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

3. The last Word of Exhortation shall be unto those that have been Guilty of this Woeful Sin of Drunkenness; Be this day Excited and Persuaded to Repent and Turn from this Transgression. Some of you have through Temptation been drawn into this Evil. How many Guilty, Accusing Consciences are there here before the Lord? Oh! Repent of what you have done, if ever you have given way to Temptation, so as to be overtaken with this so Vile an Abomination. Others (and many too) live in this Sin; in their ordinary Course they Commit it, and therefore are Servants to it: Oh! Repent, Repent, before it be too Late. Remember, that ere long Repentance for it will be too late. Did not Dives Repent when it was too late? When his Soul was dropped down into the Place of Torment, and he was Crying for one drop of Water to cool his Tongue, then he bitterly Repented of all the Drunken Merry-meetings, which in his Life time he had seen; but then Repentance was too Late. Think seriously on that Scripture, Rom. 13.11, 12, 13. Now it is high time to wake out of sleep, the night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, — Let us walk honestly, not in rioting & d•unkenness, not in chambering & wantonness. ⟨p. 55⟩Do not delay your Repentance, but NOW Practise it. Austin I remember Confesseth, That he Lived in scandalous Impieties, in his Vain Youthful Days, before his Conversion, and he had many secret Convictions upon his Conscience, thinking with himself that Tomorrow, or some time Hereafter, he would Repent of, and Turn from those Vanities: But on a certain Time it seemed to him as if he heard a Voice from Heaven, saying to him, Tolle & Lege, Take up and Read; a Bible being by him, he taketh it up, and goeth to reading in it, and the First place which his Eyes fixed on, was this Scripture last mentioned, and the Lord set in with it upon his Heart, so as that he Cried out, And why not Now, Lord? I have said, That Hereafter I would leave my Chambering and Wantonness, but let me do it Now, Lord. Do you that are Drunkards, say and do the like; Resolve upon Present Repentance, without delaying one Day or one Hour longer. And know for your Encouragement, That in case you do truly Repent of this Iniquity, God will forgive you. Do not think that I love to Scare you, with the dark Visions of that Eternal Night which is hastening upon your Souls.