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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    1'wade, or force another, to any vnreafonable, hurtfull, kNeytatjutm or vnlawfullthing : but itis(kf)no difeourteous, norvru nos facer e tm kinde fart, to giue the den tall, or refifiH in this cafe: for elle KlaluJUe- a man might be forced, and dravvne to the very fouieft bet : quid que- 'finnes, andgreateft inconuenitnces (as many oft times Ubethominum arc) to auoide difcourtefies. Now Healthesas I haue mdgisfihtpra- prooned, are vnreafonable, hurtfuil, finfull, and vnlaw- yVjbhw! ^things, which oft times gee againft mens Natures, tjuam alters Judgements, Heaits, and Coniciences, which doe ie- ytfit mafu: cretly abhorre, and vtteriy condemne them. Where- pin* td la fore it is (l) no vnew ill, vnmannerly, difeourteous, nor ytluceaJns iniurious Parc> for t0 withftand them, in a difereete, and Deo per ho>se modeft manner : as Califlhenes the Phhoiopher did: flatem quam (m) Who being demanded of Alexander the great, why hee ksmtntbM per would not fledge him : returned him this an ft ere; J doe not 'sTfal f,rer Alexmdcr ’ «ihpiiis tj mj Dci.lib,7 pao. fishing : or as a young (hrtfttan Studiem did• * who be- 236. ‘ 0 hng intreated by a certainc Prince to drinke more liberally, l See Vltstarc. then he ought to doe ; gaue him this anfwcre : I crane far don de San.tuenda. 'm this mof gracious Prince: I differ but little from a beafl af m^be**** ready,and willy our grace inforce me to become a beafr indeed. ? DtpncfX. ro.c. To giue fuch a modeft, cleanely, and difcreetedeniallas n. Plutas cb. this; or toanfwere fo, asagraue, and worthy States- 4e Ira Men- man of our Kingdome did : (n) That hee would fray for the pit*tltd?de f h&s Health>but drm]^for hii ™ne • is no vnciuill, bar- Sanitatetssen- [)arous> vnmannerly, nor difcourteous part: yea, it is a da Isb. beaftly, and vnnatur.all part, not to doe it: Since (0) Her- * ioan.Frid.de fes. Oxen, and TSrutifb creatures haue (0 much rcafin and good Sani ?'b :4 mannerj *n ^cm> ast0 re fife to drinke more then they neede. iTc r°- St'CondIy, admit, that Carnail, Ignorant, and Gracelefle n The Lord mcn (not gracious and holy Chriftians wjio are certainly Bacons Apo- ofanother mindej flioukfdceme it an ynciujU, rude, dif- 'o'c^ra court'-ous, or iniurious part, to withfbnd an Health, as Htm?fye°n7 cotnmon,.V they doe : yet is it not better for thee, to bee ad Pop. .Anti- vnmannerly, (f) difcourteous, cr iniurious towards men, •ch.Aug*(l.ae (efpecially fuel) men as thefej then vnto God himfelfe ? Temjt.Scr, 2.31 p Psetatis genus eftmptum ejfe pro Dcm/no.Hia. Tom. 1 .Fpjfb 3 3. Certainely,