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Wine for Gospel wantons
Wine for Gospel wantons: or, Cautions against spiritual drunkenness. Being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of public fasting and prayer throughout the colony, June 25. 1645. In reference to the sad estate of the Lords people in England. / By that Reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard deceased, sometimes the Pastor of the Church of Christ there. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] ; Imprimatur, Charles Chancy. John Sherman.Wine for Gospel wantons: or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness. Being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony, June 25. 1645. In reference to the sad estate of the Lords people in England. / By that Reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard deceased, sometimes the Pastor of the Church of Christ there. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] ; Imprimatur, Charles Chauncy. John Sherman.
Cambridge Mass.: : s.n., Printed in the year 1668
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Jerem. 13. 12, 13. Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Ver. 13. Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this Land, even the Kings that sit upon Davids throne, and the Priests, and the Prophets, and all the Inhabitants of Jerusalem with Drunkenness.
This Chapter contains a Prophecy of the Captivity of Gods Church in Babylon; which is set down (to take the deeper impression on their hearts) First, under the type of a Girdle, which is taken from the loins of the Prophet, and put into an hole of the Rock near Euphrates, which did lick the banks of Babel, which after a time was so marred, that it was good for nothing: so will I mar the glory, and the great pride of Jerusalem. When a people will not be vile in their own eyes, God hath a time to make them vile: when they will not be the glory and praise of God, they shall be the filth and shame of the world. Secondly, under sundry Similitudes: the first is in these Verses; where note two things: 1. The similitude it self; wherein he compares them to bottles, wherein wine was wont to be put: which is set down (1.) In a plain affirmation of the thing, from Gods Command [Every bottle shall be filled with wine] this he was to preach, and testify. (2.) From their ignorant and disdainful receiving of this message from God; q.d. who knows not that? what great matter is that? what do you publish and press us to believe that? we know that every bottle shall. Now the Lord had caught them, and made them ⟨p. 4⟩yield thus far, he comes in upon them with the second thing, viz. the Explication of the Similitude. Similitudes prove nothing, but when God applies them, then there's proof enough.
THis Chapter contains a Prophesie of the Captivity of Gods Church in Babylon; which is set down (to take the deeper impression on their hearts) First, under the type of a Girdle, which is taken from the loins of the Prophet, and put into an hole of the Rock near Euphrates, which did lick the banks of Babel, which after a time was so marred, that it was good for nothing: so will I marre the glory, and the great pride of Jerusalem. When a people will not be vile in their own eyes, God hath a time to make them vile: when they will not be the glory and praise of God, they shall be the filth and shame of the world. Secondly, under sundry Similitudes: the first is in these Verses; where note two things: 1. The similitude it self; wherein he compares them to bottles, wherein wine was wont to be put: which is set down (1.) In a plain affirmation of the thing, from Gods Command [Every bottle shall be filled with wine] this he was to preach, and testifie. (2.) From their ignorant and disdainful receiving of this message from God; q.d. who knows not that? what great matter is that? what do you publish and press us to believe that? we know that every bottle shall. Now the Lord had caught them, and made them