Woe to drunkards. Two sermons testifying against the sin of drunkennessWo to drunkards. Two sermons testifying against the sin of drunkenness

6. This is seldom goeth alone, but is the unhappy parent of many other Iniquities like it self. Hence are many wicked words uttered. When Drunkards are in their Cups, they care not what they say, nor of whom: They will Lie, Swear, Revile, Scoff, Blaspheme, so as some of them, when in a sober mood, would be loth to do. Therefore David complained, saying, I was the song of the drunkards, Psal. 69. 12. When drink is got into the brain, then out come ••lchy Songs, and scoffing at the best men, yea at godliness it self in the power of it. Hence are many wicked deeds as well as words: Contentions arise from this. Look again into that Text, which some have not unfitly termed, The Drunkards Looking-glass, even that, Prov. 23.29. Who hath woe? Who hath contentions? who hath babblings? who hath wounds without cause? Drunkards have all these: when wine or strong drink hath raised their spirits, they will fall to babbling, and quarrelling, they know not about what, and words will bring on blows, and these will make wounds when there is no just cause for it. That vile sin of ^*Uncleanness, which he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall into, is the fruit of Drunkenness; therefore ver. 33. faith, Thine eyes shall behold strange women: where there is rioting and drunkenness, there is wont to be chambering and wantonness, Rom. 13. 13. Yea, the most horrid and prodigious Wickedness that the Sun ever saw, or the Earth ever heard of do many times follow upon this woeful cursed Evil of Drunkenness. I remember ^(k)Lonicerus mentions a sad Example of a miserable man, who being under some disqui••ment of mind, the Devil suggested to him, that he must needs commit one of these three sins, Drunkenness, Adultery, or Murder: now the man thought with himself, he had better be guilty of Drunkenness, then of either of the other two. Now that was the subtlety of the Devil, ⟨p. 14⟩