An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

Thirdly, Their drink is sour.] it notes thus much, Their §3society is unsavoury and sour, for so their C••vivium their meetings together for feasting and drinking noteth many times communion and converse and familiarity, as the drinkings ⟨p. 218⟩of people together you know it is a means to keep their converse and maintain familiarity one with another. So the meaning is, that their converse one with another when they met together at one another's tables and were drinking together, what savour, what relish can any gracious heart take in it? You may observe it of all your superstitious people that have heretofore lived amongst you, how unsavoury have they been in their converse? Perhaps heretofore they have been forward in the ways of Religion and then converse with them and there hath been some life and quickness in them, but when they have yielded once unto superstitious vanity, all their converse is become unsavoury. It would have been so with you if these times had not come, perhaps you might have met together and have had brave cheer and drinkings of all sorts and have had many merry meetings, but the truth is all your merry meetings would have been sour and sapless, there would have been no sweetness in your converse, and those of your brethren that had been gone from you into the howling wilderness would have found more savour in their water there than you could have had in all the drinks you could have devised to your selves.

Thirdly, Their drink is sowr.] it notes thus much, Their §3society is unsavory and sowr, for so their C••vivium their meetings tog•ther for feasting and drinking noteth many times communion and converse and familiarity, as the drinkings ⟨p. 218⟩of people together you know it is a means to keep their converse and maintain familiarity one with another. So the meaning is, that their converse one with another when they met together at one anothers tables and were drinking together, what savor, what rellish can any gracious heart take in it? You may observe it of all your superstitious people that have heretofore lived amongst you, how unsavory have they been in their converse? Perhaps heretofore they have been forward in the waies of Religion and then converse with them and there hath been some life and quickness in them, but when they have yeilded once unto superstitious vanitie, all their converse is become unsavory. It would have been so with you if these times had not come, perhaps you might have met together and have had brave cheer and drinkings of all sorts and have had many merry meetings, but the truth is all your merry meetings would have been sowr and sapless, there would have been no sweetness in your converse, and those of your brethren that had been gone from you into the howling wilderness would have found more savour in their water there than you could have had in all the drinks you could have devised to your selves.