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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    b jipoft.CartO' net Can.J3 . Deereta Euti chtant Papx which may precipitate and port them on to hell• as if they were celebrating the ancient Bacchanalia, or the deuils birth-day, and not the birth of Chrift ; who came to redeeme and free vs from thefe infernal!, heathenilh, prodigious, prophane, Can. 10.Cone, and godlefte pra<ftifes, which Tnrkes and Vagans Lcln'lTcar- w°uld abhorre, and not to fet hell loofe 5 or to thagtnenfc 3. giue men liberty and exemption to ftnne without Can.27,a- controle or meafure, vnder pretence of giuing Cahonour to his birth-day: Certainely Chrift will tinop.a.can.9. not be fed nor honoured with the Deuils broth 5 CanzT^if/- t^ie Deuils Sacrifices and Brinks offerings : lon.z cs. 4-4- with fuch odious, (hamefull, vile, and loathfome RhemenfeSzs things, as Drunkenneffe, vomite, Healthes, or ryot arc: Let Chriftians therefore quite renounce and An. 8x6.can. leaue them vnto Bacchus, and his heathenifh, and ‘m^oc'crT ^n^erna^ Crue: Let Magiftrates fupprefleand Z7Za»uiu- curbe them, by executing all chofe lavves that are tifronu. 1524 in force againft them, euen with care and confci- coPon 1 s%mC‘ cocc: Let Miniftcrs who are (b) enioyned by fun- part.2.cap.a5. dry Councels, (*) and by the Cannons of our Churchy part.jr^c.6 .au- not fo wueh as to enter into any Inne or victualling fap.To?!?]mI- houfc (much lefte into a Tauerne, Alehoufe, or gunttn. Ij49- Tobacco-fhop, where too too many of them See Gratis place their chiefeft refidcncc) vnleffc itrvereincafe Di^tnct. 44. of necefsity when they trauelj ) {c) Lift vj> their voyce BocheiitusDe- anci Cry al6ttd againfl them• not onely by their Sfb.V.Tit. do&rine bur by their pra&ife too : 'Let all who beare a louing heart to GOD, to Chrift, to Church, to Country, or themfelues, come forth to helpc the Lord, and this our Zion, againft thd'e mighty, general!, prteualcnc, and pernicious ene¬ mies. 19. *.Canon 7 5. Queene TLltj^. lntunttuns Iniunft.7. c Ifay 58.1.