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child_n	duty_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,710	4	11.5706	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42198	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.	1675 (1675)	Wing G208; ESTC R9286	86,694	204

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