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A91823 An ingenious poem, called The drunkards prospective, or Burning-glasse. Composed by Joseph Rigbie, gentleman, clerke of the peace of the county palatine of Lancaster.; Drunkards prospective Rigby, Joseph, d. 1671. 1655 (1655) Wing R1473; Thomason E1606_3; ESTC R22176 20,978 53

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their sin Laid open to their view let them begin Their lives for to amend and to repent Or hearken to their grievous punishment For by the Lawes of God and eke of man After conviction there is none that can Avoid the sentence After sentence past Then execution comes for sure at last If a reprieve or pardon be not got Damning or hanging is drinks after-shot If therefore there be any unto God Of those Antipodes that scorn his rod That in these lines as through prospective true Of his condition taken hath a view Yet neither sting nor prick of conscience feels But fixt on earth casts heaven at his heels Or that hath seen in this same glasse most cleare The ugly face of his foule heart appeare And likewise read how Satan doth delude him And from Gods presence seeks for to exclude him Yet notwithstanding still himselfe doth give In brutish sensuality to live And sets at light all counsels threats and terrors And doth resolve not to repent his errours But stubbornly himselfe therein to cherish Let him know this that he shall surely perish Thus saith the Lord your selves you have abused For I have called and you have refused You simple things have in your hearts devised All my counsels all my threats despised I stretcht my hand and you would not regard Therefore destruction shall be your reward And let them know how many severall woes The word of God pronounceth against those That at the wine themselves together link And mighty are to poure downe strong drink And let them know the time will surely come Christ shall pronounce this fearfull dreadful doom Int ' everlasting fire depart from me Ye cursed workers of iniquity Here without thirst they drink there let them think How they shall thirst and never have no drinke Yea though the fire be hot the thirst be great A drop of water little to the heat Know that the fire and thirst they shall abide And the least drop of water be deni'd L●t drunkards know and knowing eke confesse Paul's a true Prophet Esay is no lesse Yea it 's an ods that they can never part But entertain uncleannesse in the heart No man can sort with Heathens Pagans Turks But he shall frame and learn to do their works Consider well Peter his change and fall After he came into the high Priest's hall Nay you shall seldome see a fellon die Or an offender but this is his cry If I had chanc'd ill company to misse Ah I am sure I 'd never come to this Wherefore as Ioseph hearing 's mistresse say Come let us lye together fled away Even so take care that thou away do shrink When Drunkards cry come let us goe and drink Beware lest they betray thee with their kisses When they speak faire beleeve the serpent hisses Likewise be carefull not for to resort To drinking places for to play or sport My tongue would blister if I should say lesse They 'r nurseries of riot and excesse I wish I might not say that many are The Devil's shops for venting of his ware The very sinks of sinne and common shoares For drunkards swearers murtherers and whores Yea Satan's Throne where he doth Chaire-man sit Sequestring each man both from grace and wit Their lands their goods their cattle and their stocks And for their fifts doth order them the pox But what of these I say I must take heed Lest I as Paul at Ephesus doe speed And by some one Demetrius be cry'd down With grea●s Diana throughout all the Towne Sirs by this craft you know we get our wealth Though others as Delinquents lose their health But thus much I conceive here by the way As not incongruous observe we may That in regard th' excesse o' th' trencher's not So soon perceiv'd as is th' excesse o' th' pot And th' outward visible effects with us Are not so stupid or notorious Drunk'nesse is more ridiculous then it And more declaim'd against in holy Writ So that by use the word Sobriety Doth temp'rance now in drinking signify Therefore the Glutton's sin is now in lesse Disreputation then is Drunkennesse Yet as to each th' affection stands in all Th' intemperance alike is criminall Yet one word more I will presume to add Which if it take effect my heart will glad To you Church-Wardens Constables and others That love the Lord the Church the State your brothers Your selves your sons the people of the land Put forth against this sin your helping hand Help help the Lord the lawes some ground to win Against I say against this mighty sinne Use all meanes possible for to prevent it And if you cannot faile not to present it Say not that he which herein doth offend Is such a Gentleman or such a friend But know that he who is offended's dearer Greater and better and unto you nearer Or if you needs the Gentleman will free Take care the Drunkard He presented be Or if you please for to let slip your friend Be sure the Drunkard to the stocks you send But most of all they are to be desired And in the name of God strictly required Within Commission of the Peace that be That they their Countries peace preserved see And all their wil skill strength and power bend This many headed monster for to rend Draw these loose teeth that it may gather health Out of the mandable of the Commonwealth You may if you these To res but disband Of infinite distempers cure the land Make known your love to God hatred to sinne The zeale and courage that you have within Balke none forbeare with none that do offend Untill their sinfull lives they do amend Now you have heard the thing that I do aske Arise up then be doing of your taske Which if you do to pray I will not cease That you in grace and wisdome may increase And know that this to do if you neglect Even he that hath of persons no respect Will surely in his fury and his rage Your negligence reward with Ahab's wage I wish that all men would beware in time Of this so odious detestable crime Or it will prove at length they may be sure Like to a desperate plague that knowes no cure And yet let Drunkards know sins are remitted Upon repentance as if not committed Peter his Master Christ did thrice deny Paul persecuted him exceedingly As thou dost in his members yet they twaine Upon repentance mercy did obtaine Manasses Mary Magdalen the thiefe Witnesse true sorrow never wants reliefe Repent and do not from his precepts range And God he will his dreadfull sentence change It is a truth to be beleev'd and read The womans seed shall bruise the serpent's head And thou O Father that alone canst give Life to the dead unto their souls say Live To thee nothing is hard thou canst of stones Make and raise children to thy holy ones Send down thy heavenly spirit and thereby Those dead and stony hearts so mollify That they