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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
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2. There is Drunkenness in the sight of men. Sometimes this evil is so gross and notorious, as that the wholesome Laws of men take hold of it and punish it; namely, when a man is so overcome with wine, as that he can neither speak nor act like a rational Creature, when reason is disturbed ⟨p. 4⟩thereby, and Sense and Speech and Motion fail, (c)when neither the Head nor Hand can do their offices aright. Prov. 16. 9. A thorn goeth up into the hand of a arunkard; had he his wits about him, he would not suffer thorns to be thrust into his hands. Psal. 107. 27. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end: this is palpable drunkenness. We must know that a man may be deeply and damnably guilty of this evil in the sight of God, though it should never proceed to those outrageous out-breakings, whereby men cannot but observe it.
2. There is Drunkenness in the sight of men. Sometimes this evil is so gross and notorious, as that the wholesome Laws of men take hold of it and punish it; namely, when a man is so overcome with wine, as that he can neither speak nor act like a rational Creature, when reason is disturbed ⟨p. 4⟩thereby, and Sense and Speech and Motion fail, (c)when neither the Head nor Hand can do their offices aright. Prov. 16. 9. A thorn goeth up into the hand of a arunkard; had he his wits about him, he would not suffer thorns to be thrust into his hands. Psal. 107. 27. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end: this is palpable drunkenness. We must know that a man may be deeply and damnably guilty of this evil in the sight of God, though it should never proceed to those outragious out-breakings, whereby men cannot but observe it.