Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	3,674	5	5.2011	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

men utterly uncapable of returning unless God should work a greater miracle upon them than 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 desperate plague which knows no cure As what saies Basil Shall we speak to drunkards we had as good speak to liveless stones or senceless 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 Black-moors 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 Age its for the Devil Drunkards practise nothing but the Art of d●baunching men that to turn others into beasts they will make themselves devils wherein 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 Commander c. and never cease until their brains their wits their tongues their eyes their feet their sense and all their members fa●l them that they will drink until they vomit up their shame again like a filthy dog or lie wallowing in their beastliness like a bru●ish 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 d●eached sobriety and blinded the light and ever after be a snuffing of this tape● 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 shooing-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 then the hang-man and will sooner adventure their blood in the field upon refusing or crossing their healths then in the cause and quarrel of their Countrey 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 some 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 suspicion they will so mollifie the stiffness of a mans prejudice so temper and fit him to their own mold that once to suspect them requires the spirit of discerning And that withal they so confirm the profession 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 bloud 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 pro●ocation or example than their wickedness shall increase thy damnation in hell Luke 16.27 28. Non fratres dilexit sed seipsum respexit And this let me say to the horrour 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 embrace 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 Tyburn from the Ale-house to the Gallows Briefly That these Bawds 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 shrap when he casts