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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.
[…]. 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? Jer. 10. 14. Or as the words there signifie, 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 bruit; yea, and commonly even when he is sober, is but a very Sot.
2. The Image of God in man stands in Righteousness and Holiness. And what a Swine is this holy Soul become? If Swearing and Cursing, if Raving and Madness, if Whoring, and all manner of filthiness, if this be holiness, then this Beast is still a very holy man.
2. It hurts the body of man, causing many Diseases; as Dropsies, Gouts, Apoplexies, Agues, Consumptions of the Vital parts, Inflammations of the Blood: So that though they may drink Healths, and pretend it is for their Health, yet they indeed drink sicknesses: for who have more infirmities and deformities? who have richer faces, and redder eyes, than such as tarry long at the Wine?