Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	brazen_a	look_v	serpent_n	839	5	9.9901	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15845	The drunkard's character, or, A true drunkard with such sinnes as raigne in him viz. pride. Ignorance. Enmity. Atheisme. Idlenesse. Adultery. Murther. with many the like. Lively set forth in their colours. Together with Compleat armour against evill society. The which may serve also for a common-place-booke of the most usuall sinnes. By R. Iunius.	Younge, Richard.	1638 (1638)	STC 26111; ESTC S120598	366,817	906

faith and workes are equally necessary to salvation and they will understand hee meanes them both as meritorious causes whereas he acknowledgeth neither but faith as an instrument good workes as a necessary concomitant God alone the efficient and Christ alone the meritorious cause of salvation for know this that good workes cannot justifie us before the severe Tribunall of Almighty God our workes deserve nothing it is onely in Christ that they are accepted and onely for Christ that they are rewarded Neither is it faith which properly saves us but the righteousnesse of Christ whereon it is grounded by grace yee are saved through faith Ephesians 2. 8. It is the God of truth that speakes it and woe unto him that shall make God a lyer by grace effectually through faith instrumentally we are not justified for the onely act and quality of believing it is the justice of Jesus that justifies us which faith apprehends it was the brazen Serpent that healed not the eye that looked on it yet without a look●●g eye there was no helpe to the wounded party by the promised vertue It is true our Adversaries oppose this doctrine both with Pens and Tongues violently in the Schooles invectively in the Pulpets but come they once to their death-beds to argue it betweene God and their owne soules then grace and grace alone mercy and onely mercy Iesus and none but Iesus this their great Belweather is driven to confesse yea saith another give us this faith and then let our enemies doe their worst the Devill tempt the world afflict sinne menace death afright yet faith will vanquish all through the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ. Againe let a Minister speak against affectation of learning in Sermons they will say he condemnes learning let him tell such as live and allow themselves in drunkennesse adultery swearing deceiving c. that they are in a damnable condition and in a reprobate sense they will say he calls them r●probates and judgeth them damned in all which they resemble the Sadd ces who tooke occasion to deny the Resurrection from that wholsome doctrine taught that we should neither serve God for reward nor feare of punishment but meerely out of obedience and love or the Iewes who when Christ spake of the Temple of his body understood him to meane the materiall Temple and thereupon tooke great exceptions Yea we have a world of such amongst us who seeme Malchus like to have their right eares cut off they heare so sinis●erly And rather then not carpe if the Minister but use a similitude for ornament and illustration sake borrowed from nature or history they will say he affirmes the matter thereof possitively to be true like as that simple fellow thought Pontius Pilate must needs be a Saint because his name was put in the Creede And so much to prove that the Drunkard hath neither wit nor memory § 42. HAve we yet done no I would we had I would we were well rid of these filthes but let us proceed in speaking as they doe in drinking By that time these gutmongers have gulped downe so many quarts as either of their names hath letters in it they have drawne in some fresh man who perhaps after the third health refuseth to drinke any more being of Diogenes his humor who being urg'd at a banquet to drinke more then he was willing emptied his glasse upon the ground saying if I drinke it I not onely spill it but it spills me so this mans unacustomed rudenesse and monstrous inhumanity begins a quarrell For it is an unexcusable fault or as I may say an unpardonable crime to refuse an health or not to drinke eq●all with the rest or to depart while they are able to speake sense and this they can almost prove for was not Pentheus son to Echion and Agave by his owne Mother and Sister torne in peeces for contemning of Bacchus his feasts hereupon many have lost their lives because they would not drinke but happily by Gods blessing and the parties patience in bearing their fowle language he hath delivered himselfe of their company at which they are so vexed that they gnaw their owne tongues for spight and call him the basest names they can thinke of Now begin they a fresh to spice their cups one while with oathes other whiles with words of Scripture which sounds most ill favouredly in a Drunkards mouth as Salomon intimates Pro. 26. 9. now raile they against Puritans for so are all abstemious men in the Epicures words or a beasts language who hold sobriety no other thing then humor and singularity Religion and good fellowship to be termes convertible Well at length they dispute the case about his departure stoutly affirming that he can be no honest man who refuseth to pledge them and to this they all agree for the utmost of a Drunkards honesty is goodfellowship and he is of most reputation with them that is able to drinke most being of the Tartarians Religion together with the inhabitants of Cuma●a and Guiana who account him the greatest and bravest man and most compleate and wel accomplished gallant who is able to carrouse and swill downe most yea if they can but meete with a man that like Diotimus surnamed Funnell can gulpe downe wine through the channell of his throate conveyed by a tunnell without interspiration betweene gulpes as the Crocodile eates without moving of his nether jaw they thinke him not alone worthy to be carried to Gurmonds Hall and there made free of the wide throats or large weezands company but thinke he deserves some great preferment according to those ancient presidents read of in history Where it is recorded that in the feasts of Bacchus a crowne of gold was appointed for him that could drinke more then the rest That Alexander the great not onely provided but gave a Crowne worth a Talent for reward to Pr●machus when he had swallowed downe foure steines or gallons of wine which none of the company could equall him in though one and forty of them dranke themselves dead also to shew their willingnesse That Tiberius the Emperor preferred many to honours in his time because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers That Tiberius C●sar was preferred to a Pretorship because of his excellency in drinking That amongst the drink-alians in tenterbelly he that can drinke a certaine vessell of about a gallon thrice off and goe away without indenting for this his good service is presently carried through the City in triumph to that goodly Temple dedicated to god All-paunch and there knighted Yea if they might have their wills none should refuse to be drunke unpunished or be drunke unrewarded at the common charge that I exceede not my Last each man that will not pledge their healthes can beare me witnesse though I neede no better evidence then their owne lips for how oft shall you heare them commend those actions which deserve much blame and condemne others which merit great praise how