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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.
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. *a woman; there's a daughter of Relial indeed. Now they were the vilest of the children of men who were so called: and hence it is that no man almost is willing to be called a Drunkard. They that love the practice, yet would not be thought to be as they are, because of the disgrace that is in it. The Drunkards Credit is cracked, and lost amongst all sober man; and therefore wise men carry towards such, as, they would do to a person of no Credit, whom they dare not trust. Trust a Drunkard with an Estate, and when he is in his Cups he'll send it going: (e)Trust him with a Secret, and when he is drunken he'll discover it; Trust him, and when he is drunken he will undo himself and his friend too. I have read