Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Crudities and Obstructions that are the parents of all Diseases, are the hasty offspring of this Excess. But above all, 'twill bring a woe upon your Spirits; 'twill befot the Reason with a foaming madness; 'twill inflame the Conscience more than if you had swallowed flaming Sulphur; 'twill plunge the Soul into intolerable and interminable Miseries. 'Tis a thousand to one, but you may die Drunk like Ammon and Elab at last, if you live so, and yet I can hardly say you live, inasmuch as you are dead while you live. 'Tis a profane and lying Speech sometimes used, That a drunken man gets no Harm; we often see such woeful ⟨p. 76⟩creatures drowned, which is indeed but a proper vengeance on them, for a Drunken is an old English word for a drowned man. Yea, sometimes we see them also horribly burned unto Death; scarce two weeks are past since we saw two such Tragical Accidents. However, the irreclaimable Drunkard cannot escape the vengeance of eternal Fire, he must be Tormented for-ever in those Fires, from whence his vain and sad cries will be continually going up, O for a drop of w•er to cool•ry longue! We pity that King who of old lost a Kingdom for a cup of drink; but the drunkard will do a more lamentable thing; he loses a Soul for a cup of drink, a loss which the gain of the whole world would not compensate; and he procures himself a ba••shm•ht and an exclusion from the Kingdom of Heaven for ever.

Crudities and Obstructions that are the parents of all Diseases, are the hasty offspring of this Excess. But above all, 'twill bring a wo upon your Spirits; 'twill befot the Reason with a foaming madness; 'twill enflame the Consotence more than if you had swallo'd flaming Sulphur; 'twill plunge the Soul into intollerable and interminable Miseries. 'Tis a thousand to one, but you may dy Drunk like Ammon and Elab at last, if you live so, and yet I can hardly say you live, inasmuch as you are dead while you live. 'Tis a profane and lying Speech sometimes used, That a drunken man gets no Harm; we often see such woful ⟨p. 76⟩creatures drowned, which is indeed but a proper vengeance on them, for a Drunken is an old English word for a drowned man. Yea, sometimes we see them also horribly burned unto Death; scarce two weeks are past sice we saw two such Tragical Accidents. However, the irreclaimable Drunkard cannot escape the vengeance of eternal Fire, he must be Tormented for-ever in those Fires, from whence his vain and sad cries will be continually going up, O for a drop of wer to coolry longue! We pity that King who of old lost a Kingdom for a cup of drink; but the drunkard will do a more lamentable thing; he loses a Soul for a cup of drink, a loss which the gain of the whole world would not compensate; and he procures himself a bashmht and an exclusion from the Kingdom of Heaven for ever.