The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David…

There is yet another Introduction to all mischief, which this Young Man does now in sober sadness bestow his •ears upon. I cannot hear that he was a Common Drunkard; but if he had no• been somewhat in Drink, at the ⟨p. 53⟩Time of it, (which he had been, alas, at other times) it is probable he had never done the Fact for which he sees the cutting off of his Days, and is deprived of the Residue of his Years. Nor is he the only one, that has been Executed in this Place, for things done by them, when Strong Drink had Enraged them. Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Holy One, I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; That Lying proverb, A Drunken man gets no Harm. I thought, you had seen Harm, enough to follow upon Drunkenness, in the Ignominy, which it fixes upon them that wallow in it; Harm enough, in the wast of Substance that arises from such Beastly Living; Harm enough in the Diseases, in the Disasters, in the untimely Deaths which it Leads unto: And, what? No Harm in the Wounds which the Slaves of the Bottle bring upon all the Faculties of their Souls▪ Truly, tis a very great Significancy, which I find in the Language of •• doustan; ⟨p. 54⟩Tis a copious Language, and yet it uses but one word for A Drunkard, and A Madman. But if this be not enough, certainly, to be brought to the Gallows is Harm enough. O Lovers of Strong Drink, There is Death in that Pot, that Cup, with which you are intoxicated. Never give over crying to God, until he has delivered you, from the Vice, which thus drowns you in Perdition.

There is yet another Introduction to all mischief, which this Young Man does now in sober sadness bestow his •ears upon. I cannot hear that he was a Common Drunkard; but if he had no• been somewhat in Drink, at the ⟨p. 53⟩Time of it, (which he had been, alas, at other times) it is probable he had never done the Fact for which he sees the cutting off of his Days, and is deprived of the Residue of his Years. Nor is he the only one, that has been Executed in this Place, for things done by them, when Strong Drink had Enraged them. Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Holy One, I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; That Lying proverb, A Drunken man gets no Harm. I thought, you had seen Harm, enough to follow upon Drunkenness, in the Ignominy, which it fixes upon them that wallow in it; Harm enough, in the wast of Substance that arises from such Beastly Living; Harm enough in the Diseases, in the Dissters, in the untimely Deaths which it Leads unto: And, what? No Harm in the Wounds which the Slaves of the Bottle bring upon all the Faculties of their Souls Truly, tis a very great Significancy, which I find in the Language of doustan;