On the use and abuse of wine (Johannes Maccovius)

[Reformed Covenanter]

So wine by itself cheers up, but it makes drunk by accident.

Johannes Maccovius, A Hundredfold Most General Distinctions in Scholastic Discourse: On Theological and Philosophical Distinctions and Rules, PIRef 4, trans. Willem J. van Asselt et al, ed. William den Boer (1656; Apeldoorn: Institute for Reformation Research, 2009), 1.2, p. 303.

 

[AT]

Maccovius brother be saying he got drunk by accident when Ames be charging him with deviant lifestyle.