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…

moreover the distemper that followeth such drinking is not such as followeth Physic, which doth only make sick or indispose the body, and what influence it hath on the brain and reason, is but accidental and indirect, but it is otherwise with that distemper that followeth drunkenness, which putteth the person in such a sort of fury and distraction that the carnal, unrenewed part doth most frequently get great advantage by it.

moreover the distemper that followeth such drinking is not such as followeth Physick, which doth only make sick or indispose the body, and what influence it hath on the brain and reason, is but accidental and indirect, but it is otherwayes with that distemper that followeth drunkenness, which putteth the person in such a sort of fury and distraction that the carnal, unrenewed part doth most frequently get great advantage by it.

If it be asked further, What is to be accounted of these actions, which are committed in drunkenness? Answ. Somewhat was said of this on this on the first Command; but further we say, 1. Drunkenness being a voluntary act, it cannot excuse, but maketh the person doubly guilty, 1. by making the man guilty of such an act, 2. by drawing on that i capacity on himself, whereby he disposed himself for that and many more: In this respect the person committing murder, or sinning otherwise, in drunkenness is more guilty then another, who not being in drink committeth the same sin, because two sins concur in him, and not in the other; And therefore 2. although the murder, swearing, &c. of one that is fresh, is more gross murder and swearing, &c. in another respect, because it is more immediately from the exercise of deliberation and choice, and that on this ground drunkenness may in part extenuate the resolute pertinaciousness of the fact, yet it aggredgeth guilt upon the person on the former account. It was once answered by one, who being desired to spare a person that had committed murder in his drunkenness, and to impute it to his wine; that he should so do, but he would hang up the flagon wherein the wine was; and seeing the man made himself so, his punishment was just, for had he not been the flagon of that wine, that sin might have been prevented.