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Monday, October 18, 2010
Increase Mather on Drink
The Puritan Increase Mather, said in one of his sermons: "Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan; the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil."
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