a preparative to studie, or, the vertue of sack this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a43604 of text r22858 in the english short title catalog (wing h1790). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a43604 wing h1790 estc r22858 12744695 ocm 12744695 93216 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a43604) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 93216) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 253:e158, no 7) a preparative to studie, or, the vertue of sack beaumont, francis, 1584-1616. brathwaite, richard, 1588?-1673. edwards, henry, 17th cent. heywood, thomas, d. 1641. taylor, john, 1580-1653. [2], 5 p. [s.n.], london : 1641. variously ascribed to thomas heywood, henry edwards, francis beaumont, richard brathwaite, and john taylor. in verse. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng drinking of alcoholic beverages -england -early works to 1800. london (england) -social life and customs -17th century. a43604 r22858 (wing h1790). civilwar no a preparative to studie: or, the vertue of sack· [no entry] 1641 911 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 c the rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2001-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2001-12 tcp staff (michigan) sampled and proofread 2001-12 tcp staff (michigan) text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-01 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a preparative to studie : or , the vertue of sack . london , printed anno dom. 1641. a preparative to study : or , the vertve of sacke . fetch me ben. iohnsons scull , and fill 't with sacke , rich as the same he dranke , when the whole packe of jolly sisters pledg'd , and did agree , it was no sinne to be as drunke as hee ; if there be any weakenesse in the wine , ther 's vertue in the cup to mak 't divine ; this muddy drench of ale does tast too much of earth , the malt retaines a scurvy touch of the dull hynde that sow'd it , and i feare there 's heresie in hops ; give calvyn beere , and his precise disciple , such as thinke there 's powder treason in all spanish drinke , call sack an idoll , we will kisse the cup , for feare their conventicle be blowne up with superstition ; aw●y with brew-house almes , whose best mirth is six-shilling beere and psalmes . let me rejoyce in sprightly sack that can create a braine even in an empty pan , canary ! it is thou that dost inspire and actuate the soule with heavenly fire . thou that sublim'st the genius-making wit scorne earth , and such as love or live by it , thou mak'st us lords of regions large and faire , whilst our conceipts build castles in the ayre . since fire , earth , ayre , thus thy inferiors bee , henceforth i le know no element but thee ; thou precious elixar of all grapes welcome , by thee our muse begins her scapes ; i would not leave thee sack to be with iove , his nectar is but faign'd , but i doe prove thy more essentiall worth : i am ( me thinkes ) in the exchequer now , harke how it chinks , and doe esteeme my venerable selfe as brave a fellow as if all that pelfe were sure mine owne , and i have thought a way already how to spend it , i would pay no debts , but fairely empty every trunke and change the gold for sack to keepe me drunke , and so by consequence till rich spaines wyne being in my crowne , the indies too were mine , and when my braines are once aflote ( heav'n blesse us ) i thinke my selfe a better man then croesus , and now i doe conceipt my selfe a judge , and coughing , laugh , to see my clyents trudge after my lordships coach unto the hall for justice , and am full of law withall , and doe become the bench as well as hee that fled of late for want of honestie , but i le be judge no longer , though in jeast , for feare i should be talk't with like the rest , when i am sober : who can chuse but thinke me wise , that am so wary in my drinke ? oh , admirable sack ! heer 's dainty sport , i am come backe from westminster to court , and am growne young againe , my phtisick now hath left me , and my judges graver brow is smooth'd , and i turn'd amorous as may , when she invites young lovers forth to play upon her flowry bosome : i could winne a vestall now , or tempt a saint to sinne . oh , for a score of queenes ! you 'd laugh to see how they would strive , which first should ravish mee . three goddesses were nothing : sack has tipt my tongue with charmes like those which paris sipt from venus when she taught him how to kisse faire helen , and invite a farther blisse , mine is canary-rhetorique , that alone would turne diana to a burning stone , stone with amazement burning with loves fire , hard to the touch , but short in her desire , inestimable sack ! thou mak'st us rich , wise , amorous , any thing ; i have an itch to t'other cup , and that perchance will make me valiant too , and quarrell for thy sake : if i be once inflam'd against thy foes that would preach down thy worth in small-beer-prose , i shall doe miracles as bad or worse , as he that gave the king an hundred horse : i 'me in the north already ; lasley's dead , he that would rise , carry the king his head , and tell him ( if he aske , who kill'd the scot ) i knock't his braines out with a pottle pot . out ye rebellious vipers ; j 'me come back from thence againe , because there 's no good sack , t'other odde cup , and i shall be prepar'd to snatch at starres , and pluck downe a reward with mine owne hands , from iove upon their backs that are , or charles his enemies or sacks ; let it be full , if i doe chance to spill over my study by the way , i will , dipping in this diviner incke my pen , write my selfe sober , and fall too t agen . finis . sot's paradise, or, the humours of a derby-ale-house with a satyr upon the ale. ward, edward, 1667-1731. 1698 approx. 16 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-07 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a67520 wing w754 estc r3048 12309696 ocm 12309696 59343 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67520) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 59343) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 904:46) sot's paradise, or, the humours of a derby-ale-house with a satyr upon the ale. ward, edward, 1667-1731. 16 p. [s.n.], london : 1698. reproduction of original in huntington library. a satyr derby-ale: p. 14-15. in verse. attributed to edward ward. cf. bm. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng ale -anecdotes drinking of alcoholic beverages -anecdotes hotels -england -derbyshire -anecdotes bars (drinking establishments) -england -derbyshire -anecdotes taverns (inns) -england -derbyshire -anecdotes 2003-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-04 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-05 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-05 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion sot's paradise : or , the humours of a derby-ale-house : with a satyr upon the ale. london , printed in the year , 1698. the printer to the reader reader , what e'er the author truly meant i know not , but he told me his intent was not to lampoon , or reflect on any ; but thro' necessity he writ , like many , in pinch-gut times , to get the ready penny. suppose ( said i ) you 've anger'd some bravado , i hate the standing of a bastinado ? poh , poh , said he , such dangers never heed , i 'de such a cockscomb redicule indeed , each sentence should have gaul and venom in 't , which you , to recompence your drubs , shall print : mortals have oft , to their destruction , found , poets , like gods , can at a distance wound . i thank you sir ( said i ) such verse , i doubt , s'but a poor plaster for a batter'd snout . he prest the copy forward , i seem'd shye , till by these words he brought me to comply . the characters are random writ , god knows , slightly dispatch'd ; design'd , like salesmens cloaths , for no one in particular , but where they best by chance shall fit , for them to wear nay then , said i , if any sot can find his picture here , and not as his design'd , and angry be , i 'll hire the author then , to whet his wits , and write as keen again : since i can justly say ( to save my bacon ) i no offence intend , i pray let none be taken . sot's paradise : or , the humours of a derby-ale-house . when anxious thoughts my troubled brains possest , and the wild hag rid straddling o'er my breast , loaded with sorrow , i pursu'd my rest . my pockets far too empty were for wine , that noble juice ! that cordial of the vine ! by humane race so justly held divine . to ease my cares i stumbl'd into r — 's , sots paradise , so fam'd of latter days for derby-ale , it bears away the bays . thro' entry dark i th' tippling mansion saught , whose close dimensions rais'd a jealous thought i 'd been trappan'd , and in a mouse-trap caught . like weesel thro' a cranny thus i crept ; and as he screams , so i a murm'ring kept ; now paus'd and swore , then gropt and forward step'd . through stumbling craggy ways the godly steal to heaven , whence i concluded , without fail , this narrow path must lead to heavenly ale. but in this pot-gun passage did i meet a bulky sot , who forc'd me to retreat ; and shot me , like a pellat , to the street . i gain'd the barr by several essays , where mourning widow sat with dolful face ; and on each hand a room , but ne'er a place . i turn'd to th' left , and did amongst them squeese , there heard some belsh , some fart , and others sneeze ; buzzing and humming like a hive of bees . this room i did for ease and cleanness chuse , the chappel call'd , from having seats like pews , where grizled sots sit nodding o'er the news . with painful jostling i a place possest , sat down , then belch'd and farted like the rest , thump'd with my fist , and cry'd i broke a jest. in comes a female tapstriss , pale and wan , sod'n with the fumes of what she's drank and drawn , looks worse than the green girl who wants a man. sir do you pleafe , i pray , to have your ale drawn new , or with a little dash of stale : i gave her answer , and she soon turn'd tail. one sage old bard next chimney nook was got , fix'd as a statue , motionless he sat , his eyes regarding neither who nor what. this speechless image most i did admire , no derby could this mortal lump inspire , who like old puss , sat purring o'er the fire . one whim he had was often put in play , by name salute this monumental clay , he huffs and puffs , starts up and runs away . then in thrusts one , strives hard to get a place ; witty in words , and satyr in his face , thus boldly speaks in dearby-ales disgrace . pox on 't , said he , i yesterday stept in , and drank nine tankards to divert my spleen , it fail'd , and now i 'm come to drink ninteen . at squire 's i heard a beaux so dant and sink it , four tankards numb'd his wits , you won'd not think it ; he swore we all are clod-skul'd sots who drink it . this much disgruntl'd all the swilling herd , who grin'd , and at him enviously star'd , in answer not a mortal wag'd his beard . one gapes , a second nods , a third he winks , a fourth he smoaks , a fifth blows pipe and drinks , not one in ten that either talks or thinks . thus seldom speak , unless 't is to complain of ptisick , stone , the gout , or fome old pain that grieves them sorely , when the moon 's i' th' wain . here worn-out sinners at their ailes repine , . ( the herd thus sympathetically join ) all grunting o'er their hogwash-ale like swine . up rises now and then , a brawny sot , before the fire he turns his ars about , hauks up his flegm , then spitting staggers out . with me this smoky clime did not agree , these sots too grave were , that 's too dull , for me ; no talk is worse than much loquacity . willing to take a general survey , t' observe the difference in mortal clay , i stole from thence , to the next room made way . this call'd the bear-garden , where at a table i heard , amongst a wild promiscuous rabble , more tongues confus'd then ere were known at babel . a beaux repeating to his friend a novel , two lawyers in dispute began to cavel , a fifth , with chalk , was scoring out an oval . and , being as cunning as a hocus pocus , had laid a wager with a john a nokus , he 'd with a thred and pins find out the focus . a scholar , next , of batchelor's degree , standing four years at universitie , rose up and flung a witticism at me . i lik'd the sport , and did retort the same . i hit him home according to my aim ; but could not get his hair brain'd fury tame so learn'd he seem'd , so witty in discourse , he 'd hold me all the money in his purse , tho'i seem'd man he 'd prove me but a horse . i gravely said it did his skill surpass , and , in return , i instanc'd him a case wherein a scholar prov'd himself an ass. he smelt a rat and found he was mistaken , shut up his brains , true knowledge had forsaken , and dwindl'd into news to save his bacon . a little captain , tho' of great renown , cock'd up his hat swore zoons and then sate down , out-chatter'd all the magpies in the town . he talk'd of heros , hectors , and bravadoes , of gashes , slashes , cuts , and carbanadoes , of cannons , mortars , bombs and hand granadoes . the valiant pigmy , eagar to declare his broils in taverns , not exploits in war , teas'd me with nonsence more than i could bear . the dilect he retain'd he learn'd at nurse , and that his words might be of greater force ; he tagg'd each sentence with an oath or curse . a dapper blade was squeez'd among the rest , who would have made each word he spoke a jest aim'd at much witt but little he possest . like ill rung bells he did confus'dly nock his ill tun'd words to hammer out a joak , whose tongue out run the larum of a clock . this mortal prov'd a midnight magistrate , who ask's us , why so dunk , and why so late ? little in person , tho' in office great . he huckles much , tho' what by that he means , let oldish , shirley , or such learned brains t' inform the world , imploy their skilful pens . next sat a drone , whose wits had but a dull-edge , his gravity , and nice grammatick knowledge , spoke him some senior cockscomb of a colledge . he learned reasons offer'd unto some , why gerounds end in di , in do , or dum , then grave attention gave , and sat hum drum. next him a spark bedawb'd with golden twine , so very grave , and eke so very fine , i took him for some statesman on design . some humble lord , so generously free , seeking applause and popularity , came here to court the good mobility . i turn'd about , and view'd him for a space , no sword he 'd on , and in his meen no grace , dulness instead of grandure in his face . my judgment er'd , i quickly found its faillure , no honour in his speech , in 's looks no valour , a lord , thought i , wounds this must be a taylor . when e'er he spoke it matter was of fact , so emphattical his words and so compact , no strowling player could be more exact . against him teague , an irish barber sat , who has a thousand whimsies in his pate , makes wigs , tunes bagpipes , does the lord knows what . by chance , said i , what is 't a clock i pray ? after some time he 'd studdy'd what to say , he answer'd , by me shoul 't's shaterday . each loving each , as truly as a brother , in all things act alike , speak , drink and smother , delight , as monkeys , to buffon each other . like the twin-stars , these two united are . it 's no great matter whether both appear , if you see one , in him the other's there . the ale at last to these weak noddles stole , supply'd the want of brains in every skull , and made them merry , tho' it made me dull . the taylor begg'd of his reverse a tune , teague for his bagpipes sent , and fix'd his drone , then play'd dundee's farwel , and sung o hone . this pleas'd the mob , and made them hoop and hollow , as when the brindled dog against the fallow pins down the bull , and makes him roar and bellow . i teas'd and tir'd with this bear-garden play , in doleful dumps did for ten tankards pay , and sick , not drunk , i homwards steer'd my way . a satyr upon derby-ale . base and ignoble flegm , dull derby ale , thou canst o'er none but brainless sots prevail ; chokes them if new , and soure art if stale . thou drownst no care , or do'st thou elevate ; in stead of quenching drouth , do'st drouth create , makes us dull sots at an expensive rate . old english ale , which upstart fops disdain , brew'd by our grandsiers , chear'd the heart of man , quench'd drouth with pleasure , and prolong'd their span. but thou ! poor slime , thou art not ale , for why ? thou neither cheares the heart , or brisks the eye ; the more we drink the more we still are dry. rare fat'ning swill , to belly up lean guest , it feeds a man in six months to a beast , and gives him bulk , for a church-ward'n at least . puff'd up with thee , dispirited , debas'd , we into gray's-inn reel ( o pump be prais'd ) there quench that drouth thy treacly dregs have rais'd . one hearty draught prepares for pipe of funk , three tankards whets my appetite for punk , four makes me sick , but ten wont make make me drunk . o'er nipperkins of thee six hours i sit , till spent my total , and benum'd my wit , thus nothing have , and just for nothing fit . our wits , or thoughts , thou never canst advance above th' affairs of poland , or of france , wounds , thou' rt a booby to a cup of nantes . thou' rt fit for those who are from troubles free , thou cur'st no spleen , thou art unfit for me , i'd's live , almost , drink adam's ale as thee . thou mak'st us fat in little time 't is true , the same will swins-flesh and potatoes do ; they covet flesh , not brains , that follow you . thou noble ale ! mere caudle , and unfit for men of care to drink , or men of wit , poor english coffee for a plodding cit. guzzle for carmen , foggy and unfine , for nothing fit but to exhaust our coin ; water to brandy , and small-beer to wine . forgive my drowsy muse where e'er she nods , she 's not inspir'd or tutor'd by the gods , she rimes o'er ale , others o'er wine , that 's odds . what if you say she 's dull , it 's no great matter , gross muddy ale 's a heavy theam for satyr , tom brown be judge , or honest ben bridgwater . finis . fatal friendship, or, the drunkards misery being a satyr against hard drinking / by the author of the search after claret. ames, richard, d. 1693. 1693 approx. 32 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 16 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2005-12 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a25262 wing a2978 estc r9803 13284888 ocm 13284888 98783 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a25262) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 98783) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 444:13) fatal friendship, or, the drunkards misery being a satyr against hard drinking / by the author of the search after claret. ames, richard, d. 1693. [4], 26 p. printed for, and sold by randal taylor ..., london : 1693. attributed to richard ames. cf. nuc pre-1956. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng drinking of alcoholic beverages -england -early works to 1800. alcoholism -england -early works to 1800. 2005-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2005-03 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-04 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2005-04 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion fatal friendship ; or , the drunkards misery : being a satyr against hard drinking . — cum vini vis penetravit , consequitur gravitas membrorum , praepediuntur crura vacillanti , tardescit lingua , madet mens , nant oculi , clamor , singultus , jurgia glascant . lucret. lib. 3. by the author of the search after claret . imprimatur , octob. 18th . 1692. edmund bohun . london , printed for , and sold by randal taylor , near stationers-hall , 1693. to all gentlemen , and others ; more particularly , to the sworn friends of the bottle . gentlemen , &c. i am very sensible , that my company will be as acceptable to you , as good advice to a young heir , borrowing money upon his estate before he comes to age ; or a drawer's impertinence , who ( unsent for ) tells you , 't is past three in the morning ; whereas you scorn to wait upon time ; no , let the bald-pated gentleman wait upon you . however , a satyr is a kind of a rugged fellow , and stands not much upon preface , or ceremony ; who makes bold to present you with some of your pictures , drawn as near the life , as a rough pencil could make them ; tho' , you will say , 't was 〈◊〉 what sawcy , to do your pictures , without your consert 〈◊〉 perhaps , 't was a little presumptions ; but what dares 〈◊〉 a satyr do ? 't is a very strange thing , that a man should do that over-night , which he must ask pardon of his constitution for next morning . how penitent , and crop-sick , have i seen a spark , after a debauch ? his body feaverish , his head out of order ; then small-beer , and coffee , are his beloved liquors , and he abhors wine for some time , equal with a mussel-man ; till nature throws it off , and then the bottle must be ply'd pretty warmly , to redeem the time lost in sobriety . but , as for those hard-drinkers , whose bodies and consciences are equally case-hardned , whom no wine can ever intoxicate , and who boast of their knocking down ( as 't is call'd ) so many of an evening ; taking a pride to murder their dearest friends , under the disguise of a civil entertainment ( for a stab in the mouth is oftentimes more dangerous , than a thrust through the body : ) as for these men , my satyr has nothing to say to them , since neither st. paul , nor aristotle , can ever convince them , that drinking to excess is a sin , or , to use their own modish phrase , a vice : no , my satyr would only instruct the young practitioners in drinking , who are not gone so far , as to dare to venture upon the second or third bottle ; i wish , they may stop , before the feaver , gout , or consumption , convinces them of their folly , and their experience be not bought so dear , that they will never make their money of it again ; for , till i can find , what good either to soul , body , reputation or estate , hard drinking ever did to any man , the satyr will stand good in law ; and when he is convinced to the contrary , he will readily cry , peccavi . an errata . page 2. line ult . for masters , read master , p. 9. l. 9. f. just , r. curst . ibid , l. 16. f. so well , r. to sell , p. 10. l. 8. f. tells , r. tell , p. 13. l. 10. f. rut , r. but , ibid , l. 14. f. paint , r. pain p. 14. l. 12. f. year , r. years , p. 15. l. 7. f. jilt , r. jill . p. 16. l. 2. f. of his , r. which this , p 25. l. 17. f. he , r. they . with several other faults , which the reader is desired to correct . the fatal friendship , &c. i. enough , enough ; urge me no more my friend , ( for so you are , or so at least pretend ; ) i 've drank enough to quench my thirst ; nay , more , i 've took a glass , or two , on pleasures score ; and sure , you cannot think it fit , i drink beyond my quantum sufficit ? why will you tempt me thus ? — and with a glass , fit by the race of gyants , to be quaft : think you a pint can be a friendly draught ? for double aqua fortis has as many charms as in that bumper are ; therefore , my dearest friend , forbear , and show the fatal glass no more ; which not to drink , i to my self have swore . ii. but yet i would not have you think , 't is humour makes me thus forbear to drink ; or that some sullen maggot of the brain , makes me large brimmers thus refrain . i ever lov'd my friend , and scorn to be the spoiler of good company ; yet i was ne're so complaisant , to pour down drink to that degree , till i could neither speak , nor stand , nor go , because my company were so ; i hope , that piece of breeding i shall ever want . some irksom things one would for friendship do , yet a man's health must be regarded too . iii. i see your friends are all uneasie grown ; and you your self must wish me gone , since now i can no longer be , what by mistake is call'd good company : pardon my rudeness , and believe , 't is with regret i take my leave ; for i am very proud to be the masters of my health and liberty ; yet , i confess , i shall one pleasure lose , which is , the benefit of your discourse ; instead of which , i 'll walk the groves and fields , and crop the sweets , the lovely garden yields ; since various men do various pleasures choose , if you 'll not envy mine , i ne're will envy yours . iv. thus at a pleasant seat of country-knight , adorn'd with every thing that can delight , one day a mighty company were met , i , 'mongst the rest , to share a noble treat . our dinner done , appears another scene , bottles , like locusts , to the room swarm in , of several sorts of wine ; nor must they need , that shoeing-horn , to drink the indian weed : bottles and pipes the challenge give , which every one does there receive ; healths are begun , of which 'bout three or four i drank , and then resolv'd to drink no more ; but took my leave , since i could plainly find , hard-drinking was by all design'd ; i know , that — squeamish fool , and sober sot , were names , which in my absence were my lot ; but that no trouble was to me , since now in air my thoughts were free : in a thick grove of beech i walkt alone , and thinking where i lately was , and what was certain to be done , when the concluding punch-bowl was in play ; reflecting ( as i , 'mongst the trees , did pass ) upon the vice of drinking , there was brought a thousand notions to my lab'ring thought , which , cloath'd in words , thus to my self did say . v. how in the name of wonder hapned first that vice , above all other vices curst , call'd , drunkenness , such vast esteem to find , amongst the race of human kind . the patriarchs , who liv'd before the flood , no drink , but that of water understood ; till noah planted an unlucky vine , and was the first example of the force of wine ; but too too soon the vice familiar grew , and when the cups went briskly round , the little world , call'd man , again was drown'd , they laught at all the sober few , who would refuse to wash their souls with wine , or not with them in lewd excesses joyn ; this truth , old pious lot too plainly knew , when from the drunken sodomitish crew , with 's wife and daughters he withdrew , but in a cave the girls contriv'd a plot , by pushing on the well-fill'd bowl , to warm their father's aged soul : and when the now no longer pious lot , his dose had plentifully got , his wife of salt , and sodom's flames , were both forgot : the heat of wine , the heat of lust inspires , and the old man now burns with youthful fires ; incest he thinks no crime , and now no more rememb'ring what his neighbours suff'red for ; forgetting what is lawful , good and just , adds sin to sin , and his two daughters must by turns inflame , by turns allay his lust. vi. parent of vices , drinking , sure thou art , under thy wing they all ptotection find ; for he that is to drunkenness inclin'd , will in no sin refuse to bear a part , must there a house be fir'd , or tender maid be to the arms of ravishers betray'd ; a person to be robb'd , nay , murdered too , all this a drunkard is prepared to do ; his reason , in a sea of liquor , drown'd , to guide his thoughts , no pilot can be found , but to and fro his passions fluctuate , ready for villany at any rate : but oft a sad repentance is his lot , and the lewd frolicks of a drunken sot , end with a halter , and a psalm , if drunk you kill , you must be hang'd when calm ; but newgate's annals , tyburn's chronicle , of this sad truth can various stories tell . vii . oft to a tavern have i known go in , a knot of friends to drink a glass of wine , in love and unity they all sit down , now doubly welcome to each other grown ; to each man's health the glass goes briskly round , and nought but mirth and jollity is found ; but when one bottle ushers in another , and this half flask brings in his younger brother : a scene quite different appears , for now with wine inflam'd each petty jar , will 'mongst these friends create a civil war ; wine spilt by accident , an health forgot , or a glass fill'd too full upon the spot , can set 'em altogether by the ears ; rascal , and rogue , are words they use by turns , and each with wine and fury doubly burns ; which , if too high wound up , perhaps proceeds , to throwing bottles at each others heads ; then swords from scabbards are lugg'd out . and now begins the dismal rout. all friendship is forgot , and each one wou'd be glad to bathe his sword in t'other's blood. thus in the fury of this brutal wrath , murder ensues on one , or both ; and they , who were such friends before , by wines most powerful operation , cancel the friendship which they bore ; and he who does in such a quarrel fall , with highest justice we may call , a sacrifice to vvine , and sudden passion . viii . late from the tavern , reeling drunk , a gentleman ( well bred , and nobly born , who sober , would such actions scorn ) perhaps shall seize upon a stroling punk ; she likes her prize , for well those vermin know , what with a drunken man to do : but while , as by her side he walks , and of his love in broken english talks , a man more drunk he meets , who has resolv'd to scour the streets ; he asks no leave , but boldly on does fall , and quarrels with him both for punk and wall : this he a great affront does think , ( for men are valiant in their drink ) both draw , and aukard pushes make ; and though they both may know the art , they thrust not now in teirce or cart ; but blindly fighting in the dark , by a chance pass falls one , or t'other spark , unless the watch , or some by-standers may be near , to part the sudden fray. thus quarrels too too oft arise , and precious life is laid at stake , for the good favours of a taudry crack , and doubly curst is he that wins the prize . ix . but without any hindrance , now suppose , he with his phillis to some tavern goes ; for taverns now , 't is known , are doubly just , first , they inflame , and then they wink at lust ; here from warm touches , and such wanton toys , which she permits as fine decoys , to draw him on , to taste her further joys , he ventures , and by money thrown in lap , gives solid earnest for a swinging clap. for now the jilts , so well their flesh are known , as butchers do their meat by pound or stone : but though the whore with open hand receives , what he for fatal pleasures gives , not satisfied , she to his pocket dives . from whence , by slight of hand , with fingers steady , by nimble art , she picks out all his ready ; and if tobacco-box , or watch be nigh , they shall not fail to keep it company : then she troops of , and leaves him with the curse of a burnt tail , and quite exhausted purse ; homeward 't is time , that now he reels , insensible as yet , but who can tell 's the pangs his serious thoughts next morning feels , when he considers what th' effects may be of his last nights vain , sinful jolity . x. blessed effects of drinking to excess ; but this does antient proverb cross , that drunken men ne're come to harm or loss ; no , heaven o're them has a peculiar care , not minding how the sober fare ; from horse they never fall , nor by mistake , ride into ponds , a liquid exit make ; all stairs to them , like terra firma , seem , from whence , by falling , none e're broke a limb ; they never meet with quarrel , blow , nor wound , nor dead i' th' street , o'recome with liquor found . no , no , — this truth they joyntly all confess , or day , or night , when they from drinking come , tho' they want legs and eyes , they get securely home . xi . like wretched losing gamesters thus , rather than they the game will loose , heav'n shall be call'd , the sinking cause t'efpouse : but can we be so impious , as to think , that providence o're men in drink , with greater care looks down , than on those who are always sober known . this were to set up vice , and put fair vertue down . " but you will tell us , that the sober may " be kill'd , or wounded in a fray , " may break their necks , be drown'd , or lye " wrackt with the gout , or in a feaver dye ; " how then with justice can you e're pretend , that heav'n is theirs , more than the drunkards friend . 't is true , these mischiefs on the good may fall , but yet to them they are no ills at all ; the forest of them providence ne're sent in anger , as a punishment : th' appearance , ev'n of ill they all eschew , not seek the causes as the drunkards do : no wonder then , so oft they dangers meet , when they will court 'em in the road or street ; leaving their arguments , as vain and false , since now another way my fancy calls : of melancholory scenes now take a view , and tell me then if drink can mischief do . xii . see here a moving tun of drink , whos 's paunch in state before him walks , while his two gouty leggs come limping after , a sight , will move our pitty , and our laughter , with pace uncertain , how he stalks ; salt's rheums in 's eyes , with face as scarlet red , tho' parcht his lips , as ne're with moisture fed . this sea of liquor yet will never shrink , but freely takes his brimmers off , and with the latest stoutly quaff : nay , for his drinking he has this pretence , sobriety would be the death , 't is claret : that preserves his breath ; so drink he must , ev'n in his own defence : rut whether do these courses tend , nature at last beneath the load must bend ; excessive heats put out her kinder fires , and so wrapt up in drink , the wretch expires . xiii . another with the gout such paint does feel , as almost equals those upon the wheel ; oyls , oyntments , plaisters still are us'd in vain , nor can the velvet cusheon ease the pain ; either like strickt carthusian now he lives , and meanest foods , and smallest drink receives ; ( a dismal penance for a past life , spent in frolicks , and high drinking , merriment ) or else he huggs the cause of all his pains , and wine alone his palate entertains ; and when in toe the wracking twitch comes on , to ease the pain , he throws a brimmer down : all doctors slops he hates , and cannot think there can be any opiate like drink ; and that good claret , or some other wine , sooner and better does to rest incline , then laudanum , or other anodyne : thus , thus , he lives — and tedious year spins out , ( for death is seldom hastned by the gout ; ) and frequent in his mouth this maxims known , drink wine , and have the gout ; and when that 's done , your gout will pain you , tho'you should drink none . xiv . now a consumptive walking ghost appears , stooping to earth before th' appointed years ; who , when of phlegm , he would his stomach ease , does of himself each time spit up a piece : a hectick feaver does his strength consume , and he 's a perfect skeleton become ; so pale and wan , that every one almost would swear he did not seem , but was a ghost . yet to the tavern , for a sober jilt , or a half pint at most , he ventures still ; so willing is the wretch to live , altho' he cannot one of life's contentments know : he sees the men of health the bottles troul , and drink large bumpers from the deep mouth'd bowl ; while he , with little knipperkin , by 's side , observes the ebbs and flows of th' bottles tide , with such delight , as old men when they view , what am'rous thyrsis and dorinda do , when on a rosie bank , at dawn of day , they sit and kiss , and play the time away : yet the pin'd creature , drinking now forbid , ( not able to perform what once he did ) yet pleads , that little wine he sipt up now , to 's wasted lungs , does as a cordial go ; and who would that assistance disallow ? xv. these are some few of that most mighty train , of his hard drinking , brings on wretched man ; yet in the case it is but plain and clear , the body is the smallest sufferer : too often the estate the damage feels , and a house totters while its master reels ; hang lousie mannours , what are musty farms , in ballance put with wines diviner charms : thus timon-like , our spark treats on , and drinks , but how 's estate declines , he never thinks , till duns on ev'ry side attack him so , he must for safety to alsatia go ; where , while his money lasts he shall not want , companions who will with him drink and rant ; but that once gon , his person they refuse , as rats by instinkt leave a falling house ; pensive he walks , and knows not what to do , since poverty has made the world his foe ; and he who once esteem'd no wines too dear , now wets his throat with penitent small beer ; though 't is a change , few men can ere endure , to be a stoick from an epicure ; no character does such a man deserve , ( by his excesses almost doom'd to starve ) but this , — a good estate to 's lot did fall , which folilshly he pist against the wall. xvi . but , what does most of all our wonder raise , and with astonishment our reason strike , is , that this vice they will as vertue praise , and that no friendship ever can be like to that , which o're a bottle can be made : so strong a cement's wine , it will engage , men shall continue friends an age. tho the acquaintance first they had , at a lewd drinking match , where each one vow'd , that he would spend his dearest blood ; go for his friend , through water , fire , all the dangers can on mankind fall ; tho of all this a word 's not understood , yet they will hug and flabber one another ; the old they father call , the young their brother . their friendship , thus by wine begun , must by the same be carried on ; and if by accident , one meets his brother red-nose in the streets ; they , with dry lips , no more can part , than can a parent from his son in cart , refrain from tears . — old customs they 'll not break , each in a glass must dip his beak ; with modest pints , they first begin , and that the tall-boy ushers in ; then , in large brimmers , all their cares they drown , and useless reason tumbles down : yet they are friends , most mighty friends , indeed , and for each other , both their purses bleed ; so long , till one does a consumption find , and when that 's gone , — where will you find the friend ? xvii . but , which is worst of all , our gentry now , make drinking — friendship , and their glory , too ; and him the bravest man they reckon , who can his large bumpers stifly quaff , and carry half a score of bottles off ; and him unfit for conversation think , who boggles with the glass , and will not drink : if i , quite weary of the nauseous town , to see an honest country friend , go down ; i am received with all the kind address , that un-disguised friendship can express ; with wonder , i behold his plenteous board , with what ev'n luxury could wish-for stor'd ; and when , with choicest foods , i have giv'n nature the refreshment she did crave ; taking my glass , in order , as it came , gently to stir the vital flame , i thought , that then some respite was allow'd , to sit a while , and talk , or chew the cudd. but , ah ! no sooner was the voider gone , but bottles came in clusters on . now i 've a doubtful task to chuse , either to drink , or else refuse : if i through easiness comply , ( and men sometimes want power for to deny ) i must resolve with reason to shake hands , and represent the brute , in shape of man , while pretious health , in doubtful posture , stands ; for who can tell , how much i may oppress the vital heat , by such a grand excess ; and the firm strength , which now i 'm sure is mine ; this ( friendly kind ) debauch may undermine , and shorten life t'an inch , which nature made a span ? if i refuse , and no perswasions can tempt me to stay , and drink like them , me , as an ill bred fool , they then condemn ; but heav'n be praised , these scandals wound not deep ; let them rail on , while life's chief blessing , health i keep . xviii . and this , d' ye friendship call , as well you may , call an italian friend , who can convey a secret poyson to your heart , prepar'd with so much curious art , which shall most certainly , or soon , or late , close up your eyes , and seal your fate : but our bold sons of bacchus , here , do in their practice openly appear ; who , on you , when they force the glass , or cup , pale poyson , in disguise of wine you sup ; yet think not poyson from the grape they press ; no , wine 's a cordial , till by lewd excess , it does its kind refreshing nature lose , and death lies lurking in the noble juyce : and can that man be then my friend , who , because , mithridates-like , he poysons can digest ( for wine 's no less , when swallow'd to a vast excess ) will unto me the fatal draught commend . nay , force it too : — if this be friendship then , its sail let sence and breeding strike to savages , and indians , who european vices never knew , for , if not christians , yet 't is own'd they 're men. xix . alas ! what pleasure can there be in an half fluster'd company : one while , like dover-court , 't appears , all men have tongues , but none have ears ; another time they will be sitting , as mute , as quaker's silent meeting ; till one more , witty than the rest , tells 'em a sad insipid jest ; and then they laugh at such a rate , yet scarcely one can tell for what : here one , with secret , hard in labour , delivers it in ear of neighbour ; which , from his breast , had never broke , had not wine slily pickt the lock . another tells , what punks of late , and sort of oaths are out of date ; and what new faces daily meet , at famous house of chacolett : one , in the story of 's mishaps , forgets not to relate his claps ; at which , his neighbour laughs , and tells him , such ills far oftner have befel him , one to the chimney-corner creeps , and there , in quiet , fairly sleeps ; another does , by 's spewing , tell us , something in 's stomach's grown rebellious : one sings ; at which another bawls , and vows he only catterwawls : thus , in a scene of noise and strife , they waste the pretious hours of life ; till death shall let the curtain drop , and then their game of folly's up . xx. though heaven ordain'd , that man should be a creature , sitted for society ; yet he must be apollo , that can find what benefit to body , or to mind , can e're accrue from a wild friendship , where no other entertainments found , but still to see the bottle keeps its round ; all sober-thinking they abhor , and learned talking is kickt out of doors : but if of dogs and horses — xxi . — and here the chain of thought in meditation , to an end was brought : occasion'd by a mighty noise , which came . from the same house , from whence i lately went , the penance of hard-drinking to prevent ; thither i hastned , and was struck to see their pleasant scence of mirth and jollity , now turned to blood , and wounds , and tragedy . the foolish fray was hardly over , when in the room i did my self discover ; for a full bottle brusht against my arm , then flew through th' window , without further harm ; ( yet , in that number , there were only two , who me again distinctly knew ; ) the noble knight , strove by all means he cou'd , to hinder spilling christian blood ; for wine , and passion , put 'em in a flame , not quickly to be quencht , — but yet , at last , each quietly sat down , as no such thing had past . xxii . then of the sob'rest in the room , ( tho' ev'ry man was purely overcome , ) i askt th' occasion , how this quarrel rose ? who told me , that a spark would needs impose a health on 's friend , which he point blank refus'd ; at which , in 's face , a glass of wine he threw ; and after that , his tilter drew , and swore , that he that would not pledge that health , were sons of whores , and lov'd a common-wealth : at which , the company divided stood , and swords were ready drawn for blood ; but after some few angry passes made , one prickt i' th arm , and to then cut on the head. slight wounds : — but , after much perswasions us'd , as fresh they to their drinking fall , as if they had not drank at all ; to see the up-shot on 't , i would not stay , but thus reflected in my homeward way ; that though to chuse our fortunes , heav'n will not allow ; yet were this double choice my lot , i 'd rather be an hermit , than a sot. finis the blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankind, or, a charge drawn up against drunkards and presented to his highness the lord protector, in the name of all the sober party in the three nations, humbly craving that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others ... / by r. younge of roxwell in essex. younge, richard. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a67741 of text r41270 in the english short title catalog (wing y140). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 69 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a67741 wing y140 estc r41270 31354736 ocm 31354736 110246 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67741) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 110246) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1753:27) the blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankind, or, a charge drawn up against drunkards and presented to his highness the lord protector, in the name of all the sober party in the three nations, humbly craving that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others ... / by r. younge of roxwell in essex. younge, richard. 16 p. printed by a.m. and are to be sold by henry crips ... and james crump ..., [london] : 1658. caption title. imprint from colophon. running title: the disgrace of mankind. "offer of help to drowning-men" -p. 11-16. reproduction of original in the cambridge university library. eng drinking of alcoholic beverages. alcoholism -religious aspects. alcoholics. a67741 r41270 (wing y140). civilwar no the blemish of government, the shame of religion, the disgrace of mankind, or, a charge drawn up against drunkards and presented to his high younge, richard 1658 11859 84 0 0 0 0 0 71 d the rate of 71 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-12 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-12 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-01 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2005-01 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the blemish of government , the shame of religion , the disgrace of mankind ; or , a charge drawn up against drunkards , and presented to his highness the lord protector , in the name of all the sober party in the three nations . humbly craving , that they may be kept alone by themselves from infecting others ; compelled to work and earn what they consume : and that none may be suffered to sell drink , who shall either swear , or be drunk themselves , or suffer others within their wals. by r. younge of roxwell in essex . 1. branch of the charge . that as the basilisk is chief of serpents : so of sinners the drunkard is chief . that drunkenness is of sins the queen : as the gout is of diseases : even the root of all evil , the rot of all good . a sin which turns a man wholly into sin . that all sins , all beast-like , all serpentine qualities meet in a drunkard , as rivers in the sea : and that it were far better be a toad , or a serpent , than a drunkard . that the drunkard is like ahab , who sold himself to work wickedness . that he wholly dedicates , resigns , surrenders , and gives himself up to serve sin and satan . that his only imploiment is to drink , drab , quarrel , swear , curse , scoff , slander and seduce : as if to sin were his trade , and he could do nothing else ; like the devil , who was a sinner from the beginning , a sinner to the end . that these sons of belial , are all for the belly : for to drink god out of their hearts , health out of their bodies , wit out of their heads , strength out of their joynts , all the money out of their purses , all the drink out of the brewers barrels , wife and children out of doors , the house out at windows , the land out of quiet , plenty out of the nation , is all their business . in which their swinish swilling , they resemble so many frogs in a puddle , or water-snakes in a pond : for their whole exercise , yea , religion , is to drink ; they even drown themselves on the dry land . that they drink more spirits in one night , then their flesh and brains be worth . that more is thrown out of one swines nose , and mouth , and guts , than would maintain five sufficient families . 2. br. that it is not to be imagined , what all the drunkards in one shire , or county do devour , and worse than throw away in one year : when it hath been known ( if we may give credit to authours , and the oaths of others ) that two and thirty in one cluster have made themselves drunk ; that six and thirty have dranke themselves dead in the place , with carowsing of healths ; that at one supper , one and fourty have killed themselves , with striving for the conquest : that two have drank each of them a peck at a draught : that four men have drank four gallons of wine at a sitting : that one man hath drank two gallons of wine ; and two more , three gallons of wine a piece at a time : that one drunkard in a few hours , drank four gallons of wine : that four ancient men drank as many cups of wine at one sitting , as they had lived years , which was in all , three hundred cups of wine amongst four men : and lastly , that three women came into a tavern in fleetstreet ( when i was a boy , take it upon claptons oath and credit , who drew the wine ) and drank fourty nine quarts of sack ; two of them sixteen a piece , and the third to get the victory , seventeen quarts of sack . which being so , what may the many millions of these ding-thrifty dearth-makers consume in a year in all the three nations ? nor need it seem incredible , that common drunkards should drink thus : for they can disgorge themselves at pleasure , by only putting their finger to their throat . and they will vomit , as if they were so many live whales spuing up the ocean ; which done , they can drink afresh . or if not so , yet custom hath made it pass thorow them , as thorow a tunnel , or strainer ; whereby it comes out again as sheer wine as it went in , as hath been observed . nor hath the richest sherry or old canary any more operation with them , then a cup of six hath with me . and no marvell for if physick be taken too oft , it wil not work like physick : but nature entertains it as a friend , not as a physitian : yea poison by a familiar use becomes natural food . as aristotle ( in an example of a maid , who used to pick spiders off the wals and eat them ) makes plain . 3. br. that as drunkards have lost the prerogative of their creation , and are changed ( with nebuchadnezzar , dan. 4. 16. ) from men into beasts , so they turn the sanctuary of life into the shambles of death : yea thousands ( when they have made up the measure of their wickedness ) are taken away in god's just wrath in their drink ; ( as it were with the weapon in their bellies ) it faring with them as it did with that pope , whom the devil is said to have slain in the very instant of his adultery , and carry him quick to hell ; being suddenly struck with death , as if the execution were no lesse intended to the soul , than to the body . that by the law of god in both testaments ; he that will not labour , should not eat , gen. 3. 19. prov. 20. 4. 2 thes. 3. 10. because he robs the common-wealth of that which is altogether as profitable as land , or treasure . but drunkards are not only lazy get-nothings , but they are also riotous spend-als ; and yet these drunken drones , these gut-mongers , these quagmirists , like vagrants and vermine , do nothing all their life-long that may tend to any good , as is storied of margites , and yet devour more of the fat of the land , than would plentifully maintain those millions of poor in the nation , that are ready to famish . a thing not fit to be suffered in any christian common-wealth , yea far fitter they were stoned to death , as by the law of god they ought , deut. 21. 20 , 21. since this might bring them to repentance ; whereas now they spend their dayes in mirth : and suddenly they go down into hell , job 21. 13. drunkards being those swine , whom the legion carries headlong into the sea , or pit of perdition . 4. br. that every hour seems a day , and every day a month to a drunkard , that is not spent in a tap-house ; yea , they seem to have nailed their ears to the door of some tavern or tap-house , and to have agreed with satan , master , it is good being here ! that where ever the drunkards house is , his dwelling is at the ale-house , except all his mony be spent , and then if his wife will fetch him home with a lanth●rn , and his men with a barrow , he comes with as 〈◊〉 sense as 〈◊〉 image had . that the pot is no sooner from their lips , but they are melancholy , and their hearts as heavy , as if a milstone lay upon it . or rather they are vexed like saul with an evil spirit , which nothing will drive away but drink and tobacco . they so wound their consciences with all kind of prodigious wickedness , and so exceedingly provoke god , that they are rackt in conscience , and tortured with the very flashes of hell-fire . that they drink to the end only , that they may forget god , his threats and judgments ; that they may drown conscience , and put of all thoughts of death , and hell ; and to hearten and harden themselves against all the messages of god , and threats of the law : which is no other in mitigating the pangs of conscience , than as a saddle of gold to a galled horse , or a draught of poison to quench a mans thirst . that if they might have their wils , none should refuse to be drunk unpunished , or be drunk unrewarded at the common charge . as how will they boast what they drank , and how many they conquer'd at such a meeting , making it their only glory ? that the utmost of a drunkards honesty is good-fellowship ; that temperance and sobriety with them , is nothing but humour and singularity ; and that they drink not for strength or need , but for lust and pride ; to shew how full of satan they are , and how near to swine . that though these swinish swill-bouls make their gullet their god , and sacrifice more to their god-belly , than those babylonians did to their god bell , bell & drag . ver. 3. yet they will say , yea swear , that they drink not for love of drink , though they love it above health , wealth , credit , child , wife , life , heaven , salvation , all . they no more care for wine , than esau did for his pottage for which he sold his birth-right , isa. 56 12. 5. br. that drunkards are the devils captives , at his command , and ready to do his will ; and that he rules over , and works in them his pleasure , 2 tim. 2. 26. eph. 2. 2. that he enters into them , and puts it into their hearts , what he will have them to do , joh. 13. 2. act. 5. 3. 1 chro. 21. 1. opens their mouths , speaks in , and by them , gen. 3. 1 , to 6. stretcheth out their hands , and they act as he will have them , act. 12. 1 , 2. rev. 2. 10. he being their father , gen. 3. 15. joh. 8. 44. their king , joh. 12. 31. & 14. 30. and their god , 2 cor. 4. 4. eph. 2. 2. and which is worst of all , that drunkenness not only duls and dams up the head and spirits with mud , but it beastiates the heart , & ( being worse than the sting of an asp ) poisoneth the very soul and reason of a man , whereby the faculties and organs of repentance and resolution are so corrupted and captivated , that it makes men utterly uncapable of returning , unlesse god should work a greater miracle upon them , then was the creating of the whole world . whence austin compares it to the very pit of hell , out of which ( when a man is once fallen into ) there is no hope of redemption . that drunkenness is like some desp●rate plague , which knows no cure . as what sayes basil , shall we speak to drunkards ? we had as good speak to liveless-stones , or sensless-plants , or witless beasts , as to them ; for they no more believe the threats of gods word , than if some impostor had spoken them . they will fear nothing , till they be in hell-fire ; resembling the sodomites , who would take no warning , though they were all struck blind ; but persisted in their course , untill they felt fire and brimstone about their ears , gen. 19. 11. that there is no washing these blackmoors white , no charming of these deaf adders ; blind men never blush ; fools are never troubled in conscience ; neither are beasts ever ashamed of their deeds . that a man shall never hear of an habituated , infatuated , incorrigible , cauterized drunkard , that is reclaimed with age . 6. br. that as at first , and before custom in sin hath hardened these drunkards , they suffer themselves to be transformed from men into swine ; as elpenor was transformed by circes into a hog ; so by degrees they are of swine transformed again into devils , as cadmus and his wife were into serpents , as palpably appears by their tempting to sin , and drawing to perdition . that these agents for the devil , drunkards , practise nothing but the art of debauching men ; that to turn others into beasts , they will make themselves devils , wherin they have a notable dexterity , as it is admirable how they will wind men in , and draw men on , by drinking first a health to such a man , then to such a woman my mistress , then to every ones mistress ; then to some lord or lady ; their master , their magistrate , their captain , commaader , &c. and never cease , until their brains , their wits , their tongues , their eyes , their feet , their senses , and all their members sail them : that they will drink until they vomit up their shame again , like a filthy dog , or lie wallowing in their beastliness , like a bruitish swine . that they think nothing too much either to do or spend , that they may make a sober man a drunkard , or to drink another drunkard under the table ; which is to brag how far they are become the devils children : that in case they can make a sober and religious man exceed his bounds , they will sing and rejoyce , as in the division of a spoil ; and boast that they have drenched sobriety ▪ and blinded the light ; and ever after be a snuffing of this taper , psal. 13. 4. but what a barbarous , graceless , and unchristian-like practice is this , to make it their glory , pastime , and delight , to see god dishonoured , his spirit grieved , his name blasphemed , his creatures abused , themselves and their friends souls damned . doubtless such men have climbed the highest step of the ladder of wickedness ; as thinking their own sins will not press them deep enough into hell , except they load themselves with other mens ; which is devil-like indeed ! whose aim it hath ever been , seeing he must of necessity be wretched , not to be wretched alone . that as they make these healths serve as a pulley , or shoing-horn to draw men on to drink more , then else they would or should do : so a health being once begun , they will be sure that every one present shall pledge the same , in the same manner and measure , be they thirsty or not thirsty , willing , or not willing , able , or unable : be it against their stomacks , healths , natures , judgments , hearts and consciences , which do utterly abhor , and secretly condemn ▪ the same . that in case a man will not for company grievously sin against god , wrong his own body , destroy his soul , and wilfully leap into hell fire with them ; they will hate him worse than the hangman ; and will sooner adventure their bloud in the field , upon refusing , or crossing their healths , than in the cause and quarrel of their country . 7. br. how they are so pernicious , that to damn their own souls , is the least part of their mischief ; and that they draw vengeance upon thousands , by seducing s●●e , and giving ill example to others . that one drunkard makes a multitude ; being like the bramble , judg. 9. 15. which first set it self on fire , and then fired all the wood . or like a malicious man sick of the plague , that runs into the throng to disperse his infection ; whose mischief out-weighs all penalty . and this shews , that they not only partake of the devils nature , but that they are very devils in the likeness of men : and that the very wickedness of one that feareth god , is far better than the good intreaty of a drunkard . that with sweet words they will tole men on to destruction , as we tole beasts with fodder to the slaughter-house ; and that to take away all suspition , they will so mollifie the stiffness of a mans prejudice , so temper and fit him to their own mould ; that once to suspect them , requires the spirit of discerning . and that withall , they so confirm the profes●ion of their love with oaths , protestations and promises , that you would think , jonathans love to david nothing to it . that these pernicious seducers , devils in the shape of men , have learned to handle a man so sweetly , that one would think it a pleasure to be seduced . but little do they think , how they advance their own damnations , when the blood of so many souls , as they have drawn away , will be required at their hands ! for know this thou tempter , that thou dost not more increase other mens wickedness on earth , ( whether by perswasion , or provocation , or example ) than their wickedness shall increase thy damnation in hell , luk. 16. 27 , 28. non fratres dilexit , sed seipsum respexit . and this let me say to the horror of their consciences , that make merchandize of souls ; that it is a question when such an one comes to hell , whether judas himself would change torments with him . 8. br. that the drunkard is so pleasing a murtherer , that he tickles a man to death , and makes him ( like solomons fool ) die laughing . whence it is , that many who hate their other enemies ( yea , and their friends too ) imbrace this enemy , because he kisseth when he betrayeth . and indeed what fence ? for a pistol charged with the bullet of friendship . hence it is also , that thousands have confest at the gallows , i had never come to this , but for such , and such a drunkard . for commonly the drunkards progress is , from luxury to beggery , from beggery to thievery , from the tavern to tyborne , from the ale-house to the gallows . briefly , that these bauds and panders of vice breathe nothing but infection , and study nothing but their own , and other mens destruction . that the drunkard is like julian , who never did a man a good turn , but it was to damn his soul . that his proffers are like the fowlers shrape , when he casts meat to birds , which is not out of pity to relieve , but out of treachery to insnare them . or like traps we set for vermine , seeming charitable , when they intend to kill , jer. 5. 26. and thou maist answer these cursed tempters , who delight in the murther of souls , as the woman of endor did saul , 1 sam. 28. wherefore seekst thou to take me in a snare , to cause me to die , vers. 9. that he is another absolom , who made a feast for amnon , whom he meant to kill . and there is no subtilty like that which deceives a man , and hath thanks for the labour . for as our saviour saith , blessed is the man that is not offended at their scoffs , mat. 11. 6. so blessed is the man that is not taken with their wiles . for herein alone consists the difference , he whom the lord loves , shall be delivered from their meretricious allurements , eccl. 7. 26. and he whom the lord abhors , shall fall into their snares , pro. 22. 14. 9. br. that taverns and tap-houses are the drinking schools , where they learn this their skill , and are trained up in this trade of tempting . for satan does not work them to this heighth of impiety all at once , but by degrees : when custom of sin hath deaded all remorse for sin ; as it is admirable how the soul that takes delight in leudness , is gained upon by custom . they grow up in sin , as worldlings grow in wealth and honour , they wax worse and worse , sayes the apostle , 2 tim. 3. 13. they go first over-shoo's , then over-boots , then over-shoulders ; and at length over-head and ears in sin , as some do in debt . now these tap-houses are their meeting-places ; where they hear the devils lectures read ; the shops and markets , where satan drives his trade ; the schools , where they take their degrees ; these are the guild-hals where all sorts of sinners gather together , as the humors do into the stomack before an ague-fit , and where is projected all the wickedness that breaks forth in the nation , as our reverend judges do find in their several circuits . that these taverns and ale-houses ( or rather hell-houses ) are the fountains and well-heads from whence spring all our miseries and mischiefs : these are the nurseries of all riot , excess and idleness , making our land another sodom , and furnishing yearly our jails and gallowses . here they sit all day in troops , doing that in earnest , which we have seen boyes do in sport ; stand on their heads , and shake their heels against heaven ; where , even to hear how the name of the lord jesus is pierced , and gods name blasphemed , would make a dumb man speak , a dead man almost to quake . 10. br. that it were endless to repeat their vain-babling , scurrilous jesting , wicked talking , impious swearing and cursing : that when the drink hath once bit them , and set their tongues at liberty , their hearts come up as easily as some of their drink ; yea , their limitless tongues do then clatter like so many windows loose in the wind , and you may assoon perswade a stone to speak , as them to be silent ; it faring with their clappers , as with a sick mans pulse , which alwaies beats , but ever out of order . that one drunkard hath tongue enough for twenty men ; for let but three of them be in a room , they will make a noise , as if all the thirty bels in antwerp steeple were rung at once : or do but pass by the door , you would think your self in the land of parrats . that it is the property of a druukard to disgorge his bosom with his stomack , to empty his mind with his maw : his tongue resembles bacchus his liber pater , and goes like the sayl of a wind-mill : for as a grea●gale of wind whirleth the sayls about , so abundance of drink whirleth his tongue about , and keeps it in continual motion . now he rayls , now he scoffs , now he lies , now he slanders , now he seduces , talks baudy , swears , bans , foams , and cannot be quiet , till his tongue be wormed . so that from the beginning to the end , he belcheth forth nothing , but what is as far from truth , piety , reason , modesty ▪ as that the moon came down from heaven to visit mahomet : as oh ! the beastliness which burns in their unchaste and impure minds , that smokes out at their polluted mouths ! a man would think , that even the devil himself should blush , to hear his child so talk . how doth his mouth run over with falshoods against both magistrates , ministers and christians : what speaks he less than whoredoms , adulteries , incests at every word ? yea , hear two or three of them talk , you would change the lycaonians language , and say , devils are come up in the likeness of men . 11 ▪ br. that at these places men learn to contemn authority , as boyes grown tall and stubborn , contemn the rod : here it is that they utter swelling and proud words against such as are in dignity , as st peter and st jude have it . they set their mouths against heaven , and their tongues walk through the earth , psal. 73. 9. so that many a good minister and christian may say with holy david , i became a song of the drunkards , psal. 69. 12. and in case any of them have wit , here they will shew it in scoffing at religion , and flouting at holiness . from whence it is , that we have so many atheists , and so few christians amongst us ( notwithstanding our so much means of grace ) and that the magistracy and ministry are so wofully contemned by all sorts of people . that these tippling tap-houses are the common quagmires of all filthiness , where too many drawing their patrimonies through their throats , exhaust and lavish out their substance , and lay plots and devices how to get more . for hence they fall either to open courses of violence , or secret mischief , till at last the jail prepares them for the gibbet ; for lightly they sing through a red lattise , before they cry through a grate . 12. br. i speak not of all , i know the calling to be good , and that there are good of that calling , ( and these will thank me , because what i have said , makes for their honour and profit too ) but sure i am , too many of these drinking-houses are the very dens and shops , yea the thrones of satan , very sinks of sin , which like so many common-shores , refuse not to welcome and incourage any , in the most loathsom pollutions they are able to invent , and put in practice . as did you but hear , and see , and smell , and know what is done in these taverns and ale-houses , you would wonder that the earth could bear the houses , or the sun indure to look upon them . that lest they should not in all this do homage enough to satan , they not seldom drink their healths upon their knees , as the heathen witches and sorcerers ( of whom these have learned it ) used to do , when they offered drink-offerings to beelzebub the prince of devils , and other their devil-gods . that these godless ale-drapers , and other sellers of drink , in entertaining into their houses , and complying with those traiters against god , and in suffering so much impiety to rest within their wals , do make themselves guilty of all , by suffering the same ; and that a fearfull curse hangs over their heads , so long as they remain such ▪ for if one sin of theft , or perjury is enough ▪ to rot the rafters , to grind the stones , to level the wals and roof of any house with the ground ; as it is zec. 5. 4. what are the oaths , the lies , the thefts , the whoredoms , the murthers , the damnable drunkenness , the numberless , and nameless abominations that are committed there . for these ale-house-keepers are accessory to the drunkards sin , and have a fearfull account to give for their tollerating such , since they might , and ought to redress it : so that their gain is most unjust , and all they have is by the the sins of the people ; as diogenes said of the strumpet phryne . 13. br. that of all seducing drunkards , these drink-sellers are the chief ; their whole life being nought else but a vicissitude of devouring and venting , and their whole study , how to tole in customers , and then egg them on to drink ; for as if drinking and tempting were their trade : they are alwayes guzling within doors , or else tempting at the door , where they spend their vacant hours , watching for a companion , as a spider would watch for a poor flie ; or as the whorish woman in the proverbs laid wait for the young novice , untill with her great craft , and flattering lips , she had caused him to yeeld , prov. 7. 6 , to 24. though when he sees a drunkard , if he but hold up his finger , the other follows him into his burrough , just like a fool to the stocks , and as an ox to the slaughter-house , having no power to withstand the temptation . so in he goes , and there continues as one bewitch'd , or conjur'd with a spell ; out of which he returns not , untill he hath emptied his purse of money , and his head of reason : while in the mean time his poor wife , children and servants want bread . that did sellers of drink aim at the glory of god , and good of others , as they ought , 1 cor. 10. 31. there would not be an hundreth part of the drunkards , beggars , brawls , and famished-families there are : whereas now thousands do in sheer drink , spend all the cloaths on their beds and backs . as be they poor labouring men , that must dearly earn it before they have it , these ale-house keepers , these vice-breeders , these soul-murtherers will make them drink away as much in a day , as they can get in a week ; spend twelve pence , sooner than earn two-pence , as st ambrose observes . that thousands of these labouring-men may be found in the very suburbs of this city , that drink the very blood of their wives and children , who are near famished , to satisfie the drunkards throat , or gut , wherein they are worse than infidels , or cannibals , 1 tim. 5. 8. who again are justly met withall : for as if god would pay them in their own coyn , how often shall you see vermine sucking the drunkards blood , as fast as he the others . 14. br. that these drunkards and ale-drapers are always laying their heads together , plotting and consulting how to charm and tame their poor wives ( for the drunkard and his wife agree like the harp and the harrow ) which if maids did but hear , they would rather make choice of an ape-carrier , or a jakes-farmers servant , than of one who will be drawn to the ale-house . for let them take this for a rule , he that is a tame devil abroad , will be a roaring devil at home ; and he that hath begun to be a drunkard , will ever be a drunkard . true , they will promise a maid fair , and bind themselves by an hundred oaths and protestations ; and she ( when love hath blinded and besotted her ) will believe them ; yea , promise her self the victory , not doubting but she shall reclaim him from his evil company ; but not one of a thousand , scarce one of ten thousand that ever finds it so , but the contrary . for let drunkards promise , yea and purpose what they will ; experience shews , that they mend as sowr ale does in summer ; or as a dead hedge , which the longer it stands is the rottener . and how should it be other , when they cannot go the length of a street , but they must pass by , perhaps an hundred ale-houses , where they shall be called in . and all the while they are in the drinking-school , they are bound by their law of good fellowship to be pouring in at their mouths , or whiffing out at their noses : one serving as a shoing-horn to the other ; which makes them like ratsban'd rats , drink and vent , vent and drink , sellengers round , and the same again . oh that a maids fore-wit were but so good as her after-wit ! then the drunkard should never have wife more to make a slave of , nor wives such cause to curse ale-house keepers , as now they have . and indeed , if i may speak my thoughts , or what reason propounds to me , drunkards are such children and fools ( to what governours of families ought to be ) that a rod is fitter for them than a wife . but of this by the way only , that maids may not so miserably cast away themselves ; for they had better be buried alive , than so married , as most poor mens wives can inform them . 15. br. that to speak to these demetriuses , that get their wealth by drinking ; yea , by helping to consume their drink , and that live only by sin , and the sins of the people , were to speed as paul did at ephesus , after some one of them had told the rest of their occupation . yea to expect amendment from such , in a manner were to expect amendment from a witch , who hath already given her soul to the devil . that to what hath been spoken of drunkards and drink-sellers in the particular cases of drinking and tempting , might be added seventy times seven more of the like abominations . for the drunkard is like some putrid grave , the deeper you dig , the fuller you shall find him both of stench and horrour : or like hercules's monster , wherein were fresh heads still arising one after the cutting off of another . but there needs no more than this taste , to make any wise man ( or any that love their own souls ) to detest and beware these bawds and pandors of vice , that breathe nothing but infection , and study nothing but their own , and other mens destruction . these brokers of villany , whose very acquaintance is destruction : as how can they be other than dangerously infectious , and desperately wicked , whose very mercies are cruelty ? 16. br. that i have unmasked their faces , is to infatuate their purpose : that i have inveighed and declaimed against drunkenness , is to keep men sober ; for vices true picture , makes us vice detest . o that i had dehortation answerable to my detestation of it ! only here is a discovery how drunkards tempt ; if you will see directions how to avoid their temptations , read my sovereign antidote against the contagion of evil company ▪ only take notice for the present , that the best way to avoid evil , is to shun the occasions : do not only shun drunkenness , but the means to come to it : and to avoid hurt , keep thy self out of shot ; come not in drunken company , nor to drinking places : as for their love and friendship , consider but whose facters they are , and thou wilt surely hate them . consider what i say , and the lord give you understanding in all things . postscript . considering the premisses , if there were any love of god , any hatred of sin , any zeal , any courage , any conscience of an oath in most of our justices of the peace , they would rather put down and purge out of their parishes and liberties , this viperous brood of vice-breeders , and soul-murtherers ( i mean ale-house keepers ) then increase them as they do , when any common drunkard , cheat , or witch may procure a licence to sell drink , if they will but bribe some one of their clerks . but if it be left to them ( if his highness himself do not by some other way redress it , as blessed be god he hath already begun the work in some counties ) look never to see it mended , untill christ comes in the clouds . only it is much to be feared , that as we turn the sanctuary of life into the shambles of death : so god may send a famine after such a satiety , and pestilence after famine . or rather that our land , which hath been so long sick of this disease , and so often surfeited of this sin , should spue us all out , who are the inhabitants . or in case god be pleased to dispense with the nation , the wickedness that is done by these drunkards and drink-sellers , shall be reckoned , unto those that are the permitters , for their own . for governors make themselves guilty of those sins they may redress , and will not . but i know to whom i speak , and my hopes are depending . in the mean time , it is sad to consider , how many drunkards will hear this charge , for one that will apply it to himself . for confident i am , that fifteen of twenty , all this city over , are drunkards , yea , seducing drunkards , in the dialect of scripture , & by the law of god , which extends even to the heart and affections , mat. 5. 21 , 22 , 28. perhaps by the laws of the land , a man is not taken for drunk , except his eyes stare , his tongue stutter , and his legs stagger ; but by gods law , he is one that goes often to the drink , or that tarrieth long at it , prov. 23. 30 , 31. he that will be drawn to the tavern or ale-house by every idle soliciter , and there be deteined to drink , when he hath neither need of it , or mind to it ; to the spending of his money , wasting of his precious time , neglect of his calling , abusing of the creatures ( which thousands want ) discredit of the gespel , the stumbling of weak ones , the incouraging of indifferent ones , the hardning of his associates , and all the truths enemies that know or hear of it . briefly , he that drinks more for lust , or pride , or covetousness , or fear , or good fellowship , or to drive away time , or to still conscience , than for thirst , is a drunkard in solomon's esteem , prov. 23. 30 , 31. perhaps thou dost not think so ; but can you produce that holy man of god , that will not deem him a drunkard , who can neither buy , nor sell , nor meet any friend , or customer , but he must go to the tavern , or ale-house , perhaps six times in a day ; and who constantly clubs it , first for his mornings draught , secondly at exchange-time , thirdly at night , when shops are shut in ; as is the common , but base custom of most tradesmen ; yea , and the devil so blinds them , that they will plead a necessity of it ; and that it is for their profit ? nor can it be denied , but in cases of this nature , things are rather measured by the intention and affection of the doer , than of the issue , and event . and why should not a man be deemed a drunkard for his immoderate and inordinate affection to drink , or drunken company ? as well as another , an adulterer , for the like affecton to his neighbours wife , matth. 5. 21 , 22 , 28. yet these men are in their own , and other mens esteem , not only good and civil men , but good christians forsooth . certainly , the more light we have , the more blind men are , or else this could not be ; for i would gladly ask such , are you christians ? in what part of the word find you a warrant for it ? where find you , that this custom was ever used by any one of the saints in former ages ? well may you ( with agrippa ) be almost christians , but sure enough , you are not with st paul , altogether such : and then what will become of you ? for almost a son is a bastard , almost sweet is unsavoury , almost hot is lukewarm ; and those that are lukewarm will god spue out of his mouth , rev. 3. 15 , 16. a christian almost , is like a woman that dieth in travel , almost she brought forth a son ; but that almost killed the mother , and the son too if thou believ'st almost , thou shalt be saved almost ; as we say of a thief that hath a pardon brought him whiles he is upon the gallows , he was almost saved , but he was hanged , and his pardon did him no good . to be almost a christian , is to be like the foolish virgins , that had lamps , but without oyl in them ; for which they were shut out of heaven , though they came to the very door , mat. 25. 10 , 11 , 12. can the door which is but almost shut , keep out the thief ? can the ship that is but almost tite , keep out the water ? the souldier that does but almost fight is a coward ? and therefore if thou lovest thy self , look to it , and that in time , lest hereafter you most dolefully rue it : for know this , that you shall once give an account for every idle peny and hour you spend , and for every cup of drink you shall spoil , or waste ; and for every one that is encouraged to do the like by your example . for which see mat. 12. 36. luke 16. 2. rom. 14. 12. 1 pet. 4. 5. rev. 20. 13. & 22. 12. that ( by the blessing of god ) our children , and childrens children may loath drunkenness , and love sobriety ; let this be fixed to some place convenient in every house , for all to read . the persians , parthians , spartans , and lacedemonians did the like , and found it exceeding efficacious : and anacharsis holds it the most effectual means to that end . imprimatur edmund calamie . finis . offer of help to drowning-men . imprimatur tho ▪ gataker . seeing , and fore-seeing the sad effects of mens crying down books , learning , the ministry , sanctification , &c. if this their deep and devilish design do meet with no stop : and seeing we should specially prepare for defence , where satan specially prepares for offence . considering also the numberless number of those that by professing themselves protestants , discredit the protestant religion : who because they have been christened , as simon magus was , received the sacrament of the lords supper , like judas ; and for company go to church also as dogs do , are called christians , as we call the heathen images gods : yea , and ( being blinded by the prince of darkness , 2 cor. 4. 4. ) think to be saved by christ , though they take up arms against him : and are no more like christians , than michols image of goats hair was like david : who make the world only their god , & pleasure or profit alone their religion : who are so graceless , that god is not in all their thoughts ; except to blaspheme him , and to spend his dayes in the devils service : who being christians in name , will scoff at a christian indeed : who honour the dead saints in a cold profession , while they worry the living saints in a cruel persecution : who so hate holiness , that they will hate a man for it ; and say of good living , ( as festus of great learning ) it makes a man mad : whose hearts will rise at the sight of a good man , as some stomacks will rise at the sight of sweet meats : whose religion is to oppose the power of religion ; and whose knowledge of the truth , to know how to argue against the truth : who justifie the wicked , and condemn the just : who call zeal , madness ; and religion , foolishness : who love their sins so much above their souls , that they will not only mock their admonisher , scoff at the means to be saved , and make themselves merry with their own damnations ; but even hate one to the death , for shewing them the way to eternal life : who will condemn all for round-heads , that have more religion than an heathen , or knowledg of heavenly things , than a child in the womb hath of the things of this life ; or conscience than an atheist , or care of his soul , than a beast , and are mockers of all that march not under the pay of the devil : who with adam , will become satans bondslaves for an apple ; and like esau , sell their birth-right of grace here , and their blessing of glory hereafter for a mess of pottage : who prefer the pleasing of their palates before the saving of their souls : who have not only cast off religion , that should make them good men ; but reason also , that should make them men : who waste virtues faster than riches , and riches faster than any virtues can get them : who do nothing else but sin , and make others sin too : who spend their time and patrimonies in riot ; and upon dice , drabs , drunkenness ; who place all their felicity in a tavern or brothel-house , where harlots and sycophants rifle their estates , and then send them to rob : who will borrow of every one , but never intend to satisfie any one : who glory in their shame , and are ashamed of that which should and would be their glory : who desire not the reputation of honesty , but of good fellowship : who in stead of quenching their thirst , drown their senses ; and had rather leave their wits , than the wine behind them : who place their paradise in their throats , heaven in their guts : and make their belly their god : who pour their patrimonies down their throats , and throw the house so long out at windows , that at length their house throws them out of doors : who think every one exorbitant that walks not after their rule : who will traduce all whom they cannot seduce ; even condemning with their tongues , what they commend in their consciences : who , as they have no reason , so they will hear none : who are not more blind to their own faults , than quick-sighted in other mens : who being displeased with others , will flie in their makers face , and tear their saviours name in pieces with oaths and execrations , as being worse than any mad dog that flies in his masters face that keeps him : who swear and curse even out of custom , as currs bark ; yea , they have so sworn away all grace , that they count it a grace to swear ; and being reproved for swearing , they will swear that they swore not . or perhaps they are covetous cormorants , greedy gripers , miserly muck-worms ; all whose reaches are at riches : who make gold their god , and commodity the stern of their consciences : who hold every thing lawfull , if it be gainfull : who prefer a little base pelf before god , and their own salvations ; and who being fatted with gods blessings , do spurn at his precepts : who like men sleeping in a boat , are carried down the stream of this world , untill they arrive at their gravesend [ death ] without once waking to bethink themselves whether they are a going [ to heaven or hell . ] or ignorant and formal hypocrites : who do as they see others do , without either conscience of sin , or guidance of reason : who do what is morally good , more for fear of the law , then for love of the gospel : who fear the magistrate more , than they fear god or the devil ; regard more the blasts of mens breath , than the fire of gods wrath ; will tremble more at the thought of a bailiff , or a prison , than of satan , or hell , and everlasting perdition : who will say , they love god and christ , yet hate all that any way resemble him ; are flint unto god , wax to satan ; have their ears alwayes open to the tempter , shut to their maker and redeemer ; will chuse rather to disobey god , than displease great ones ; fear more the worlds scorns , than his anger ; and rather than abridge themselves of their pleasure , will incur the displeasure of god : who will do what god forbids , yet confidently hope to escape what he threatens : who will do the devils works only , and yet look for christs wages ; expect that heaven will meet them at their last hour , when all their life long they have galloped in the beaten road towards hell : who expect to have christ their redeemer and advocate ; when their consciences tell them , that they seldom remember him , but to blaspheme him ; and more often name him in their oaths and curses , than in their prayers : who will persecute honest and orthodox christians ; and say , they mean base and dissembling hypocrites : who think they do god service in killing his servants , joh. 16. 2. who will boast of a strong faith , and yet fall short of the devils in believing , jam. 2. 19. who turn the grace of god into wantonness ; as if a condemned person should head his drum of rebellion with his pardon ; resolving to be evil , because god is good : who will not believe what is written , till they feel what is written ; and whom nothing will confute , but fire and brimstone : who think their villany is unseen , because it is unpunished ; and therefore live like beasts , because they think they shall die like beasts . considering the swarms , legions , millions of these , i say , and many the like , which i cannot stand to repeat . as also in reference to lev. 19. 17. isa. 58. 1. and out of compassion to their precious souls ; there are above twenty several books purposely composed , wherein are proper remedies ( of the same alloy ) for each soul seduced or afflicted ; to be had without any expence : which books ( like glasses ) will shew them ( from gods word ) the very faces of their hearts : and ( like peter to cornelius , act. 11. ) tell them words whereby ( with blessing from above ) both they , and their associates ( by their means ) may be saved , ver. 14. and that they might the better recompence the readers pains ; whether he propound to himself pleasure or profit : they are ( as many reverend divines deem ) a brief collection of the most winning and convincing arguments out of the choisest authors ; very pithily , orderly , and elegantly conveyed , and embellished with much both variety of graceful and delightful illustration . yea , if such as they concern , shall be pleased to make use of them ; they may ( with gods blessing ) not only have their vices lessened , their knowledge increased , and their minds cheered and comforted : but probably they shall find in them the flower , cream , or quintessence , of what would otherwise cost them twenty years reading to extract . it remains only , that the patients , for whom this physick is proper , be prevailed withall to take it . for although here is all necessary provision made , and the guests lovingly invited , yet ( of themselves ) they will refuse to come , as in that parable of the lords supper , luk. 14. 16. to 25. because , as good meats are unwelcome to sick persons ; so is good counsel to obstinate sinners . here is light , but they love darkness rather than light ; lest their deeds which are evil , should be reproved . only they that do well , and love truth , will come to the light , that their deeds may be made manifest , joh 3. 19 , 20 , 21. also many young novices in sin , will entertain them , as lot did those angels , that came to fetch him out of sodom , gen. 19. and probably some parents and masters will desire them , to prevent the spreading of these gangrenes in their children and servants . but as for the parties principally concerned and invited , and that stand in the greatest need , and are most to be pitied ; they will even storm at this very offer of help , and hiss like serpents , because it troubles their nests . being like him , luk. 8. 27 , 28. who having bin possest with devils a long time , was at length very loath to part with his guests . indeed , if some , whose hearts god hath already changed , would put them into their hands , and use their best art to make them relished : ( for like babes , meat must not only be given them , but prepared too , and put into their mouths , ) some return of good might happily come thereof . as weak means shall serve the turn , where god intends success . even a word seasonably spoken ( god blessing it ) like a rudder , sometimes steers a man quite into another course . antiochus by hearing from a poor man , all the faults which he and his favourites had committed , carried himself most virtuously ever after ▪ antoninus amended his future life and manners , by only hearing what the people spake of him . the very crowing of a cock occasioned peters repentance . augustine , that famous doctor , was converted , by only reading that text , rom. 13. 13. let us walk honestly , as in the day-time , &c. learned junius , with reading the first chapter of st johns gospel , was won to the faith of christ . and melancthon much after the same manner . i have read of two famous strumpets , , that were suddenly converted by this only argument , that god seeth all things , even in the dark ; when the doors are shut , and the curtains drawn . and mountaign tels of a libidinous gentleman , that sporting with a courtizan in a house of sin , happened to ask her name , which she said was mary ; whereat he was so stricken with reverence and remorse ; that he instantly both cast off the harlot , and amended his whole future life . bilney's confe●sion converted latimer : yea , adrianus was not only converted , but became a martyr too , by only hearing a martyr at the stake alledge that text , eye hath not seen , nor ear heard , &c. 1 cor. 2. 9. yea , it was an observation of mr john lindsay , that the very smoke of mr hamilton converted as many as it blew upon . yea , even those jews that crucified the son of god , were converted by hearing those few words of peter , act. 2. and it pleased god , when , my self , was in as hopeless a condition , as any of those sensualists before mentioned ; ( i mean , as much fore-stalled with prejudice against religion , and the religious ) that a poor mans perswading me to leave reading of poetry , and fall upon the bible , was a means of changing my heart , before i had read out genesis , being but twenty years of age : whom ● more bless god for , than for my parents from whom i received life . and this ( because i know no better way to express my thankfulness to him , who hath freed me from frying in hel-flames for ever and ever , than by endeavoring to win others from satans standard to christs ) makes me do the like to others . for i seldom hear any one swear , or scoff , or see any drunk , or the like , but i present them with one of these fore-mentioned messages , from that god , whom they so daringly and audaciously provoke . nor do i alwayes miss the mark at which i aim . and i tel it you , because many discreet ones are apt to wonder , that i so make my ●f a scorn and gazing stock to fools : though i shall never think it a shame to me , ●hich was the only glory of him , that was a man after gods own heart , as you ●ay very often hear him profess , as in psal. 50. 15. & 71. 17 , 18 , 19 , 24. & 51. 14. ●119 . 171. & 22. 22. & 35. 18. and many the like ; see luk. 8. 38 , 39. i also mention it , that i may ( if possible in this covetous , cold and dull age ) ●ovoke others to do the same ; or at least somthing for the saving of these poor , ●●norant , and impotent wretches ; that are neither able nor willing to help them●●lves , though as one would think ( for i speak to enlightned souls ) they should ●ot need spurring , nor prompting to this duty : for what heart would it not ●ake to bleed , that hath any christian blood in his veins , to see what multitudes ●ere are that go blind-fold to destruction ; and no man offer to stop or check ●●em before they arrive there , from whence there is no redemption . mat. 7. ●3 , 14. 1 joh. 5. 19. rev. 20. 8. & 13. 16. isa. 10. 22. rom. 9. 27. 2 tim. 2. 26. 2 cor. 〈◊〉 4. eph. 2. 1 , to 4 , phil. 3. 18. joh 8. 44. & 14. 30. ● yea , how should it not make all , that are themselves got out of satans clutches , ●●ot , study , & contrive all they can ; to draw others of their brethren after them . we read that andrew was no sooner converted , and become christs disciple , ●ut instantly he drew others after him to the same faith , joh. 1. 41. & the like of philip , ver. 45. and of the woman of samaria , joh. 4. 28 , to 41. and of peter , luke ●2 . 32. act. 2. 41. & chap 3. & 4. 4. and so of all the apostles . yea , moses so thrist●d after the salvation of israel , that rather than he would be saved without ●hem , he desired the lord to blot him out of the book of life , exo. 32. 32. and paul 〈◊〉 this purpose saith , i could wish my self to he separated from christ , for my brethren , ●●at are my kinsmen according to the flesh : meaning the jews , rom. 9. 3. and indeed ●ll heavenly hearts are charitable . neither are we of the communion of saints , if ●e desire not the blessedness of others : it being an inseparable adjunct , or rela●●ve to grace ; for none but a cain will say , am i my brothers keeper ? yea , where the ●eart is thankful , and inflamed with the love of god , and our neighbour , this will be ●●e principal aim : as by my sins , and bad example , i have drawn others from god , 〈◊〉 now i will , all i can , draw others with my self to god . saul converted , will build 〈◊〉 , as fast as ever he plucked down , & preach as zealously as ever he persecuted . and ●e are no whit thankful for our own salvation , if we do not look with charity and ●●ty upon the gross mis-opinions & misprisions of our brethren . and what though ●e cannot do what we would ? yet we must labour to do what we can , to win o●●ers ; not to merit by it , but to express our thanks . besides , it were very disho●orable to christ not to do so . did you ever know that wicked men , thievs , drun●ards , adulterers , persecutors , false prophets , or the like , would be damned alone ? no ●●ey mis-leade all they can , as desiring to have companions . yea , the pharisees ●ould take great pains , compass sea and land , to make others two-fold more the chil●ren of hell then themselves , as our saviour expresly saith , mat. 23. 15. which ●ay cast a blush upon our cheeks , who are nothing so industrious to win souls 〈◊〉 god . and what a shame is it , that our god should not have as faithfull ●●rvants , as he hath unfaithfull enemies ? that wicked men should be at more ●●st and pains to please an ill master , than we can afford to please so good a ●od , so gracious , and so loving a father ? shall they labour so hard , for that ●hich will but inhance their damnation ? and shall we think any pains too much for that , which will add to the weight of our eternal glory and salvation . and what though their case be not only desperate , but almost hopeless ? ( as i● reason , that sin is past cure , which strives against the cure : nor would these drowning men refuse help , were they not wilful murtherers of their own souls ) yet ther● is a mercy due even to them : and it is our duty to use the means ; leaving the i●sue to him , who is able to quicken the dead , and to make even of stones children to abraham ; witness manasses in the old testament , and paul in the new ▪ yea , i suppose , that this their sad condition , cals for our more ▪ than ordinary compassio● since they have precious souls , that must everlastingly live , in bliss , or wo . an● hence it is , that the angels are said to rejoyce more at the conversion of such a sinne● then for the building up of ninety and nine , that are already converted , luk. 15. 7. because he to whom god hath given a new heart , and spiritual life , will be sure 〈◊〉 seek out for , and use the means of growing in grace , and in the knowledg of our lo●● and saviour jesus christ . whereas the former are not only dead in sin ; but so b●ried in the grave of long custom , that they cannot stir the least joint ; no , not 〈◊〉 much as feel their deadness , nor desire life ; but resist all means tending thereunt● insomuch , that the conversion of such an one is , held by divines a greater worl● or miracle , than the creating of the whole world : for in every new creature are 〈◊〉 number of miracles ; a blind man is restored to sight : a deaf man to hearing , a m●● possest with many devils , dispossest ; yea , a dead man raised from the dead ; an● in every one a stone turned into flesh : in all which god meets with nothing 〈◊〉 opposition , which in the creation he met not with . wherefore you , that ( by calling to mind your own former blindness , and bo●dage ) are able to know how it fares with them ; and accordingly to pity the●● you that fear god , or have any bowels of compassion towards their precious soul●● use your utmost indeavour to reduce them ; earnestly admonish them ; draw them●● hear some boanerges , that preaches with power and authority , and not as the scribe● perswade them also to read books that are convincing , &c. so shall you dischar●● your duty to god , shew your love to them , your thankfulness to your redeemer ; an● not a little pleasure your selves . for if you do gain them , you shall shine as the sta●● in heaven , for ever and ever , dan. 12. 3. or in case you cannot reclaim them , 〈◊〉 he who requires it at your hands , will return the same into your own bosoms , i●● 49. 4 , 5. prov. 11. 18. & 25. 22. but i were as good knock at a deaf mans door , as press or perswade the most to the duty , though thus necessary : for those two idols , discretion and cursed covetousn●●bear a greater sway with the common professors of this age , than either their ma●●or redeemer : though confident i am , others will do more than i●say , philem. 21● melancthon having found the word , most easily to prevail with him , doubt●● not but his preaching should do wonders upon others : but having tried , he fou●● and confest , that old adam , was too strong for young melancthon . many lepers were in israel , in the time of elizeus the prophet , but none of the was cleansed , saving naaman the syrian , luk. 4. 22. to 29. many are called , but few are chosen , mat. 22. 14. finis . printed by a. m. and are to be sold by henry crips in popes-head-alley , and ja●● crump , in little-bartholmews well-yard , who will also shew the other books , and tell the place where any one may borrow them gratis , 1658. a solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the vniversity of goddesse potina; dionisius bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, blasius multibibus, aliàs drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... faithfully rendred according to the originall latine copie. disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica jus potandi breviter adumbrans. english multibibus, blasius. 1617 approx. 114 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 53 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2004-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a16679 stc 3585 estc s106117 99841842 99841842 6456 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a16679) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 6456) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1475-1640 ; 656:09) a solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the vniversity of goddesse potina; dionisius bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, blasius multibibus, aliàs drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... faithfully rendred according to the originall latine copie. disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica jus potandi breviter adumbrans. english multibibus, blasius. brathwaite, richard, 1588?-1673. aut marshall, william, fl. 1617-1650, ill. [8], 80, [6], 87-194, [6] p., 2 leaves of plates at the signe of red-eyes [i.e. printed by e. griffin], oenozphthopolis [i.e. london] : mdcxvii [1617] the imprint is fictitious; in fact printed in london by e. griffin (stc). the "ph" in "oenozphthopolis" is a greek letter phi. the place name is probably a mistranscription of "oenozytholpoli" in a latin edition. the roman numeral date is made with turned c's. "the smoaking age, or, the man in the mist" has separate dated title page with imprint "oenozphthopolis. at the signe of teare-nose. mdcxvii."; pagination and register are continuous. "a solemn joviall disputation" is sometimes attributed to richard brathwait, but is in fact his translation, with additions, of the pseudonymous "disputatio inauguralis theoretico-practica jus potandi breviter adumbrans" by blasius multibibus (pseudonym). "the smoaking age" is apparently brathwait's alone. the plates, signed by william marshall, bear the titles "the lawes of drinking." and "the smoaking age or the life and death of tobacco.". 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng drinking of alcoholic beverages -early works to 1800. tobacco -early works to 1800. smoking -early works to 1800. 2003-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-11 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-12 rina kor sampled and proofread 2003-12 rina kor text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the smoaking age , or , the man in the mist : with the life and death of tobacco . dedicated to those three renowned and imparallel'd heroes , captaine whiffe , captaine pipe , and captaine snuffe . to whom the author wisheth as much content , as this smoaking age can afford them . divided into three sections . 1. the birth of tobacco . 2. pluto's blessing to tobacco . 3. times complaint against tobacco . satis mi●…ipauci lectores , satis est unus , satis est nullus . upon tobacco . this some affirme , yet yeeld i not to that , 't will make a fat man leane , a leane man fat , but this i 'm sure ( hows'ere it be they meane ) that many whiffes will make a fat man leane . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . at the signe of teare-nose . m. d. cxvii . upon the errata's . the authors absence , with the intricacie of this copie , caused these escapes here committed , to be so many . but no wonder , if subjects of this nature become subject to error , when they tre●… of so giddie an humour , as liquour and vapour . correct them , as you shall meet them , with a consorious candor . pag. 12. lin . 22. for abilished , read abolished . p. 24. l. 8. for priv●…tion , read privation . p. 53. l. 6. for ference , r. terence . p. 6●… . l. 20. for you , r. him . p. 66. l. 7. for flap dragon , r. slap-dragon . p. 76. l. 1. to deleatur . p. 78. l. 14. of suppleatur . p. 79. l. 23. for defie , r. define . p. 103. l. 24 for celphalgia , r. cephalgia . p. 104. l. 2. begge suppleatur . p. 111. l. 15. for though , r. thought . p. 118. l. 8. for either r. ever . ib. l. 22. for stop , r. s●…eepe . p. 121. l. ●…lt . for intricatest , r. intimatest . p. 135. l. 11. for and , r. one . p. 138. l. 1. for artificiall , r. artificially . p. 141. l. 19. for sotary , r. votary . ib. l. 22. for eares , r. yeares . p. 142. l. 3. for bath , r. have ▪ p. 143. l. 15. an suppleatu●… . ib. l. ul●… . ●…or resembrance , r. resemblance . p. 147. l. 26. for at , r. as . p. 150. l. 9. for sole●…ysims , r. soloecis●…es . ib. l. 6. for word-joyning , r. word ▪ coyning . ib. l. 23. for legatum , r. l●…gatum . p. 166. l. 8. for of . r. to . p. 178. l. 22. for diet , r. riet . to my learned , judicious , and most experienced friend , t. c. doctor of physicke : all successe to his conscionable endevours . sonnet . to you , in whom knowledge & goodnesse meet , whose ends are honest , and whose sole content is to revive your heart-sicke patient , in humblest sort , as clients use to greet their pious patrons , doe i make retrait : to whom i owe my selfe , my life , my love , my praise , my prayers , next to the powers above . the high physitian , in whose glorious hand the globes of heaven and earth contained are , give blessing to your cure , cure to your care , prosper your practice both by sea and land , and give successe to what you understand : for in you i have found , what 's rare to finde , a curious knowledge in a vertuous minde . for th'artlesse mounteb anke , whose cure 's to care how to deceive a gull , so much i hate it , i wish but execution of the statute , to such penurious venters of base ware , who , as hippocrates relateth , dare purchase , by patients death , a little art , which they by peece-meale sell at ev'rie mart. for you , so long as life runs th'row these veines , i will retaine a gratefull memorie , and blaze the fame of your integritie ●…n such a●… these , or in some choycer straines , to gratifie your care , your cure , your paines : for if we honour him that gives us wealth , what owe we him that gives us life and health ? " for had i treasure offer'd , i 'de refuse it , " wanting the sov'raigne meanes of health to use it . eucapnus nepenthiacus , neapolitanus . to my worthy approved and judicious friend , alexander riggby esquire , all generous content . assumpsits are law-ties in courts above , so be assumpsits in respect of love ; this hath induc'd me , sir , to render you , neare to my day , a tender of my due . for in gants aged-towne last time we met , i promis'd you , and promises are debt , to publish some choice subject in your name , and in this toy have i perform'd the same ; which , give 't no pleasing relish to your minde , it shall by fire be purged and refin'd , where by the airie substance of my booke , may be resolv'd to nothing else but smoake , but how so re this subject you approve , it acts his life and death that many love ; so a●… , be you but pleas'd to see his death , next time we meet wee 'll laugh him out a breath : meane while accept this gage , till i have time to mold my love in an exacter line . for th' court , where now my suit depending is , hath forc'd me write in forma pauperis ; from whence dismist , your equall selfe shall heare my muse can mount unto an higher sphoere . yours entirely , eucapnus nepenthiacus , neapolitanus . the stationer to the reader . this manuscript falling into my hand , for the deserving esteeme of the author , whose name it bore , i communicated it to the serious perusall of sundrie judicious censors , who highly approved the curious conceit and invention of the author : who composed it ( as hee hath since ingenuously acknowledged ) in his infancie of judgement , which made him altogether averse from publishing it . howsoever the subject seeme light , you shall finde it like a delightfull soile , so plenteously interveined with pregnant passages , pleasant allusions , liberall and unforc'd relations , as i make little doubt , but it will afford a pleasing relish to any ones palate , who through criticisme of censure is not prejudicate . read , reape , and returne . to whomsoever , whensoever , or wheresoever . some few yeares agoe , one boraccio fumiganto , a burmudan , made repaire unto me ; and upon discourse of the plantation of tobacco , entreated mee upon all termes of love and familiarity betwixt us , that i would addresse my pen to treat of that subject ; being , as ●…e verie truly affirmed , a principall help to discourse , especially to our young english gallants , whose first salutation to their acquaintance is , will you take a pipe of tobacco ? but my answer was no lesse roughly than roundly returned , replying , that alexander severus would have smoaked such sellers of smoake , and xerxes would have pulled their skin over their eares ; if these smoakie merchants , being such as this burmudan was , had vended , or vented those commodities in their time . with this answer , my fuming fumiganto seemed much discōtented , taxing me of prejudicacie , in condemning a science ( for so this factor termed it ) which was not onely hugg'd but honoured by our hopefull gentrie ; whose desire was rather to be matriculated in the exquisite taking of a pipe , than in the tossing of a pike ; in a quiffe and a quaffe , than shaking of a staffe . presently upon this affront , came in a trinidadan with a varinan , who desi ou●… to heare what subject it was that made us so hot , i replyed , it was tobacco , the verie fume whereof , as it doth ever , had driven us to that distemper . o insolence , or rather impudence , quoth the trinidadan ! shall a weed , the wealth of many ilands , and the delight of the queene of ilands , receive that aspersion ? tellme , tellme ( quoth hee ) thou profest mamothrept to all generous humours , how should long and lingri●…g hou●…es bee consumed , how should discourse , wanting matter , be continued , how should entertainment or the life of societie be preserved , how should hospitalitie now showne not so much in the ●…himney , is in the nose of the gentrie , he discovered ? nay more , how should some companies be maintained , if this soveraigne receipt to all maladies , were not countenanced ? what companies , said i ? marrie the company of pipe-makers , sirrah stoicke ; whereof one brachifort , who is no small foole , hath procured a benefit , to inhance the rints of his pate by the rents of the pipe , and smoake them who made pipes for others smoake . is it possible , quoth i ? yes , my cringing criticke ( said the varinan ) that it is , and yet you disesteeme our qualitie . besides , i heare , quoth hee , that one aestivus nepenthiacus , a grand monopolist , and a judicious practist in his profession , hath of late renounced his practice , wherein hee was a right hopefull beginner , to betake himselfe to the plantation of tobacco ; wherein i will not justifie his triall of experiments , being for the most part more deceiving than thriving ; but sure i am hi●… artificiall stoves , limbecks , 〈◊〉 , and other artfull inventions , have prov'd him a dogmaticall doctor in his profession . whereto i answered , that indeed i had heard of his rare experiments , but how little nepenthiacus had gained by them , might appeare by this , that as he had formerly left his profession , so now of late he was enforced to leave his nation , to worke wonders among the wilde irish. where report was , hee intended to remaine till he had reduced all those bogs and marishes to plots of tobacco ; so beneficiall is he to the state , though prejudiciall to himselfe . this , quoth the trinidadan , may bee all easily done , if he exactly observe his geometricall ascents & descents , which by his mathematicall line , which hee hath alwayes in readinesse , with all facilitie may bee attained . for in that glorie of ilands , wherein i have long time remained , works of greater difficultie than this have beene effected : but to insist on any of these i will not , because they would seeme incredible to the shallow and barraine apprehension of the vulgar : yet to make instance of one for all , i hold it not altogether fruitlesse . i have seene the seeds of tobacco sowne in a bed of gourds , and in a moneths space the whole bed of gourds were into leaves of tobacco changed . where at smiling , i have read ( quoth i ) all ovids metamorphosis , and i finde there no such transmutation . no marvell ( answered he ) those were fictions , these true and native relations : besides , you are to know that travellers in their surveyes , assume a priviledge above the authoritie of authors . traversing thus our ground , as one cloyed with this discourse , i had a desire to leave them to themselves , and addresse my selfe to mine owne affaires ; but boraccio fumiganto , my familiar friend , and one who had more interest in mee than the other two , st●…pt betwixt ●…ee and the doore , conjuring me upon that inviolable league of amitie so long professed & protested , that i would rest satisfied by giving way to their entreatie ; promising withall , that my travell should not be unrequited , if i would prosecute some thing touching the praise-worthy invention of tobacco , which they with such importunitie desired : but modestly , as seemed me , did i answer : that my labours , as they deserved no such courtesie , so did i ever scorne they should bee mercenarie : besides , if i should give way to their request by publishing ought concerning the singular use of that commoditie , yet might my taske seeme uselesse , the oyle of my lamp fruitlesse , being employed in that subject so much pressed , so frequently printed , and therefore needlesse . whereat the varinan seemed much incensed , vowing , that many yeares were not past since hee first set foot in this i le , how then could it appeare that any author would doe him that favour , being no english-borne but a stranger , to undertake for the vent of his commoditie any labour ? to which objection i replyed , that the english were ever courteous unto strangers , many times approving better of them , than of their owne naturall inhabitants . and whereas , he could not be induced to beleeve that any author would addresse his pen to write in his favour : i assured him , that i had read the titles of divers bookes treating of the use and commerce of tobacco ; as the poem of that english musaeus , 〈◊〉 , tobacco battered . likewise , another pleasant poeticall paradox in the praise of the p. wherein is learnedly proved , and by impregnable reasons evinced , that tobacco is the onely soveraigne experimentall cure , not onely for the neapolitan itch , but generally for all maladies incident to mans bodie . which discourse is with no lesse exactnesse prosecuted , than rodolphus agricola's was in his tract of the vanitie of knowledge ; cornelius agrippa in his discourse of the uncertaintie of knowledge ; or erasmus in his so much admired encomion in the praise of folly . besides many other judicious relations of late yeares published by our english navigators , all tending to the praise of that excellent knowledge in the plantation of tobacco : and those exquisite effects which in forraine countries it hath effected . so as the herbe moli , so highly prized and praised by homer , could not bee more usefull to the wandring ithacus , in repelling the charmes of circe , than this indian weed hath beene ever by their reports powerfull to the travelling arabs , to inure them to all extremitie . what then should tasks of this nature be any more revived , seeing so generous and generall an use of it hath made it approved ? so as , whoseever should write against it , might have more adversaries to oppose him ; than he had reasons through his whole discourse to alledge for him . yea but , replyed the trinidadan , for all this , it is not unknowne how the emperour eudorus hath divers times inhibited this to all his courtiers : yea , and long since , so bitterly inveyed against the humorous and phantasticke use thereof ▪ as publikely all those great professours , who formerly did partake of nature with the s●…lamander , to shew how conformable they would be to the opinion of their empero●…r , broke their tobacco-pipes , to manifest their distaste of what they so violently had affected , by throwing away those instruments by which their smoak was usually conveyed . all this , said i , i●… no lesse than truth ; yet , h●…w long did th●… distaste continue ? did not th●…se brave tindarian spirits quickly retai●…e what they had so seemingly disclaimed ? so as , no meat can be well digested ( so powerfull is custome being once retained ) till a pipe of tobacco be exhaled , ●…ea some times a whole petoun of indian f●…me ●…e exhausted . for howsoever , to please the emper●…ur , whose prince●…y ●…nd impartiall censure without respect to impost , seem 〈◊〉 of your profession a little bitter , their pipes were battered , their tobacco scattered , and this late introduced relique of gentilitie cashered ; yet by meanes of a meagre matachin , o●…e samius argilloplastes , they were shortly supplyed , wheresoever , or whomsoever this pleasing humour had disfurnished . since which time , both court and citie have no lesse steemed with your fume , my deare trinidadan , than the academie , that golden grove of hesp●…rie , with your late-knowne smoak my varinan , or the country , that court-ape of vanitie , with your vulgar stuffe , my stale burmudan . what academie , said the varinan ? sure i am , if you meane either of those two sisters , whose renowne our verie coast admireth , and whose unequall'd paritie those countries who never saw them affecteth , you erre much in your judgement ; for the masters and governours of private houses , ( this i dare avouch upon mine owne knowledge ) are such cautelous guides and guardians ●…ver that charge wherin they stand interessed , as they cannot endure the smell of this indian hag , for so they terme it , to evaporate within their cloysters . so as , being one time there ( whereby you shall easily gather how ignorant these sage magnifico's were in the artfull profession of the pipe ) it was my fortune to consort with a joviall fri●… of young pupills , all freshmen save one or two , who had received seasoning from the pump for their absurdities . with whom having traversed two or three pipes of rich varina , with some bottles from fons . clitonius which procured urina , just as we were canvassing a fresh pipe , in comes a senior master , tutor ( as i afterwards understood ) to those lively lads with whom i consorted ; who seeing the chamber all in a fume , grew into a monstrou●…●…ume himselfe , so as taking up some odde pipes which lay scattered upon the table , i will henceforth ( quoth hee ) prevent you boyes of your piping ; and with that , he threw all their pipes into the fire , intending to burne them ; and so he might , but not as he meant ; for his purpose was to consume them . at this conceited tale of the varinan , after wee had a little space laughed , i replyed ; that such ignorance was now from the academicks wholly exiled : for the grea●…est and gravest students well perceived , that long studie would dull and rebate the understanding , being by no externall receipt cheered . upon which speech , all these three antagonists with joynt force , made towards me , reassailing me with new reasons to undertake the defence of their trade , objecting , how by mine owne mouth they would condemnè me , if they could not now at last after many perswasions ; prevaile with me . for ( said they ) you confesse the citie , court , countrey : yea , the treasurie of all knowledge , even the academies affect , it , and will you in a stoicke reluctancie oppose it ? besides this , you have sundrie affectionate allies , all agents of happie employment and hopefull improvement , who since their plantation in tortouga have dealt in this commoditie , to their profit and succeeding memorie , which may bee an irresistable motive to induce it . to which powerfull objections i a little relented , yet so , as i expressely told them , i would not much insist upon their conveniencies or inconveniencies of their trade , being of late time inured to dangerous sophistication , having knowne by report of an experienced chymicke , divers ounces of quick-silver extracted from one pound of tobacco : but to discourse of the life and death of tobacco ; as first of his birth and education ; secondly of his planting and propagation , i should doe my endevour : whereto they all joyntly consented ; upon which consent i addressed my pen to this ensuing tract here presented . the smoaking age . or , the life and death of tobacco . in tartarie ( i reade ) not farre from the burmudoes , there dwelt a rich hander , whose name was nepenthes : enricht he was with all the best of temporall fortunes ; and to make his blessings more consummate , with a chaste and continent wife , called vsque●…aughin . yet that he might acknowledge , there was nothing in this interins of mans life so absolute , which was not sometimes attended with crosses , or at least , all●…yed ▪ to make humane frailtie confesse a more soveraigne power : hee tasted ( one distaste ) in the overflow of his fortunes , which was , want of children . much he had , and great possessions was he master of : but who should be his heire he knew not , being bereft ( of that onely one of humane blessings , hope of issue . long had he now lived with his vertuous wife , when behold he was made happy in hope , though the event answered not his expectation so fully as hee imagined , and thus it fell out . these two good inhabitants dwelling neere to the sea , they used now and then to walke upon the sea shoare , not onely to refresh themselves with the coole temperature of the aire , but in meere compassion to entertaine ( such shipwrack't soules as destitute of hope or meanes , were throwen upon that coast ▪ it chanced that an apothecary of the burmudoes , ( intending to goe into hoemonia where the best and soveraignest herbes , plants , soots , and aromotaries are said to be ) he was intercepted by pirots , who rifling him of that poore estate hee had , threw him over ship-boord : but see what refuge he found in the ocean ? the polype fish ( which naturally loveth sweet savours , & is exceedingly delighted with perfumes or any fragrant smell , taking this apothecary in her nose , presently approches him , and swallowes him ( for he was but a little dapper knave ) quite downe . the poore apothecary thus imprisoned , yet not quite bereft of sense , but to know where he was , remembers himself , recollects his spirits , & with an expert and successive hand , tries this conclusion ; he called ●…o mind how he had some purging comsits about him , for ( he being costive in his body , used them upon all occasions : ) these he ministers to the fish , which she no sooner had received , then , as the scolopendra is said to avoyd her very entrals , till she has rid her selfe of the hooke , so she purged backeward and forward : sicke she was , and heart-sick of the apothecarie , and in great extremity , till delivered of him : for any mā may judge , if one pill had such extreme force , what force was he of that ministred these pils ? not farre from the banke side , was this poore apothecary set at liberty : when behold , he begins now to wrastle with a second death : the billowes of the sea menacing ruine ; the whirlepits gaping to devour him ; little hope or none is left him ; for there 's no purge in all his boxes will save him . the poore man thus distressed , though to dye hardly resolved , yet he sees no remedy , to die he must be enforced ; and surely had dyed , if thse two compassionate ilanders , that ever were prest and addrest to pitty others miseries , had not rescued him . a little cock-boat being tied to the shoare-side , ( though unfit to endure any rough tempest , ) nepenthes unlooseth and in meere compassion ( though in this adventure he hazzarded himselfe , and was much disswaded by his wife to the contrary ) yet sets he forth towards him , and by the sudden calmnesse of the tempests intimating , that the gods themselves were pleased with a worke of that merit , he takes him up into his boat , and brings him with a mutuall joy , in safety to the shoare . the apothecary as yet amazed with his new-past danger , and as one new come out of a trance , thinking these two ilanders had beene neptune and tethis his queene , and no mortall creatures , made this druggary speech unto them following . brave and puissant neptune , and you sacred queene of the nine iles , lady maioresse of the great ocean , governesse of the lower elements , commandresse of all the skaly generation , from the sea-horse to the sea-mouse , umpiresse of all differences in this watery region , &c : may a poore ship-wrackt pothecarie speake to your excellence ? one that hath ministred triackles , antidotes , receits & cordials to all ( or most of your patients ) within your flourishing iles of the burmudoes ; and now is enforced ( like a poore supplicant ) al drugs of rheubarbe , carduus sanctus , coloquintida , artemisia , oenanthe , and what herbes or plants soever were preservative against the scotoma , oedema , lithiasis , paralysis , celphalgia , lycanthropia ; all diseases , ulcers , morbs or contagions wheresoever or howsoever arising , all these ( i say ) set aside , i am now enforced to crave pardon at your highnesse feet . with this : the two ilanders interrupted him , demanding the reason why hee should pardon ? o ( replied the apothecary ) i see the judgements of neptune be now ( and not without cause ) powred upon me ; oft have i ( and with watery eyes i speake i●… ) ministred instead of purging materials , such as were binding : this , this , ( and with that he beat his brest exceedingly ) have my false drugs brought me to : i have oft times ministred for potions , poysons to torment my patients ; that i might increase my estate by their infirmities : i never consulted with my doctor for my patients health , but how to augment my wealth , by his lingring sicknesse . punish me therefore great neptune , throw me into the sea , that i may poyson as many fish as i have poysoned men . nepenthes willing to waine him from this strange distraction , bad him be comforted , and with this serious speech shewed him his errours . my friend , as thou ascribest , the cause of thy present misery , to thy forepast impiety , and as thou wishest neptune might censure-thee according : o thy demerits , having deserved the worst of men : so i would have thee know i am neither neptune that can or will censure , nor shee tethis that should shew thee rigour ; two ilanders we are that will shew thee our best of welcome , and hospitality shall be the worst punishment we will inflict upon thee : onely , as thou ex : pressest thy owne sorrow for the contempt of thy profession : redeeme the time thou hast lost , and retire with us ; if we can yeeld thee comfort use us : for never past misery by this shore unpitied , if we could either remedy it , or redresse it . with great thankes went the apothecary along with them to a neighbour grange adjoyning , where with all curtesie he was entertained . it chanced one day , that usquebaughin sitting discontentedly in her garden , began to expostulate the cause of her barrennesse , and thus ( though hervertues never before so farre transgressed their limits , or lesse expressed themselves ) she proceeded . wretched vsquebaughin , what crime hast thou committed , what offence hast thou done , or what worke of hospitality hast thou omitted : that thou ( and that onely thou ) shouldst be deprived of that commune bounty of nature ? others have flourishing issues ; and though their estates be lesse , yet they know , who shall possesse them : but i ( that have no issue , bereft of the greatest of comforts , what avayleth it me to possesse abundance , when all this shall succeed to a doubtfull heire ? yet is my griefe enlarged ! who will not judge how nepenthes got it ? that hath no issue to whom he may leave it ; sure ( will some imagine ) extortion hath been the meanes of his raising , which makes his house so quickly declining . true , true , ( unhappy woman ) many such surmises will arise from thy barrennesse : though thy husbands vertues be never so transparant . i will retire my selfe therefore to some desolate place , that as , i am deprived of comfort , i may be deprived of light ; nor would i have an imputation aspersed on my husbands honour , through my defect . whilst she was descanting thus her own griefes silently , that the silence of the place and privacie of her passions might augment them : cantharides ( for so was the apothecarie called ) came into the garden , where seeing this disconsolate woman ( all a mort ) wiping her teare-swolne-eyes , to minister no lesse solace in her afflictions , than she had done before to his , he thus with milde aspect , and compassionate respect , spake unto her . if griefes be best allayed when communicated , or afflictions best eased , when they find partners : be not such an enemie to your selfe ( sweet mistris ) as so to engrosse your owne passions to your selfe , as to shrowd them from others . nor indeed can griefes be concealed . the face is the best secretary of the heart ; and will expresse in silence , what passions move disturbance . but it may be , you wish one of more secrecie to impart your woes unto ; of secrecie you cannot , of discipline you may . and though judgment wanteth yet shall secrecy and fidelity supply the place , where more serious advice cannot instruct : suspect me you need not , for my life is due unto you ; and let this protestation serve for confirmance : when i cease to be yours , i will cease to be mine owne . the gentle woman seeing the character of a good nature in his ill face , and one that seemed willing to requite so inestimable a benefit as hee had received , subjecting and consecrating his life where it was due : apprehended this occasion of delivering her surcharged brest , recalling to mind how by his profession , there might be some cure to the cause of her griefe . guest ( for so i will be bold to call you : ) i know sorrowes are best allayed when imparted , if hope of remedy , or least appearance of release be expressed : but so farre is the nature of my sore above the search or reach of cure , that in expressing them i seeme to augment them , because the opening of my malady , will instantly minister despaire of remedy : yet to satisfie your desire ( that generally our hospitality may afford content ) i will describe my griefes , though by the relation i expect no ease . know ( my friend ) that many yeares have my husband and i lived together , without least difference or debate betweene us : and in that prosperity and happines of estate ( if happines can consist in having sufficient ) as we have not only a competency in our selves , but have expressed and extended our bounties unto others : yet in this seeming beatitude , in this height of riches ( know my friend ) that we are made miserable , yea , in our riches despicable ; the cause is drawne from our want of issue , which you know ( if ever experience gave you that comfort ) to be the principall motive of true content ; ministring best solace to the parents griefes ; yea , and reviveing their memory , whē raked up in the ashes of oblivion . alas sir , what be these faire buildings , flourishing medes , spacious downes , which you see wee are here possessed of ? they must of necessity succeed to some , and it may be to some base tartarian , that will raze and deface the memory of our providence , with his security , riot , and superfl●…ous expence . and what shall remaine of us ? scarce so much as that we were ; but why doe i beat the aire , with a vaine repetition of misery ? you have heard sir the occasion of my griefe , the motive of my discontent ; and i know you imagine it to bee above the compasse of remedy , let it be sufficient that i have satisfied you , that can satisfie my selfe in nothing save griefe . this discourse the apothecary attentively observed : oftimes lifting up his hands to heaven , thanking the powers divine , that they had ministred him so ample and expedite an occasion , both of shewing argument of his thankfulnesse , and meanes to release this disconsolate woman of her pensivenesse . for this cantharides was excellent for many cures , but for none so famous as for sterility or barrennesse : for which exquisite art and knowledge , hee was famous through all the burmudoes ilands : so that as no place was then more savage , so no region or countrey had more fruitfull women in it . thus therfore , as soone as she had expressed the cause of her discontent , with cheerful countenance he thus addressed his speech ; i hope ( faire mistris ) this present occasion of your grieving shall be ( ere long ) the motivest cause of your joying : there is no cloud but it presages a following cleerenesse , no●… tempest ( but if over-past ) moves the mariners to more cheerefulnesse . the halcyons song they say ( mistris ) bodes a storme ; but the dolphins playing , portends a calme . some sing against their death , with the swan ; and some sing against their birth , with the lark●… . some plants are for expelling sorrow , as the mugwort ; as others to distract the senses with the hemlocke . some have vertue to cast sorrow on sleepe , as the saffron ; others to keepe them waking , as the moly . and elements skirmish one with another , lest man should be though onely to skirmish with himselfe . windes that rise in the shoares of l●…panthos , in the morning , send forth gusts from the north , in the evening , calmes from the west . this i speake ( gentle woman ) to expresse the limit of your griefe extended , the web of your passions contracted , and now your calme approching , after so many billowes over-flowing . the cause of your griefe i know to be moving : for all creatures have , and doe repose their greatest joy in their progeny : priam and his miserable hecuba before the ruine and desolation of that great and populous citie , which indured so many sieges ere it was sacked , were esteemed happy in all things , yet the complement of their happinesse consisted in their faire and flourishing issues . herotinus had as much temporall felicity , as humane debility could attaine unto , yet the extent of that felicity summ'd up it selfe in his 600 sonnes . and true it is you say , that the posterity gives life to the deceased parent ; for as long as their issue surviveth , their image seemes revived , and nature seemes to proportion a second selfe in the child , being cast in the mould of the parent . but whence this discourse ! in expressing comforts of this nature , and not ministring to your discomfort , i seeme to imitate a rigorous and remorselesse physician , who before hee gives his patienta cordiall , applies unto him extreamest corasives . i am heartily glad ( gentle woman ) i am arrived here for your sake , and if divine powers , ( as sure they have ) may bee thought to have a hand in mens preservation , for a more excellent end or purpose , sure that aesculapius ( which lenge that publique staine to deserved honour ; that corrupter of hospitalitie ; that pearle of greatnesse , bottle-nosed bacchus . doest not remember , how those ambitious giants , had well nye scaled thy fathers palace ; overthrowne the mansions of heaven ; and made the whole fabricke of iove a pile of ruine ? and whence proceeded this , but from ioves too much lenitie ? ixion would have ( like thy bacchus ) beene a little too familiar with iuno , if ioves transpiercing eyes had not diverted his owne scandall , and preserved his queenes honour . but see what just judgement he ( in his powerfull majestie ) denounced on so impudent and ingratefull a villaine : in stead of loving , he is now rolling , and must so perpetually , the wheele of eternall anguish : blessed prevention ! deserved censure ! but thou ( as one either secure of thine one shame , or ignorant of publique infamie ) ●…itst in a whoores lap , makes carols to be sung in honour of thy bastard : o , is not this brave sport for bacchus ? yes , yes , thy tragedy yeelds ▪ him an ample and spacious argument of a delightfull comedy : for lately , i heare , hee presented an exquisite enterlude , all composed of thy follies : here presented one of his drunken attendants , thy queene laughing , another thy selfe sleeping , and bacehus brought in himselfe horning ; where , like a second al●…ides , he makes thy browes his columnes , on which he engraves his perpetuall motto , non ul●…ra . here is excellent worke for a silent asse to bee hood-winkt in ! what pilot , seeing an imminent tempest approaching , will not cast anchor , or retire to harbour ? but thou , seeing the tempest of thy shame , not imminent , but transparent , sleep'st with the dormouse , and risest with the snaile , horned . i will be briefe , though a matter of this consequence , requires a world of instruction : make me italian worke in their guts , play mee tereus part : thou hast no progne , but a strumpet ; no philom●…la , but an impudent prostistute . cut out her tongue , and shee will not blab thy shame : hang up bacchus for an ivie bush at everie taverne doore in hell. let monsieur claret ( who i am credibly enformed was his pandor ) bee drunke of none but tinkers , and let them drinke till they surfet , that they may spue him in the street againe . o that i could expresse the infinitenesse of the malady which thou art incident to , and knowes it not ; made a monster and observes it not ; laught at by thine owne planter , and sees it not ; balladed at by a nastie troope of gally-foists , villaines of the last edition ; proclai med recreants to the field of vertue , and whipped in the statute booke of s●…turne . and yet ( my squeamish cosin ) you cannot see into the eye●…ore of your reproach . p●…oebus so much respects you , hee will not visit you , lest his approach should publish your shame : luna , like a modest and chaste matrone , because her ordinarie habiliment is an horne , will not see you , lest she put you in minde of that badge you weare . the planets , as more favourable and auspicious than you are to your selfe , will not come neere your cave ( for they are verily resolved ) you are planet-strucke already . as i am your friend , so take my counsell ; put her away , that has put you in for all day ; live to bee your selfe , and not to be an impeachment to your selfe : some here of my fraternitie laugh at you , others in compassion pitie your miserie . neither pitie , nor scorne , are estates worth having : so cleere your disgrace , and wipe off the blemish laid upon your deitie , that those friends which pitied you , may convert their pitie into joy , others that scorned you , may convert their hate to envie . howsoever , remaine but your friend , as mercurie will rest ever your approved , &c. after the perusall of this letter , you may imagine what cold swounds came over poore pluto's heart : so as in the increase of his distractions , and decrease of his comforts , which he imagined matchlesse , by the new birth of his supposed heire : in the retirednesse of his passions ( which seeme most bitter when most retired ) hee thus conferred with himselfe ; expostulating the probabilities of these suspects , with the sinceritie of his approved and ever trustie friend mercurie ; of whose undoubted fidelitie hee made no question : yet because the long-rooted conceit of proserpina's constancie , and her generall respect to honour ingendred in him a doubtfulnesse how to resolve : yet in the end mercuries information is preferred before his first resolution . the divers enforcive causes whereof may appeare more amply in this private discourse to himselfe . pluto's passions . a letter pluto ? yes , and a bitter one : by these contents i should need an extraordinary night cap , for mine eares by all heavens consistories bee supposed hornes . and by whom should these monstrous appendices bee created ? the letter saith by bacchus . verie good ; then consequently am i mine owne pandor , that entertained a villaine to lye with my wife . yet i can hardly beleeve it : proserpina hath lived many yeeres with me , and was never yet detected : shee ever preferred her estimation above any inordinate thought of breach , or violation of honour ; and as proper personages were in my dominions , as ever bacchu●… will make : and can i thinke a drunken swad can so soone seduce my queene from her respect to honour ? no , no : sure mercurie would have me divorce my queene , to possesse her himselfe : i know not , if there bee knaverie in mercurie , there must needs be villanie in amitie . yet mercurie was ever a faithfull and approved friend to me : and sure such a report hee has heard , and that , no●… ordinarie neither , for it seemes it is confirmed by the generall rumour of the gods. why then pluto ( to make the conclusion agree with the premises ) thou art a cuckold : and that bladder-fac'd , goggle-ey'd , rheumaticke rascall , bacchus , has been penning a set speech in proserpina's note-booke . vvhat remedy ? i shall bee set in blacke and white for it : to bee the first prince of hell that ever bore horne for his crest , and mine impresse shall bee about it , inopem me copia fecit ; no rather , haec sunt insignia bacchi . miserable pluto . canst thou descant of thine owne shame without blushing ? to have thy gem soiled by a canker-worme ? a mop-fac'd rogue , that seldome or never lyes in sheets , but makes the taverne his lodging chamber , and the bulke his pillow . o inconstant proserpina , to chuse a lowsie knave , base in education , grosser in conversation , and odious to all but flemmish brittons ! could none satisfie thee ( unsatiate messalina ) but the dregs of pollution , and that never made difference twixt lust and love ? how thine eyes were dazled ? how farre thou disparagedst thy judgement ? couldst thou see any such excellencie in bacchus , or any one good condition to approve thy choyce ? was hee so farre above thy pluto , as thou preferredst him before thy pluto ? blush at thine impudence : or if bacchus grape have taken so deepe a tincture in thy blushlesse face , as thou canst not expresse thy shame by the outward character of a blush , at least send out a relenting teare , and that perhaps will mollifie the heart of thy abused husband . to whom should i appeale to ? if to mine owne judges , i shall rumour mine owne shame in hell , as it is dispersed already in heaven . if i appeale to earth , that rancorous troope of incarnate devils will answer mee , it is ordinarie with them to have cuckolds , and they never enacted law against that veniall errour . to bee briefe , they will absolutely conclude they have no law for it . if i appeale to my father iove , and present a bill of complaint to the senate of heaven against mine owne wife , i shall bee but laught at , and the cause will be protracted , and my selfe the while eternally tormented with delay of revenge : but what bids mercurie mee doe ? play tereus part , cut out her tongue , and she will not blab my dishonour : that were a ready way ; and yet hardly were that course secure either ; a woman will make a shift to speake , if her tongue be cut out : there is no hope in so desperate a cure . come , come , i have it : hang laughter : am i a proclaimed cuckold , and therfore a complete honest man , and will not i seeke remedy for mine imputation ? is it not a reproach for pluto , to bee termed a wittall , a plaine honest well-meaning cuckold ? by my regiment of s●…yx , lethe , and phlegeton : and by all my power i have in this inferiour government , i had rather be entituled knave , than honest . but where 's my revenge ? to iupiter pluto , to iupiter ; he will pittie his sonnes misfortune , and censure bacchus ( that slavering hogshead ) according to his deserts . if i put up this injurie , let me be thrust from my chaire of state , my kingdome of tartarie for ever . shew remorse on me , and inflict revenge ( thou tonitruous iupiter ) upon this horne-maker : for if thou doe not : flectere si nequeo superos , acheronta movebo . i will iupiter , i will ; i 'le play the giants part ; skale thy airy turrets ; raze downe thy burnish'd pyramids ; ravish the beauties of thy court ; and make one of my bas●…st slaves lye with thy queene before thy face . passion may be long silent , but not supprest : injuries may be endured , but not quite supplanted : i will first , like a poore solicitor , attend thy court with lenity , my next approach shall be in thunder . plvto seconds his passion with a complaint to iupiter , the processe whereof how it fell out , you shall heare afterward . vve must now returne to plutoes young hei●…e , and how suspicion arose from acarno the midwife , touching the birth of this young brat . one day swathling this wan●…on bastard , she perceived a marke in the childs brest , resembling the proportion of a vine : the feature of the leaves , spurges , and grapes , so artificiall naturall , as made the old trot exceedingly amazed : on she rowles to proserpina , and shewes her this wonder ; the good queene marvelled not a whit ( for she had no reason ) knowing it to be ba●…chus stampe : yet least this should be occasion of difference twixt her and pluto ; whose jealousie she had now a little perceived ; calls for iris the post-boy in hell , and commands him , after she had inchanted him with her ebon wand , that he might goe and come invisible , to take his course instantly to the north-part of ta●…tary , ( on which border , the iles of the burmudoes are seated ) and there he should find 〈◊〉 child in the c●…adle . vvhich child she enjoyned him with all expedition and taciturnity to convey from thence , and bring it to her ; where , at his returne hee should heare the rest of her will ; intending , as after appeared , to convey her young bacchus in his place , that all suspicion might be avoyded : and this stamp of the true father neither might ingender occasion nor argument of suspect or jealousie in the troubled head of her husband . on iris goes in his ambassage ( winged to make the course more speedy ) nor rests he his wearied body , till arrived at the utmost cape of burmudoes sea , where after long search , he findes the joyfull house of nepenthes : in he goes ( and in the darke covert of night , when cares get repose , and the ambitious thoughts of men find harbou●… ) he easily takes the poore infant from beside his sleeping parents . up hee mounts with the child , and with as much 〈◊〉 returnes to the care seased chamber of proserpina : where sitting alone ( for pluto was turned 〈◊〉 in heavens conclave ) seeing 〈◊〉 come into the chamber , with as quicke 〈◊〉 ( as if her senses before estranged from her , had beene suddenly revived . the child she receives , and the child with as cheerefull a countenance , flies into her bosome . pretty brat , that occasions no little griefe to thy poore parents , that in their sleepe possessed thee , but waking in the survey of their barrennesse makest their lives loathed , but their griefes must not be dilated by our pen ; we will leave them sorrowing , & returne to plutoes successe in his suit . pros●…rpina now at hearts ease , intending next morning to send her bastard to nepenthes house , that it might remaine there fostred in stead of their owne ; was prevented by her husbands returne ; who came in as she was committing and commending the child to the care , tuition , and safe convoy of her herald iris. how these two encountred may be imagined by plutoes former passion ; yet to make our discourse more complete , and the series of our tale with better concordance knit up ; you may suppose pluto entring his queenes chamber , and with sparkling eyes , severe looke and menacing aspect , thus chastising her . proserpina encountred by pluto . impudent minion ! doest thou imagine pluto has no eyes , because he weares horns ? let go the bastard ; he that fathers it is able to keepe it ; thou hast stuff'd my head with horne shavings ; made me infamous for ever ; derided in heaven ; contemned on earth ; and pittied in hell . none but bac●…hus ( insatiate strumpet ) to flie to , that on my knowledge is buzling with every milke-maide ! am i the rhynoceros thou hast branched ? the first cuckold of thy making ! and the first that ever was in hell created ! and thou it seemes ( to blinde my eyes ) wouldst cōvey this brat to some desclate promontory , some anchorage or sotary , for to pray for thy lewdnesse ? sure i thinke if ever it proved fryer it were not of the mothers mind , but ere five eares were expired , it would sing , the fryer has lost his breeches . out cockatrice , out : with what forehead canst thou plead for pardon ? i that tooke thee up , as earthly gallants , take up light commodities , stragling from thy mother , hath found thee now strayed from thy honour . i will never keepe holiday in thy remembrance hereafter , so long as thy wind-pipe is open . thy melody shall be converted to shriking ; thy best of delights to perpetuall dispairing ; and thy late banquetting to incessant tormenting . cuckold pluto , you strumpet , and none but bacchus to doe him that dishonour ! better could i have beene pacified , a●…d sooner had the passion of my eter●…all choll●…r been mittigated , if any within my owne regiment had done it : but a drunken slave , that in the height of his cups , will rumour my hornes to all his cup-shot assacinats ! goe to hell shall roare for ▪ t. thy liberty shall be perpetuall imprisonment ; thy life horrour ; and though thou wish death , yet , he shal not be so thankfull as come , if it be but to augment and aggravate thy misery . and for thy bastard , heare ioves decree . ioves decree . by the power of my command , iove the supernall commander of heaven , soveraigne of earth , head prince of the mediteranean , and absolute emperour of the tartars , planter of iles , establisher of nations , extirper of the bastard race , auspicious protector of chaste affections , ratefies this decree following : whereas pluto our well-beloved sonne , upon just complaint of bacchu●… , and his licentious queene pros●…rpina , hath informed us of illegitimate issue , descended from their unchaste loynes . and that the bastard ( as an apparant and evident note of his dishonour , continues in the court of hell , to a publike contumelie of the said pluto , and no lesse griefe to us . we therefore , to root out the very memory of such disgrace , and the being of so worthy an issue : doe in our power transforme the said bastard ( in resembrance of aca●…thus ) into a a plant ; which , to expresse his father shall still reserve the name of his progenitor bacchus : and therefore have we in his memory , called him ( as one commended to the care , protection , and tuition of his father ) tobacco , the curse whereof we referre to the consideration of our sonne pluto , whose injuries we in compassion feele in our selfe . and that our decree is not to be abbrogated nor disanulled ; we have here in our celestiall consistory , sealed it with the subscription of our glorious synode subsined , mars , mercury , saturn , neptune , aeolus ▪ &c. our decree is not to be adjorned , but with expedition confirmed . for proserpina , to pray is bootlesse ; prayers are out of season ; or to weepe and deplore her present misery , is fruitlesse ; teares cannot move remorse . the decree must be performed , and so it was : for medusa , that brave inchantresse , is sent for according to ioves decree : and she with her snaky-rod catching the child , with the decree read over it , transformes it presently . the argument of the following discourse . novght now but leaves for that same feature cleare , which but of late did in the child appeare . the root , the feet , the body was the stemme , so much commended now of mortall men : his father heard it , that his child should take anoth●…r feature , and another shape : incenst at first , yet makes his sonne divine ; for bacchus steepes tobacco in his wine . the sonne makes sober , and the father drunke ; thus by hels birth , earth's to confusion su●…ke . now wee 'l proceed as times be worse and wors●… , from bacchus blessing , to tobacco's curse . the curse of tobacco , or , pluto's blessing to tobacco . to returne to the miserable state of those poore ilanders , that were now deprived ( unawares ) of their choycest and selectedst comfort : i need not , onely to expresse the renuall of their hopes ; know that proserpina in remorse of her impietie , weaving a second errour in her first offence , and one no lesse ( if not more ) inexcusable than the other ; returnes their child againe with a sumptuous armolet about the arme of it , to recompence the wrong she had done , with advantage . vvhat joy the parents conceived at the restitution of their child , i leave it to you to imagine : meane time , we will proceed with the second branch of our discourse , to wit , the blessing ( or cursing rather ) which pluto gave this bastard plant , foretelling , with what admiration it would be received on earth . novv my brave bastard , i will send you up wrapt in a paper to that father of yours , bacchus , and may my blessing follow thee . thou art now to travell through many straits : first through the noses of the burmudoes ; for there it is fit thou offer thy selfe first , because they challenge an interest in thee by thy birth . thou shalt be hissed out of the schoole of hypocrates , aesculapius , and galen . not a quack-salver doctor upon the universe , but shall reade lectures on thee , as if it were upon an anatomy . the mercinary pedler shall counterfeat thee : and drying some vvalnut leaves , shall forsweare himselfe for thee . the frenchman shall love thee , for thou art restorative to his infirmities ; thou shalt be as familiar with the tatterd indian ; as slapdragons with the flemming ; potatoes with the italian : or flawnes with the bohemian . thou shalt be thy fathers caterer , provide him victuall and victualers to 〈◊〉 his victuall . yet my comfort is , thou shalt not be onely for the generous gallant , but as well also for aminadab the pedant , and hob-nayle the pesant : the very tinker ( with his fine brasse ) shall tinckle on thy sides , and snuffe thee out like neesing-powder . the pox and piles shall reverence thee : one fire strikes out another ; and whole families shall maintaine their tatterdemallions with hanging thee out in a string . but of all cities , iles , provinces , dominions , or segniories , none shall entertaine thee in that royalty , or with that generall state at the albionacts : their long acres , uplands and downe-lands shall flie in a trice to retaine thee in their company ; thou shalt soake them to the bone ( my renowned bastard ) and make them skarre-crowes to nature . yet , it cheeres my heart , when i thinke how every foole must have his bable ; and not a good discourse without the suggestion of thy brave , pregnant and fiery spirit . yet , as well as they love thee , they 'l spurt thee out , and make thy owne mansion all be slubberd with thy owne iuyce ; while this raiseth pluto one pin higher : to see a yong cavalero spit out his patrimony in rhume . no entertainment without thee ; nor speech worth observing , that has not life from thee . thou makesh the pursued roarer forget the serjeant is at doore to arrest him . thou makest him valiant : not a brasse button on the universe dare attach him . who dare encounter phaeton , that is nought but fire and smoake ! sending out the tapers of his wrath , the fagots of his indignation ? the cressets of his spleene , and the furnaces of his evaporated ire at the crevisses of his nose ? why , i shall be made to blesse thee : thou wilt be the onely enlarger of my kingdome , the enricher of my state ▪ and the stablisher of my empire eternally . i shall thanke my wife ( ere long ) for my bastard honours . never did al●…ydes more for his stepmother iuno ; than thou for thy stepfather pluto . i see charons boat over-burdened already : hoyse up sayles charon , my hony bastard sends thee them in swoupes . but i see more vertue in them yet ; as the light of the fire darkens the light of the candle , so shall thy smoake ( the pure elixir of a gallants brain-pan ) draw to thee all the smoake that 's used to steme out of great mens kitchins : their habitations shall become as desolate as a wildernesse ; as bare as trees in fall o' th' leafe ; as naked as a frenchmans scalpe ; and as destitute of hospitality , as a wappin broker of honesty . but this is nothing to that reverence those smoaking albyonacts will do unto thee : there will a scholler make a set speech to thee ; and canvase thee in a blanket , with predicamentall words , above comparison or gradation . vvith , o thou hyble of intelligence ; thou ars●…nall of eminence ; thou castalia of ingenuity ; thou hermyone of harmony ; thou systema of logicke ; thou anadema of rhetoticke ; thou anathema of choller ; thou astraea of honour . thus will the word-joyning scholler grace thee . then the lawyer with his quillets and mentall reservations , solecysims , vvrits , and demurres without demurres , will thus aboord thee . o , if iohn a styles , or iohn an oakes had knowne thee in their dayes , what cases couldst thou have put thē ? for by thee ( and none but thee ) thou heantontymoreumenō of judicious pleading , we gain'd a melius inquirendum , what it is , or what it meaneth ? as for example , if we find thee not in thy spirit and life here , we seeke thee elsewhere , and so by a melius inquirendum , we possesse thee . by thee ( and none but thee ) we find what is a capias ad legatum ; for being taken in the head , we are forc't to lie by it . by thee we find what an injunction is at the first sight ; being injoyned to avoyd much corrupt matter , wherewith men of our profession be extraordinarily troubled . wherefore , if thou have any action of outlary , against any gallant or gallants , within our precincts , in behalfe of arrerages due to thy master in thy behalfe ; we will procure thee expedition for nothing , ( and reason ) for thou art incorporated in us . thus will the spruce areopagite discourse to thee : where presently a waterman , a tankard carrier , or such necessary hogs ▪ snout in the city will thus accoast thee . o smoake , no smoake but vapour , and no vapour but smoake●… thou makest my tankard as light as a pipkin ; thou makest us never thinke of our poverty , drawne in sluces from ware , and in pipes to london . nay , nose it ( neighbour timothy ) nose it ; o herbe of grace ! surely he that founded thee was some traitor , for thou hast betrayed me of my wits already . come , another pipe , good master flie-smoake ! why may not we send out a tankard of water at our nose , as well as master had-land blowes out his acres ? we will honour thee still ( my brave trinidadicall spirit ) and we will take it i' th' snuffe whosoever wrongs thee . thus ( my noble and heroycall bastard ) shall all professions honour thee ; all degrees reverence thee ; and the chiefe metropolitan cities shall maintaine their greatest trafficke and commerce by thee . happy shall bee that man , who can engrosse a portion of thy quickest spirit to himselfe ! it shall stand instead of his orisons in the morning ; and early will hee sacrifice the snuffe of his candle to thy incense ; not a complete callant , that hath not his v●…ensiles to conduct thee to his nose : for thou ministers him a portion of joy , and tells him of building another castle or colosse in the aire . thus thou playest minister to pluto , and estates me in an ample government ; thy smoake shall be the conveyance to hale those snuffing prodigalls to my smoaking dominions ; for thou art but a preparative to the solemnizing of thy father bacchus his festivals . thou , to open the passages to receive liquor : he , to poure in his unfathomed bucket , and to rinse their liver : thou , like another synon , burnes troy ; sacks the citie ; rases downe the walls ; and with thy per●…idious incursion , subjects all the inward parts of the citie to desolation : he , when all things are done ( like a seeming friend ) protests affection , and with ceremoniall ambages insinuates into that poore fort which remaines : where like sile●…i of the last edition , they entertaine him , receive so much of his complement , till they become complete and replete gallants : then , suror arma ministrat . bacchus sets them byth'eares , buffet stooles walke , pottles ( like pellets ) expresse their meaning by their clattering . here ( my worthy step-child ) the comfort of my wronged bed , and the onely hope to eternize my soveraignty , beginnes my joy ! for discord and dissention yeelds to me a perpetuall union and harmony . thou art that brand of paris , shalt make earth flame for 't ; that olympia serpent ( that snake of adraste ) shalt winde thy selfe in the minds of men , and draw a greater fleet to thy voyage of tenarus , then ever were of argonauts to colchos . if those three sisters , o●…to , ocypete , and celano ; those arch-pyrats , harpies of the atlanticke , brought such rich booties to their mother cleona , what will my transformed bastard doe for me , that hath the whole world to rome in ? thou wilt make bacchus call thee his white boy ; and i will crowne thee with a diadem of burnisht gold ; with a plume of estrich feathers : and thou at thy returne , like another aquila , affricane , or pompey , shalt triumph in the streets of hell ; we are as many trophies , as thou hast enricht the treasurie of hell with soules . heere shalt thou lead the prodigall in chains , and with a shadow of smoake , draw him to follow thee , aut sequetur , aut trahetur . here , my brave spend-times , shall desire thy company ; but thou like a triumphant hannibal , shalt contemne them , leading the slaves in bonds ; and like another tamerlane , make earths soveraignes follow thy charriot wheeles , crouching like pedestals at the foot of thy majesty . hear my cautions therefore ; and in observing them , thou shalt purchase thee a wreath of eternall honour : not a fiend but shall bend to thee ; and thou in the majestie of thy state shalt contemne the greatest , being made miserable by thine inchantments . especiall advertisements given by pluto to tobacco . first caution i propound , is , that in everie place where thou commest , thou take the best booth in the faire . plant thy selfe in the eye of the citie : set mee the picture of some sallow-faced blackamoore , or a virginia-man , for that will rather draw custome upon the frontespice of thy doore : a zeuxes or apelles would doe well in these cases , to enforce passengers by the picture , to draw neere the substance : make a partition in thy shop ; it may bee the hot venetian comes to bathe with thee , rather than to drinke tobacco with thee . draw the curtaine close ( sinne would have no eyes poring upon her ) and when thou seest a young raw novice , that never was yet matriculated in the schoole of vanitie , make a speech to him in commendation of thy vertue , power , and operation ; if hee listen thee with a greedy eare , continue thy discourse with arguments , and how insufficient soever , no matter , the gudgeon will be taken , and having him once in , presume on his custome . now and then to discourse of novelties , and unheard-of rarities , will not a little encrease custome : for the phantasticknesse of the age admires nothing so much as fabulous relations . tell of thy strange birth , but neither of mee nor of the place of thy birth : though men come so frequently to me , yet they love not to heare of me : i would have thee in any case lay traines for the better sort , for the worser sort love to imitate the better : and then in thy profession thou maiest apologize thine errours ( as thou canst hardly bee without them ) if thou meane to live rich , or not to die a beggar . there bee three persons i would have thee use with all observances , the scholler , the lawyer , and the poet ; i distinguish them , for seldome makes poet lawyer , seldome becomes lawyer scholler , seldome exquisite scholler either poet or lawyer . the scholler to confirme thy profession by reason , the lawyer by equivocation , and the poet by invention : one to discusse , another to discourse , and the third to fable these , as by time observing , they may bee eternally won ; so by scurvie usage they may bee eternally lost . the scholler will bee thine , if thou talke in his element ; sooth him in his arguments ; and call him most profound , dogmaticall , and literate trismegistus : let not one reason ( though it be never so wide of sense ) passe from him without thine approbation ; and when thou art wearie in praising his imperfections , fall to admiration ; but let it be , — ut pueri iunonis ave●… . if thou canst know what universitie he is of , advance it with new-coyned and strangely-minted hyperboles : discourse a whole houre of the antiquities of the place ; not mount pernassus it selfe more ancient . then dispatiate into the pleasantnesse of the seat ; the fruitfulnesse of the place ; and withall , of the greatnesse of their commons ; for that they like to heare of , though they seldome see it . these discourses will make the scholler thine owne ; he is thine individuate and incorporate friend ; the ivie claspeth not neerer the vine , nor the missell-tow the oake , than he will knit to thee . the lawyer will be thine , if thou compare these present times with those flourishing and impartiall dayes of hortensius , marcus appius , cornelius graccus : swearing too ( for thou must make no bones of oathes ) that for pure eloquence , excellent conveyance , absolutenesse of method , and other proprieties , rome in her glorie ( even in the maturitie of her time ) never attained so absolute and exact a course in pleading . then in defence of corruption , ( because everie man must live by his trade ) talke of brave senatours , and the bravest councellours , would now and then be anoynted . and for unction dispense with conscience ; and tell him withall , examples of authoritie to confirme it . this discourse will so ensnare my young mowter , as no question ( if hee distaste smoake ) hee will frequent thee for thy many good parts : an oyly tongue ( my nimble bastard ) is worth a kingdome . for the poet , i cannot tell what to say to it , he is so oft out of his wits , as he verily imagines himselfe the man in the moone : there 's quick-silver in his braine ; and if he were not now and then encountred by sergeants , and kept under locke and key , hee would verily turne bedlame . yet because phrensie must bee purged , and thou ( my wag-halter ) hast vertue and operation to love such , becken to the thred-bare contemned urchin , give him a pipe on my score , hee 'll pay it at the next new play he makes , if the doore-keepers will bee true to him : and if not , hee 'll make thee up some scurvie end of a ballad , deserves a pipe of smoake . but before thou humour him , i would have thee finde him , and i protest to thee i cannot direct thee to him : many have this name , but as farre different from the perfect straine of a poet , as the glistering of the gloworme from the light and splendour of the sunne . some come from the camp to the stage , from the pike to the pen ; and few souldiers will prove good poets . for the nature of these men ( i my selfe have had an itching inclination to this poeticall phrensie ) had rather fight with bacchus than mars ; and had rather cope with a barrell , than oppose themselves to a quarrell . others , from an indenture to a theatre ; the scribe turnes pharisic ; and asinus ad lyram , expresseth his owne shame by his scriveners fragments . others , from mowting to comicke writing : a brave honour to descend to poet from lawyer . but amongst these ( my brave spurio ) thou shalt finde many generous wits possest with this phrensie , call them to thee , smoake their wits , it may bee they are mustie , and desire soaking : these poore gnats deserve thine acquaintance , even the lowest favorite in parnassus armourie , qui nescit versus , tamen audet fingere . take him to thee , hee shall , for his love to ribauldrie , drinke a pipe on my score : what , shall vanitie want smoake ? no , ( my thrice-renowned hermaphrodite ) smoake thou them here on earth , and i will smoake them in hell with pipes of sulphur . but i pray thee retaine these last of all others ; they will draw company to thee ; they are made the verie morio's of our time : and what good wit but either can draw thee into acquaintance with great ones ; or is so endeared to the other sex ; as by their meanes , thou shalt have creatures of both kindes ( and that will make thee for ever ) resort to thy shop continually ! humor me these poets ; extoll their devices , though thou never heard of any of them ; they love to be tickled : flatterie they cannot judge of ; for they verily imagine their deserts out-strip all commendations . but now ( my rogue in graine ) if thou couldst set up a private refectorie , for the young effeminate sort ( for they would like adamants draw continuall recourse ) i would hug thee eternally . sell mee potato-roots , eringoes , all electuaries , confections , receipts , conceipts , deceipts , pomatum , cerusse , with a large recitall of thy brave commodities ; and a little smooth-faced ganymede standing at the doore , who ▪ like another parret or mag-pie , may crie ever in one tune : what doe you lacke ? pomatum of the best , cerusse ; what doe you lacke ? if thou be so blest , as to get these syrenfaced things into thy confines , i shall be happie in thee . the best meanes to ensnare them , is to commend them ; and in comparison of sexes , to prefer theirs in many degrees before the grosse and distempered constitution of man ; fumming up some especiall records of their sexes worth . " blessed creatures , soveraignesses of earths happinesses ( thus mayst thou binde them to thee ; ) when nature framed the best of her art , shee examplified it in you , making you the founders of cities and flourishing countries , provinces and ilands . asia first founded by a woman of that name . europe by europa , daughter 〈◊〉 aegenor king of phanicia : and scythia of a woman that sprung out of the earth , who named her sonne scytha . to describe the rare sit●…s and foundations of iles ( matchlesse creatures ) rhodes , corcyra , salamyna and ae●… were all founded by women . shall i ascend higher , and register your excellence in the planets , and those celestiall bodies , which give humane bodies light ? there bee a thousand and twentie stars names knowne , all which have their constellations of women . shall i then expresse your incomparable natures , by essentiall goodnesse ? why ! vertue her selfe makes your sex inimitable . justice with a sword in her hand portrayed like a woman ; prudence with a glasse ; temperance with a diall ; fortitude with an huge colossus on her shoulder , that hercules could not remove : all these in imbroderies , as tapistrie , cloth of arras , and the like , beare the formes of women . thus commend them , and they will sooner buy eringoes of the worst ( so they may have them by retaile at thy shop ) than at others of the best , that ▪ cannot with a glibberie tongue deifie them . but i hold thee all too long : last caution i should give thee , have i reserved for the last , that it may take deepest and firmest root in thy memorie : on my blessing i warne thee to contemne honestie , as a poore whore that is neither for court , countrey , nor citie . spurne at her when shee offers to be acquainted with thee ; it is not fit that pluto's bastard should respect honestie . get and care not how ; forsweare thy selfe and thinke not when ; cheat , respect not where . honestie could never thrive in the world ; as she is a beggar discard her ; as shee is simple scorne her ; and as she is base loath her . when shalt thou see honestie ▪ approach a great mans palace , enter a tradesmans shop , or get bed-roome in an inne ? but knaverie is ever reaping a commoditie : there is not a comrade in all the citie , but she can make use on ; that wind blowes ill , where she gaines not something . to bee short , ere thou ever set up shop , or hang out thy blackamoore , disclaime honestie ; entertaine perjurie ; and the first part of knaverie may begin with a paire of uneven scales . thus if thou proceed in thy trade , i shall thinke my cautions well ▪ bestowed ; if not , to aggravate thy punishment , i will eternally banish thy strumpet-mother from mee ; and make those verie gallants which frequent thy shop , kicke thee into the kennell for thy honest simplicitie . more should i say unto thee , but that hell growes turbulent for want of government . though i doe not leave thee as i found thee , in that thy shape is altered ▪ yet i leave thee in some respect better instructed : this is my last blessing ; fly into the world , and may knaverie guide thee , false weights enjoy thee , and many phantasticke asses be seduced by thee . having shipp'd this plant in charons vessell , and sent it into the world , what commerce it had in time , and what people of all conditions frequented it , shall appeare by this pitifull complaint made by time ; whom you may imagine came forth of an old decayed and ruinous castle , bald-headed , with a sythe in his hand , and blubbered face , standing in the publique street of troynovan●… , ( for there this plant tooke first planting : ) where he exclaimes against pluto's bastard , in these or the like continuate passions . the argument . the complaint of time upon tobacco ; and the miserie of mans securitie , losing that treasure by times expence , which can never be repurchased , or redeemed , but by bitter and incessant repentance . who cals on time ? who makes use of time ? or who in meere compassion wil wipe these teares from the eyes of time ? unhappiest of men , that should offer the best of men , yet art despised by all men ! none here will negotiate in thy behalfe ; they make thee a stale to their pleasures , a pandor to their filthinesse , a brothell of shame , and a contempt to thy selfe . none esteemes thee as thou art , precious ; but makes thee different to thine owne nature , vitious . the ambitious man hugs thee , to climbe the ladder of preferment by thee . the wanton and licentious courtier , to satisfie the phantasticknesse of his braine-sicke vanitie by thee . the covetous miser , to enrich his never-contented coffers by thee . the prodig●…ll , to spend the gifts of fortune , and the refined treasure of his sin-crazed soule by thee . thus , who uses thee like thy selfe ? who honours thee like thy selfe ? or who embraces thee , but either by pleasing earths mammon , to displease himselfe , or by contemning thee utterly , to undoe himselfe ? if thou hadst that which thou hast not , it may be some would catch thee , but being bald ( as thou art ) none layes hold on thee ; what , none ? no , none ; nemo , herculè , nemo ! yet , me thinks , for all thy baldnesse , the sergeant should clap hands on thee ; his fingers will grant a bald man no dispensation . yet thee he never lookes at , for why ? thou art out of debt , though all be in arrerages to thee , all engaged to thee all in subjection to thee : and like an imperious owner mayest command an hourely arrest ; yet , who is it of all my debtors braves me not ? who , of all my factors contemnes mee not ? and ( to my griefe ) who not of the basest revile me not ? miserable time ▪ unhappie creditour●… to have so much pitie on such insolent debtors . here i heare my name contested by truth , and presently my testimony is beat downe by falshood ; there , the simple honest man craves that i may try the cause ; for ( saith hee ) time tries all things ; and presently the poore man is cut downe , before his cause come to the verdict of time. thus justice goes on stilts , and time supports her ; falshood goes under warrant , and time secures her ; simplicitie is opprest , and time must delay her ; the good suffer , and time sees it ; the ill are dispenc'd with , & time confirmes it : thus may all men impute the cause of all disorder to time ; and so they doe , while i in pitie of the good , will in time inflict due punishment on the evill . meane time , like love himselfe , and those aethereall powers above , who for all their integritie were accused to be authors of their owne impietie , art thou blamed : o facinus ! mortale genu●… nos numin●… primum incusat ; caus●…mque putat , fontemque malorum quae veniunt . o wickednesse ! what h●…inous crimes surprize the hearts of men . to make us authors of that ill which is commit by them ? must thou poore time be a maske to every fact unjustly committed ? to every bribe corruptly receaved ? to every oppressor , that is amongst the worst of men numbred ? what remedy ! thine owne sinceritie is thine owne best apologie . thou wilt once discover thy selfe what thou art , and detect the secretst of imagination , that now seemes secure of thee or thy power . so long hath my spring continued : i expected a better growth in this field of vanity , then stubble and fruitlesse darnell . well , i will now make up my harvest : i will see if my sythe can cut downe , where my lenitie could not make grow . i have too long seene ( the essence of my selfe ) opportunity offered , contemned ; too long , the estimation and repute of my name eclypsed . the worldling shall know he has a power to prune , as he had a desire to water : his infinite store of treasures got by oppression , shall be as pathes which conduct him to the brinke of confusion . the lascivious dame , that turnes my houre-glasse to observe fashions , shall not with all her painting allure mee ; nor with her trumperies entice me ; nor with her whoorish-looke seduce me . i am too old to be a slave to a whoore ; too wise to be tempted by a whoore ; and too proud to serve a whoore . the wastfull prodigall , that becomes heire of his fathers bagges , but not his vertues , shall not affright me with his oathes ; awe me with his screw'd face ; or dismay me with his bilboe blade : i have a weapon of a stronger temper , and it will pierce further then a roarers tolado . the unjust regrater , that engrosseth wealth to himselfe , famine to the land ; i will make him open his two-leav'd granars , pull out his worme-sprowt corne , and lay his foysty victuall forth to the open market . and this done ; i will bring him bound , before a better purveyer . the proud ambicious arrogant princocke , that glories in his out-side , ( and so he may , for it is worth more than his inside ) shall player-like , be stript out of those silken trappings : he plaid a brave mans part on the theatre of this world , but he has his exit , and i am in the tyring-house and will dis-robe him ; he shall know , mundus universus exercet histrionem ; earth is but a stage , the life an enterlude , the people actors ; onely i am left to empty the stage with my epilogue , but none of these for my paines will give mee a plaudite . yet of all these , none to me so profest enemies as these smokers of our age ; they whiffe me out in fume : and spend my best of houres in candle-light ; their wits goe and come by pipe and pipe ; thus am i taken in snuffe by every pesant . alas ( poore aged time ) was thy first race thus addicted ? were those ancient heroes of renowne , which got glory by forraine conquests , for their pipe using a pike , for an herbes vapour , fields terror , thus imployed ? no ; their time was spent ( and gloriously spent ) in their countries renowne ; common-weales successe ; or publike managements of state , not in an airie vapour . these increased in generall respect by particular worth ; they had other imployments than piping ; belonaes march relished better than the juyce of necotiana ; then were the clattering of armes , the ranking of battailes , the ranging of souldiers , and marshalling of fields , of more esteeme than smoake . unworthy successors of so noble and imparalleld predecessors , shall time be spent in nothing , being the precioust of all things , but in smoake and vapour , the lightest and trivialst of all things ? shall your imployments which use to be so serious , be expended on an herbe , of all others , most obnoxious ? how time weepes ▪ see his teares trickling ; his poore decrepit legges declining ; his tongue faltring ( as one ready to leave you ) and then where be your delights ended , how is that interim of your life concluded , when time shall leave you , that so long bare with you ? when your dayes , as they were imployed in smoake , shall end in smoake ? alas ! i doe pitty my childrens security , pitty them and grieve for them ; nec longè a miseria est , qu●…squis miseratur . your misery ( by a transumed nature ) becomes my misery ; and while you lose me in smoaking , i well-nigh lose my selfe in sighing . o niobe , why weptst thou that thou shouldst be so soone deprived of children , since my greatest misery is derived from having children ? thou weptst , not to possesse them , i to enjoy them ; contemning their foster mother that first nurst them . i tell them , my teares are continuate ; my love intimate ; and my end approaching ; yet they answer me with hearts obdurate ; enmitie inveterate ; and ends despairing . i offer my selfe , and they spurne at me ; wooe them with best of times rhetoricke , and they despise me ; and open the treasures of my heart to them , but they reject them and casheere me . and is not this miserable , to contemne him , casheere him , revile and inveigh against him , without whom they cannot live ; without whose breath they cannot grow ; and without whose supportance they cannot stand ? what have they which i give them not , ( or within the course of my houres ) that i minister not ? puritie of aire , to breathe ; variety of sounds , to heare ; fragrancy of savours , to smell ; qualities and differences of taste , to relish ; diversity of corpulent substance , to handle ; and rarities , with dissundred store of varieties , to behold . and doe these bounties deserve no requitall ? doe these gifts merit no recompence ? must these ample and indefinite beauties and bounties receive no thankes ? must this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that gracefull remuneration , established by the persians : that , whosoever should be readier to receive than give , was to be punished with extreme censure , be thus wrapt up in forgetfulnesse ? i have long expected substances , and am i payed with smoake ? a sweet incence ! an excellent satisfaction ! more guerdon doe i receive of my love frō the sleeping dormouse , than the smoaking gallants ; shee sleepes but all winter , but this man i' th' mist smoakes it all the yeare long : hee proportions his nose , like the elephants snout ; and to make himselfe more terrible , like another aetna , steemes vapor and terror out of his nose . sure this is none of my boy ! i sent him not into the world smoaking , but shriking ; and now as soone as he came peeping into the world , to fall a piping ; he doth not that for which he was sent hither . vvell ; if this be the fruit of thy long education , the end of my travaile , and the period of my care , i must seeke out some other children , that will imploy their time better , and make use of my bounties with more circumspection . o lord , that diogenes had come in those dayes with his lanterne and candle at noone day , he should have found many at their candle without lanthorne , but none of those hee sought for , good men . alas ! where may time find those rare phoenixes , those white crowes , blacke swans , those mirrours of mortality ? the grecians axiome was : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; nothing that ever was , ever erred ; but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , now shall be changed into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , for all things now claime privilege in errour ; and yet what availes it thee poore time , to weepe ? thou mayst sooner change thy selfe into marble with niobe , than dissolve the marble hearts of thy children with thy remorsefull teares . vertue feldome mounts , but vice is ever mounting ; passion may shew thy griefe , but the extent of griefe ( much i feare it ) will not minister a remedy . as when annibal , seeing his brothers head thrown into his tents , cryed out : now doe i behold the misery of carthage ! so when i behold that tawny-faced aethiopian stand out pictured with a pipe in ▪ his hand , to entice the poore passenger , may i justly cry out ; now doe i behold the misery of the world ; the corrupter of cities ; the depraver of youth ; the dotage of age ; the dissolution of all ! and this griefe is no lesse than any other to me : when i see pipes made occasions of discourse ; where nothing rellisheth , nothing de lighteth without them : o , how idlenesse hath erected a throne for her to sit in ; and in majestie triumphes over the labours of poore men ! o baine of youth , why darest thou usurp the authoritie of a soveraigne , that 〈◊〉 at best , but a vassall to the divell ; a deluder of novices with smoake and vanity ; a dissolver of states ; a weakener of spirits ; an enfeebler of strength ; an effeminator of youth ; and a besotte●… of age ? why shouldst thou in thy selfe be so imperious , that art to all states so generally pernicious ? shall that issue which i have bred and brought up in more generous discipline , in more heroicke affaires : not in smoake ▪ but in the consideration of themselves ; not in the expence of idle houres , but in the contemplacion of that soveraigne end wherto they must of necessity come ( or be miserably excluded ; ) imploy their time ( which time they borro●… but of me ) in vanity●… leaving their best and soveraign'st delights , to follow their owne phantasticke humours ? have they no other meanes to bestow that little remainder of time which is yet behind , but in those vanities which abridge their time , contract their dayes , and make me miserable in the eternall discomfort of my children ? remaines there nothing now for all my time of labour in nurturing them , who have bin odious to that power from whence i descended ? ungratefull to mee , by whom they were releeved ? and worst to themselves , by whom they have perished ? i say , remaines there nothing for my labour in nurturing them , but teares of continuate affliction ? motives of perpetuate distraction ( and remedilesse ) being hopelesse of their conversion ? i was to them a second nature , by my nurture pamphering them with my delights ; without occasion of surfet ; cherishing them with my essentiall cordials of comfort ; and teaching them mannagements of armes , all oppositions to discomfit ; and yet how soone may valour be turn'd to effeminacy , resolution to cowardise , and discreet government ( in a hopefull infancie ) to a distemporate dyet , by giving the reines of liberty ? but i see the cause ! while they lived under times tuition ; and were observant of his worth ; they answered times hopes , making a vertuous age succeed a vertuous birth : then were they rained and ●…estrained ; but now giving windes to their sayles , they aspire higher , and must taste of an herbe that equals the aspiring of their minds . o , let time move you to a better and maturer aspiring ▪ not ●… smoaky suffrage of popular praise ; not the vaine consorts of house-wasting rake-hels : but to take hold of me , now while you may possesse me . i am wilfull , if you be neglectfull : i have no haire behind , as you see : take me then by the fore-locke , and make use of opportunity . time is a precious jewell that must be sought after , if obtained ; feeke after me then , while i may be obtained . this age ( i know ) hath many inducements to draw you from me , many allurements to seduce you : but shall your father , even the diall of your youth , and the haven of your age , shall ●…e ( i say ) loose that excellence which was created , and at first ordained for him ? must your winter ( which seldome brings forth either flower or fruit ) be reserved for time ; when your spring , summer , and autumne have bin consumed in the losse of time ? when theseus came to the temple of delphos , he offered the first fruits of his haire to apollo ; making the forepart of his head to be shaven , that he might take away all occasion of discomfiture from the enemie ( as homer writes of the aba●…ts . ) offer then your first fruits , your first endevours , and first intentions , to the use and service of time ; that in the surveigh of your readinesse , he may minister to you with all cheerfulnesse . beleeve times words ! it is not the swarty-chopt tobaccodrugge , that will yeeld you content in the expence of your time : you may smoake it long ere you better your owne discourse , or make your accounts even , which time expects at your hands . a whole ounce of tobacco will hardly purchase one dram of wit : repentance is the best fruit you shall reape out of such an unsavory herbe . art thou yet reclaimed , or art thou hardned ? if the one , time shall entertaine thee with his blessing : if the other ; time will bid thee farewell , but farewell thou canst not ; being relinquished , and utterly forsaken by time. i am yet staying heere in the street for thee : answer mee but with hope , that thou wilt come , and thou wilt revive poore time , that droopes with despaire of thy returne . yet , spissum verbum est amanti , veniet : i pray thee foreslow not my hopes , frustrate not my expectance , but satisfie my love ; never did pleasures with all their appearance , so much affect thee , nor any temporary delights so well deserve thee : come then quickly to him that doth both love thee , and hath well deserved thee : odit , nec patitur moras amor : that love which proceeds from the heart , hates delayes with her hart ; but where love is dissembling , there love without offence may be delaying . how long have i observed thee yonder smoaking , and was doubtfull whether thou wert ( as thou seemedst ) a man , or that beast , which the naturall historian talkes off , that sends out nought but fire ? in , i durst not come to thee ; for i doubted , if i had remembred thee of my abuse , i should have beene spurn'd and spurted at for my labour ; thou art too great to be put in mind of thy errours : but the time will come ( et nesci●… citius an facilius ) when thou wilt wish with briny eyes , relenting heart , and all attendants of a passionate and distracted soule , thou hadst received my instructions , attended to my advertisements , and made use of my cautions . i will therefore , with this publicke and irrevocable edict , summon three maine infringers of my will , contemners of my selfe , and corrupters of the age : my summons shall serve for my last warning ; if they returne no more to those stygian-shops ; those cymerian hovels of darkenesse , i will remit their former errours ; if ( in despite of my summons ) they continue in the height of their flaming vanities , their smoaky impostures , time shall whip those three stygmaticall catolounes to death , cutting them downe like mugweedes , with the sythe of fate : those three majesticke tobacco-nosers , captaine whiffe , captaine pipe , and captaine snuffe . and first for captaine whiffe . to captaine whiffe . you captaine , that glory in your art of vanity , making a high road-way 'twixt your mouth and your guttes , ( and with a cunning retrait ) bringing it backe same way it came ; you , that set up bils for your novice to reade ; as thus : whosoever wil be disciplined , or matricula ted in the art , science or mystery of tobacco-whiffing , let him subscribe his name , the place of his being ; and captaine whiff : will be ready there to attend his yong master-ships pleasure , with the profoundst of his skil . o my impudent sharke , art thou fled from thy captaine , & dar'st thou now usurpe the name of valour ? thou : that durst not smell gunpowder art now turn'd tobacco-whiffer ? for thee , if there were no time , yet there would remaine some few minutes reserved , to commend thee to a halter , for thy flight from thy captaine . i my selfe will present thee for altogether ; thou shalt not onely bee hanged ( i would have thee marke me ) before the eye of the world ; but i will have thee begg'd for an anatomie , that thy entrals ▪ ( like tamerlaines blacke bannaret ) may hang for tropheyes in honour of captaine whiffe , and his thrice-puissant , and thrice-renowned profession . having brought thee to be this anatomy , i will leave thee . to captaine pipe . you captaine pipe ( because your name is good ) and many pipes we need in this our flourishing troynovant , for conveyance of that pure element water into our citie . you i say , shall be imployed in conveying of water , ( because you have beene ever used by men which frequented those alleyes ) to those despicable and forlorne creatures , those diseased gally-foists of turneball , picke-hatch , ram-allie , and other suburbane-traders , that in contempt of vertue , make a contract with hell. this ( though it be no worke of charity ) yet it is as good a worke as is expected of thee captaine : thou wert once the gallants pander , beare now the whoores tankard : where i will leave thee . to captaine snuffe . captaine snuffe , it may bee you will take it in snuffe , if time tell you wherein you erre : but best is , as i am indifferent for thy hate , i am secure for thy power : renounce the devill , ( captaine ) be not fired before thy time : be respective ( as thou art a captaine ) of thine honour ; and take heed thou taste not , for thy tobacco , brimstone and sulphur : i would not have thee snuffe at mine instructions ; for i may , and with unamated front must tell thee , that i have contested with a man of as great worth , and of far more grace , it may be . the higher cedar ( if faultie ) deserves the rougher censure . opposition to the malevolent disposition , is my recreation . now it may bee , that in some drunken passion thou wilt sweare to stab me , what wilt thou gaine by it ? where wilt thou bee , when time has no being ? let not my precepts move thine indignation , but thy conversion : for thy threats , time never feared them ( though spoken by valour ) much lesse by an indiscreet asse , that is carried away with choler . now for my pipe-invective ; if it drive thee into a fume , from a fume to a flame , my heart is hoofed ; may thy gall with fume bee seared , thy guts with the flame be scorched , my fire-worke will bee secured , though with paper-squibs onely sconced . if time should pray for thee , i thinke thou wouldst not thanke mee ; yet i will offer a few orisons up for thee , for i doubt thou canst offer none for thy selfe . leave me that s●…uffing , and fall to sighing ; thou art neare thy grave , and then thou shalt bee smoakt for thy vaine time ▪ receive my teares , as testimonies of my love ( for ill is that nature that sends them forth in hate : ) meane time , these succinct cautions i dedicate , as remembrances to all the world ; that when time shal surcease to bee , and shall leave them , time-lesse eternitie may afterwards crowne them . times remembrances to the world . live in the world , as if thou meantst to leave it , being indifferent of loving it , and resolved to despise it . in honour , seeke it not ; for seldome is honour sought by deserts : if shee may by direct courses bee purchased , & without appearance of thine owne seeking , receive her : gold should bee taken , if offered . in riches , bee not so prodigall , as thine owne expence may breed want ; or so miserable , as thou canst not use thine owne . in life , prepare for death : in time , for eternitie of time ; that when thy being is expired here , thou mayest live ever elsewhere . in eminent places , let not the object of earth darken thine eye for heaven : for time had rather bee a poore sojournour twixt earth and heaven , than by being great on earth , lose my portion of greatnesse in heaven . in thy rising , looke to the staires of thine ascending : if the foundation be desert , thou mayest ( perhaps ) continue longer ; but if desertlesse high , i feare ph●…tons pride will bee thy censure . set an houre-glasse ever beside thee , and weepe at everie drop of sand that fals ; for everie drop of sand abridges of the number of thy dayes : wish not thine houre-glasse soone spent , unlesse thy fervencie in desire of dissolution , take thee from the thought of mortalitie , to the consideration of glorie . happily are thy desires extended , if thus disposed ; and time , which in thy happy expence of time did love thee , shall in thy possession of eternitie , leave thee . nepenthiaci naenia : or , musaeus elegie . ista liquescens pluvia , lavet peccati diluvia . dre●…ch thy drie soule in rivolets of teares ; em●…athe thy panting heart in flouds of griefe ; enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares ; enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe : water thy bed with pe●…etentiall showers , and for wilde weeds bring forth delicious flowers . " for never did the sun yet shine upon " that wretch , who sinned more than thou hast done . finis . in a little tract , entitled tobacco : published by especiall direction of the author upon his death-bed , dedicated to humphrey king , one well experienced in the use , benefit , and practice of that herbe , and printed for will. barlow ( with tobacco armes ) then keeping shop in gracious street : wee have collected these observations . the divers●…ie of names given to this herbe . this herbe with the french hath beene most known by the name of nicotiana , from mounsieur nicot a frenchman , embassadour to the king of portugall , who sent this herbe first into france . others have called it , queene mothers herbe ; for that when mounsieur nic●…t had sent it , commended to her , she first planted it . others there want not , which call it petum masculine , though far different in qualitie and effect , from that the portugals and spanyards have called petum feminine . * tobacco first sent from florida to portugall , by the testimony of mounsicur nicot , a serious and exact searcher of ancient records . the authors which have most amply writ of it . two french-men . charles stephen , iohn liebault , aegidius eurartus , and monardes , a spanyard . the effects or operations of it . mounsieur nico●… finding sundry soveraigne qualities in it , amongst other cures applide it to a noli me tangere , and cur'd it . his patient was countesse of ruffe , having her face perished with a wart . the like experiments were done by iarnick●… governour of rochell ; reporting at a solemne feast , how by distilling this tobacco , mixt with the juyce of another little herbe , casually found in the wood , he had cured one extremely pained with the asthma . it hath healed these diseases ; the wolfe , canker , kings evill , all old sores , wounds , tetters , broad biles , pricking of the fish called vives ( the nature of whose touch is to procure infinite bleeding , even to death : ) the gout being rubbed in the infected place with oyle-olive , and afterwards by applying warme leaves of tobacco , hath beene much allayed . it hath cleared the sight , and cured one long languishing in a consumption , which i could instance in a lady of good account , at this day living . aegidius eurartus ▪ in his discourse de herba panac●…a , writeth , how a certaine woman had given her cat a verie strong poyson ; when the poore cat was in that taking , that she could not stand with dizinesse , and strived to voyd forth the poyson in vaine ; the woman remembring her selfe , found meanes to open her jawes , and making a little ball of bruized tobacco , mingled with butter , to make it goe downe the better , thrust it into her mouth , and so swallowing it downe , within a short time shee cast up all the poyson , and so was saved . it will cure all pimples , carbuncles , and other red excrements , called alebuttons . the spanyards report , that the indians , after their labour and travell , drinke unmeasurably tobacco ; which not onely refresheth them , and takes away their wearinesse , but makes them apt and prompt to businesse . the description of it . this herbe in forme much resembleth consond●… . the figure or proportion of it , you shall finde drawne in the same tract . the maine stalke of tobacco groweth upright , and big in proportion , his leaves are velveted , and are in growth bigger and larger at the stalke than towards the end of the leafe ; resembling the plaine forme , figure , or feature of any other leafe not ragged nor indented , save that you shall have some leaves broader and larger than both your hands , and in length ▪ as much as three hands breadth . the flower of the tobacco is much like the flower of niel ; sometimes yellow , and sometimes of a carnation colour , and sometimes in forme like a bell. and when it casteth the flower , it leaves the former proportion , & taketh the semblance of an apple ; in which you may find the seeds inclosed very small , appearing not much unlike to iusquiasme seeds , which are yellowish : but when they grow toward their full ripenesse , then they appeare more near to a blacke . the convenientst season for sowing it . for the time of sowing it in england ; i agree rather with monardes than these two , who say it is best sowing it in the midst of aprill ; but i would rather hold it better to sow it in march , for the same occasion that monardes writeth : howbeit , stephen and liebault write , that the spaniards and indians sow it after harvest . the convenientst season for gathring it . leo suavius wils that we should gather the leaves in the moneth of iuly ; and then bruise and distill them in a double limbecke , with two emissories or spouts of glasse , and keepe this a yeere : for ( saith he ) this received to the quantity of an ounce , for the increasing of health in a sicke or waterish stomacke , is most effectuall . the convenientst soyle for increase of it . the best place wherein it will most prosper , and be naturally planted in our countries , is , where the sunne shineth most ; and if it be possible , against some wall , which may defend it from the north-wind , which is an infinite enemy to this herbe ; being so tender in stalke , nature and quality , as it may endure no distemper , nor extremity . it is hot and dry in the second degree ; and consequently of a purging quality ; but fit for persons of all degrees , upon necessity . finis . times sonnet . sweet youth , smoake not thy time , too precious to abuse ; th' ast fitter feats to choose : what may redeeme that prime , thy smoaking age doth loose ? good oldman , eye thy glasse , see , how those sands doe fall ! none can agraine recall : old houres doe quickly passe , shall smoake consume them all ? loves lady , whom sunne , weather , yea , the least airy touch , ( complexion it is such ) may taint ; cinge not your feather , tobacco may doe much . shunne smoake , east , vvest , north , south , loves lady , old man , youth . chavcers incensed ghost . from the frequented path where mortals tread , old-aged chavcer having long retir'd , now to revisit earth at last desir'd , hath from the dead rais'd his impalled head , of purpose to converse with humane seed , and taxe them too , for bringing him o' th stage in writing that he knew not in his age . las ; is it fit the stories of that book , couch'd and compil'd in such a various forme ; which art and nature joyntly did adorne , on whose quaint tales succeeding ages look , should now lie stifled in the steems of smoak , as if no poets genius could be ripe without the influence of pot and pipe ? no , no , yee english moo●…s , my muse was fed with purer substance than your indian weede ; my breathing nosethrils were from vapors freede , with nectar and ambrosia nourished , while hospitality so flourished in great mens kitchins : where i now suppose , lesse smoake comes from their chimneyes than their nos●… . but i heare some prepar'd to question mee , the reason why i am so freely bent in such sad straines to publish my complaint ; or what strict mamothrept that man should bee , who h 'as done ch●…ucer such an injurie ; whose tongue , though weake , yet is his heart as strong , to call them to account that did him wrong . i 'le tell it yee , and must expect redresse ; would any of you hold it not a blot to father such a brat hee never got ? or would he not ingenuously confesse , hee 'd rather wish himselfe quite issuelesse ? conceive this well ; for if it be a crime , as sure it is , such is the case of mine . downe by a secret vault as i descended , pent in with darknesse save some little ray , which by a private cranie made his way , by helpe whereof i saw what me offended , yet found no meanes to have the fault amended . fixt to a post , ( such was poore chaucers lot ) i found my name to that i never wrot . and what might be the subject ? no relation sad , solid , serious , morall , or divine , which sorted with the humours of my time , but a late negro's introduced fashion , who brought his drugs here to corrupt our nation . 'gainst which , because it 's used in excesse , my muse must mount , that she may it suppresse . now some may well object , as many will , this taske addes rather glory to my name , than any way seemes to impaire the same ; but i say no ; chaucer would thinke it ill to plant tobacco on parnassus hill ; sacred the synod of the muses bee , nor can such w●…eds spring from apollo's tree . besides , what danger might prescription bring ! for had the use of it been knowne to me , it might have pleaded well antiquitie ; but th' poets of my time knew no such thing , how could they then of such a subject sing ? no ; th'age we liv'd was form'd of milder stuffe , then to take ought , like male contents , in snuffe . pure are the crystall streames of hippocrene ; choice the dimensions which her bards expresse ; cleare is their heart as th' are which they professe ; how should they relish then ought that 's uncleane , or waste their oyle about a smoaky dreame ? farre bee 't minerva should consume her taper in giving life or lustre to a vapor . the * tales i told , if morally applide , how light soe're , or wanton to the show , yet they in very deed were nothing so ; for were the marke they aym'd at but descride , even in these dayes they would be verifide ; and like sybillas oracles esteem'd , worth worlds of wealth , how light soe're they seem'd ▪ witnesse my miller , and my carpenter , the amorous stories of my wife of bath , which such variety of humours hath ; my priour , manciple , and almoner , my subtile sumner , and the messenger ; all which , though moulded in another age , have rais'd new subjects both for presse and stage . yet note these times disrelishing my tongue , whose idioms-distaste by nicer men hath made me mince it like a citizen ! which chaucer holds a manifest wrong , to force him leave what he had us'd so long : yea , he dislikes this polishing of art , which may refine the core , but spoiles the heart . but yet in serious sadnesse i impute this to no fate or destiny of mine , but to the barraine brain-wormes of this time ; whose muse lesse pregnant , present or acute , affording nought that with the age may sute , like to the truant bee , or lazie drone , robb●… other bee-hives of their hony-combe . and which is worse , this worke they make their owne , which they have pruned , purged and refin'd , and aptly form'd it to the authors mind ; when i 'm assured , if the truth were knowne , they reape the crop which was by others sowne . yea , these usurpers to that passe are brought , they 'l foyst in that wee neither said nor thought . this , this it was incens'd old ●…haucers ghost , and caus'd him vent his passion in this sort , and for a while to leave th' ▪ elysian court , where honest authors are esteemed most ; but such as on the deadmans labours boast excluded are , enjoyn'd by fate to won vpon the scorching banks of phlegeton . yee then , whose measures merit well the name and title yee retaine , poets , i meane , bedew'd with influence from hippocrene , as yee professants seeme , so be the same , and with your owne pennes eternize your fame ; shun these pipe-pageants ; for there seldome come tobacco-factors to elysium . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a16679-e2940 the apothecaries speech . chap ▪ 3. chap. 4. vid plin ▪ in nat. hist. aelian . & ibid. nihil quod natum est , errat . agn●…sco ( inquit ) 〈◊〉 ca●…thaginis . thus still ( mee thinks ) i heare poore time complaine , and chide her brats , for being so prophane . tobacco . * the soveraigne qualitie of this herbe , may be gathered from the verie radicall derivative of it : drawne from the observance of a most judicious and accomplisht knight , one , whose personall worth gives an ●…minent addition to his noble birth : for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the hebrew signifies ●…onum , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in greek , remedium ; implying , that it is a good remedie against any maladie . thus have i prov'd tobacco good or ill ; good , if rare taken ; bad , if taken still . notes for div a16679-e8130 * whose pleasing comments are shortly to bee published . one come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by richard garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by mr. r. baxter, and mr. william jenkins. garbutt, richard. 1675 approx. 233 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 102 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-05 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a42198 wing g208 estc r9286 12418211 ocm 12418211 61780 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a42198) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 61780) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 939:3) one come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by richard garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by mr. r. baxter, and mr. william jenkins. garbutt, richard. baxter, richard, 1615-1691. jenkyn, william, 1613-1685. [48], 154, [1] p. printed for francis smith ..., london : [1675?] reproduction of original in cambridge university library. 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng sin -early works to 1800. drinking of alcoholic beverages -great britain -controversial literature. 2003-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2003-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion one come from the dead , to awaken drunkards and whoremongers . being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners ; in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils . together with proper and sovereign remedies . by richard garbut , b. d. who being dead , yet speaketh . with epistles to the reader , by mr. r. baxter , and mr. william jenkins . eph. 5. 6. because of these things cometh the wrath of god. london , printed for francis smith , at the elephant and castle near the royal exchange in cornhill . price bound 1 s. imprimatur , c. smith . to the truly honourable , and good lady , the lady barwick , of toulston in york-shire . good madam , though your many former favours merit an acknowledgment from me beyond what i am capable any way to express ; and though nothing more usual than to take the opportunity of dedications , to l●…nch out into obsequious encomiums , and sometimes deserved praises of obliging great persons , yet without the consideration of your gre●…t averseness to any thing that looks like ●…ttery ( if but the modest and just mention os real worth , ) i had this onely design and ●…ope , in ●…utting this treatise into your wardship and ●…atronage ( the author being long since dead ) that your eminency in degree , together with your great eminency in piety and known enmity to vice , together with your true countenancing os vertues , and exemplary strictness , in family order and discipline might encourage many to the reading of this most useful and seasonable treatise ; and so through the grace of god may prove of great advantage to them , who otherwise would scarce give a look through the title-page : if i am blame-worthy in thus doing , it can be no reslection upon your honour , since i have done it without consulting you , or asking your consent . i shall add no more but the recognition of my inward assectiona●…e esteem of your ladyship , and fervent prayers for a blessing from the great god and our saviour , upon your person and right honourable off-spring , that you may grow in all graces , together with that approved faithsulness to god and man which runs in your veins ; and is the genius of the truly good family , ( the ancient family of the s●…ricklands , of boynton-house , where the sob●…r and learned sir thomas strickland now resi●…eth , nephew to your ladyship , and eldest son to that worthy patriot sir william strickland , whose well known piety and prudence will eternize his memory ; ) i subscribe my self ( good madam ) your honours truly devoted servant in the lord jesus , thomas hardcastle . a prefatory epistle to the reader , especially to the inhabitants of the town of leeds , in yorkshire , with some few remarques of the authors life . beloved friends and countrymen , these sermons were preached to your fathers , and the printing of them may prove good preventing physick to your children ; the wisdom of god by solomon , hath thought it meet to spend some scriptures in precautions , and particular descriptions of pit-falls , that they may be the better avoid●…d , prov. 22. ●…4 . & 23. 27. prov. 20. ●… . & 23. 21. of this nature are th●… fol●…owing treatises , which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ublished many ●…ars ago , ●…d ●…or that end the manuscrip●… ( being left in the ●…ands of ●…r . mans●…ield h●…sle aster mr. 〈◊〉 death ) were delivered to * mr. na. jackson and my self : after mr. j●…ckson's death the thing lay buried , and almost qui●…e forgotten , till lately the lord brought it fresh upon my spirit , that something was to be done by me in order to the fulfilling the will of the dead , that the desires and intentions of the persons above-mentioned might be answered ; besides , i was the more willingly drawn to it upon this ground , that i have been told by some that lived in those days , that such a warning and testimony as this is as necessary , and may be as prositable now as it was then ; perhaps , also one rising from the dead may strike some terror into a sensual generation , and the fingers of a mans hand writing , dan. 5 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6. when it comes to be seen and read , may cause more change of countenances , and procure more troubled thoughts than any the loudest reproofs of the tongue preaching . this for the publication : as for the author , i never knew him , i was not come into the world when he went out of it ; onely this true and brief account of some passages of his life , noted by his intimate friends and observers , which because the genius of the present age renders emphatically seasonable , i shall communicate . that during his abode in sidney-colledge he approved himself an exemplary student , a great proficient , a ●…areful tutor , and for conversation unblameable ; so●… hi●… eminent worth he was so valued by dr. ward , the master of that colledge , that he singled him out to go with him when he went to the synod of dort ; after his return thence , when the colledge-statutes so required , he commenced batchelor in divinity , and in the year 1624. he made solemn vows in writing ( found since his death , in his study ) to this effect ; never to take upon him any higher degree than what he already had , to yield up his fellowship , and never to have any commodity of it after december the same year ; to leave the colledge and university by such a time , never to give money directly or indirectly for any benefice , never to have two benefices at once , never to be properly a non-resident , that is ( as his words were ) to absent himself from his proper cure , and live ordi●…arily else where upon pleasure sor inter●…st , ambition , or 〈◊〉 like . according to his vow he 〈◊〉 up his fellowship , and left 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , being not then pro●… 〈◊〉 ●…y place of employment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yield him a livelihood : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was first bound to go 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 country , york-shire , and hav●…ng been tutor to a grand-child of tobit matthews , then arch-bishop of york , he found entertainment with him , till he was recommended by him as an assistant to mr. alex. cook , vicar of leeds , who was grown aged , and not able 〈◊〉 p●…each ●…wice a day ; mr. cook having made tryal of mr. garbutt's abilities , found him every way to his liking , and told him , if he would be content with fifty pounds per annu●… , he might come to his assistance ; to whom mr. garbutt replyed , it is ●…nough : he came to leeds about the beginning of 1625. where till near the time of his marriage he was entertained by mr. john harrison , a person very rich in good works . the matter of his preaching ( as also of his conversation ) was very pious and strict . the manner of his preaching at his first coming was too academical for the community of his auditors , whereupon divers of them requested him to preach in the method they had been used to , and conceived might be most useful ; namely , by doctrine , reason , and use ; to which he readily condescended , as aiming at their profiting more than his own praise : he was observed to be very temperate in his diet , and sparing in his recreation ; he was a hard student , early and late at it , where the bible was the centre of his library , out of which his sermons were well studied , and penn'd almost verbatim before he offered them in the pulpit . at one time , upon an apprehension that his ministry was slighted , and likewise unsuccessful , and that he did no good among them , he resolved to leave them , and go preach else-where ; upon which some of the meaner and poorer sort came to him , and one of them spoke these words to him : if you will indeed go , i will give you one word , which is this ; if you have been an instrument to begin any good work of grace in the heart of any one of the congregation , and that one soul miscarry through your departure , the blood of that soul god will require at your hands , i charge you therefore not to go : whereupon he resolved to stay till his dying day , and after this the fruit of his ministry appeared to him more and more . the year before his death he said to some that he doubted his ministry had not that effect he would have it , and he feared the cause was because some paid towards his maintenance by way of collection for him ; i am resolved therefore i will not have a penny collected for me , but will depend upon god , for i know that thos●… that get good by my pains will not see me want nec●…ssaries ; and for the rest that get no good , i will have none of their mon●…es : for the manner of his delivery , he was painful in it , his matter came from him with much gravity , earnestness , seriousness , and weigh●…iness of spirit ( as some yet alive can witness , who retain the savour of his good doctrine ) for with the vehemency of s●…tting on his matter , he at length broke a vein within his breast , and spitted blood in such abundance , th●…t it brought him to a hasty consumption ; he being in this condition , was advis●…d by his physitians not to come into the pulpit any more , yet again venturing ( remembring that a minister should die preaching ) it set him on fresh a bleeding , wh●…reof he soon after died , in the year 1630. a little before his death he did in the pr●…nce of divers with thankfulness to god , acknowledge the sweet refreshment which he received from gods bearing witness to his industry , and to his fidelity , in that to the best of his knowledge and judgment he had never delivered any thing but the councel of god. the reader in these sermons will meet with some uncouth expressions and words , which he is desired to ascribe to the dialect of his countrey , where they have their proper use and full significancy . and now , beloved friends , having this fair opportunity , give me leave in pure love and faithfulness to you , to recommend a few plain , but weighty and necessary things to your serious consid●…tion and practice . first , look upon the saving knowledge of a cruci●…ied christ to be the best , the most needful , and most excellent knowledge ; study to believe in him , to be found in him , let him be your propitiation and advocate , learn what union with him , engrafting into him , growing up in him , and living upon him , mean. secondly , maintain a conversation sutable to the gospel , make it appear that the word is your rule , the spirit your leading-principle , that grace commands you , that you live under the power of things future and invisible ; and that you are not conformed to the world , nor led by its customs , nor captivated with present things , nor guided by the stirrings and motions of prevailing and inordinate desires . thirdly , be f●…ithful to your own consciences , the most upright christian is he who walks up most to his light , and is most tender of oss●…nding here ; because some have set them in the place of christ , others have run into an extr●…am of not allowing them their ●…eputy-ship and vice-gerency , not su●…ring them to be a rule ruled . the debauchery of some hath giv●…n too much occasion to the delu●…on of o●…hers ; the best way to confute an error , is not to run into the contrar●… extream , but to make good all the good ground that li●…●…ar it as much as may be . oh , 〈◊〉 very observant of , and 〈◊〉 to ●…our scripturally enlightned cons●…iences , every sin against the light of conscience wounds terribly ; sew erre for want of light , all are guilty more or less of o●…fending against light. fourthly , be 〈◊〉 to one a●…other●… consciences ; they are the lords peculiar , the most excellent and tender part of men , and most severely guarded by the lord , by his precepts , promises , threatnings , and providences , from all manner of persecution , imposition , judging , despising , and all injurious in●…ursions whatsoever . fifthly , recoll●…ct the sabbaths and serm●…ns you have enjoyed ; it 's good to bring out of your treasuri●…s things ●…w and old , a word ●…own 〈◊〉 or thirty years ago may b●…ing ●…orth fruit now ; you have had faithful and painful * mi●… , some of which have spent moneths in premonitions about * perillous tim●…s , do not think that any thing s●…ould be forgotten , which 〈◊〉 of ●…ecessity be ac●…●…or . sixthly , walk expediently , 1 cor. 10. 23. many things may be lawful which gospel-expediency allows not : he that will go as far as he may , will sometimes go further than he should ; an upright heart still sets his watch upon his own ground of lawfuls , and not on the disputable borders of unlawfuls . the gospel is a kind of chancery to the summum jus of the law , as in respect of the life and righteousness it discovers : so , in regard of the laws it doth declare and enjoyn . there are three special rules of gospel-chancery and expediency that i would intreat your careful keeping of . ( 1. ) do all to the glory of god , 1 cor. 10. 31. will the lord get honour by this action ? will his name and religion be better thought of ? ( 2. ) do all to edisic●…ion , rom. 14. 19. will this be a stumbling-block and an o●…fence to others , or does it tend to edi●…ie , confirm and build up others ? will this be a conviction or an hardning to the enemy ? will this draw and sweeten the spiri●…s of men to religion , or comfort them in it ? ( 3. ) do as you would be done by : see m●…t . 7. 12. it seems this is the law and the prophets , and our saviours command makes it gospel too ; there is more religion in gospel-morals than most professors are aware of . seventhly , be very careful about your spe●…ch and words ; let them be few , true , savoury , charitable , and seasonable : i think the third of james hath much gospel in it , and i know not how to get over that james 1. 26. if any man among you seem to be religious , and bridleth not his tongue , but deceiveth his own heart , this mans religion i●… vain ; better any thing we meddle with prove vain than our religion ; there are many in hell that are tormented because of their tongues : consult scripture-rules and reproofs about the tongue , which are many , and know , that specious professors may be damned for errors and defects herein ; how many have cause to mourn over the liberty and lashes of that unruly member ! eightly , love not the world ; i have sometimes looked upon some texts with amazement : how many die of receiving their consolation ! what pity is it that any that are for purity of worship should go to hell for covetousness , which is idolatry ! how many are overgrown with this disease and do not know it ? this so deep and dangerous an evil , so hard to discover , that hath such plausible pr●…tences and covers , and can carry it with so much respect to , and allowance of every thing that belongs to the form of godliness ; let it be yo●…r constant prayer , from inordinate d●…sires aft●…r , secret delight , and conceited con●…idence in any of the things of this world , good lord deliver us . ninthly , be even and propor●…ionable christians , have respect to all the parts of godliness , be good at all times , and in all places , do not live as if christ and religion were divided , and the weightier and lesser matters of the law fallen out ; god has joyned all the parts of duty together , and made them subservient each to other : let your heart bear proportion to your profession , to your present outward conditions , and to your future and glorious expectations , titus 2. 13. 1 cor. 15. 19. do not think that you can do enough in religion , so as you need not do more ; the reality of grace cannot better be proved , than by its growth , he that thinks he cannot be better , was never truly good ; not to go forward is to go backward ; let your returns bear some proportion to your receivings , and manifold means of being made better ; every sermon mercy and correction call loudly upon you for an increase in true sanctification and full conformity to gods will to believe , ●…e , and walk as he would have you . tenthly , be stedfast and unmovable in your christian 〈◊〉 , 1 cor. 15. 58. ●…eb . 10. 38. be not you of them that draw back unto perdition ; i often think of that word , will ye also go away ? take heed of that s●…ar of man that brings a snare ; a back ▪ sliding 〈◊〉 is a monster in religion ; 〈◊〉 gospel never yields so much swe●…ness as when it is 〈◊〉 for , pr●…pare for speedy and sharp tryals ; let not carnal and slavish fear o●… outward losses make you lose all you have done in the service of god : your wisdom will be manifested , and your salvation met with by your enduring to the end , gal. 1. mat. 10. 22. and now , dearly beloved , if you are pleased to accept these few hints with the same candor and affection they are offered to you , i hope there may be a mutual cause of blessing the lord , and i shall reap the benesit of your prayers , which are the chief things i aim at in this under●…aking ; i subscribe my self a true well-willer to , and sincere endeavourer of the real welfare of you all , t. h. the epistle to the reader . reader , i judge these sermons worthy to be made publick . 1. because ●…hey speak against sins which we can hardly say too much against . as they are exceeding pernitious , so the inclination to them is born so commonly in humane nature , that as they have been the sins of former ages , so they are like to continue to the end . were sin but in mens opinions , reason might change them ; but when it is rooted in sensitive inclination , the temptation is strong , and almost constant , and reason it self is born down by the violence of appeti●…e and lust. most councils called general , have been occasioned by some heresies , but augustine would have had one called for the suppression of drunkenness : and though heresies be numbred with the fruits of the flesh , bestiality kills its ten thousands for the thousands that meer 〈◊〉 kills . though the papal cler●…y , who prefer carnal interest before hon●…sty , can b●…r with ●…en drunkards or fornicators easilier than with one that is but publickly named a heretick or a schismatick , for being against ●…heir schism , pride , and tyranny ; yet alas , it is sensuality , sensuality , that in all ages finds the greatest work for the admonitions , and the tears of faithful teachers ; and which carrieth away the a●…ultitude to perdition , and often is the spring of real heresie it self , while it must have a palliate of a carnal kind of religion to keep conscience from tormenting them before the time. even the children of pious ●…rents are born with a flesh that loveth pleasant meats and drinks , and idleness , and sports , and fil●… lusts : and if wise and godly education , and gods powerful grace do not mortisie these fleshly desires , and bring the appetite under the true government of god and conscience , beasts will spring out of the families of lords , and knights , and gentlemen ; yea , and of the most religious ●…arents and ministers themselves . the great warfare in the world , which heaven or hell must be the end of , is between the flesh and the spirit . and it is to please some beastly lusts , and that flesh which must shortly turn to ugly loathsome rottenness , and then to dust , that most sinners sell ( though they are loath to believe it ) their god , their redeemer , their souls , and their everlasting hopes . o mad and miserable bargain ! the re-view of which must be their endless torment . o that i had ●…ound no more resistance of my ministry by drunkenness , gluttony , lust●…ulness ▪ and other fleshly pleasures , and the love of pride , and plenty to maintain them , than i have found from simple here●…e ! i take it for granted , that treatises of this nature will not be like some books which i have written against some ●…alse opinions , which are up this year and down the next , and then the books are like almanacks out of date ; but they are like physick books , written for the cure of such diseases as will trouble and kill men to the end of the world , and therefore never grow out of usefulness . 2. and i would i had not another motive , viz. that the age and air that we live in , doth cry loud for such remedies . men use to write most of such diseases as the country and mens present danger maketh them most liable to ; as of the pes●…ilence and raging plagues , of the s●…urvy or fever in countries most infested with them , and of the ven●…real po●… a●…ng the worse than brutish letch●…rs : and by the same reason an admonition against drunkenness and w●…redom is seasonable , when mens increased abominable wickedness doth make it more than ordinarily necessary . and the rather , because as this learned author truly tells us , these sins do engage men in an enmity to the contrary truths and practices , and consequently to the preachers and practicers of piety , temperance , and sobriety ; and they that are first made so mad as to sell their own souls for an unlawful cup or lust , are not like to be very tender of the souls , or lives , or estates ▪ or names of other men. and a wicked life , as it cometh from a blinded judgment , doth blind it more , and betray more to the sottishest delusions ; and from beastiality to enmity or malignity is the ordinary stage . though yet it must be confest with shame and sorrow , that a pharisaic●…l , papal , worldly clergy , are usually made crueller persecutors by their carnal interest and superstitious zeal , than atheists or insidels do usually prove , exc●…pt when instigated by them . 3. and i must add , that since i read an excellent small treatise of this authors , on christ's resurrection , i the more value any thing that is his . and though these sermons are fitted to the vulgar , and have many homely phrases proper to those countries where he lived , yet are th●…y not the words of an unskilful weakness , by one that knew not how to speak exactly ( such as now the world is much troubled with ; ) but like some of dr. harris ( as his drunkards cup , &c. ) mr. william fenner's , and some others , who purposely laid by the use of their great learning , and forbore that accurateness of style , which is sutable to that matter , but not to the readers or auditors , and denyed themselves in preferring a popular style when the peoples good required it . for as we say , that is good which doth good : and augustine tells his readers , that he taketh that as not yet spoken , which is not understood . that sober readers may lend this book to drunkards and fornicators , and perswade them to read it , or read it to them , who else would take no notice of it , is the end of this recommendation , by a servant of christ for mens repentance and salvation , ri. baxter . london , august 23. 1675. to the reader . as a pernicious wickedness when it becomes audacious , justly provokes holy zeal to oppose it , so that zealous opposition as duly deserves our highest commendations to encourage and increase it . the edge of these following discourses tends to cut down those two spreading boughs of sensuality , namely , drunkenness and adultery , that so hurt●…ully both drop upon the strength , and darken the glory of this english nation . the penurious praises therefore of a single epistle reflect too sl●…nder a respect upon this usefu●… e●…deavour , for which the great●…st grat●…tude and acknowledgments of all that love either co●…cience or countrey , are no more than sufficient . nor is it easie to determine whether the subjects of these ensuing discourses are more seasonable and useful , or the manner of handling them by the reverend author be more accurate and convincing . some few years since there was publish'd an excellent treatise , written by this author , to demonstrate the resurrection of christ ; the great acceptance which that treatise , tending to the advancement of christ , found among the learned , makes me confident , that this discourse , which tends to the depression of sin , will be as grateful as the former , to all intelligent and pious perusers . but instead of any further commendation of this authors worth and abilities , shewn in this excellent performance , i shall onely commend this his holy design , by joyning with him in opposing those sensual and c●…nal wickednesses , against which he so seasonably sets himself in these ensuing treatises . and i shall propound these two following directions for helping us to res●…t and subdue ●…leshly wickednesses . the first whereof is , the duty of consideration . the second is , the duty of carriage . for the first , the duty of consideration . 1. consider carnal ●…usts as deceitful , eph. 4. 22. when they promise pleasure , they perform nothi●… less . they betray when they ●…iss . they c●…tice ●…y baiting over a catching killing hook . if it be hard to forbear the bait , 't is m●…ch harder to endure the hook. can a short imaginary delight countervail for the wounds o●… body , estate , name , conscience , and the 〈◊〉 soul. 't is good to consider the 〈◊〉 sens●…al pleasures in their bitter farewel ; and to b●…hold their back side and departures , as well as their painted face , and deccit●…ul approaches . in a scripture glass they will appear to be but poysoned delights ; i●… their trappings be turned up , they onely discover desormity . their pleasure , which is onely in their seeds-time , produceth a crop of pain to an hundred-fold increase . they ●…nter with a pleasant perfume , but go out in a disturbing , destructive stink . 2. consider them as most uningenuous to divine grace and goodness . grace is the great inducement which god useth to draw us to deny worldly lusts , titus 2. 14. the grace of god ( saith the apostle ) teacheth us to deny them , even that grace which brings salvation . a grace that denies us nothing but what would damn us . it gr●…nts us the pacifying blood of christ , the ravishing joys of heaven ; yea , all the delights of this life , so far as they hinder not from that which is infinitely better . what greater un-ingenuousness than to despise a paradice of all delights , for one forbidden apple ? to contemn everlasting joy and sweetness ●…or a meer now , a moment of painted pleasure ? to forget that grace , which onely requires the lives of those lusts , that ( if spared ) will damn and undo us ; when justice might have required ev●…n our own lives as ●… due and deserved homage ? 3. sensual lusts , though carnal , are yet spiritual soul enemies , 1 pet. 3. 11. warring against the soul ; they dead , dull , damp us in holy duties ; they over ▪ charge the soul , weigh it down , and make it heavy , luke 21. 34. in spiritual perform●…nces , service to the body is the greatest disservice to the soul. the body bei●…g much attended , the soul is often as much neglected . how unfit is a full belly ●…or praying , preaching , hearing . 't is our duty indeed to eat and drink ( as isaac did ) to be fitted for prophecy and holy ▪ duties , gen. 27. 3 , 4. but the contrary is frequently seen : fasting is the usual means to dis-entangle the wings of the soul from sensual impediments . lead tied to the birds leggs hinders it from ●…lying upwards ; sensi●…ive enjoyments damp our endeavours for heaven . 4. sensual lusts are tyrannical and domine●…ring . lusts are made the stronger by seeding and gratisying them . the more you obey these tyrants , the more authority do they claim : we do but add oyl to the flames . in being drunk with wine there 's excess , eph. 5. 18. lusts always cry , give , give . if a strange dog be fed he 'le come again , if beat away he re●…rains . i●… lusts be cher●…sh'd , they 'l be bold and return with increase . 5. sensual lusts are perishing and corruptible . all the pleasures of sin and sins are but for a season . meats for the belly , and the belly for meats are both to be destroyed , 1 cor. 6. 13. all sensual objects perish in the using , col. 2. 22. the world passeth away , and the lusts thereof , 1 john 2. 17. their pleas●…re slies away , when the pain and sting continues . 6. sensual lu●…ts are de●…iling and corrupt , eph. 4. 22. they defile the body with noysome diseases ; the swines mud and the drunkards vomit are both unclean . the soul of a glutton or drunk●…rd is as a taper in a greasie lanthorn . these lusts make the soul dirty and unclean , and insect it with an impure nastiness : as the covetous wallows in the dust , so the voluptuous in a sink or slough . 7. sensual lusts are debasing . the sp●…nding of our time in filling and emptying the belly , is as base an employment as to fill and empty a jakes . he serves but a dung-hill-god , who serves his belly , and makes a god of it . it degrades a man from angelical to swinish : the mortifying of sensual lusts is our great honour ; it much more honours us not to lust for , than to have many comforts . the highest of earthly potentates is not so high in being absolute from men , as is a christian in being absolute from things : he is angelus in carne ( as it were ) an angel incarnate , who in the midst of earthly com●…orts , living above those dung-hill-delights , lives on god. 8. sensual lusts pursued , discover that sensual comforts are our portion . 't is poor pay when god gives it us in outward pleasures . that which is our pleasure is our portion . present pay in pleasures for a season is miserable and penurious ; when we are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with them , but se●…k bett●…r , 't is a sig●… god puts us not ●…f w●…th them , god ne●…er giving a princ●…ple of in●…lination to the b●…t enjoyme●…s to disappoint , but to s●…tisfie it . 9. consider sensual lusts hinder from drawing others to heaven and heavenly enjoyments . the 〈◊〉 will never make ano●…her heavenly : we on●…ly bring others to look after what we our selves regard : paul had never drawn so many to christ & heaven , had he not been above the world , had he not been dead to the world , he had not been so lively in the pulpit , and done so much good to souls . had he been lively in the world he would have been but a dead preacher , and very insuccessful . he will most benefit the world , who lets it see he can despise what it admires . 10. sensual lusts discover an unchanged heart . they are most opposite to godliness . grace puts us upon lusting against the flesh. religion ties the heart to god. if we love the world , the love of the father is not in us , 1 john 2. 15. the loving o●… god and pleasures are inconsi●…tent . sensuality opposeth the common nature 〈◊〉 godliness , and not one grace alone , but all graces . the common nature of religion is to be divine . and heavenly spiritual ●…njoyments are of ●… 〈◊〉 ki●…d from thos●… of sense , and so the very k●…nds of 〈◊〉 and sensuality di●…fer . ●…race is a spiritu●…l ●…lessing , ●…ut sensuali●…y 〈◊〉 to the e●…rth , and bows us down to i●… . a heart taken off ●…rom sensual 〈◊〉 discovers a character of renovati●… . t●…e old man stoops earth ward : t●…e spiritual principle looks after a spiri●…al portion . we are born again to a lively hope of a heavenly inh●…ritance , 1 pet. 3 , 4. none go to heavenly delights with the love of sensual . conversion to god puts us upon a conversation in heaven . 't is a sign we have tasted the sweetness of spiritual , when sensual joys are insipid and untoothsome ; an earthly principle never taught any to deny earthly pleasures . naturally we walk by sense , and when we do not so , 't is a sign of more than nature . as 't is given to a saint to bear the pains , so to sorbear the pleasures of the vvorld . 't is a distinguishing mercy to be above common delights ▪ it was a sign that el●…jah's mantle had touch'd el●…sha when he was withdrawn from ●…is vvorldly employments , and ran a●…ter him , 1 kings 19. 19. 11. sensual lusts are commonly the inlets to apostacy . the mortifying of these , countermines s●…tans temptations . the flying bird is hardly shot by the fowlers , nor is the soul upon the wing of heavenl●… aff●…ction so much endangered by the devils offers . this , this is the soul that most disappoints the tempter : he who counts nothing better than the comforts of sense , will easily be seduced by them ●…rom holiness and faith. 't is not the enjoyment , but the loving of sensual com●…orts that takes us o●…f from god ; the s●…rongest rope could never draw us , if it were not ●…or the knot whereby it is tied to us , nor would the devils strongest temptations by sensual o●…ers withdraw us from god , were it not for the knot of our lov●… to them . a●…l these things will i give thee would then but seem a poor offer . a weaned chi●…d is not allured by the breast , the 〈◊〉 banquet provokes not appetite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ●…or do the sweetest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a s●…ul dead to the world , from 〈◊〉 . our hands easily p●…rt with t●…at 〈◊〉 our hearts have parted with before ; 〈◊〉 no pain to have that pluckt ●…rom us 〈◊〉 cleaves not : morti●…ied paul took pleasure in necessi●…ies , 2 cor. 10. a morti●…ied saint can spend more for god in an hour than a sensualist can in a year . the lark sings sweetest when farthest from the earth , the place of her food , and so doth a soul in her heavenly enjoyments , though stript of the comsorts of sense . the morti●…ied to these com●…orts ●…inds that welcome , which is unavoidable death . 't is the empty traveller that alone can sing when he meets with a thie●… : a soul tak●…n o●…f from enjoym●…nts , is on●…ly will●…ngly 〈◊〉 ●…rom them , he that lodg●… in an 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , c●…n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as e●…rly in the 〈◊〉 ▪ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pleas●… , w●…ch is not 〈◊〉 t●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we lodge in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our 〈◊〉 . . 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 satis●…ying o●… 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 privil●…dges of 〈◊〉 . th●…y that are c●…rists have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wi●… the lusts thereof ; by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t●…at cross that s●…ved 〈◊〉 ; the pro●…cution o●… lusts confutes the true 〈◊〉 of li●… by the cross. 't is vain to t●…lk of chri●…s d●…th for thee , if it have not been 〈◊〉 in thee , if the cross merits thy p●…ace , it will be thy mo●…ive to pu●…ty . secondly , as to ●…y carri●…ge toward sensual lu●…s . 1. in t●…e motions of lusts study thy profession : a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be a sen●… , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , no●…n 〈◊〉 ▪ a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bet●…r th●…ngs th●… the obj●…cts of 〈◊〉 , an●…●…st look over 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 look , 〈◊〉 ; thou , o m●…n of 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ●… tim. 6. 11. t●…y 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c●…lling , phil. 3. 14. a conv●…sation in ●…eaven agrees not with s●…nsuality . 2. rest not in ext●…rnal 〈◊〉 to act the motions of l●…st , but advance to an intern●…l real 〈◊〉 . outward forbear●…nces are good , but not good enough ; the b●…rd that ge●…s ▪ loose 〈◊〉 a stone to whic●… it was t●…ed by a 〈◊〉 , ●…ying with the string about its leg is hamper'd in the next bough , and so will a man be overcome by lusts , who ●…orsakes the present pleasure , but crucifies not the inward af●…ection . pl●…ce not religion in parting with the object , but in rectifying the faculty . if a mole spoil a curious garden by casting up hills in it , the gardiner thinks it not enough to le●…el the mole-hills with the ground , by patting them down with hi●… sp●…de , unless he kills the mole in the earth . external abstentions avail not without inward renovation . 3. stifle sensual lusts in their conceptio●… , let them not gather head ; 't was the councel ( good in its kind ) of achitop●…el , to set upon david before he could gath●…r strength . crush lust in its first risings and motions ; the thickest ice that 〈◊〉 bear a cart begins with a thin ●…ilm that will not bear a pebble . c●…st out the fir●…t thoughts of a lustful temptation with indignation , let not an impudent begg●…r get over thy threshold if thou would●…t d●…y him an alms. 4. let moderat●…on be one dish in the richest banquet of sensual enjoyments ; go not so far as thou maist , for then 't is hard not to go further than thou shouldst : s●…tan lies in ambush behind our lawfuls , the more pleasant any thing is , ●…he more suspected let it be : put a kn●… to ●…hy throat when abundance entiseth 〈◊〉 ; in the midst of sensual enjoyments keep thy self like the bee , which inhabit●… , even her waxen cell with unsmeared wings ; the moderate use makes us ●…njoy the most and sw●…etest of the creatures : if we go deep in sensual d●…lights we draw dreggs . 5. pray for a rectisied judgment , a renewed understanding , rom. 12. 2. a c●…rnal eye se●…s onely an excellency in c●…rnal obje●…ts . a 〈◊〉 prefers a lock of hay before a b●…g of gold , a child an hal●…-penny picture before a conveyance of a thousand pounds per annum . a skil●…ul ●…ye onely discernes the wo●…th of art ; nature discernes not th●…ngs that disser ; p●…ul had a renewed estim●…te before he accounted all dung for christ : pray for the spirit of wisdom . 6. labour for a sanctified improvement of the removal of all the comforts of sense , look upon it as gods breaking down thy bridges to hinder thee in thy march after the fulfilling of thy lusts , and as the flight of joseph from his mistr●…ss to damp thy adulterous loves , oft●…n 〈◊〉 t●…y lusts with thy loss●… , think 〈◊〉 god thought the company of com●…orts wou●… have ensn●…red th●… assection●… . 7. lastly , in all sens●…l 〈◊〉 wisely draw o●… thy soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 objects . compare the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o●… sensual pleasures with t●…e cry●… 〈◊〉 of eternal joys ; oh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…lights were more 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o●… 〈◊〉 spi●…t more than the excesses of wine : h●… w●…o ▪ lives at the table of a king , despiseth scraps ; and such are all s●…nsual plea●…ures ●…teemed by him who hat●… t●…sted how sweet the lord i●… , this glorious sun puts o●… the kitchin-fire of sensuality : in undue lusting after m●…ats and drinks , think whose flesh and blo●…d is me●…t and drink indeed . i●… lusting after be●…uty consider c●…rist as white and ruddy , the fairest of ten thousand . if immoderately thou 〈◊〉 after re●…t and ease , study the sweet quietness that 's in god's bosom , and peace of conscience ; the fare of a sensualist is gross to that of a saint , and yet 't is obtained at a far dearer rate . but , reader , i suspect thee d●…tained too long in the porch , enter therefore the house ; view it within , observe both its strength and excellent contrivance in all the parts and rooms of every argument and instruction ; nor enter onely to contemplate the artifice of the authors house , but mo●…e to feed upon the bounty of his house-keeping : fall to with an holy hunger . in such ch●…st delights there 's no excess : and because i would not clog , but quicken thy stomach , ●…'le offer thee no more ; only that god would give thee both an appetite to feed , and nourishment by feeding , is the prayer of that unworthy servant of christ , but true friend to thy soul , w. jenkyn . one come from the dead : or , a sober and severe testimony against drunkenness and whoredom . 1 sam . i. 16. count not thine handmaid a daughter of belial . chrysostom giving some reasons why he still used prefaces or introductions to his text , among others gives this for one , sc. because there were a great many of his auditors still little acquainted with the story of the bible , and theresore when his text was not an entire absolute thing of it self , but onely a parcel of some story or passage , he that should be all to all that he might gain the more , must of necessity use some presace sor the sakes o●… the ●…gnoranter sort , to explain the coherence ; otherwise , blun●…ly to propound such a text , and not to shew the coherence , how it depended upon the former matter , were ( sayes he ) all one as to bring a man upon the stage all covered and hooded over , that none could know who or what he was ; so they , ignorant of the story of the bible , have but an hood-man set before them , who have such a text propounded to them , without shewing the coherence , that unhoods and uncovers the text , that a man may ken it somewhat , who it is as 't were , and what it means , that you therefore , even the most ig●…orant , ( for to the wise and unwise also are we who speak out of this place debtors ; and it were hard conscience , if a man owed a debt to wise and unwise , to seem to make conscience of paying the wise men their debt , and none of paying the unwise theirs , ) that even you therefore the most ignorant may prosit as well as others , take this-briefly for coherence and making way to the text , that the hooded thing may be unhooded and uncovered to you , and that you may know the plain meaning of it ; there was a man , one elkanah a levite , who had two wives , hannah and peninnah : hannah was the ●…etter beloved of her husband , but barren ; peninnah the less beloved , but fruitful ; hannah being the better beloved , and at their yearly going up before the lord , her husband giving her therefore at that feast a worthy or double portion , better than to peninnah , peninnah envied her , and went about to anger and frett her , casting her in the teeth still with her barrenness ; the good poor soul had no other rem●…dy than to pour out her soul to god in prayer , that he would take away her reproach , and give her a man-child , and she would give him back again all the dayes of his life to the lord : and as she continued praying before the lord , in the bitterness of her soul , eli the priest marking her odd gesture , and the going of her lips without any voyce heard from her , thought she had been some drunken woman , overseen now at the feast with wine , and therefore said to her , how long wilt thou be drunken , &c. and thus by the dependance , you see partly the meaning of the text ; you see who this handmaid is , hannah ; who she speaks to , eli the priest ; and what it is she would not be accounted by him , under the phrase of a daughter of belial ; sc. not accounted a drunkard by him : a drunkard were a son or daughter of belial indeed . but what is this , to be a son or daughter of belial ? in few and plain words , to be a very child of the devil , to be so wicked , that one may seem to be begotten of no other than of the very wicked one : what concord hath christ with belial ? sc. the devil . a son or daughter of belial therefore in scripture-phrase , is one egregiously , notoriously , diabolically naught ; so naught as he may seem to be a very child of the devil , spit out of hi●… very mouth as 't were , bred of his very spawn , begot of his very seed , carrying the very image and picture of the father in the face as 't were , because as the father is , so is he : the ●…ather wicked , egregiously wicked , so the child wicked , egregiously wicked . thus a son of ●…elial is used 1 sam. 2. 12. ch . 10. 27. and 25 17. and judg. 19. 22. now for the observations : in that godly hannah counts that thing , sc. drunkenness , such a gross and grievous sin , that it is enough to denote and call one a daughter of belial , a very child of the devil , which the world ( if it count it a sin at all ) counts it but a very venial sin , a very pardonable sin , a very very peccadillo , a sin just and no more ; observe hence , that the judgement of the saint , and the judgement of the world , the judgement of the godly religious heart , and the judgement of the prophane heart , there is a great deal of difference between them in the matter of juding about good and evil , vertue and vice. that which the one accounts a very very little sin , if a sin at all , the other may count ( as having a little better eyes in his head than the bleer eyed world ) a very gross , a very grievous , a very hainous sin , a sin enough to make one a very son or daughter of belial . so adultery , a sin which i doubt the world accounts no such great sin ; yet josephs godly heart , what a great sin made he of it ! how can i commit this great wickedness , and sin against god ? so single fornication , a sin much more made nothing of in the world , yet how does the apostle pauls godly heart aggravate and set it forth for a most grievous sin ? being highly injurious to our own body , to a member of christ , to a temple of the holy ghost , &c. so covetousness , meer and bare and single covetousness , so it be not attended with injustice , &c. not so much as taken notice of to be a sin in the world ; and yet what a great sin the same apostles godly heart took it for , you may know by this , in that he can scarce mention it without setting this upon the head of it ; covetousness which is idolatry . so contentious wrangling and going to law one with another , and not rather ( if possible ) labouring to end things by friendly arbitration of honest men , that the world takes this for no sin , full terms and crouded courts shew : and yet what a scandalous and ungodly thing the apostles godly heart took this kind of lawing for , you may know by his earnest reasoning against it for almost half a chapter together , and then concluding thus ; now therefore there is utterly a fault , &c. neither can any man say , that he spake onely against the christians contentious lawing before unjust and unbelieving judges , for that is but onely a circumstance aggravating their law and wrangling , not the whole thing condemned by him , as appears vers . 6 , 7. so swearing , vain ordinary swearing , what fault is it counted ? and yet if the apostle james his godly heart had not taken it for a great sin , would he in such strange precise manner have forbid it ? but above all things , my brethren , swear not , &c. so ecclesiasticus , ( though no inspired man , yet no doubt an holy man , ) what a great matter does his holy heart make of it , chap. 23. 9 , &c. and 27. 14. so a little pride of heart , to be lifted up for any thing that we have , above what is meet , and to proceed perhaps to some outward act expressing it , who counts of it as any great sin , or matter much to be repented of ? yet what a great sin davids godly heart when it awakened and came to it self , made of it , you may know by his confession , and setting these two upon the head of it , i have sinned greatly , i have done very foolishly . an ordinary heart would not have found any such great sin in a little numbering the people , out of a little pride and conceitedness of heart for the greatness of their number ; but davids godly heart thinks otherwise . so what a great sin did the apostle paul think bribery and corruption to be , who rather than bribe felix to procure liberty to preach the gospel , ( for it cannot be said , it was because he was not able ; for had he been but willing , the christians no doubt , ( sayes calvin ) would have made a purse for him , and found him money , ) he would lie two full years in prison to the prejudice of the gospel : and yet what great sin is bribery and corruption made now adayes , though not to procure liberty to preach the gospel , ( that they may do gratis if they will , ) but more basely to procure the means and maintenance of the gospel . so what a great sin did a●…stin make that which ordinarily would be counted but a boyes trick ; sc. robbing of an orchard , onely out of an humour and to do an ill turn , not so much ●…or any love to the fruit , for if a bit enter into his mouth , the prettiness of the prank gave the taste and relish to it : austins cons●…ss . 2 , 4. &c. thus for scripture-proof of the point , great differ●…nce there is between the judgement of the saint and of the worldling , and the reason hereof ( if we would know ) may be double . first , because the me●…r worldling or unregenerate man sees not sin and vice in its own proper colour , and true nativeness of it , but onely in the picture and representation of it as 't were , and therefore cannot know and acknowledge the true ugliness and loathsomness of it , so as he who sees it in the own proper colour and true nativeness of it : as he that sees the picture of a toad , cannot know and conceit the ugliness of that creature so as he that sees the living thing crawling before his eyes . no marvel therefore if in this regard the judgement of a saint for a sin and the true ugliness thereof , be far otherwise from the judgement of a worldling , because the one hath enlightened eyes to see the sin in some sort in the own proper colour and true nativeness of it , the other glimmers but upon the picture . whereof ye are now ashamed . now that ye have enlightened eyes to see the filthiness of them in the own proper colour , now ashamed of them . secondly , the meer worldling or unregenerate man , that which he sees of the filt●…iness of sin , he barely sees it , but he hath not within him an antipathy and spirit of hatred and enmity against the sin , but the saint hath this antipathy also , a spirit of hatred within him against the sin , and therefore thereby knowes more of the filthiness , true filthiness of sin : as he knowes more of the ugliness and filthiness of the forenamed creature that hath ●… rising antipathy or spirit of hatred against her , than he ( if you can suppose any s●…ch ) that hath no natural antipathy , or rising hatred against that creature . in morals nothing helps judgement more than affection ; love and sympathy will make a man see far into the beauty and amiableness of a thing truely amiable , and hatred and antipathy will likewise make a man see far into the contrary hatefulness and loathsomness of a thing truely hatefull : nothing so amiable as vertue , and there is nothing can see so f●…r into this amiableness of vertue , as the true love of vertue ; and nothing so hatefull as vice , and nothing there is that can see so far into this hatefulness of vice , as the true hatre●… of vice. use 1. is there such a broad difference often times between the judgement of the saint and the judgement of the world in the matter of good and evil , vertue and vice , then , first , for caution , beware how the course and practice of the world prescribe too much upon us in the matter of what is to be done or left undone : the course and practice of the world even going in crowds and droves together , is but an ill ground to bear our selves upon ; nay , rather , argumentum pessimum turba : it is an argument the thing is worse , when all are for it . the best things do not please the most people : there is not su●…h an happiness allotted to humane matters ; therefore , beware how the course and practice of the world prescribe too much upon us : for why ? the world practiseth as it judgeth , and the world judgeth according to the power and principle of judging that is in it ; but what other power or principle in it hath the world to judge by , but that which is called the spirit of the world ? now the spirit of the world is but an unfit thing to judge of the things of god by : what can blind men judge of colours ? but the world for many things of god is stark blind ; and for other thi●…gs very s●…nded at least , and but a meer porer . now who would be any whit embo●…dened to goe such a way because he sees a multitude of blind men , or extream weak sighted , to go stalking on confidently that way ; to find out any thing , it matters not how many blind men there are ; so to find out the truth , or right way in any thing , it matters not how many blind porers there be about it . use 2. is there such a broad difference , &c. then for direction this may let us see who it is safest to resort to for ghostly counsel and advice , in matter of true doubt and case of conscience ; not unto those that may seem yet to be men of the world , men unregenerate and unsanctified , though they be great clerks , but rather unto the saints , and those that may seem to have the spirit of the holy one within them , and to be taught with that teaching which is called the unction of the holy one ; ye have received an unction from the holy one , &c. the judgment of one of these in matter of true scruple and doubt of conscience what is to be done or not done , especially if it be an experienced saint that through longer use hath his senses exercised to disc●…rn between good and evil. the judgement of such an one in matter of true doubt and scruple of conscience , is worth the judgement of a whole colledge of divines , bare speculative divines , that know deep mysteries in the theory , but are strangers from the life and power of godliness , and want the unction of the holy one. a man of no good conscience himself can hardly ever give good counsel for a good conscience , especially in more scrupulous and nice matters : indeed in more general and gross matters they may hit it , but how souly they may erre in more scrupulous and nice matters , the fifth of matthew shews ; where the scribes and pharisees , ( learned enough no doubt , but such as knew little of that unction and teaching of the holy one ▪ ) for general matters they hit it , but for more ni●…e matters see verses ●…1 , 27 , 31 , 33 , 38 , 43. use 3. is there su●…h a broad difference , &c. then this may let us see a reason why they think so strange , and wonder so at one anoth●…rs courses : the worldling thinks it strange that the saint in many things does as he does , that he is so s●…rait-laced , and can give hims●…lf no more liberty in many things than he do●…s : for example , they count it str●…nge ( sayes the apostle ) that ye run not with th●…m to ●…he same ●…xcess of riot . and the saint on the contrary thinks it as strange , that the worldling does in many things as he does , that he is so loose laced , and gives himself that scope and liberty in many things as he does ; that he can run , 〈◊〉 run into that excess of riot , in 〈◊〉 , lusts , excess of wine , revellings , ●…anquettings , &c. thus the saint and the worldling think ●…trange at one another●… courses ; and no marvel , for they are of two di●…ferent judg●…ments , th●…y walk by two dissrent 〈◊〉 , they mind two disserent ends , they heed two 〈◊〉 kind of dangers . is it any wonder if one walking on in a green smoo●…h path not knowing of any danger in it , wonder at another that he shall see turn out of tha●… green , smooth , easie path , and see goe scrambling with much toil and pains in another , rugged , un●…ven ▪ uneasie way ? or is it any wonder if this other that goes scrambling in the rugged , uneven , une●…sie way , because he knowes the danger th●…t i●… in the other way , wonder at him whom he sees stalk so considently on in the smoot●… and green way , wherein he knowes he wi●…l at last meet with such danger ? they have ●…wo different informed judgements , and therefore think strange one at anothers courses . 2 doct. in that instead of saying , count not thine handm●…id a drunk●…rd , 〈◊〉 barely sayes not so , but points and paints , and paraphraseth the drunkard out with this description , sc. to be a very child of belial ; count not thin●… hand-maid a 〈◊〉 of b●…lial . our observation hence is ●…his : that a drunk●…d , he or she , is a 〈◊〉 s●…n or daught●…r ●…f b●…lial ; i. e. of ●…he d●…vil . before we come to shew this , we will first of all explain the phrase . secondly , enquire who he is whom we may conceive to be a drunkard ; for if to be a drunkard be enough to denominate and make one a very child of the devil , pi●…y it were to wrong any wi●…h that nam●… who deserve it not , and m●…re pity not to l●…t that man know his name who deserves it , and who ( if he kn●…w ) happily would be somewhat afraid to contin●…e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…hat state which denominates an●… mak●…s 〈◊〉 a ve●…y i hil of the devil . ●…or the first , what it is to be a son or d●…ughter or child of beli●…l , i. ●… . of the devil , you may know by considering the contrary , s●… . what it is to be a child of god ; to be a childe os god , is in all conformable ●…oliness , 〈◊〉 and goodness so to resemble god himself , th●…t we may seem to be begot o●… no other than of god himself ; born o●… his very seed , and bearing therefore his very image , so that as the father is , so are we : that this is to be a child of god , you may know by these places , mat. 5. 9 , 45. luke 6. 35. phil. 2. 15. 1 joh. 2. 29. and 3. 9. and so on the contrary , to be a child of the devil therefore i●… in all like conformable wick●…dness and ungodlin●…ss so to 〈◊〉 the devil himself , that for 〈◊〉 m●…n m●…y seem to be begot of no o●…her than of the very wicke●… one , bred of his very spawn , beg●…t of his very seed , bearing the very image and picture of the fath●…r in the face , so that as the father is , so in ●… great resemblenc●… are they : see for this joh. 8. 44. acts 13. 10. 1 joh. 3. 8. now though all that in any gre●…t 〈◊〉 resemble for wickedness the very wicked one , may be said to be the v●…ry children of th●…t wicked one the devil ; yet the drunkard of all other , ( especially the true true drun●…ard indeed ) is one even of his chopping children , one of his very first-born o●…es , one of his white sons , that he may stroke on the head as his best darlings . for the second thing , who he is whom we may conceive to be a drunkard . first , distinguish between a drunken man , and a drunkard ; ebrius is he who once perhaps , or twice , or very rarely may trensgress in drink , as noah , let , &c. but ebriosus is he who ordinarily and usually does this : now it is this latter who is properly called the child o●… the devil , and not the former ; as he who by a fall or other accident should get a great coule in his forehead , whi●…h should stay with him only for a while ; or as he who upon a sudden fit of the conv●…lsion should for a whil●… writhe his mouth awry : as neither of these could be said , because the one resembles him who naturally and constantly hath a great bunch of flesh grow in his forehead , and the other him who 〈◊〉 and constantly hath a wry mouth , to be upon this resemblance as ' twe●…e their very childr●…n ; but only he who naturally and constantly should have that bunch of flesh or wry mouth , only he might be said indeed in some sort to be as 't were that or that man ; very child : so he is not properly thereupon to be said to be the child of that wicked one , who wi●…-kedly , perhaps once or twice , or the like , may through accident transgress in wine ; but he who ordinarily and usually does this , in an ordinary and usual course of wickedness resembling the wicked one : he that committeth sin is of the devil . that is habitually , and in a constant course . secondly , further , wc must not only distinguish between a drunken man and a drunkard , but also distinguish of drunkards themselves ; sor drunkards are not only they which are such sots that they would lie in the way till an iron-bound wain or cart were driven over them , or the like , this is but the statute-drunkard : but if we will weigh this point by scripture and good reason , we shall see that there are many others , who i doubt before god ( who is the author of all scripture and good reason , ) shall never be able to claw it off , but that before him they are drunkards , even true proper drunkards . consider ther●…fore wh●…ther that which i shall now say in this point , s●…em according to scripture and good reason ; and i●… it do not , the servants mi●…ake can do you no harm , if you be sure you be clear in t●…e masters books . but if it do seem to be accor●…ing to scripture and good reason , think whether it be not ●…itter to clear the books , than to quarrel only at him that shews the debt . the drunkard therefore i distinguish thus : there is the drunkard drye , and the drunkard wet . the drunk●…rd drye is he who because of his body perhaps , or because of his credit or the like , drinks it may be himself but very very little , so that there is no sensible change or a●…teration of the man , but yet he sits it out with good fellowes , as they call them , approving and delighting in their drunkenish good fellowship and excess : now see whether the books of god , sc. the scripture and good reason will quit this man from being a very drunkard . does not the scripture make him to be in any thing as bad , ( ●…y worse too ) that takes pleasure in others that d●…e a sin , than him th●…t do●…s the 〈◊〉 himself ? they do n●…t onely do such 〈◊〉 , b●…t take pleasure in them th●…t do th●…m . it seems to be made a greater ●…in to del●…ht and take pleasure in others doing wickedly , than in some sort to do wi●…kedly ones s●…lf : and the ground 〈◊〉 is pl●…in ; because for th●…m that do 〈◊〉 themselves , commonly they have some strong lust tempting them thereto : but they who delight onely and take pleasure in other mens wickedness , not acting the same themselves ; commonly it is because they have not the same strength of lust tempting them thereto , but onely delight more simply in wickedness even for wickedness sake it self , without the pleasure attending it , which is the far greater degree of sin . and not by this ground of scripture onely , but by another of good reason also may it appear that this drunkard drye in gods account shall goe for a true drunkard ; for that in gods account shall every man goe for , which his will and mind is fully for , though one way or other he be held from the acting of it . god , as in good , so in evil accounts the will for the deed ; and therefore must needs account him for a tr●… drunkard , who what his will is he shew●… plainly enough , by his taking pleasure in them that act that wickedness , t●…ough himsel●… because of his body , or his credit , or the like , be held o●…f from the acting o●… it . thus the old bawd , whose body is spent , and is no more s●…r the acting of it herself , yet is in gods account as very a whore all her life long , by her procuring , approving , and delighting in others uncleanness , as in a manner the p●…rties themselves . thus the devil because he is a spirit , and no body , he cannot act bodily uncleanness it self ; yet uncleanness and all other sin is truly his in this regard , in regard of his procuring , delighting , and approving it in others : and thus the drunkard drye , though he may come perhaps as sober almost from the ale-bench , as any true workman from his work-bench , as sober from the cellar as the student from his cell , yet in gods account he may be a true drunkard , and therefore a true child of belial . secondly , for the drunkard wet , he is of two sorts : 1. either the throughly steept : or , 2. the lightly d●…pt . ( 1 ) the throughly steep'd , is the gross , the beastly , the very statute drunkard ; he that has so steept and soaked himself in liquor , that he is bec●…me a very sot and sodden head , and hath none or very little rule and government of himself : this drunkard is he whom the prophet ●…y calls the stagg●…ring dr●… , staggering in his own vomit ; the recling drunkard , the drunkard overcome with wine , swallowed up with wine , filling all tables with vomit and filthiness , &c. this is that drunkard that hath so lost limbs and senses , that basil likens him to those idols of the heathens that have eyes and see not , ears and hear not , feet and walk not : this is that drunkard that hath so intoxicated his brain , so outed his wits , so lost for a time his reason , that one well calls the fit and mood that now he is in , a little voluntary madness ; let that mood last but a few dayes , and you wo●…ld not doubt but the man was mad : at present he is no l●… than mad , only it continues not so l●…ng now this is of all drunkards the 〈◊〉 chil●… of 〈◊〉 , one of his best 〈◊〉 ▪ one so just the fathers son for universal resemblance of wickedness , that should the devil choose a body wherein to act that universal wickedness which is in him , a body he could not choose ●…itter than this drunkards body : this drunkard who but that he wants the devil●… cloven foot and his horns , might seem not to be one of the devils elves only , but a grand devil himself . but besides this kind of drunkard who is so throughly steept , so soaked in liquor , that he sweats wine , he rifts wine , touch and squeeze him never so little , you squeeze out wine . ( 2 ) besides this , there is of drunkards wet another drunkard , sc. he that is not so throughly steept , but lightlier dipt , he that is not so full in the midst of the clout as the former , but he is about the clout ; aye , perhaps in a little nook and out-corner of it ; and this is he who though he do not ordinarily drink till he be forth right intoxicated , till he reel , till he stagger , till he be overcome of wine , till he be swallowed up of wine , till he fill and ●…ile all with vomit and filth , till in a word he be statute-drunk ; yet he is continually bibbing , continually sucking , continually tipling and tipling , till he be ( as they say ) somewhat ●…ine , somewhat brave , somewhat tipt , somewhat toucht , ●…omewhat pratty , and many other such pratty n●…mes , that the world calls these pratty c●…eatures by , r●…ther than by the name of drunkards : but yet that they that ordinarily and continually almost are bibbing , and lapping , and drinking , and dudling more than is meet , though it be not to the outing of wits and losing of sence , that these in gods and the s●…ripture account also are the true drunkards , c●…nsider hence ▪ fir●…t , the drunkard and the bibber , the 〈◊〉 uses indisserently and synonymously , the one for the other . jo●…l 1. 5. awake ye drunkards , howl all ye w●…-bibbers . secondly , because all sinfull excess in scripture , condemned by scripture , is referred to drunkenness , that therefore which is sinfull excess if habitually practised , makes a true drunkard , though a qualified one somewhat , and not of the debauched and beastlier sort ; but there is much sinfull excess in drinking condemned in scripture , which is not to the overturning of the brain and depriving of the sences ; see esay 5. 11 , 12. 1 pet. 4. 3. 1 tim. 3. 8. tit. 2. 3. given to much wine . thirdly , because that liberal use of vvine or other strong drink , even unto some plain alteration , though not alienation of mind , to cheer up and alter , and exhilerate 〈◊〉 the mind , though not to alienate an●… besott it , such liberal use of vvine , which at some times may be very lawfull , yet if it be used unseasonably and ordinarily , for ordinary sensual pleasure and delight , it is nothing in scripture-account but meer drunkenness : joseph to welcom his brethren made them a feast , an●… they drank and were merry with him . were m●…rry with him ; were drunk with him , saith the hebrew ; sc. drunk with him so largely till their minds were very much cheared , and altered , and exhilerated up , till they were very merry with him , till indeed they were somewhat pratty : so give strong dri●…k to him that is ready to perish , &c. see neh 8. 10. now this liberal use of vvine and strong drink , which in these cases are lawfull enough , yet if it should be unseasonably and ord●…arily used for ordinary sensual pleasure and delight , it would be nothing but meer drunkenness ; as appears by these texts . blessed art thou , o land when thy princes eat in due season , for st●…ength and not for drunkenness . see is. 〈◊〉 . 5. 11. & 56. 12. 〈◊〉 1. 5. amos 6. 6. fourthly , it appears from the ●…se of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 joh. 2. 10. compared wi●…h eph. 5. 17. w●…en m●…n have well drank , and be not drunk with wine ; so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 cor. 11. 21. one is drunken ; 1 t●…es . 5. 7. th●…y that are drunk are drunk in the night . also it appears à pari , because that which was lawful for the rich glutton to have done wi●…hout imputation of gluttony at some time , because he made an ordinary epicurish practice of it to fare deliciously every day ; that makes him generally to be termed ( though not in the text , yet in all interpreters ) the rich glutton : not that he glu●…ted h●…mself with that which was not lawfull at any day , but which was not lawful on every d●…y . now th●…se things being thus cleared , let us proceed to explain and shew the truth of the point , sc : that the true and proper drunkard in any of the so●…enamed kinds , is ( though in regard of some of them more , in regard of some of them less ) a true chil●… of the devil ; and because to be a child of the devil was in such conformableness of sin and wickedness to resemble t●…e very wicked one , he might seem to be begot of no other than of him : bred of his very spawn , begot of his very seed , bearing the very image and picture of the father , ill looking father in the face as 't were , and being the right fathers son in all conformableness almost unto him up and down ; because this was to be a child of the devil , therefore in regard of this great conformableness or likeness unto the devil , let u●… demonstrate the drunkard to be the devils very child , the elfe resembling the ouncell up and down . first therefore th●…t ouncell is a creature or miscreant rather , composed of all wickedness , and therefore called wickedness it self , and t●…e wicked one , eph. 6. 12 , 16. because of that mass of universal wickedness that is in him . so the ouncels elfe , the drunkard , is a creature or miscreant rather composed also almost of all wickedness , no sin or wickedness almost but his miscreant nature is for it . and therefore first in this regard , he is the right ouncels elfe , the devi●…s child , because of this resembling him in the mass of universall wickedness almost . secondly , we say in a more especiall manner , that such an one is right the fathers son , because of resembling him not only in a general likeness of his nature , but also and more especially in some more speciall markes and properties ; as that he hath just the fathers wrangling humour and proud spirit , &c. that he hath just the fathers stuttering speech , ju●…t his wry-mouth , the bunch of ●…lesh just in the forehead , the long stroak on the left cheek , the wart just under the chin , &c. we say in a more speciall manner , that such an one is right the fat●…ers son , because of more special resembling him in some such more special markes and properties as t●…ese . and so we shall see in the second place t●…at in a more special manner the drunkard is right the devils child , because of more special resembling him in some more special marks and properties of the devil . but first , that he is right the devils child , the ouncels elfe , because of resembling his nature in an universall mass almost of wickedness , that look as the devil is a creature or miscreant rather ( for not his creation , but his fall and mis-creation rather g●…ve him that ) a miscreant composed of all wickedness , so the drunkard , &c. and this we will shew by considering how manifoldly the drunkard by reason of his drunkenness sins against both tables ; for drunkenness ( as some think ) is not specially forbid in any one of the ten command●…ents , beca●…se it is not the single breach o●… any one , but in 〈◊〉 the viol●…tion of all , being the 〈◊〉 't were and inlet to all other sins , so that drunkenness comprizes in it all sins ; t●…erefore against the sirst t●…ble consider these sins of the 〈◊〉 by re●…son of his drunkennesses ( for it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s●…ill the plural , to note the habit . 1. by reason ther●…of , a gen●…ral pros●…neness and 〈◊〉 creeps up●…n his heart , to grow sottish of religion and senseless , aye a very scorner and contemner of it ; they have l●…ft osf to tak●… heed unto the lord , i. e. they are grown generally profane and irreligious ; and what is rendered immediately as the reason ? hos. 4. 10. 11. whoredome and wine , and new wine ta●…e away the heart ; i. e. makes them sots and senseless ones , prof●…nishly insensible of relig on . nay thi●… wine and n●…w wine , this drinking of liquor upon liquor , it carrie●… the parties in time even unto the profaneness of scorning and contemning of religion . in the day of our ki●…g , the princes have m●…de ●…im si●…k wi●…h bottles of wine , with vessel after vessel , cup aster cup , and what then followes ? ●…e stretched out ●…is hand wi●…h 〈◊〉 . he becam●… as one of them that made a mock and jest of all religion , the word being the same us●…d psal. 1. 1. and those mockers jude 18. are they that walk aft●…r their own ungo●…ly lusts , th●…t is , in the pleasures of the slesh and epicurish eating and drinking . and m●…rk abroad in the world , who especially are they that prophanishly m●…ke a mock of religion and the professors thereof ; nick-naming them precisians , puritans , separatists , and many o●…her such nam●…s of scorn , ( which neither godliness wo●…ld object , nor wisdom cares for maintaining being objected ; ) who i say are these especially that thus do , but only these sensu●…l men carried after their sensual pleasures and delights ? jude 19. these are they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who s●…parate not themselves , but rather o●…hers in scornsully calling and accoun●…ing others separatists , puritans , and precisians , and many oth●…r such odd names of separatisme and singularity . these are the hard speeches , jude 15. secondly , another sin against the first table that drunkenness ( i. e. ordinary and habitual drinkings ) are apt to breed in the parties , is atheisme and infidelity ; not to believ●… verily an●… indeed the truth of christian faith , as the resurrection of the body , the d●…y of j●…dgement , ●…he after-state of the d●…mned or 〈◊〉 so●…ls , &c. nothing so apt to breed this atheisme and infidelity as 〈◊〉 : i. e. givin●… a mans self over to these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and delights . for 〈◊〉 a man l●…ves thus by sense , he is 〈◊〉 and pr●…judiced against faith ; and nothing ag●…in so ap●… to increase this sensu●…lity as 〈◊〉 . s●…nsuality breeds atheism , and 〈◊〉 it then increaseth 〈◊〉 . see both these from ground●… of s●…ripture . for the fir●…t , that t●…is sensuali●…y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , is not that sor it in a●…s 17. 18. ●…n that when paul preached 〈◊〉 an●… 〈◊〉 resurrection , w●…o are they that 〈◊〉 h●…m ? then 〈◊〉 philosoph●… of the 〈◊〉 , and of th●… stoi●…ks , 〈◊〉 him , &c. the 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 sens●…al epicureans , given over to th●…se 〈◊〉 pleasures , were the fir●…t that oppos●…d t●…e doctrine of jesus and the 〈◊〉 . so the apostle brings ●…n 〈◊〉 sensual me●… walking in 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 ▪ excess ●…f wine , revellings , d●…inkings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●… . 4 3 4. brings in them thinking it 〈◊〉 that believe●…s run not with them to the same excess of riot . and why think they it strange that b●…lievers run not with them , to the same sensuality ? sc. because their sensuality will not let ●…hem see th●…t ●…hich the 〈◊〉 sees ; sc. that for those 〈◊〉 they sh●…ll on●… day give account to 〈◊〉 w●…o is 〈◊〉 to judge ●…oth q●…ick and dead . s●… tho●…e 〈◊〉 walk●…ng aster their own 〈◊〉 , sensual lusts , are those w●…o a●…e brought in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prom●…se of his 〈◊〉 , 2 pet. 3. 4. a●…d though some th●…t 〈◊〉 up 〈◊〉 in a sensual 〈◊〉 of riotou●… 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 , may retain yet the 〈◊〉 of fai●… , yet how parlous this sensu●…l epicurishness is , to rob and be●…eave them of the pow●…r of faith , t●…at 〈◊〉 epicu●…es c●…se she wes luke 16. who living in such s●…nsuality , co●…nted those sensual good things to be his chief good thing●… ; ver . 25. he had no thoughts of ●…eaven or ●…ell : a secret heartathiest he wa●… , see ver . 30. 31. this sensuality how apt is it to breed atheisme ! 2. atheism is then apt to increase s●…nsuality , let us eat and drink for to 〈◊〉 we shall dye , 1 cor. 15. 32. sc. 〈◊〉 so as we look sor no resurrection , for it is spoken in the n●…me of those who believed not the resurrection ; and therefore no marvel , if they sho●…ld give themselves over to sensuality of all intempera●…e and riotous eating and drinking . so they , wisd. 2. we are born at all adventure , &c. come on 〈◊〉 let ●…s enjoy the good things that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , &c. third●…y , 〈◊〉 sin ag●…nst the first ta●…le is gross 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , or contempt of gods word . ●…hom shall he teach knowled●… ? &c. isa. ●…8 . 8 , 9. having begun the chapter with an invective ag●…inst pride and drunkenness , and the verse next before , all tables are full of vomit , &c. whom shall ●…e teach know edge ? such unc●…pable sots were not fit for it ; new wea●…d children will under●…and as much as 〈◊〉 so they go into captivity , because th●…y h●…e no knowledge , isa. 5. 11 , 12 , 13. and th●…t they are such sots without knowledge , t●… former verses seem to intimate , that it arises from th●…ir drunkenish humour . fourthly , another sin against the 〈◊〉 table is great security , and inconsider●…ion or contempt of gods ju●…gements . and in that day , sc. in that day that god as an offended god began to reveal his judgements from heaven ag●…inst them ; isa. 22. 12. in that d●…y did the lord god of hosts call to weeping , &c. but behold drinking wine , &c. and what a great sin this gross inconsideration and contempt of gods judgements is , the next verse shewes : surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you ●…ll you dye . so what but drinking wine in bowles , and other such like sensuality reckoned up there , is intim●…ted that made them put far from them the evil day ; i.e. made them never reckon and consider ( or which is worse ) contemn gods ju●…gements . and in particular this makes m●…n senseless and inconsiderate of the l●…t judgement ; so that servant who shall begin to eat and d●…ink with the drunken , the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him , &c. his drunkenishness shall cast him into a deep sleep , and inconsideration of the day of j●…dgement , so that it sh●…ll take him tard●… , coming upon him never lookt for , luk. 21. 34. fifthly , another sin again●…t the fir●…t table is idolatry , either that idol●…try to make ones belly ones god ; whose god is their belly whose glory is in their sham●… &c. ph●…l . 3. 19. what but a very god does the glutton and the drunk●…rd m●…ke their bellies ? continually serving this god with continual meat-off●…rings and drink 〈◊〉 , and that of the best , of the 〈◊〉 of the one , and of the sweetest of the oth●…r ; either dr●…k and ros●… up to play ; s●… . in honour of th●…t idol the go●…den c●…ls , to si●…g and dance before it , as david before the ark ; so , who look to oth●…r cods and love slagons of 〈◊〉 , ●…os . 3. 1. and they drank win●… , i. e. healthed and c●…roused it ap●…ce : and what th●…n sollow●… ? and pr●…ised the gols of gold. and what is that which ushers in , and m●…kes way for all those abominable 〈◊〉 ? what but lacivionsness , lusts , excess of wine , &c. 1 p●…t . 4. 3. the sensual man that once hath made his belly his god , will soon be apt to make a stock or a stone his god , and to fall into all abominable idolatries ; and the prophet hosea gives us to guess at the reason , when he sayes wine , and new wine take away the heart , makes men sots : and then pres●…ntly adds , my people ask councel at their stocks , and their staff declareth unto them , hos. 4. 11 , 12. and if this sin guide or rather misguide so into idolatry , being so apt to m●…ke way for it ; what do we think of this age , this voluptuou●… sensual age ? if some son of neb●…t should set up the golden calf ag●…in , which the zealous moses's heretofore have stamped to powder ; would not many of them think we be ready to sit down to eat and drink and rise up to play ? be ready to cry , great is diana , not of ephes●… but of rome ; w●…n wine and new wine have taken away their hearts . sixthly , another sin against the first table is dishonouring god in the p●…osanation of his n●…me . holy and 〈◊〉 ( 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 ) is thy name , but how unholily and irreverently these men use gods name , in all horrible and a●…ominable swearing ; i appeal unto t●…em who more ordinarily may be in the company of this hellish crue than i thank god i my self am ; speak if every third word almost that these stutterers , these 〈◊〉 can g●…t forth be not an oath , a bloody oath ; surely if the talk of him that 〈◊〉 much , maketh the hair stand upright ; it is especially the talk of the pot-swearer , that swears in the midst of his pots and cups . what voll●…s of oath●… , thumping oaths does he then discharge and let fly against the face of heaven ? what peals and ch●…nges of oaths does he ring , in the eares of god and man ? what creatures of god are there , what attributes of god , what titles of god , what parts of god , body , blood , wounds , heart , &c. but he swears them almost over and over again ? surely such a notable swearer is this pot-swearer , that were i to choose a villain to swear for my life , 〈◊〉 would choose no other than this pot●… ; ●…his p●…t-●…wearer , whose oathes , bloody o●…the , are so great and many , 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 of his pots and cups , 〈◊〉 we●…e 〈◊〉 but by with pen and ink to note them down and present th●…m to him agai●… in his sober 〈◊〉 , i am perswaded there are not many of ●…hese villaines but in the●…r sober moods they would be somewhat ●…eared and ●…alf afraid to read over the note of the fearful o●…thes that they swore in their unsober and drunkenish moods . and the reason why this vice of drunkenness drawes unto such prosanation of gods name , in all irrevere●…t intemperate swearing , is , because it first makes the heart sotti●…h an●… senseless of god and the awful majesty of god , and no marvel if when the he●…rt is grown prophane , the tongue grow prophane too ; no marvel if when the heart is not awed with any due reverence of god , the tongue want this due reverence too . sevently , another sin against the first table is dishonouring god in the prophanation of his sabbath and worship . who are such prophaners of gods sabbaths , and 〈◊〉 or irreverent performers of of his worship as these sons of 〈◊〉 this needs not be proved out of pulpits , church-wardens and constables and other officers if they wo●…ld ●…ut now and then see a search made into bli●…d ale-houses , would make this plain eno●…gh . how many do we think they might find , 〈◊〉 of learning sobriety in the church of god , practising intemperance in those s●…ies and chappels of the devil ! how many instead of coming hither to wisdomes house , to eat of the bread and drink of the wine that she hath mingled ; come ●…at of my bread , &c. prov. 9. 5. sit there in those h●…uses of folly and madness , with no other text than that in their mouthes ; isa. 56. 12. come let us fetch wine , let us fill our selves with strong drink , and to morrow shall be as this day , and much more abundant ! but if church-wardens and officers will not by their pains help to prove this truth , these men they bewray themselves . they that are in authority know , or may know and observe , that of all brables almost that for meer matter of peace come before them , two parts of three arise from drink ; and of those , more than two parts in three from that excess in drink , which is either on market ▪ dayes or sabbath-dayes . who greater profaners therefore of gods sabbaths and neglecters of his worship than these kind of men ? or if they seem not altogether to neglect it , yet who more irreverent performers of it when they come to church ? either they come somewhat touch't and half pratty to the church , and so are fitter for two houres ●…leep than one hours sermon ; fitter for a pillow to lay their ear to tha●… , than a preacher to lend an ear to him : or if for a preacher , it must be some of those that sowe pillows under all elbowes , ez●…k . 13. 18. or else if they come sober to church , yet as the sow dreams of her drasfe , so they of their drink ; and they think all time tedious till they be removed from the church-bench to the ale-bench ; and till gods door is shut , that the devils blind wickets may the more freely open ; and so if sabbatum come of sabbas a name of bacchus , they are the best sabbatizers . eightly , another sin against the fir●…t table , is dishonouring god in the abuse of his creatures . judge but in your selves whether ye can think that god hath made his creatures to be vainly , and contemptuously used to riot and excess . will not a wise father when he sees his son play the vain wanton with his meat , stuffing and cramming himself unnecessarily with it ; or when he sees him playing the like vain wanton with his drink , bibbing unnecessarily , or only to squirt or sputter it out again , will he not be offended ? and pluck the good meat out of his mouth , and the good drink from his nose , as knowing they are too good to be so vainly abused by him ? will not a wise father do this ? and will not the wise god , the father of all living much more ●…e offended ; and take it ill then that his good creatures should be so abused unto such vanity and excess ? his good c●…eatures that how many hungry and thirsty s●…ints souls might be refreshed , by that which their intemperancies vainly and contemptuously abuse ? does not the guests abusing of their entertainment , as if after they had eaten a while so much as was sufficient , and drank a while so much as was needful , they should cast the rest of their meat to dogs , or trample it under foot ; and give the rest of their drink to the swine , or pour it down channel : does not this redound to the hosts or inviters dishonour ? well , better were it that men should cast the superfluity of their basket and store to the very dogs or trample it under foot ; better also they should give the superfluity of their vessel and cup runing over , to the very swine , or pour it down channel , than vainly and unecessarily abuse the same unto surseiting and drunkenness , the former way it did not that good it 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 way it did harme ; must not the●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gods entertainment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and vanity of riot an●… 〈◊〉 ▪ must it not highly redonnd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or entertainers dishono●…r ? 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against the sirst table is 〈◊〉 our selves and our own bodies , and that these t●…ree wayes . 1. as we are th●… image of god. 2. as our bodies are the members of christ. 3. as they are the temple of the ●…oly ghost . first , as we are the image of god. man is the image of god many wayes . 1. in regard of a divine majesty and stateliness above all other creatures , even of body and outward person ; a kind of divine majesty above all other ●…reatures , and awsull to all other creatures , being ev●…n enstamped upon the body and outward person of man ; but wh●…n the drunkard swine-like lies wallowing in his own filth , or sprawling in his own vomit , or by his continual drinkings hath deformedhi●…s body , and made it more like a monster through deformities than like a man ; where is then any of this divine stateliness ●…nd majesty , even in his body and outward person above all other creatures ? 2. man is the image of god in regard of soveraignty , of rule and dominion ; that as god is simply soveraign in regard of rule and dominion over all things , so he made man as it were a petty god , putting all things in subjection under his feet : but when the drunkard is laid under foot himself , sor all the creatures that wil●… to trample upon him , when he cannot well rule one member of his own body , or passion os his own mind , wheredoes any soveraignty o●… this divine-like rule and dominion appear ? if i would see the very image , not of the lord , but of a very vassal and abject slave , not fit to govern the veriest dumb creature , even the silliest of them that goes on all four ; i could not see it more lively than in the drunkard . 3. man is the im●…ge of god in regard of a divine like reason and understanding wherein he excels all other creatures ; but when the drink is in and wit out , as they say , when that intoxicating thing hath bereaved him of wit and understanding , ( as young cyrus thought it was plain toxicum poison , it bereaved them so of sense and understanding ; ) when it is thus with man wh●…re is any divine l●…ke reason and understanding in him ? how is he in this 〈◊〉 the image of god , and not rat●…er the image of an ass , a blo●…kish ass ? 4. man is the image of god in rega●…d of a divine-like holy and pure nature ; but when such a deal of impu●…ity and 〈◊〉 doth appear even in the outward man , much more when the drunkards heart by reason of drunkenn●…ss is nothing but a cage of unclean and 〈◊〉 thoughts , where is 〈◊〉 ●…his divine-l●…ke holy and pure natur●… ? ●…nd how is he then the image o●… god , that 〈◊〉 ●…nd holy spirit ; and not rather t●…e 〈◊〉 o●… him who is that un●…lean and 〈◊〉 spirit ? 〈◊〉 , by drunk●…nness we dishon●…ur god , in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…odies whi●…h are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o●… chri●…t . kn●…w ye not ( 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 of one speci●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , sc. forn●…cation ) that o●…r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 ●… shall i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 christ , &c. so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 another special sin o●… t●…e 〈◊〉 we may say ; know ye not , &c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ke the members of chri●… , the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ll 〈◊〉 , and make them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o●… 〈◊〉 that drunken 〈◊〉 ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sow , those swilling 〈◊〉 ? sur●…ly god sorbid . would not the king take it indignly as a dishonour to him , if one of you should hang out his 〈◊〉 , one part whereo●… should have t●…e 〈◊〉 o●… 〈◊〉 mon●…r , another of that ? s●…ll not 〈◊〉 much more take it indignly as a d●…shonour to him , if they that would go ●…or members of christ , appear 〈◊〉 to be memb●…rs os hog and sow thos●… swilling and drunken creatures ? who cou●…d well endure it that christs very picture should be so di●…honourably paint●…d ? how should he then well end●…re it that his v●…ry body should be thought to ●…e made up o●…●…uch dishonourable members ? thirdl●… , ●…y drunkenness we dishonour god in abusing our bodies ●…s they are the temples o●… the holy gho●…t ; kn●…w ye not ( say●…s the apostle , speaking again●…t the ●…ore-named vice of the body , sc. fornicati●…n ) that ●…our bodies are the temples of the ●…oly-ghost , and there●…ore as he intim●…tes should be kept in a●…l honour and holin●…ss , ●…ree from such a silthy de●…iling sin as fornication . so for drunkenness , know ye not th●…t our bodi●…s are temples , & c ? were it not an odious thing if the drunkard should come and lay his filthy stomach in the temple of god ? filthiness and nas●…iness does not become the very material temples of god , how much more odious and dishonourabl●… a ●…ing is it th●…t by his b●…tly 〈◊〉 he so 〈◊〉 th●… living temple of god ? for not that whi●…h comes out ( that i may invert our saviours speech ) does so defile t●…e m●…terial temple , as that which goes into the drunkards belly defiles the living temple ; and what sayes the apostle ? if any m●…n desile the temple of god , him shall god 〈◊〉 : for the t●…mple of god is holy , whi●…h templ●… ye are . 1 cor. 3. 16 , 17. for fins against the second table , whi●…h the drunkard by reason of his drunke●…ness is subject and very incident unto ; consider these . first , against the fi●…th commandement , honour thy father , &c. wherein are set down the duties of children to parents , and parents to children , and in g●…nerall of all inferiours to superiours , and superiours to inferiours , against this commandement how the drunkard by reason of his drunkennesses sins it is plain . 1. how disobedient , incorrigibly disobedient does this make children to parents , that they will not be admonished , nor hear the voice of father , or voice of mother which , what a dishonour is it to them ? in deut. 21. 20. the disobedient son is brought in , or rather brought ●…orth to be stoned for his incorrigi●…le 〈◊〉 , a●…d what is alledged for me ground of his d●…sobedience ? he is a 〈◊〉 and a drunkard : for this is not added as a part for which he was ●…oned , that was his contumacy and 〈◊〉 . v. 18. if a man have a stubbo●…n and rebellious son , &c. perhaps also the wise man would intimate this , when presently after he had said be not among wine-bibbers , &c , he addes . hearken unto thy father that begat thee , and despise not thy mother when she is old , prov. 23. 20 , 21 , 22. as if he would intimate thus much , that if he should ordinarily be among wine-bibbers and so turn drunkard , he would soon grow heedless of hearkening to his father that begat him , or of despising his mother when she is old ; and to say no more of this , how dis-obedient this vice makes children to parents , many a parents bleeding heart will witness it without any further proof ; who to no small gries of their hearts know how heady and unruly this heady and unruly drink have made their own children unto them . not accused of riot ; and what immediately followes ? not unruly , tit. 1. 6. secondly , t●…is vice m●…kes parents wrong their ch●…ldren too ; wrong them 1. in transfusi●…g and propagating oftentimes unto them this drunken vice . there are two sins , sc. drunkenness and whoredome , which being more properly sins of the body , are by bodily propagation derived from parents to their children . the drunken father seldom begets a sober son , nor the drabbing mother a chast daughter ; but as the mother is , so is the daughter , as is the father so is the son. this the philosopher intimated whe●… he saw a young man much in drink ; thy father surely ( sayes he ) begot thee being in drink . and perhaps also ( besides a mystical reason ) this natural reason may be aimed at by the angel , why he would not have manoah ( being to bear sampson ) drink all that time either wine or strong drink , judg. 13. 7. behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son , but drink no wine or strong drink , &c. 2. ag●…in this vice makes parents exceedingly wrong their children by their drunken example . example easily smites , but especially domestick and house-example , and especially of parents ; how can they ever rightly hate and abhor that vice when from the v●…ry 〈◊〉 they see it in those whom they must needs love so dearly ? how ●…hould they ever p●…ove patterns of sobriety abroad , wh●…n they are before corrupted so with su●…h ill patterns and examples of drunkenn●…ss at home . 3. again this vice o●…tentimes makes parents exceedingly wrong their children in ●…he point of good education and providing for them , how wi●…kedly careless and improvident does this make many how their children are brought up and how provided ●…or . indeed i will not d●…ny but some kind of drunkards there are ( sc. the mungrell or compounded drunkards , who are not pure drunkards , but make their drunkenness serve their covetuousness ; th●…y make the best bargains and strike up the best matches in their pots ) i will not deny but these mungrell compounded d●…unkards may be provident enough for their children ; but the pure drunkard how careless commonly is he , how children are brought up and how provided for ? so he may have drink he cares not though they want bread ; so he may sing and whistle on the ale-bench , he cares not though they cry and go and whistle it on the beggars-bench . and as drunkenness thus is apt to overturn the duties of children to parents , ●… c contra , so likewise o●… all inseriours to superiours , &c contra ; of subjects to mag●…rates who are civill fathers ; of people to ministers , who are ghostly fathers , &c c●…ntra . of subjects to magi●…trates . the men of sechem having gathered their vineyards , and trod their grapes , and making merry judg. 9. they ●…at and drank ; and what then ? and cursed abimelech . so he that wrote that wine is the strongest , 1 esdr●…s 3. 21. among other reasons to prove it , this is one , it ma●…th ●…very heart rich , i.e. brave , brisk , fl●…sh , gallant , &c. and what then ? so that a man remembereth neither king nor governour , and causeth to speak all things by talents ; that is , huge and mighty and big swelling words , words os great contempt and dis-●…espect ; vilifying and making clouts of men in authority : so on the contrary this makes magi●…trates fail in their duties , it makes him that bears the sword that he can sometimes put no great difference between the innoceat and the offender , and so makes him erre in judgement . it is not for kings , o lemuel , to drink wine , nor for princes strong drink , least they drink and forget the law , and pervert the judgement of any of the 〈◊〉 , prov. 31. 4 , 5. and hereupon is that wo , and that blessing , eccl. 16. 17. wo to th●… o land when thy king is a child , and thy princes eat in the m●…rning ; blessed art thou o land , &c. and after the p●…ophct 〈◊〉 had said , wo unto them that are mighty to drink wine , is●… . 5. 22. 23. what immediately sollows ? which justisic the wicked for a reward , &c. it makes magistrates fail in their duties . and whereas one special thing of a magistrate is to resorm abuses , and one special abuse , the ground and make-way for many others is drunkenness ; if the magistrate himself be much guilty this way , how shall he ever be hoped to do any great good in reforming this abuse ? will not his own conscio●…s self-condemning heart shut his eye that he will not see , stop his mouth that he dares not say , and dry up and wither his hand , that hand that should execute justice , that he dares not do or act much against osfenders this way ? is not that a very natural ground to take off any from proceeding in judgement against another ; that which took off ●…udah from proceeding in judgement against tamar , to burn her with ●…ire as a whore , she is more righteous than i ? but if an osfending magistrate should notwithstanding proceed to punish osfenders in the same kind , what hope th●…t he should 〈◊〉 , that he 〈◊〉 do any g●…od ther●…by ? ●…s it ●…ot n●…tural for eve●…y one wi●…h great ind●…gnation and ●…ising 〈◊〉 to sa●… , 〈◊〉 , sir●… heal thy self , 〈◊〉 searc●… 〈◊〉 me own wound , 〈◊〉 thine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; and wh●… 〈◊〉 thou that judg●…st 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 th●… 〈◊〉 ●…hings ? rom. 2. 1. and thou that sa●… 〈◊〉 a m●…n 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 thou ●…teal ? thou th●…t 〈◊〉 anoth●…r , 〈◊〉 thou 〈◊〉 ? thou th●…t sor 〈◊〉 s●…ttest 〈◊〉 by the heels , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through 〈◊〉 trip up thy own he●…ls ? and therefore though such an one should 〈◊〉 to pun●…sh 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 h●…pe he should 〈◊〉 ? and 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 wise emp●…rour sa●…d in th●… 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 , when they 〈◊〉 have b●…gun reforma●…ion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 po●…r ●…rancisc 〈◊〉 a●…d minorit●…s , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will never do good , ( sayes he ) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be begun a majoritis . so ●…or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 , unl●…ss 〈◊〉 be begun a m●…joritis , from may●…rs , ●…dermen , burgesses , mea in anthorit●… , & ●… . th●…re c●…n n●…ver be ●…xpected any kindly reformation in the minorites and ●…aseriours . ag●…in for them that are 〈◊〉 superiours and inseriours , pastors and people , this sin m●…kes them sail in their duties one to another , it is a great indangering occasion to m●…ke t●…e pas●…ours 〈◊〉 in th●…ir duty . d●…es 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of god 〈◊〉 th●…s ●…y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 g●…ven to aaron ? levit. 10. 9. do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 w●…ne ●…r 〈◊〉 dri●…k . ●…nd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 plainly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of pa●…tors and pro●…hets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and duty ? 〈◊〉 28. th●…y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 throu●…h wine , th●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have erred through st●…ong ●…rink , &c. a●…d what especially but this , does the 〈◊〉 aim at , in requiring so expresly that a bishop or mini●…ter should not be given to much wine ? 1 tim. 3. 3. one that uses to be overseen in drink , tit. 1. 3. he th●…t uses t●… be overse●…n this way ▪ will never be a good overseer in the 〈◊〉 pau●…s sence . and for the peopl●… , 〈◊〉 of their honouring their go●…ly and p●…insull minis●…ers ( or hold suc●…●…n 〈◊〉 ) what contempt doe●… thi●… c●…use tow●…rds their p●…rsons ? phil. 2. 19. it is the mo●…t ●…ikely t●…at those contem●…ers o●… the apo●…tle 〈◊〉 , ●…or a meer b●…bler , what wi●…l this babl●…r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 17. 18. that they we●…e ●…f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 seas●…al epicur●…ans who pl●…ce their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in sensu●…l 〈◊〉 ●…nd drinking , 〈◊〉 in the s●…me ver●…e . and the 〈◊〉 scossing butcher o●… 〈◊〉 fl●…ld go●…s not ●… doubt alone , w●…o hav●…ng ●…rd the minister inveigh again●…t 〈◊〉 , asterwards at his cups fe●…l a 〈◊〉 and scos●…ing at the purita●… m●…r and his s●…rmon ▪ s ; i doubt i say he goes not a●… , but hath butchers , and better men too , too many , sharing with him in his sin , tho●…gh perhaps they partake not with him presently in the same temporal judgement : for as that pro●…ane , scoffing wretch ( s●…yes my author ) was drinking , the drink or somewhat in it qu●…ckled him , and stuck so in his thro●…t that it would neither up nor down but presently strangled him . secondly , ag●…inst the next commandement , thou shalt not kill . wherein is commanded all things that make for the lise , safety , and bodi●…y welfare of our neighbour . against this the drunkard by reason of his drunkenness sins these wayes . 1. directly , by falling into quarrels and bloody frayes oftentimes by reason of this sin. wine is a mo●…r ( sayes the wise man ) prov. 20. 1. i. e. makes them that are given to it mo●…k and ab●…se one another ; and what then thereupon fol●…owes ? strong drink is raging ; s●… . breeds tumults and from off the poor , &c. micah 3. 3. the p●…ophet s●…ms to ●…imate that they w●…re sensual , voluptuous m●…n , given to wine and strong drink , ch●…p . 2. 11. s●… 〈◊〉 her that is filthy , or g●…s ; m●… only for s●…y and ep●…cu is●…e of e●…ing and dri●… , like t●…e craw , the birds craw : and what th●…n follow●…s ? to the op●…ssing city , zeph. 3. 1. & 2. 11. t●…us a second wa●… . 3. again●…t this , thou shalt not kill , the drunkards dr●… causeth him to ossend , ●…cause it dis●…oseth a●…d hardeneth his bowels to gre●…t unmerci●…ness towards the poor , le●…ing them almost rath●…r p●…ish then r●…ving him in his wants ; there are none commonly so unsensible of the em●…ty and ye●…rning ●…owels of others , as they that have th●…ir own ●…owels oppressed and surcharged still with surpluffage and a●…undance of meats and drinkes ; do not the●…e examples m●…ke this good . 1. of n●…bal , who bei●…g as ap●…ears v. 36. a sensual man , given to 〈◊〉 of meat and drink , was insensible of d●…vids and his companions mis●…ries , rating his servants with soul wo●…ds , who is d●…vid ? &c. 1 samuel 25. 10 sent them away empty . 2. the examp●…e of sodom , ezek. 16. 49. where 〈◊〉 ▪ o●… b●…d ( wh●…by f●…lness of d●…ink also is 〈◊〉 under●…tood ) is intimat●…d a●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why she did not as it followes , i. e s●…n the hands of the poor and 〈◊〉 . 3. the example of him who faring deli●…sly everyd●…y , he and his servants living in su●…h sensua●…ity w●…re 〈◊〉 of p●…or 〈◊〉 his m●…sery lying at his g●…te and ready to dye o●… hunger as it is likely he afterwards did , luke 16. 19. 4. ag●… this , thou shalt n●…t 〈◊〉 , the drunkards drunkenn●…sse causeth him to osfend ; because it taketh away brothe●…ly compassions and fellow-feeling of others mis●…ries . others that are perhaps in bondage , in captivities , in hard usage under the enemy , whose cause lies a ●…leeding , whose souls a languishing , and whose necks on the very block ; and to want compassions and fellow-seeling in this kind , is a kind of bloodiness and killing cr●…lty ; but drunkenness and sensuality , nothing apter than it to 〈◊〉 the same . the king and h●…man sate down to drink , but the city shushan was p●…rplexed , esther 3. this sitting down to drink , to drink sensually and voluptuously made the king and haman 5. 〈◊〉 this , t●… shalt 〈◊〉 kill ; t●… dr●…ds drunkenness●… c●…h him 〈◊〉 oss●…d , 〈◊〉 it is ●…pt to breed 〈◊〉 killing cr●…lty , sc. wick●…d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 po●…r so●…t in 〈◊〉 ; which w●…oso do●…s is a man os blood , and ther●…by h●…th his hands in blood ; ye h●…ve condemned and killed the just , sc. he whose cause was just , him have ye in wrong judgement condemned , and so killed ; hi●… , not in p●…rson but in estate , undoing him by wrong judgment , and he does not resist you , james 5. 5 , 6. and who are they that thus do ? ye have lived in pleasure on earth . so for a parall●…l place ; amos 2. 8. they drink the wine of the condemned in the ho●…se of their god. i. e. they condemned not ●…n their persons but their e●…ates , by wrong judgement . and b●…sides this killing of others thus by drunkenness , i might shew also how the drunkard hath of o●…n h●…nds ( by reason of that vice ) in his own b●…ood ; and that not only in reg●…rd of bre●…k-necks , and other fatal mishaps that befall him often in his drunk●…n mood ; but al●…o in regard of filling his body commonly with deathhasting sicknesses and diseases , through his intemperances and disorders . these men though they pretend he●…lths , heal●…hs , yet who commonly a●…ter a while ( except it be in some special iron-sides ) hath such diseased bodies , and so ●…ull of in●…irmities as they ? and those ver●… iron sides that last a reasonable time not withstanding all their di●…lempers , h●…d they lived 〈◊〉 l●…ke other men , might in all l●…kelihood h●…ve survive●… and f●…r 〈◊〉 o●…her men , and 〈◊〉 th●…t 〈◊〉 ●…he 〈◊〉 s●… . th●…t the ●…ly ●…n sh●…●…t live 〈◊〉 half ●…s ●…s , 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s●…d o●… h●…m th●…t sn●…ks th●… 〈◊〉 of t●…e v●… , as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that thirsts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vein , that neither of the●… com●…only shall live out th●…ir full dayes . thirdl●… . 〈◊〉 the next c●…mmandement , thou sh●…lt not commit 〈◊〉 ; wherein is for●…idden all l●… of unc●…nnes ; and poss●…ssing our vessels in s●…nctisication an●… hono●…r required at our hands : 〈◊〉 this how the dr●…nkard by reason of his drunk●…nnesses is apt , and very apt to sin , there n●…eds no proving of it . 1. experience is for it . where almo●…t is the p●…rty who is noted for one of these vices , that is not noted sor the other als●… ? where the p●…rty th●…t is 〈◊〉 for a m●…n of lu●…t , but he is no●…ed for a m●…n of drink too ? a●…d it will go pr●…tily the other way too , where 〈◊〉 i●… t●…e ●…rty that is noted os 〈◊〉 in drink , ●…ut he is noted of 〈◊〉 in l●… too ? an●… 〈◊〉 marvel , f●…r 2. r●… 〈◊〉 t●… . re●…son that intemper●…nce in drink 〈◊〉 br●…d ●…rance in 〈◊〉 too , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and seek soon 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spum●…e lust. and t●…re i am m●…re th●…n 〈◊〉 ●…f th●…t ●…s mind ; i will never think a 〈◊〉 to be a 〈◊〉 m●…n for t●…ough he ma●… 〈◊〉 sometimes 〈◊〉 ●…om the act ▪ yet he hath alwa●…es wi●…h him the inc●…tive , the ma●…ter , 〈◊〉 provocation to lu●…t . and as experi●…nce and reason , so 3. s●…ipture ; h●…w plain is it for this same truth too ; a●…ter 〈◊〉 upon the wine wh●…n it is red , ●…ollows next ●…erse but one , looking ●…pon the strange wo●…an , prov. 23. 31 , 33. and what does the a●…ostle make to u●…her in chambering and wantonness , but rioting and drunkenness ? if rioting and drunkenness go before , in all likelihood chambering and wantonness will follow . and therefore david , what art or trick did he use , the likeliest as in his judgement to make uriah go and lie with his wife ? why he made him drunk , 2 sam. 11. 13. and lots d●…ughters that they might preserve s●…ed of their father , made their father dru●…k . they remembred what the sodomites practised , a people of all unbridled lust and uncleanness ; sc. fulness of bread , whereby fulness of drink is understood also ; and therefore they doubted not if the sodomites drunkenness went before , the sodomites lust would follow after . fourthly , against the next commandement , thou shalt not steal ; the drunk●…rd by reason of his drunkennesses sins , 1. by stealing from the state and common-wealth . for the glutton and the d●…unkard are very state-robbers , impoverishing the state , and robbing as it were from the common store , and causing ( through their riots and excess ) dearths and famines ; but for these state-robbers the common-wealth would commonly have wealth and store enough for supply and nourishment of all ; these are like the drone bees that getting into the hive over-eat themselves , and st●…rve the other b●…s before the winter be over : but for these over-eaters , these belly-bu●…sten d●…ones that steal from the rest , there would be meat enough for the whole hive . 2. they steal from the poor . that which their intemp●…rance and belly bur●…tenship drinks and devours , how many hungry and thirsty souls of the needy would it h●…ve refreshed , aye and by due ought it also to have refreshed ! for , withhold not good from whom it is due , when it is in the power of thine hand to do it , prov. 3. 27. and therefore in their intemperance they are but very stealers from the poor ; thy superstuous things are but the poor mans 〈◊〉 things . 3. they steal , and most wickedly of all steal , from wi●…e and children , suffering her , whom if they had but two bits in the world they should seed with one ; and them whom if they had but one bit in the world they should give them half of it , su●…ering both her and them to ●…amish at home , whilst they lavish and mis-spend it abroad ; and this is the worst stealth and robbery of all , to steal thus from wise and children ; and if any high-way robber deserve a rope , there is none of these that steal from wife and children but they deserve two ; for as the wiseman hath it , whoso robbeth his father and mother and saith it is no transgression , the same is the companion of a destroyer . he is the worst robber , the worst offender of all , so he that robbeth wi●…e and children . it is well observed by aristotle , that it is the worst the●…t of all , which takes from the seed , because it is a the●…t that robs us not only of so much quantity , but whatsoever by multiplication would come of that seed . so the drunkard that robs from his child in prejudicing his education , and hindering the ground-work laying then of a 〈◊〉 means of li●…ing is the worst the●…t of all , because he deprives him not only of so much good as here is in quantity , but whatsoever also might come of that good . and thus by the drunkards sinning so mani●…oldly against both tables by reason of his drunkenn●…sses , does not the first part of the demonstration sufficiently appear , that is , that the drunkard is right the devils child , the ouncels else , b●…cause of resembling him in an universal mass of wickedness almost ? now , secondly , because we say in a more especial manner , that such an one is right the fathers son because of resembling him , not only in a general likenes of his nature , bu●… also , and more especially , in some more special markes and properties ; as that he hat●… just the fathers ●…uttering speech , &c. so let us now demon●…rate how the drunkard in this more sp●…cial manner is right the devils child because of more special resembling him in some more sp●…cial markes and properties of the devil . and 1. in this special property , that as the devil is obstinately and incorrigibly naught , hardned and habituated in evil ; ( for the devil sins from the beg●…nning ) that is , obstinately and incorrigibly as hardened and habituated in sin , without any hope of reclaiming him ; so among the most hopeless and unreclaimable sinners of all is the habituate drunkard . when belials and belzebubs and wicked spirits turn holy angels , then almost and not before , may it be expected that these sons of belial , these habituated drunkards should turn saints . does not the spirit of god that knowes well enough their spirits , bring the habituated drunkards in , saying thus ? they have stricken me , i. e. they have used all reproof , admonition and counsell to him , such as might fetch blood and make him sensible , if he had not a very seared , a very cauterized flesh , but he remaines senseless of all , 〈◊〉 i●… not 〈◊〉 nor tro●…bled upon any of tho●…e reproo●…s , ●…e seels none of th●… 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 ; but a●… all , what s●…yes th●…s in●…orrigible drunkard ? when ●…ll i a●…e ? i will seek it yet 〈◊〉 : to it ●…ain , and that so soon as he is awak●… ; ●…ay 〈◊〉 t●…inks i●…●…g ●…ill ●…xt morning , wh●…n 〈◊〉 i 〈◊〉 ? l●… here is all the amend●… , ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 me ●…n ●…s to d●…y , ●…y wo●…●…o ; so great hope i●… there of any 〈◊〉 m●…ing . come ( ●…ayes they ) i w●…ll 〈◊〉 wi●… , and we will ●…ll our s●…lves with s●…rong drink , and to morrow shall be as t●…is d●… and much more abun●…nt . if we ●…ve d●…unk s●…oopes to day , we will drink whole ●…andes to morrow . if we have whi●…d it a little to day , we will ●…sh it to morrow . if we have drunk ●…lly-●…lls to d●…y , we will drink skin 〈◊〉 to morrow ; till the u●… par●… , the ve●…y 〈◊〉 ends be 〈◊〉 to cr●…ck with 〈◊〉 : to morrow s●… as this d●…y , an●… 〈◊〉 ●…re abun●…t . ●…o here is all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of ●…e drunkard , to morrow t●… 〈◊〉 man as to day , and w●…●…o . obj. ay●… but m●…y not some drunk●…ds ●…ven 〈◊〉 drunkards turn and repent ? and 〈◊〉 w●…re so●…e of you , b●… ye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , &c. theref●…re may not ●…e by the grace of god turn and repent ? a●…s . it is not denied but some may turn and 〈◊〉 , but as david sayes , i have been 〈◊〉 ●…nd now am old , &c. so for those that ●…ve been young and now are old , let 〈◊〉 consider how many they can remem●…r in all their lives , t●…at of drunkards , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 drunk●…ds have afterwards 〈◊〉 proved sober and temperate men , live 〈◊〉 in health , and in su●…iciency of m●…ns , and out of pure conscience , not by ends , ●…ing an●… breaking o●…f that vice ; of such m●…n i would know how many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 can remember . o●…en have i been asked , and often have i enquired but never could i meet with an insta●…ce of t●…is kind but one or two at the most . s●…ndly , consider therefore that so rare are these ex●…mples , that well may we apply the word●…●…f the psalmist to such an example : this is the lords doing , his strong and mighty doing , and it is m●…rvellous in our eyes . so marvellous , that is saul among the prophets , was no such marvel , as is such and such a drunkard now among the saints ? so marvellous , that the father had good reason to say what he said , when hearing of his sons gaming , of his prodigality , yea of ●…is very whoring , said , yet there was hope ; but heari●…g afterwards of his 〈◊〉 ●…rned 〈◊〉 , he gave him ov●…r ●…r d●…d , for desperate , for one that ●…e 〈◊〉 as good as no hope at all thereof . 〈◊〉 that for my own part , of all sins ( 〈◊〉 i should know ●…e to have sinned the v●…ry sin 〈◊〉 th●… holy ghost ) of all that i 〈◊〉 have least hope to work up●…n , t●…e drunk●…rd , the old ha●…ituate 〈◊〉 i●…●…e man , the ●…tane ague f●…r the in●…ness of it ●…y any physick is said to be 〈◊〉 ●…hame of the physit●…n . the quoti●…ian dru●…kard may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●…e t●…e shame of the divine , 〈◊〉 of all moral 〈◊〉 , sc. counsel , r. proof , admonition , &c. thirdly , the qu●…on is not what the gr●… of god may do upon a dru●…rd , but what the justice of god upon dru●…kards useth to do . the ju●…ice of god which useth to give over some kind of sinners , ●…rious sinners to ●…inal 〈◊〉 ; where can it find a sinner composed so of all notoriousness almost , and all transgression against both tables to shew this judgment upon , as t●…e old inured habitua●…e dru●… ? more over besides this judgment o●… god to make the drunkard 〈◊〉 , there is that ; wine and new wine t●…e away the heart . make them sots , uncapable , morally uncap●…le of any right consideration ; al●…o 〈◊〉 cause inherent in the temper and body , that is , through conti●… dri●… to ●…ve the state and temper of the ●…y so 〈◊〉 and corrupted that it 〈◊〉 propends and inclincs to the same 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 a drunkennish droopish humor upon it ●…r strong 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , j●…t 〈◊〉 t●…e natural dropsie for ordin●…ry and weaker drinkes . by reason of all which , it comes sometimes to pass , that a m●…n ●…ll meet sometimes with some kind of drunk●…rd who may be●… his case , cry o●… o●… the 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 , inveigh 〈◊〉 company , melt under the perswasion of friends , protest and serio●…y ●…ow against the sin ●…r afterwards , and yet this hold good no longer than till he meet his companion , and fall into the next temptation . fourthly , for the more full satisfying the two instances made in the objection , consider , that for some hope of turning and repenting there is a great difference between the night drunkard and the day drunkard ; the night drunkard is he who in the night of paganish ignorance and unbelief , not knowing the v●…leness of the sin , nor the richness of the grace of god , cont●…nues in this sin ; and of this night d●…runkard there is more hope than of t●…e other , of which kind it is most likely those mentioned by austin were , and it is plain those men io●…ed by the apostle paul were , 1 cor. 6. but sor the day drunkard , who agai●…st a plain knowledge of the vileness of the sin ; and of the grace of god , continues in the s●…n ; for this day drunkard , there maybe some possibility os his tuining , but hope none at all ; the power os the grace of god may do much , but the ju●…tness of gods judgements us●…th to do little , very little in this case . how desperate and in the case of utter perishing does the scripture leave those day drunkards , these that count it pleasure to riot in the day time ; these as naturall brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed ; and indeed of all sinners any whereof does attain to he●…ven there are i am perswaded the fewest of these drunkards , especially these day drunkards there . 2. another specially property of the devil is to be a satan , i. e. a very enemy and utter adversary to all goodness and all good men ; and they that so are , in special manner are his children . o thou child of the devil , thou enemy to all righteousness . and they that are enemies to all good men , are not they therefore called the seed of the serpent ? gen. 3. but who such s●…tans , such enemi●…s unto all goodness and all good men as the ord●…nary ●…abituate drunk●…rds are ; who could sooner wish that all religion , all civility , all good honest lawes were tr●…mpled down and laid under soot than these irreligious uncivil lawless creatures ? who sooner wish there were no preaching but only preaching over a pot ; no meetof a paul but only where they met him acts 28. 15. sc. at the three taverns ; so for their satanship and utter enemi●…ship to all good men , is not that of the second of wisdom for it ? come say the drunkards , let us enjoy the good things that are present ; and then what go they on unto ? let us oppress the poor righteous man. and who but the drunkards were they that made songs , spightsul songs of good david ? the d●…unkards make songs ●…f me . psal. 69. 12. and indeed who are they that could even eat the godly with salt , but they that are still drinking the sack with the sugar ? who are they that are ready if they could to drink the v●…y destruction of the godly , but they who are drinking still the healthes the drunken healthes of others . 3. another special property of the devil , is to be a tempter , to tempt others unto sin and wickedness , and therefore called the temp●…er ; and in this property this piece of the devils cloven●…footship how just is the drunkard the fathers son. other sinners can be content most of them to be sinners alone ; the covetous to be covetous alone , he cares not though all his neighbours else were spend-thrifts . the proud and ambitious , to be ambitious alone ; he cares not though all the rest of his neighbours were such humble creatures that they wou●…d be content to lie in the way for meer stepping-stones for his greatness to step upon ; but the drunkard devil-like is a sinner who cannot be content to be wicked alone ; but he must needs tempt others unto the same wickedness also . do not healths and whole ones , and putting the cup to the nose , and down the throat or down the neck , look for it , and will you not do me right ? and what no mettal , no manhood ? and drink or a challenge ; do not these and many such tempting provocations witness this ? thus was not this the humour of that drunk●…rd , h●…b . 2. 5. his own drunkenness is there spoken of , and in verse the 15 his tempting others , and putting his bottle to their nose . wo unto him that giveth ●…is neighbour drink . so this is the humour also os t●…ose drunk●…rds , amos 2. 8. their own drunkenish ship , and in ver 11. their tempting others , aye even the very nazarites thereunto is set sorth ; ye gave the naz ●…rites wine to drink . 4. another special property of the devil is to be a rejoycer in evil : to jeer , and sucer , and laugh with himself as 't were , when he hath prevailed with any in tempting them to evil. as the good a●…gels rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner , so the bad angels at the perversion of any . and how just is the drunkard the devils child in this property , in rejoyeing in evil , and at the perversion if he can work it of any ? what a joy and triumph is it to him if his man-hood , or devil-hood rather can but lay others under●…foot ; how he sneers and laughs with himself if he can but tempt and toll on others to be some-what overseen in this vice , especially if it be a saint and one that makes prosession , if he can but prevail with such an one , this fats and pleafeth him as much as it does the devil when he can but overcome a monk , as they were wont to say of old ; this devillish rejoycing of the drunkards in anothers evil , when they can see or make others drunk also , to look on their nakedness , i. e. their weakness and shame ; is not this ma●…e th●… humour of the 〈◊〉 ed 〈◊〉 , hab. 2. that puttest 〈◊〉 bottic t●… him ▪ an●… 〈◊〉 him drunk 〈◊〉 that thou m●…yest look ( rejoyeingly and with heart ▪ content look ) on his 〈◊〉 . ness . 5. another special property of the devil is to be a sl●…nderer , a traducer , a false accuser , a lyar and 〈◊〉 of all ; j●…h . 8. 44. rev. 12. 10. now the d●…unkard how just the fat●…er ; son is he in this respect ? who such a devil as he , i. e. a sl●…nderer , a traducer , false accuser , a lyar and belier of all ; being apt in his drink when that u●…ruly thing his tongue runs wild , apt then to lay sl●…nders and false c●…lumnies , and imputations and lying reviling speeches upon all ; well does the apostle couple the drunkard and the railer or evil speaker ; in the sir●…t place naming th●… fruit first and then the stalke , in the second the stalke and then the fruit , 1 cor. 5. 11. & 6 10. b●…t howsoever intimating that if there be such fruit , it com●…s osten of such a stalk ; and if such a stalk , it brings oftentimes forth such fruit. so 1 tim. 3. 11. not slanderers . and what presently addes he ? sober . the unsober ones are commonly sl●…nderers ; and 〈◊〉 2. 3. not false accusers . and wh●…t 〈◊〉 addes he ? not given to much wine . ) they that are given to much wine , odds is it they will be devils , slanderers , false accusers . and as the drunkard is a slanderer , so especially upon the saints , like the beast that spoke great blasphemies against the name of god , and his tabernacle , and them that dwelt in heaven , rev. 13. 6. they that walked in lasciviousness , lusts , excess of wine , revellings , drinkings , were they that slandered and spake ill of the saints that would not so do 1 pet. 4. 4. 6. another special property of the devil is to be a lucifer ; a proud and big and high conceited creature ; this pride and bigness of conceit is the devils proper sin ; now how proud and big and high conceited ones the drunkards in their drink are , 1 tim. 3. 6. 1. the common phrase shews , do not we say of such when they are prettily tipt ●…nd touched with drink , that they are brave and fine , and g●…llant ? 2. experience shews it , for how brave , and fine , and gallant people , do those in that condition think themselves to be ? some drunkards we may see , who otherwise may secm to be but of base and abject s●…irits ; who yet in drink how will the●… stand upon it , what brags and vaunts will they make ? what hee s and some-bodies and great magnificoes will they take themselves to be , vilifying and scorning all others with their heels , when the drink is in their head ? 3. that text shews it ; yea also because he transgresseth by wine , he is a proud man , hab. 2. 5. the fu●…nace proveth the edge in the tempering ; so doth wine the hearts of the proud by drunkenness . 7. another special property of the devil is , that he is an impure unclean spirit ; called the unclean spirit a●…d belzebnb the god of dung as some read 〈◊〉 . now w●…o such an impure , unclean , dirty , ●…asty sinner , as the drunk●…rd ? wh●…t n●…stiness in his very outwards ? nastiness of person , nastiness of speech , speaking such impure words , as if his mouth were a very sink-hole ; nastiness of ●…ehaviour , in filling and filing all things with filth and vomit ? what nastiness and much more , if they could be peeped into , in his inwards ; such impure unclean and beastly though●…s lodging there : in a word , such an impure unclean nasty creature that no presenter remedy almost to make a sound man a●…er that vice for ever , than well to 〈◊〉 the nastiness of it . as the lacedemonian●… made their servants drunk , and then shewed them their children to make them abhor that filthy and nasty vice for ever . and so by these special markes and properties of the devil , does it not appear in the second place , how just the drunkard is the devils child , because of such just and jump resembling of him in these more special markes and properties , as if it were in his very cloven feet , and horns ? use 1. is the drunkard , ( he or she ) no other than a very son or daughter of belial , a very child of the devil ? then how great reason have we to be dehorted from this vice , which makes us no other than the very children of the devil ? and what worse thing had the scripture to call those wicked inhabitants of gibeah by , that committed such villany with the levites concubine , & would have committed wor●…e with himself : what worse thing to call them by , than children of belial ? judg. 19. 22. what worse thing had our saviour to say of those wicked jews that would have murdered him then this , ye are of your father the devil ? joh. 8. 44. what worse thing had the apostle paul to call that wicked elimas by , one full of all mischief and enemy of all righteousness , than this ? thou child of the devil , acts 13. 13. and if any know not what a fearful thing it is to be , and be called a child of the devil , let him know that it casheers him quite from being the child of god. 1 joh. 3. 10. in this the children of god are manif●…st and the children of the devil . the children of god you see , and the children of the devil are made so opposite , that as contradistinct members they cannot stand together ; how great reason have they th●…n that can tremble at being a child os the devil , to shun and avoid drunkenness that makes all that are given to it the very sons and daughters of the devil . but because in things to be done it is good to shew , not only what we are to do , but also the way how we may do it , sc. how to avoid drunkenness , let us consider . and first , that we may avoid drunkenness , that is good counsel which in this case the father gives the son , prov. 23. 20. be not among wine bibbers . he that is still among wine bibbers , a bibber himself is soon like to prove ; the old gand●…r they say , soon teaches the young gos●…in to drink . and so the old soaker will soon teach the young beginner the way for the cup to the nose ; and he that would see the bottom were there a mile to it , will soon teach the towardly beginner to leave but a little snuffe in the cup. the phrase of the gospel is remarkable , where to eat and drink with the drunken is put for an undoubted presumption that that party proves intemperate hims●…lf . mat. 24. 49. company in any kind is a tempter ; augustine confessing his former sins , speaks of one sin that he would never have done alone but sor company ; company in any kind therefore is a tempter , but especially in this vice of drunk●…nness , which is even it self called sociableness or good fellowship ; and scarce ( i am perswaded ) one of a thousand that prove drunkards , wo●…ld ever prove drunk●…rds alone but that good fellowship tempts , and not many more also i am perswaded than one of a thousand that cas●… : them selves much upon this temptation , but drunkards , pratty drunkards in good time they prove . all have not the resolution of the rechabites , to stand firm against being overcome , when pots full of wine and cups are set before them , and when it is said unto them , and much said ; drink ye wine , jeremiah 35. 5. this is a temptation that all have not a resolution to withstand . secondly , that we may avoid drunkenness , consider another remedy in the forenamed prov. 23. 31. not to look upon the wine when it is red , when it giveth the colour in the cup , when it moveth it self aright . not to please a mans self and his appetite to much in his fancying , and conceiting the nobleness , the sparkness , the pleasantness of the liquor ; and how merrily such noble and sparke and pleasant liquor will go down . he whose fancy workes thus , whose mouth waters thus , will not long be a temperate man ; he will soon prove sor the wet , what eve proved for the dry ; when she let but her appetite once begin to work , and her mouth to wa●…er in fa●…cying the forbidden fruit , how go●…d it was to the tast , and how pleasant to the ey●…s , it was not long out of her mouth , but she took thereof , and she did ●…at , gen. 3. 6. so they that sor their liquor let their app●…tites begin thus to work , it will not be long out of their mouthes , but they will take thereof and they will drink ; look not upon the wine , &c. but rather consider that go it down never so merrily , how long will that pleasure last ? surely were it a cup the most deliciously tempered that the world could afford , yet the pleasure in the merry going down therof would last no longer than a man could hold his breath , & how short a time is that ? surely so short a time , that were it a cup of nepenthe that dainty drink of the gods , nay were it a cup out of those rivers of pleasure at gods right hand ; yet to last no longer than a man could hold his breath , what so great 〈◊〉 in it ? how much more when it is but a draught of that which let it be best that grape or barley can afford , yet to a cup of those rivers of pleasures it is but swill and swash ! thirdly , that we may avoid drunkenness , consider yet another good remedy out of prov. 23. 32. sc. to consider the latter end or farwell of this merry-go-down ; the latter end of it , ( or farwell ) is , that at the last it bites like a serpent , and stingeth like an adder . that thing which gives his colour in the cup , and moves it it self aright , that sparke , and pleasant and noble thing may have a merry-go-down , but at last it bites like an adder ▪ some of this adders stinging , and some of this serpents venemous biting is pointed at ver . 29. who hath wo , who hath redness of eyes , &c. we use to say of a drunkard in drink , that he is well bit ; and it is true indeed , he is serpent-bit , he is b●…t with that biting that bites wealth out of his purse , for the drunkard and the glut●…on shall come to poverty , proverbs 23. 21. which bites health out of his body , for who within a while have commonly less health , than they that still are drinking healths ? which bites wit and naturall parts out of the head ; for wine is a mocker , and whoever is deceived thereby sh●…ll not be wise , prov. 20. 1. which bites grace and gods spirit out of the heart ; be not drunk with wine but be filled with the spirit , eph. 5. 18. to be filled with the spirit of wine and with the holy spirit are made opposites , & such as cannot stand together ; he is therefore bit indeed , serpent-bit in this manner as you have heard ; and therefore what holdest thou in thy hand , thou drunkard , what holdest thou in thy hand ? is not the glass often-times thou drinkest in born up with a couple , and sometimes with a cluster of snakes or serpents ? let the serpent on the out-side put thee in mind of the serpent within ; the serpents without are toothless serpents , and cannot bite ; but the serpent within is a toothed , and a venom-toothed serpent , bites , and bites deadly , deriving poyson to the state of thy wealth , to the state of thy health , to the s●…ate of thy naturals , impairing wit and endowments natural ; and to the state most of all of thy supernat●…rals , leaving thy heart as empty of grace as thou the cup of liquor , or at most but some very snusss in it . fourthly , that we may avoid drunkenness , let us avoid drinkings , srequent and needless drinkings , though moderately enough at first , and to no great excess ; these frequent and needless drinkings , it is great danger , they will bring on drunkenness at last : all mischief commonly begins modestly , and from very minnims and least matters ; but then afterwards that commonly proves true ; he that despiseth small things , shall fall by little and little : what says augustine of his mother monica ? how this drunkenish humour stole upon her ; her parents taking her sor a very sober girle , caused her still to draw their wine , and she in wantonness , no●… h●…ving any desire to the wine , used still as she drew for h●…r parents , to sip a little , or touch it even with her lips ; but this sipping an●… touching a little with her lips , what afterwards proved it to ? by sipping a little continually , and every day more and mo●…e , she was brought to that custome , that she would even drink off whole cups : the greatest drunkard , what commonly was he at first , but only a frequent needless drinker ? at first he did but sip i●…t , and afterwards he turned to sup , and now he swoops it ; at first he was but for kissing the cup , after he learned to settle it half way , but now he can sink it , and see the bottom of it , were there a mile to it : at first by his continual drinkings , he did but learn the cup the way to the nose , but now he cannot learn his nose the way from the cup , but it dwells there ; and as ducks and water-fowl pull not up their bills from dudling there in the water , till their breath give over , and then they pull up bill a while , but e're long down again ; not his nose from the cup , till beer ath give over , and after breathing a nose is where it was again , as the ill in the water again . fifthly , that we may avoid drunkenness , let us look upon two cups : first , the cup of the lord , and then think what fellowship hath this cup of blessing with the other cup of cursing ; cup of cursing i call it , ●…ecause who but cursed ones use it , and wh●…t but cursings are used over it ? think what s●…llowship hath the cup of the s●…n of god wi●…h the cup of the sons of b●…lial ? one of you is hungry , and another is drunk , said the apostle , counting it absurd , and a great abuse of the cup of the lord , that they who partook of the cup of the lord , should partake of the cup of drunkenness ; either therefore tremble to meddle with the cup of the sons of belial , or dar not to meddle with t●…e cup of the son of god ; let the one cup shake the other out of the hand , let the right use of the blood of christ , the cup of 〈◊〉 ▪ correct the abuse of the blood of the grape in the cup of cursing . secondly , ●…ook upon another cup , the cup of gods fury and judgment due unto sinners ; in the hand of the lord there is a cup , as for the dregs thereof , all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them , and suck them out ; the wine is red , and it is full of mixture , psal. 75. 8. let th●…m that are still sucking the other cup , think of sucking the dregs of this cup : in the 13th . of jeremiah , there are bottles of wine , and bottles of wine ; v. 12. but the one is the vvine of fury and astonishment ; let them that think so of those bottles of wine , that wine that makes glad the heart of man , think also of those other bottles of wine , that wine that is the wine of fury and astonishment , dashing them together , v. 14. and let them , whose custome it is to drink and be drunken , and spue , and fall , and rise , perhaps , again , think of that , jer. 25. 27. drink ye , and be drunken , and spue , and fall , and never rise more . see hab. 2. 15 , 16. sixthly , that we may avoid drunkenness , consider the apostle's remedy , or means against it ; sc. to put on the lord jesus christ ; but put ye on the lord jesus christ , and make not provision for the fl●…sh , to fulfill it in the lust thereof , rom. 13. 14. sc. in the things immediately fore-named , as rioting and drunkenness ; as if he should say , if you would but consider that you christians have in part put on , and should still more and more put on the lord jesus christ , he who was a pattern of all sobriety and temperance , and made no such provision for the flesh , to pamper any ways and fulfill the lusts thereof ; how could ye but shake off rioting and drunkenness , considering that ye had put on him that was the pattern of all soberness and temperance : why should any that have put on christ , the sober god , so live as if they had put on bacchus the drunken god ? why should any that have put on christ , who made no such provision for the flesh , so live as if they had put on epicurus , or him in the gospel , whose whole purveying and provision was about eat and drink , and take thine ease : what an indecorum and unseemliness were it , if he that should act and personate a king , should live and behave himself altogether as a scullion ? what an indecorum & unseem●…iness much more , if they that should act christ , should live as meer hogs and sows , those drunken and swilling creatures ? seventhly , that we may avoid drunkenness , consider another remedy of the apostle , sc. eph. 5. 18. to be filled with the spirit : and be not drunk with wine , wherein is excess , but be si●…led with the spirit : as if he should say , take heed of this beastly sin of drunkenness , and that you may avoid it , that you may not be drunk with wine , labour to be filled and drunk with the spirit : why do men commonly give themselves to wine and strong drink , but only that they may be merry , that they may be jovial , that they may drive away sorrow , and dumps , and discontents ? well , to do that , be ye filled with the spirit , and the spirit of comfort shall assord more comfort , and help better to drive out dumps than all the spirit of wine can . one drop o●… it makes l●…ghter hearts th●…n the ●…ull presses , and whole vintages of the other can ; therefore , as augustine hath it , let no man be drunk , yea , rather let every man be drunk ; but let him s●…e with what it is , sc. that is , with the spirit : this will make you break forth more into singing and rejoycing , in psalms , and hymns , and spiritual songs , ( as it follows ) than wine , and all the spirits of wine can make the drunkards break forth into their singing and rejoycing in their foolish and profane songs : therefore be ye filled , be ye drunk , but see with what ; with the spirit , with that inebriating cup , eat , o friends , drink , yea , drink abundant●…y , o beloved , cant. 5. 1. secondly , are drunkards the very children of the devil ? then drunkards look to it , the devil ( and there is good right and reason ●…or it ) will have his own , will one day go away with those that are his : will not every beggar contend for their own brats , and not lose one of them , but hosse and be gone ? will not the devil also , think you , contend for his brats , and not lose one of them , but hosse and be gone ? hosse and be gone with them to their fathers house , to the devils place of abode , and judge where it is : drunkards look to it , you are the devils children , and the devil certainly will one day have his own , nor will god ever go about to hinder him of his right , to hinder him of any one that is his ; nay , he will never suffer any one of the devils children to be laid at his door , to step within his threshold ; see how he thrusts and packs them out of his house and kingdom . be not deceived , neither fornicators nor drunkards , 1 cor. 6. 9. the drunkards are among those that shall never come into gods house , never inherit his kingdom : drunkards ( i say it the third time ) look to it , as surely as the devil shall never go away with any of gods children , so ●…either will god be troubled with any one of his ; shall i take the childrens bread and cast it unto dogs ? much more shall god take the childrens inheritance , and give it unto devils , and children of devils , such as drunkards , you drunkards are . thirdly , are drunkards the very children of the devil ? then magistrates look to it , how ye may suppress and hinder this breed ; these children o●… bclial , they breed as laban's flocks did at the watering-troughs when they came thither to drink , gen. 30. 38. so these , they breed and gender at the watering troughs , at the drinking places , at blind , supersluous , by-corner ale-houses , that are in by-obscure corners , there this brood breeds , as serpents , and dragons , and hurtful beasts they breed still in holes and dens , and by-coverts , that they may be the freest and most out of the way , not to be hindred in their breed ; if the breed therefore of these so hurtful creatures , these sons and daughters of belial would be hindred , their holes , their dens , their by-coverts where they breed , sc. blind , superfluous by-corner ale-houses must be looked into . these are the devils very nurseries , and breeding-places for his brats to be nursed and brought up in ; and ●…o long as he hath such convenient nurseries , and breeding-places allowed him , no marvel if the world ( as it is ) be full of his brats ; therefore they that are in place , i would they would be pleased to let enquiry be made into such blind by-corner ale-houses , the very nurseries and seminaries for the devil to breed and bring up his brats there : they talk of dutch mens draining our english fens and overslown grounds , and how commodious it would be to the countrey ; but is by these and o●…her good means the english would seek to dram the dutch drinking that overslows all among us , how much more commod●…ous a thing would that be to the countrey ? is it not better to have a little ground drowned among us , than our selves ? and therefore is it not better to drain that overflowing that overflows our selves , than that which overflows our ground ? fourthly , are drunkards the very children of the devil ? then hostesses and good ale-wives had need look to it , how they skink and draw too much out to them that they see ready to run into intemperance and excess ; for why , they help to the begetting of sons and daughters to the devil ; and if the devil be the father of these , the hostess , in a manner , is the mother , and he begets them of her ; at least if some other thing , sc. their own intemperance and drunkenish lu●…t be the mother , yet the hostess is the midwife , and without her h●…lp they could never be brought forth ; but it is not good either to be mother or midwife to the devils brats , fifthly , are drunkards the very children of the devil ? then you that are ●…ons and daughters of god , look ye to it , how ye have too much fellowship and commumunion with these sons and daughters of belial , especially how ye make matches and marriages with them ; if we knew any that were bodily begot of the devil , as they talk that some have been , who would endure to match with such an one ? well , if there were any that were even bodily begot of the devil , yet were they not so properly his sons and daughters , as they that are begot of his spirit and spiritual generation ; because in that generation he does but beget th●…m , d●… alieno , i. e. ●…umano semine rep●…rto & s●…rvato ; but in this he ●…egets , de proprio . it is condemned as a fault , and reckoned up as a thing of great incongruity , that the sons of god should marry with the daught●…rs of m●…n , gen. 6. 2. b●…t how far more incongruous and unfitting , that the sons and daughters of god should marry with the sons and daughters of b●…lial ? ezra 9. 2. & 1 cor. 6. 14. heb. xiii . 4. but whoremongers and adulterers god will judge . in the former part of this verse is set down the honour of marriage , with an implied invitation thereto of those who naturally and justly do find themselves to stand in need thereof ; as likewise the purity and undefiledness that should be in that state : marriage is honourable in all , and the bed und●…siled . in this latter part is set down gods judgments upon those , who either in single life , when god hath provided marriage an holy and honourable remedy against incontinency , do rather chuse , because of the cares and incumbrances , and many pre-conceived irksomnesses in marriage , rather chose to be made one flesh with a whore , the devil being the priest to couple together , than one with a lawful espoused vvife , god being he that ties the knot : ei●…her thu●… in single life or m●…rried 〈◊〉 , when they might d●…ink 〈◊〉 o●…t o●… t●…eir own c●…stern , thirst and se●…k ●…r ●…ollen w●…ters , ●…or 〈◊〉 a●…d un ●…th 〈◊〉 like some ●…rangely dist●…mpered and diso●…dered throat , that no 〈◊〉 out of their own cell●…r will please and quen●…h th●…ir thirst , but onely forreign drinks sought for from house to house from others g●…ile-sats ; f●…r th●…se , the one being the vvhoremonger , w●…rein th●… vvhore or drab also i●… implied ; and the oth●…r the ad●…lterer , where●…n the 〈◊〉 ●…lso is implied , for thes●… ; but 〈◊〉 , says the l●…tter p●…t of the vers●… , and adulter●…rs god will 〈◊〉 . and goo●… reason , says chrysostome , for wh●…n g●…d hath s●…nctified and indulged m●…rriage unto them ●…or a reme●…y of all incontinency , well may he judge the vvhoremong●…r and adul●…erer , who will needs be m●…dling with ●…orbidden fruit , when there is permitted fruit ●…nough to taste of ; will needs be ranging and casting up nose abroad , and scenting after forbidden bits , when he might cut bread off his own trencher : it was that whereby the spirit of god , under the parable o●… the rich man , who had many flocks of his own , and y●…t spared to kill of his own flock ●…or the traveller ●…hen he came , and took and dressed the poor mans only ew-lamb for the traveller ; that whereby the spirit of god aggravated david's adultery , that having vvives enough o●… his own , ●…ike the rich m●…n that had his flocks , none but the poor mans only ewe-lamb , uriab's bathsheba , would serve the t●…rn to satisfie his lust , when that traveller came ; well therefore may the close of that verse be , but whoremongers and adulterers , &c. the beginning whereof is , marriage is honourable . vvell may the punishment be severe , where the remedy is easie and o●…fered a●… hand : so for context . for text it self , there needs no great expounding it ; the difference between vvhoredom or fornication and adultery , appears by what is already spoken , sc. that the first properly is between single couples , when both the parties are single folk ; the second , when either one , or both the par●…ies are married people , and so make either single or double adultery ; this properly , although the use of the word is sometimes extended to comprehend adultery also under it , as mat. 5. 32. whosoever shall put away , saving for the cause of fornication . aye , and 〈◊〉 adu●…tery too , 1 cor. 5. 1. now for the handling of the word●… , the drift of them is b●… proposing god a severe 〈◊〉 against these two 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 , whoredom and adul●…ry , thereby to deterre and 〈◊〉 there●…rom , and therefore the dri●…t of my speech sh●…ll be the same , sc. by argum●…nts included in these words , to d●…terre and ●…isswade from these two abomina●…ions ; and the a●…guments may be three . first , from consideration of the judge , who shall take the scanning , examining , ●…nd adjudging of these two sins into his own hands , being no other than god himself . secondly , from consideration of the judgments which he shall , what here , what hereafter inflict upon offenders in them , implied indefinitely in the word judicabit , he will judge . thirdly , from ●…onsideration of the grievousness of the sins themselves , impli●…d also in the judgment ; for the grievousness of judgments imply grievousness of sins ; god he proportions judgment to s●…n ; he doe●… not l●…t them feel the weight of his full 〈◊〉 who are but less 〈◊〉 , nor them t●… tip of his li●…tle finger onely , that are gross 〈◊〉 . now , according ●…o the●…e three arguments , we will h●…ndle th●…ee propositions . proposition the f●…st . that whoredom and adul●…ry is to be avoid●…d , b●…cause god will be ●…he judge of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 . god , with ●…hom there is no 〈◊〉 it out with 〈◊〉 and concealment ; god , with whom 〈◊〉 is no buyi●…g it out with bribery and corruption ; go●… , with whom there is no ●…aring it out with po●…er and greatness ; for what thinks the f●…rnicator or adul●…erer to animate them to their un●… ? but ●…ither they sh●…ll carry that wo●…k of darkness in such darkness and concealment , th●…t who shall know them ? or if their filthiness ●…e d●…scovered , they will lay on such load , ( and they half know the corr●…ption and commut●…ments of the co●…rt ) that they will bribe o●…f all shame and punishment : or pe●…haps , they are such great ones , such noli-me-tangere's , that they think who dare meddle with them ; well , but let them consider whether they be such great ones , that god dare not meddle with them ; whether they can lay on such load , as to bribe off his justice ; whe●…her they c●…n c●…rry it in such a cloud and clos●…ness as to bleer his eyes : whoredom and adultery is to be avoided , because god will be the judge . god , with whom , first , there is no boulstering it out with closeness and concealment , this is a sin of any other that hates the light , that walks in dark●…ess , that creeps in corners , that makes many doubles and squats , fits as close as it can ; and then they think all i●… well , if they can , with the adulterous woman , eat , and wipe th●…ir mouths , and say , they have done no wickedness , prov. 30. 20. if they can in such secrecy comm●…t their lewdness , as not to be suspected o●… the world ; the phrase being taken from those that munch it in private , or wi●…h head in the amry , and then wipe all clean , and come simpering forth , as though they had not eaten at all . but do they consider that for all their clean wiping of their mouths , there is one that sees all their munching in private , and with head in the amry , all their eating of their bread of secrecies , as adultery is called , prov. 9. 17. one that sees all this and will judge them ●…or it . the psalmist ( psal. 50. 18 , &c. ) reckons up some close-carried sins , and and among them adultery , and brings in the lord the k●…ower and avenger of them ; when thou s●…west a thief , thou consentedst with him , and hast been partaker with adulterers , &c. but i will reprove thee , and set before thee the things which thou hast done , ver . 21 , 22. o consider this , sc. that i see wel●… enough , and will avenge such secret , close-carried sins , sins with such a veil and curtain drawn between them and the 〈◊〉 eye ; and among the secreter and cunninger carried sins too that the lord threatens that he will come a swift witn●…ss against them for , mal. 3. 5. adultery is one . the world cannot , perhaps , much witness against them for these secreter , and cunninger carried sins , but i will come near you in judgment . and hence when the m●…n was jealous of his wife , and no manifest conviction could be had of it , the judgment was devolved and turned over to the lord , and the bitter water then was to try her , numb . 5. she might deceive her husband , but this bitter water would find her out , would make her thigh to rot , and her belly swell ; ●…f this trial were yet a foot , and some such trial ●…or us men also , may it not be doubted what would become of some thighs and some bellies ? well , beloved , he that tried and judged the guilty by the bitter water , then he knows as well the guilty now , and will surely judge them one day by the fire , that he judgeth not now by the wat●…r : christ told the samaritan woman all her p●…anks and tricks , john 4. use 1. of correction : will god , with whom there is no bolstering out with closeness , be the judge of all who●…mongers and adulterers ? then wha●… profits it any to eat and wipe their mouths , and say , they have done no wickedness ? what profits the adulterer to wait for the twi-light ? job 24. what profits the whorish woman or her guests to call them in thus unto her , s●…olen wat●…rs are swe●…t , prov. 9. 17. it is said by some , that that which our saviour writ on the ground , when the scrib●…s and pharis●…es were accusing the woman tak●…n in adul●…ery , be●…ore him , that it was their own sins , their own gros●… adulteries , and that they ashamed and convicted in conscience , went sliving and slinki●…g away th●…eat one by one : well ; beloved , if he that writ their sins then on the ground , should send forth the fingers of an hand , to write over the like sins ( if any of us be guilty ) on the next pillar over against us , for all to stare and g●…ze on , how would we i●…k and be ashamed , and slive and slink ●…ut as soon as we could ! wel●… , consider there●…ore what ●…t will be when he that now f●…es and says nothing , shall reprove u●… , a●…d set be●…ore us and all the world one day the things , the hidden things of dishones●…y th●…t we have done , and shall bring us ●…orth upon the stage , wi●…h b●…hold the man and his work●… . secondly , of i●…struction : will god be the judge , & c ? then hearken to solomon's instruction , why wilt th●…u , my son , ●…e ravished with a strange woman , prov. 5 ? thus joseph , wh●…n his mistress tempted him to lie with her , how can ●… , says he , commit this great wickedness , and so sin against god ? gen. 39. 10. against god , who , though i may wipe my mouth , and stand before my mister as an hone●…t man , yet god ●…nows how mealy mo●…thed i am . and thus job upon this ground he made a co●… with his eyes , that he would not look , dishonestly look upon a maid ; d●…th not he see my ways ? job 31. 4. 2. a second branch of the 〈◊〉 , that wh●…redom and adult●…ry is to be avoided , because god wi●…l be the judge , with whom there is no buying it out with bribery and corruption . if in ●…eed we were onely to be judged by mans judgment , then that which 〈◊〉 s●…w in h●…s days ●…or corruption of courts , i saw ●…nder the sun the place of judgment , that 〈◊〉 was there , eccl. 3. 16. that perhaps , might be found in our days , but 〈◊〉 and adulter●…rs god will judge ; god , of whom the psalmist says , righteousness and salvation is the habitation of thy seat , psal. 97. 2. god , of whom the psalmist says again , the heavens shall declare his righteousness , for god is judge himself , psal. 50. 6. and therefore though thou mayest buy out thy white sheet , and escape thy penance here , yet there will be no buying out thy black she●…t , i mean , that blackness of outward da●…kness to envelop and enclose thee , nor escaping thy punishment there ; though thou may●…st buy out that weeping that should be in the penitents place , the seat where penance is done ; yet thou shalt not buy ou●… that w●…ping and wailing and gnashing of teeth , that will be in the damneds place , where the impenitents be ; consider therefore , that whoremongers and adulterers god will judge ; god , that righteousness and judgment is the habitation o●… his seat ; god , that hath pronounced a woe to the corrupt judges , incorrupt therefore himself surely will be . woe unto th●…m that call evil good , isa. 5. god , who when he begins to lay judgment to the rule , and righteousness to the b●…lance , then a great 〈◊〉 sh●…ll not re●…eem thee ; will h●… esteem thy riches ? no , not gold , job 36. 19. for the third branch , god will be judge , w●…th whom there is no be●…ring it out with p●…wer and greatness . i may be such a powerful and awous m●…n in the pl●…ce wh●…re i live , of so gre●…t might , and so great authority , and such a p●…rlous nolime-tang●…re , th●…t few d●…re meddle with me , few dare s●…y unto me so much as bl●…ck is mine eye ; but consider how he that spake out of the whirle-wind derided all power and greatness , when it should cope and have to do with him ; gird up thy loyns now like a m●…n , h●…st thou an arm like god ? job 40. 1 , &c. the mountains quake at him , nahum 1. this is that god th●…t will judge whore-mongers and adulterers . hence abimelech , though a king , was so awed with that , b●…hold , thou art but a dead man , for the woman which thou h●…st taken , for she is a mans wife , gen. 20. 3. that he forth with restored her , and untouched : abraham he was but a poor stranger , un●…ble to revenge the wrong , but abimelech knew the dread and terror of him who had s●…id , behold , thou art but a dead man. hence david also the king , who had committed adultery with the wif●… of uriah , he , though a king , was smit , and humbled full low , when he understood the prophet nathan's parable i●… the lords name , and it got that from him in his penitential psalm , against thee , thee onely have i sinned , psal. 51. 4. and hence , when paul , though but a prisoner , disputed before felix the governour , about righteousness , and temp●…rance , and the judgment to come , f●…lix tremb●…d . act. 24. 26. for why , he was a corrupt m●…n for justice , as appears by his exp●…cting a bribe ; and an 〈◊〉 man of body , his wife drus●…lla being anot●…er mans wife , one azizus , king of 〈◊〉 , whom he had enveigled and 〈◊〉 away from her former husband ; and therefore though he were a governour , and paul but a prisoner before him , yet this judgment to come , or the power of my text , made my intempe●…ate , adult●…rous felix to tremble . and hence , lastly , 〈◊〉 baptist , though but in camels hair , snub●…ed king herod in his s●…lks and soft garments , snubbed him with , it is not lawful for thee to have thy brothers wife . all one , as if he had said , whoremong●…rs and 〈◊〉 god will judge . and hence , to add one more , holy la●…imer presented to king henry the eight , whose fault with wom●…n was well known , presented to him the new testament with this inscription embossed upon the cov●…r ; for●…catores & adulteros judicabit d●…us ; he knew not how better to deal with a great prince , but greatly , though subject to his lust. well , if abimeleches , if davides , if faelixes , if h●…rodes , if heneryes have been awed with this text , how should this awe and terrify such s●…ly sneakes as the best of us are ! think therefore wh●…n thou goest over thine own th●…eshold about such a wickedness as this , that thou 〈◊〉 there written upon the door posts wi●…hin , whormong●…rs &c. think when thy foot is entering into the house of the strange woman , that thou seest there also written upon the door-posts without , whormong●…rs and adulterers , &c. think when she that hunts after the precious life of a man hath brought thee into her chamber of folly , think that walls , and window , and curtain , and canopy , and the very face and forehead of her or him thou shouldst be naught with , all have this written upon them , fornicatores & adulteros judicabit deus . finally think whiles thou meditatest & goest about that wicked act , that every whisper , every murmur , every least noise sounds nothing in thy fearfull eares , but whor●…mongers and adulterers god will judge . think thus and if this will not serve to re●…rain thee , and make thee chast for the kingdom of ●…eaven , it were not a bad word , nor i think an ●…dle word , to say , lord h●…ve m●…rcy on thee , more than three p●…rts of four of thee are 〈◊〉 hell. and god , that works wond●…s , can indeed , if he would , pull thee back by a very hair ; but he or she is m●…re th●…n desperate , that put their salvation so to a very hair , and to odds more ( on my c●…nscience ) than a thousand to one . s●…cond p●…oposition . that whoredome and adultery is to be avoided , consid●…ring the judgments , th●…t what h●…re , what hereaf●…r shall be 〈◊〉 upon offenders after th●…se abominations . the judgments that the just providence inflicts , or le ts come upon them here , are partly spiritual , upon the soul ; p●…rtly temporal , upon th●…ir body , upon their goods , upon their good n●…me , upon their childr●…n or posterity ; spiritual upon th●…ir soul , god gives them over , first , to a spiritu●…l coecity and sottishness , not to be capable , not to be sensible of any councel , of any consideration that might reclaim them ; whoredom and w●…e , and new wine take away the heart , hos. 4. 11. these two sins make very sots ; make them that are any wh●…t sar gone in ●…hem , insensible of the vil●…ness of the sins , of the fearfulness and undoubt●…dness of the judgments , of any considerations that should reclaim them from those sins ; they consider not in their hearts , that i remember all their wickedness , hos. 7. 2. who are those sots that are so inconsiderate●… why , the whorish and adulterous sots , v. 4 , 5. th●…y are all adulterers , &c. who being past f●…ling ( says the apostle ) have given 〈◊〉 over to lasciviousness , eph. 4. 19. a sign they are past fe●…ling , when they give themselves over to lasciviousness , and giving themselves over to lasciviousness , a means to make thems●…lves more past feeling : a●…d therefore well might ecclesiasticus , speaking of an old adulterer , one that has got a haunt and habit in his adultery , add this epithet , an old adulterer that dote●… , eccles. 25. 2. secondly , which sollows upon the former , god gives th●…m commonly over to final impenitency and perishing in their sins without ever being reclaimed : th●…t which z●…phar says , job 20. his bones are ful●… of the sins of his youth , which shall lie down wi●…h him in the dust. this sin of youth , whi●…h in gods ju●…t judgment lies down with a man in the dust , i. e. which he dies in , unrepented of , this ●…n most likelihood is the sin of incontinency , the sin of uncleanness , which begins in younger and 〈◊〉 years , and holds so long as there is any m●…rrow in their bones , and th●…n when m●…rrow and moisture is spent , and nothing but rottenness in his bones , his bones are full of the sin of his youth . solomon also is express for this judgment of final impenitency , none that go in to her return again , neither take they bold of the paths of life , prov. 2. 19. and therefore in his disswasions from this sin , he leaves them that are once taken with it as meer perdues and lo●…t men , and lodging in the chambers of death , and the guests of the depths of hell , prov. 5. 22 , 23. & 7. 27. 9. 18. a●…d therefore also in his such plenty of 〈◊〉 in this m●…tter he directs none to the ent●…ngled , to them that are in the snare already , to rid and reclaim them out of it ( little hope he hath of that ) but to the supposed free to keep them out of i●… ; no more have i any great hope to work upon any that are old in adulteries , old in h●…rlotry and whoredom , ezek. 23. 43. few of these ever return ag●…in , but prove th●… g●…ests of the depths of hell : but my aim and hope only is by this and oth●…r arguments to do some good upon them that are free from debauchedness in that sin , from whence commonly , as from hell , there is no redemption . ecclesiasticu●… , though not out of special inspira●…on , yet out of special experience and observation he spake it ; all bread is sw●…et to an whoremonger , he will not leave off till he die , eccles. 23. and no marvel , for the very state of the body is so poysoned and co●…rupted with the habit of this sin , that naturally it propends and inclines to the like ; b●…ing nothing but a very seminary of lust , and the state of the mind also so poysoned , that the fancy and imagination works nothing but impure thoughts , aye , ev●…n when the body is d●…cayed and impotent , the mind yet most lustful and libidinous , as may appear by the bawdry speeches ( able to make modest ears to glow ) of old writhen 〈◊〉 , and old worn out fornicators ; th●…ir filthy speech●…s nothing but the boyling and bubling up of the poyson and puddle at heart ; what hope therefore of their recovery , that have such poysoned bodies and minds ? object . aye , but are there not divers as rahab the harlot , the woman a sinner , sc. a common w●…ore , luke 7. the prodigal son that wasted all his substance among harlots , luke 15. the woman taken in adultery , john 8. those , such were some of you , 1 cor. 6. augustine and ambrose his , ego non sum ego , that have recovered ? answ. it is not denied that some of these the extraordinary grace of god may recover , as some some of them that have the plague ( but oh how few ) extraordinarily recover ; but for all that , some some extraordinarily recover of the plague ; would it not scare any wise man from entring into a pest-house , where he should be sure to take the plague ? god he sometimes , though it be but seldom , works a miracle in nature , so sometimes too , but it is but seldom , he works a miracle in grace ; as i count this , to conv●…rt one haunted , and old in fornications and adulteries , as far above the ordinary course of grace i count it to convert such , and cure them of th●…ir flux , as above the ordinary course of nature it was to cure the woman in the gospel of her flux , her bloody-flux ; and therefore for the woman the sinner , for her taken in adultery , sor the samaritan woman , sor them , 1 cor. 6 , &c. no marvel , if when miracles in nature then were so srequent , miracles in grace also to conve●…t such as th●…se were so srequent . again , ●…or the obj●…cted in●…tances , consi●…er how great means was used to their conversion , they had the ben●…fit either of extraordinary miracles , miracles wrought by christ and his apostles ; m●…racles , such , as if he that speaks the word now a days could work the works , perhaps , he might strike some of our verie●…t harlots and whoremasters ; or the benefit of extraordinary humiliation and a●…ction , as the prodigal brought so low , that he desired the swines husks , and could not have them ; or the ben●…sit of a most powerful , prepotent , importunate grace , as a●…gustine ; and yet oh what a long and hard scuffle , and conflict with his corruption before over●…me , as his own miserable complaint shews : how long , ●…ow long ? to morr●…w , an●… to morrow , why n●…t now , why not this hour should there be an end of my uncle●…nness ? thirdly , god give●… them over also to an universal profaneness , and irreligiousness , and wretchlesness in all naughtiness , to grow ●…ark naught every way ; so that un●…versal profaneness and naughtiness of the o●…d world , for which the flood was brought upon it , what begun it in , but in inordinate unruly lust ? they took themselv●…s wives , ( many wives that were before god no better than whores ) of all which they choose , gen. 6. 3. and then what follows ? v. 5. god saw that the 〈◊〉 of man was great . so it is not for naught that in that universal unrighteousness that the wi●…ked world was given over to , fornication leads the van ; being filled with all unrighteousness , fornication , rom. 1. and in reckoning up the works of the flesh , adultery , for●…ication , and such uncleanness , leads the rank too , gal. 5. and the profane person presently sollows the fornicator , heb. 12. 16. as all profaneness being next at hand , when the sin of uncleanness goes before : give me but a man or woman once given over to that sin , and a p●…osane he or she , i will write them in their foreheads ; that makes no great conscience of of any duty , either to god or man , except so far as some outward publick shame , and publi●…k law may , perhaps , work upon them . the heathen moral man could ob●…rve , that voluptuousness and intemperate lust cracks the practick judgment for any good moral duty to be done ; so that once a voluptuous man , an universal evil m●…n also : and these are the spiritual judgments whi●…h the just providence of god in●…icts upon offenders in this kind ; and if these be fearful judgments ( i speak to them that have not as yet through debauchedness in these sins lost all sense and spiritual feeling ) as for them that are gone in debauchedness in these sins , i look but ●…or a privy sneer from them in scorn , or a privy grin in anger : but for the other ▪ if whoredom and wine , and new wine take away the heart , make very sots , which is the first : i●… none commonly of them that go unto her return again , nor take hold of the paths of life , which is the second : if they be given over also by little and little to an universal profaneness , &c. th●…n upon peril take heed of that which gives over to a spiritual caecity , &c ▪ which draws final impenitency , which plunges into an universal profaneness . a second sort of judgments upon 〈◊〉 here in this life , a●…e temporal ; and , 〈◊〉 , upon t●…eir 〈◊〉 , god 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sin with m●…ny , and 〈◊〉 , a●…d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diseas●…s 〈◊〉 , a●… p●…x a●…d 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and unnatural , 〈◊〉 go●…ts ( t●…e ●…ssue ost●…ntimes , s●…y the learned , os i 〈◊〉 in vvi●…e and vvomen ) together 〈◊〉 w●…th shortness of days , ●…ing untimely cut osf by reason of those dis●…ases got by th●…s inte●…perance ; or if they live any time , with hudles of insirmities in their old age ; no body such a very spittle of infirmities in elder years , as the intemperate luxurious body ; and therefore some think that solomon's l●…st chapt●…r of ecclesiastes , wherein he describes a most weak i●… firm state of old age , that the keep●…rs of the 〈◊〉 tr●…ble , and the strong m●…n b●…w 〈◊〉 , &c. that that hath 〈◊〉 to his own s●…ls , and the ●…uddle ●…s insirmities , that his great intemperance with wom●…n brought his old crazed body in●…o : and 〈◊〉 's spee●…h hits upon this ; ●…is 〈◊〉 are full of the sin ●…f his youth . and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , prov. 5. lest thou mourn when thy fl●…sh and bo●…y are 〈◊〉 . mo●…s , or rottenness and worm●… shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…o heritage , 〈◊〉 19. 〈◊〉 ●…fore wouldest thou hav●… 〈◊〉 to t●…y ●…vil , and m●…rrow to thy 〈◊〉 , p●…v 3. and wouldst thou live long , and see good days ? then avoid that sin that will be lang●…shing to thy navil , and rottenness to thy bones , and which will either make thy old body to be but a diseased spittle , or untimely make thee but a heritage for moth and worms . secondly , upon their goods ; god judges this sin with letting it bring a consumption often-times , and wasting of the estate . how many goodly estates have our own eyes ( if we would observe ) see consumed , especially by this sin ; what through the costliness of it ( for no such drainer and soaker of an estate as the whorish woman ) and what through gods curse following upon this sin ; by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread , prov. 6. aye , lower too , for the prodigal he spent all his substance so upon harlots , that as the parable sets him forth , he longed for the very swines husks , and could not have them ; and most just with god it is that they who through fulness of bread ( for that commonly is the occasion ) fall upon that sin , through that sin should be brought to a piece of bread : they that through riotous intemperate living , as did the prodigal , fall upon harlots , through harlots should be ●…rought to penurious a●…d miserable living 〈◊〉 ; 〈◊〉 , in purging himsels , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had not b●…en 〈◊〉 with a woman , and th●…t 〈◊〉 had n●…t 〈◊〉 wait at his 〈◊〉 door , sc. to have been naught with 〈◊〉 neighbours wife , he useth this argument ; that h●…d ●…e done thus , he 〈◊〉 w●…ll 〈◊〉 , th●…s , as gods just 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 have be●…n ●… fire , to have 〈◊〉 ●…o 〈◊〉 ( sc. his estate ) and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out all his increas●… , job 31. 12. a●…d 〈◊〉 love ye your goods ? love ye th●…m ? aye , that is to be fea●…d too well ; and would ye leave a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…pon th●…m ? then take h●…d o●… that sin 〈◊〉 will bring to a mors●…l os br●…ad , and will 〈◊〉 a fire from god , p●…aps , 〈◊〉 a slack fire , but a sur●… , to 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 , and roo●… out all 〈◊〉 incr●…ase . 〈◊〉 , u●…n 〈◊〉 good name ; god brands this si●… 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a ●…rand of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reproach ; what a●…e t●…y and their 〈◊〉 , though musks and swe●…t-ball●… t●…y may carry about with them , what 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the nostrils of all 〈◊〉 m●…n 〈◊〉 women ? a bywo●…d and common talk , more than they thi●…k ( excep●… t●…eir ears glow very 〈◊〉 ) in every ones mouth ? and ju●…t it is with god , that they who dishonour ●…nd m●…ke themselves vile in this 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 t●…ey should again be dishonour●…d 〈◊〉 held but vile in the repute os the world ; a wound ( sc. to his name ) and dishono●…r shall he ( or she ) g●…t , and his reproa●…h sh●…ll not be wiped away , prov. 1. 6. a●…d what reproach this sin is , 〈◊〉 's 〈◊〉 shews , let her take it ( sc. his s●…gnet an●… bracelets ) to her , lest we be ashamed , gen. 38. and what but to hide th●… common ●…hame , was that which made david , after he had committed adulte●…y with uriah's wise , made him send , first , for uriah home out os the c●…mp , to lie with his wife ; and when that would not do it , made him drunk the second night , that he might go and lie with his wi●…e , and so father the child ; and when that neither would do it , made him write to joab , to place uriah in such a place of the battel where he might be stain , and so david might ma●…ry 〈◊〉 , and so save his credit , in being hone●…tly reputed the father of the child ; and to fay no more , what a brand of in●…amy god hath set upon this sin , see it but hence , know ye any ( for i know them not ) that are too too presumed osfenders in this , o●…ely they have had a little better hap , than to be taken as she , john 8. in the very fact ; look but now full in their faces , stare on them , point towards them , and see if these very impudent ones blush not for shame , and hang down heads ; and therefore have ye any respect to your credits , would you not be vile in the eyes of all m●…n , would you not have your names to be a very stink in mens nostrils ? but rather like j●…siah's ; the remembrance of josiah is like the composition of the perfume made by the art of the apoth●…ary , ecclesiasticus 49. take heed of that sin , which who so commits , a wound and dishonour shall he get , and his reproach shall not be wiped away . fourthly , god punisheth them in regard of children and posterity , and that two ways ; sometimes in depriving them of posterity , sometimes in laying a curse upon posterity : 1. in depriving them ; so upon abimelech's 〈◊〉 s●…rah , ab●…aham's wife unto him ; god fa●…t closed up the wombs of all the house of abime●…ch , that they conceived not , nor bear him any children , till sarah being restored , abraham prayed for him , gen. 20. and so , they shall commit whoredom , and shall not increase , hos. 4. the latter being the judgment upon the ●…ormer ; their not incre●…sing , s●… . their being without po●…rity , the ju●…gment upon their committing w●…dom ; and a just judgment that th●…ir own field should be barren , that marre oth●…rs fi●…lds with ●…owing strange seed in them ; a just judgment that their own 〈◊〉 should put forth no plants , that set others stocks with bastard-slips , wisd. 4. 3. 2. in laying a curse commonly upon posterity , if they have any ; the common saying is , the sin of the seed shall be punished in the seed ; and most just it is , that the sin of the body should be punished in the fruit of the b●…dy ; the s●… of propagation in the posterity it sel●… , or propagation , the sin of the vvomb in the child of the vvomb ; i will not have m●…rcy upon h●…r childr●…n , ●…r th●…y be the children of whoredoms , 〈◊〉 . 2. a whore and a harlot their mother wa●… , and 〈◊〉 no mercy will i have o●… her c●…n ; it is spoken indeed directly of spiritual vvhoredom , sc. idolat●… ; ●…t it bea●… it self upon the suppos●…d truth , as 〈◊〉 known of god●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvhor●… in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to 〈◊〉 the child 〈◊〉 ju●…t th●… 〈◊〉 son , ●…r the mothers 〈◊〉 , i. e. to follow their steps in vileness and uncle●…nness , to hunt the fle●…h the father loved , and to h●…nt the oven the mother was hid in ; thou art thy mothers daughter , s●…id the lord to her that was so by kind , ezek. 16. and i will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom , ho●… . 4. 14. vvho 〈◊〉 therefore that desires the blessing of c●…ldren , and blessed children , which is more ? let them take heed of that sin which caused all the vvombs in abimelech's house to be fast closed up ; or which , if the fruit of the vvomb be granted , m●…y cause that denunciation to be he●…rd , i will not have mercy upon their children , for they be the children of whoredoms . fifthly , god often punisheth this sin if it be in a married party , by sending a great deal of uncomfortablenes●… in the marriage-state , through j●… and jealousies of the contrary p●…rty , and 〈◊〉 it is , that they who sin against the 〈◊〉 state , should be punished by the marriage-state ; just , that she th●…t fors●…kes the guide of her youth , prov. 2. or he th●…t de●…ls treacherously against the wife of his youth , mal. 2. that they should ●…d the punishment there , and at that p●…rty's hand , against whom the trespass is committed : thus if it be in a married party , by sending uncomsortableness ; or else by punishing the sa●…ltiness of the one party with letting the other party p●…y him or her in their own coin ; le●…g the vvoman prove a quean where the man is once a knave ; or ●… contra , because thou hast taken the wife of uriah , i will take thy wives , and give them to thy neighbour , 2 sam. 12. and if my heart hath been deceived with a woman , then let 〈◊〉 wife grind unto another , job 31. job's imprecation is but according to the ordinary t●…nor of gods judgment , that where the husband lays wait at the neighbour●… ▪ door , there the vvife commonly grinds unto another : and in the ●…ore-named hosca 4. y●…ur daughters shall commit whoredom , and your spouses shall commit adultery . d●…sire ye therefore to find com●…ort in a married estate ? or d●…sire ye faithfulness in consort or yoak-fellow , forsaking all others to keep onely to your selves , so long as you both shall live ? then take heed of that sin which god punisheth oftentimes with great uncom●…ortableness in marriage-state , sowing bitter dissent●…on there where com●…ortable love and con●…ord should be , or punish●…th with letting the vvi●…e grind to another , whose husband waiteth at his neighbours doors . sixt●…ly , this also may be considered , that god appointed death to be the doom and j●…dgment of adulterers at the civil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; the man that commits adultery with another mans wife , the adulterer and a●…ss shall die the death , exod. 20. 10. and indeed if the thief deserve a rope , there is no adulterer but he deserves two , nor adulteress ; for judge but in yo●…r selves , and put it your own cases ; if the wrong be not more two to one , to be wronged and robbed o●… your body , whereof the apostle , the wife hath not 〈◊〉 ow●…r over her body , but the husband , &c. than to be wronged and robbed of the best goods and chattels you have ●…esides ; men do not despise a thief , if he steal to 〈◊〉 his soul , because he is h●…ngry , prov. 6. 30. and it is not for nought , but to shew the great di●…ference between the sin and sin , that naturally the rage of a man is far more against him that wrongs him in his vvi●…e , in that ewe-lamb that ●…ats of his own meat , and lies in his own bo●…om , 2 sam. 12. than in all the flocks and herds besides that feed and lie on mountains and valleys ; neither let any body s●…y , that this was mosaical , and special to the jews onely for special reasons , to have adultery punished with death ; for ●…oth be●…ore mos●…s , and out of the jewish common-wealth , where moses's law was not on foot , even by the law and light of n●…ture they thought adul●…ery worthy to be punished with death ; as that speech of judah's abo●…t his daughter-in-law tamar , espoused to his so●… shelah , and so accounted hi●… wi●…e 〈◊〉 espousals , his speech about her being sound with child before the solemnizing of the marriage , shews , ●…ng her ●…orth , 〈◊〉 l●…t her be burnt , gen. 38. and job's speech , this is an hainous crime , and an iniquity to be punished by the judges , job 31. and further , the judgment of the king of babylon upon two adulterers , zedekiah and ahab , roasting them in the fire , is alledged by some , jer. 29. 22. further , in 〈◊〉 's time adultery by christian laws was punished with death , as may appear by that which he saith , that for all that daily some were put to death for adultery , yet adultery ceased not . and at geneva yet adultery is punished with death : and what more equal than bishop l●…timer's motion in a sermon before king edward ; that adultery the ●…irst time , if the innocent party would speak for the nocent , should be par●…oned , but the second time the adulterer or adultress should to the pot : well , it being plain by a man 's own reason , by the law of moses , by the law of nature before moses , that the right doom of adultery is death ( aye , if a thief deserve a rope , no adulterer but deserves two ) let them know there●…ore that please themselves with the impunity of this sin , that where the law of man is remiss , the law of god will be severe ; and they scape the roasting in the king of babylon's fire , yet there is another fire they shall not escape , a fire that ●…hall nev●…r be quenched , and they themselves nev●…r consumed : and so i come to the third sort of judgments . the third sort of judgments upon whoremongers and adulterers are hereafter , and , first , th●…y sha●…l be sure to have no part in the k●…ngdom o●… god , such uncle●… creatures shall never put foot over thre●…ld there , where no unclean thing 〈◊〉 in ; and be●… they are apt to think , and ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dreams , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a be not 〈◊〉 ; 〈◊〉 not deceived , neither fornicators nor adulterers . fornicators and adulterers , these with the first , and these with a be not deceived , are sure not to inherit the kingdom of god , gal. 5. 21. and if one single asservation will not serve the turn , he tells them once and again , that they shall reckon of it as a truth ; of the which i tell you before as i have told you in times past : and because this onely to be deprived of the kingdom of god , might seem no such great matter to men blinde●… and violently carried away with their lusts and pleasures , if so be there were no sensible punishment to follow ; therefore unto the loss of the kingdom of god , the sustaining the wrath of god for such sinners is ●…dded , eph. 5. 5 , 6. and among them that are to be 〈◊〉 into the lake burning with fire and brimstone , vvhoremongers are not forgot , to be sure they shall be of the number , rev. 21. 8. vvell therefore if vvhoremongers and adulterers be sure to have no part in the kingdom of god , and be sure to have a part , a peppering part in the wrath of god , and in the boyling lake ; then let us so long as we cannot blot out these texts , ( be not deceived , and let no man deceive you with vain words ) out of the book of god ; let us take heed of those sins which will blot out our names out of the book of life , and give us our portions in the boyling lake , which is the second death ; the proverb is , he poyseth ill that counterpoiseth not , that sets not one thing against 〈◊〉 , that puts all in one seak , and counterpoiseth not by putting some weight in the other scale ; will not light wares , and a very feather almost , weigh down scales where one is empty ? thou theresore that do est upon thy brutish carnal pleasure , p●…ise not so as not to counterpoise , consider what thou gettest , and what thou losest ; thou gettest a little brutes pleasure , but thou losest angels joy and pleasure , for they never marry . thou drinkest a li●…le of those stollen waters which seem sweet , prov. 9. and thou losest those rivers of pleasures at gods right hand for evermore ; thou solacest thy self in the bosom of a strange woman , and thou losest the solace and comfort that is in abraham's bosom ; thou feedest thine eye with the beauty of her that e●…re while shall fall into dust and ashes , an●… thou losest the glorious and blessed vision of him who is eternity of days ; thou art made one with her that is but a very fiend in the shape of flesh and blood , and thou losest thy being made partaker of that divine nature which he that hath escaped the corruption th●…t is in the world through lust shall be made partaker of , 2 pet. 2. 20. and theresore basil being asked , what might be a sovereign remedy of lu●… ? answered , desires and thoughts upon better things ; so think but pausingly and soberly of these better things , and how canst thou then let a brutes pleasure deprive thee of angels pleasure ? let the solace in the bosom of a strange woman , &c. let the base slavery in the thraldom of lust deprive thee of the blessed liberty in the kingdom of god ? here is juster place for an , i will not buy repentance at so dear a rate ; than it was when demosthenes said it upon the corinthian 〈◊〉 asking him ten thousand drachmes for one nig●…t : ten thousand drachmes ! aye , ten t●…ousand world●… to be lo●…t for the purchasing of this pleasure will not cause such bitter r●…pentance , as , be not deceived , neither fornicators nor adulterers , &c. b●…t if the punishment of loss will not wo●…k upon the sottishness of this sin , the punishment of smart and sense let ●…t be consi●…ered , ●…nd let one sire be a remedy again●…t another sire , the fire of hell against the sire of lust ; as when one hath scorched or burnt his finger 〈◊〉 the fire , he holds it again to the fire , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take o●…t ●…re ; so the fire of lust if it 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 , let us set our selves a little nearer , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 within the scorch of the fire of hell , and sire will take out fire : some w●… read ( a●… ●…dict ) for the subduing of their lu●…t , tumbled their naked bodies amo●…g 〈◊〉 thorns and briars : some ( as francis ) run naked into freezing pon●… , some have used one remedy , and some another ; but no such remedy , if there be but even as much faith as a grain of mustard-seed to believe it , as that of our saviours , mat. 5. vvhere sp●…aking even against so much as looking upon a vvoman to lust aster her in his h●…rt , this is his argument , if thy right eye oss●…nd , &c. better that one of thy memb●…rs p●…sh , than that thy whole body be cast ●…to h●…ll , v. 29 , 30. thus that chast matron , when she was sollicited to folly by a young man , called for a chafing dish of coals , and requested the young man first to hold his hand in that fire for a quarter os an hour sor her sake , which he refusing as an unkind request ; his ( replyed the m●…ron ) was far unkinder , who requir●…d that at her hands , for which not hands , but whole body should , not for a short ●…uarter of an hour , but for long and long eternity burn and broil in a far worse fire ; and so another , one of the old hermits being tempted to this sin , said to himself , that they who do such things go into everlasting sire ; prove thy self by this , if thou canst endure eternal fire , he put his fingers to the candle , and burnt all his fingers ; and when that proved so exream and unsufferable to him , have to do with that sin he durst not , which would put him to a far more extream and unsufferable torment : therefore if either depriving of the kingdom of god , or sustaining the wrath of god ; if either throwing out of the palace , or throwing into the dungeon ; if either the loss of the singing and rejoycing of the saints in heaven , or the cross of the weeping and wailing of the damned in hell will move , then let us avoid this sin ▪ third proposition . that whoredom and adultery is to be avoided , considering the grievousness of the sins themselves : when abimelech , by abraham's dissembling , as if sarah , who was his wife , had been but his sister , had like to have lien with another mans wife , what said abimelech a king , abimelech a philistine ? vvhat have i offended thee , that thou hast brought on me , and on my kingdom a great sin ? not a venial sin , a pidling peccadillo , but a grand sin ; and how can i commit this great wickedness and sin against god ? and so great and grievous a sin did the saints of old count this sin , that the villainy of the persecuting tyrants choosed rather to condemn some to the tempting bawd , rather than to the devouring lion ; as knowing that the holy saints had rather have their bodies ravined and defiled by the foaming teeth of wild and s●…vage beasts , than ravished and desiled by the silthy foamy lust of savage men : now , the greatness and grievousness of the sin , we may hence take a scantling of it , because it is a great sin , 1. against god. 2. against our selves , 3. against others , first , a great sin against god , in dishonouring the image of god in us , in dishonouring the member of christ , in dishonouring the temple of the holy ghost : we dishonour by this sin the image of god in us as it consists in ruledom and dominion , and a glorious divine-like majesty , to be a servant to nothing under god hims●…ls ; we dishonour this part os gods image in us by this sin , because by this s●… of all others we become the basest slaves to the basest lust ; there are two kinds of siavish sinners , the covetous , and the libidinous ; of which a man can hardly tell whether is the verier slave ; but a man may easily tell which is the baser slave , sc. the baser slave is he that serves the baser lust ; for though two ye know be equal slaves , in regard of hardness of servitude , yet he is the base slave that serves the same hard service to the baser master ; now , the baser master is carnal lust above covetous lust , as the more sneaking ashamedness to be espied going about , or taken in the service of the one rather than the other , shews , thus we dishonour this part of gods image in us ; as , what a dishonour were it if the king should make a vice-roy in principality and royal majesty to be next unto himself , and give him ensigns of his vice-roy-ship , a coronet on his head , and a robe of majesty on his back ; what a dishonour this to the king , if he bearing the kings image with a coronet on the head , and robe on the back , should basely subject himself to all scu●… and varletry , and basest of men ? again , the im●…ge of god as it consi●…ts in a right re●…son , ●…d a divine-like understanding to ●…now for practicks , what is to be d●…ne , and w●…t not to be done : we disho our this part of gods image in us , by this sin of all other sins we blind and bore out the eye of reason , and disable our selves from all soundness of practick judgment ; judgment we may have , though debauched , and drowned in all intemperance , for mechan●…cks , m●…thematicks , physicks , &c. but soundness of practical judgment for morals , this sin quite depraves it ; as the foggy smoak that came out of the bottomless pit obscured and darkned the sun and air ; or as the foggy breath cast upon the glass obscures the face and image that appeared in it ; so does this foggy sin to the image of god , and the sun and light of right reason , it quite obscures and darkens it ; so that by this sin we dishonour god much , what as he that should take a bright burning light lightned by and from the sun to shine in a dark place as the image of it self in heaven , much what , i say , as he should dishonour the sun ( supposing the sun to be a reasonable living creature work●…ng upon counsel ) who should take that light and run it up to the head in a filthy dung-hill or dirty puddle , and so quench that light kindled for the nonce from and by the sun , to be a represent and image of it self on earth ; lastly the image of god as it consists in holiness and purity and sanctity both of body and spirit ; we dishonour this part of gods image in us by this sin , because this is the most defiling contaminat●…ng sin , called theresore signanter the sin of unc●…eanness , and they that commit it in our language , filihs ; and that most rightly : and so opposite to purity and 〈◊〉 that the prime and singular thing 〈◊〉 singularly opposite to 〈◊〉 is immediately fornication 1 thess. 4 ▪ 3. fo●… 〈◊〉 is the will of god even your 〈◊〉 , that ye should abstain f●…om fornication . and keeping the body pu●…e and 〈◊〉 is called poss●…ssing ones 〈◊〉 in sanc●…ion ver . 4. this is a great sin 〈◊〉 god in dishono●…ng the image of god in us , wh●…ch how i●…dignely god will t●…ke , judge but by that emperours sact ●…ho made a law for ●…vere punishing them whosoever should ●…rry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o●… im●…e , 〈◊〉 but in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a ring , into 〈◊〉 places , as 〈◊〉 , &c. and bv 〈◊〉 fact os that other emperour theodosius , who threatned to race the whole city of antioch , for their rasing and defacing or marring his image or statue there . 2. a gre●…t sin in dishonouring the member of c●…rist , this is one of the arguments w●…th great indignation used by the apostle to set out the 〈◊〉 abominable , abhorrefull nature of ●…his sin , 1 cor. 6. 15. know ye not that your bodies are the members of c●…rist ? 〈◊〉 i then take the members of 〈◊〉 a●…d m●…ke them the m●…mbers of an 〈◊〉 ? god fo●…bid : spoken with great ind●…tion . it is not so odious , ( and yet w●…o can hear it without some horrour and ha●…f spitting at it ) not so odious , so abominable , so abhorfull , to see a kings daughter carnally coupled with a dog , as a m●…mber of christ with an harlot ; and therefore well might the apostle say , know ye not ? as if he should s●…y , you forget surely what you are , consider not that you are the members of christ ; did ye , how co●…ld you take the members os c●…rist ●…nd m●…ke them the members of an harlot ? and though some be far enough from being any members of christ truly spiritually and mystically ; yet by outward profession they are the members of christ ; they partake of that profession which makes them in outward denomination and account within the compass of that , now ye are the body of christ , and members in particular , 1 cor. 12. and themselves would go for the very members of christ , and how hainously would they take it , the worst of them , if one should tell them they are no members of christ , but limb●… of satan ? well therefore all one in a manner for the indignity offered to christ , whether they that make themselves one body with an harlot , be ●…ruly spiritually and mystically the v●…ry members of christ or no ; they reckon themselves members os christ , and so would do no less were they indeed very members , and in outward profession and denomination go for members of chri●…t ; all one , i say , as such an one supposed is indeed not such an ones son , being of his own very flesh & blood , but he is a by-chop ; yet he goes for his son , he calls him father ; any indign dishonourable carriage of such a supposed son , would it not redound to the dishonour of the supposed father , as if he were his true son indeed , of his very flesh and blood ? thus the children of isra●…l , when indeed they had made themselves none of gods children , of gods people , yet usually in scripture he aggravates their sin as the sin of his children , of his people . thirdly , a great sin against god , in dishonouring the temple of the holy gho●…t : this is one of the special arguments too wherewith the apostle sets out with great earnestness , ( as his interrogatory form shews ) the indignity and vileness of this sin ; what , know ye not that your ●…ody is the temple of the holy ghost , which is in you ? 1 cor. 6. 19. and what a vile indignity to conspur●…ate and defile , and make nothing but a bea●…tly sty of that sanctum sanctorum , which should be an habitation of so holy a m●…jesty ? you have made my fath●…rs house an house of merchandize , said our saviour in great zeal against their desiling gods material temple with buying and selling in it ; they that defile gods living temples , which themselves should be , by m●…king gods house a brothel-house and as stews , is not their sin far greater ? not a whip of small cords shall serve their turn , an iron whip that shall bite to the bone , and make yethers like furrows let them look sor ; who so d●…fileth the temple of god , him shall god destroy , 1 cor. 3. 17. take heed therefore of this sin which is so great a sin against god himself , &c. secondly , a great sin against our selves , philosophy and glimmering twi-light reason says , that a man cannot injure or sin against himself ; but divinity , and noon-day light of scripture teacheth otherwise , teacheth that god hath not given us body and goods , &c. to be used and abused as we list without any sin against our selves , therefore whoredom and adultery ar●… great sins , in regard of our b●…dy , of our goods , of our good name : in regard of our body , so the apostle teacheth , every sin that a man does is without the body , but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body , 1 cor. 6. 18. against his own body , sc. against the health of his body , bringing often many , and grievous , and loa●…hsom diseases upon it , with shortness of days ; again●…t the honour of his body , dishonouring thereby th●…t otherwise most sweet and gracious , and noblest cre●…ture that ever was made of mold , dishonouring it , as if you should tie a sweet and gracious , and sound excellent body with a stinki●…g , loathsom , leprous , dis●…ased body ; no sin sets that note of dishonour upon the very body as this sin of uncleanness ; the note and brand that the hot iron sets upon the malesactors body is not so infamous , as the note and brand of dishonour that this sin sets upon the fornicators body ; god gave them up to uncleanness , through the lusts of their ow●… hearts to dishonour their own bodies , ro. 1. and that every one kn●…w how to possess his vessel in 〈◊〉 and honour , 1 thes. 4. 4 again , in regard of our goods ; what a waste and dilapidation does this sin often make of great estates ? he that keeps company with harlots spendeth his substance , prov. 29. 3. thus the prodigal quickly spent all his patrimony among harlots , and the wickeder is the waste the worst creatures it is bestowed upon , bestowed upon them that deserve less than the doggs under our table ; the doggs better deserve the manchet than they the brown-breadcrust ; this might have been sold for much , and giv●…n to the poor , m●…t . 26. 8. said they in the gospel , concerning an imagin●…d was●…e , and too much cost , as they thought , bes●…owed by that pious woman upon our 〈◊〉 ▪ own body . but that which is bes●…owed upon the commo●… 〈◊〉 bodies of whor●…s and 〈◊〉 , how much might tha●… be sold sor , ●…nd how much better to 〈◊〉 given ●…o ●…he poor , those prec●…ou 〈◊〉 that are the very members o●… christ ; they 〈◊〉 ▪ says plutarch , like those wild fig-trees that grow upon high and inaccessi●…e rocks and clisss , whose fruit filthy ravens and vultures onely seed upon , but cannot be at●…ained to by man. ag●…in , in regard of our good name , what a wrong and injury do we to that ? jos●…ph knew this , who would not therefore make her a publick example , he saw nothing in her in the general but modest and honest carriage , what frailty and temptation might draw her ●…o , for one single slip , though otherwise a vertuous maid he could not tell , and theresore m●…ke her a publick example he would not , a●… knowing that then she were shamed sor ever ; and the text is plain , a wound and dishonour shall he get , prov. 6. and if any think what gr●…at sin in this to neglect our own names , and not care how we are spoken os ; these , let them know , that paul made a conscience of it , how he should 〈◊〉 spoke●… of , or thought of ; providing for honest things , not onely in the sight of the lord , but in the sight of men , 2 cor. 8. 21. & 5. 11. and he gave it in precept to the philippians , that whatsoever things are os good report , &c. ph●…l . 4. 〈◊〉 . and to timothy , 1 tim. 4. 12. and to 〈◊〉 , l●…t no m●…n despise thee , titus 2. 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 ●…ndeed there is none but either the fool or the knave , that is regard●…ess of credit : the fool , because he wants wit to know the worth of a good name ; the knave , beca●…se he wants honesty , and will not buy it at the rate . thirdly , a great sin against others ; against ( 1. ) the child to be ●…orn , against the life of it sometimes , again●… the g●…od name of it , against the education ; again●…t the lise of it , to kill it sometimes by 〈◊〉 drugs in the conception ; sometimes to cause abortion after conception , sometimes even after birth it self , to be barbarously cruel to it , pre●…nding to be a still born , whereas it cry●…d , perhaps , so lou●… , that heaven 〈◊〉 the cry of it , and will all in good time revenge the blood of it ; and because the 〈◊〉 the child in the conception , or aster conception by abortion is the sr●…quentest , and scarce made any reckoning at all of sor a sin , th●…refore hear what the fath●…rs of old e●…teemed of it ; 〈◊〉 , says a●…henagoras , in his apology for christians , we that ●…ake it ho●…icidy to distu●…b conception , h●…w should we kill infants born and brought sorth into the world ? answering a slander again●…t ch●…istians arising especially upon the sacrament . and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same slander of the christians , to hind●…r the birth is a h●…stning of man-slaughter . and minutius , sp●…aking os this ha●…tened ●…omicid ; they commit murd●…r b●…fore th●…y ●…ring forth . and the 〈◊〉 os the ancyran council ( anno 314. ) ●…hought ti so h●…inous a sin , that they ●…ppointed t●…n years penance sor such as did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . cod. univ. 41. and how vehement is chrysostome against this sin ; hom. ad rom. 25 ! what great disf●…rence were it between 〈◊〉 yo●…r tree , by striking down all the fruit , or striking it down onely in the bloom and blossom , or newly set ; they may consider this , who think it no such pi●…cular crime to keep a q●…ean , and then to get a knave to minister drugs either to disturb and hinder conception , or to make abortion after conception when it is but an embrio : what do they but onely kill the fruit when it is newly set , or in the bud and blossom ? and what is this but hastened homicid ? and yet what more common in prosessed harlotry than this ? so that hence vatablus thinks that those two that strove before solomon about the live child were not harlots , but hoslesses , as the word also signifies , because 〈◊〉 use not to bear children , but to corrupt the fruit in the womb. again , a sin ag●…st the child , in regard of the good name of it , even god ●…mself , that p●…rents might know what wrong they do their children this way , would have the child , though no sault of it●… , carry a mark of reproach upon it , even to the tenth g●…neration , for being begot of unlawful bed , deut. 23. 2. and indeed be it that the child som●…times proves fathers better , yet how irks it , how ha●…gs it down the head , how is it discountenanced at the objecting the reproach of the birth ? and how would it purchase , were it a thing possible to be born again , pur●…hase legitimation and honest birth , as he did his freedom , acts 22. with a great summe of money ? jepthah was a mighty man of valour , the son ( but the son ) of an harlot , judg●…s 11. 1. as naaman was a mighty man of valour , but a leper , 2 kings 5. 1. it puts a but and blemish , does baseness of birth to other no●…lest qualities in any . again , in regard of education and providing ●…or ; children of unlawful beds how are they neglected for any education and providing for , what r●…gard is had os them ? that which is spoken in a good sence of levi , that he knew not his own children , deut. 33. in a wicked sence is true of parents of children unlawfully begot , they will not know their own children ; aye , if one were in their very bosoms , should not a man find that secret wish there ? why died they not in the womb , or why did not they give up the ghost when they came out of the b●…lly ? why did the knees 〈◊〉 them , or the breast that they should 〈◊〉 ? job 3. 11 , 12. but seeing this , they did not die in the womb , &c. therefore own them they will not , to have any care of them for education and providing for them , for why , they are ashamed of them ; they are walking arguments of their par●…nts incontinency , they are witness●…s of wickedness against their parents ; and their own brethren will be ready to deal with them , as j●…pthah's ●…rethren with him ; they thr●…st out jepthah , saying , thou sh●…lt no●… i●…herit in our fathers hous●… , for thou art the son of a strange woman . secondly , a gre●…t sin against the consort , or other m●…rried p●…rty ; a greater ●…ong spare lise it self , 〈◊〉 ●…e done to the consort than to break the marriag●…-ring , i. e. the vow and cov●…nt of tro●…h and fidelity one to the other , whereof ( says the book ) the ring g●…ven and received is a token and pledge . t●… break the m●…rriage-ring is a wrong of all wrongs , and how great a wrong the vehemency and unappeaseableness of that affection of jealousie shews ; jealousie is the rage of a man , prov. 6. aye , so great a wrong this , that the jealous m●…n who had some presumptions , but no manifest proof ; god in the old law afforded him a miraculous trial , that trial by the bitter water , num. 5. and though god afforded not the jealous woman the like tryal for her suspected husband , yet the equity you know is the like , and the sin therefore on the one and the other p●…rt alike ; and this case may the r●…ther be observed , because we may here see what an high wrong ( even in the judgmen●… of god himself ) presumptio●…s to breed j●…lousie are , though the p●…rty happily in●…d may be innocent : god would never h●…ve offered such an extr●…ordinary miraculou●… tryal to free from the spirit of jealousie , if it were n●…t a mo●…t vexing tormenting thing , n●…ing but a slow fire in the very bones , and therefore an high wrong to put matter to this fire to make it burn , to minister occasion to thi●… spirit of jealousie , to make it rise ; does not the apostle paul say , spe●…king not on●…ly of what is done in the m●…rried-state , but what should be done , that he who is married cares how to please his wife , &c. but to 〈◊〉 ju●…t occasion of jealousi●… , than which what more displeasing and discontenting thing in the world ! is this to care how to please the wise ? &c. god , who was a jealous god was 〈◊〉 , and could not endure that those whom he had espo●… to himself in a spirit●…l wedlock should come into th●… harlots house , as the scripture calls the temple of ido●…s . should not cast up their eyes , amorous eyes to those fair decked h●…rlots . beauteous idol●… ; should not dandle upon the knees , as 't were , and toy , and play , and sport , an●… use any spiritual dalliance towards them : this the jealousie of god was offended at , and could not endure , though they committed no actual spiritual fornication with them in very worshipping and adoring them ; so a pari , there is the like reason with respect to corporal fornication , to go into harlots houses , &c. thirdly , a great sin against the very kingdom and place where we live ; because this sin of adultery growing common and unpunished , is one of the special sins for which god brings fe●…rful publick judgments upon a place ; when i fed them to the sull , th●…n they committed adultery ; sh●…ll i not visit for th●…se things , and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? jer. 5. 7 , 8 , 9. and they are all adulterers , as an oven heated by the baker , ezek. 22. 11. is one of the chief sins sor which god denouncing judgm●…nt against them , says , that he remembers all their wickedness , hos. 7. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , &c. and abimelech's speech is for this , what have i offended thee , that thou hast brought on me , and on my kingdom a great sin ? gen. 20. 9. and david's prayer , praying in the latter end of that 51 psalm , a penitential psalm for his adultery , praying that god would do good to sion , shews no less , sion and jerusalem , the church and the kingdom ( sion being the place where the temple was built , and jerusalem the chief city of the kingdom ) may feel heavy judgments for adulterers and adultery : and i pray god this be not a sin with some others among our selves at this day , that may make the patience of god at this day break out against us , with a shall i not visit for these things ? if confession were now a foot , it may be erasmus his confessor might be so blabbish , and so foolish , as to say it in some publick invective sermon against adultery , that were now stoning to death a law against adulterers , the rocky mountain hard by would soon be spent , adultery , said he , that knew it by confession , was grown so common . whoredom and adu●…tery therefore are to be avoided , considering the grievousness of the sin it self . use 1. are whoredom and adultery such grievous sins , and such judgments also attending them ? then this m●…y let us see the full meaning and evident reason of those two texts , the mouth of the strange woman is a deep pit , he that is abhorred of the lord shall fall th●…rein , prov. 22. 14. and i find more bitter than death a woman whose heart is snares and nets , and her hands as bands , who so 〈◊〉 god shall escape from her , but the sinner shall be taken by her , eccles. 7. 26. secondly , this may teach mothers to imitate that good mother , prov. 31. sc. to be careful to teach their children that which she , imprimis , and first of all was careful to teach her son lemuel . what ( sc. what shall i say ) my son , and what the son of my womb , &c. give not thy strength to women , nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings . and so the wise man intimates that parents care and instructi●… about their children , one point chiefly should be about discipline and instruction against this sin ; my son , keep thy fath●…rs commandment , sor the commandment is a lamp , and the law is light , and reprooss of instruction are the way of life ; to k●…p th●…e from the strange woman , from the flattery of the tongue of the evil woman , prov. 6. 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , &c. thirdly , this may let us see that it was material and main divinity enough , and so would go sor no less among the papists , but that fornication is counted for so slight and venial a sin among them ; material and main divinity enough , i say , which the apostle paul taught , 1 cor. 7. 2. nevertheless , to avoid fornication , let every man have his own wife , and let every woman h●…ve her own husband . if fornication w●…re counted the sin , which it is , this ghostly couns●…l of his would not be counted such a poor rag of divinity , but material and main divinity enough ; and it may be considerable that there is not such a particular , punctual passage again in all the scripture , where the holy ghost is so particular , and so punctual in applying it to ev●…ry m●…n , and every woman ; and to th●… hus●…d , and to the wife , & vice vers●… the holy ghost knew a natural modesty and ashamedness towards this remedy of fornication , even in them , perhaps , who stand in need of it , and therefore , perhaps , was so particular and punctual therein . fourthly , let it make us more circumspect and watchsul against these sins , if they be such great sins , and such great judgments att●…nding th●…m ; and that we may watch against them , l●…t us know there are some things w●…ich dispose thereunto in gods judgment , and some in the nature of the things , again●… both whereof heed and watchfulness must be had , a●… we desire the avoiding the sins themselves ; in gods judgment . first , pride disposeth unto these sins , for just it is with god , that they who are so possessed with pride , that they think all honour too little for them , that would be half gods upon earth , and not m●…n , and not have their names mentioned without admiration , and half-worshipping of them , just that god should let these men fall into thi●… sin , that is the most dishonou●…ing sin , abasing and aviling them in the sight of all , and bringing them into open contempt and disgrace ; thu●… pride was one of the things that led so●… to that dishonouring sin of unnatural uncleanness ; this was the iniquity of sodom , pri●… , &c. ez●…k 16. 49. not that these were the great sins of sodom , but the make-ways for that great sin of unnatural uncleanness ; and more especially in gods just judgment , their pride ; they were haughty , and committed abomination . and thus for them that have a secret spiritual pride in them to be vainly puffed up by reason of spiritual excellencies . and they that think the apostle paul's thorn in the flesh ( 2 cor. 12. ) was some molestful strivings with temptations of the flesh , they agree hereunto , for that thorn in the flesh was given him , lest he should be extolled above measure by reason of his so many revelations ; and no presenter remedy of being sick with spiritual pride , than to be humbled and buffetted with molestations from this dishonouring sin . secondly , profaning gods honour by spiritual fornication disposeth unto corporal fornication ; for just it is that god should let them dishonour themselves corporally , who dishonour him spiritually : thus having related in the 17 and 18 of judges , when things were all out of order in israel ; having related examples of spiritual fornication or idolatry , in the 19th . chapter he relates an example of abominable corporal uncle●…nness with the l●…vites concubine , and aimed to have be●…n at himself too , v. 22. 1 kings 14. 23 , 24. and 2 kings 23. 7. and 〈◊〉 th●…y changed th●… glory of the incorruptible god , &c. ther●…fore ●…od also gave them up unto uncleanness , rom. 1. and that great whore , the mother of harlots , 〈◊〉 babylon , that commits fornication , spiritual fornication with every stock and stone ; what abominable filthiness and uncleanness , ( corporal also ) god hath given her over to , the stink of th●…ir publick t●…lerated stews , to help his unholy holiness's coffers ; the stink os their impure cloysters , of their impure clergies caelibate , ( which made the world long ag●… cry foh at these things ) shews , thirdly , depressing and disparaging too much the honour of marriage , and tyrannical rash imposing necessity of single life upon some conditions of men , without considerations had os our saviours equity , he that c●…n receive it , l●…t him receive it ▪ thi●… , in gods j●…st j●…dgment , disposeth unto the sin o●… 〈◊〉 ; for just it is with god to let th●…m ●…ll into 〈◊〉 sin which shall dishonour 〈◊〉 , who go about to dishonour his 〈◊〉 ; jus●… to let their own frailties shame and confute them , who are so rigid and inconsiderate of ot●…ers ●…railties . thus hierom , who spake so hardly o●… marriage , that he did every where at rome , malè audire for it ; none , even by his own confession , more tempted with lust than he , none that felt more of the apostle paul's u●…ion or burning . thus the story of cardinal cremensis is not un●…nown . he in a synod 〈◊〉 london called the wives of the priests concubines , after the popes late begun urging of single ●…fe upon them , hence asserting it to be the highest crime , to rise from the side of a concubine to make and consecrate the body of christ ; but he himself the night after he had been employed in the priests work of consecr●…tion , was taken in the committing of uncleanness ; the thing was notoriously evident , and did turn , as good reason it should , to his great disgrace and pepetual infamy . thus the notorious uncleanness that the popish constrained single life in gods just judgment occasioned ; every pasquil and pamphlet in our fore-fathers days spoke of it ; and the french have their proverb , that he that would have a clean house , let him neither have priest nor pigeon in it , both were such defiling creatures : aye , unto what , not onely reprobate practice , but r●…probate judgment also hath god given over the severe caelibate-mongers ? as some of them to wri●…e , that it is better to have an hundred whores than one wife ; according to b. bonner's answer , i pray god it be no worse ; when a priest accused for having secretly a wife ; no , said he , she is not my wife , she is but my concubine : some others , ( as johannes à casa archiepisc. reneventamus ) in an italian poem to desc●…ibe the praises of sodom ; aye some ( says erasmus , prefat . in milit . christ. ) publickly to a●…irm , that it is a less sin for a woman to have to do with a brute ●…east than with a priest. secondly , in the nature of the things themselves , these dispose unto the sin of uncleanness . first , that which the prophet calls fulness of bread , under which also by a figure , fulness of drink is implyed ; the iniquity of sodom was pride , fulness of bread. when i had ●…ed them to the full , then th●…y committed adult●…ry , ezek. 16. 49. th●…y w●…re as ●…d horses in the morning , jer. 5. 7 , 8. ●…nd alter rioting and drunk●…nness , what sollows present●…y but 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 ? rom. 13. and eyes ●…ull of ●…dultery ●…ollows pres●…ntly , 2 pet. 2. 13 , 14. having spok●…n of some t●…at co●…nt it pleasure to riot ; and after looking upon the wine w●…en it is red , sollows looking upon strange women , prov. 23. naturally fulness o●… bread and drink makes the body rank and proud , and prone to lust , filling it full of super ●…luous spirits and humours . 2. that which immediatly follows in the next place , in that ezek ▪ 16. sc. abundance of idlen●…ss ; why was egisthus an adulterer ? the reason is apparent , he was a person addicted to idleness and laziness . so it is demand●…d , why david fell upon adultery , 2 s●…m . 11. 2. and it came to pass ●…n an evening-tide that david arose from o●…f ●…is bed. whereby the holy ghost purposely would intimate the occasion of his falling into adultery ; he 〈◊〉 idle at home while israel and joab was in the field ; aye , he had been newly snorting and stretching hims●…lf idle upon his bed ; labour and exercise help ●…o wast rank superfluous humours , whereas idleness ●…ets them grow into nothing ●…ut matter and seminary of lust ; as a standing slank that wants motion , genders nothing because of the abundance of moisture , but silthy slimy matter and toad-stools , and the like ; so nothing but sliminess of lust , and such filthiness from idleness , from a standing slanking body . thirdly , the immediate next occasions , as too much familiar company and converse , foolish dalliance , light talk , wantonness of eye , &c. these immediately dispose unto this sin ; and they that say they will use these things , and yet be safe , they are more bold than wise ; there is none long safe , that will not keep aloof off , but still stand too neer a danger ; odds there is of slipping in for him that will needs be treading still too near the pits brink ; and danger there is of being pulled over ( for childrens sports may sometimes be grave and sage mens lessons ) sor him that will needs be as ●…ar as he may go ; and therefore observa●…le it is , that o●… joseph it is 〈◊〉 he hearkened not unto her to 〈◊〉 by h●…r or to be with her , gen. 39. 11. and the wi●…e m●…ns counsel in this case , remove thy way far from her , and come not n●…r the door of her house , prov. 5. he that will needs be walking too n●…ar the beasts den , may haply become the beasts prey , as that young man void of understanding , who passing through the street near her corner , near the beasts den , behold there m●…t him a woman in the attire of an harlot ( out comes the beast ) and she caught him , prov. 7. how much more he who will needs venture into the den it self to play with the beast ; and for other occasions also , job he made a covenant with his eyes , job 31. and good reason , for death comes by the windows in this sence : see gen. 6. 2. 2 sam. 11. 2. finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a42198-e340 * who p●…inted the autho●…s 〈◊〉 of th●… 〈◊〉 , & 〈◊〉 more if h●… had liv●…d . 1 cor. 2. 2. phil. 3. 8. 〈◊〉 . john 6. 29. 1 j●…hn 3. 23. & 5. 13. 1 john 2. 1 ▪ 2. eph. 4. 15. m●… . 4. 4. rom. 1. 17. phil. 1. 27. & 3. 16. rom. 8. 14. col. 4. 6. 2 pet. ●… . 11. 1 cor. 2. 9. rom. 12. 2. j●…r . 10. 3. 1 john 2. 16. 2 cor. 2. 12. prov. 20 21. z●…h . 12. 1. ep●… . 4. 32 james 4. 12. rom. 14. 4. * . * . luke 6. 24. & 18. 25. james 4. 4. 1 john 2. 15. 1 tim. 6. 9 , 10. psal. 119. 6. 1 cor. 1. 13. luke 11. 12. notes for div a42198-e1440 venenatae deliciae . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . notes for div a42198-e2680 2 cor. 6. 15. 2 sam. 24. 10. condimentum ibi saci●…us er at . rom. 6. 21. non tam bene cum rebus humanis geritur ut mel●…ora pluril us ●…laceant . sen. 1 cor. 2. 12. eph. 4 17 , 18 , 19. ad aliquid invenien●…um non pr●…dest mul●…itudo caeco●…um : aug. heb. 5. 14. 1 p●…t . 4 4. e●…rius & ebriojus . 〈◊〉 & ex 〈◊〉 ten●…re . 1 joh. 3. 8. r●…m . 1. 32. is●… . 19. 14. & 24. 20. & 28. 7 , 8. nunquid de sure●… dubitabis , 〈◊〉 : qu●… n●…n 〈◊〉 minor , sed 〈◊〉 . sen. 〈◊〉 . 83. b●…sil . prov. 23. 20. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . gen. 43. 3. 4. et in●…h 〈◊〉 s●…t cum eo . vulg. pr. 31. 6 , 7. eccles. 10. 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in se cul●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . dur●… verba plutar●…h . 〈◊〉 ▪ ism . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heb. craw. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . . eph. 5. 18. jer. 5. 7. ezek. 16. 49. 2 pet. 2. 13. 14. tua super s●…ua pauper is necessaria . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deus stercoris . in saciendis non quò eundum sed quà . s●…us eg●… illud ●…on facerem , non facerem omnino solus , sed cum dicitur e●…nus , faciamus , pudet non esse impudenten . conf. 1. q. omne malum à minimis . the three ou ts ; drink out of the pot , wit out of the pate , wealth out of the purse . n●…n p●…terat amplius sensu recusan●…e . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . vesti●…ia nulla ●…etrorsum . q●…amdiu , quamdiu ? cras & cras , quare non modo , quare non hac 〈◊〉 sinis 〈◊〉 meae , consess . q. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . e●…hic . nicom . 6. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . in 〈◊〉 v●…ry 〈◊〉 . p●…atum seminis punietur in semine . de muliere sep●…es ict●… . h●…on . ep. qu●… p●…ssit illi●… esse 〈◊〉 ubi ●…ibunalia , ubi accusation●…s , ubi 〈◊〉 i●… a , ubi gladius &c. 〈◊〉 , &c. eph. 5. 6. n 〈◊〉 errare . 1 cor. 6 9. n●… emo tanti penitere . peccatum grande . gen : 20. 9. & 39. 10. ingens flagitium , ad lenonem qu●…m ad leonem . tertul. au●…ust . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…st 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 quae ad pue●…ram 〈◊〉 data est , ad re●…is 〈◊〉 instru●… , chrys. see 〈◊〉 . 21. 22. ignominiosus ●…n d●…mo , i●…nominiosus in 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 in ●…ro , &c. chrys. nonnunquam d●…jicit d●…s hanc occultam me●…is super●…iam per manifestam carnis luxuriam . aug. ep. u●…i de ●…ncubinis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esse 〈◊〉 de l●…tere sur●…re 〈◊〉 is ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c●…m 〈◊〉 ill●… 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fuit in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ●…es 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n●…n pet●…it , dam 〈◊〉 d●…us in su●…mum dede●…us 〈◊〉 . matt. 〈◊〉 . anno. 1125. publicitus asseverare leviorem esse culpam , si mulier habeat rem cùm bruta pecude quàm cum sacerdote . sine cerere & 〈◊〉 friget venus . 〈◊〉 egisthus quare sit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ? in 〈◊〉 ratio est , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . nemo diu tutus est 〈◊〉 pro●…imus , cypr. ep. 62. 