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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.
Yea the Lord punisheth this sin, not only with sickness,1 but also with death it self, and not such deaths alone which wait upon drunkenness, as being necessary effects of this cause, of which I have already spoken, but also such as are more violent and unnatural. Thus the Lord caused Ela to perish in his drunkenness, by the hands of his own servants, 1. Kin. 16.9.2 And thus the Lord threateneth the Babylonians that he would give them over to the sin of drunkenness, whereby they should fall into a perpetual sleep, even the sleep of death, out of which they should never awake, Jer. 51.39.3 The which punishment was accordingly ⟨p. 110⟩inflicted both upon the Prince and people: for whilst Belshazzar was feasting and drinking amongst his thousand Princes, the Lord by a hand writing upon the wall passed the sentence of death and destruction against him, the which was executed the same night by Darius and the Medes and Persians, who came upon them in the time of their feasting and drunkenness, killing the King, and surprising the city, and with it the whole Monarchy,4 as appeareth Daniel 5.2.30.
Yea the Lord punisheth this sinne, not onely with sicknesse,1 but also with death it selfe, and not such deaths alone which waite vpon drunkennesse, as being necessarie effects of this cause, of which I haue alreadie spoken, but also such as are more violent and vnnaturall. Thus the Lord caused Ela to perish in his drunkennesse, by the hands of his owne seruants,