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The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion
The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion; the true methods of making all men happy in this world, and in the world to come Seasonably discoursed, and earnestly pressed upon this licentious age. By J.F. a sincere lover of his native country, and the souls of men.The reasonableness of personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion; the true methods of making all men happy in this world, and in the world to come Seasonably discoursed, and earnestly pressed upon this licentious age. By J.F. a sincere lover of his native countrey, and the souls of men.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1691
THE REASONABLENESS OF Personal Reformation, › Chapter 4 › Section 5 › Excuse 1: Excuse I.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. And lastly, for your glorying in Drinking down, and conquering others, you will certainly put your own reason to a blush, by offering such a Plea as this to it. You are not yet arrived to Impudence enough to deny Drunkenness to be a Sin, and your Reason is yet sound enough, easily and naturally to infer, That by how much the more any Man exceeds and goes beyond others in Sin, by so much the greater Sinner that Man is.
And as for the Honour and Glory you talk of in exceeding others in your Abilities to drink, your Reason will quickly make you ashamed of that Glory; and prove, as well as assert it to be a Mark of basest Infamy.
Do you think that Lombard was really honoured, or stigmatized, whom Tiberius C••sar dubbed a Knight for drinking off three Gallon of Wine at one Draught, and Surnamed him Tricongius, that is to say, the Three Gallon Knight; 1which Story Pliny in his Natural History relates to the perpetual Infamy of them both? Or, think you it added to the Glory of Tiberius himself, who Knighted this Three Gallon (not thrice Gallant) Knight, to have his Name changed among the People, from Tiberius into Biberius, as afterwards they did the Name of that Monster Nero into Mero?
Do you think that Lombard was really honoured, or stigmatized, whom Tiberius C••sar dub'd a Knight for drinking off three Gallon of Wine at one Draught, and Sirnamed him Tricongius, that is to say, the Three Gallon Knight; 1which Story Pliny in his Natural History relates to the perpetual Infamy of them both? Or, think you it added to the Glory of Tiberius himself, who Knighted this Three Gallon (not thrice Gallant) Knight, to have his Name changed among the People, from Tiberius into Biberius, as afterwards they did the Name of that Monster Nero into Mero?