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A87056	Gods judgements upon drunkards, swearers, and sabbath-breakers. In a collection of the most remarkable examples of Gods revealed wrath upon these sins with their aggravations, as well from scripture, as reason. And a caution to authority, lest the impunity of these evils bring a scourge upon the whole nation. By W. L.	Hammond, Samuel, d. 1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing H623bA; ESTC R230554	59,944	204

which cannot have over good a relish unlesse sweetned with a kinde of submission and therefore when drink or passion is departed then to write or send to them Yet where civillity and meeknesse will not allure to that just decency and order which holds conformity to the wholesome Lawes of the Nation then Currat lex All which I could wish were done without Malice Prejudice Revenge a spirit of domineering or to be accounted some petty some body but with a principle that may not onely approve the integrity of a mans soul to act for the glory of God but also a not expecting your reward from popularity or any other secret advantage below the truth and intent of the action guided by the best principles both Divine and Moral Now Gentlemen to you that are guilty or may be found in these disorders If Lawes were not we had as good live amongst Salvages you could not say your lives were your own if another through fear of the Lawes were not kept from murdering you if we had none to punish transgressors we had as good be without Lawes for your own honours therefore beware you involve not your reputations to the punishment of every mean officer be not angry at Justice which is more the Honour of the Gentry then any because they are looked upon as patrons of it be rather like King Henry the fourth who thanked God that Justice was executed though it lighted upon one of his own loyns To conclude Are not these sins fitter if for any in any sense for Brutes Beasts Beggars and the scum of a Nation than for Gentlemen or Christians for shame then you that are in any degree guilty of such foul spots of dishonour to the Nation to Christianity to your Families good Names and your own Souls let these wicked debauched beastly prophane sins be abandoned from your thoughts and actions and hate it in others that the Nation the Gentry first leading the van may make iniquity and sin blush and even shame these vild courses to the eternal Honour of England And now Gentlemen to whom I have been bold to Dedicate my paines I beg you to look upon the Work in that which you see it doth drive at and not at the unworthinesse of the Authour whose desire in it is nothing lesse than may be concluded in this wish That by your Good Government they that are to come may blesse your remembrance and we present may together with your selves live a comfortable peaceable and quiet life and that in all godlinesse and honesty So prayes Your humble servant W. L. TO THE READER WHen I weigh my owne unworthinesse in the ballance with any thing that may be called a work for God I am extremely discouraged to adventure wondring more that the Lord should not rather make me a warning to others by his Judgements upon me for my own sin then to write examples of others In the deep sence whereof I cannot say that I was constrained to this work purely from those noble and divine principles which should move in the wheeles of all undertakings for the glory of God and good of others lest I deceive my own spirit though ● desire a heart for both Fo● upon a strict scrutiny it will be found a difficult and more then common attainment● though most men are loath but in all their designes to plume themselves with these fair feathers so that in modesty I choose to be rather jealous it is not so then boast it as a reason that it is I can indeed say and that truly that I am an honourer and lover of Order Decency and good Government in a Nation City or Town and from a naturall and moral principle do detest these three sins of Drunkennesse Swearing and Sabbath-breaking as they strike at the Honour of Order Government and the Reputation of a Nation place or person and I wish this principle were wrought in such ingenuous persons as otherwise are not perswaded of a greater evill in these sins they are evills that wound the glory of God honour of a Christian state and the good of a civill Government yet have I been wound up to more then a common hatred of these notorious sinnes since I have seen the face of them in the glasse of Gods Judgements I have observed Drunkennesse Swearing and the slight observance of the Lords day with the profanation of it to grow the more by opposition which I think is because but slenderly punnished like the Seas where but bounded with weak banks rages and roares the more when they are broken down I have likewise observed that that which should be our greatest honor is turned into sin in that they which are under the strictest tye to Christianity by profession should so profane the Lords day and keep it with lesse exactnesse then the Heathens do their dayes of worshiping the Devil whilst we in troops runne to the profanation of God and his holy Ordinances by more then the one halfe of most Parishes absenting themselves from the Congregation and either prophane the day by drinking or which is as sad by a more then Heathenish idlenesse and sloathfull contempt of their own salvation nay and this is so common that it seems not otherwise then if it were turned into a Law to contemne the meanes of salvatien and slight and abuse such as would turn them aside from hell and eternal damnation and by this meanes they slight the faithful Ministers of the Gospel that labour night and day for the good of our soules which I account the first step to Apostasy from the ways of God I have likewise observed the slack execution of lawes by Justices not performeing their duties discourageing under Officers and leaving them a scorn and a reproach to wicked and ungodly men and if it please not the Lord to stir up the hearts of Justices of the Peace themselves to search diligently to go about and find out disordered houses the plagues of the Nation and hunt men out of their houses to the congregation sin will grow impudent and bold If I say they do not shew their faces to encourage and set a rate upon others under them men will be hardened in their wayes and be taught to grow worse by the faintnesse of justice and this I account a duty which a good conscience rightly principled cannot shift nor excuse before God or their own consciences The consideration of these things with the tendency of all to ruine where these evills are not redressed put me upon this I hope useful and may I not say necessary work especially considering the use of Judgements their Energy if pondered in a sober and deliberate mind they walk not alone the causes and ends are to be examined nor are they only limited to the persons or sins they punish but for warning others from the like sins or any other sinnes whatsoever And we see how God loves to warne before he strike so he did to Nineve and

Belshazar and used very much of long-suffering and patience to Pharaoh whose heart at last not taking warning he ●ardened what are examples of Gods Judgements upon others for if not to keep us from being the examples our selves And though Precepts in●eed are very binding yet they never shine so much as when set in examples We are all acquainted how little hold reproofs admonitions and exhortations from the Pulpit take of men therefore it is that I have great hopes that these examples may do good for as one in another case sayes A Verse may find him whom a Sermon flyes And turn delight into a Sacrifice So such as come not to hea● their sins ript open in a Soul● searching Sermon may by reading or hearing these examples be frightened at the voyce of Gods Judgements To consider the severity of God to those that fell may well make us think with our selves shall I that am guilty as much as others be yet in the land of the living will not the Patience Goodnesse and Long-suffering of God lead us to repentance I say examples are of more force to move nay to instruct then the Arguments and proofs of Reason or their precise Precepts for they shew things not onely ●n the Theory but in the practice and execution It 's reported of one Waldus in France that at the sight of Gods Judgement upon on● that was suddenly struck dead went home and admonished his friends to repent and turne from their evill wayes and wa● himself a famous Christian● from whom also sprang the name of the Waldenses Examples mix so with the Apprehensions as they force the mind to a deeper understanding and search of the ends and causes of them What I have collected are not of common examples which daily present themselves before our eye● but such as are the most notorious and remarkable and I question not but authentick those of modern and more late experience I have taken from such Authours as are living and who from their own knowledge have given testimony to the truth of them Now what am I that should undertake to direct others in that wherein I am to seek my self by walking below the strictnesse of what I prescribe to others and short of my own duty having it may be that found upon my trencher which I disswade others from as pernicious yet I consider the advantages of the undertaking and it may be this may be one to my self that these strict limits to others will girt me more straitly within the compasse of my own duty and though this hath been strugling for a Birth a long time yet now the truth and integrity of my intentions have prevailed to launch into a Sea of censures and if I aim at the good of others in the reformation of their minds and manners I am sure it cannot be any hurt to them or my self and this is the Rock on which I hope to stand against the proud assaults of envy or detraction for if any thing in the ayme or intention be good it 's made of more value by the diffusive Quality of it in disaffecting that humour of Aspendius who delighted to play on his Harp so that none should heare but himselfe I shall conclude in the words of the Apostle and pray That the love of God which hath appeared unto all men may teach us to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world W. L. THE CONTENTS of the whole THe Character of Drunkards Page 1.2.3 Drunkennesse a sin against the lawes of Temperance and Sobriety and the practice of Heathens against it 4.5 The strict lawes of Heathens against Drunnkennesse 6. The spiritual evils of Drunkennesse 7. Drunkennesse the fountain of other sins 8.9 The outward evils which accompany this sin of Drunkennesse consumption of estate ruine of relations losse of health a shame to friends scorn to servants derision to boyes losse of sences c. 10.11.12 c. A friendly exhortation to such Gentlemen as are tempted to this sin especially to the most learned and ingenuous persons 16.17 c. Gods threatnings aginst Drunkennesse 21.22 Gods righteous and terrible Judgements upon such as take not warning in a collection of the most choyce examples such only as bear the strongest remark of Gods displeasure 23.24 to 45. Some few disswasives from this sin of drunkennesse 46.47 Of profane taking the Lords name in vain by cursed oathes c. 51. The several aggravations of this sin of cursing and swearing 52. Swearing a sinne directly against God himself ibid. It 's a sin of high ingratitude 53 The sin of the Devils in Hell 54 No profit by it ibid Heathens detest it 55 Dissuasives from it 56.57 The severity of former lawes and time against wicked swearing 57. Gods threatnings against it 58. Gods severity in his just Judgements upon such as practised it in a few sad and doleful examples 59 60. to 59. The sin of profaningg the Sabbath day a great sin 83.84 The strict command of God himselfe to observe it 85. Gods own practice for our example to keep one day in seven from labour c. 84. Gods end in commanding us to observe it is for our own good 88. The reasonablenesse of Gods command for one in seven 89. The breach of this day a great sin by many high aggravations of it c. 90. A sin against Gods daily blessings and mercy to us 91. A word to such as sit idly at home on the Lords day 92. A word to such as profane it by playing drinking c. 91. Perswasions to hear the Word and attend Ordinances as the greatest advantages to our soules 93.94 Objections answered 95. Gods threatenings against Sabbath-breakers 96.97 Gods severe examples of Judgement and Justice upon the profaners of the Sabbath day 98.99 to 125. Conclusion 125.126.127.128 OF DRUNKENNESSE AND GODS JUDGEMENTS UPON DRUNKARDS THe sin of Drunkenesse being the womb of all others I chuse first to speak of by shewing What a loathsome creature a Drunkard is how it 's condemned by the lawes of Nature as well as Nations the sad consequences of it to soul to body by setting a full point to his life when nature hath not yet made a Comma Ruining his family and relations leaving himself at last a prey to necessity and scorne to fooles The Aggravation of this sin to the Gentry who by their Birth Estates Parts c. are seated above the reach of such vulgar rudenesse and therefore should soare so high with a Noble mind as to scorne to prey upon such garbage as is only fit to feed swine with The threatnings of God against this sin with his Judgements for it First then A Drunkard may be called a Monster such as entred not into the Ark unlesse you account Noah one who fell through temptation he made no practice of it yet smarted for his pregnant curiosity to make an assay upon the unruly spirit of wine but let