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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    {d) part with our lines, then commit the leaft offence, or d Luke 14.2 6 iinne againft the Lord, for to preferue them : elfe wee are Matth.i6. 25. none of' Chrifls Di ciples : Wherefore, wee cannot plead neceflitie, or compuifion, in excule of any finne, becaufe c n*IL efi »e- (e) Chrtfltans haue but this one neceffute put vpon them; not to finne. j • • Lalfly, admit, that thou art perfwaded to Drinke, and Pledge thele Healthes,by thofe to whom thou haft moft quendt.TcrtuI, m engagements; and that thou doeft it onely for to pleafure de Corona Mi- d5 lilcUiy vHJt • jr VL LiilO lo 11W for thee in the fight of God ; becaufe (f) Chriftians mufl / c^/ not bee men pleafers: they mufl not line to the lufls, and wills of men, but to the will of God: and canfl thou then Drinke, ^ or Pledge an Health to pleafure men without offence to Cjod, or breach of thefe commands ? undoubtedly thou canfl not doe it. (g) Eue was perfwaded by the Serpent, to eate of the for- g Gcn.3.12. bidden finite, and Adam by Eue; yet that wouldnot iuflifie t017‘ them in the Court of Heauen. (h) Solomon was drawne a- ^ } K;n0 ri way after flrange Cfods, by the allurements, andperfwafions of ■ Mat]l f6f2 his Idolatropts, and Out-landifh fViues :yet this would not as.Gtn. 3.6. excufe him to the Lord. Perfwafions, and intreaties of 14. Aft. 21,12 our deareft friendes ( who oft times, doe but a<ft the 1f- (i) ^Dentils part in carnall Counfells, andaduice, when as > V d*03 c wee vainely thinke, they act their owne,) will neuer mi- Healthes td tigate, (kj nor (alue our finnes, nor yet the Pledging of pleafure thefe Healthes, when as weefhall come to anfwerefor freindcs, 1 them before the Iudgement Seate of Iefus Chrift, (as we ™ay ^ly . fhall bee fure to doe, erelong:) Wherefore, let neither iJfas^etM, threatnings, nor intreaties, hencefoorth mooue thee, to impietM in Pledge, or ffcond Healthes, becaufe they cannot iuftifie, Deum efi. nor excufe thee in the day of Iudgement. Hierom.Tcm. The laft colourable pretence, or alIegation,wbich men x- produce for pledging Healthes, is this. That it is but a 4 flight, or triuiall matter, to pledge an Health : yea, it is butakindeof precifcneffe, or Puritanicall, and factious humour to refufe it: whence thofe who make Confcf- fured