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A14982	A triple cure of a triple malady that is of [brace] vanity in apparell, excesse in drinking, impiety in swearing [brace] / by E.W., Doctor, and Professor of Diuinity.	Weston, Edward, 1566-1635.	1616 (1616)	STC 25290.7; ESTC S2967	115,158	324

body Isa 6. 27. It was a thing of terrour and respect when the Angell applyed a burning coale to the mouth of the Prophet that his lippes might be clensed and sanctified before they spake the sacred word so no doubt when men sweare by the humanity of Christ they ought to it with feare and dread For in person Christ is the same whome the Prophet beheld so long agoe in shape of a man sitting vpon a throne of Maiesty enuironed with Seraphims who with their wings couered his face and his feet crying aloud Holy holy holy the Lord God of Isa 6. Hosts Holy he was in diuinity holy in soule and holy in the body three substances Bernard l. 3. deconsid in one person as S. Bernard teacheth and we Christians beleeue 28. Furthermore when a man is vrged to sweare and mentioneth the body soule of our Redeemer he must remember that he vseth them as a sacred booke whereupon he sweareth consequently with how great reuerence he ought to do it For this holy body is deified with the very substance of diuinity it is most pure neuer touched with sin it is of power to worke miracles to ordain Apostles to cast outdiuels to cure all diseases to enamour subiect the harts of the wisest and greatest persons in the world And in this body are specially deseruedly recōmended to our reuerence his precious wounds engrauen therein those wounds I say which redeemed vs vpon the crosse and out of which the full price of the worlds recouery was powered as August in Psal ●0 Bernard Serm. 1 de Ep●phan Ioan. 20. S. Augustine and S. Bernard teach vs when the hart was pierced those wounds which bare witnesse to the Apostles of his tri●phant Resurrection those wounds which now in heauen are adored by the Angels beloued of the eternall Father shinning as so many precious stones couched in the gold of that sacred body where they serue as so many tongues to plead inces●antly for the remission of our sinnes for perseuerance of the Church and for euery one in particuler and therefore are not to be named or thought vpon especially of vs miserable offenders without humility harty deuotion religious reuerence and respect 29. Likewise the glorious soule of our Redeemer which shineth in his body as a perpetuall blasing starre in the highest heauen which euer kept in mind the penall worke of our recouery neuer sleeping in forgetfulnes of our distressed estate but sleeping the Lyons sleep with his eyes still open to behold our need with the Nightingall continually pearched with a thorne in her breast and therfore deserueth our affection loue and reuerence alwayes but especially when we sweare any thing by it 30. To conclude the merits of our Iesus and annoynted Priest exact regard of duety and lowlinesse whensoeuer we remember them but specially when we make them our witnesses by protestatiō of oath For these merits seasoned with gall and mirrh cost him deare they are gold and pearle bought with griefe labour s●eat hunger thirst agony and bloud they be hony in the combe wrought by the bee which stingeth they issue from the fountaine infinitely gracious to the eternall Father How could the bloud of an ordinary man saith S. Cyril be auaileable for the worlds redemption Vpon which consideration an oath taken by these inestimable merits ought to be done with exceeding great respect of religion deuotion innocency and purity in him that sweareth Wherfore the premises duely considered enforce this consequence that it is an haynous crime to sweare vainely and much more to sweare falsly as will appeare by that which followeth What a grieuous trespasse it is to sweare falsly CHAP. III. IT may be auouched generally and without all doubt that whatsoeuer Nation vseth ordinarily to commit the sinne of periury the same hath made a great breach and entry into fidelity and barbarisme For assuredly if the people retayned any sparckle of true faith it would preserue them from so great and so impudent and irreligious contempt of the diuine maiesty For where the excellency and authority of God is not acknowledge by stedfast faith there ensueth consequently a carelesse respect towards him which bringeth in the abuse of swearing with cōtempt against his holy name And as for Barbarisme the assertion is also euident first for that where either ignorance of Almighty God or an audacious contempt of him raigneth there cannot any vertue haue a firme roote where vertue is wanting there ciuility which ariseth from vertue must needs faile and Barbarisme predominate Heb. ● 2. Secondly as the Apostle S. Paul teacheth vs the ciuill end and profit of an oath is to determine controuersies betwixt men Men saith he sweare by a greater then themselues and the end of all their controuersie for the confirmation is an oath Which benefit is altogether abolished where periury preuayleth for there either men will refuse to be tryed by oaths nor ●aring for their credit and so faileth the gre●●est and most certaine meanes for the ending of controuersies Or if that tryall be admitted it becommeth an instrument of vniustice both which consequences are wholy Barbarous Also whatsoeuer Commonwealth maketh no conscience of periury the same discouering open misprision and neglect of all diuinity is co●uinc●d secretly in hart to ha●e the tēporall Prince and all superiority whence followeth that they do well no further then dread of punishment from the magistr●te enforceth so as where whensoeuer the sword of the magistrate is out of sight there sensuality pride and a legion of other vices breaketh forth into disorder and barbarity 3. Therfore Princes to conserue in their subiects dutifull regard and loue to their owne person are chiefly and originally as from the roote to bring it to passe by conseruing in them by all meanes possible the feare dread and reuerence of Almighty God For as the picture is not respected but for his sake whome it representeth so no more will a Prince be cordially reuerenced nor accounted of by his subiects vnlesse they first religiously respect God Almighty whome the Prince representeth 4. And heere by the way may be obserued how pernicious it is to the Prince and Commonwelth to giue occasions to impertinent oathes which haue no other certaine effects but to charge mens consciences or to oblige them to sweare affirmatiuely that which they are not first perswaded to be true or promise by oath that which they cannot or thinke they may not lawfully performe For by this custome of swearing without true intention is broaken and by litle and litle brought to contempt the sacred band which should be preserued in al possible reuerence and respect being the safeguard of Kings the security of their Kingdomes the sinew of iustice the determination of doubtes the pledge of fidelity and the roote foundation and b●lwark of all ciuility peace and concord amongst men where it is reuerenced as it should and without which no Common wealth

by his owne misery after his fall from Gods grace amongst other pernicious errours he taught with shame inough that man could not liue chast Though his meaning was to couer his incontinent life with an excuse of impossibility the deceit lying in supposition of the like intemperance that a man giuen ouer to riot and drunkenesse can hardly liue chast which without preiudice to chastity may be graunted to the Doctors weaknesse that taught this learning and to the experience of his chiefest disciples which haue followed his doctrine and life And yet for all this the contrary is most certaine for if Chastity could not be kept Christ our Sauiour would neuer haue coūsailed it to his followers nor the Apostles commended so highly this kind of life 27. The difference is that the disciples of Christ which by continuall temperance keep the body subiect alwayes to the soule and all the senses employed in exercise of Christian life within the compasse of reason faith as in the rest of their actions dedicated wholy to the honour and seruice of Almighty God they imitate the Angels that serue him in heauen so they receaue from him as a necessary ornament of their estate as a Gods penny of greatter reward the precious iewell of perpetuall Chastity which in some degree aduanceth them aboue the dignity of Angels Whilest they conserue Angelicall purity in corruptible bodyes of flesh and bloud as we see performed by innumerable persons of both sexes holpen as I say by the grace and assistance of him that gaue this counsaile example helping themselues also as they should by auoyding occasions of temptation not to giue aduantage to the Diuell and by the ordinary meanes of temperate diet and abstinence yea and of rigorous fasting also and other exercises of pennance when there is need which remedies the old Heathens could tell were helpes to Chastity and so they taught that sine Cerere Baccho friget Venus But these new Doctors because they desire not to liue chast will not make vse of this doctrine Thus we see that the disciples and followers of Christ our Sauiour by temperance and Chastity are exalted aboue their owne nature to be like Angels in life as the others giuing themselues ouer to gluttony and drunkennesse become worse then beastes And so no meruaile if their maister and Foreleader taught so filthy and beastly doctrine taking the measure of mans possibility by himselfe and his owne weaknesse after he had degenerated to the habit and custome of a beastly life 28. The chast temperate soule in the water of baptisme beholdeth Almighty God his Angels the sacred mysteries of our holy faith and there contemplateth the temperate and fruitfull quality of a Christian The others in their riot and intemperance of drinke what shape can they find but of vgly Diuells and fiends of hell who are delighted to see them wallow in the myre of beastly pleasures and become worse then beasts inordinate desires like to themselues 29. Consequently when immoderate drinke hath thus set the concupiscible part of the soule on fier as hath bin said the dregges and droppinges are choler fury in the irascible A strange effect that from hony should be strayned gall But so it is the face of a Nimph but with the sting of a serpent Much Ecclesiast cap. 19 wine drunken sayth the Wise-man prouoketh wrath and many ruines What thing more hurtfull or more mad then for a man willingly to poyson himselfe and draw downe his throat the sweetest liquor that may bereaue him of his wits The mountaine Etna in Sicily whose bosome alwayes full of fier groaning and roaring as it were in rage to disgorge itselfe of wrathfull rancor casteth vp burning coales continually as it were to take reuēge of the heauens such a monster is a drunkard when the heate of drinke hath entred into his body down his throat scalded his veines scorched his liuer and enflamed his head for then like an Etna with a burning face glowring eyes after that drinke hath let loose in him all possible distemper of nature and vice he beginneth in rage to breath out contumelious words and many times breaketh out into effects of fury no lesse then if he were mad as he is indeed whilest the fit endureth and therfore Bacchus was painted in forme of a Mad-man as Athenius Iuuenal Satyr 6. reporteth and Iuuenal that the Aegyptian Bacchanalies or solemnities of wine were outragious in violence of contention and fight and seldome without bloud Which disposition who knoweth not how farre it repugneth to the mild spirit of a Christian So as he denyeth this holy and most honorable name and in very deed renounceth his baptisme whosoeuer giueth himselfe ouer to riot and drinke for these kind of people be those of whome the Apostle sayeth Quorum Deus venter est gloria eorum in confusione Their tast and belly is their God and their glory confusion and repoach 30. Thus farre we are come in the offence domage which a man receaueth in the concupiscible and irascible parts of his soule by excesse of drinke Now let vs come to the third and chiefest For as nothing in him is more precious and honorable then the light of reason so nothing can be to him of greater impeachmēt nor more disgracefull then to haue it by any meanes troubled or eclipsed The grosse vapour raysed from the earth though it ascend to the middle region of the ayre yet it neuer ariseth so high as to touch the sunne it selfe How foule and vnworthy a thing is it then that the filthy vampe of intemperate drink boyling in the stomake should presume to depriue the soule of vnderstanding freedome S. Thom. 1. 2. q. 48. art 1. ludic 16. by which principally it carryeth the image of Almighty God Which surprised and blinded by drinke like another Sampson is exposed to the scorne and laughter of foolish perturbations And if no countrey clowne be so rude and vnmannerly as to touch the robes of a Prince without reuerence or to enter into his priuy-chamber vncalled what an vnworthy presumption is it for the ignominious breath of vndisgested drinke not only to touch the light of the soule but ouerpresse it in captiuity and darknesse yea to strike it dead till the force of nature holpen by sleep reuiue it and restore it to liberty 31. How thinke you will God Almighty beholding our drunkard depriued both of reason and sense and all resemblance of a man take this villany cōmitted against the soueraignty of his Royall armes and image in his broad Seale surprised defaced and contemptously defiled by surfet of drinke which redoundeth also as an iniury to himselfe worthily to be punished The Angels also looking vpon the same spectacle of a reasonable soule thus annoyed by drinke will hold themselues highly preiudiced for that the same image similitude which they see defaced in man is their principall flower and the