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 be invented, whatever be its strength, or its insidious and destructive properties, provided it has the power of making a man drunk. Because alcohol is a constituent part of wine, therefore it is safe and proper to drink alcohol diluted with water (which is distilled spirits) though water cannot change its properties; just upon the same principle as a man who has taken as a febrifuge, Fowler's drops—a solution of arsenic and potash—could not in conscience refuse to eat arsenic, a good creature of God, and a constituent of an excellent medicine.

4th. Provided it be ascertained that any newly invented substance possesses the power of causing drunkenness, then it would be preposterous and unscriptural, and assuming greater strictness than Christianity warrants, to institute an enquiry whether or not it is either poisonous or unwholesome; for Christ who drank wine, and the prophets who spoke of strong drink have already warranted its use, and let no man, on pain of being nick-named an "abstinence man," dare to propose an enquiry into its properties and effects.

5th. Christ, by using wine, gave a sanction to the use of distilled spirits at markets and fairs, and wakes and funerals, and all treatings; he put himself on the same circumstance with the moderates of the present day, who, by treating with an insidious and violently intoxicating, not to say poisonous production of art, and by giving their sanction to a vast catalogue of fic-