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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
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.
O Young Man, what a madness is it for the enjoyment of a little Wine, or Ale here, to drink the Vials of Gods Wrath, and lye in Seas of misery for ever!
More particularly the effects of Drunkenness are these.
1. It defaces the Image of God in Man, and transforms him into the likeness of the Beasts that perish. The Image of God in Man stands;
[…]. In his Knowledge and Understanding. And where is the understanding of a Drunkard? Is not this man above all others become Brutish in his knowledge? Jer. 10. 14. Or as the words there signify, Is more a […] than to know? What's spoken there of the Idolater, is it not fully applicable to the Drunkard? who when he is drunken is a very brute; yea, and commonly even when he is sober, is but a very Sot.
〈…〉. In his Knowledge and Understanding. And where is the understanding of a Drunkard? Is not this man above all others become Bruitish in his knowledge?