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Woe to drunkards. Two sermons testifying against the sin of drunkennessWo to drunkards. Two sermons testifying against the sin of drunkenness
Woe to drunkards. Two sermons testifying against the sin of drunkenness: wherein the woefulness of that evil, and the mystery of all that are addicted to it, is discovered from the word of God. / Preached by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]Wo to drunkards. Two sermons testifying against the sin of drunkenness: wherein the wofulness of that evil, and the mistery of all that are addicted to it, is discovered from the word of God. / Preached by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Marmaduke Johnson. 1673., 1673
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.
Having discoursed at several times concerning the evil of that sin of Pride, we proceed now to speak concerning that of Drunkenness. And in the Doctrinal handling of this Point, we shall only attend two things: 1. To enquire what that Drunkenness is that the Scripture denounceth Woe against? 2. How it doth appear that Drunkenness is a woeful evil?
Having discoursed at several times concerning the evil of that sin of Pride, we proceed now to speak concerning that of Drunkenness. And in the Doctrinal handling of this Point, we shall onely attend two things: 1. To enquire what that Drunkenness is that the Scripture denounceth Wo against? 2. How it doth appear that Drunkenness is a woful evil?
Quest. 1. What is that Drunkenness against which the Scripture denounceth Woe?
Quest. 1. What is that Drunkenness against which the Scripture denounceth Wo?
Answ. There is a twofold Drunkenness: I. A Drunkenness which is Metaphorical and Spiritual, Isa. 51. 21. (b)O thou that art drunken, but not with Wine. The Jews were in such a case, as drunken men are wont to be in, by reason of the Wine of Divine Judgment that was given to them. And one may be drunken with Error and Spiritual Delusion; therefore is it said concerning Mystical Babylon, that is Rome, that the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication, Rev. 17. 2. Antichristian corrupt Doctrines do as it were intoxicate and inebriate the Souls of them that do imbibe or embrace them: they become drunkard-like, even vertiginous thereby. Also one may be drunk with Security,