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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$5 Z Healtbes . Sicknejje. and they (dy that others who can fland vp Honefily, and So¬ berly, are no men: They lye prodr ate, \ and yet are men; others ftandvpright, and yet they are no men : The Conquerour of Drun^nnejfe is difpraifed, and he that is Conquered ofDrun* kennejfc, is applauded: The Sober man, who can gonerne him- felfi and others, is derided: and the Drunkard, who can nei¬ ther know himfelf, nor others: is not derided, yea not bewai- * Markcthis led. * 'But now Drunkards doe alledge this excufefor them- Obicftion,3c flues. That a great Alan did compell them to drinke more the reply vnto ^gn they woula, andinthe Fcafl of the King]couldnot doe otherwife. This is nothing elfe but a me ere pretence to excufe our fanes: and that which we will not, we fay we cannot fulfil; our will is the fault, though our inability be pretended: 'But admit that thou were fo put vnto it, that there it fhould befaid vnto thee; either drinke, or dye: It is better that thy Sober fle/h fhould befaine, then that thy Soule fiould dyeofDrunken- nejfe. How eucr the obieEHsn is falfe; fr Cjodly, Sober, and Religious Kings and ‘Potentates, though they map chance to be angry with thee fr an houre, or two, becaufe thou refufejl to drinke out of a loue to God: yet they will afterwards admire thee, and rejpebl thee fo much the more for this thy re fifing, by how much the more came fly they did defre, perfwade, and preffe thee fir to pledge them, tsdnd now, what a thing is this, that after the Feafi concluded, when as men haue quenched their thirfi: when as they cannot, neither ought they to drinke more, that then they fhould begin to drinke afiefh (as if they Were but newly come) vndcr diners names, not onely of lining Aden, but likewife of Angels,and other ancient Saints : thinly ing that they doe them the great efi honour, if they doe euen bu- rie themfelues with too much D runkenneffe', in the commemo¬ ration of their names, and healthes u not knowptgthat none are fo, injurious t(bholy<tAngels, or holy Aden:, as thofe who flay their Soules through too much Drunkennejfe , in drinking of their Healthes. Remember therefore, that he who drinkgs too 7>}Uch to his fiend, * is made an Enemie to his Soule : that he* doth debilitate his body, andmurther his. Soule. And thu s h ■' proceedcs againft Drunkennefle , andHeklth-drinktncr, k,r.’ ' as$