A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. We find, this good Eli, as old as he was, could be tart, and sharp enough to another, to godly, mourning, praying Hannah, when he thought only, she had been drunk before the Lord, upon but the bare suspicion of a sin: How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee; 1 Sam. 1.13, 14. 'Tis true, his reproof arose from misprision, but that misprision sprang from zeal.

3. But what now? In the Case before us, you cannot but expect to ⟨p. 169⟩find him screwed up to a note beyond Ela, inflam'd ad Octo; the zeal, the fire, the furnace heated seven times more than usually, the burning zeal of his Gods House must needs consume him. For satisfaction, read 1 Sam. 2.22. to 26. Now Eli was very old, and heard All that his Sons did unto all Israel, and how they lay with the women, that assembled at the door of the Congregation: and he said unto them: To shame, To Torment, To hell with them, To the Worm that dies not, To the fire that never shall be quenched! Was this his Sentence? No, no. But to amazement; Hear what he says:

3. But what now? In the Case before us, you cannot but expect to ⟨p. 169⟩find him screw'd up to a note beyond Ela, inflam'd ad Octo; the zeal, the fire, the furnace heated seven times more than usually, the burning zeal of his Gods House must needs consume him. For satisfaction, read 1 Sam. 2.22. to 26. Now Eli was very old, and heard All that his Sons did unto all Israel, and how they lay with the women, that assembled at the door of the Congregation: and he said unto them: To shame, To Torment, To hell with them, To the Worm that dies not, To the fire that never shall be quenched! Was this his Sentence? No, no. But to amazement; Hear what he says: