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Let all think these ebrieties must be accounted for. How fearful were it, if a mans latter end should take him drunk!¹ Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and so that day come upon you unawares. In corporal ebriety the soul leaves a drunken body: in spiritual, the body leaves a drunken soul; both desperately fearful.

Let all thinke these ebrieties must be accounted for. How fearefull were it, if a mans latter end should take him drunke!¹ Take heed to your selues, lest at any time your hearts bee ouercharged with surfeting and drunkennesse, and so that day come vpon you vnawares. In corporall ebriety the soule leaues a drunken body: in spirituall, the body leaues a drunken soule; both desperately fearefull.

1. 1Luke 21. 34

There is yet a last, and those a blest sort of Drinkers: which drink in this sweet rain of grace and mercy. They do not only taste it: so do the wicked. Verse 4. They have tasted of the heavenly gift: they have tasted of the good word of God, and of the powers of the world to come. 2. Nor drink it only to their throat, as if they did gargarize the word; as carnal Politicians, and formal Professors do. They must attend, they must admit, but no further then their throats: they will but gargarize the Gospel. It shall never come into their stomachs, never near their hearts. But these drink it in, digest it in their ⟨p. 29⟩consciences; take liberal draughts of it, and do indeed drink Healths thereof. Common health-maintainers drink their sickness. Therefore says the modern Poet honestly, Une salus sanis nullam potare salutem.