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truth_n	spirit_n	spiritual_a	worship_v	3,308	5	9.3285	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45712	The dreadfull character of a drunkard. Or, the odious and beastly sin of drunkenness described and condemned Shewing the fearful judgements that have befallen notorious drunkards: with brief exhortations to perswade men from that swinish and abominable sin.	Hart, John, D.D.; Jones, Andrew, M.A., attributed name.	1663 (1663)	Wing H943A; ESTC R215880	10,516	27

used to say that he was a Belly-god that drank a quart of Wine We have many such amongst us and do not they that drink healths upon their knees sacrifice it to those they drink to and thereby make gods of them 3. Drunkards abuse the good creatures of God which they should use to the honour and glory of God these they abuse in the maintenance pleasing and pampering of their own base sensual Lusts and pleasures which are bitter enemies to God and his truth and ought to be mortified 1 Cor. 10.31 saith S. Paul Whether ye eat or drink and whatever ye do do all to the glory of God What glory hath the Lord when men make swill-tubs of their bellies and so over-satisfie themselves with drinking that they are unfit for motion either for God or men and fit for nothing but to sléep 4. Drunkenness is a sacrilegious robbing of God of his Worship You know we are commanded to honour the Lord our God and to serve him with all out hearts and with all our might and with all our strength but when men have over-cram'd themselves with meat and over-liquored their filthy Carcasses with inordinate drinking how unfit then are these men thus distempered with drink for the worship and service of God their heads are either too heavy or too light and their hearts are dull and drowsie and God may have the drunken carkasses but as for their hearts and spirits they have none then for God they are then fit for nothing but the devils drudgery Hos 4.11 There the Prophet saith Wine and new wine take away the heart excess or overmuch either in eating or drinking causes defects in the service of God and as for such persons God may have a little bodily worship and lip-labor from them a few drowsie sleepy performances but as for spiritual heavenly service and worship that is not to be had of them though the Lord be a Spirit most Wise most Holy most Great and most Glorious who will be worshipped if acceptably in Spirit and in Truth Secondly for the evil of drunkenness as it respects others First of all drunkenness makes men forget the condition of others those that give themselves to this evil of Drunkenness minde not at all the estate or condition either of Church or State let come what will come so they may have drink enough their pipes and their pots it matters not what becomes of other The Prophet saith Amos 6.4 5 6. They eat the lambs out of the flock and calves out of the midst of the stalls they drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with chief ointments but they are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph 2. Drunkenness doth excéedingly wrong and impoverish the poorer sort drunkards and gluttons are like caterpillers and locusts which devour that which should maintain and relieve other did not men exceed so much in eating and drinking as they do there would be more plenty and more cheapness and more relief for the poor then there is for one drunken beast devours more then would very well refresh and satisfie a hundred poor people that lie in want and misery I dare confidently aver it for truth and I do verily believe it that if the poor might have but one quarter of what is spent sinfully and superfluously in rioting and drunkenness I believe nay I am confident I say that we should sée no Beggars in our stréets nor hear any to complain for want of bread at our doors There is a generation saith Solomon Pro. 30.14 whose teeth are as swords and their jaw-teeth like Knives to devour the poor from oft the earth and the needy from among men And such are the téeth and jaw-téeth of drunkards and gluttons they make both bread and drink dear 3. Drunkards wrong the chastity of others who make more lustful attempts or commit more fouler acts of uncleanness then those that delight themselves in drunkenness Fulness of drink bréeds fulness of sin and fulness of lust intemperancy begets incontinency and after rioting and drunkenness follows chambring and wantonness Rom. 13.13 When Lot was filled with wine then was he fit for incest Gen. 19.31 32 33. And the drunken Sodomites of whom the Text speaks were guilty of most horrible uncleanness 4. Drunkenness gives evil examples to others they draw in others to follow their own most evil and abominable filthy practice to intemperancy in eating and drinking which is a very great evil 1 Pet. 4.14 They think it strange saith the Apostle that you run not with them to the same excess of riot There is a very great inclination in the hearts of men naturally to follow others in eating and drinking excessively they will not onely go but run to it a little invitation will serve the turn they need not to be asked twice therefore Solomon counselleth his son Prov. 22.20 not to keep company with wine-bibbers One drunkard poisons another with his sin and men are as it were poisoned by the evil examples of others 5. This abominable sin of Drunkenness brings down heavy Iudgments from God Isa 5.12 13. there the intemperancy of the people is first set down and then the Iudgements that followed thereupon They rose up early and sate up late to follow after strong drink as too too many now adays do from the bed to the Alehouse from the Alehouse to bed again but verse 13. behold the Iudgements of the Lord upon them Therefore saith the Lord because of their excessive drinking my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge Their Gluttony and drunkenness made them both senseless and sensual their honourable men are famisht their multitude is dried up with thirst a most sad but suitable judgement So likewise Belshazzar he feasts and revels with a thousand of his Lords and that very night when he was in the midst of his jollity he was deprived of his Kingdom and himself also slain as you may sée Daniel 5. He drank Wine and praised the Gods of Silver and Gold of Wood and of Brass and that very night did the Lord cut him off So 2 Sam. 13. Amnon being drunk was slain by Absaloms servants Through drunkenness Benhadad with 32. other Kings were by the Israelites overcome 1 Kings 20.11 So likewise David a man after Gods own heart 2 Sam. 11.13 made U●iah drunk thinking thereby to have covered his horrid sin of Adultery for the which he sorely smarted afterwards So Herod Mat. 14. in his drunken banquet caused John the Baptist to be beheaded and what became of him he was deposed and dyed miserably in his exile So the Iews Isa 5. drunk till they were thirsty and then Hell was prepared for them Through drunkenness even righteous Lots daughters lay with their father so two cursed Nations sprang from their loins Gen. 19.31 Through drunkenness Nabals heart dyed within him 1 Sam. 25.36 Through drunkenness the Philistines Judges 16.25 making sport to themselves with poor