Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

Joule-exalting humiliation. I_ a drunkard, weigh well then, bdides the beafrly finne ofdrunkenne~e it fe!fe) itch circumfrances ,, aHhefe; . I 1 Howtheugrievedft thy parents and friends, or wife and children, if thou livedft in that efrate. 2. How thou mifpent thy pretious time in alehou- , . res, the nurfeties of the Devill, for one moment whereof, any damned foule in hell would give ten tbonfand worlds, if it werepoffible to repent in. r How thou mettefi: thereacompanyofBe– lials, thybrethretJ ;nini~uitie, and madeihhemevery time, fo much asin thee lay, much more thechil– dr~n ofhell than they were before. 4 How unne– c~lfarilyand wickedly thou didfr wafre Gods good ~reatures, for which many thoufands were readie to ftarve. · ff.How thou filledil: thy body with matter of rheumes, redneffeof eyes, droplies, and o– ther deadly difeafes. 6 How ~hou didil: curfedly cafr away that money, by which thou mighren have maintained thy familie, provided for thy children, and releeved the poore. 7 How·before you parted, thou becamefr ftarke drunke, and fo put thy Rife outofthe ranke of mankind by tur– ning beafr. 8 How all the while youfwore, biaf– pbemed Gods name ; filthily ·raile£t,~~n good men , &c. perhaps fwaggered, roared, ~dplayed the Bedlams~ 9 How at parting, you appointed fomeorher good fellow-meetings, and new mat– ches for more drunken mirth. 10 How going . ho~e late through the frreets, thou wafl: a laugh– ing 'fro-eke to children , a fpetl:acle ofextreme!l: ' miferie, madneffe, and fharJle to aJl but drunkards. Hh 4 11 How, /

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