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A67779	A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing Y191A; ESTC R218572	39,339	35

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 Factors they are and thou wilt surely hate them Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things 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 A Hopefull way to Cure that horrid Sin of SWEARING Or an help to save SWEARERS if willing to be saved Being an Offer or Message from Him whom they so Daringly and Audaciously provoke Also a Curb against CURSING Member 1. 1. Sect. Messenger SIr Me thinks you Swear and Curse as if he that made the ear could not hear or as if he were neither to be feared nor cared for who for sin cast the Angels out of Heaven Adam out of Paradise drowned the old world rained down fire and brimstone upon Sodom commanded the earth to open her mouth and swallow down quick Korah and his company he who smote Egypt with so many plagues overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea destroyed great and mighty Kings giving their land for an inheritance to his people and can as easily with a word of his mouth strike you dead while you are blaspheming him and cast you body and soul into hell for your odious unthankfulness yea it is a mercy beyond expression that he hath spared you so long When a Dog flies in his masters face that keeps him we conclude he is mad are you then rational men that being never so little crost will fly in your Makers face and tear your Saviours name in pieces with oaths and execrations which is worse than Frenzy yea this is to send challenges into Heaven and make love to destruction And certainly it is Gods unspeakable mercy that every such oath and blasphemy proves not a Benoni the death of the mother Gen. 35.18 Sect. 2. Think me not too bold or over-harsh for I speak to you both for and from my Maker and Redeemer Yea be perswaded to hearken a while unto me as you would have God another day hearken unto you Are you Christians as you call your selves If you be call to mind what God and Christ hath done for us How when we were in a sad condition when by sin we had forfeited our s●lves and all we had and wilfully plunged our souls and bodies into eternal torments when neither heaven earth nor hell could have yielded any satisfactory thing besides Christ that could have satisfied Gods justice and merited heaven for us then oh then The eternal God would die viz. so far as was possible or necessary that we might not die eternally John 3.16 A mercy bestowed and a way found out that may astonish all the sons of men on earth and Angels in heaven And all this even against our wills when we were his enemies mortally hating him and to our utmost fighting against him and taking part with his onely enemies Sin and Satan as now you do not having the least thought or desire of reconcilement but a perverse and obstinate will to resist all means tending thereunto Sect. 3. O my brethren bethink your selves It is his maintenance we take and live on The air we breath the earth we tread on the fire that warms us the water that cools and cleanseth us the cloaths that cover us the food that does nourish us the delights that cheer us the beasts that serve us the Angels that attend us even all are his That we are not at this present in hell there to fry in flames never to be freed That we have the free offer of grace here and everlasting glory in heaven hereafter we are only beholding to him And shall we deny this Lord that hath bought us shall we most spitefully and maliciously fight on Satans side against him with all our might and that against knowledge and conscience I wish you would a little think of it Sect. 4. For favours bestowed and deliverances from danger bind to gratitude or else the more bonds of duty the more plagues for neglect The contribution of blessings requires retribution of thanks or will bring distribution of judgements and certainly if a friend had given us but a thousandth part of what God hath we should heartily love him all our lives think no thanks sufficient And in reason Hath God done so much for us and shall we deny him any thing he requireth of us though it were our lives yea our souls much more our sins most of all this sottish and damnable sin in which there is neither profit nor pleasure nor credit nor any thing else to provoke or entice us unto it as in other sins for all you can expect by it is the suspicion of common Lyers by being common Swearers or that you shall vex others and they shall hate you Whereas if we could give Christ our bodies and souls they should be saved by it but he were never the better for them Yea swearing and cursing are sins from which of all other sins we have the most power to abstain For were you forced to pay for every oath and curse you utter as the Law enjoyns or if you were sure to have your tongue cut out which is too light a punishment for this sin damnation being the due penalty thereof as the Apostle sets it down James 5.12 you both could and would leave it which alone makes it altogether inexcusable And this know that the easier the thing commanded is the greater guilt in the breach of it and the lighter the injunction the heavier the transgression as Austin speaks and Adams eating the forbidden fruit sufficiently proves so that it is evident you love this sin meerly because it is a great sin and blaspheme out of meer malice to and contempt of God which it most fearful and as a man would think should make it unpardonable I am sure the Psalmist hath a terrible word for all such if they would take notice of it Let them be confounded that transgress without a cause Psalm 25.3 And no marvel that this fearful imprecation should fall from the Prophets mouth for that man is bottomlesly ill who loves vice meerly because it is a vice and because God most strictly forbids it He is a desperate prodigious damnable wretch who rather then not die will anger God on set purpose Wherefore look to it and think of it you cursing and cursed swearers You swear away your salvation curse away your blessing Howling and cursing shall be your chief ease in Hell to vvhom blasphemy was an especial recreation on Earth Sect. 5. Argue with all the vvorld and they vvill conclude there is

because they may never taste them curse the bloud of Christ shed on the Cross because it hath satisfied for millions and done their unbelieving souls no good curse the Angels and Saints in heaven because they see them in joy and themselves in torment Cursings shall be their sins and their chief ease Blasphemies their prayers Lachrymae their notes Lamentation all their harmony these shall be their evening songs their morning songs their mourning songs for ever and ever And indeed who shall go to Hell if Cursers should be left out Wherefore let all those learn to bless that look to be heirs of the blessing Sect. 7. But to be in Hell and there to continue everlastingly in a bed of quenchless flames is not all For this is the portion even of Negative and viceless Christians if they be not vertuous Of such as do not swear except they fear an Oath That abound in good duties if they do them not out of faith and because God commands them that he may be glorified and others edified thereby Whereas thou dost supererogate of Satan in damning many souls besides thine own Thou hast had a double portion of sin to other men here and therefore must have a double portion of torment to them hereafter The number and measure of thy torments shall be according to the multitude and magnitude of thine offences Rev. 20.12 13. 22.12 Luk. 12.47 Mat. 10.15 Rom. 2.5 6. And those offences if I could stand to aggravate them by their several circumstances would appear to be out of measure great and numerous I 'le mention but one of ten With thy swearing and cursing thou dost not only wound thine own soul worse than the Baalites wounded their own bodies for thou wilfully murtherest thine own soul and that without any inducement as hath been proved But thou art so pernicious that this is the least part of thy m●schief for thou drawest vengeance upon thousands by thy infectious and damnable example as how can it be otherwise Thou dost not only infect thy companions but almost all that hear or come near thee Yea little children in the streets have learnt of thee to rap out oaths and belch out curses and scoffs almost as frequently as thy self and through thy accustomary swearing learned to speak English and Oaths together and so to blaspheme God almost so soon as he hath made them And not onely so but thy example infects others and they spread it abroad to more like a malicious man sick of the plague that runs into the throng to disperse his infection whose mischief out-weighs all penalty It is like the setting a mans own house on fire it burns many of his neighbours houses and he shall answer for all the spoil So that the infection of sin is much worse than the act Sect. 8. Nor wilt thou cease to sin when thou shalt cease to live but thy wickedness will continue longer than thy life For as if we sow good works succession shall reap them and we shall be happy in making them so so on the contrary wicked men leave their evil practices to posterity and though dead are still tempting unto sin and still they sin in that temptation they sin so long as they cause sin This was Jeroboams case in making Israel to sin for let him be dead yet so long as any worshipped his Calves Jeroboam sinned Neither was his sin soon forgotten Nadab his son and Baasha his successor Zimri and Omri and Ahab and Ahaziah and Jehoram all these walked in the wayes of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin and not they alone but millions of the people with them So that it is easie for a mans sin to live when himself is dead and to lead that exemplary way to Hell which by the number of his followers shall continually aggravate his torments As O what infinite torments doth Mahomet endure when every Turk that perisheth by his jugling doth daily add to the pile of his unspeakable horrors And so each sinner according to his proportion and the number of souls which miscarry through the contagion of his evil example And look to it for the blood of so many souls as thou hast seduced will be required at thy hands and thou must give an account for the sins perhaps of a thousand Thou dost not more increase other mens wickedness on earth than their wickedness shall increase thy damnation in hell Luk. 16. Sect. 9. It were easie to go on in aggravating thy sin and wretchedness and making it out of measure great and the souls that miscarry through the contagion of thy evil example numerous For is not the Gospel and the Name of God blasphemed among the very Turks Jews and Infidels and an evil scandal raised upon the whole Church through thy superlative wickedness and other thy fellovvs Yea does not this keep them off from embracing the Christian Religion and cause them to protest against their ovvn conversion Which makes me vvonder that Swearers Drunkards and such vvicked and prophane wretches are not like dirt in the house of God throvvn out into the street by excommunication Or as excrements and bad humours in mans body vvhich is never at ease till it be thereof disburthened as Austin vvell notes That they are not marked vvith a black coal of infamy and their company avoided as by the Apostles order they ought Rom. 16.17 2 Thes 3.6 14. Eph. 5.5 7. 1 Cor. 5.5 11. 1 Tim. 1.20 That they are not to us as Lepers vvere among the Jews or as men full of plague sores are amongst us We vvell knovv the good husbandman weeds his field of hurtful plants that they may not spoil the good corn And when fire hath taken an house we use to pull it down lest it should fire also the neighbours houses Yea the good Chirurgion cuts off a rotten member betimes that the sound may not be endangered Nor will the Church of England ever flourish or be happy in her Reformation until such a course is taken Memb. 4. Swearer Sir I unfeignedly bless God for what I have heard from you for formerly I had not the least thought that swearing by faith troth or any other creature was so grievous a sin as you have made it appear from the Word And I hope it shall be a sufficient warning to me for time to come Sect. 1. Mestenger If so you have cause to bless God indeed For all of you have heard the self-same Word but one goes away bettered others exasperated and enraged wherein Will only makes the difference And who makes the difference of Wills but God that made them He that creates the new heart leaves a stone in one bosom puts flesh into another Sect. 2. Of Hearers there are usually four sorts Mat. 13. 19 to 24. as first an honest and good heart will not return from hearing the Word unbettered Yea he will so note what is spoken to his own sin that it shall encrease his knowledge and lessen his

without the other we shall never inherit part of his glory in heaven if we do not take his glories part upon earth And with God it is much about one whether we be doers of evil or no binderers For if we must not see our neighbours ox nor his sheep go astray or fall into a pit but we must reduce him a●d help him out of it Deut. 22.1 we are much more bound to help our neighbour himself from dropping into the bottomless pit of Hell And what know we but we may win our brother and so save his soul Mat. 18.15 Sect. 11. They will hiss like Serpents if we trouble their nests never so little And it is a sure sign the horse is galled that stirs too much when he is touched But what are these men like and how are they like to speed in the end They are like the Thracian flint that burns with water and is quenched with oyl their souls are the worse for Gods endeavour to better them His holy precepts and prohibitions do either harden them as the Sun hardens clay and cold water hot iron or else they enrage them as a furious mastiffe Dog is the madder for his chain Sect. 12. But to be exasperated with good counsel and in stead of penitency to break into choler when fury sparkles in those eyes which should gush out with water it is an evident sign of one that shall perish Prov. 29.1 Read the words and tremble A man that hardneth his neck being often reproved shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy see more Prov. 1.24 25 26 to 33. Whence it is the Prophet tells Amaziah I know that God hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not obeyed my counsel 2 Chro 25.16 20. and that the Holy Ghost speaking of Ely's sons saith that they would not hearken unto nor obey the voice of their father because the Lord was determined to destroy them 1 Sam. 2.25 Yea it is an observation of Livy that when the destruction of a Person or Nation is destined then the wholsome warnings both of God and Man are set at nought And in reason that sin is past all cure which strives against the cure Herbs that are worse for watering Trees that are less fruitful for dunging and pruning are to be rooted out or hewn down Even salvation it self will not save those that spill the potion and fling away the plaister When God would have cured Babylon and she would not be cured then she is given up to destruction without further warning Sect. 13. Ignorant Worldlings who will believe nothing which comes not within the compass of their five senses think that because God strikes not he minds not Psal 50.21 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of me● is fully set in them to do evil as Solomon speaks Eccles 8.11 They are like the Israelites 1 Sam. 12.15 to 20. they will not believe without a miracle and it will be a miracle if ever they be saved For should they see miracle upon miracle should God forthwith strike one dead with a thunder-bolt and rain down fire and brimsto●e upon anoth●r and cause the earth to swallow down a third quick while they are blaspheming him they would be as far from believing as they were before as the examples of the old world the Sodomites Pharaoh Baalam Ahab Belshazzer M●lch●us and those great Clerks the Scribes and Pharisees together with thousands of the Jews sufficiently manifest Yea it is easier for a man possest with ma●y Devils to be disposs●st to ra●se one from the dead or to turn a stone into flesh in which God should meet with no opposition than perswade an habituated Swearer to believe these ensuing precept prediction testimonies of the Gospel or any other saving truth M●t. 5.20 12.36 25.30 to 46. 2 Thes 1.7 8 9. 2.12 Heb. 12.14.29 Rev. 20.12 to the end Deut. 29.19 30. Prov. 1.24 to 33. Sect. 14. Well may they believe what the World the Flesh and the Devil suggests unto them As Satan that he may make smooth their way to perdition will perswade the most impudent and insolent sinners Drunkards Adult●●ers Blasphemers Sabbath-breakers Blo●d-thirsty murtherers Persecuters of the godly and ●o●●emners of Religio● that they may take liberty to continue their sensual lusts by a testimony of Scripture and apply Christs passion as a warrant for their licentiousness his Death as a license to sin his Cross as a Lette●s patent to do mischief And hereupon as if a Malefactor should head his d●um of rebellion with his pardon they live as if the gospel were quite contrary to the rule of the law or as if God were neither to be feared nor cared for Hence they exercise their saucy wits in prophane scoffs at religion disgrace that blood whereof hereafter they would give a thousand worlds for o●e drop Hence they tear heaven with their blasphemies and bandy the dreadful Name of God in their impure and polluted mouths by their bloudy oaths and execrations hence they are so witless graceless and shameless as to swear and curse even as dogs bark Yea they have so sworn away all grace that they count it a grace to swear and are so far from believing what God threatens in his Word against sin and what is affirmed of his justice and severity in punishing all wilful and impenitent sinners with eternal destruction of body and soul that they presume to have part in that merit which in every part they have so abused to be purged by that blood which now they take all occasions to disgrace to be saved by the same wounds and bloud which they swear by and so often swear away to have Christ an Advocate for them in the next life when they are Advocates against Christ in this That heaven will meet them at their last hour when all their life long they have galloped in the beaten road toward hell And that though they live like swine all their life long yet one cry for mercy at the last gasp shall ●ransfo●m them into Saints And this is the strong faith they are so apt to boast of viz. presumption not confidence Or rather Hope frighted out of its wits For notwithstanding all this in believing the Scriptures they fall ●hort of the Devils themselves For the Devils do really believe that God is no less true and just then he is merciful as his Word declares him to be and thereu●●n they tremble as St. James hath it Jam. 2.19 whereas these men 〈◊〉 not a word that God speaks so as to be bettered by it Sect. 15. And no marvel for their wont hath been to believe Satan rather than God as did our first Parents Gen. 3. Therefore now after they have rejected all means of grace when they are so crusted in their v●llany that custom is become a second or new nature God that he may punish their hardness and