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The .xxxviii. Sermon, which is the sixth upon the fifth Chapter.

The .xxxviii. Sermon, which is the sixth vppon the fifth Chapter.

18▪ And be not drunken with wine, wherein is looseness: but be ye filled with the Spirit. 19. Talking among you in Psalms, Praisings, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hart too the Lord. 20. Giving thanks always too our God and father▪ for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ▪ 21. Being subject one too another in the fear of God.

18▪ And bee not drunken vvith vvine, wherin is loocenesse: but bee yee filled with the Spirit. 19. Talking among you in Psalmes, Praysinges, and spirituall songs, singing and making melodie in your hart too the Lord. 20. Giuing thankes alvvayes too our God and father▪ for all things in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ▪ 21. Beyng subiect one too another in the feare of God.

We ha•e seen this morning how God is offended when men abuzz the benefits which he would have to be applied •o such end as he showeth by his word: & therefore that all exce••e and drunkenness ought too be shunned of the faithful, because they know that God showeth himself a father towards them, by nourishing them in this world: howbeit not as when they shall be come too the heavenly heritage, but by having at leastwise some taste of his goodness: for they be continually confirmed in the hope which is given them by our Lord Jesus Christ. Now if in stead of being drawn upward, men become so brutish, as to lose all reason and manhood: it is an utter perverting of the order of nature, it is as a defying of God for his own benefits. But yet when drunkenness draweth a long tail after it, and men