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A54653 A caveat against drunkenness, especially in evil times being a consideration of Eph. 5. 18. / by C.P. Phelpes, Charles. 1676 (1676) Wing P1975; ESTC R20541 88,768 184

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The Priests the Levites that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me they shall come near to me to minister unto me c. saith the Lord Ezek. 44. 10-13 14 15 16. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments saith the Lord Jesus And they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy Rev. 3. 4 the consideration of all which might ingage us To come out from among men in evil days and be separate and touch no unclean thing And the Lord Almighty will receive us whoever reject us and will be a Father to us and we shall be to him for sons and daughters Having therefore these promises and encouragements let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit c. 2 Cor. 6. 14-17 18. and 7. 1. Again 2. As evil signifies evil of Affliction and Judgment so we may receive this further instruction That when the days are evil when God's Judgments are poured forth amongst us and felt by us and greater feared then especially we need to have and receive this Admonition that we be not drunk with Wine but that we watch against all intemperance and insobriety When thy judgments are in the earth saith the Prophet the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Isa 26. 9. And therefore then it behoves the Believers especially to be temperate in all things So it was with Daniel and his three companions when they were in captivity and under great affliction they would not defile themselves with the portion of the King's meat nor with the Wine which he drank Dan. 1. 5-8-16 And indeed as it is always sinful so it is most unseasonable to eat and drink to excess when God is casting us down in his Providences and ordering occasions of mourning and lamentation to us when men are minished and brought low thorow oppression affliction and sorrow Psal 107. 39. When we see a sword a sword is sharpened and also furbished it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter it is furbished that it should glitter should we then make mirth Ezek. 21. 9 10. should we unfit our selves for a wise consideration of the Lord's doings when he is making desolations amongst us surely this will be an high aggravation of our iniquity as is once and again signified to us Wo unto them saith the Lord that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till Wine inflame them And the harp and the viol the tabret and pipe and wine are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord nor the operation of his hands Isa 5. 11 12. In that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sack-cloath And behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine c. And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye dye saith the Lord God of hosts Isa 22. 1-12-14 Wo to them that put far away the evil day that lye upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches or abound with superfluity and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall That chaunt or quaver to the sound of the viol That drink Wine in bowles and anoint themselves with the chief oyntments But they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed Amos 6. 1-3-6-8 Truly as our Saviour gives us to understand now the Bridegroom is taken away from us it is a continued time of fasting and outward occasions of mourning are presented to his disciples till God shall send us him again who now is preached to us Mat. 9. 14 15. Luk. 5. 34 35. And to all this time that may be long which our Saviour speaks to his Disciples when he is taking his leave of them Verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowful c. Joh. 16. 20. And yet at some times more abundantly they have o●●…ard cause of mourning administred to them And they then are instructed to be afflicted and mourn and weep To let their laughter be turned into mourning and their joy into heaviness Jam. 4. 9 10. And such have been and are the times in which we live wherein God hath been sharpening his sword and hath made great slaughters amongst us in former times And as yet it is not put up into it's Scabbard As also he hath been sweeping away multitudes multitudes by the Pestilence and other grievous diseases which he hath been inflicting amongst us And hath also been contending by devouring Fire whereby the crowning City hath been almost destroyed yea and hath been pleading with us by Water and unusual floods whereby he hath washt away the things that grow out of the earth and destroyed the hope of man as Job 14. 19. And hath thorow decay of Trade and otherwise brought our formerly rich and flourishing Nation very low and into great poverty and straits And hath removed and taken away many merciful and righteous ones from amongst us even in the midst of their days so as we may say Wo is us for we are as when they have gathered the summer fruits as the grape gleanings of the vintage there is no cluster to eat The good man is perished out of the earth and men of kindnesS and godliness are taken away Mic. 7. 1 2. Isa 57. 1 2. Psal 12. 1 c. And this is an heavy Judgment in it self and the fore-runner and way-maker for greater and more dreadful to come if we prepare not to meet the Lord in the way of his Judgments Yea what cause of mourning is also presented to us now there is such an abounding of spiritual iniquity and of divers and strange Doctrines and such a multitude of poor Souls deluded and in the high-way to be destroyed thereby And how long and often hath God been threatning to give up our Nation to that strong delusion which hath been brought into and preserved in the World by him whose coming was after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders because the inhabitants thereof have not received the love of the truth to be saved thereby 2 Thes 2. 8-11 yea how many have departed from the faith already giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils or Doemons 1 Tim. 4. 1. yea and how hath God cast upon us the fierceness of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels amongst us as Psal 78. 49 yea his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still and what he is further threatning to do unto us
Reins are laid upon their Necks that they may go whither they please And when the Sons of the Mighty will not do Justice when they know not nor will understand but walk on in darkness as Psal 82. 1-5 then it is high time to receive the admonition which the Holy Ghost is giving unto us and to accept it thankfully from those who are over us in the Lord that they will admonish us of and dehort us from this great and root-Iniquity of Intemperance For then especially we shall be ready to pollute our selves herewith when we may do so and not be restrained from it or shamed or punished for it Nay further the Believers need to have and receive this admonition when their Watch-men are poluted with Intemperance or some of them because they that are so cannot faithfully or successfully reprove another of an Iniquity of which they themselves are also guilty How canthey pluck out the Mote out of their Brothers eye when he hold there is a Beam in their own How can they fault or with what face can they reprove their Brethren for Insobriety when they also are given unto and too often defiled with excess of Wine Matth. 7. 3-5 Nay indeed how can they reprove others of any evil whatsoever while themselves walk not with a right foot in the Gospel but eat and drink with the Drunken Hence when the Apostle solemnly charges Timothy Before God and the Lord Jesus Christ c. To preach the Word and be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort c. He then instructs him But watch thou or be thou sober in all things as the same word is read in some of our Margins and so translated elsewhere as 1 Pet. 5. 8. As if he should say That thou mayest Preach the word faithfully and Reprove and Rebuke Offenders be thou thy self Sober and Temperate in all things be not a partaker of other mens sins but keep thy self pure otherwise thou canst not be a Reprover or Faithful-reprover of others 2 Tim. 4. 1-5 and 1 Tim. 5. 22. Alas how do such teachers strengthen others in their evil wayes their Brethren will say surely Drunkenness and Intemperance are no great evils for our leaders are Good-fellows also and will joyn and keep Company with us And however we need not fear to be reproved by them They dare not Prophesy unto us to cause us to take shame as Micah 2. 6 because they themselves too often exceed in their Intemperance Oh! needful therefore it is for us to be dehorted from and admonished of this Iniquity when men may sin without fear of shame or punishment from the Civil Magistrate and when also there are like People like Priest And now it 's high time for us to suffer this word of admonition and exhortation Be not drunk with Wine 3. Nay when the dayes are so sinfully evil as hath been said we need then to have and receive this admonition here given to us not only because then we have more strong temptations to Intemperance than at other times nor only because we may be guilty of it without shame punishment or reproof But also in such dayes we shall be reproached frowned upon and evilly dealt with if we have not fellowship with them in their unfruitful works of darkness others will think it strange if we run not with them to the same excess of Riot Blaspheming and speaking evil of us 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. So it was in evil dayes in Israel Judgment was turned backward and Justice stood afar off for truth was fallen in the streets and equity could not enter Yea truth failed and he that departed from evil made himself a prey or was counted a Mad-man a Fanatick c. Isa 45. 14 15. So now too many hate the good and love the evil Mic. 3. 1-3 And hereby think to affright men and scare them into their evil wayes and manners by their reproaches frowns scoffs derisions c. Then it is an evil time indeed a sinful and perilous time when the just are afflicted because they will not put forth their hand to Iniquity with others but refrain their feet from their evil wayes and crooked paths Amos 5. 10-13 And then especially they need to be admonished to flee Insobriety when they will be reproached vilified and persecuted by others for so doing lest by the evil use they meet with they be corrupted from the right way and turn aside after Satan Nay when the dayes are sinfully evil then the way to meet with praise from others preferment and safety is to do as the most of men do and to walk in the broad way with them then the vilest of the Sons of men are exalted even such as walk in riotous wayes and practises Psal 12. 8. Then the proud are counted happy and they that work wickedness are set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. 3. 13-15 And therefore in such dayes especially we need to be admonished to abstain from every kind of evil whatsoever and particularly from this of Intemperance for we love naturally to be well spoken of by others and to be advanced or lifted up amongst men or however to enjoy our liberty and be secured from all reproach and molestation from others and therefore when all outward incouragement promotion and protection are assured unto and injoyed by such as will eat drink and be drunken How ready are we by occasion hereof to wander out of the way of understanding and to have fellowship with them in their unfruitful works of darkness The world will love its own Joh. 15. 19. They that forsake the Law praise the wicked Prov. 28. 4. The world cannot hate them that are of it and who do fulfil its lusts but delights in them and think these are the only persons that are meet to be confided in and that will be trusty and faithful in any trust that is committed to them Joh. 7. 7. And therefore these are the persons that shall be countenanced promoted protected incouraged and be the men the darlings and dillings of the times These are they that shall be accounted honest men and good-fellows such as will be true to their friends these are the men that shall be reputed and reported to be bountiful and liberal persons though in truth they are Churls and vile ones in the esteem and account of him that judgeth righteously Isa 32. 5-8 And who so meet for society countenance security and advance ment as these Oh therefore what great need have we when the dayes are evil to be admonished and warned to flee from this path of the destroyer even from Intemperance and to receive and obey the admonition given unto us and to that end to go forth unto Christ without the Camp bearing his reproach who was spoken against by them that sate in the Gate even by the Judges and Magistrates and was the song of the Drunkards or of the Drinkers of Strong Drimk Heb.