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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45735	A warning-piece to the sloathful, idle, careless, drunken and secure ones of these last and worst times wherein the danger that attends everyone that delights in any of these vices may be avoided, and the reward of those that have their conversation in holinesse may be attained.	Hart, John, D.D.	1678 (1678)	Wing H961; ESTC R29868	20,886	47

liquor but my self would be destroyed therefore it is good to eschew the company of drunkards one diseased sheep infe●s the whole flock The consideration of the filthy manners of drunkards is a great preservative to an honest heart This was the remedy that Anacharsis used having ever before his eye the most filthy and unseemly manners of the intemperate Call also frequently to mind when thou art sober those filthy things that thou hast used said or done when thou wast drunken Plato willed did disciples when they were drunk to behold themselves in a mirrour that they might the more detest their own manners If thou couldst fall into spiritual thriety wherein there is a wonderful thirst for the fountain of life and wouldest replenish thy heart with the rivers of the water of life and couldst say with David Psal 42.1 2. Like as the hart p●nt●●h afte● the water brooks so long●th my soul after thee O God my sould is a-thirst for God yea● even for the living God when shall I come to appear before the presence of God In that case thou wouldst easily bridle thy self from that hodily and more than beastly drunkenness This spiritual ebriety albeit it he scorned by the prophane as may he seen in the example of Hanna the mother of Samuel I Sam in the Apostles Acts 2.4 13. when they were all filled with the Holy Ghost some mocked and some said they are full of new wine yet let us sand ●ste our spiritual thirst Eph. 5.18 And be filled with the spirit Joyn herewithal prayer hearing of the word meditation of Gods love of Christs drath and union with us and how that our bodies are the temples of the holy spirit and that God beholdeth us as a jud●●e whose wrath is ●rong remembring always the last day of our life and the world and look to thy particular calling that by no means thou disgrace it by brunkenness nor hinder it but rather dignifie it by temperance Lo this purpose it is said Prov. 31.4 5. It is not for Kings O Lemuel it is not for Kings to drink wine nor for Princes strong drink lest he drink and forget the decree and change the judgement of the Children of affliction Consider also thy Christian calling that thou art a child of the light that thou shouldst walk In the light and not a child of darkness that thy intention may be to walk always honesly Rom. 13.13 as in the day and not in drunkenness Ti● 2.12 For the grace of God that bringeth solvation unto all men hath appeared and teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously godly and temperately in this present world Civil laws well set down but better executed would he great helps against this malady to correct it At least the Persim law authorised by king Ahashuetus Es●h 1.8 was excreeding good to restrain some degrees of this implety which was that none should compel another to dringk for so the King had appointed that they should do according to every mans pleasures that drink is most pleasant that suf●●● r●th a mans self Plato's law was not to drink to another As drunkenness groweth by cu stome so it doth fade by abstinence As did the Rechabi●●s in their constant abstinence from wine at the commandment of one Jonad●●● Jer. 35.5 6 19. Jeremiah set before them po●s full of wine and cups and said unto them drink wine But they said we will drink no wine for Jonadab said You shall drink no wine neither you nor your Sons for ever c. We obey his voice we drink ●o wine all our dayes neither we our wives our sons nor our daughters so the Rechabites kept this command Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel Jonadad the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever his posterity shall continue and be in my favour for ever because thou hast obeyed thy fathers command Surely this is one sufficient motive for to induce every one unto ●ob●tery W●en the drink is in the cup it is in thy power when it is in the body thou art in the power of it when thou drinkest thou u●est the wine as thou pleasest but after thou bast drunken it will handle thée as it pleaseth it is an easte entry pea a most ●●ppery step to drunkenness Consider also that God and nature hath given thée thé narrowest womb and the straitest throat above all living creatures that thou mayst learn thereby to be most sober a Thes 5.5.6 be instructed in the grace of God Tit. 2.11 12. watch for Christs second coming Luk. 21.24 Drink as thou wert to drink no more Be careful to fill thy heart with grace Eph. 5.18 Heb. 13.9 Put on the Lard Jesus Rom. 13.14 Gol. 5.24 Be strong in the inner man Eph. 3.16 Let nat thy table be a snare to thee Psal 69.23 Replenish thy heart with the spirit before thou fill it with drink with spiritual gladness and a thankful heart begin thy drinking Eph. 5.18 19. J●el 2.26 and all thy actions respect Gods glory 1 Cor. 10.31 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God And then thou shall call upon the name of the Lord and he will heart the and he will be with thee in trouble and be will deliver thee Psal 91.15 A perswasion to Temperance and some motives for to induce us thereunto shewing the dangerous effects that come of drunkenness c. Dost in a morning savour drink that 's strong Then do not drink thy mornings draught too long However let me crave and beg this boon You do not drink your mornings draught till noon But you undo your solid senses quite If that you drink your mornings draught till night For many men in their excessive bowls With their own bodies overthrow their souls And therefore never let thine own right hand Ruine thy self by breaking this command Grant me but this and truly though l 'm poor I 'le never beg of you or yours more To keep from want spend prodigally never To keep from spending think thou wantest ever That want thou mayest not save what thou hast got That save thou mayest think that thou hast it not The best way not to want is to be sparing The way to spare to be for want still caring If thou canst get but not keep what is got Beggery when all is done will be thy lot When thou hast dig'd a well that water gives What good wil't do if poured into Sives As one hand brings in t'other must lay up Else thou mayst have to dine but not to sup Hold fast thy state why shouldst thou look for more And could'st not keep that which thou hadst before 'T is and old saying spend and God will send But what beggery and bareness in the end Be sparing in expence excessive spending Brings what was long a getting to quick ending Abuse not thy estate with riotous dealing

was very drunken wherefore she told him neither less nor more until the morning arose then in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal his wife told him that David had bowed to destroy both him and all his house for denying of his servants that small request which they desired and the text saith when she had told him those words his heart died within him and he was like a stone about ten days after the Lord smote N●bal that he died From hence we may gather how close drunkenness and destruction are linked together Wine hath as much force as fire for as soon as it overtaketh one it dispatcheth him it discloseth the secrets of his soul and troubleth the whole mind Wine is the blood of the earth and the shame of such as abuse it Mark the end of Drunkards and abhor their wickedness Isa 28.1 Woe to the Crown of pride the drunkards of Ephraim whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine ver 7 8. They have erred because of wine and are out of the way by strong drink the Priests and the Prophets have erred by strong drink they are swallowed up with wine they have gone astray through strong drink they fail in vision they stumble in judgment for all their tables are full of filthy vomiting no place is clean From hence we may gather this thréefold observation First there is pronounced woe to the Drunkards their glorious beginning shall have a fading or steril conclusion Secondly the drunkards they err they are out of the way They fail in vision they stumble in judgment Syrach saith Eccles 19.1 2. Wine and women lead wise men out of the way and put men of understanding to reproof A labouring man that is given to drunkenness shall never be rich saith Syrach Lots Daughters made their Father drink Wine and then lay with him Gen. 19.33 But he perceived not neither when they lay down neither when they rose up Wine had so obscured his judgement and so darkened his understanding and so be fell into that sin of incest with his own Daughters Lastly the loathsomness of drunkenness All their tables are full of sil●y vomitings no place is clean what can be more filthy Ambrose saith the first evil of drunkenness is the danger of chastity Nothing maketh drunkenness to be more abhored than the filthy and beastly behaviour of those men whose stomachs are overcharged with excess The Lace demonians would often shew their Children such as were drunk to the end they should learn to loath that vice it is a monster with many heads as filthy ta●k fornication wrath murther swearing cursing and such like The Spartans caused their children to behold their slaves when they were drunken to move them to the detest●ation of that vice Wine inflameth the liver rotteth the lungs dulleth the memory and breedeth all diseases Therefore flee from drunkennes for it is the Authour of a thousand evils it maketh wise men fools and it bringeth diseases to the body and destruction to the soul it is that vice with stirreth up lust anger grief and extremity of love it distempers the wit weakeneth the feet and overcometh the vital spirits saith Aristotle It burns up beauty and basteneth age it 's a he witching Devil a pleasant poison a sweet sin saith Augustine Drunkenness maketh of a man a Beast a strong man weak and of a wise man a fool saith Origen Where drunkenness is mistris there secresie beareth no mastery Steal is the glass of beauty end wine is the glass of the mind it is a root prover to every disease saith the heathen man Plato It hath drowned more than the Sea hath drowned Drunkenness makes a man more bruitish than Balaams Ass be could walk and talk but many times a drunkard can do neither An●charsis saith the first draught that a man drinks is for thirst the second for nourishment the third for pleasure and the fourth for madness O what a voluntary madness do drunkards run into when four draughts will not satisfie their unsatiable desires no notten times four Surely surely they are more frantick than those in Bedlam Drunkenness darkens the wit it perverts the Imagination and it stirs up choler Plato bade drunken and angry men to behold themselves in a glass and if they will do so here is one wherein they may behold themselves most clearly Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness What is more vile and loathsome than is the drunkard whose mouth is the lodge of poisonous savoure-whose body through excess doth tremble and shake whose promises are large whose tongue bewrayeth secrets whose mind is spon changed whose countenance is transformed for commonly when the head is full of wine the tongue is set at liberty neither is be content with many sorts of wine but he drowneth himself or his senses in variety of liquor making himself the monste of excess it 's the nursery to all contention it kindles the coals of wrath and is the root of all mischief and the ready road to ruine Gen. 9. Drunkenness did discover the privy parts of Noah and caused Lot to commit incest 2 Sam. 13.28 Drunkenness slew Amnon King Davids Son and murdered Holosernes chief Captain of the Army for it is said that he drank more wine that day than he had in any day ever since he was born Judith 12.20 and 13.2 be was filled with wine and Judith slew him in his drunkenness The Leopard cannot so soon be taken by any thing as by wine for being drunk be falleth into the topis Be not drunken with wine for wine turneth a mans understanding away from the truth and kindleth in him the fire of lust leading his eyes into errour it 's a servant to lust and it turneth the mind to filthy thoughts and sin is wrought without shame a drunken man is ashamed of nothing therefore he that drinketh wine had need of discretion that be do not over-drink himself for drunkenness causeth him to talk filthily and to do wickedly not to be ashamed but to boast of his lewdness thinking it to be very good Wine is a cause of War and sedition but being soberly drunken it 's profitable for the life of man Eccles 31.27 28 29 30. What is his life that is overcome with wine wine was made from the beginning to make men glad not for drunkenness Wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of mind with brawlings and scoloings Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend it diminisheth strength and maketh wounds St. James saith James 3.16 Where envying and strife is there is sedition and all evil works Thus you see that all manner of evil that is under the Sun is caused or cometh by drunkenness Of all vices drunkenness is the worst and of all sinners the drunkard is the most hainous it being a compendium an epitome of all other offences and