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

Now to speak something further, and more particularly by way of Conviction & Awakening to those ••at love and live in this Sin of Drunkenness, Know and Believe;

1. That woeful Judgments have ever followed this Sin. The Text saith it, and woeful Experience proveth it. What hath been formerly said concerning the woefulness of the Sin of Pride, may here be applied to this of Drunkenness. Personal Miseries come from hence upon the Estates, Names, Bodies & Souls of Guilty ones, as has been more fully showed. And this Sin brings Family-Judgments: Thousands of Families have been brought to Ruin thereby. Drunkards bring a Curse upon their Children, and poor Posterity after them: Nay, it may be one act of Drunkenness, and that committed by a Good man, shall bring a Curse upon some of his Children to the worlds End. Do we not see it in Noah? He was a Righteous man, & was Drunken but once in all his Life, that we read of; and much might be said to Excuse him, in that probably he knew not that there was an inebriating Quality in Wine, Nevertheless, that Drunkenness brought a Curse upon one of his Children, which continueth to this Day, although' it be Four Thousand Years since that Sin was Committed. Whose Heart ⟨p. 37⟩then is it that doth not Tremble to live in such an Evil? Yea, and this Sin is the woeful procuring Cause of many Public Calamities in the world. Was not this one principal Cause of the Babylonian Captivity? See also, Isa. 56.9. All the Beasts of the Field come to devour, yea all the Beasts of the Forest. Here now the Ravenous Babylonians are called upon to make a Prey of the Jews: And the reason of it we may see, ver. 12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, & we will fill our selves with strong drink. So that the Luxury & Drunkenness which abounded amongst the Jews, especially considering that their Watchmen, their Ministers. who should have been Examples of Sobriety & Mortification to all round about them, were some of them given to this Iniquity, was one principal Cause of their Enemies coming to devour them. The like we may see, Chap. 5. v. 11 We unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, till wine inflame them. Now mind what followeth, Ver. 13. Therefore my People are gone into Captivity. And this Sin also was in a special manner the procuring cause of that Assyrian Captivity, wherein the Ten Tribes were carried away, & never restored to this day, although' it be now above Two Thousand Years since that Judgment el them: