A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

Yea, if we consider the ends for which God hath given us the use of these creatures (which excess inverteth and marreth) to wit, his honour, and the good of our selves and others; the rules he hath given to regulate us in the use of them; the holy frame he calleth for from us at all times; the difference that should be betwixt his people and the men of the world if the use of these things; we vvill find this excess in the use on these enjoyments to be sinful, and no less contrary to the holy nature and law of God, and to that holiness and sobriety that should be in a Christian, then fornication and other uncleannesses are; therefore there is no sin hath more woes pronounced by the Holy Ghost against it, then drunkenness (a woe being ever almost joined with it) nor more shame attending it, so that of old drunkards drank in the night, 1 Thess. 5. as being ashamed of it; though now alas! many are drunk in the day, and some in the morning, and even such as are addicted to it, are with great difficulty recovered, Prov. 23. ult.

Yea, if we consider the ends for which God hath given us the use of these creatures (which excess inverteth and marreth) to wit, his honour, and the good of our selves and others; the rules he hath given to regulate us in the use of them; the holy frame he calleth for from us at all times; the difference that should be betwixt his people and the men of the world if the use of these things; we vvill find this excess in the use on these enjoyments to be sinful, and no less contrary to the holy nature and law of God, and to that holiness and sobriety that should be in a Christian, then fornication and other uncleannesses are; therefore there is no sin hath more woes pronounced by the Holy Ghost against it, then drunkenness (a woe being ever almost joyned with it) nor more shame attending it, so that of old drunkards drank in the night, 1 Thess. 5. as being ashamed of it; though now alas! many are drunk in the day, and some in the morning, and even such as are addicted to it, are with great difficulty recovered, Prov. 23. ult.