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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    1 Healthes • SickneJJe, mifpence and Ioffe of time : as Bafill, aimbrofe^Au- g x 12 -1 gufline, PUnit, loannes Frtdencm, and others wit- Pfa.24.3.Pro. neffe, in the fore-quoted places. 23*5-Ifa.j^.z Therefore this drinking and carrouzin? of Healthes muft needes be Entll, and Vnlawfull, * Thcffi 6 **' Tenthly. , iCor. 10,31 That which was neuerpra&ifedamong godly Chri- 32,33. ftians in former ages: . that which femes to (g) no k In ?•”***** good, no commendable, nor neceffary 1>fi at all: that no^r^ J^,tur_ which doth(h)much hurt and mifchief,but (#)brings Vcs’capntnt'll- in no glory at all to Cjod, nor good to mem, muff needes bitur quantum be Sinfull, and Vnlawfull: efpecially when as it is P^/cis e(l yti- not enjoyned, countenanced, nor commanded by ^•Tert‘AP°I- any publique authority. * 7 ^ThSIrfdc But this drinking of Healthes, was (4) neuer prattifed Euang'veriJ among godly Chrijltans in former ages: (yea, it was cognit, lib g. fo farre from this,that it was condemned by them, C'amefiati°”e* as I fhall prooue anon :) Nay, it was neuer vfed in thr.tet*te5> & our owne Nation, for ought that we can heareor ZfanU^tlr- reade of, till of latter times: it femes to no good, pitudo* cam no commendable,nor neceffary vfeat all,that I can ”Bfir0 exafia thinke of: it 1 s an apparant occafion of much hurt efflo^d of much exceffe and' drunkenneffe, but it doth no Gent.TomT* good at all to any: It brings no glory at all to God, p 877. Co»u,'~ nor good to men in any kinde : yea, it doth difho- uia nour God, and prejudice both the bodies &foules PudicA co/imus of many, as experience teftifieth; and it is neither enjoyned, countenanced, nor commanded by any duhemus e™- pub like Authority. /* aut ceu'h Therefore thii drinking of Healthes, mufl needes bejinfull u,um >nero du- and vnlawfull, cimta^edgra- Eleuenthly. vttatehtjart- That which doth ordinarily tend to the honour,praife, mw,dftofer- applauiej and commemoration of wicked, vaine, mt>ne,corpore deboift, and finfull men, vvhofe very (l) memories andnames fbould rott andperifb,md (m) rthofeperfons ^]IX‘ oaa-P- tCw-zl'zf'1*'7'* ^c•7■8•P^•IO!, 13- ” Efl«3 .*•» 7.Pfi.iS-4-MX!)I.S>4»7J*. C 5 fbould