damnation never so near, he will not be awaked out of his sleep.
So that if a man have any respect either to Credit, Health, Life or
Salvation, he will not be a drunken man. But the truth is, where
this sin gets the upper hand, men are, as I said before, so
intoxicated and bewitched with the seeming pleasures, and sweetness
thereof; that they have neither heart nor mind to think of that
which is better in itself; and would, if imbraced, do them good.

Atten. You said that drunkenness tends to poverty, yet some make
themselves rich by drunken bargains.

Wise. I {50d} said so, because the Word says so. And as to some
mens getting thereby, that is indeed but rare, and base: yea, and
base will be the end of such gettings. The Word of God is against
such wayes, and the curse of God will be the end of such doings.
An Inheritance may sometimes thus be hastily gotten at the
beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Hark what the
Prophet saith; Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness, that
he may set his nest on high. {50e} Whether he makes drunkenness,
or ought else, the engine and decoy to get it; for that man doth
but consult the shame of his own house, the spoiling of his family,
and the damnation of his Soul; for that which he getteth by working
of iniquity, is but a getting by the devices of Hell; Therefore he
can be no gainer neither for himself or family, that gains by an
evil course. But this was one of the sins that Mr. Badman was
addicted to after he came acquainted with these three fellows, nor
could all that his Master could do break him of this Beastly sin.

Atten. But where, since he was but an Apprentice, could he get
Money to follow this practice, for drunkenness, as you have