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

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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$them, or to bring an hard, and ill report vpon them : is , becaufc(o)thejfreuuticAte, fireftall, and doome them to bee laretanluam eutll, before they examine, trj, or frooue them tobeefuch. If nocentcs]quot men would (p)firfi examine, fearch, and know, and then [aunt, pajfe fentence: if they would not fudge vpon (r) reports, andheare-fijes; vpon bare come llurcs, iealoufies, or furmifes \ TpUinnZltia or vpon the common , and received vojee, and fame ofigne- nolunt: quaft rant, malignant, rafh, or prepoftefied Carnal lifts; (who yero ma'**r <- reuile, and hate all fuch, whofe Graces blemifh, cenfure ft and condemns: their graceleffe, fenfuall, and vnehriftian ZZZ’di liues and courfes:) but vpon their owne experience,and nsffeauAmin- mdiciall knowledge, as all impartiall, wile, and vpright auditam. La- Chriftians ought to iudge: If they (r) would heare indtfe- ftan> dc rentIj on both Jides, and weigh the Apologies, Plees and L5,c*x,s'r. Iuilifications of Gracious, Temperate, Snd Holy men : ZZiZZ°‘ as weft astheacculations, cenfures, and reproaches, of peRoraytante VVorldly, Carnall, Godlefle perfons; as Charity, and nes incipiant (t) Iuflice btnde them for to doe: I doubt not but they hominesod*JTe> would then recant, and quite repeale their cenfures, yea T.ZmlT alter, and transforme their iudgements, not cnely of the ft, Saints themlelues; (whom now they (t) doome for Puri- aut damnare Hypocrites ; or humorous,proud, cenforious, bale, non and odious perfons:) but likewife of thefe Healthes,and L all thofe other fore-mentioned vanities, fafhions, finnes, cfp,Tiao^ and ceremonies, of the World: which God himfelfe, lommvanit. and all his Saints j together with Fathers, Councels,Mo- ^raft. Nolunt ... _ auaire quod auditum damnare non poffunt. Malunt nefetre quia iam oderunt: quod nefeiunt pra- indicant ideJJe,quodft fetant, damnare nonpoterant. Tertul. A pol.adueif. Genre I p St tudicas cognofce. Seneca Medea. A6:2. Nonpotes dement,am dicere quireulnce’ ru tgnorare. Tertul. Apofadu.Gent.c, 1. q £u, aunt os tantum tefies acc’ptt, yane non fane acctpt. Philo.Iudaeus de Iudice lib.Plus yalet ocularis teftu ynus qu,am au- nti decern. Qut audtunt, audita dicunt: qut yt dent, planey?/*»r.Plaut.Truculemus • p.705. Apulcius Floridorumjlib.l. lufttus eft occulta de mantfeftis pratudteare^uam manifefla de occulttspradamnare. Tertul Apol c.2. r igui fiatuttalisuidparte in- audita altera, Itcet re Be ftatuertt haudaquuc eft iudex. Seneca Medea. Aft. 2. * lohn 7. jo. Afts25.i8, t Nos quiafericayefte non ytimur, mo- naebi yocamur : quia ebrii non fumw, nec chachmno era dtjfolutmus continents vo- camur trifles: ft tunica non canduerit, flatim illude triuto, impoflor, f4 Gracuo *ft> Hicrom.To03.i,Epift,22, • w H. derne$