A lookingglass for a Drunkard, Or a DRUNKARD Defined.  
IN which Description is plainly showed the filthy abominable sin of drunkenness proved by many places of Scripture; How through drunkenness many have been punished, others threatened and admonished, very needful to be set up in every house, for the Information of the Judgement, and the Reformation of the lives of those men and women, who take pleasure in the sin of drunkenness, the common sin of these times.  

The Definition of a Drunkard.  
A Drunkard is the annoyance of Modesty; The trouble of Civility; The spoil of Wealth; The destruction of Reason. He is the brewer's Agent; The Alehouse Benefactor; The beggar's Companion; The constable's trouble. He is his wife's woe, His children's sorrow; His neighbour's scoff; His own shame. In sum, a tub of Swill; A spirit of sleep; A Picture of a Beast; A Monster of a man.   

The Evils attending drunkenness hurtful to the soul and Body.  
Drunkenness confounds the Memory, dulls the Understanding, distempers the Body, defaceth the Beauty, hurts the mind; It inflames the Blood; It engenders unnatural Thirst, a stinking Breath, redness of the Eyes; It diminisheth strength; It brings Woes, sorrows, Wounds without cause, corrupteth the Blood, drowneth the Spirits; It enricheth the carcase with surfeits, turneth Blood into Water, turns Reason to poison; It causeth vomiting and filthiness. By excessive drinking comes Dropsies, Consumptions, and cold Diseases, with untimely Deaths. Many by drinking Healths to others, leave none to themselves. Drunkenness is a flattering Devil, a sweet poison, a delightsome sin, which who so hath in himself, hath not himself; And he that useth it, is not himself in the Concrete, but sinfulness itself in the Abstract, being a voluntary Devil, the common Shame of Nature, and the prodigious Disgrace of mankind.  
Examples laid down in Scripture, showing how drunkenness made some fall by the Sword, Others became Murderers, Others being drunk were murdered, betrayed; Incest committed, many destroyed in the midst of their sin-sporting, &c. 

Through drunkenness.  
The Amalekites lay scattered on the earth, so that David slew them, 1 Sam. 30. 16.  
Ammon's heart was merry, so that Absaloms' Servants slew him, 2 Sam. 28. 29.  
Benhadad with fifty two other Kings, were by Israel overcome, 1 Kings 20. 16. &c.  
Belshazzars' countenance fell down, and the Medes took his Kingdom, Dan. 5. 31.  
David useth means to move Uriah to cover his sin committed, 2 Sam. 11. 13.  
Elah was by his Servant Conspiring against him, murdered, 1 Kings 16. 9, 10.  
Gaal with his Brethren against Ahimelech Conspired, Judg. 9 26, 27.  
Herod in his drunken Banquet caused John to be beheaded, Mat. 14. 10.  
The Israelites drank till they were thirsty. Hell was prepared for them, Isa. 5. 12, 14.  
Lot's Daughters lay with their Father, two cursed Nations came of them, Gen. 19 31.  
Noah was uncovered in his Tent, and discovered by his son, Gen. 9 21, 22.  
Nabals heart was merry, and suddenly died within him, 1 Sam. 25. 36, 37.  
The Philistines sporting with Samson, were by the fall of an House slain, Judg. 16. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.  
Priests and Prophets stumble in Judgement, and fail by Vision, Isa. 28. 7.  
The Corinthians profained the Lord's Supper by their immoderate drinking before, 1 Cor. 11. 21.   These forementioned places of Scriptures and Examples, prove plainly the evil Consequence of drunkenness. Now follow threatenings and Exhortations to Drunkards.   

Threatenings.  
woe to them that rise up early in the Morning to follow strong drink, that continue till night, the wine inflaming them. Isa. 5. 11. woe to them that are mighty to drink Wine, and to men of strength, mingling strong drink, which causeth men to err, and to go out of the way, being swallowed up with wine and strong drink, Isa. 5. 22. chap. 28. 7, 8. &c. Awake now ye Drunkards, weep and howl all ye drinkers of Wine, because of the new Wine, for it shall be pulled from your mouth, Joel 1. 5. &c.   

Exhortations.  
The Drunkard shall come to Poverty, Rags shall be his clothing, Prov. 23. 21. Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise, Prov. 20. 1. Remember Christ's Admonition, Take heed of drunkenness, Luke 21. 34. Forget not Paul's and Solomon's Counsel, 1 Cor. 5. 11. Prov. 23. 20. Company not with Drunkards, &c. And know that no Drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven, 1 Cor. 26. 10, 11. Therefore be not drunken with Wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit, Eph. 5. 18.  
   

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