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Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common…Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common…
Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common sins; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkenness, whoredom, and bribery. Wherein the greatness and odiousness of these vices is discovered; and the means and remedies, which may either preserve, or wean men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common sinnes; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkennesse, whoredome, and briberie. Wherein the greatnes and odiousnesse of these vices is discouered; and the meanes and remedies, which may either preserue, or weane men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By Iohn Dovvname Batcheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Lastly,1 this sin bringeth men to poverty and want, for they consume their wealth at the wine, and swallow down their whole estate, and so it cometh to pass, that having spent all in superfluities, in the end they want necessaries, and because in their youth they will drink nothing but wine, they are oftentimes constrained in their old age to drink water. So it is said, Prou. 21.17. He that loveth pastime shall be but a poor man, and he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. And Pro. 23.21.2 The drunkard and the glutton shall be poor, and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags.
Lastly,1 this sinne bringeth men to pouertie and want, for they consume their wealth at the wine, and swallow downe their whole estate, and so it commeth to passe, that hauing spent all in superfluities, in the end they want necessaries, and because in their youth they will drinke nothing but wine, they are oftentimes constrained in their old age to drinke water. So it is said, Prou. 21.17. He that loueth pastime shall be but a poore man, and he that loueth wine and oyle shall not be rich. And Pro. 23.21.2 The drunkard and the glutton shal be poore, and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags.
- 1§. Sect. 5. Drunkenness bringeth poverty.§. Sect. 5. Drunkennesse bringeth pouertie.
- 2Pro. 21.17.23.21.