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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
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2. It manifests it self, in a spirit of Sottishness and Blindness, which the Lord in his just judgement inflicts upon men for not receiving the truth in the love of it. Isai. 29. The Lord hath poured out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, the wisdom of your wise men shall perish, and the understanding of your prudent men shall be hid saith the Lord. Isai. 28.7. but they have erred through wine and strong drink, they err in vision, and stumble in judgement. Look as it is with drunken men, though their reason be not taken away, yet the use of their reason is gone from them, it befools them, and makes them sottish, giddy, and stupefies their understandings and senses. Isai. 19.14. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the middest thereof: now reason will not move men, they can go against common sense and reason: thus when the Lord gives men up to a spirit of delusion, it is a spirit of Drunkenness.
2. It manifests it self, in a spirit of Sottishness and Blindness, which the Lord in his just judgement inflicts upon men for not receiving the truth in the love of it. Isai. 29. The Lord hath powred out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, the wisdom of your wise men shall perish, and the understanding of your prudent men shall be hid saith the Lord. Isai. 28.7. but they have erred through wine and strong drink, they erre in vision, and stumble in judgement. Look as it is with drunken men, though their reason be not taken away, yet the use of their reason is gone from them, it befools them, and makes them sottish, giddy, and stupifies their understandings and sences. Isai. 19.14. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the middest thereof: now reason will not move men, they can go against common sence and reason: thus when the Lord gives men up to a spirit of delusion, it is a spirit of Drunkenness.