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Binge drinkingThe long viewREPENT AND BELIEVE! BINGE DRINKING These two booklets are gems from the writings of two of the Purtitan giants. Flavel’s booklet, with a shorter follow-on from Spurgeon, deals with the issue of the peril of binge drinking. Strident arguments are brought forward to indicate the devastating consequences of excessive drinking. Accordingly, the booklet very effectively deals with a significant malaise which effects society today. Brooks interacts with the great gospel gateway of repentance and faith. Accordingly, there is much here to help introduce unbelievers to the way of salvation. Moreover, there is also much to instruct believers about the nature of saving grace. However, I am left wondering who these booklets are really for. The ungodly, whose needs are so patently addressed, would immediately be put off by the unabridged quaintness of the language. Mature believers, who love the Puritans, want to feast upon their more extensive writings and not on these ‘tasters’. Which leads me to conclude that that is where their potential usefulness is found; as tasters. Spiritual young believers might miss the blessing of Puritan literature because nothing has ever led them into studying them. But now these booklets (there are others in the series) are available and can serve as appetisers to whet the appetite for the king’s feast that the Puritans continually serve up. Alas, this being so, they do seem a little heftily priced at £3.25 each. Nevertheless, if anyone is lead into Puritan literature through reading these then it is surely money well spent! Philip Venables,
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