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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6 It is the bawd to incontinence, Rom. 13.13. After Drunkenness follows chambering and wantonness. Pro ordine membrorum, ordo vitiorum, Hieron. Ambrose says of Lust; that it is fuelled with junkets, enkindled with wine, inflamed with drunkenness. It is Fomes libidinis: Vina parant animos veneri, Ovid Nunquam ebrium putabo castum, Hieron. I will never believe the drunkard to be chaste. Drunken Lot became incestuous Lot: hence sprang the Moabites and Ammonites, those mortal, almost immortal enemies to the Church. Whom the vices of Sodom could not taint, Lust infected. Uritur ebrius flammis mulierum, quem sobrium sulphurea flamma non attigerat, Origen. The flames that destroyed Sodom, hurt him not; his own fire scorched him. In this sense it may be said; Vinum lac libidinis.
6 It is the bawd to incontinence, Rom. 13.13. After Drunkennesse followes chambering and wantonnesse. Pro ordine membrorum, ordo vitiorum, Hieron. Ambrose sayes of Lust; that it is fuelled with junkets, enkindled with wine, inflamed with drunkennesse. It is Fomes libidinis: Vina parant animos veneri, Ovid Nunquam ebrium putabo castum, Hieron. I will never beleeve the drunkard to be chast. Drunken Lot became incestuous Lot: hence sprang the Moabites and Ammonites, those mortall, almost immortall enemies to the Church. Whom the vices of Sodome could not taint, Lust infected. Vritur ebrius flammis mulierum, quem sobrium sulphurea flamma non attigerat, Origen. The flames that destroyed Sodome, hurt him not; his owne fire scorched him. In this sense it may be said; Vinum lac libidinis.
7 It is an Incendiary to quarrels and homicides. Bacchus ad arma vocat. Drunken Alexander killed Clitus, for whom sober Alexander would have killed himself. The Danes and Norwayes once purposing for England, fell drunk on shipboard, and so slashed one another, that there was the end of their voyage. We often hear of such riotous meetings, that In praelio trudit inermes; Some dropping dead in the middest of their sins. Be they never so protesting their kindness; yet Tutius est ebriis abstinuisse locis: They may be kind at first, will be cruel at last. Drunkards kiss when they meet, and kill when they part; Haec faceret non sobrius unquam.