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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    as they would ingage, or force men for to Pledge their Healthes and rounds.) (*) Nofirmer had heevttered theft * Note hence, blafpbemous jpcaches, hut the Lord forthwith proceedes in tbatDrunken- Iudgement again ft him: caufing his armewhich he had ft retch- neffc is no A* edosit, toftand ftedfaft, and vnmooueable, ft that hee could PoIcp’oor *°* ff '* ™ : W; drumming hu Me body, ft that hee ^finnes ° could not mooue n from the place. ]n this agome he remained that are occa- a long ttme after, his Countenance not changed, rollino his eyes h°nfd in vs too and from a ft artftll manner: his breath, and [peach being , taken from him, ft that hee could not breathe, nor freak? a r! word: and yet hejbemed to entry one to be aline. ^[ter this, God turned* t e peop e who flocked thick?, and threefold fir to fee this her into a pil- wr etchedfpettacle of gods wrath, and venoeance, affayedto la* of Salt but remooue him from the place, but they could not filrre him for,lookl?S by any ftrength : In the end they tyed Horfes to him, to )?£'oe»lS draw him thence, but they could not mooue him. Thenthey 26.^17. afiayedto bornethe Houfie wherein he was, but no [re would Sh3*- And once take hold of tt. Wherefire, perfwadinothemfelues, that ™§ht not ^ 9°d had made htm a fpellacle to all Drunkards, they Cur- £“ Zt ceafed the>r enterprifes, wifting the will of the Lerdlbee is bla7phe- A e' ft1' tn tnijerable and dolefull manner, (faith mv mcms Drun- AuthorJ ftandeth this Drunken, and Blafphcmom Villaine hard into a fix- vnremooueable, to this very day: as a Tragic all, DreadfiJl, wrath, Ld vengeance a, fitoolfiT gatnft Drunkards and Health-quafers. ( The very fight, wrath and nay, the very relation, or thought of which , lhould vt'ng«nce a- ftri e the Hearts, and Soules, of all who are deuoted vn- h<;a^s to Healthes, or Drunkennefle, with terrour, and amaze- ^ to aU ' r A U °ther^rT^ * heaA h“ Companion, who had futu?e ag« 5 efcaped the immediate hand of god, was by the tuft, and auen- Since Mirrors gtng hand of the people. Hanged vp on a Gibbet, before the °f,?ods klftice rioore ofthefime Houfe,fir an example,and terror vnto others' , rc.mf'ne^ 7 Cmf2h“’ 0 f J rimM Ormktrds, 'SthT' quaffers,who fir get God, lefi he teare you in pieces, and there Gofpell ceafe? Bxpedit.Cjri. Pfl, [[*“'” l‘i‘r‘ Zcnophon.Dc . be