but he would have an opportunity to hurt him, and when he had it, he
would make him feel the weight of his envy. This envy is the very
father and mother of a great many hid eous and prodigious
wickednesses. It both begets them, and also nourishes them up till
they come to their cursed maturity in the bosom of him that
entertains them.

DRUNKENNESS.

Drunkenness is so beastly a sin, a sin so much against nature, that
I wonder that any who have but the appearance of men can give up
themselves to so beastly, yea, worse than beastly a thing.

Many that have begun the world with plenty, have gone out of it in
rags, through drunkenness. Yea, many children that have been born to
good estates, have yet been brought to a flail and a rake through
this beastly sin of their parents.

Yea, it so stupefies and besots the soul, that a man who is far gone
in drunkenness is hardly ever recovered to God. Tell me, when did
you see an old drunkard converted? No, no; such a one will sleep
till he dies, though he sleep on the top of a mast; so that if a man
have any respect either to credit, health, life, or salvation, he
will not be a drunken man.

"And Noah was uncovered." Behold ye now, that a little of the fruit
of the vine lays gravity, grey hairs, and a man that for hundreds of
years was a lover of faith, holiness, goodness, sobriety, and all
righteousness, shamelessly as the object to the eye of the wicked.