A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.

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Title: A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex.
Author: Younge, Richard.
Publication: London :: printed by J. Hayes, and are to be sold by Mrs. Crips in Popes-Head Alley, with 39 other pieces composed by the same author,; 1664.
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Subject terms: Vices -- Early works to 1800.; Swearing -- Early works to 1800.; Christian life -- Early works to 1800.; Redemption -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "A sovereign antidote, or, A precious mithridate for recovery of souls twice dead in sin, and buried in the grave of long custome, to the life of grace. With hopeful means (God blessing the same) to prevent that three-fold (and worse than Ægyptian) plague of the heart; drunkenness, swearing, and profaneness. Wherein is a sweet composition of severity and mercy: of indignation against sin, of compassion and commiseration to the sinner; with such Christian moderation, as may argue zeal without malice; and a desire to win souls, no will to gall them. By R. Younge of Roxwell in Essex." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67779.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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3. Br. That as Drunkards have lost the prerogative of their Creation, and are changed (with Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 4.16.) from men into beasts, so they turn the sanctuary of life into the shambles of death: yea, thousands (when they have made up the measure of their wickedness) are taken away in Gods just wrath in their drink; (as it were with the weapo•• in their bellies) it fa∣ring with them as it did with that Pope, whom the Devil is said to have slain in the very instant of his Adultery, and carry him quick to hell, being sudden∣ly struck with death, as if the execution were no less intended to the soul, than to the body.

That by the Law of God in both Testaments; He that will not labour, should not eat, Gen. 3.19. Pro. 20.4. 2 Thes. 3.10. because he robs the Common-wealth of that which is altogether as profitable as land, or treasure. But Drunkards are not only lazie get-nothings, but they are also riotous spend-alls; and yet these drunken drones, these gut-mongers, these Quagmirists, like vagrants and vermine, do nothing all their life-long that may tend to any good, as is storied of Margites, and yet devour more of the fat of the Land, than would plenti∣fully maintain those millions of poor in the Nation that are ready to fami••h. A thing not fit to be suffered in any Christian Commo••-wealth: yea, far sitter they were stoned to death, as by the Law of God they ought, Deut. 21.20, 21. since this might bring them to repentance; whereas now they spend their days in mirth, and suddenly they go down into hell, Job 21.13. Drunkards being those swine whom the legion carries headlong into the Sea, or pit of perdition.