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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$p Quid hir- fivere for themfelues,whcn Chrift fTiall enter into Iudge- ribiltut mortei ment with them ; but they Hull euen (p) be Amazed,and jut A iudicio vttcrly confounded in the very Anguifh, Horror, and Bit- * Quid metier ft tcrncflc of their Soules, at the very though:s,of all their juUadifUnin Healthes, a lid Drunkuimfle, (q)and fnhedownc into the trepiidt, non very deepefl depthes of H ell, in tndlcfle torments. if euer expduefctt,non then you hope for Grace, and Eauour at the hands of ttmore cocutt- God. ifeuer you CXped to lift vp your Heads, or Hearts, PomordTis & with Ioy and Comfort, in that great and dreadfull day : NouilTimis.fcr (r ) Wherein the Lord lefts Chrifi himfelfi, [hall be rcuealed Col..377.A.R. fom Heauen, with thoufdnds, and ten thoufdnds of his Saints, j 1 Cor.6.10. and all his mighty zsAngels ; it the very flnejfe of hts power, Rcu 2 a r an<^ t^>e excec^og Irightnefe of his (fieri : in finning fre, r Dan.7.9.10 taking vengeance vpon all that know not God: vpon all Difo~ Matth.21.31. bedient, Riotous, Ebrious,Prcphar.e, and SinfJlperfons rrhat- 1 Thcf.4-i<<. foeuer; and pumfhing them with Eucrlifiing perdition, fom 17.2 Thcf.x 7 tp( prefetJce 0f [Jrjg ford, and fom the glory of his Tower : /phil 4.Tj4 15 which day will furely come (s) ere l ng, beeaufe it is neere lam 5*. 8.9.2. hand: O then without any more delay cs, whiles the Pct.3.9.Reu.3. Halcyon dayes of Grace,and Mercy fliine fo bright vpon u.cap.2i.2o y0n: whiles the Earning bowells, the Bleeding wounds, ) re£marreie and Compafllonate armes of Jel'us Chrift, lye open to Id Deulp&n't- receiue you : (t) whiles you hour Health, and Ltfi, and re ado d*m po- Meanes, and Time fr to Repent, and make your peace with teff, nefidum God in Chrift: as you tender the Eucrlafting happinefle, potefl noluetit, ancJ vvclfarc of your loft and drowned Soules : as you ex- Tu7ntlontnin'o Pec^> or ^0nS f°r Grace, or Mercy ;for Ioy, and Com- ve npopr. Ifi> fort; for Heauen, and Sal nation ;ror endlcfle Blifle, and dar Hifp. De Glory at the laft: as you would efcape the direfull wrath Sum.bono.1.2. of God; the bitter fentence, and dooms of Chrift; the C']r JlMertt fleuer-dying fting, and wormeof Conicience; thetor- fdettenitider* renting, and Soule-fcorching flames of Hell; and Euer- Hcfi. Opera & lafting ieperation from Gods blisfull prefence : abiure, Dics.l.2.p. 28. and vttcrly renounce all Sin, allHealtb.es, andDrunkcn- u Kom.i 9. neffe whatfoeuer; wliich-hauc no good, no profit, plea- untHrl^ti* fure, nor contentment, but {v) Horror, and Damnation met: Trim a & maxima peccant mm ef ps,na,pcccaffe%Scderis in feeler efppUcium efl. Seneca Epift.97. •' oncly$