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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.
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, Isa. 29.9,10. They are drunken but not with wine, they stagger but not with strong drink: for the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep. Delusion and Security had made them as it were dead drunk. Some think that that is the Drunkenness which the Text Speaketh of; for Pride and Security are wont to go together, the one being the Cause of the other. Woe to the Drunkard's, that is (say some) to those that are secure in their sins, and settled upon ⟨p. 3⟩their lees in an evil course. No doubt but that this is implied, and partly intended here, but that is not the only nor the principal evil here aimed at. Therefore 2. Drunkenness is taken in a Literal, proper sense: There is Corporal as well as Spiritual Drunkenness, even a Drunkenness which not so much the Soul as the Body is the Subject of; and that is it which the Prophet here denounceth Judgement for: therefore in the latter end of this Verse he speaketh of being overcome with wine. The Valleys near Samaria abounded with fruitful Vines,