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…

Many inquiries are among us, What is the cause of the Lords hand against us, dashing our Ships in pieces, that the Lord should break us in our infancy, and tell us that he is gone in part, and that he is taking away some of our precious ones from us? Would you know the cause of this? you will never know it, until the Lord do take away this drunken distemper from us: So long as we are not kept sober in the love of the Truth, we shall never know the true reason why the Lord is thus angry with us. We cannot say the Lord hath filled all the Inhabitants of the Land with drunkenness, but yet the Cup is given us in part: The Head it doth begin to stagger in a great measure; do we not see great staggering? Unsettledness in the Covenant of God, Walking with God at peradventures, and such hankerings after the Whoredoms of the World at this day: And so likewise Divisions and Distractions; little done, and time spent, and the Country burdened with Charge; nothing done without much Division and Contention. Certainly something is amiss, every thing threatens some sudden blow to New-England; yet blessed be the Lord he hath not filled every one with a spirit of Drunkenness. But let it be the last Motive to think of what I speak, that the Lord should bring us hither, and give us peace in Church and Common-wealth, and in all our Colonies; let us look upon it as a rare and singular mercy of the Lord, that the Lord hath kept us here in peace, and saved us from being poisoned with the Delusions in the world.

Many inquiries are among us, What is the cause of the Lords hand against us, dashing our Ships in pieces, that the Lord should break us in our infancy, and tell us that he is gone in part, and that he is taking away some of our precious ones from us? Would you know the cause of this? you will never know it, untill the Lord do take away this drunken distemper from us: So long as we are not kept sober in the love of the Truth, we shall never know the true reason why the Lord is thus angry with us. We cannot say the Lord hath filled all the Inhabitants of the Land with drunkenness, but yet the Cup is given us in part: The Head it doth begin to stagger in a great measure; do we not see great staggering? Unsetledness in the Covenant of God, Walking with God at peradventures, and such hankerings after the Whoredomes of the World at this day: And so likewise Divisions and Distractions; little done, and time spent, and the Country burthened with Charge; nothing done without much Division and Contention. Certainly something is amiss, every thing threatens some sudden blow to New-England; yet blessed be the Lord he hath not filled every one with a spirit of Drunkenness. But let it be the last Motive to think of what I speak, that the Lord should bring us hither, and give us peace in Church and Common-wealth, and in all our Colonies; let us look upon it as a rare and singular mercy of the Lord, that the Lord hath kept us here in peace, and saved us from being poisoned with the Delusions in the world.