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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Bible. -- O.T. -- Joel I, 5 -- Sermons. Temperance -- Sermons. Sermons, English -- 17th century. 2006-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-09 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A SERMON AGAINST DRVNKENNES : Preached at Ware by DANIEL DENT Bachelour in Divinitie , and Fellow of Kings Colledge in CAMBRIDGE . ESAY , 58. 1. I Cry aloud , spare not , lift up thy voice like a trumpet , and shew my people their transgressions , and the house of Iacob their sinnes . IN DOMINO CONFIDO printer's or publisher's device Printed by the Printers to the Vniversitie , of CAMBRIDGE . ❧ TO THE RIGHT Wor sh . and highly honoured M ris MARY MORE , all happines here in this life , and in that to come . Right worshipfull , I Know the world will be offended with me , that I dare presume to set out a plaine Sermon against drunkennes in these times , wherein so many learned handwritings are extant already , decked and adorned with much eloquence , enough to strike amazement into the hearts of all Belshazzars , that shall take the least view of them : yet if they consider the motive that induced me hereunto , they will , if not Apologize for me , yet abate something of the rigour of their censures . Now my maine and onely inducement to be in print , was not , as men usually plead and I might also if I would , the importunity of friends , or that I thought in my judgement these vulgar notes of mine fit to come to the presse ; but especially a vehement desire which I had to testifie unto the world , how faine I would ( if I could tell how ) expresse my thankfullnes unto you , for your favours conferred upon me from my very cradle unto this present ; which have been so many that they cannot be specified : for you have done with me as the young Lady did with Moses , not onely saved me from the waters , the bitter waters of penury , but also nursed me in those famous places , where both the learning of the Egyptians and the religion of the Israelites doe superabundantly flourish . I am perswaded you take no pleasure to see your goodnes trumpeted to the world ; for you know that Vertues fairest Theater is a good Conscience : but yet thankefullnes doth not love to smother benefits , but teacheth us to acknowledge from whom we have received them . Be pleased therefore to receive these few notes , as from one whose highest pitch of ambition is , to be thankefull unto you for your many and many favours . I hope your worship will not be offended with me , that I dare trouble you with the reading of a plaine Sermon of this subject , whose great endowments of Nature the world knoweth can reach deeper speculations : But you out of your wisedome will consider my honest intentions ; in confidence whereof I cease to be further troublesome unto you , craving pardon for my boldnes , and humbly entreating the continuance of your favour to him , who acknowledgeth himselfe Bound to you in all dutifull observance , DANIEL DENT . A SERMON AGAINST DRVNKENNES IOEL 1. 5. I Awake ye drunkards , and weep and houle all ye drinkers of wine ; for the new wine shall be taken from your mouthes . IT is DAVID's assertion , that God turnes a fruitfull land into barrennesse for the sinnes of those that dwell therein : the truth of this we see verified here in the land of Iudah , a fruitful land , a land that flowed with milke and hony , yet became barren for the sinnes of those that inhabited the same ; for so we may reade in the verse going before ; That which the Palmerworme had left , the Locust had eaten , and that which the Locust had left , the Cankerworme had consumed : So that between them all they had destroyed the fruits of the earth , and a heavie famine was fallen upon the whole land of Iudah . I am not ignorant that some of the Fathers would have these words to be meant tropically , and not literally : Saint Ierome by those creatures understands the enemies that ▪ God did send to overthrow them : some write , that by the Palmerworme is meant Theglaphalasar ; by the Locust , Salmanazar ; by the Cankerworme , Senacherib ; and by the Caterpillar , Nebuchadonazer , who last of all took the Nation captive ; but I rather , with Theodoret , take these words to be meant literally , though in the next words of the Text , we read of a Nation comming into the land , mighty and strong . It is usual with the holy Ghost to stile them by that name of people , or Nation . Solomon describes the Ants to be a people not strong ; the Conies to be feeble folke , the Locusts to have no king , and yet to goe forth by bands : and so here we see , though these creatures have no king , yet God marshalls them all in order , to bring a famine upon Iudah : one yeare he sent an army of Palmerwormes ; another , of Locusts ; a third , of Cankerwormes ; a fourth , of Caterpillars ; and these for foure yeares together destroyed the vines and fruites of the earth , and for so long brought an heavy dearth upon the whole land . Now the Prophet , seeing this heavie judgement of famine to have fallen upon the land , he labours to awaken all by true repentance ; as that is the fittest time to moove to amendment of life , when Gods judgements are upon the earth ; for then if the inhabitants thereof will not learne righteousnesse , they never will. And as the Prophet awakens all to repentance , so he giveth the first on set upon Drunkards , and that not without cause ; for as they had the chiefest hand in pulling downe Gods wrath and vengeance upon the whole land , so there was good reason that they should be the forwardest in reversing that judgement that was out against them , by speedy and unfained repentance . So that these words are an Alarum to awaken Drunkards ; or we may stile them , an Hand-writing to hang upon the wall of every Belshazzar ; the sight whereof may strike horrour and amazement into them , may trouble their thoughts and change their countenances ; for here is MENE , MENE , TEKEL , VPHARSIN , thou art weighed , ô Belshazzar , in the ballance ; thou art found too light ; thy kingdome , to wit , thy wine , in which thou dost so much triumph and glory , is taken from thee , and is divided amongst the Locusts and the Caterpillars . In the words we have two parts ; 1. An Exhortation , Awake ye drunkards , and weep and houle all ye drinkers of wine . 2. A Reason of the same in these words , For the new wine shall be taken from your mouthes . 1. In the Exhortation two things ; 1. The persons exhorted , Drunkards , and drinkers of wine . 2. The duty unto which they are exhorted ; and that is two-fold ; 1. To Awake . 2. To Weep or houle . First , of the persons that are awakened ; and they are Drunkards , and drinkers of wine . I will notstand curiously to define Drunkennesse , nor to shew the divers kindes of Drunkards ; methinkes the Prophet here lets us understand whom he meanes to be drunkards , when he stiles them Drinkers of wine : we must first of all then enquire who these wine-drinkers are . Now , to drinke wine is not unlawfull ; for every creature is good , if it be received with thankesgiving ; and wine moderately taken , saith Solomon , makes glad the heart , and therefore he would have it given to them that were of heavy hearts ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , It is not the use of wine , but the abuse that is forbidden , as Chrysostome observes : for there was drunkennesse before the vertue of the grape was knowne to Noah ; and surely , if to drinke wine had been unlawfull , our Saviour would never have turned water into wine at the marriage Feast ; especially , he would never have instituted it as a memoriall of his Blood-shedding : So that the Prophet doth not mean to call them drunkards , or drinkers of wine , that drinke either for hilarity , or refreshment of their spirits , much lesse for necessity ; but such as drinke intemperately : so Theodoret observes upon this place , Vinum bibere non est malum , sed intemperanter bibere est perniciosum , To drinke wine is no evill at all , but to drinke inordinately is a mortall crime . Now this immoderate drinking is seen in three things ; First , when the affection is set too much upon the wine , therefore Solomon exhorts , Not to look upon the wine when it giveth his colour in the glasse ; his meaning is , we should not lust vehemently after it : So Paul would not have a Bishop to be given to much wine ; that is , not to set his affection inordinately upon the same . Secondly , they may be said to be Drinkers of wine that sit too long over their cups , that in the Tavernes or Alehouses drinke up too much of their time , Qui pitissando totum consumunt diem , that in whisling and sipping spend whole daies : Though their braines be not intoxicated , yet are they said to be Drinkers ; Woe be to those that rise early in the morning that they may follow strong drinke , that continue untill night , till the wine inflame them : And who knoweth not that we have as much liberty to wast our vitall spirits , as our pretious time ? 3. Last of all , they are drinkers of wine , Qui mensuram excedunt , that drinke measure after measure without all measure : Be not drunke with wine ( saith S. Paul ) wherein is excesse ; his meaning is , that we should not drinke excessively , more then Nature requires , either for necessity or refreshment . And thus we have heard briefly whom the Prophet meanes to be Drunkards , or Drinkers of wine ; such as are given to much wine , that waste their time or exhaust their estate , wash away their braines and spirits by pouring in wine and strong drinke . We now come to the duty unto which they are exhorted ; and that is two-fold ; 1. To Awake . 2. To Weep and houle . 1. They must Awake . It is the nature of drunkennesse to cast men into a sleep , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as Basil saith , The whole life of these men is nothing els but a continuall sleep . And well may drunkennesse be compared to a sleep in two respects ; First of all , As sleep is caused by multitude of vapours which ascend up into the braine , and so stop the passage of the spirits ; so drunkennesse is caused by many fumes , which comming into the braine doe stupifie the same , and hinder all the operations of the immortall soule . 2. But especially it may be compared to sleep in this regard , that like as sleepe doth deprive a man of the use of sense and reason , so doth this vice . First , sleep doth deprive a man of the use of sense ; for as the Philosopher defineth sleep , it is nothing else but Ligatio sensuum , a binding of all the senses to their good behaviour ; so drunkennesse robs a man of common sense , and makes him worse then the bruit beast , and to become like the Idols that David speakes of , that have eies and see not , that have eares and heare not , hands and feel not , feet also that are not able to goe . Secondly , as in sleep we have no use of reason , no more have they that are overtaken with this vice : when men are asleepe ( saith the Philosopher ) they differ little from beasts ; and the reason is , because the use of reason is suspended : I am sure , those that by evill company have rockt themselves asleep in this sinne , are not at all to be distinguished from the sensitive creatures , but rather to be reputed in the number of them ; nay , they come short of them ; for they have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have some resemblance of reason , to wit , the excellencie of common sense , which hath some correspondency with humane discourse , but these swine have not so much as a glimpse of understanding in them ; for ( as Saint Basil excellently ) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as water quencheth fire , so immoderate drinking extinguisheth the celestiall fire of reason , which God from heaven hath kindled in us . All men pitty the forlorne estate of Nebuchadnezzar , who was deprived of his understanding , and caused to live amongst the Oxen , and beasts of the field : And is not the case of every Belshazzar more to be lamented , who wilfully loose their understanding , and live amongst beasts ? For excellently doth Chrysostome call Drunkennesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , it is a voluntary madnesse , and a traytour to all reason , and betrayeth the succour of the immortall soule : Sobrietie makes a man able to guard himselfe against his spirituall enemies , but Intemperancie doth give up the minde to be captivated by them . Thus we have heard that Drunkennesse casts men into a sleep , which takes away all use of sense and reason : But is there no meanes to awaken men out of this sleep ? Yes , Gods Minister must call upon them . The Prophet methinkes here lifts up his voice like a trumpet , and labours to rouze them ; and our tongues must cleave to the roofe of our mouthes before we leave calling upon them . It is sure that this sleep is so pleasant to them , that they are loath to be hindred of it ; they cry , A little more sleep , and a little more slumber , and willingly they would not be disturbed ; as we reade of the Sybarites , that they killed all their cocks , least by their crowing they should be awakened . But the Prophet calls upon them to awaken : And what is it to awaken ? It is a metaphor taken from the body , and translated to the soule ; that look as men when they awake out of bodily sleep , they are not the same men that they were before , having the use of all the powers of soule and body ; so these men must change their mindes and become sober . The Scripture doth often call upon them to awaken ; S. Paul having to doe with drunken Epicures , who cried , Let us eate and drinke , for to morrow we shall die ; No , saith he , rather awaken unto righteousnesse . And good reason why all should awake and repent of this vice , if we consider either the time wherein we live , or the danger that this vice exposeth us unto . First , if we remember the time wherein we live , and that is in the noone-day of the Gospell , wherein it is a shame to be found asleep in this vice : The night is past ( saith Saint Paul ) and the day is at hand , let us not walk in chambering and wantonnesse , in surfetting and drunkennesse : and so he exhorts the Thessalonians to sobriety by this argument , They that are drunke are drunke in the night , and they that sleep sleep in the night ; but we are not of the night but of the day ; let us therefore be sober and watch , 1. Thess . 5. 7. It is not for kings to drink wine , nor for princes strong drink , saith Solomon , Prov. 31. 4. I am sure it is not for Christians to have fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darknesse : it was enough for the heathen , who lived in Egyptian darknesse , to fall asleep in this vice ; for us , upon whom the Sunne of righteousnesse shineth most brightly , so much as to slumber in this sinne , is extreame shame . The night of ignorance God regarded not , but now in the day of the Gospell he lookes that all should awake ; therefore ( as Saint Augustin excellently ) Quum , Deo propitio , dissimiles simus illis in fide , si●●ll●● in ebrietate penitus non debemus , When by Gods mercy we are unlike unto them in our most holy faith , let us not be like unto them in the imitation of their manners , especially of their beastly drunkennesse . Secondly , the danger that we are in while we sleepe in this vice , may rouze us ; for all the enemies of our salvation are ready to seize upon us , especially the Divell watcheth to catch us asleep in this vice ; so Saint Peter tells us , Be sober and watch , for your adversary the Divell goeth about like a roaring lyon , seeking whom he may devoure ; and those that he findes asleep in this vice are a sure prey unto him : so the Flesh and the World will be sure to get the victory of us , if we awake not out of this vice . Aristotle relates of the Carthaginians , that they often got the victory of their enemies ; and he giveth the reason , because they abstained from wine alwaies when they were to fight : I am sure , if we would get the day either of spirituall or temporall enemies , we must not suffer the wine to rock us asleep : therefore as Samson , when they told him The Philistins be upon thee , Samson , presently awoke ; so when we heare that all our enemies are ready to surprize us , we cannot but awake . Yet for all the light of the Gospell shineth so brightly upon our faces , for all the great danger that we are in , some will not be perswaded to awake ; but they sleep securely , though sudden desolation be ready to come upon them . We reade of Ionah , that he was fast asleep in the ship , when as it was like to be drowned : so in these times wherin the ship of the Church is like to be sunk with the waves of persecution , yet some revell and carouse as much as ever , and like Smiths dogs they lye fast asleep in this vice , when the sparckels of Gods judgements are ready to flie about their eares . In the old world when men burnt with lust , God sent a floud to quench the fire of their concupiscence ; now he sends the fire of his indignatiō to consume the liquor wherwith many have drowned themselves ; and yet few will be warned to escape the wrath of God. Our Saviour tells us , that as it was in the daies of Noah , so it shall be in the latter daies ; now in Noahs time , they gave themselves to eating and drinking till the deluge came and swept them away ; Would to God we did not live to see this verified ! doe not men give themselves to this sin of Sodom , and put farre from them the evill day ? God hath awakened the Germans by the sword that he hath sent amongst them , and he threatneth to doe the like to us ; but let the cleare light of the Gospel moove us to repentance , then shall not God be forced to awake us by his judgements . And the best had need to be carefull to keep themselves awake , or els this sleep will seize upon them : Noah a Preacher of righteousnesse , a while slumbered in this vice ; Vriah , that religious and valiant Captaine , was once at a Kings feast overcome by this ; and holy Iob was afraid least his sons in their feasts & merry meetings should fall into this dangerous sleep : yea if the very best were not sometime obnoxious to it , our Saviour would never have given a caution to his disciples to avoid this ; Take heed ( saith he ) least at any time your hearts be overtaken with surfetting and drunkennesse . Now that we may all awake out of this sleep , we must first of all labour for Gods grace , that may dispell those lusts which cause this sleep ; for till such time we cannot awake ; as we awake not out of naturall sleep till the vapours which cause the same be dispersed by the naturall heat : no more can we repent of this , till Gods grace dispell those inordinate affections which cause the same : Therefore Saint Paul exhorts the Ephesians not to be drunke with wine wherein is excesse , but to be filled with the Spirit ; as if the Apostle had said , If ye will abundantly thirst after the water of life , and drinke your fill of the wine that commeth out of Christs cellar , it will be a soveraigne meanes to keep you from excessive drinking of the fruite of the grape . It is a rule in Philosophy , that intus existens prohibet extraneum , that which is within will be a means to keep out that which is without ; as for example ; If a vessell be full of liquor , the aire cannot get in ; so if our hearts be replenished with Gods grace , it will keep out thence an inordinate desire of wine . Secondly , If we would awake out of this vice we must take heed of all those things that may rock us asleep therein ; especially of evill company : for that is a Dalilah to lull us asleep till our haire be cut , I meane our wits , understanding , and memory and all be taken from us . Be not amongst the wine bibbers , saith the wiseman ; it is dangerous being with them , least by their inchauntments this sleep seize upon us . Thus through Gods grace and our care in refraining evill company we may keep our selves awake . This is not all that the Prophet requires of drinkers of wine ; as they must awake , so also weep and howle ; not onely weep , but howle also ; which setteth forth unto us the greatnes of the humiliation which is required of all those that are guilty of this vice ; their mourning must be like the lamentation of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon , or like the mourning of parents for their onely sonne . But these men cannot endure to heare of any sorrow at all , much lesse of so great lamentation : If the Prophet had called them to mirth and jollity , they would willingly have hearkened ; but the voice of sorrow is alwaies unpleasing to their cares . But yet we see the holy Ghost writes bitter things against them , and would have them turne their laughter into mourning , and their joy into heavinesse . And good reason why these men should weep and mourn , if they consider either the nature of the vice whereof they are guilty , or the labyrinth of woe and misery that they plunge themselves into . 1. If they consider the uglines of the vice which they have committed ; which is so beastly , so abominable , that if a man had a fountaine of teares he might shed them all for this . This is that which raseth the image of God out of us and transformeth us into the image of bruite beasts ; this is the fountaine of all vice , the fewell of lust , the mother of whoredoms , rapes , murthers , and all manner of abominations . It were easy , long to declaime against this , and to shew the cursed effects thereof out of the Scriptures , Fathers , Schoolmen , yea out of the Heathen themselves , who by the light of Nature could learne to abhor this vice . I might also set before your eyes sundry examples of those , that when they have been in their drunken fits , have commited such outrages , that the very cogitation thereof may extract teares from our eyes : onely give me leave to relate unto you one example , which Saint Augustine maketh mention of in the city of Hippo where he was Bishop , to wit , of one Cyrillus a man of great respect and honour in the city , who having but one sonne , through too much indulgence suffered him to runne into excesse of riot ; and it happened , that he comming home upon a time in his drunken fitt , Patrem , quem post Deum revereri debuisset , occidit ; matrem , à qua portabatur , praegnantem oppressit ; sororem violare voluit ; & duas sorores vulneravit ad mortem , He slew his father , whom next to God he ought to have reverenced ; he offered most savage & unnaturall violence to his mother , that brought him into the world , he slew two of his sisters , and would have ravished a third . I need say noe more : The straunge and prodigious effects of this vice may make us both to weep and houle for the commission of it . But yet this is not all ; there is a further cause of mourning for drinkers of wine , if they consider the woe and misery that this vice will bring upon them . To whome is woe ? to whome is sorrow ? saith Solomon . Even to them that sit long at the wine : and the Prophet Esay denounceth woe against them ; Woe ( saith he ) to the drunkards of Ephraim : Woe and misery they shall have enough in this world , and in the world to come . In this world , povertie , shame , and sicknes shall befall them . 1. For povertie , that shall come upon them like an armed man ; He that loveth wine , saith Solomon , shall not be rich . 2. But be it , that some have an eye to the main chance ( for proverbs hold but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , for the most part ) suppose , I say , some be more politick then others , yet shame ( which alwaies followeth sinne as the shadow doth the body ) will overtake them in the ende . Righteous Noah falling but once into this vice , and ( as many think ) through ignorance , hath brought an eternall blot upon himselfe , who in one distemper discovered that nakednesse which many hundred yeares had been kept close ; And how doe many often expose themselves , by their reeling and staggering , to the derision of boyes and children , and are to them as owles are to the birds ! 3. Sicknes , that is a concomitant of this vice ; It is an excellent saying of Chrysostome , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 &c. water doth not so dissolve the earth , as pouring in wine consumeth the body , breeding innumerable diseases in all the regions of mans body in the Animalls , Vitalls , and Naturalls : hence come Lethargies , Apoplexies , Palsies , Catarrhes , Dropsies , Fevers , Consumptions , and many more the Harbingers of death . So that these may well weep for the misery that shall come upon them in this world , upon their bodies , goods , and good name . But their greatest misery is in the world to come ; It were happy for these men that they might dye like beasts , as they live ; but they must know that they must come to judgement , and receive the fruit of their wickednesse : for he that soweth to the flesh , shall of the flesh reape destruction . Know ye not , saith Saint Paul , that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of God ? Be not deceived ; neither fornicators , nor Idolaters , nor drunkards shall inherit the kingdome of God ; no , but rather must be cast out into that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone , where is weeping and howling and gnashing of teeth for ever . How much better is it then to weep now for a moment , then to incurre eternall lamentation for the neglect thereof ? Let them then that are mighty to poure in strong drinke , poure out strong lamentations for the misery that shall come upon them , if they doe not prevent the same by speedy and unfained repentance . But some there are that in stead of mourning for this vice , make a sport of it , and count it but a trick of good fellowship , and so like the Leviathan they can laugh at the glittering sword and speare , when it is ready to pierce them through . I know there is a time to laugh , and a time to mourne ; but wee can finde no time to lament this sinne , which hath kindled Gods wrath against his people . Many sinnes cry aloud against us for vengeance , but none pierce the heavens more then this beastly , though common sinne of drunkennesse ; and yet it is to be feared , that not many mourners are to be found for this vice : If the Angell of the Lord should runne to and fro , and set a marke upon all those that mourne for this , how many of us would he passe by , who will not let fall a teare to quench the indignation of God , which is most justly kindled against us for this and other abominations ! May not the Lord complaine of us as he did of his people the Iewes , that he called them to weeping and mourning & to girding with sackcloth ; and behold joy and gladnes , eating flesh and drinking wine , and that not in Timothies cup onely , but in Belshazzars bowles also ? The Prophet Amos saw to his griefe , that in his time they dranke wine in bowles , and forgate the afflictions of Ioseph : it were to be desired that we could not see the same in these times , wherein the Church hangs her Harps upon the willowes , while she sits by the waters of Babylon . But methinks I heare some confesse that indeed they are sometimes overtaken with this vice , but they are sorry for it . If it be so , it will easily appeare by their amendment of life : For sorrow begetteth hatred , and hatred begetteth a sequestration from it ; so that I may say to such , as Saint Paul doth to the Corinthians in another case , If they have sorrowed after a godly manner for this , What care hath it wrought in them to avoid the occasions of this vice ? what apologies to acquit themselves , when they are in danger to be drawne into this vice ? what desire to escape this in all places and at all times ? what feare least by evill company they be overcome ? what zeale will they have against this vice in the places where they live ? what indignation will they have against themselves , that they should be guilty of such a vice ? yea , what revenge will they take of themselves by fasting and humiliation for the same ? Where none of these effects are , there can hardly be any sorrow for this sinne : let none therefore daub with untempered mortar ; for God is not mocked : where there is no reformation of this vice , there is no lamentation for it ; and where there is no mourning for this , there is no awakeing out of it . AND these men had need to awake , and weep , & howle , if they consider what followeth in the Text , The newe wine shall be taken from them ▪ If any thing will moove them , it will be this , that otherwise they shall be bereft of that , wherein they place their chiefe felicity ; and that not by potent adversaries , such as were Salmanazar , and Nebuchadonazar ; but by locusts , cankerwormes , and caterpillers ; This I say ( if any thing ) must needs go to the heart of them , to have their new wine rent from their mouthes by such contemptible creatures . The Prophet specifieth but one kinde of wine , to wit , that which commeth out of the presse ; and so the word [ gnasim ] in the originall doth signifie mustum , that which is new prest : but yet he meaneth all kindes of wine should be snatched away by violence ; for so the word in the originall intimates unto us , That albeit they were unwilling to let goe their cups , yet , will they nill they , they should be plucked from their mouthes . And here we see , if we come once to abuse Gods creatures to luxury and intemperancy , he hath many waies to deprive us of them ; not onely by sending armies of men , but by sending out a few caterpillers . But especially we may take notice how this vice of drunkennes pulleth downe Gods judgements upon the whole land : For oathes the land mourneth , saith the Prophet Ieremy : so it doth for drunkennes ; for we may reade in the tenth verse of this Chapter , that for this sinne the whole land of Iudah mourned ; because the corne was wasted , the new wine was dryed up , and the oyle languished . Many and sundry are the calamities that befall a Nation for this vice ; this was that which caused the Lord to give up his owne people into the hands of their enemies : So the Prophet Esay ; Woe be to those that rise early in the morning that they may follow strong drinke , that continue untill night , till wine inflame them , and the harp and the violl , the tabret and pipe and wine are in their feasts ; but they regard not the worke of the Lord , neither consider the operation of his hands : Therefore are my people gone into Captivitie . And not to goe any further then the Text , The Lord threatneth to destroy the vines and all the fruites of the earth for this sinne ; may not we then feare that for the abuse of wine , we shall not onely have our wines , but our wives , children , and goods taken from us ? The Spanish Caterpillers and the Iesuiticall locusts have devoured the vines of our brethren in Germany : I dare not say it was for drunkennes ; but this might be one meanes to kindle Gods wrath against them ; And shall we thinke , if we be drinkers of wine , that we shall alwaies escape ? No , the Locusts and Caterpillers crawle as fast as they can upon us ; let us then awake and gird up the loynes of our mindes and be sober , and it may be we shall see the salvation of the Lord , and that in his due time , he will send a winde that shall scatter these locusts and drive them into the Sea of perdition . Howsoever , Ne nos invadant somno vinóque sepultos , let them not , if they come , finds us fast asleep in this vice ; If they doe , they will not onely take our wines from us , but us from our Country , and make us slaves to them , and , which is worst of all , captivate our soules to their Romish superstition . If therfore there be any feare of God in us , any love to the Gospell , any humanity in us , any sparkle of religion ; let us awake out of this sinne , and it may be God will awake , and stirre up himselfe , and come forth for our salvation : which we humbly beseech him to doe , for the merits of our LORD and blessed SAVIOVR ; to whom with the FATHER and the holy SPIRIT be all honour and glory now and for ever . AMEN . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A20253-e230 Psal . 107. 34 Prov. 30. 25. 26. Gen. 9. Prov. 23. 31 1. Tim. 3. 3. Esay 5. 11. Ephes . 5. 18. Pasil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Psal . 115. 6. 7 Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . 1. Cor. 15. 32 Rom. 13. 12. 1. Thes . 5. 7. De ebrietate vitanda . 1. Pet. 5. 8. Oeconom . libro 1. Iudg. 16. 9. 20. Luke 21. 34. Ephes . 5. 18. Ad fratres in Eremo . Esay 28 1. Prov. 21. 17 Chrysost . Hom. 1. ad Pop. Antioch . 1. Cor. 6. 9. 1. Cor. 7. 11. Ier. 23. 10. Esay 5. 11. 12.