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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.
Yet more, Drunkenness is a great Waster of a man's Estate. How common is it for those that are given to this Vice, if they gain any thing when they are sober, to lose it again when they are in drink? yea, it may be to lose more in one drunken day or night, then they gain in many days, weeks, months, years perhaps? The Scripture faith, that ⟨p. 8⟩the Drunkard shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall death a man with rags, Prov. 23. 21. And doth not Experience •estisie that this word of God is Truth? How many have you known that once had *considerable Estates, they were very well to pass in the world, but when once they have fallen in with idle Company, and followed drunken Courses and Comforts, their Estates have soon been consumed, and they clothed with Rags, nay have scarce had Rags to cover them? Often so it cometh to pass, that he that liveth a Drunkard, dieth a Beggar; but seldom is it seen that a Drunkard keepeth an Estate long: therefore the Holy Ghost hath said by Solomon, that He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man, and he that loveth wine shall not be rich, Prov. 21. 17. In this respect Drunkenness is a breach of the Eighth Commandment: A Drunkard is a Thief and a Robber, yea the work kind of Robber in the world, for he robbeth his own House, he robbeth his Wife and Children, yea himself: and as Self-Murder is the most horrid, so is Self-Robbery the greatest Villainy. Nay, the Drunkard Robbeth God, for he maketh himself uncapable of honouring God with his substance. Go to a miserable Drunkard, and ask him for something to relieve a poor body that is in want, or to promote some public and pious Work, and he hath nothing to spare; the cursed Alehouse hath devoured his substance, that he hath nothing left thereof, neither for God nor for himself. How wasteful and how woeful then doth this Evil appear to be?
Yet more, Drunkenness is a great Waster of a man's Estate. How common is it for those that are given to this Vice, if they gain any thing when they are sober, to lose it again when they are in drink? yea, it may be to lose more in one drunken day or night, then they gain in many dayes, weeks, months, years perhaps? The Scripture faith, that