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…

If it be asked here, Whether men or women, when health requireth vomiting, may not drink excessively for provoking to it, in place of Physic?

If it be asked here, Whether men or women, vvhen health requireth vomiting, may not drink excessively for provoking to it, in place of Physick?

Answ. 1. That in some diseases there is more allowed of some sorts of drink then in health, cannot be denied: Yes, 2. a difference is to be put betwixt sorts of drinks; some are not inebriating, that is, the drinking of a great quantity of them vvill not disturb the use of reason; others are such that excess in them vvill not only indispose body and mind, but quite obstruct and remove the use of reason and judgment; she, first sort of drink (which is more properly physical) may lawfully be drunken; but in no case is it lawful for a man to exceed in the use of that drink, which bringeth with it the disturbance of his reason; the reason is, because this is sinful in it self, and expressly against Gods command, and defaceth his Image in us (which is in knowledge) and is derogatory to it, therefore is it still reckoned a proper fruit of the flesh, Gal. 5.21. and it secludeth from the Kingdom of Heaven, as well as fornication, theft, &c. and therefore can no more be lawful under that pretext then the other are; see 1 Cor. 6.11, 12. it is also opposed to an honest Christian walk, and to the putting on of Christ, Rom. 13.13. and that is always true which we have Rom. 3.8. that ill is not to be done that good may come of it, neither hath God made exception in drunkenness more then in fornication, for which some such pretexts vvill not be wanting with some to palliate that sin. Again, this is not the proper end of drink to procure vomit (I mean the forementioned sort of drink, which none ever read of as approved); beside, it draweth along with it many other sins, who can tell but when they are in drunkenness, they may blaspheme, curse, commit adultery, murder or such like? should they then actively