Matthew Henry: A warning against drunkenness

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Reformed Covenanter

Cancelled Commissioner
Let me therefore warn young men to dread the sin of drunkenness; keep at a distance from it; avoid all appearances of it, and approaches towards it. It has slain its thousands,—its ten thousands of young people; has ruined their health, brought diseases upon them, and cut them off in the flower of their days.

How many fall unpitied sacrifices to this base lust? It has ruined their estates and trades at their first setting out; when the time that should have been spent in the shop and warehouse, is spent in the tavern and alehouse,—when the money they should buy goods with, and pay their debts with, is thrown away in the gratification of an inordinate love of wine and strong drink, no wonder if they soon break, and flee their country.

Take heed of the beginnings of this sin, for the way of it is down-hill; and many, under pretence of an innocent entertainment, and passing the evening in a pleasant conversation, are drawn in to drink to excess, and make beasts of themselves; and you should tremble to think how fatal the consequences of it are, how unfit it renders you for the service of God at night, yea, and for your own business the next morning,—how many are thus besotted, and sunk in to that drowsiness which clothes a man with rags; and yet that is not the worst,—it extinguishes convictions and sparks of devotion,—and provokes the Spirit of grace to withdraw, and it will be the sinner’s eternal ruin, if it be not repented of, and forsaken in time; for the word of God hath said it, and it shall not be unsaid, it cannot be gainsaid, that ‘drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God.’ ...

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