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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1667
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 8
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.
Come forth ye Drunkards, who if you have not overcharged your bellies with excessive eating, yet have often intoxicated your brains with the fumes of excessive drinking; who have drowned your understanding, wit and fancy, your natural parts and ingenuity, which might have rendered you useful in the Church, or Common-wealth where you lived, and made your selves mere sots by your drunkenness: and what account can you now give of the talents you were entrusted withal? what excuse can you find for this sin? were you enticed to it, And overtaken before you were aware? but who could entice you to drink a potion which would kill your bodies? and was not the death and damnation of your souls more to be avoided? would you be enticed to that, unto which a very Beast will not be forced? but were you not forward of your selves to the sin? did you not like the company well that joined with you therein? did not you overtake the sin by your desires? did not the liquor please your appetite? did not you s••ill it in without persuasion? if you had cen overtaken, would you have been so often guilty? would you have come so ⟨p. 100⟩often into the places and company where you fell into it? was not your chiefest mirth amongst your Cups, and drunken Companions? were not you melancholic and troubled, when your meetings of good-fellowship were disappointed? you would have your Cups, and drink Wine in Bowls, and strong Drink without measure; and now also you shall have a Cup to drink of, even the Cup of the Wine of the wrath of the angry Almighty God; now ye shall drink of the dregs of this Cup, which hath ten thousand times more bitterness in it, than your other Cups have had sweetness.
Come forth yee Drunkards, who if you have not overcharged your bellies with excessive eating, yet have often entoxicuted your brains with the fumes of excessive drinking; who have drowned your understanding, wit and fancy, your natural parts and ingenuity, which might have rendered you useful in the Church, or Common-wealth where you lived, and made your selves meer sots by your drunkenness: and what account can you now give of the talents you were entrusted withall? what excuse can you finde for this sin? were you entited to it, And overtaken before you were aware? but who could entice you to drink a potion which would kill your bodies? and was not the death and damnation of your souls more to be avoided? would you be enticed to that, unto which a very Beast will not be forced? but were you not forward of your selves to the sin? did you not like the company well that joyn'd with you therein? did not you overtake the sin by your desires? did not the liquor please your appetite? did not you sill it in without perswasion? if you had cen overtaken, would you have been so often guilty? would you have come so