An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson.

  • Edmund Gibson
Date:
1766
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Credit: An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f 16] folemnly denounces: Woes and Judg- ments againftit (Jz. v.11.) Woe unto them that rife up early in the Morning, ‘that they may -follow flrong Drink, that continue until Night, «till Wine inflame them; and again,. Verfe 22. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink Wine, and Men: of Strength to mingle. firong Drink, -And becaufe the Men. of Might and. Strength in this Way,. take a.perverfe Delight in overcoming their Neighbours, nay, are not afhamed. to glory in it, as if they had won fome mighty Prize; therefore another of the Prophets adds a third Woe (Hadod. it 15, Woe unto him that giveth his Neighs- bour Drink, that puttef thy Bottle ta him, and makeft him drunken alfo.. And | in the New Teflament, we find the Chri- ftians who were guilty of this Vice, ranked amongft the moft abominable Sinners, and: adjudged to the heavieft Punifhments.. The Apoftle, (1 Cor. v. zo.) reckons them. with the vileft fof Men, Adulterers, Fornicators, and Ex- fortioners; and commands all Chriftians to avoid their Company, as ‘a public Scandal to their Religion: And, to , compleat