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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    WJF * - •r *5> ; poftea e \icis yt cada¬ ver, tntmd e- im extin ft a. Bafil.de Ebri- etatc Serin, king : Onely thefe Combates are without excufe. In Warre, if any man finde bimfclfe to wealge, bee may lay downe hii esTrmes, and receive a pardon: here if any man fett downe the cup, he ii vrged to drink,e. In wrefiling, if any man foyle thee, thou lofefi the vitlory, but yet thou art free from wrong ; in Feafies, if any man re fife to take the cup into hii hand, it ii forthwith powred into his mouth by free. Thus they con¬ tinue till all of them are drunken, as well the Conquerers, as the Conquered, JVhat a for row fill, and mifcrable jpcElacle is this to Chrifiians ? Neither are they excufed, who thus inuite k Vo u i i co? men M friends, and fend them away as Enemies, (If) or cafi nam yt ami- them out as carcafcs : why doe expences, and cofles delight thee without thankes ? Thou inuitefi men to Alirth, and yet thou forcefi them to death: thou callefi them to Tinner, and then thou wilt carry them out as to the Graue: Thou promt- Jeff Meate; but thou infiillefl Torments : thou offerefi JVine, but thou powrefi in Poyfion, &c. This Father proceedes, but I wil flop,and referre you to himifince I haue recor¬ ded fuificient out of him, not onely truely to difeypher, but likewife pofitiuely to condemne, the Drunkenneffe, Cuftome, Pra&ife, and Heaithing of our age. Saint Hierome, fpeaking of the efteTs of Diunkenneffe in his / Lib i. Com- dayes, hath this paflage. (1) Thou maifi (faith he) behold ment:in Tit. i fome turning Cups into Darts, and dajhing them in the faces To.6 p.zoo.A of their companions: others with tome C/arments, A faulting, m. and Wounding thofc they meet: others Crying,others Sleeping: tus occafio e(r, „ r > -r w Ja ■ j j ./ y r a r . sdinratumper Flee who drmkes off mo ft, ts deemed the valtmt eft man: and Regem fregue- (m) it is an occafion of a iufi accufition, to re fife to pledge the titunon btbijfe Kings Health often: which courfe and praftife he vtter- Serm 2*7*2 1 tydifauowes,as finfull and abofriinable. Saint Augufiine, DeSabrsetotr is very large and copious in this Theamc. (n) Deare Cfi Vtrg.Strm. brethren (faith he) albeit I beleeue that you feare Tbrunken- ifi Je Reftitud neffe, as much as Hell it felfi, yet I exhort you neither to Cashel Con- drinke more your felues, neither to compell others to drinke uerjatitnU) i , moye tjoen t^ey por rnany oft times doe drinke by mea- fire, without me afirethey prouide great cups, and drinke by a certaine Law, and Rule : heethat ouercomes deferues the ■ \j*v\ praife