"And, Oh! that the Drinking Houses in the Town, might once come under a laudable _Regulation_. The Town has an _Enormous Number_ of them! Will the _Haunters_ of those _Houses_ hear the Counsels of Heaven? For _you_ that are the _Town Dwellers_, to be oft, or long, in your _Visits_ of the _Ordinary_, 'twill certainly Expose you to Mischiefs more than ordinary. I have seen certain _Taverns_ where the Pictures of horrible Devourers[9] were hang'd out for the signs; and thought I, 'twere well if such _Signs_ were not sometimes too _Significant_! Alas, men have their estates _Devoured_, their names _Devoured_, their Hours _Devoured_, and their very soul _Devoured_, when they are so besotted, that they are not in their _Element_, except they be in Tippling at Such Houses. When once a man is Bewitched with the Ordinary, what usually becomes of him? He is a _gone man_. And when he comes to Dy, he'l cry out, as many have done, _Ale Houses are Hell Houses! Ale Houses are Hell Houses! Ale Houses are Hell Houses!_" ... "There was an _Inn_ at _Bethlehem_, where the Lord Jesus Christ was to be met withal. Can _Boston_ boast of many such? Alas, Too ordinarily it may be said, _There is no Room for Him in the Inn!_ My Friends, Let me beg it of you: Banish _the unfruitful works of Darkness_, from your _Houses_, and then the _Sun of Righteousness_ will shine upon them. Don't countenance _Drunkenness_, _Revelling_ and _Mispending_ of precious Time in your Houses. Let none have the _snares of Death_ Laid for them in your _Houses_." The preacher goes on in two or three _further divisions_ with his declamation against evil and sins, and his conjurations for better things, in faith, hopes and works, intimating all the evils that exist in Boston, and warning the people of the danger of them. The second sermon is a piece of similar declamation, about what the preacher calls Household Religion, "at Boston Lecture, 26d. 7m. 1695." A short extract will give a sample of this discourse. "First, I suppose, we are all sensible, That for us to Loose our Houses by any Disaster whatsoever, would be a very terrible Calamity: Oh! it would be a _Judgment_ of God, wherein the _Anger_ of God, would be seen written with _fiery_ characters. If by an accident, or by an enemy, our House be laid in desolation, every Roar of the Raging Flames, every crack of the Tumbling Timbers, every Downfall of the Undermined walls, and every jingle of the Bells then tolling the Funeral of those Houses, would loudly utter the voice in Deut., _A Fire is Kindled in the Anger of God_."