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B08586 The sin and folly of drunkenness considered I. What it is. II. What is vicious or sinfull in drinking (whether men will call it drunkenness or no.) III. What may be said against it. Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706. 1682 (1682) Wing B5351A; ESTC R215456 19,630 48

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THE SIN AND FOLLY OF Drunkenness CONSIDERED I. What it is II. What is vicious or sinfull in Drinking whether men will call it Drunkenness or no. III. What may be said against it By Edward Buckler of Bradford in Somersetshire the Author of God All in all London Printed for Thomas Cockeril at the three Legs in the Poultrey over against the Stocks-market 1682. THE SIN and FOLLY OF DRUNKENNESS 1 PET. V. 8. Be sober be vigilant c. THE former part of the Chapter is spent in Exhortations To 1. The Elders 2. The Younger 3. All. Who are pressed To 1. Humility v. 5 6. 2. A Recumbency upon God in all Conditions v. 7. 3. Sobriety Vigilancy in the Text. To set on which is annexed with this Argument For your Adversary c. So the Text hath 1. An Exhortation to a two-fold Duty viz. 1. Sobriety 2. Vigilancy 2. An Argument to enforce drawn from the Condition of the People of God indeed of all men in reference to the Devil who is described by His 1. Name the Devil 2. Nature your Adversary 3. Practice walks about 4. Industry seeking 5. Aim to devour 6. A comparatis like a roaring Lion 1. Of the Exhortation and in that of the first Duty Be sober The word sometimes signifies both the Duties that are here pressed to be sober and vigilant too as 2 Tim. 4.5 Watch thou in all things and 1 Pet. 4.7 Watch unto Prayer and the 1 Thess 5.8 Let us who are of the day be sober And if we may at any time limit its signification to Sobriety alone we seem then to do it with most reason when another word is added which bids us watch as there is in the Text. Be sober a duty of the Body as it is opposed unto Drunkenness and of the Mind consisting in Moderation having no Warrant to restrain the Exhortation to any one of these Duties I shall understand it of both and from it lay down this Doctrine Doct. Sobriety both in Body and Mind is the Duty of Christians Of this in two Branches 1. Sobriety of the Body is the Duty of Christians I shall shew you 1. What it is 2. That it is our Duty 1. What Sobriety as to this part of it is which I can by no means give you a better account of than by calling it that Vertue which is opposed to whatever is Vicious or sinfull in the matter of Drinking To shew you then 1. What Drunkenness is and 2. What is Vitious or Sinful in Drinking whether men will call it Drunkenness or no will let you see what it is to be Sober A. 1. Drunkenness is ordinarily taken for the Privation or Loss of the use of Reason caused by immoderate and excessive Drinking But the best way to find out what this Sin is is to Judge of it by the Scripture and there 1. The height of it indeed is to drink to the loss of Reason and Understanding that we speak and do we know not what and are not capable of apprehending what is said or done unto us Nabal was very drunken wherefore his Wife told him nothing less or more until the morning light In 1. Sam. 25.36 She was a wise woman and knew that a drunken husband was not capable of being discoursed with and therefore stay'd she till the morning till his reason returned for which there was no room till the Wine was gone out of him v. 37. So Noah Gen. 9.2 and Lot Gen 19.33 Multa faciunt ebrij quorum postea sobrios pudet Sen. 2. 'T is to drink to such a Degree of giddiness that we are not able to stand so Jer. 25.27 it is made a sign of a drunken man to fall and to rise no more i. e. while his fit is upon him 3. 'T is to drink till we reel and stagger though we fall not in Ps 107.27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man And Isa 24.20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard 4. 'T is to drink unto Vomiting Jer. 25.27 Drink and be drunken and spue And Esa 19.14 As a drunken man staggereth in his vomit 5. 'T is to drink to such an alteration of our deportment that we fall into an unusual and unbecoming behaviour 1 Sam. 1.13 Because Hannah's lips moved and her voice was not heard Eli thought she had been drunken 2. What is vicious or sinful in drinking B. 1. To drink till we be inflamed as Esa 5.11 2. To drink excessively though we can carry it roundly away when others lye by it as Esa 5.22 3. To drink beyond the answering those Ends which God hath ordained drink for which we find in Scripture to be these 1. To help our weakness and bodily infirmities as 1 Tim. 5. 2 To quench our thirst Give me I pray thee a little water to drink for I am thirsty Judg. 4.19 3 To refresh and cheer up our spirits so doth Wine make glad the heart of man Psal 104.15 Hence Pro. 31.6 7. In compliance with which the Jews when a Person was brought forth to be put to death gave him to drink some Frankincense in a cup of Wine that it might stupifie him Whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil condemned by the Apostle under the name of Excess of Wine i. e. more than enough for any of those ends which God created Wine to serve for 4 To be accessary to the Excess of others Hab. 2.15 Gen. 19.32.35 Lot's daughters So then we may not drink to the loss of our Reason nor till we cannot stand or not go without reeling and staggering nor till we vomit no nor to the alteration of our usual deportment nor till drink inflame us nor at all excessively whether it inflame us or no nor any more than will answer those ends for which drink was ordained nor by any means be accessary to the Excess of others C 3. That it is a Sin against 1. God 2. Our Souls 3. Our Bodies 4. Our Families 5. Our Estates 6. Our Neighbours 7. The Kingdom 8. The Church 1. Against God who hath 1. Commanded Sobriety 2. Forbidden the Contrary 1. God commands Sobriety I shall lay before you two or three places of Scripture where you shall find the command back't with mighty Arguments to set it on In 1 Thes 5.8 Let us who are of the day be Sober One Argument to press it is from the sudden coming of Christ to Judgment The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night v. 2. Would we have our day of Death or Judgment find us in our Cups Be drawn reasonless or senseless reeling or vomiting from an Ale-house to Christ's Tribunal If we would not let us be Sober The other Argument is taken from our Priviledges being under the Light of the Gospel discovering unto us holyer Courses and engaging us to walk in them v. 5 6. So 1 Pet. 4.7 The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore Sober and Watch unto