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John Trapp on Isaiah 5:14

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Isaiah5:14

Ver. 14. Therefore hell hath inlarged herſelf, &c.] To ſwallow up thoſe inſatiable Helluones and Lurcones. Drunkards and Epicures: Theſe Swilbowles and Senſualiſts, Cerberi inſtar, tria guttura pundebant; Diotimus of Athens was ſurnamed Tunbowl, and yong Cicero Tricongius, becauſe he could take off three pottles of wine at a draught: Therefore Death and Hell

Have opened their mouth without meaſure] hiante rictu ampliſſimo helluones iſtos abſorbere, to devour ſuch peſts and botches of mankind. Oh that the carouſers were perſwaded, as Mahomet told his followers, that in every grape there dwelt a devil! and Oh that they would foreſee and prevent a worſe puniſhment in hell then befell that poor Turk, who being found drunk, had a ladleful of boyling lead poured down his throat, by the command of a certain Baſhaw!

And their glory] their great ones, thoſe men of honour, ver. 13.

And their multitude] The meaner ſort: Nos numeri ſumus.

And their pomp] Or their noiſe, or tumult: their revel-rout, as they call it, when they have drunk all the Out's, and are now a ſinging and hallowing.

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