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A89544	The reformed gentleman, or, The old English morals rescued from the immoralities of the present age shewing how inconsistent those pretended genteel accomplishments of [brace] swearing, drinking, [brace] whoring and Sabbath-breaking are with the true generosity of an English man : being vices not only contrary to the law of God and the constitutions of our government both ecclesiastical and civil, but such as cry loud for vengeance without a speedy reformation : to which is added a modest advice to ministers and civil magistrates, with an abridgement of the laws relating thereto, the King's proclamation and Queens letter to the justices of Middlesex, with their several orders thereupon / by A.M. of the Church of England.	A. M., of the Church of England.; Bouche, Peter Paul, b. ca. 1646.	1693 (1693)	Wing M6; ESTC R20084	100,071	189

Hour No certainly we find the Unhappy Creature tho' he has so much grace left to come to Church after his Epicurean Dinner yet overtaken with sleep before Prayers be half said and in his Slumbers before the Minister has named his Text twice over And can we think God is well pleased with such a Man's Sacrifice Can the most Charitable Christian now living allow such a stupid Soul to have Sanctified the Lords-Day aright 14. But to prevent this Others are so cautious as not to go to Church at all A Third work of the flesh is Gaming on this Day and the Cloth removed they betake themselves to what they then are most fit for to Softness and Effeminacy to Gaming and Dancing to Singing and telling of Idle Stories 'T is very well known how many I wish I could not say of the Higher Rank of Men spend the Close if not the greatest part of the Lords-Day Not in Reading and Meditating not in Instructing and Praying with their Families but at Chess or Tables at Cards or Dice I would very willingly know whether their Time is so much Employed on other Days that they are so forward to set this Day apart too for their Sports and Pastimes Shall the Devil not only Engross the Week-Days but have the Sunday spent in his Service too Strange and Horrible this That Men should be so Insatuated and Enslaved so Bewitched and Inveigled to their Idle Pleasures as to bestow all their time both secular and sacred upon them 15. But this is not all to fill up the measure of Iniquity they must have their Anticks and their Merry strains on this Holy Day A fourth Work of the Flesh is Dancing and Profane Singing on this Day They cannot go to Bed without a Song or a Dance to refresh their drooping Spirits Poor Hearts They have been fatigued with the long and tedious Duties of the Day have with patience undergone the Burthen thereof and attended till they were weary to Mr. Parsons Discourse of an Hour long And must they be debarred from a harmless Diversion which hurts no body and is an Offence to none but meddling Fools and unaccountably-scrupulous Puritans Perhaps this might be tolerable were it not attended as is most commonly with Masqueradings and Balls of half a Nights Continuance But shall such Farce and Sonnetting go down Shall such Fooleries and Apishness make up the Conclusion of the Sunday Shall Singing of Divine Anthems Hymns and Spiritual Songs so much recommended by St. James and so much in use among the truly merry-hearted Primitive Christians be abus'd ridicul'd and laid aside by most And shall the Melodious Harmony of the Saints and the Consort we may hold with the Heavenly Host be Converted into Obscene Modern Songs which would not take at any other time were it not for the Pandarism of a Musical Composure 16. But as yet we have seen but the best part the foulest is still behind what I have said of the two last ways by which the Lords-Day is profaned to wit The last way w●ereby the Lords-day is profaned viz. By Country Revellings and Riots by Singing and Dancing is what the Civilized Citizens and more Gentile Courtiers are guilty of But if you step into the Country you will see Franticks as well as Anticks on this Sacred Day No sooner is the Evening-service over but you would think Hell it self were broke loose and that every Parish and Village were a Universal Bedlam They are Sober indeed who keep House and pass away the time in some idle Romantick Discourse and are not seen with the more Licentious Multitude But good God! What Routs and Disorders what Cudgel-playing and Wrest-ling what Races and Foot-Ball Matches are set on foot in their open Fields on this Great Solemnity Dancings and R●vellings May-games and Wakes are so Customary that if you offer to suppress them you incroach upon the Priviledge to the Subject Nor is this their Practise only on a Licentious Carnival or a Jovial Whitsuntide but on every Sunday in the Year Not is it the Custom of any peculiar Place but almost of every Village Division Hundred and County in the whole Kingdom This Pest reigns in every Air this Plague is Predominant in every Clyme and this Profane Infection has taken hold of every Quarter and Corner of the Nation 17. But Brutes that you are How unreasonably do you style your selves Christians An earnest Expostulation and Exhortation for the duly Celebrating the Lords Day when as you do that on the Lords-Day which a Modest Heathen would blush to do at any time Are there any Pagans in Nature worse than your selves in Practise What is it you think of Are your Sports and Pastimes your Routs and Revellings all the Evening Sacrifice God is like to have at your Hands Will those be an Incense of a sweet savour unto his Nostrils Is God the Master of your time and are you accountable to him for All and must the more precious Minutes thereof be Squandered away at this Rate Can you find no leisure Hours from your Business to recreate your Bodies but the day which the Lord has set apart for himself Must that be your Vacation your Play-day Vngrateful Wretches that you are Had God desired some Great thing at your Hands could you have denied him since your Breath your Lives your All are of and from him And can you when he only bids you remember the Seventh Day to keep it Holy find tricks and ways how to rob him of his right in that too Monsters of Ingratitude Where is your Love where is your Du●y where is your Thankfulness and where is your Obedience to that Being by whose Permission alone it is that you breath out of Hell one Moment What hinders but you may be Zealous in Observing this Sacred Day Are you afraid the Church will disown you for being righteous overmuch Are there any stronger Encouragements to be Zealous unto good Works than what are to be found within her Bosom Is it a disgrace for a Church of England-Man to be strict in obeying God's Commands Is the Name of Precisian Singular or Puritan so powerful to frighten you from walking according to the Precepts of our Blessed Saviour Are you afraid or ashamed to be His followers Why than do you affix His Name before yours And take it as an affront if you are called by any other Name than that of Christian Be persuaded than to be Christians indeed to bear a Reverential Zeal and Fear to all that belongs to God to his Attributes to his Name to his Word to his Works and to his Day For the Celebration of the Last of which take these following Rules 18. Some Rules laid down for the right Observation of the Sabbath First Preparation on the Eve Prepare thy Heart for this Great Solemnity If there was so much Devotion and Decorum so much Preparation and Cleansing requisite for the Receiving the Law the Approaching the Ark

are the Devils Friend give him a Testimony by some Overt Action that you are so Sins as well as Miseries seldom come unattended and of all others this of Intemperance has the largest Retinue Fornication and Vncleanness Adultery and Incest Swearing and Blaspheming Murder and Revenge Violence and Rapine Theft and Oppression are all of its black Train 'T is but a Provocation that is wanting for the Drunkard to put One or more or all these into execution together And if he does neither 't is not because he was wanting therein but because the opportunity the circumstance the company did not suit nor was it the Devils Royal Will and Pleasure at that time to tempt him to the performance of that which he knows he may probably have a fitter season for 23. I proceed now in the last place to take notice of those woes denounced in Holy Scripture against such scandalous Offences The 4th ill Effect of this Sin is that it makes a Man liable to the Woes denounced in Holy Scripture against this Impiety and here before I do that I should give some account of those dreadful Examples of the Judgments which God inflicts upon the Epicures and by what unheard of and various Methods they come to their untimely ends by breaking their Necks by Drowning themselves by having their Brains dashed out and by many other accidents But every Annal every History has Instances enough to convince any that will make the application home how frequently the drunken Man catches harm and what a horrible thing it is to fall into the hands of an angry God Therefore I shall confine my self to mention the principal places in Holy Writ which seem chiefly to level at the Intemperate The first which I shall mention is what the Wise man doth imply in that passionate expostulation he makes Prov. 23.29 Who hath Woe Who hath Sorrow Who hath Redness of Eyes Who hath Contentions Who hath Wounds without Cause He tells you in the next Verse they that tar ry long at the Wine they that go to seek mixed Wine Here you see a large accumulation of Miseries Grief Strifes Violence and Wrong which follow the Drunkard at the very heels For the Wine may look delicately sparkle finely and move it self aright in the Glass but at the last it biteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder The next Woe we find is that which the Prophet Isaiah denounces in these plain terms Chap. 5 11.12 Woe to them that rise up early in the Morning that they may follow strong Drink that continue until night till Wine enflame them and the Harp and the Viol the Tabret and Pipe are in their Feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord nor consider the operation of his hands As if he should have said Woe to those Greedy Lusty Drinkers who to prevent the want of time wherein to satiate their Lust rise early with the Morning Sun and suck their Wine like the Morning Dew Who are not contented when a Temptation offers to embrace it but seek out for one go about from this Companion to that Woe to those who sit whole days in Tipling-houses and protract their Clubs till after night Who sit up 2 or 3 Nights together and as the Vulgar have it Sing Old Rose and go to Supper twice Rant and Carouse Damn and Drink all in a breath A Health to this and a Confusion to that Man and all his Adherents who in the midst of all their jollity forget the God of Moderation and with Belshazzar praise their gods of Gold and Silver of Luxury and Excess Who consider not the Lord nor regard the operation of his hands How he often is unseen at these Banquets and will call them to an account and put a Cup of Trembling and Astonishment in their hands how he often meets the Dead-drunk Tipler and sends him to Hell in the very Debauch how he often breaks the Arms of one the Legs of another robs this Man of his Senses and fills the other with Despair These things are little regarded but 't is the Lord that doth this and they are let men observe them or no the Wonderful Operations of his hands The same Prophet denounces a Woe in the same Chapter Vers 22. in Words very near the former Woe to them that are mighty to drink Wine and Men of strength to mingle strong Drink Which seems to intimate thus much that let Men be never so well able to bear strong Drink and have Constitutions as strong as the Oak and Heads as hard as Brass be they never so sound of Body and capable to swill down as many Gallons as their Companions can do Pints and neither prejudice their Healths nor drown their Memory nor weaken their Understanding yet notwithstanding all this there doth a Woe belong to them and a Dreadful one too and that because they make use of this their strength to the weakning their Brother and the Drinking him down as they are please to call it 24. This Naturally leads me to consider that Gradation and Climax of Woes which another Prophet hath denounced against and appropriated to the degrees of such Strong and Mighty Drinkers The Words are these Woe to him that giveth his Neighbour Drink Habb 2.15 Not to supply his Natural Necessity that being a piece of Charity and no way deserving reproof but as an Occasion to that Excess which either his own Inclinations or the pleasantness of the Liquor would prompt him to Woe to him that putteth his Bottle to his Neighbour That is that not only lays the Temptation before his Guest but as is too frequent in our Modern Entertainings compells urges and presses him to that Excess that Provokes him either by his Command or his Example or which is worse by Menaces and Threatnings to take unwillingly the almost nauseous Dose Woe to him that maketh his Neighbour Drunk that not only gives an Occasion that presses that compells him to Drink but that also urges that Excess to such a degree that no less price than his Neighbours Reason must satisfie for the wast of his Liquor that delights in that Sin himself and takes pleasure in those who do the same things that makes the Inebriating of his Guests the ultimate end of his Revels and is pleased to see the Antick Postures of his Drunken Neighbour a Wickedness which the Spartans would do only to their Slaves and that upon no such end as the making sport at those twice Captivated Wretches but only thereby to have an Occasion of Exposing the Monstrous folly of Intemperance so as to scare their Children from such a Beastly Vice Woe in the last place to him that maketh him Drunk that he may look upon his Nakedness whose design is to bring the Deluded Soul into the Snare and then expose him to the Mercy of his own or others craft revenge or sport who binds the Soul first in Drunkenness and then throws him into the Chambers

even to abstain from what is Physically as well as Morally Evil but Even our allowed and warrantable Enjoyments must like Physick be taken moderately and with caution lest our Remedy prove our Poyson He that thinks because he is in lawful Circumstances he may give his Lusts their full Swing deceives himself for that in Marriage a Man may be guilty of Sensuality is past dispute 'T is unquestionably true that whoever transgresseth the Principal end of Marriage viz. of Glorifying God and subservient thereto those of Propagating our kind of maintaining Mutual Society and avoiding of Unlawful Lusts has passed the boundaries of Nature Reason and Religion all at once In the entring upon such a Sacred Rite there are many things to be observed and seriously considered both by the betrothed Parties and their Friends in order to have the Marriage successfull and made in Heaven first before the striking of Hands and the Plighting of Troths here on Earth and for want of the due Consideration whereof arises so many Unhappy Matches Family Disturbances and Civil Broils so frequent Separations from and Pollutions of the Conjugal Bed which every day happen afresh in the World I shall but just touch upon these Necessary Precautions and so conclude this particular of Uncleanness As for you who have Adult Children of your own or else are Guardians to such Beware of debarring them from entring into the state of Matrimony when either their Years their Inclinations their Affections and their other Circumstances require the same Consult your Pupils in all respects and be not more than prudently urgent in disswading them from their own or in perswading them into an Approbation of your Choice In disposing of them have an Eye more upon their Temporal Happiness and their Eternal Good than upon the Flattering Prospect of their being Noble Rich or Great Covet not to Marry your Sons or Daughters or any other Relations committed to your Trust into Families of a Higher Rank than your selves and despise not to Match them with those of a Degree lower than you especially where the Virtue and Generosity of the person can toss your lighter Scale of Birth and Fortune up to the Beam As for the Young parties I desire they would not take ill the following Advice before they put on the Wedding Suit which will not cost them so much and perhaps do them more Service Be sure then to avoid all Hasty sudden and Unpremeditated fits of Passion Love not for Lusts sake and Idolize none for their Beauty Wit Strength and Fortune lest your Affection be no more than Skin-deep call in Wiser Heads to advise in so Weighty a Cause and if your Modesty or any other reason will not admit you to ask your Friends advice therein yet be pleased to think God worthy to be of your Council In a word let no Object Charm you but what has the Lineaments of Virtue and the Endowments of a Noble Mind which with or without the outward Qualifications are of force only to Captivate our Souls Hence it is that we perceive the Love grounded upon these External Objects only to be short-liv'd and Transient soon Hot and soon Cold lasting no longer than the Object appears to be Beautiful Strong Witty and Wealthy and growing Nauseous when Impotency Wither'd Age or Poverty over-takes them and often before whilst the more substantial Love founded upon and raised by the inward Ornament of the Mind gives Life to the Love of outward and maintains its own Flame within when all the Fuel administred from without is taken away This Noble Intellectual Love Unites and Consolidates the Parties tho' in Rags and Poverty tho' in Gray-Hairs and Wrinkles and breaths after a Union beyond this and the Grave This is that Love we should be all inflamed with and desire to Contract with each other not because we have Painted Faces and a handsomer piece of Clay for our Share than others are Moulded into or because we have more of Giddy Fortunes Favours but because of those inward Ornaments of Piety and Devotion of Sobriety and Temperance of Modesty and Humility of Chastity and Charity of Meekness and Affability which set off the subject in which they are inherent with such invincible and irresistible Charms as no being above a Brute can forbear to be inamoured with Of the Profanation of the Lord's Day CHAP. IV. The Reasons of keeping Holy the first Day of the Week instead of the Seventh The Lord's Day How and by whom profaned viz. I. By neglecting the Publick Ordinances of the Church II. The Private Duties of the Family III. By Exercising our ordinary Callings thereon whether by our selves our Servants or our Beasts IV. By publickly Exposing to Sale An Objection answered and what Works are Lawful to be done V. By works of the Flesh such as 1. Tipling 2. Feasting 3. Gaming 4. Dancing and Singing 5. Country Revellings and Riots And earnest Expostulation and Exhortation for Celebrating the Lord's Day Rules for it viz. 1. Preparation on the Eve 2. Frequenting the Publick Ordinances of the Church 3. Family Duties Motives thereto drawn from the benefits of observing it and the Mischiefs of Profaning it both to Private Persons and to the Publick THat to serve the Invisible God by whom we Live Move and have our Being in the whole course of our Lives is a main End for which we were Created That every Day and Hour should be Holy unto the Lord that we should have the Fear of Him always before our Eyes That every Moment of our time is truely His is indisputable But forasmuch as we are but Men in a little lower degree then those Blessed Spirits whose task and Happiness it is to be employed continually in Contemplating Adoring and Praising their great Creator and whereas since the Fall we are placed in such circumstances as require the sweat of our Brows and the Expence of a great part of our time in the procuring the Necessaries of this Life we cannot so readily bestow all our hours on Religious Exercises Nor doth God require we should but dispenses with the greatest part of our Lives and only appoints a seventh part of the whole for the more Solemn and Immediate Acts of Divine Worship and is pleased so to Order it that every Action in our Ordinary Callings may be such as may Glorifie our Father which is in Heaven Our Fields and Gardens Our Shops and Studies Our Dining-Rooms and Closets may be all Sanctified by a Religious and Holy Life Sobriety and Modesty Temperance and Moderation may make our very Diversions and Recreations Holy But then we are not to stick here our walking with God in the Private Duties of our several stations Exempts us not from the Publick Adoration of Him in the Congregation of the Faithful For as the Lord of Hosts has been nearly conce●ned in appointing the Persons by Whom the Manner How and the Place Where so has he shewed no less Regard in assigning the Time When