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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

appropriated to their propet Objects Then in a Word we Learn to Glorifie God the Father who hath Created us to adore God the Son who hath Redeemed us to Reverence God the Holy Ghost who hath Sanctified us and to Bless and Magnifie the Trinity in the Vnity who by such mysterious Works of Mercy has brought such mighty things to pass And it is then we are exhorted to be Merciful as our Heavenly Father is Merciful and to Love him because he first Loved us to imitate the Holy Jesus to be like him and to be conformable to his Sufferings to be Meek Pure and Humble as he was 23. But should we look on the other side we shall find the D●shonouring God in his Day to be the ready Road to the not honouring him in any thing else The first Mischief of Profaning the Lords-Day It being the Opinion and Observation of the Best and Wisest of Men that were the Sanctification of the Lords-Day laid aside in less than an Age the Christian World would turn Pagans and Infidels And I am afraid half that time would do the business effectually For if we can dispense with so strict a Command what other is it that we can boggle at The violation of this Precept is manifestly the I●let to all the Immoralities Humane Nature is capable of If we once lose our Zeal and Fervour for Religion in any one part we quickly grow Lukewarm in the whole and at last we become quite Cold and Dead and irrecoverably stupid in a continual course of Profaness and Impiety Nemo repente fuit Turpissimus says the * Juvenal Poet but the Wretch never attains to the Height of Wickedness so soon as when he makes the Profanation of the Lords-Day the first step thereunto It is by our Absence from Holy Duties in Publick that we come to leave off those in Private too that we lose our true Notions of the Godhead that we have but Glimmering Apprehensions of the Joys and Torments of another World being taken up only with such as are present and affect our Sence that we think all the Virtues of an Holy Life to be but Sham and Invention that we esteem Vices Natural and to have nothing condemnable in them that our Hearts become hardened and our Consciences seared our Reason blinded our Vnderstandings darkened our Wills depraved and our Passions Headstrong And to conclude it is from this that our Souls lose more and more their Original Purity forget their own Divine Nature and dishonour themselves by stooping with the Body to low base and unbecoming Enjoyments And no wonder when the Master-Beam is removed and the chief Pillar of the Fabrick gone but the Superstructure soon follows and falls to the Ground Nor is it strange the Man should not be able to withstand the Torrent of Vice when with his own hand he opens the Sluce and lets the Impetuous stream break in upon him 24. The next Benefit of Sanctifying the Lords-Day is that it weans us from the eager pursuit of Worldly Things A second Benefit is the weaning us from this World This solemn Sequestration of our thoughts from Earthly carries them out to Heavenly subjects and by contemplating on the Joys and Glories of another World we lose our Veneration and Esteem for this and by being raised above this Worlds Enjoyments we have an opportunity of seeing what a Point it is we are too apt to doat on and what mighty Nothings they are which so often captivate our Souls and lead them on to their own Destruction By Contemplating of the Crowns and Diadems of the Heavenly Jerusalem we moderate our Desires as to the Conveniences as well as pleasures of this Life By Meditating on the Eternity which is just ready to Succeed we are informed of the Inconstancy and Swiftness of this Moment this Span of time we New enjoy By Contemplating the Durableness of all Caelestial Fruitions we come to know that this World vanisheth away and the Fashion thereof is every day upon its Alteration By Considering the Immortality of our better Parts we are instructed how Frail Mortal and Short-liv'd our Earthly Tabernacles are To conclude by being Fixed and Spiritualized by conceiving right Notions of God and surveying the Charms and Endearments of those Mansions prepared for us above we arrive to that height of Admiration Love and Esteem as to account all things but Dung and Dross that we may gain Christ to breath earnestly to be dissolved that we may be settled there where true Joys are to be found 25. But then on the other hand we shall find those who slight God's Worship so tyed down to this World A second Mischief is that it makes us do ●t upon the things of this World doating upon admiring adoring and eagerly pursuing after the things thereof That they cannot so much as lift up a thought towards Heaven their Mind is so busie and fixed upon this Earth The Plummets of Care hang so heavy upon them that they are always groveling here below and tho they may cast up an Eye accidentally towards a Coelestial Canaan yet their desires are still to remain on this side Jordan Nay such a one is so ravished with the Delights and Pleasures of this Life which affect his sense and are present with him that he has but faint if any desires after those which are only Notional and affect the Intellectual Man being the Substance of things Hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen Hence it is that he cries it is good for me to be here and is so loth to leave the World when the Messenger of Death knocks at his Door Hence is it that he makes him friends of the Mannon of Vnrighteousness and thinks of nothing but of building up Barns and enlarging his Stores till the Embassy comes to him of Thou fool this night shall thy Soul be required of thee Luke 12. 26. Another Benefit arising from the Performance of this our Duty is that it gives a Blessing to our Ordinary Callings A third benefit is that it blesses our Ordinary Labours We are so far from losing one day in seven that we gain if I may so phrase it six days in one The sincere Observer hereof will tell you the Truth of what I here assert by his own Experience and can witness with Joy that he has not only found a serenity and calmness of Mind but a prosperous success in all his Affairs of the following Week And who would not serve God one day for his assisting him six days in return What Worldling if he knew his own Interest aright but would sanctifie the Lords-Day since he may be sure he shall not serve God for Nought That Work must certainly succeed which is begun furthered and ended with the Blessing of God His Hand will undoubtedly fill our Industry with Good Things and His Bounty will not send our Holy Labours empty away He will be ready to support us in

the Judgment of any of the Afflicted Prov. 31.4 5. From this Consideration was it that in the famous Cities of Lacedemon Crete and Carthage Wine was totally forbidden to Magistrates Alex ab Alex. and whoever came into their Senate-House over-charged with Excess were turned out and degraded from that Dignity with Ignominy and Reproach And from this was it that the Prudential Solon made it a Law at Athens That Drunkenness in one bearing Authority should be punished with Death It were to be wished some such Law were made in another Constitution and then there would not be wanting such Magistrates as would punish the Excess in an Inferior having no such thing as a Consciousness of being guilty of the same to put them out of Countenance or to check the Proceeding Nor can the Drunken Subject be said to be a Friend to any much less to our English Constitution since besides the Riots and Routs the many Immoralities and Tumults he is commonly the Author of The Drunken Subject an Enemy to the Publick he violates and acts in down-right Contradiction to the several * 4 Jac. 1. Cap. 5. 21 Jac. 1. Cap. 7. Statutes of the Realm in that Case made and Provided And by the way he is a profound Loyalist who shall under a pretence to inhance the Royal Income make bold to affront the Law by the manifest and notorious breach thereof But look we at home and behold the intemperate Wretch in his own Family and we shall find him a Tyrannical Master A Drunkard an Enemy to his own House an Unnatural Father as well as an abusive Husband He is so far from being a Friend to his own House that he is the greatest Enemy it has For waving those many unmanly Actions he is guilty of there to wit his beating and kicking his Servants his Unrelenting and Unconcernedness at his Childrens Cries the intolerable Heart-breakings he gives to the pensive Wife of his Bosom and the like He undermines and ruines his own Walls by his extravagant Expences and brings himself and His to Poverty and Rags For has he a pl●ntiful Estate descended from frugal Ancestors 't is no wonder to hear he lives beyond it and by his frequent prodigal Excesses to run it into such Incumbrances and Drown it with so many Mortgages that the next Heir is seldom the better for it But if he is one of an inferior capacity how usual is it to have the indigent Wife and Children feed upon Bread and Water and turned over at last to be a Charge to the Parish which might have been prevented had the thrifty Husband gone less to the Alehouse or Tavern Neither in the last place can the Drunkard be said to be his own Friend for thereby he injures both his Baser and his Nobler Self separately and conjunctly too He injures his Body by the many manifest Mortal distempers which Excess and Surfeitings naturally produce The Drunkard a Self-hater injuring his Body and Soul separately and conjunctly and tho' his Constitution may be never so strong yet insensibly it impairs his Vitals by degrees and at length destroys his whole Frame The Body feels immediate discomposures at the very time of the debauch as is evident from the gripes and vomitings the yawning and reachings the giddiness of the Head and the Rawness of the Stomach which attend it But manifold are the Maladies that follow a long contracted course of irregular intemperate Drinking Of all the Diseases we find in our Weekly Bills of Mortality none swell the number of the Deceased more than those occasioned by Luxury and Excess 'T is Intemperance shortens our days and cuts the Thread before it be spun out to half the length of our long-lived Fathers and from thence our youth are cropt in the flower of their Age hurried away oftimes in the midst of a Debauch and like Lamps are extinguished before they are half spent by reason of the superfluous Humors poured in which drown that which maintains the vital Flame And as he endangers the Destruction of his Body by indulging the Transient pleasure of Taste so by his continual Swinish Immoralities he degrades that Noble Heaven-born Being his Immortal Soul I mean The Intellectual as well as the Animal Faculties whereof are hereby clouded The Understanding the Will the Affections whereof are corrupted and depraved infatuated and insnared Nor are these Considerations of such moment as that in the last place he injures both Soul and Body Conjunctly in making them obnoxious to Hell flames For the Apostle assures us among the rest of the Damning Sins that neither shall Drunkards inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor 6.10 And where else their Inheritance will be is no hard matter for those to guess who know no Medium no Purgatory between Heaven and Hell which is a sad Thought that for the fulfilling of one Lust and the gratifying one Sense Men should hazard the irrecoverable Loss of their Immortal Souls I know not what they think that are guilty of this Impiety but 't is a startling Consideration to any sober Man that the Wine they are thus enamoured with should cost them so dear not only the expence of their Estates and Time the decay and overthrow of whole Families the impairing and debilitating their Bodies but also what is the greatest Expence viz. The price of an Immortal Soul 21. But to stir up Men if possible to their Wits and Senses let them consider in the next place The Second ill effect of I●●n de●ate drinking is the ad●●n●●●g of S●tans Kingdom thereby whose Friends and Servants they have hitherto been They are of their Father the Devil and his Works not their own do they execute they can please him in nothing more than by this Brutal Immorrality Be Drunk and you give him all he can ask or desire When Satan has steeped Men in Liquor he moulds them like soft Clay to what Form he pleaseth and 't is no hard matter to make them his Instruments to do just even what he would have them If he has a Rape to commit none fitter for the Amour than the Drunkard If he has a Life to take away no weapon like a Drunken Fury and inebriated Passion If he would rail against Heaven or Blaspheme him that is Higher than the Highest the Wine inflamed Wretch will Belch out Oaths and Curses Blasphemies and Execrations as fast as he can desire So that if to humor the Devil and please him if to be his Friend and Servant be what you desire rather than the pleasing of God the being kind to your Neighbors and your Selves you can invent no properer a Method than by being a most accomplished refined and complaisant Drunkard 22. Which brings me to the next Consideration the fatality as it were of falling into more sins at the same time The Third ill Effect of Drunkenness that it is the cause of many other Sins You must as I said before if you