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A97251	The odious, despicable, and dreadfull condition of a drunkard, drawn to the life to deterre others, and cause them to decline the wayes of death, or, A hopefull way to cure drunkennesse (the root of all evill, and rot of all good) in such as are not (by long custome) past cure : composed, and published for their good, who (not for want of ignorance) prinde themselves in drunken good-fellowship : which probably may open their eies, as the tasting of honey did Jonathan, and cause them to say as the governour to the bridegroome, John 2.10, The good wine was kept back untill now / by Junius Florilegus.	Younge, Richard.	1649 (1649)	Wing Y167A; ESTC R43834	50,174	55

a multitude of words Ecclesiastes 10.14 and babling drunkards can better afford you a Sea of words then a drop of wit As marke whether their discourse be not more sound then substance winde then matter as ever where is least braine there is most tongue and lowdest saith Socrates even as a Bruers Cart upon the stones makes most noise when his vessels are emptiest the full vessell gives you a soft answer but sound liquor so a knowing and solid man will either be silent or his words shall be better then silence whereas they that speake much seldome speake well I might proceed to his knowledge in the best things and shew you that whereas some are like the Moone at full have all their light towards Earth none towards Heaven others like the Moone at wane or change have all their light to Heaven wards none to the Earth Drunkards are like the Moone in Eclipse as having no light in it selfe neither towards Earth nor towards Heaven Though they are apt to thinke themselves Giants for wit and E●gles for light and judgement even in divinity also which makes them so put themselves forward as how oft have I seen a Case of Leather stuft with winde as he in Marcellus Donatus thought himselfe A very beefe brained fellow that hath had only impudence enough to shew himselfe a foole thrust into discourses of Religion thinking to get esteeme when all that he hath purchased thereby hath been only the hisse of the wise and a just derision from the abler judgements Not unlike that German Clowne who undertook to be very ready in the Ten Commandements but being asked by the Minister which was the first he answered Thou shalt not eat If you doubt of it do but aske the Drunkard a reason of his faith and you shall see that hee can no more tell you then the Winde can tell which last blow'd off my Hat Yea the Drunkard is such a foole that he would be begged for a foole I would faine know whether is wisest the prodigall waster or the covetous griper he that with a wanton eye a licorish tongue and a gamesome hand indiscreetly ravels out his Ancestors faire possessions it may bee an hundreth pounds per annum in three yeares and then leads the rest of his dayes in prison there to repent at leisure having for his attendants sorrow griefe derision beggery contempt c. Or he that to get an hundred pounds per annum and only possesse not use the same after he hath got it perhaps three yeares is content to be weeping and wayling and gnashing of teeth in the prison of hell for evermore without question these two are both fools alike But that Drunkards are none of the wisest I shall shew in the effects of drunkennesse In the meane time I 'le acquaint you with the causes And § 14. First one maine cause why their heaven is the Taverne whence they never depart untill they have cast up the reckoning why like horses they are onely guided by the mouth is this the pot is no sooner from their lips but they are melancholy and their hearts as heavy as if a milstone lay upon it resembling the fly Pyrausta which dyes if out of the fire I call it melancholy because they call it so but the truth is they are vexed like Saul with an evill spirit which nothing will drive away but drinke and tobacco which is to them as Davids Harp was to him 1 Sam. 16.23 They so wound their consciences with oathes intentionall murthers rapes and other the like actuall uncleannesse and so exceedingly provoke God that they are even in this life rewarded with the strapadoes of an humane soul wrackt in conscience and tortured with the very flashes of hel fire which makes them many times to lay violent hands upon themselves being never well nor in their owne place till they be in hell Acts 1.25 When the horror of their oathes blasphemies thesis whoredomes and other prodigious uncleannesse hath caused a dejection of spirit and the worme of conscience to sting them as it fared with Cain when he had murthered his brother Abel how should they remedy it but as if Satan alone could expell Satan straight to the Taverne and drinke sorrow and care away Or perhaps there is a factor for hel present that cheares him up as Jezebel did Ahab when he was sicke for want of Naboths vineyard 1 Kings 21.7 crying Come you are melancholy let us both to the Taverne and Brothel-house and so cures all his sadnesse for that time with a charme wherein neverthelesse the principall ingredient is drinke the common refuge of melancholy sinners their constant and never failing friend to which also they are as constant for when did the Sun ever see some of them sober and how are our Cities and Townes pestered and our streets strewed with these filths And this is the maine ground of all for as they that have curst and shrewish wives at home love to stray abroad so these men being molested with a scolding conscience are faine continually to drinke play riot go to bed with their heads full of wine and no sooner awake but to it againe So that their consciences must knock at the doore a thousand times and they are never at home or at leisure to be spoke withall Indeed at last they must be met and found by this enemy even as Ahab was by Eliah stay they never so long and stray they never so far they must home at last sicknesse will waken them conscience must speake with them as a Master with his Trewant Scholar after a long absence and then there are no men under Heaven who more need that prayer Lord have mercy upon them For a wicked mans peace will not alwayes last at the end his guilt will gnaw him with so much a sharper tooth Neither are they more jocund in prosperity then in dysasters they are amazed Whereas they should eate and drinke and do all things to the glory of God they drinke to this end only that they may the easier forget God forget him in his threats which stick in their soules after some Sermon forget him in his judgements which have taken hold of some of their companions they drinke to the end they may drowne conscience and put off all thoughts of death and Hell and to hearten and harden themselves against all the messages of God and threats of thr Law Whereas if they had wit and were not past grace they would both invite and welcome this Angell or Messenger of the Lord so soone as the waters be troubled But many a time is poore Christ offering to be new borne in thee thrust into the stable while lewd companions by their drinking musick and jests take up all the best roomes in the Inne of thine heart which yet are but miserable comforters Physitians of no value Yea let ten consorts of musick be added all shall not drowne the clamorous cries of conscience nor can

But in the meane time how many thousands which are hard driven with poverty or the exigents of warre might be relieved with that which these men spend like beasts while that is throwne out of one Swines nose and mouth and guts which would refresh a whole family And doth not the very eccho of this sinne this excessive devouring the good creatures of God together with the teares of the poore dayly cry in his eares for vengeance on all that use it if not for a famine upon the whole land for their sakes who turne the Sanctuary of life into the shambles of death and because they are suffered Yes undoubtedly Yea O Lord it is thy unspeakable mercy that our Land which hath beene so long sicke of this drunken disease and so long surfetted of this sinne doth not spue us all out which are the inhabitants § 8. Now by that these gut mongers have doubled their mornings draught or gulped downe so many quarts as they can well overcome for I will tye my selfe to the Drunkards method their hearts come up as easily as some of their drinke For wine saith Plato is the daughter of verity the glasse of the minde saith Euripides Yea let him get but a cup or two more in his pate his limitlesse tongue shall clatter like a window loose in the winde and you may assoone perswade a stone to speake as him to be silent For then it fares with his clapper as with a sicke mans pulse which alwayes beats but ever out of order Yea one Drunkard hath tongue enough for twenty men it being like that clapper at Roane which is so bigge that it is said to weigh without the Bell more then sixe hundred pounds And what is their discourse First they discover all secrets for like as when the wine purgeth saith Plutarch that which is in the bottome cometh up to the brim and swimmeth aloft or else it breaketh the vessell and runneth all abroad Even so drunkennesse discovers the secrets of the heart And indeed if discretion and moderation be as hoopes to a vessell how should these hogsheads keepe their liquor if ye take away those hoopes It is the property of a drunkard to disgorge his bosome with his stomach to empty his minde with his maw he can ill rule his hands but worse his tongue fat cups oyle that so that it cannot sticke and makes it so laskative that it cannot hold And whatsoever is in the heart of a sober man is found in the tongue of a Drunkard Drinke disapparels the soule and is the betrayer of the minde it turnes the key of the tongue and makes it unlock that counsell which before wisdome had in keeping And experience shewes that when a man is drunke you may thrust your hand into him like an Eele skinne and strip his inside outwards Or suppose you urge him not the wine having set his tongue at liberty it shall resemble Bacchus his Liber pater and goe like the sayle of a Windmill for as a great gale of winde whirleth the sayles about so aboundance of wine whirleth his tongue about and keeps it in perpetuall motion For now he rayles now he scoffes now he lyes now he slanders now he seduces talkes bawdy sweares bannes foames and cannot be quiet untill his tongue be wormed Nor is he more lewd then lowd for commonly a lewd tongue is a lowd one and a lowd tongue a lewd one Impudent speakers are like gaping oysters which being opened either stinke or there is nothing in them § 9. But to keepe close to Drunkards this Cacodemons discourse is all quarrelling scoffing or scurrilous for as he hath a spightfull tongue in his anger so he hath a beastly tongue in his mirth as these two inseparably attend each other First a spightfull tongue in his anger for if you mark him then as having more rage then reason he enterlaceth all his discourse either with reviling the present or backbiting the absent Now all his prayers are curses and all his relations lyes as talkative and lying are two birds which alwayes flye out of one nest To be short heare him when he is in this veine and but seriously consider his condition you would think that by a just judgment of God he were metamorphosed like Hecuba the wife of Priamus into a dog for without question their wits are shorter and their tongues longer then to demonstrate them rationall creatures Secondly the Drunkards communication is ever filthy and beastly full of all ribaldry and baudinesse no filthy talke or rotten speech whatsoever comes amisse to a Drunkard Yea no word savours well with them that is not unsavoury their onely musicke and so it fares with all the rude rabble is ribaldry modesty and sober merriment with them is dulnesse So that from the beginning to the end he belcheth forth nothing but what is as farre from truth piety reaso● modesty as that the moone came down from Heaven to visit Mahomet O the beastlinesse which burnes in their unchast and impure mindes that smoakes out of their polluted mouthes a man would thinke that even the Devill himselfe should blush to heare his childe so talke as how doth his mouth run over with falshoods against both Christians and Preachers what speaks he lesse then Whoredomes Adulteries incests at every word Yea heare two or three of them talke you will change the Lycaomans language and say Devils are come up in the likenesse of men And because it is a small matter with them to meddle with their equalls or to sit upon their parish Priest as those Hogsheads terme him in such meetings they will visit a whole Drocesse and Province nay the sagest Judge and gravest Counsellor and greatest Peere in the land must do service to their Court and be summoned before the Alebench according to that in the Psalmes They set their mouths against Heaven and their tongues walke through the earth Psal 73.9 And having huft their smoake into the face of these they will have a health to King Charles and what not for the honour of England § 10. Thirdly from wicked talking hee proceeds to cursed and impious swearing blaspheming c. as you shall rarely see a Drunkard but hee is a great swearer and not of petty oathes but those proditious and fearfull ones of wounds and bloud the damned language of Ruffins and Monsters of the earth together with God danne me which words many of them use superficially if they repent not Yea they sweare and curse as if Heaven were deafe to their noise O the numberlesse number of oaths and blasphemies that one blacke-mouthed Drunkard spits out in defiance as it were of God and all prohibitions to the contrary I dare affirme it had some one of them three thousand pounds per annum his means would scarce hold out to pay those small twelve peny mulcts which our Stat●te Law imposes upon swearers were it duly executed and if so to what number will the oaths and curses

they are fools the case being rightly considered for what Owen speaks in the Epigram may be applyed to sundry Drunkards Good wine they say makes vinegar most tart Thou the more witty the more wicked art Yea had they been borne meere naturals they had either been in no fault or in a great deale lesse fault then they are And so you see that drunkards are strangely stupendious and forgetfull that drunkenness deprives men both of wit and memory and yet they madly pursue this vice as the kindler of them But no wonder when the forbidden Tree which promised our first Parents knowledge tooke their knowledge from them the same Devil having a hand in both § 34. Thus having got through the principall stages of the drunkards progress before we goe any further let us looke backe upon what we have past As how they imitate their Father the Devill in tempting and in forcing to sinne and in drawing to perdition after a review taken let any stander by say whether Satan be so much beholding to any men alive as to them whether he hath any servants that do him such faithfull service any Factors that make him a better returne of soules any Generals that subdue so many souldiers to him any advocates that pleade so hard for him as the true drunkard I presume you cannot nominate one I confess a beautifull whorish woman another of the Devils lime-twigs who hath a flattering tongue Prov. 6.24 smooth and enticing words Prov. 7.5 lips which drop like an hony comb and a mouth more soft then oyle Prov. 5.3 does the Devill singular service in the business of tempting for infinite are the soules which these artificiall Paradises have beguiled for as through an Hell upon Earth God brings many to Heaven so through an Heaven upon Earth many bring themselves to Hell And she hath a priviledg above other tempters for Cockatrice-like she killeth with her very sight yea she is able to take a man with her very eyelids Prov. 6.25 which makes the Wise man say that many have perished by the beauty of women Eccles 9.8 Yet nevertheless let her bid welcome to all commers so that any base fellow may ride her post to the Devill with a golden bit thee shall never be able to fill hell her body will not hold out nor helpe to people that infernall Kingdome as some Drunkards do that are gifted thereafter The which considered together with his other sinnes of idlenesse epicurisme adul●●r● murther his vaine babling scurrilous jesting wicked talking impious swearing atheisme and the like for he hath treble heads to Ce●berus that ugly porter o● Hell proves him the King or chiese of sinners as the Basilisk is called the King of Serpents And not only shewes them to be children of the Devill as all unregenerate men are but to be really metamorphosed into Devils as Lots wife was really metamorphosed into a Pillar of Salt and Vlysses companions into hogs and dogs and Cadmus with his wife into Serpents as Poets faine Yea certainely if the Devill would change his properties he would put himselfe into the person and appropriate to himselfe the very qualities of some drunken good fellow as what thinke you Is not drunkenness the root of all evill and the rot of all good yea is not this a sinne which turnes a man wholly into sinne and as Ahab sold himselfe to worke wickednesse so doth not the drunkard wholly dedicate resigne surrender and give himselfe up to serve sinne and Satan his whole imployment is onely to drinke drab quarrell sweare scoffe slander and seduce as if to sinne were his trade and he could do nothing else Like the Devill who was a sinner from the beginning a sinner to the end Yea he is sinne in the abstract as Augustine speakes Neither is that man of sinne 2 Thess 2.3 fuller of sinne then such an one for if these be their words and actions what think you are the secrets of their hearts certainely if all their thoughts did but breake forth into action they would not come far short of the Devils themselves Yea if halfe so much were knowne to man as God knowes of them how would all drunkards hang downe their heads with shame as what strange monsters would appeare what ugly odious hideous fiends would represent themselves O what swarmes what litters what legions of noysome lusts are couched in the stinking sty of a drunkards heart which God onely hath reserved as a prerogative royall to him selfe exactly to search to the bottome Jer. 17.9 10. You may marvaile at this which hath beene discovered but you would marvaile much more if all should be told As I could carry you a great way farther and yet leave more of him before then behinde For hee is like some putrid Grave the deeper you dig the fuller you shall finde him both of stench and horror But I am injoined to contract him in a sheet or two of paper lest it should cause many to make an end before they begin as not seldome doth a little more writ cause a great deale less to be read Besides he who hath a long journey to goe and but a little time allowed him must make but short baits by the way and cannot stand to take e●ery acquaintance he meets by the hand And they that are to paint or print a pitcht field within the compass of a small table can make but few souldiers whole and compleat but are faine to set down for the most their heads only or their helmets § 35. Wherefore as drunkards have seen their sinne laid open so let them now hearken to their punishment for both by Gods and mans Law next after indictment and conviction followes sentence and after sentence is past comes execution if a reprieve or pardon be not sued out in the interim If there be any of these Antipodes to God and his kingdome who like Trees have rooted both head and heart into the earth and set heaven at their heeles That have in this Treatise as in a picture taken a full view of his owne horrid and detestable condition and with Bupalus the Painter read the lively character of his odious and deformed demeanour and after he hath seene as in a cleare Glasse the ugly face of his foule heart with those spots and wrincles which otherwise he could not have espyed or confest in himselfe and further seene how miserably Satan hath deluded him and shal notwithstanding persever in this his brutish sensuality and resolve against yeelding and prefer the humouring of his soul before the saving of it and shall thinke it a disparagement to repent him of his errors and would rather obstinately continue in them then disclaime them so shutting his eyes that he may not see and stopping his eares that ●e may not heare and hardning his heart that he may not consider presumptuously as Pharaoh did malitiously as Cain did desperately as Ahab did and blasphemously as Julian did Iet him know that he shall surely

and canst not choose Remembring alwayes that they are but the Devils deputies yea hum●ne Devils as once our Saviour called Peter being instrumentall to Satan Satan himselfe Mat. 16.23 Change no words with them for there is no disputing with Satan or his Agents as you may see by his success in Paradise when he so easily perswaded Eve by himselfe and Adam by her to beleeve what he spake though they had heard God himself say the contrary immediately before When Castles once come to a parly there is great feare they will yeeld and Gates that are alwayes open will sometimes admit an enemy Neither will the complaint of our first parents be taken for a good answer or plea another day it will be fruitlesse to say such and such a friend deceived me Eve was perswaded by the Serpent to eat the forbidden fruit and Adam by Eve yet each had a severall curse both tempters and tempted § 41. Now by observing or not observing this rule it will appeare whether there be any hope of thy holding out for all depends upon this yea could the most infatuated habituated incorrigible cauterised drunkard that is even dead in this sinne but forsake his ill company I should not once doubt of his recovery for do but drive away these uncleane birds from the Carkasse a million to amity the Lord may be pleased to breath into his nostrils againe the breath of life and he become a living soule O that all drunkards were driven to the Barbadoes there to drinke water and worke untill some divine Vlysses could procure them their reason and perswade ●hem once againe to become men sober men yea sound Christians so ●hould our Nation flourish againe and be better provided with honest men ●or places of trust both in Church and State then now it is where so few have publick spirits and prove faithful And what justerpunishment can there ●e devised then that they shall be debarred both of the bloud of the Grape ●nd the spirit of Barley for consuming the Countries fat Were not ●leare Rocke-water good enough for such Gormondizers Or if authority ●hinkes not this fit I could wish there were Pesthouses provided for them ●n all places as there are for infected persons Or that they were put by ●hemselves in some City if any were big enough to receive them all as Philip King of Macedon built a City of purpose and peopled it with the most wicked graceless and irregular persons of all his subjects and ha●ing so done called it Poneropolis that is the City of wicked persons And certainely if it were well considered how many of these Brokers of cillany which live only upon the spoiles of young hopes every populous ●lace affords and what evill they do by their seducing some and giving ill ●xamples to others by devouring the good Creatures of God which they ne●er sweat for by disturbing the peace of Church and Common-wealth by ●ulling downe heavy judgements upon the Land and considering the little good they doe being as so many loose Teeth in the mandable of the Common-wealth which were better out then in and what small hope there is ●f their amendment if any at all the like meanes of prevention would ●e thought profitable for our times I do not wish them stoned to death as God commanded such rioters and drunkards to be under the Law Deut. 21.20 21. Nor bamshed the Land as the Romans did all vitious and vo●uptuous persons that the rest might not be endangered And Lycurgus all ●nventers of new fashions lest these things should effeminate all their young men for then I feare the land would be much unpeopled And so much for ●he avoiding of drunken company § 42. Secondly be carefull to abstain from drinking places which are e●en the nurseries of all riot excess and idleness making our land another Sodome and furnishing yearly our Jails and Gallowses Far be it from me to ●lame a good calling to accuse the innocent in that calling I know the Lord ●ath many in the world in these houses but sure I am too many of them ●re even the dennes and shops yea the thrones of Satan very sinkes of sin which like so many common-shoares or receptacles refuse not to welcome ●nd incourage any in the most loathsome pollutions they are able to invent ●nd put in practice Who if there were any hope of prevailing would be minded of their wic●edness in entertaining into their houses encouraging and complying with ●hese Traitors against God and of their danger in suffering so much im●iety to rest within their Gates For if one sinne of Theft or of perjury is enough to rot the Rafters to grinde the stones to levell the wals and roofe of any house with the ground as is laid down Zach. 5.4 what are the oathes the lyes the thefts the whoredomes the murthers the numberless and nameless abominations that are committed there But should I speake to these I should but speed as Paul at Ephesus I should be cryed downe with Great is Diana after some one Demetrius had told the rest of this occupation Sirs ye know that by this craft we have our wealth Surely if feare of having their Signes pulled downe their licenses called in c. cannot prevaile it little bootes me to speake § 43. Only to you Churchwardens Constables and other Officers that love the Lord the Church the State your selves and people Help the Lord the King and his Lawes against this mighty sinne present it indict it smite it every one shoot at it as a common enemy do what you can to suppress and prevent it Tell me not he is a friend a gentleman such an ones kinsman that offends for he is better and greater and nearer to you that is offended Learne to feare to love and obey your Maker and Saviour your Soveraigne and Protector Yea learne this Norman distinction when William the first censured one that was both Bishop of Bajeux and Earle of Kent his Apology to the plaintife popeling was that he meddled not with the Bishop but the Earle do you the like let the gentleman escape but stock the drunkard meddle not with your friend and kinsman but for all that pay the drunkard and make his Host pay that suffers him to be drunke O● if you do not to your power you shall have Ahabs wages his faults shall be beaten upon your backs 1 King 20.42 § 44. But most of all are they to be desired who are within the commission of Peace in Gods name whose servants they professe themselves to be to remember him themselves their country their oathes and to bend their strength and power against this many-headed Monster that they will purge their Country much more their owne houses of this pernicious and viperous brood Yea if there be any love of God any hatred of sinne any zeal any courage any conscience of an oath away with drunkennesse out of your Houses Townes Liberties balk none beare with none that offend say they be poore in whose houses the sinne is practised it is better one or two should lose their gaine then Townes of men should lose their wits their wealths their soules O beloved did you heare and see and smell and know what is done in some one Taverne or Alehouse hell-house I might call it in this land you would wonder that the earth could bear the house or the Sunne endure to looke upon it But alas how many of these Houses be there in some one Towne how many of these Townes in some one Shire and so upward You often complaine of Bastardies Sheep stealers robbers quarrellers and the like will you be eased of these diseases beleeve it these gather into the Alehouse as the humours do into the stomach against an Ague fit take them there drive them thence with some strong physick and you heale our land at once of infinite distempers Here I might also minde you of most prisons Just Lot was vexed with the uncleanly conversation of his wicked neighbours Sodome was worse then a Jaile to his righteous soule and report lyes if our Jailes be not much like to Sodome the very dens of mischiefe the schooles of wickedness a malefactor or broken Shop-keeper learnes more villany there then ever he knew before Drunkennesse and blasphemy usurpe the places of Mortification and Humility though most unfit it should be so Such as would know more of this and other subjects more serious let them read Sinne Stigmatized from which I have pluckt this as a Bunch of Grapes from a large Vine POSTSCRIPT THE Spartans and Lacedemonians used to shew their Slaves in their drunkenness unto their children thinking that their ugly deformity both in body and minde would be an effectual argument to make them loath this vice which even at the first view seemed so horrid The Persians and Parthians also to the same end kept alwayes in their houses the like ugly and deformed descriptions lively painted out and found it by experience the most operative and effectuall course to keep theirs from excesse And nothing as Anacharsis holds will sooner reclaime a man from Drunkennesse then the seeing and remembring of a drunkards odious condition and beastly behaviour Would we then that are Christians have our children and servants decline this bewitching besotting infectious and incurable sinne this wastefull insatiable unreasonable unnaturall sinne this base brutish atheisticall execrable prodigious and infernall sinne this transcendent sin which is the cause of all other sins yea a confluence or collection of every sinne even turning a man wholly into sinne this sinne that is the Funerall of all a mans good parts and indisposeth him to all grace and godlinesse yea to all the means thereof 〈◊〉 use we them and that often to read over in our families this description of a drunkard and for ought we know ours and after generations may by Gods blessing be less inamored with this loathsome and worse then beastly abomination FINIS Imprimatur John Downam