Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

Come forth all ye Drunkards, who if you have not overcharged your bellies with excessive eating, yet have often intoxicated your brains with the fumes of excessive drinking: who have drowned your understanding, wit and fancy, your natural ⟨p. 79⟩parts and ingenuity, which might have rendered you •••• full in the Church, or Common-wealth where you lived, and made your selves mere sots by drunkenness: and what account can you now give of the talents you were entrusted withal? what excuse can you find for this sin? were you enticed to it, and overtaken before you were aware but who could entice you to drink a portion which would kill your bodies? and was not the death and damnation of your souls more to be avoided? would you be enticed to that unto which a very Beast will not be enforced? but were you not forward of your selves to the sin? did you not like the company well that joined with you therein? did not you overtake the sin by your desires? did not the liquor please your appetite? did not you swill it in without persuasion? if you had been overtaken, would you have been so often guilty? would you have come so often into the places and company where you fell into it? was not your •••efest mirth amongst your cups, and drunken Companions […] were not you melancholy and troubled, when your meetings of good-fellowship were disappointed? you would have your Cups, and drink Wine in Bowls, and strong Drink without measure: and now also you have a Cup to drink of, even the Cup of the Wine of the wrath of the angry Almighty God: now ye shall drink of the dregs of this Cup, which hath ten thousand times more bitterness in it, than your other Cups have had sweetness.

Come forth all ye Drunkards, who if you have not overcharged your bellies with excessive eating, yet have often intoxicated your brains with the fumes of excessive drinking: who have drowned your understanding, wit and fancy, your natural ⟨p. 79⟩parts and ingenuity, which might have rendered you •••• ful in the Church, or Common-wealth where you lived, and made your selves meer sots by drunkenness: and what account can you now give of the talents you were entrusted withall? what excuse can you find for this sin? were you enticed to it, and overtaken before you were aware but who could entice you to drink a portion which would kill your bodies? and was not the death and damnation of your souls more to be avoided? would you be enticed to that unto which a very Beast will not be enforced? but were you not forward of your selves to the sin? did you not like the company well that joyn'd with you therein? did not you overtake the sin by your desires? did not the liquor please your appetite? did not you swill it in without perswasion? if you had been overtaken, would you have been so often guilty? would you have come so often into the places and company where you fell into it? was not your efest mirth amongst your cups, and drunken Companions were not you melancholly and troubled, when your meetings of good-fellowship were disappointed? you would have your Cups, and drink Wine in Bowles, and strong Drink without measure: and now also you have a Cup to drink of, even the Cup of the Wine of the wrath of the angry Allmighty God: now yee shall drink of the dregs of this Cup, which hath ten thousand times more bitterness in it, than your other Cups have had sweetness.