Healthes: sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking, and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians / By William Prynne.

  • William Prynne
Date:
1628
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Credit: Healthes: sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking, and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and utterly unlawfull unto Christians / By William Prynne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fo enforcements, And commands: Wherefore this ob- /edionisbutfaife. Laftly, if- you intend to force none * Alius &*• for to pledge you,, why then doe you beginne thefe- te”)Pr0PiMdt> Healthes ? why doe you not wholy exterminate, and ba- aJiUu ^fZTunS nilh them from your Tables, *ftnce they carry a kjnde of nath,p. force, command, or threatning with them ? If then you will /*/•• xifthdu- force none to dritike an Health againft their wills, then r*>et »***»•»*, banifh and difclaime thefe Healthes, to which long cu- Jrf Home, and the common vfage, haue added akindeof pZdtfexempte compulforienecellity, or binding law to pledge them, Juoctgtt: nee elpecially if they are the Healthes of Kings and Great populo alien* ones : elfe you cannot but be guilty in the fight of God, fftuere '»****• of forcing , and limiting men to drinke againft their tulm°merges. wills. Puteani Co- Thefe former pretences, of thofe who begin thefe mus, p.556. Healthes to others, being thus cleared : I come now to Exfufesfor anfwer thofe pretences, extenuations, or excufes, which Pje4pn§ °* men alledge for pledging Healthes; which are far more fvvered” tollerable , then thole for Drinking, or beginning a inter enufos Healthes: becaufe there are fome colourable pretences, ™*lorum no- or ingagements to pledge an Health, thatis once begun, drorum eft, though there be no colour, nor ground at ail, to begin an ZdexeZpu*! Health. nec rdttone The firft excufe, or pretence for pledging Healthes,is comPonimur9: this : That it is an ordinary, and common (a) cuftome, fedconfnettt- for to pledge an Health : and there are few who doe re- ^Zr^oZodffi fufe it: therefore, fince moft men, (nay, great, and lear- p4uctft^lrent, ned Ciergie-men) drinke, and pledge thefe Healthes,we noUemm tmi-3 may lawfully, and fafely doe it, as well as they. t*r» 1 cum plu- To this I anfwere; firft, that Chriftians m ift line by ree5/ff'ere ce'r Precepts, not by Examples: they muft not fo much re- ZZTZSfst gard what others doe, as what themfelues are enjoyned for to doe : the (Id) Word of God muft bee their Rule , And ttus,fe<]»imurp Square, not the Liues, and Adions of other men ; who rent *pua (c) walks for the moft part, contrary to Gods words in all things: *°Jf Zbi publtcns fdHus Scncca.EpiT1 *3. * Pfal.ii9.9-Gal.6 1<S. loh-j.3 9- 1 Pet.l.lp, c Phil.2.*05.19.1 Iohn 5,19. Pfal. 14,1,2,3. Rotj.$.9,i j, 11.