The Drunkards Character, Index
THE TABLE
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ADmonition, admonitions and corrections the chiefe offices of friendship, 826. no admonishing a drunkard, 52. he is incapable of good counsell, 106. drunkards and swearers contemne it, 98▪ admonition to sellers of drinke, Officers, &c. 711.
Adultery, looke drunkennesse
Agents, some for Christ, some for Sathan, 714. Sathans agents have many advantages above Gods servants in winning soules, 714, and keeping, 727. and improving them, 734.
Aggravation, the drunkards sin aggravated by eleven circumstances, 465.
Atheisme, drunkards and al vicious men, Atheists in heart 229. 558. 590.
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BElieve, drunkards will believe nothing except their senses say Amen to it, 623. they have no faith in the Scriptures, 229. few men believe the whole written Word, 590. they seeme to believe the promises, but really and indeed believe no part, 558.
Bitter, why so bitter and tart, 9.
Blessings, no blessings without God blesse them to us, 658.
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CEnsure, 347. of it foure reasons, 349.
Chide them sharply when they pray for them heartly 848.
Children, wel born children are touched to the quick, with the injuries of their parents, 824. wicked men children of the divel, and partake of his nature, 407. those whom they hate, traduce, &c. children of God, and partake of his nature, 407. each must do the works of their father, 402.
Combine, wicked men combine against the godly, 391. and lay divellish plots to destroy them, ibid.
Company evill a maine cause of drunkennesse, 286. exhortation to avoid evill company, 856. and keepe good company, 858. that it is lawful to shun their company, and how, 776. five reasons why, 781. I that they may look into themselves, 782. 2 that we may not be infected by them, 787. 3 that we may not be infeoffed in their punishments, 805. 4 because their company wil bereave us of much comfort, 811. 5 that we may be at peace, 821 many objections about leaving their society, answered, 796. excuses for keeping company, taken away, 860. drunkards would have our company in sinne, 382. and likewise in torment. 436. they think it will be some ease to have company, 448. but it will prove contrary, 449
Confident, why worldlings are so jocund and confident, 109.
Consideration, want of it the cause of all impiety, 490.
Consciences of wicked men will be awakned, when perhaps the gate of mercy will be shut, 488.
Constancy, and inconstancy, 840. change in the vicious as rare a vertue, as constancy in the vertuous, ibid.
Contempt of religion, the greatest rub in the way to heaven, 532,
Corruption will mix with our purest devotions, 574.
Covenant, that we will forsake the divel and all his works, constantly believe, &c. one part of the covenant of grace, …64.
Covetousnesse, a cause of drunkennesse, 275. covetous men fooles, 613. in 6. main particulars made good, 621
Cowardlinesse one speciall cause of drunkennesse, 282. it will not suffer a man to doe well, 749. but this is base blood, 753. a coward pot-valiant will kill and stay, 48.
Counsell, we should go to counsell and advise with others, 668. wicked men give divellish counsell to others, against the godly, 392.
Custome of sin takes away the sense of fin, 427.
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DEath, as men live, so commonly they dye, 236. defering repentance til death, 579. death may be sudden and give a man no leave to be sicke, 580. or if it be not, repentance is no easie work, 581. and late repentance is seldome true, ibid. death in a good cause, shall pleasure, not hurt us, 769. which hath made many preserre it before profit, pleasure, &c. 770.
Degrees, Sathan workes men by degrees to the heigth of impiety, and not all at once, 423.
Drunkennesse. seven causes of it. 259. the transcendency of the sin, 694. it is the root of all evill, 27. the rot of all good, 33. it disables and indisposeth a man to all good, 32. the cause of adultery, 54. and of murther, 50. brings poverty, 62. deformes a man, 66. debilitates the body, 40. beastiates the soule, 59. findes men foo…es, or makes them so, 124, examples of drinke besotting men, 129, discovers all secrets, 82. makes dry, and they cure sinne with sinne, 78, no dispossessing of a drunken divel, 231. wee ought not bee drunk, to save our lives, 768.
Drunkards, not to be reckoned among men, 2. for they are beasts and wherein, 7. yea, they exceed beasts, in beastlinesse, 5. are inferiour to them in five particulars, 10. they shame their creation, 14. the drunkards outward deformities, 37. his inward infirmities, 40. he is his own executioner, 19. 47. one drunkard, tongue enough for twenty men, 80. his vaine babling, 85. scurrilous jesting, 86. wicked talking, 87. impious swearing, 89. his discourse and behaviour on the Ale-bench, 115. to drink is all his exercise, 144. all his labour is to satisfie his lusts, 74. they drink not for the love of drink, if you will believe them, 272. which being so, doubles their sin, 274. they drink more spirits in a night, then their flesh and brains be worth, 145. Drunkards transform themselves into the condition of evill Angels, 25. and practise nothing but the art of debauching men, 307. how they intise, 319. what they thinke of him they cannot seduce, 521. but in time of their distresse they think otherwise, ibid. how they will enforce men to pledg their he…lths, 320. how impatient of deniall, 321. an unpardonable crime not to drinke as they doe, 137. to damne their own soules, the least part of their mischiefe, 331. one true drunkard makes a multitude, 332. if the divel would surrender his place, it should be to some good fellow or other, 334. the divell speakes in, and workes by them as once he did by the Serpent, 299. how drunkards smarme in every corner, 336. Sathan, more men on earth to fight for him then the Trinity which made us, 301. Drunkards like Iulian, who never did a man a good turn, but it was to damn his soule, 339. wherefore keepe out of their reach, 714. see the danger, and know their aime, 714. refraine dispute with them, or thou wilt not hold out, 773. punishment of drunkards, 147. 456. they are reserved to the great day, ibid. the drunkard hath beene too long sicke to bee recovered, 690. they have a way to evade all Gods threatnings, 542.
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ENmity, betweene the wicked and godly, 341. proclaimed by God in Paradise, 430.
Envie, if drunkards cannot seduce us, they will envie and hate us 341. how their enuy vents it self at their mouths 1. by censuring the sober, 347. whereof foure reasons, 349. secondly, by slandering them, 358. whereof seven reasons, 366. againe at their hands many wayes, 391. of which five reasons, 402.
Evill we are more prone to then good, 717. Example of: the greatest Number, 165. let Custome, 162. be added. the greatest Men, 169. let Reason, 202. be added. the greatest Schollers, 177. let Good intentions, 206. be added. Example of the best men, 197. no safe rule to walk by without a precept, 162.
Excuses of drunkards taken away, 154.
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FAith, 653. Drunkards would flout us out of our faith, 381.
Feare and cowardise a cause of drunkennesse, 282.
Fooles, the greatest polititian, the greatest foole, 013. in five particulars made good, 621. some wise in foolish things, and oolish in wise things, 638▪ bray them in a mortar, they will not leave their sinnes, 624. though the Divel makes fooles of them, yet he makes them wise enough to make fooles of any that will trust them, 636 the voluptuous fooles, 643. the greatest bousers, the greatest buzzards, 121. the greatest humanist, without grace, little better. 604.
Forsake, none but counterfeits will forsake Christ, for all they can do, 534.
Friends, wicked men wrong none so much, as their best friends, to whom they owe their very lives, 515. love and friendship only among good men, 843▪
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GOd, his gifts numberlesse. 481.
Godly, what is done to them, Christ challengeth as done to himselfe. 508.
Goodnes alone the whetstone of a drunkards envie, 386.
Good and bad agree together, like the Harp and Harrow, 821. good men must be imitated, only in good things, 157. good intentions cannot justifie evill acts, 206. good …ellowes who, 820. reputation of goodfellowship 277.
Guilty we may be of anothers sin, divers wayes, 825▪
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HAnds, hatred and malice of drunkards, would break out at their hands, were they not manacled by the Law, 391.
Heart, to get an humble heart, 649.
Hatred against the religious, the most bitter and exorbitant, 343. they hate none but the good, 411▪ but they are sure of opposition. 412. how their hatred vents it selfe, 345. their hatred is against God and Christ, 508. not to tell our neighbour of his faults, is to hate him, 826. to hate the vices of a wicked man, but love his person, 849. wee should hate evill in whomsoever, 850.
Hell, a description of it, and the last judgement, 458. 461. good men draw all they can to Heaven, 440. wicked men all they can to Hell, ibid. none helpe to people Hell, like drunkards, 4…1. they would have our company in Hell, 436. and why, 446. the covetous man can finde in his heart to go to Hell, so his sonne may be left rich, 629.
Healths, a shoing horne to all excesse, 309. they drinke others healths, their owne deaths, 323. of which many examples, and of the just judgement of God upon drunkards, 314. healths great in measure, or many in number, 310. if small, the liquor is stronger, or the number more, 311. healths upon their knees, 313. not more forward to drinke healths, then zealous and carefull that other pledge the same, 318. the rise and originall of health drinking, 313.
Honesty, he the soberest and honestest man, that resembles the drunkard least, 691. good-fellowship the utmost of a drunkards honesty, 139.
Honour, misprision of it, and reputation, 322
Hope easily blown into a wicked man, and as soone blowne out of him, 444.
Hurt, drunkards would hurt and maime us, for being sober and conscionable, if they durst, 392.
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IDlenesse, a cause of drunkennesse, and drunkennesse a cause of idlenesse, 72. an idle person good for nothing but to propagate sin, 73,
Ignorance of drunkards, 121. 107. and all naturall men, 177. 600. the cause of all sin, 593. drunkards insensible of their sinne and danger, because ignorant. 107.
Ingratitude and great folly of wicked men, 526.
Intention of soule-murther shall bee rewarded as if they did it, 539.
Ioy, if true, only enjoyed by good men, 817. the joy of worldlings more talked of then felt, 817. objections touching joy and good-fellowship answered, 817.
Iudge, wicked men judge of things, 757. and persons, 759. by contraries, 761▪ their judgement and practise cleane contrary to Gods Word, ibid. how the Divel deludes the fancy and judgement of a natur all man, 721.
Iudgements of God, what use drunkards make thereof, 111. the religious keep off judgements▪ 516. first by their innocency, 516. secondly, by their prayers, 517.
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KIll, drunkards and wicked men would kil the godly, if they would not yeeld 392. of which their savage disposition, five reasons, 402. first, they must do the workes of their father the Divell, 402. secondly, that their deeds of darknesse might not come to light, 404. thirdly, they cannot follow their sinnes so freely, so quietly. ibid. fourthly, what they could not make good with reason, they would with iron, ibid. fifthly, their glory and credit is eclipsed by the godly, 405. but they cannot do as they would, though their punishment shall bee all one, 399.
King, Sathan their King, and they must seek his wealth, and honour, and inlarge his Kingdome, by winning all they can from Christ, 431.
Knowledge, he that hath saving knowledge, hath every other grace, 597. six helpes to saving knowledge, 646.
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LAw, and precept our only rule, 210.
Looke, Drunkards look to us, not to themselves, 356.
Love, wicked men think they love God, but they doe hate him, 512. Drunkards love their sinnes, better then their soules, 551. a Drunkard can never love thee being sober and religious, 834. a wicked mans love, mercenary and inconstant, 835. nothing rivits hearts so close as religion, 845.
Lust provoked by drunkennesse, 54. discard all filthy lusts and corrupt affections, 646.
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MEanes must be used, 664. to sinne against mercy, the abundance of meanes, and many warnings, mightily aggravates sinne, 475.
Melancholly, Drunkards drink to drive it away, 259. but this increaseth it, 260.
Memory, Drunkards have shallow memories, 132▪
Mercy, God in mercy infinitely transcendent, 550. but it makes nothing for such as will not part with their sins, 551. his mercy is a just mercy, 554. mercy rejoyceth against justice, but destroyeth not Gods justice, 553. if we forsake our sinnes, God will forgive them, how many and how great soever, 152. wicked men apply Christs passion and Gods mercy as a warrant for their licentionsnesse, 542. they are altogether in extreames, either God is so mercifull, that they may live how they lift, or so just, that he will not pardon them upon their repentance, 546.
Mocking, some will better abide a stake, then others a mock, 504.
Mourne, in all ages the godly alone have mourned for the abominations of their time, 255.
Modesty, in some a vice, 842.
Most, objection that most men are of another judgement, answered, 589.
Multitude, how Sathan guls the rude multitude, 293▪ the multitude will do, what they see others do, 371. of which many examples, 372.
Murther caused by drunkennesse, 50.
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NAmes, we should taint our names, by keeping evill company, 808. to defend our neighbours good name if we can, a duty, 828.
Naturall men, called beasts in Scripture, 3.
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OBedience, God hath equally promised all blessings to the obedient, and threatned all manner of judgements to the disobedient, 554.
Offences, Objection against offences, answered, 742.
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PAssions and affections make partiall, 352. they must be discarded, 646
Peace, our case would be far worse, if wee had the worlds peace, 390. not strange that wicked men should agree so well, 414. agreement of wicked men, not worthy the name of peace. 832.
Persecute, wicked men persecute, not the evil, but the good, 499.
Petitions, God may grant them in anger, 659.
Plague, be it never so hot, drunkards are the same, 137. it hath wrought little or no reformation, 245. many the worse for it, 247. Taverns fullest, when the streets emptiest, 248.
Pledge, the originall of the word, 327.
Practise, how the godly and wicked differ in their practise, 249. wee know no more then wee practise, 595.
Pray, Gods people count it a sinne not to pray for their greatest enemies, 523. pray not for knowledge without putting difference, 658. when we cannot pray, what, 663.
Presumptuously do drunkards sin, 471.
Prejudice makes many resolve against yeelding, 724.
Pride and reputation of good-fellowship, a cause of drunkennesse, 277. pride of wit, 280.
Promises entailed to believers, and limited with the condition of faith, and repentance, 560.
Profession of religion, 382. 532. look Scoffs.
Punishment, wicked men complaine of their punishment, but of their sin they speake not, 539.
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REason, as it is clouded with the mistes of original corruption, a blind guid, 202. once debauched is worse then brutishnesse, 693.
Reckoning, worldlings never think of the reckoning they are to give, 621.
Regeneration, what, and how we may know our selves to be regenerate, 565.
Repentance, what, and how we may know whether we have repented, 570. not to deferre it, 588. sicknesse no fit time for it, 79. God wil not accept our dry bones when Sathan hath suck't out all the marrow. 586. the several wayes whereby God cals to repentance, 478. in a judgement, so many as repent, are singled out for mercy. 257 if any would repent of, and relinquish this sin of drunkennesse, let them first lay to heart the things delivered 695. secondly, refraine the causes, ibid. thirdly, believe their state dangerous, and that there is no way to helpe, but by a chang to the contrary, 696. fourthly, be peremptory in their resolution, ibid. fifthly, shame not to confesse their dislike of it, in themselves and others, 700. sixthly fly evill company, 701. seventhly, take heed of delayes. 702. eightly, omit not to pray for divine assistance, ibid ninthly, be diligent in hearing, 703. tenthly, frequent in the use of the Lords Supper, ibid. eleventhly, meditate what God hath done for them, ibid. twelfthly, think on the union we have with Christ, ibid. thirteenthly, consider that God ever beholds them, 704. 14ly, often think of the day of judgement, ibid. fifteenthly, consider the hainousnesse of this sin, and the …vills which accompany it, 705. sixteenthly, abstaine from drunken company, 709. for all depends upon this: seventeenthly, abstaine from drinking-places, 710.
Report, of necessity we must be evill spoken of by some, 756 the evill report of evill men an honour, 763
Reputation, hee of most reputation, that can drinke most, 139.
Reward of drunkards, 146. and swearers, 104. they shall have a double portion of vengeance to other men, 464
Righteous, the civilly righteous have hell for their portion, 465.
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SAthan hath all worldlings under his command, 21. 402. 432. and they must do what he will have them 379. by degrees he works men to the heighth of impiety, 423.
Saints falls should make us beware, not presume, 157.
Scoffes beate off many from their profession, 532. the scoffer, commonly worse then the scoffed, 367. none but fooles will be scoffed out of their religion, 754. yet few, that will not offend God and their conscience, rather then be scoft at, 749.
Scripture, he must be studious therein, and follow that rule who will know Christ savingly, 664.
Security, the certaine usher of destruction, 242.
Separate, Drunkards and swearers deserve, like dirt in the house of God, to be throwne out, 93. of which five reasons, 94. happy if they were kept by themselves, 230.
Shame, Drunkards would mitigate their owne shame, by discrediting the good, 374.
Singularity, a vertue, when vice is in fashion, 225.
Sinnes against knowledge and conscience, 467. open and scandalous sinnes how evill, 472. to multiply the same sinnes often, 473, to commit one sin on the neck of another, 473. how one mans sin may extend it selfe to millions; yea, after ages, 539. Drunkards not only sin, but make others sin too, 493. the Divell shewes the sweet of sin, but hides the bitter of punishment untill afterward, 734. custome of sinne, takes away the sense of sinne, 427.
Slander, Drunkards raise slanders of the godly, 358. of which seaven reasons, 366. how apt men are to believe slanders of the godly, and to spread them, 360. what delight wicked men take in hearing evill of the good, 361. a slander once raised will scarce ever dye, 377. how they mitigate their owne shame, by slandering others, 368. and often prevaile against the good hereby, 370. the condition of a slanderer set out, 363. his sinne and punishment, 378.
Smiting, God will not leave smiting, untill we smite that, which smites at his honour, 253.
Soule, Drunkards guilty of Soule murther, 443. 530. nothing but our Soules will satisfie the Serpent, and his seed, 436. covetous man, cares more for his outward estate, then for body or soule, 626.
Spirit, saving knowledge not attain'd, without the Spirits help, 655.
Straite, what a straite, the godly are in, 383.
Striking, 392.
Subtilty, and wisdome, two different things. 641.
Successe, custom of it makes men confident, 241▪
Suffer, our Saviour suffered two and twenty wayes of his… enemies, 397.
Suggestion, evill moreready at hand then a good, 717
Superlative, some men strive to bee superlative in sinne, 415. severall examples of superlative sinners, 416.
Suspition, ignorance the cause of it. 351.
Swearing, the most in excusable sin, 100. of which 2 reasons, 101. that of all others the swearer shall bee sure of plagues, 104. three wayes to make men leave their swearing, 112.
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TAle-bearing, the receiver as bad as the tale-bearer, 380.
Tempting, Sathan the Tempter, wicked men his Apprentises, or Factors under him, 298. the many wayes that Sathan hath to set upon us, 297. aswell reckon up the motes in the Sunne, as all sorts of Seducers, 304. all wicked men resemble the Divell in Tempting, 286. how politick they are in Tempting, 288. Drunkards, Sathans principle agents, in this businesse, 306. the Drunkards chiefe delight is to infect others, 286. Temptations on the right hand the most dangerous, 746. A wise man will suspect the smooth streame for deepnesse, 747. they never wound so deadly, as when they stroke us with a silken hand, 745. to bee a Tempter the …asest office, 330. their seduceing of others, will adde to the pile of their torments, 450. how greedy most men are of temptation, 295. Sathan needs but say the word, 295. or suggest the thought, 296. the minde of man not capeable of a violation, either from man or Sathan, 303. it will bee a poore plea an other day, to pretend that such and such deceived us, 743. he whom the Lord loves, shall be delivered out of their snares, and he whom the Lord hates, shal fall into them, 341. Sathan disturbes not his own, 387. no greater temptation, then not to be tempted, 388.
Theefe, objection of the thiefe upon the crosse answered, 548.
Thoughts of wicked men touching the religious, not the same in distresse, as in prosperity, 524.
Time, they drink to drive it away, 267… if times be bad wee should be more carefull, 223.
Tongues, that drunkards use their tongues only a frivolous excuse, 503. a lewd tongue, a lowd one; and a lowd tongue, a lewd one, 86.
Traduce us, because they cannot otherwise hurt us, 376.
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VErtue and vice can never accord, 409.
Victory, Drunkards in conquering are most overcome, 329.
Vice, every vice hath a title given it, and every vertue a disgrace, 293.
Violence, when by gentle perswasions they cannot prevaile, they use violence, 726.
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VVIcked, nothing will doe good upon a wicked heart, 691. whereof many examples, ibid. a continual warre, betweene the wicked and the godly in all ages, 432.
Watchfulnesse, 740. we must be Watchfull, Wise, and Valiant if we will not be overcome by their allurements 739.
Wheres, the Divel much beholding to whores, but farre more to drunkards, 451.
Wine, the drunkards high esteeme of it, about making wise, 45. Wine lawfull, if used lawfully.
Winne, wee should be as zealous and industrious to win soules to God, as they are to Sathan, 455.
Wisdome, no wicked man a wise man, 189 how wise the drunkard is in his owne conceit, 118. of which two reasons, 119. drunkards purblind to worldly wisdome, starke blind to heavenly, 133. they not alwayes the wisest which know most, 604. the religious man wiser then the most profound humanist, 608. or the cunningest Politician, 613. severall misprisions of wisdome, 609. worldly men account folly wisdome, and wisdom folly, 601. objection, that the strictest livers, are seldome the wisest men, answered, 600.
Witnesse, every invitation to repentance, will bee a witnesse against us, 484.
Word to believers is all in all, 213.
Words, he would never endure blowes, that cannot concoct evill words, 767. wee should read their words backward, 763.
World begins with milke, ends with an hammer, 720. whereas Christ keeps back the good wine untill afterwards, ibid. many prefer the worlds favour before Gods 772.
Worldlings have more peace with 1. Sathan, 731. 2. the world, 731. 3. themselves, 732. then Gods people, they may satisfie their lusts to the full, 727. have free scope and liberty to do or say what they please, 729 whereas Gods people are restrained in their very thoughts, ibid. whence they thinke themselves more happy in serving the Divell, then others in serving of God, 733. they profit more in sinne, then the godly in grace, 734. they are penny wise and pound foolish, 634. but it is otherwise with the godly, ibid.
Wounds, those prove deepe wounds to weake Christians, that would be balm and physick unto abler judgements 765.
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ZEale a compounded affection of love and anger, 848 we should be as zealous in good, as they are in evill 455.
FINIS.
End of the text · Richard Younge, The Drunkards Character (1638)