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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.
Yea 5. This woeful Vice is every way prejudicial, injurious and destructive to him that shall be subject to it. It is so not only in the respects which have been mentioned, but in every other respect, that may be said or thought of.
Yea 5. This woful Vice is every way prejudicial, injurious and destructive to him that shall be subject to it. It is so not onely in the respects which have been mentioned, but in every other respect, that may be said or thought of.
A little further to instance under this Head:
1. It is injurious to, and brings Woe and Misery upon the Name of him that shall be guilty of it. It is a most disgraceful, infamous Vice: though a man should be but once guilty of this sin in all his days, yet that is a blot and dishonour upon his Name, and a matter of shame and humiliation to him, as long as he hath a day to live; how ⟨p. 9⟩much more when he hath been often and ordinarily guilty of it? Hence it was that the wicked Pharisees, to, the intent that they might be sure to disgrace Christ to purpose, said of him, that he was a Wine-bibber, Matth. 11.19. That they might make every-body think meanly of Christ, they slanderously gave out that he was a drunken Companion: and of old such were looked upon as the very children of Belial. Thence when Eli thought that Hannah had been drunken. She said to him. No my Lord, I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial, 1 Sam. 1.13.14.15.16. For a man to love to be drunk, is horrible impiety; but it this be true concerning.