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<HEAD>THE CAUSE and PREVENTION OF <HI>Great Calamities National and Per&s;onal: demon&s;trated,</HI> And Rcommended to the Con&s;ciences of all Concerned; <HI>E&s;pecially Keepers of Taverns, Inns, and other Hou&s;es of Entertainment, to Read and Con&s;ider in the fear of the All-&s;eeing God.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu who keep Taverns and other publick Hou&s;es of En|tertainment in the fear of God the Righteous Judge of all, &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider how you di&s;charge and an&s;wer a good Con&s;ci|ence towards God and Men in your <HI>places.</HI> Do not Covet an evil Covetou&s;ne&s;s unto your Hou&s;es, for <HI>wo</HI> is to them that do &s;o Covet, <HI>Hab.</HI> 2. 9. Do not live upon the Sins of the People; let not your Profits or Gain ari&s;e from thence, for that will not-pro&s;|per: Have a care that you never let any Man or Woman have more Wine or other &s;trong Liquors then what is Nece&s;&s;ary for their Refre&s;hment and Health, in that they may prai&s;e God, that whether they eat or drink, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> they may do all to his Prai&s;e and Glory; every Creature of God is good, and ought to be received in Moderation with Thanks giving, and none of his Mercies abu&s;ed or mi&s;pent in Exce&s;s or Extravagancy. Pray con&s;ider the &s;ad ef|fects of <HI>Exce&s;s, Drunkenne&s;s,</HI> Extravagant and Intempe|rate Living, whence they proceed, what they are, and what they tend to. They proceed from the Wicked one and men's In&s;a|tiable Lu&s;ts, they are Sins again&s;t God and Men's Souls, and tend to the&s;e Evils, Mi&s;eries and Calamities following, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ily,</HI> To bring the <HI>wo, wrath,</HI> and <HI>Iudgments</HI> of God up|on them that are Guilty thereof, Abet, or Incourage the &s;ame&mdash;<HI>Prov. 23. 29. I&s;a. 3. 11. Hab. 2. 15. I&s;a.</HI> 24. 45.</P>
<P><HI>IIly,</HI> To Impare and de&s;troy per&s;ons in their Healths and E&s;tates, to <HI>Ruin</HI> their <HI>Children</HI> and <HI>Families,</HI> by bringing them to <HI>Poverty</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;ery, Prov.</HI> 23. 20, 21.</P>
<P><HI>IIIly,</HI> To &s;tir up vain Mirth, <HI>Mu&s;ick, Gaming, Playes</HI> and <HI>Sports, Ranting, Singing,</HI> and <HI>Koreing,</HI> whereby their minds are elivated and hurried from all Sobriety, Seriou&s;ne&s;s, and Fear of God, 1 <HI>Cor. 10. 7. Exod. 32. 6. Eccle&s;. 7. 5. I&s;a.</HI> 24. 9.</P>
<P><HI>IVly,</HI> To nur&s;e up <HI>Lewdne&s;s, Debauchery</HI> and <HI>whore|dom,</HI> which is a great Cau&s;e of the Land mourning, <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 4. 2, 3, 11.</P>
<P><HI>Vly,</HI> To <HI>Oaths, Swearing, Execrations, Cur&s;ing</HI> and al&s;o <HI>Prophaning,</HI> and <HI>Bla&s;pheming</HI> the holy Name of Al|mighty God, the frequent Evils and Effects of <HI>Drunkenne&s;s,</HI> and Exce&s;s of <HI>Kiot,</HI> which al&s;o cau&s;e the Land to mourn, <HI>Jer. 22. 10. Ho&s;ea</HI> 4. 2, 3.</P>
<P><HI>VIly,</HI> Exce&s;&s;ive <HI>Drinking,</HI> Tipling and <HI>Drunkenne&s;s,</HI> tend to Unman Men, to make them Inhumane, <HI>Bruiti&s;h, Sot|ti&s;h</HI> and <HI>Contemptible</HI> in the Eyes of God, and all &s;ober good men, being contrary to the Law of God and Nature, below &s;uch brute Creatures (as Hor&s;es, Oxen and other Cattle) that will not be compelled to drink more then they have need.</P>
<P><HI>VIIly,</HI> To Threatning, Railing, Quarrelling, <HI>Fighting, Blood&s;hedding,</HI> and abu&s;ing one another, &s;ometimes to the Lo&s;s of <HI>Lives, Killing</HI> &amp; de&s;troying one another; and &s;ometimes al&s;o <HI>Killing</HI> and <HI>Murdering</HI> other people who do them no harm, as <NOTE PLACE="marg">Who hath Wo? Who hath Sorrow? Who hath Contentions? Who hath Wounds with|out Cau&s;e? Who hath Redne&s;s of Eyes?&mdash;They that tarry long at the Wine: they that go to &s;eek mixt Wine.&mdash;At the la&s;t it biteth like a Serpent, and &s;tingeth like an Adder. See <HI>Prov.</HI> 23. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.</NOTE> they are walking or travelling quietly along the Streets or High|ways, too often the fruits of <HI>Drunkenne&s;s, Exce&s;s,</HI> and <HI>In|flamation</HI> of Blood by Wine or &s;trong Liquors, which al&s;o is the Cau&s;e of a Land mourning, <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 4. 2, 3.</P>
<P><HI>VIIIly,</HI> How many do &s;horten and end their days by <HI>Exee&s;s</HI> and Intemperance; be&s;ides, <HI>No Drunkard, whoremenger, Railer</HI> or <HI>Extortioner &s;hall inherit God's Kingdom,</HI> 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. <HI>Gal.</HI> 5. 19, 20, 21. But are utterly excluded, unle&s;s they come to timely and unfeigned Repentance and Amendment of Life through God's free Grace and Mercy to them.</P>
<P>Oh the Lamentable con&s;equences of <HI>Exce&s;s</HI> and <HI>Drunken|ne&s;s,</HI> wa&s;ting and abu&s;ing God's Creatures and Mercies, and may he not therefore in Judgment with-hold them, and bring want and di&s;tre&s;s upon many? Is it not ju&s;t that &s;uch as abu&s;e God's Mercies by EXCESS, &s;hould come to want them for Re|lief? Pray con&s;ider, and read <HI>Joel</HI> 1. 5.</P>
<P><HI>IXly,</HI> And how many are brought under the Condign puni&s;h|ment of Death, for Killing and Murdering others in their <HI>drunken</HI> Fits?</P>
<P><HI>Xly,</HI> What <HI>Cheating, Stealing. Robbing, Killing</HI> and <HI>murdering</HI> for Money, to maintain Exce&s;s, <HI>Drunkenne&s;s, Lewdne&s;s &amp; Debauchery?</HI> How apparent is it? and how many &s;ad In&s;tances thereof, that we &s;ee &s;carce a Se&s;&s;ions in <HI>London,</HI> or A&s;&s;izes in one County or other without a Relation of &s;ome &s;uch like &s;ad accident, as Blood&s;hed, Lo&s;s of Life or Lives? And where did they begin but oft times at &s;uch a <HI>Tavern</HI> or <HI>Publick hou&s;e,</HI> or Merry drinking bout (as they call it?) They were inflamed with high drinking, and &s;o the heats and feuds did fir&s;t ari&s;e which produced tho&s;e <HI>Lamentable Effects.</HI></P>
<P><HI>XIly,</HI> And becau&s;e &s;ome are more &s;trong and mighty to drink Wine and &s;trong Drink, and can bear it more then others, through Cu&s;tom and Habit thereof, &s;o as not to be &s;o apparently drunk, this will not excu&s;e them in their exc&s;&s;ive and intempe|rate cour&s;e of Living, devouring or wa&s;ting the Creatures of God to &s;atisfie their inordinate De&s;ires and Lu&s;ts, nor re&s;cue them from the <HI>wo</HI> denounced by the holy Prophet again&s;t &s;uch; &s;ee <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 5. 11, 12, 22. <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">And every one that Sweareth &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l be cut off, <HI>&amp;c. Zach.</HI> 5. 3. By Swearing, and Lying, and Killing, and Stealing, and committing A|dultery, they break out, and Blood toucheth Blood, There|fore &s;hall the Land mourn, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Ho&s;ea 4. 2, 3. if the Righteous &s;carcely be &s;a|ved, where &s;hall the Wicked &amp; &V;ngodly ap|pear? 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 18.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>XIIly,</HI> The&s;e &s;ad and lamentable Con&s;equences of <HI>Drunkenne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Exce&s;s</HI> &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered; you that are <HI>Vintners,</HI> and others that keep publick Hou&s;es, and all others concerned, avoid and &s;hun the&s;e Evils, and mini&s;ter no occa&s;ion, nor Incouragement to them, nor connive at them for ungodly Gain; let not <HI>Covetou&s;|ne&s;s</HI> blind your Eyes, have no fellow&s;hip with the unfruitful <HI>works of Darkne&s;s</HI> but rather in God's fear reprove them; manife&s;t your Love and Care to and for your Cu&s;tomers Welfare, Health and Pre&s;ervation as for your own, to the be&s;t of your under&s;tanding; and as you &s;ee cau&s;e by advi&s;ing them in love and tenderne&s;s to forbear Exce&s;s, &amp; that which is for their own hurt, and not to drink to their own prejudice, that they may not only reap the Comfort and Benefit of their Moderation and Temperatene&s;s, but you and your Families be ble&s;&s;ed and pro&s;pered in your Chri&s;tian|like Care therein.</P>
<P>But if any of you prove fal&s;e to God and to your own Con&s;ci|ences, <NOTE PLACE="marg">See al&s;o <HI>De<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI> 29. 18, 19, 20. Who&s;e heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God&mdash;to add Drunkenne&s;s unto Thir&s;t&mdash;the Lord will not &s;pare him, but the Anger of the Lord and his Jea|lou&s;ie &s;hall &s;moke again&s;t that <HI>Man</HI>&mdash;and the Lord &s;hall blot out his Name from under Heaven.</NOTE> and al&s;o to People that come to your Hou&s;es, (by your not di&s;charging your &s;elves towards them as you ought to do, in Truth and Righteou&s;ne&s;s, according to his Light and Truth in you,) and will connive at, give way or contribute unto inordinate <HI>Drinking, Gaming, mu&s;ick, Dancing, Singing, Debau|chery</HI> or <HI>Lewdne&s;s</HI> in your Hou&s;es, to the di&s;honour of God, and the Name of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, tending to their own and Families Ruin who are concerned therein; <HI>Then are you Acce&s;&s;ary and Guil|ty in the &s;ight of God of their Evils, which will tend to the draw|ing down a Cur&s;e, and Iudgments of God upon you, your Hou&s;es and Families.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore pertake not with any of <HI>the wicked</HI> in their-Sins, nor give any way or encouragement to them therein, that you may not pertake with them of their Plagues, <HI>Rev. 18. 4. Ephe&s;.</HI> 5. 6, 7.</P>
<P>Whoever per&s;i&s;t in tho&s;e Sins of Exce&s;s, Pride and Drunkenne&s;s, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> do in|cur the <HI>wo</HI> denounced again&s;t both; &s;ee <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 28. 1.</P>
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<HEAD>In King <HI>Charles</HI> II. his Proclamation again&s;t Vicious, Debauched and Prophane Per&s;ons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> dated <HI>May</HI> the 30th, 1660. in the Twelfth Year of his Reign, are the&s;e Remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages following.</HEAD>
<P><Q><P><HI>THere is a &s;ort of Men</HI> of whom we are &s;ufficiently <HI>a&s;hamed,</HI> who &s;pend their time in <HI>Taverns, Tippleing-Hou&s;es and Debauches,</HI> giving no other Evidence of their affection to us, but in <HI>Drinking our Pealth,</HI> and <HI>in|veighing again&s;t all others who are not of their own di&s;&s;olute temper,</HI> &amp; who <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> have more, di&s;credited our Cau&s;e, by the licen&s;e of their Manners and Lives, then they could ever advance it by their Affection and Courage&mdash;We rea&s;onably hope the&s;e men will cordially renounce all that Licen&s;ciou&s;ne&s;s Prophanene&s;s and Impiety with which they have been corrupted, and endea|voured to corrupt others; and that they will hereafter become Examples of So|briety and Vertue.&mdash;We will not exerci&s;e iu&s;t &s;everity again&s;t any Male fa|ctors, &s;ooner then again&s;t Men of Di&s;&s;olute, Debauched &amp; Prophane Lives, with what parts &s;oever they may be otherwi&s;e qualified and endowed.&mdash;And we hope all Per&s;ons of Honour, or in Place and Authority, will &s;o far a&s;&s;i&s;t &V;s in di&s;countenan|cing &s;uch Men, that their Di&s;cretion and Shame will per&s;w de them to reform what their Con&s;ciences would not.&mdash;Which may by the Example and Severity of Vertuous Men be ea&s;ily di&s;countenanced, and by degrees &s;uppre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>However for the more effectual reforming the&s;e Men, who are a di&s;credit to the Nation, and unto any Cau&s;e they pretend to favour and wi&s;h well to. We require all Mayors&punc; and Sheriffs, and Ju&s;tices of the Peace, to be very vigilant and &s;trict in the di&s;covery and pro&s;ecution of all Di&s;&s;olute and Prophane Swearing and Cur&s;ing.</HI></P></Q></P>
<P><HI>THis</HI> was <HI>Re-inforced</HI> by a <HI>&s;econd Proclamation</HI> of the King, the 13th of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1660. charging all Mini&s;ters to read it once each Month, for &s;ix Months en&s;uing, and <HI>&s;tir up</HI> their <HI>Auditors</HI> to ob&s;erve the &s;aid <HI>Duties,</HI> and avoid the &s;aid <HI>Vices.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed, and Sold by <HI>T. Sowle</HI> at the <HI>Crooked-Billet</HI> in <HI>Holywell-Lane,</HI> in <HI>Shoreditch,</HI> 1692.</P>
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