God's terrible voice in the city

Sinners, turn from your evil ways, otherwise iniquity will be your ruin.

Sinners, turn from your evil wayes, otherwise iniquity will be your ruine.

1. Drunkards turn from your evil ways; overcharge not your selves with excess, where God allows you enough for use; Look not upon the Wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the Cup, when it sparkleth and moveth it self aright: At last it biteth like a Serpent, and stingeth like an Adder, Prov. 23. 31, 32. wounds and woe are the issue of excessive drinking, v. 29. this sin may be sweet and pleasing to the eye and appetite in the temptation; but it will wound and sting the conscience, worse than an Adder or Serpent can do the body, in the reflection; God hath put bitterness into the Cup by his Judgements, and will you drink as deep as before? are you resolved to taste the dregs that lye at bottom? the Cup hath poison in it, soul-poison, and will you drink of it still, though you murder and destroy your souls for ever by this sin? the Cup hath wrath in it, the wrath of an angry God; and is it good for you to drink off the Wine of Gods wrath? Drunkenness hath been your sin, and if you go on, God threateneth that Drunkenness ⟨p. 227⟩shall be your punishment, Jer. 15. 12. Speak unto them this word, thus saith the Lord, every bottle shall be filled with Wine; Drunkards like this very well, they are very well pleased that their bottles shall be filled with Wine, that they may empty them, but understand the meaning, v. 13, 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will fill all the inhabitants of the Land with Drunkenness; and I will dash them one against another, even the Fathers, and the Sans together: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. Drunkards, you reel and fall sometimes with your sin; God will make you reel and fall by his Judgements, and dash you one upon another, yea dash you in pieces, and destroy you without pity or mercy. Will you not forbear your Cups, and excesses, God will put a Cup of trembling and astonishment into your hand; he will put Gall and Wormwood into your Cup, and make you taste the bitter effects of this sin; if he do not severely scourge you for this sin here, he will be sure to torment you for this sin for ever.