N00081:26
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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Drunkenness appears in staggering and reeling; so this spiritual drunkenness appears,
1. In a spirit of Unsteadfastness and Unsettledness, both in holy resolutions in matters of Faith, and opinions in matters of Judgement.
1. In a spirit of Unstedfastness and Unsetledness, both in holy resolutions in matters of Faith, and opinions in matters of Judgement.
In Faith: there is no hold of men, but unsettled and unsteadfast in Doctrine, and in matters of practise, Isai. 29. 9. They are Drunken but not with wine, they stagger, but not with strong drink, when mens hearts are grown unsteadfast: and for this the Lord he professeth that he will never forgive this sin until they come to confess it in particular: when men shall walk at peradventures in matters of Religion, and do so stagger that the Lord knows not where to find them but as waves of the sea: It is true, there is a staggering that ariseth from weakness, as a child may, and of that I speak not; but now when men shall stagger being drunk with their lusts, this is that spirit of Drunkenness which goes before ruin. Drunkenness takes away the use of reason; and so this.
In Faith: there is no hold of men, but unsetled and unstedfast in Doctrine, and in matters of practise, Isai. 29. 9. They are Drunken but not with wine, they stagger, but not with strong drink, when mens hearts are grown unstedfast: and for this the Lord he professeth that he will never forgive this sin until they come to confess it in particular: when men shall walk at peradventures in matters of Religion, and do so stagger that the Lord knows not where to finde them but as waves of the sea: It is true, there is a staggering that ariseth from weakness, as a childe may, and of that I speak not; but now when men shall stagger being drunk with their lusts, this is that spirit of Drunkenness which goes before ruine. Drunkenness takes away the use of reason; and so this.