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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.
2. Drunkenness is injurious to the Body of him that shall be subject to it. It brings Woe upon the Body, and therefore is rightly called a woeful Evil. Hence are many bodily distempers. It is said, Hos. 7.5. In the day of our King, the Princes have made him sick with hottles of Wine: Whether it was their Kings Birth-day, or his Coronation-day, or whatever that day of their King might be, which was observed, they kept the day after a very profane manner, there was ⟨p. 10⟩much Drunkenness and Debauchery on that day, and Sickness was the Effect of that Intemperancy. To this truth also doth Solomon best witness, Prov. 23. 29. 30. Who hath woe! who hath sorrow? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine. Redness of eyes (blindness, and the like) is one disease which is mentioned in stead of many more, which follow drunkenness, and are amongst the Woes which attend it. Hence I say are diseases, Dropsies, Consumptions, Fevers, Gouts, Apoplexies, &c. Not but that a man may have these diseases and yet live temperately, but by Intemperancy he shall be sure to have them, or some of them. Many a man hath not lived out half his days, but hath died before his time, because he had been wicked over-much in respect of this iniquity. It hath been averred, (g)That Drunkenness hath killed more then ever the Sword did: Many have been cast down wounded, many have been slain by it, yea Millions of Millions that have been slain, and cast down into the pit for ever by the hands of this one woeful Evil.
2. Drunkenness is injurious to the Body of him that shall be subject to it. It brings Wo upon the Body, and therefore is rightly called a woful Evil. Hence are many bodily distempers. It is said, Hos. 7.5. In the day of our King, the Princes have made him sick with hottles of Wine: Whether it was their Kings Birth-day, or his Coronation-day, or whatever that day of their King might be, which was observed, they kept the day after a very profane manner, there was ⟨p. 10⟩