming Nor doe I say that drunkennesse comes alone by gaming but that it is Regia via a high way to it Wherefore that we may avoid the one let us fly the other as two venemous Serpents seeking to sting us unto death 2. Gaming produceth lying for the world is now growne to such an height of impiety that there is no man almost even in very mercenary affaires will feare for his owne profit to tell a lye but with gamesters it is grown a fashion followed by every one of them A lye that is but a trifle in their account shall they loose their mony for want of a lye that were a jest indeed O but let them look to it least they jest away their souls by it who is the Father of lyes but the Devill we need to make no doubt for Christ himselfe said it John 8. A lying tongue God hates saith Solomon Prov. 6. and if he hate it then woe be unto thee whosoever thou art which affectest it it had better thou never hadst been borne That God is a God of mercy it is most true but that he is a God of judgement also is most certaine God will create Adam after his own likenesse Gen. 1. and give him dominion over the fish over the fowles of the aire over the cattle over all the earth and over every creeping thing which creepeth on the earth and placed him in Eden But if Adam breake the Commandement of God if Adam does that which God hates then he must be thrust out of Eden to go forth and till the ground Gen. 3. God dealt fairely kindly and mercifully with Israel his chosen people untill that they did that which he hated running a whoring after their own inventions then did he deliver them over into the hands of their enemies who carried them away captive God loves man so long as man loves God but when man once begins to doe that which hee hates then God powres forth his violls of wrath God hates lying wherfore that we may shun the effect which is lying let us avoid the cause gaming for qualis causa talis effectus the Logician saith if the cause be good it followes that effect the end must be good but if the cause be bad the effect must be so likewise A Lawyer an honest one I mean if the cause be good by pleading must needs overthrow his Adversary and so the effect prove good also but if bad although all his Equivocations Fallacies the effect as I said before must needs prove bad Wherefore that wee may not be tainted for Lyers let us not be Gamsters For where the dead carkas is there will the Eagles gather together and so where common Gaming is there is also common Lying which produceth Swearing Thirdly by Gaming comes Swearing After a company have beene Gaming together those which lose their mony when they can get no redresse for their losse their only ease is to curse ban and sweare at the Cards or Dice Nay and before they Have lost their money they are not Gamesters if they have not a fit of Swearing that such a one playes not faire or that the other hath wonne farre more then he confesseth for that they cannot doe by Lying if it be possible they will by Swearing I needed not to have made any distinction at all betwixt Lying and Swearing for saith an ancient Father Swearing and Lying goe together and proceeding further he saith Therefore they which are used to swearing doe very naught and no doubt but that Gods vengeance hangeth over their heads And certaine it is that he which is a great Swearer is also a great Lyer O consider with thy selfe O Gamester and consequently Swearer how thou offendest thy good and gracious God who when thou wert in the gulfe of misery and ready for to discend into the deepe abysse of Hell Joh. 3. He so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Sonne that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have everlasting life In this saith Saint John 1 Ioh. 4. was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Sonne into the world that wee might live through him Nor did he onely send his Sonne to looke into the world and no more but he sent him to dye for the world and to be made a propitiation for all our sins and yet for all this wee with our roaring swearing-Gamsters pluck him from his throne of glory againe if it were possible by those thundring Oaths O was it not enough that he sufferd once such torments as the best of Orators wanted words to expresse thē but that Adamantine-hearted men more cruell then the Iewes for they crucyfied him but once must by their swearing crucifie him dayly Me thinkes I see the hard and flintie rocks to gush out in teares and yet their eyes are dry O hearke how savage beasts of the field doe seeme in their kind to lament and morn to see their masters more brutish than themselves What shall I say shall I tell these men Saint Iames admonition Iam. 5. Above all things my brethren sweare not neither by heaven c. but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest yee fall into condemnation I feare their hearts are so hardned they will not regard it nor all the rout of this bewitching Vice of Gaming O God of thy great mercy open their eyes and turn their reynes that from the bottome of their hearts they may repent them of their wickednesse be converted from this evill course of Gaming consequently from that horrid sin of swearing which unto thee I know is most odious and hatefull let their yea be yea and their nay nay so shall thy Saints rejoyce they hereafter to their comforts enjoy eternall happinesse Fourthly Gaming is the high-way to Adultery Lust is the Ring-leader of mischiefe it is a bait of much evill it is the Devils vaile which he often throws over mens faces to blind them in the way of igorance it is that Diabolical sin which ne'r leaves man till such time it hath robd him of that glorious Diadem of happinesse his precious soule and his only Darling it is that damned and bewithced sin that makes a separation between God and man it is that Grand Champion which causes that soul which was created glorious and delightsome in the sight of God become most detestable and odious in his presence By this Vice the soule is endangered and oftentimes with cruell ulcers and sores the body is infected and his means by Harlots suddenly wasted Woe be to that man which spends his time so vainly and consumes his estate so wickedly in this bosome-bosome-sin which is the only

read iest way to hellish misery and everlasting Beggery it is the cause their friends forsake them those which are the Children of God to abhor and detest them Nay it makes their neighbours to shun them and very youth to deride them laugh them to scora their kins folke doe despise them and are very sh●e and nice to drink with them t is so odious a Vice that no good man regards them it doth cause God to forsake them and if they doe not speedly repent themselves and aske God mercy and forgivenesse for so damned a crime the Devill will soone take them and who then is there able to deliver them O the horridnesse of this sin of Adultery which is ushered in by the damnable Vice of Gaming which is a madnesse God he knowes too much embraced by foolish and voluptuous worldlings who doe as it were with ardent desire surrender or imploy themselvs with every part and facultie of their bodies and mind to this so damnable an Exercise Gaming I meane Which exercise is as a bait or snare to entrap men in to cozen and cheat them of the estate which their fore-fathers with sweatie browes so turmoyled and laboured for It is as a Thiefe robbing and stripping them stark naked of those happy and celestiall cogitation which perhaps otherwise they would be indued withall which would redound to the welfare both of bodies and soules This Vice of Gaming as I said before oftentimes ushers in the ugly monstrous sin of Adultery and puts us in mind of strange women whose rowling and glancing eyes allure us to their owne wicked intents of whom wise Solomon giveth us warning Prov. 6. Lust not after her beautie in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eye-lids for by meanes of a whorish woman man is brought to a piece of bread and the Adulteres will hunt for the precious life Marke to the 2 chap. 32 vers and there Solomon saith VVho so committeth Adultery with a woman lacketh und understanding he that doth it destroyeth his owne soule Furthermore Gaming Esca est malorum a net of evils in which oftentimes men are caught in Gaming makes men carelesse of their affaires and heedlesse of their estates for the present and for ever after ruinous It makes a man as I told you before in the last particular prone to sweare and forsweare and in the eagernesse of their play ready to bulke out such oathes which are ready to teare the Divine Essence out of his sacred Throne of Glory But especially this vice doth Dame Lust attend upon This mighty darling sinne doth still wait on that mans elbow who is given to the vice of Gaming A Gamester discruciatur animo is troubled and perplext in his minde his eyes are still effeminate his thoughts are incrused and inflamed after lascivious and wanton women which are caterpillers to devoure his estate and Darling friend his soule Gaming doth often rob man of his silken robe of honour and causes him to be cladded with ragges of much infamy and disgrace Though thou mayst by this exercise of Gaming flourish in primo juventutis in the prime of thy age and accumulate an estate the vice being so tempting thou mayst before old dayes be deceived of thy former estate and bring upon thy selfe the state of beggery as I shall shew anon O therefore let all men as regard prosperity in this world and eternall joyes in the world to come forsake this damnable exercise of Gaming which hatcheth such a serpentine Egge as Adultery which that all may God of his great mercy grant and thus I conclude Gaming as it is the high-way to Adultery Fifthly Gaming is the high-way to beggery Gaming is the high-way to idlenesse and consequently to beggery For I my selfe have known many Tradesmen and others which after they have taken a haunt of Gaming neither can nor will finde the way againe to follow their lawfull occupations but spend the remnant of their lives in sloath from a Dice-patron hee becomes an idle person and a sluggard to whom Salomon thus speaketh Prov. 6. Go to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no guid overseer or ruler provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest how long wilt thou sleep O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep yet a little sleep c. By this we may see that the wayes of Idlenesse is want and poverty Again Salomon saith Prov. 13. The soule of the sluggard or slothfull desireth and hath nothing And again he saith ch 22. v. 5. The slothfull man saith there is a Lyon without I shall be slain in the streets No excuse shall be wanting to maintaine his idlenesse by which buildings decay and houses drop down Eccles 10. Idlenesse saith one Radix omnium malorum est is the root of all evill S. Paul saith Qui non laborat non comedat he that laboreth not let him not eate After Adam had offended it was Gods pleasure that he should not be idle wherefore he saith Gen. 3. In sudore vultus tui vesceris pa●●●ue in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eate thy bread And S. Paul saith again Magis autem laboret ut det indigentibus let him labour the more that he may have wherewithall to help the poore But alas our Idle Gamsters are so far from that as they will not work to supply their own wants what shall they which but lately had the world in a string to have what they would and do what they would and command whom they would now by any one be commanded they frown if although a proud heart and a beggers purse agree not togegether Content they are to live although a dogs life having hunger and ease Work no they will rather steale which brings mee to the sixt danger that ensues by Gaming Sixtly Gaming is the high way which leadeth to theevery After beggery hath visited a Gamester he is desperate and prone to all evill but especially theevery although God in the 8. Commandement expresly commands to the contrary saying Thou shalt not steale And where the Commandements of God are broken there can be no love to God For if ye love me saith Christ keep my Commandements as if he had said It is not enough to say that you love me making only a show of the same but let me see it done effectually by keeping my Commandements to steale and keep Gods Commandements too we cannot Of stealing Gaming is oftentimes a great cause Doth Gaming cause Theevery O then flie it like a serpentine Egge of the Divels owne hatching The Law condemns a Theefe in this world and except God be mercifull he is condemned also in the world to come O who now then will not flie Gaming Seventhly and lastly Gaming leads to eternall damnation I meane superfluous Gaming except the great mercy of God by speedy repentance prevent it not Hitherto have I described the Devils new created champions attending upon Gaming and now by the help of God briefly the dangers which hang over the head except he shake off this bewitching vice It must needs be granted by the precedent propositions that it is a cause of breaking of Gods Statutes and therefore it is flat disobedience against which are many and great curses pronounced Deut. 28. He which disobeyeth the commandements of God cursed shall he be in the City and cursed shall he be in the field the Lord shall make the pestilence to cleave unto him c. But yet the dangers of this world are not comparable to those of the world to come which shall happen to the disobedient Here they shall bee only punished corporally there spiritually except they speedily repent then shall God blot out all their wickednesse out of his remembrance which that all may doe not onely Gamesters but all others God of his great mercy grant FINIS