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to be minded, thought upon, and practised by the church of Christ.

And so as every one hath received Christ Jesus, who is the Truth, walk in Him the Truth, and speak the truth as it is in Jesus: "For you are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies and in your spirits, which are his."

And the Lord in mercy grant, that all his people (who profess his Name) may do so to his praise, to his glory, and to his honour over all for ever. Amen.

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First, all you vintners that sell wine, that keep taverns or such like houses; and all you inn-keepers, and you that keep victuallinghouses, ale-houses, strong water shops, &c. see that you never let any man or woman

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have any more wine, ale, strong drink, brandy or strong waters, or other strong liquors, than is for their health and their good; in that they may praise God for his good creatures. For every creature of God is good, and ought to be received with thanksgiving.

But if you do give or let men or women have so much wine, brandy, strong liquors, strong beer or ale, as to make them drunk:

1. You destroy the good creatures of God.

2. You destroy them that have not power over their lusts.

3. You are a great cause of ruining them in their healths, purses, and estates, (their children and families,) in feeding them in their lusts, by letting them have more than doth them good; which also tends to bring God's judgments upon you, to your own ruin and destruction.

For when they are overcome by strong liquors, then are they fit and do lie open to all manner of wickedness.

And though you think, by selling or letting people have wine or strong liquors, more than doth them good, or is for their health, that the more they drink, the more gain it brings you; and the more you vend your goods, the more profit you get;—ah poor sellers! do not you think, that God with his all-seeing eye doth behold you and your actions? And cannot the Lord soon bring a blasting upon all your undertakings, and such ungodly gain and profits, and whatsoever you have gained by your covetousness from the lusts of others. Will not this bring destruction upon you and your unrighteous gain, which you have gotten by feeding their lusts.

For, are not you sensible, how many, after they have spent their estates or part of them, will run into your debts for wine or strong liquors, yea, such as you let have more than did or doth them good? And is not this the cause that many break, by trusting, and other ways as before mentioned? Trust should be with that which is trusty, which doth not waste or destroy; and such God will bless. And therefore take heed of letting any man or woman have any more wine or

strong liquors, than what is for their nourishment, health, and good.

See what a dreadful woe the Lord pronounced against "them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them: then they call for the harp and the viol, the tabret and the pipe," &c. "But such regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands." A sad state!

Secondly. Let all who go under the name of Christian families, train up their children in the fear of God, and keep themselves in the fear of God, that they may keep all their servants and families in the fear of God; out of all looseness and wantonness, and vanities, and excess, and from all unrighteousness and ungodliness; that they may keep out of all those things that displease or dishonour the Lord God.. And do not nourish up the lust of the eye, nor the pride of life, nor the lust of the flesh; for if you do, you nourish upthat which is not of God the Father. And therefore shun all these evils, and depart from them, and keep in the fear of God. This

is the way to bring the blessing of God upon a land, kingdom, nation, or family.

"God will destroy them which destroy the earth." Rev. xi. 18.

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Consider how the blessing of the Lord came upon the obedient and faithful to the Lord, and rested upon them. The Lord said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house," &c. "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee," &c. "And thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee and thy seed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed." Abraham obeyed the Lord, and went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, and so he left all the religions, and worships, and teachers of the country of the Chaldees behind him, and

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