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Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spiritual drunkenness being the brief notes of…Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness being the brief notes of…
Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spiritual drunkenness being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of public fasting and prayer throughout the colony / by that reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard, deceased.Wine for Gospel wantons, or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony / by that reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard, deceased.
Cambridge Mass. printed : s.n., 1668
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Briefly, a little to open the meaning of the Text.
By every bottle, is meant all the inhabitants of the Land, and more particularly, the Kings, and the Priests, and the Prophets.
By Wine, is meant that spirit of Drunkenness wherewith the Lord will fill them: and by filling of the vessels, is meant they shall be full of drunkenness: and by bottles, is meant their weak condition; for they thought themselves vessels of honour, that could withstand the dint of any stroke: but saith the Lord, I will dash you one against another:
I will do it, saith the Lord, by filling them with a spirit of drunkenness; and the manner how, is by dashing them one against another: I will break all relations asunder, and will not pity, nor spare, but destroy. It would take much time to open all these particularly. We shall only speak concerning one particular; viz. What is meant by a spirit of drunkenness: Sometimes it is taken for the drunkenness of mens bodies; sometimes for the Soul-calamities that men are under, in such wise that they know not what to do: