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Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof
Conscience with the power and cases thereof Divided into V. books. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latin into English, for more public benefit.Conscience with the power and cases thereof Devided into V. bookes. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latine into English, for more publique benefit.
Leiden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639Leyden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639
Book 3 › Chapter 16: Of Drunkenness.Book 3 › Chapter 16: Of Drunkennesse.
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.
5. Secondly, as it doth note either a desire of immoderate drinking, or the voluntary drinking it self so far immoderate, that a man by it is violently deprived of the use of reason, so it is a grievous sin. Pro. 23. 30. 39. Esa. 5. 11. Hos. 4. 11. Luk• 21. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 10. Ephes. 5. 18.
5. Secondly, as it doth note either a desire of immoderate drinking, or the voluntary drinking it selfe so far immoderate, that a man by it is violently deprived of the use of reason, so it is a grevious sin. Pro. 23. 30. 39. Esa. 5. 11. Hos. 4. 11. Luk• 21. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 10. Ephes. 5. 18.
6. The deformity and filthiness of this sin doth appear from these grounds, 1. Because the Drunkard doth for a contemptible pleasure sell that which is the excellentest thing in the nature of man whilst he deprives himself of the use of reason, 2. Because by this means he makes himself unfit not only for the duties of piety.