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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

ought to give all diligence and respect to this day as a day greatly valued prised and esteemed of by God himself Anno 1647. there was a deplorable accident a tremendous instance of the justice of God upon a person a ●armer in a Village called Little-●allerton in the County of Northumberland about six miles distant from New-Castle The Relation is thus The Minister teaching upon that Scripture 1 Epist. Pet. 2. cap. 2. latter part Who hath called you out of darknesse into his marvellous light and in the fore-noon Sermon insisting upon the spiritual darknesse and blindnesse of unregenerate men and aggravating the many evills attending upon that condition in this life and asserting the wofull condition period state and conditon of such as should die in that estate of spiritual darknesse how that to such is resreve● the blacknesse of darknesse which was occasionally improved to discove● the miserable condition of the damned in hell by reason of their separation from God called utter darknesse Mat. 22.13 and 8.42 25 1● At the ending of the first Sermon this miserable man accompanied others of his neighbours to the Al● house for refreshment the time of r●paire to the second Sermon bein● come some of them moved him to return with them to whom he replye● that the Minister was preaching upo● darknesse and he would not hear hi● till he should treat upon the light and so continued drinking in the Alehouse with some other profane souldiers and by having immoderately taken Ale and Hot Waters was in the height of his drunkennesse carried to bed in the Ale-house where after a short time he ended his miserable life dying in the very act of sin without any visible act of Repentance This Relation is inserted verbatim as I have it from a godly Minister of the Gospel in the same County and not farre from the same place and is indeed a sad example of Gods Judgement not only against the sin of profaning the Lords day but also of drunkennesse and contempt of the Gospel Now because I observe this day so greatly neglected by the generality of the Nation not onely neglecting to hear the Word preached which is able to save their soules but also violating of it by profanation give me a word and that only to such as professe the observance of it as lawfull for if such a slighting of this day grow we shall from it run to Atheisme by contempt of Gods holy Ordinances and Commandments Let us first consider the end of God in the Sabbath which is chiefly for sanctification of his name and what creature dare say he is not strictly tyed by all the obligations expressable It is a day of liberty not of bondage God can be sanctified without us he shineth not with borrowed lights these tapers that burne from mortall breach can adde no glory to God but as in his great mercy and condescention he is pleased to accept of us Then the intent of this day as to our advantages it 's for the eternall good of our soules that the Lord may by this occasion reach our slow understanding and with his Word preached that he may dwell with the humble and contrite spirit We are not only to avoyd profaning it by not Working Drinking Playing Idlenesse Travelling c but we ought to frequent the publick worship of God in the Assemblies of his people and there to hear his word with Godly reverence and fear The reasonablenesse of one day in seven for God and our own souls may convince us in a great measure of this day that is a sin less excusable that 's so reasonable that we may have the lesse to say for our excuse he gives us 6 for our outward affairs oh then who can grudge the 7th especially when God links in our immortal happinesse together with his own glory It was the custom of Christians in Trajan the Emperours time to meet on the Lords Day morning sing a Psalm receive the Sacrament and covenant to flie sin on that day and when Christians were summoned before the Heathen Governours and demanded Dost thou believe the Lords Day the answer was I am a Christian Take away the Sabbath sayes a Reverend Divine and Religion will soon wither and decay The Indians might as well have been chosen the subjects of this profitable Obedience and we in their conditions keeping instead of a Sabbath to God every day to the Devil It will be more tollerable I am afraid for them at that Great day than for us If we had been left to our own choice What squarer division of time could have been thought upon than one day for our souls and another for our bodies one for the World another for Heaven This had been the reasonable rule of proportion it s more grace than reason that God should desire but one day in seven and that day also to be for our eternal good Oh how inexcusable will it be for us that prophane it or neglect the advantages of it Is refraining from labour a toil to us Is to be eased of sin a burden Lord then let me be burdened for Lord thy yoke is easie and thy burden is light What is a more unspeakable mercy than for souls to have communion with God as well as our own hearts And as Divines say glory is but grace perfected So that eternal Sabbath of rest is but as I may say this perfected This sin is accompanied with many aggravations and this is none of the least that we have a will given us to refuse to prophane it Besides its a deliberate act of the mind it s not sudden as an oath or murder but in the very act it self thou canst not but know thou art sinning against the light of thy conscience it s the greatest sin that is accompanied with time to consider an enlightened mind to understand the evil to purpose to evil is an aggravation as high as the sin If aggravations face not this sin with a dreadful countenance consider and in reason think Is it not just with God to suffer thy frail composure of corruption to shrink under his heavy judgements that at night Gods protection should leave us as in our graves when we are in our beds Or canst thou expect any blessing upon thy outward estate when it is in the power of God to dispose of life being health estate and all Is it not just if we travel on this day that God should judge us with sudden death in the like severity as he hath made others examples of to all Ages Yet if God do suffer thy corn wine and oil to encrease fear a curse under the Strawberry leaves of thy enjoyments for a blessing is not the shadow of sin it will not follow thee in the wayes of wickednesse rather fear some judgement will overtake thy swift motion to impiety A word to two sorts First those that prophane it contemning not onely Gods Lawes but the Lawes of the Nation

it concern his own life or ● state and this is the reason that i● some Courts they tempt Embassado● to ebriety knowing that he will then be as leaky at the mouth as an old ship at Sea all he knowes comes up with as much ease as his drink went down It is just with a Drunkard as it is said of a Spaniard and a Frenchman That all the drugges in Egypt is not able to purge a secret out of the former which is a sicknesse and punishment for the latter to retain I could have said much more of the evill effects of this sin but I affect brevity though I fear to be tedious We see it is a wofull doleful sinne damnes the soul without repentance destroyes Body Estate Reputation of a good name In a word undoes in this life and that which is eternall Me thinks I see the whole Nation reel under the depression of this sin as in that though often cut yet like quick hedges grow again Hydra-like increases by his wounds but if once cut at the Root the Cedars as well as the Shrubs would fall to the ground So long as the tall Okes stand to shelter the storms of Authority from the Brambles lets never expect a hopefull Reformation of this Abuse For as Gondamar said at a Councel at Madrid Never let 's expect good from the Netherlands so long as England feeds the Humours let 's begin at the cause and the effects will follow so I say if exhortations threatenings nor civility will serve to find out common ingenuity from the great ones let a handle be cut out of the Bowels of greatnesse it self to lop of these exuberant branches of wickednesse which hinder the buddings o● vertue and promote the worst of vices but because I account my self strictly related to wish them well give m● leave to treat civilly with the Gentry And oh that I could perswade som● Gentlemen from this foolish sordid and unmanly trade of Drinking some few there are and I hope but few tha● think it an honour to be drunk swear and roar with debaucht company Many there are in these Counties as wel● as other which bear the remarks of exemplary piety persons who for their vertues are the Honour of their country whose conversations alone set a brand upon debauchedness of such I be● the honour to honour them but such as are addicted to this sin I would distill better perswasions into their minds especially to such as in all points save this are extreamely ingenuous and such as through their too much ingenuity cannot resist temptations I pity their easie natures and wish their temperatures had been more steril and morose Oh that I could reach the most inward part and there plant the force of perswasion if it were but to a Moral and Philosophical kind of life that in the sight of this debauched and beastly custom of excesse and riot they might live like sober and discreet men rather glorying in their sobriety like Christians than ●mpiety like beasts Mirth chearfulnesse and sobriety may be nourished without the foolish custom of Drinking healths on purpose to be drunk As Lord Bacon in his Speech in Star-Chamber upon the consideration of ●hat cruelty acted against Sir Tho. ●verbury by imprisonment said It s ●are in the Island of Brittain it s neither of our Country nor Church In ●ome and Italy there is a Religion for 〈◊〉 if it should come amongst us it were ●tter living in a VVildernesse than a court May I not wish that Drunken●esse were a sin rare in the Island of Britain This I say Let other Nations have a Religion to be debauched and drunk let it be to other Nations as their natures but let England account it self a Wildernesse o● wild beasts when this sin reigns le● us say It s better to live amongst Salvages than such beasts as Adam never found nor God never created This sin formerly was practise onely by Tinkers Beggars c. it wa● a shame to a Gentleman to be drunk but alas how many now glory i● their shame instead of being b● their moderation knowledge and sobriety a glory to their Country Would but shame attend this sin ● would soon be left but this boastin● of such a dayes meeting wipes off ● shame so that men grow hardned ● their iniquity He that tempts me ● passe the bounds of moderation a ● sobriety does but civilly invite ● to a fever or some ruinous distemp●Ile Drink my own health sayes a w● man and pray for the Kings Wh●intollerable madnesse● sayes a Learn●● Divine hath seized upon great porti●● of mankind that this folly should poss●● the greatest spirits the wittiest men ● best company the most sensible of the word Honour the most jealous of loosing the shadow but throw away the thing Thou hadst better give away thy estate than say thy belly was the grave of thy Patrimony Is it not a horrid thing that a Wise Learned or Noble Person should lose his honours become an Apellative of scorn a Scene of abuses a dishonour to that party for which he with ●thers have suffered That which I ●eplore sayes he is that most men pre●er a cause before their life and by one Drunken meeting set it further backward in its hopes and blessings than a whole year of counsells and arms can ●epair Indeed the Nation would hardly ●lush if onely the scum and froth of ●t were tainted but for this disease ●o fall upon the vitals it s a dye in ●rain a ruine to honour without a ●emedy I hope there are sparkes of ●ngenuity yet remaining in some as well as this sin which if once they take ●re from the consideration either of ●hreatnings judgements reason honour ●eputation or a good name this de●auchednesse would soon be blown ●nto the aire and if once the Gentry left it then it would become a shame indeed in the very Nation But I fear the habit and custom of this sin will force us at last to the sordid practise of some Nations where it s not accounted friendly entertainment if men be not drunk before they part I wish it may not be found a practise in some Gentlemens houses in this Nation Let me conclude with lamenting and perswading Is it not a great pity that men of the greatest Honour and expectations of the Nation for Gentility Breeding Learning c. should suffer the shipwrack of every thing that can be called good That such should be so sadly ruined in this se● of drunkennesse which like a Hericane spareth none but such as feel a lesse punishment than ruine it self A● one said he could willingly lose half his learning to redeem his health so many may lament and wish half their knowledge and learning which once they had May I perswade you let me tell you it s as much below Gentility as a Gentleman is above other by birth and that which should distinguish him from other more peasantly deportments Can there