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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.
And thus the drunkard sinneth against his own soul.1 Neither is he a better friend or less injurious to his body: for first he deformeth it and defaceth that goodly feature, in which it was created; according to that, Vino forma perit, vino corrumpitur aetas: By wine beauty perisheth, and the vigour of age is disabled. Neither is there almost any part of the body which is not disordered and deformed with this vice of drunkenness; their eyes become red, their face is inflamed, their breath noisome, their speech stammering, their bodies staggering, their gestures apish, and all their actions foolish. And hence it was that the Lacedaemonians used to show unto their children their Helots and slaves in the time of their drunkenness, thinking that their ugly deformity both in body and mind would be an effectual argument to make them loth this vice, which even at the first view showed so odious.
And thus the drunkard sinneth against his owne soule.1 Neither is he a better friend or lesse iniurious to his bodie: for first he deformeth it and defaceth that goodly feature, in which it was created; according to that, Vino forma perit, vino corrumpitur aetas: By wine beautie perisheth, and the vigour of age is disabled. Neither is there almost any part of the bodie which is not disordered and deformed with this vice of drunkennesse; their eyes become red, their face is inflamed, their breath noisome, their speech stammering, their bodies staggering, their gestures apish, and all their actions foolish. And hence it was that the Lacedemonians vsed to shew vnto their children their Helots and slaues in the time of their drunkennesse, thinking that their vgly deformitie both in bodie and minde would be an effectuall argument to make them lothe this vice, which euen at the first view shewed so odious.
- 1§. Sect. 7. How the drunkard sinneth against his body: 1. by deforming it. Propert. lib. 2. eleg. ult.§. Sect. 7. How the drunkard sinneth against his body: 1. by deforming it. Propert. lib. 2. eleg. vlt.