Intemperance the Idolatry of Britain: Addressed Particularlyto the Christian Church |
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abstain Alcohol amount appears ardent spirits become believe body brandy Britain British called cause character Christian church common considered consistent continue customs death destroy destructive devoted disease distilled Drunk drunkards drunkenness duty effects efforts employed entirely evil exist fact feel fermented friends give given habit happiness heathen honour human hundred idolatry ignorance individual influence injurious intemperance intoxicating drinks intoxicating liquors kind less lives London means million mind ministers misery moderate moral nature nearly never object observed occasion persons poison Port practice present principle produce Professor proved pure quantity reason received regard religion render says soul strong drink taken Temp Temperance Societies thing thousands tion Total Abstinence town traffic true truth whole wine writer
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Page 30 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 84 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations...
Page 41 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 157 - THERE is in this city a certain fraternity of chemical operators, who work underground in holes, caverns, and dark retirements, to conceal their mysteries from the eyes and observation of mankind. These subterraneous philosophers are daily employed in the transmutation of liquors, and, by the power of magical drugs and incantations, raising under the streets of London the choicest products of the hills and valleys of France. They can squeeze Bordeaux out of the sloe, and draw Champagne from an apple.
Page 1 - counted he his life dear unto himself, so that he might finish his course with joy, and the ministry, which he had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 170 - Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Page 119 - Let us not therefore judge one another any more : but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Page 198 - Neither may we gain by hurting our neighbour in his body. Therefore we may not sell anything which tends to impair health. Such is, eminently, all that liquid fire, commonly called drams, or spirituous liquors.
Page 29 - A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Page 41 - WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Intemperance the Idolatry of Britain: Addressed Particularlyto the Christian Church |
| Author | William Richard Baker |
| Publisher | J. Pasco, 1839 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 214 pages |
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