A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

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.

7 It is an Incendiary to quarrels and homicides. Bacchus ad arma vocat. Drunken Alexander killed Clitus, for whom sober Alexander would have killed himselfe. The Danes and Norwayes once purposing for England, fell drunke on shipbord, and so slash'd one another, that there was the end of their voyage. We often heare of such ryotous meetings, that In praelio trudit inermes; Some dropping dead in the middest of their sinnes. Be they never so protesting their kindnesse; yet Tutius est ebriis abstinuisse locis: They may bee kinde at first, will bee cruell at last. Drunkards kisse when they meet, and kill when they part; Haec faceret non sobrius unquam.

8 Lastly, besides all other plagues, it is a woe to it self.^f Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath wounds without cause? The merry madness of an hour, is payed with the afflictions of a tedious age. Woe to them, saith the Prophet, Isaiah 5.11. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Isaiah 28.1. Cùm infunditur, grave; cum turbat stomachum, gravius: cum refunditur, gravissimum: When the carouser powers in his wine, it troubles him; and he would give somewhat to avoid it: when it offends the stomach, it troubles him worse: when it comes up again, it troubles him worst of all. One Fornerius writes of a Monk at Prague, who having heard at shrift the confession of drunkards, wondered at it, and for experiment would needs try his brain with this sin; so accordingly stole himself drunk. Now after the vexation of three sick days, to all that confessed that sin, he enjoined no other penance but this; Go and be drunk again. Sure his meaning was like Seneca's; Sceleris in scelere supplicium; It is a torment and affliction to it self. You see the Dam and her litter, learn we now to avoid it, because we are men, because we are citizens, because we are Christians.