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. saith, Thine eyes shall behold strange women. Where there is rioting & drunkenness, there is wont to be chambering & wantonness, Rom. 13.13 Yea, the most horrid & prodigious Wickednesses that the Sun ever saw, or the Earth ever heard of, do many times follow upon this Woeful Cursed Evil of Drunkenness. I remember Lonicerus mentions a sad Example of a miserable man, who being under some disquietment of Mind, the Devil suggested to him, that he must needs Commit one of these Three Sins, Drunkenness, Adultery, or Murder: The man thought with himself, he had better be guilty of Drunkenness, than of either of the other two. Now that was the subtlety of the Devil, who knew that if he drew him into Drunkenness, he should be likely to prevail with him to commit the other Abominations also: And so it came to pass, for when he was Drunken, he went & Defiled his Neighbours Wife, and after he had done that, he Murdered her Husband, left he should be Revenged ⟨p. 23⟩on him for that wicked Fact. This cometh of Drunkenness.
7. It is a Sin that is rarely truly Repented of, & Turned from. Hence that expression of adding drunkenness to thirst, is a Proverbial Speech, denoting one that is obstinate and resolved in an evil course, that nothing can reclaim him, Deut. 29.19. This made a Father despair concerning his drunken Son: When he was told that One of his Sons was given to Gaming, he hoped for him; and when he heard that Another of his Sons was given to Uncleanness, he hoped for him also: but when he was told that a Third Son was addicted to Drunkenness, Nay, then (saith he) alas! I have no Hope concerning him: He supposed that for those other Vices, Age & Experience might cure them, but this will grow with Age, till the sinner drop down into the Grave, and into Hell. I will not say with him▪ there is no Hope for such an one, for in & by Jesus Christ there is Hope; There is Hope in Israel concerning this thing. Not the vilest drunkard in all the Congregation, but t•ere is Help in Christ for him.
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. saith, Thine eyes shall behold strange women. Where there is rioting & drunkenness, there is wont to be chambering & wantonness, Rom. 13.13 Yea, the most horrid & prodigious Wickednesses that the Sun ever saw, or the Earth ever heard of, do many times follow upon this Woful Cursed Evil of Drunkenness. I remember Lonicerus mentions a sad Example of a miserable man, who being under some disquietment of Mind, the Devil suggested to him, that he must needs Commit one of these Three Sins, Drunkenness, Adultery, or Murther: The man thought with himself, he had better be guilty of Drunkenness, than of either of the other two. Now that was the subtilty of the Devil, who knew that if he drew him into Drunkenness, he should be likely to prevail with him to commit the other Abominations also: And so it came to pass, for when he was Drunken, he went & Defiled his Neighbours Wife, and after he had done that, he Murthered her Husband, left he should be Revenged ⟨p. 23⟩on him for that wicked Fact. This cometh of Drunkenness.
7. It is a Sin that is rarely truly Repented of, & Turned from. Hence that expression of adding drunkenness to thirst, is a Proverbial Speech, denoting one that is obstinate and resolved in an evil course, that nothing can reclaim him, Deut. 29.19. This made a Father despair concerning his drunken Son: When he was told that One of his Sons was given to Gaming, he hoped for him; and when he heard that Another of his Sons was given to Uncleanness, he hoped for him also: but when he was told that a Third Son was addicted to Drunkenness, Nay, then (saith he) alas! I have no Hope concerning him: He supposed that for those other Vices, Age & Experience might cure them, but this will grow with Age, till the sinner drop down into the Grave, and into Hell. I will not say with him▪ there is no Hope for such an one, for in & by Jesus Christ there is Hope; There is Hope in Israel concerning this thing. Not the vilest drunkard in all the Congregation, but t•ere is Help in Christ for him.
