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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    fui Luther, I knewfull well before, that Iflebius eould drinks the Decalogue, hut not the Creed, the Lords Trayer, and the Catechifme: Which fpeech of his wasreceiued, andap- prooued ofall as an Oracle. From this forged Storie, the Papiits take occafion, not onely to Hander and vilifie Luther and his followers, but likewife to vpbraid the very Dottrine and Religion of the Protefiants; as being Rate fed, Ejvablijhed, and Confirmedby this Trophane, if not 'Blafbhe- mous Health of Luther , and by the Healthes ®/Ecmonda- mus, and Aurafius. Wherefore, let allProteftantsab- luit, and renounce thefe Healthes for euer; not onely becauiethefe leuerall Fathers, (whole Heps wee ought to follow., as well in Life and Manners, as in Faith and Doctrine; haue with one confent condemned them s but ikewife that they may .wipe off this falfe, andfcanda- lous reproach, which the Papifts haue railed vpon Ltt- c u ,, s followers, as the inuenters, and eftablilhers °«, ' T, 11 as in trueth themfelues are molt of all addicted, and deuoted to them, and may be truly ftiled the Authois or the Fathers of them, what euer they pre¬ tend. WitntlTe Pope Iohnthe thirteenth, that monfier of Men, as TlatinaiBeshim : (x) who did drinke an Health, to the very Deuillhtmfelfo ; whole Vicar queftionlelfe he was. Witnefle tbc(y)Topifb Councell of Later,an vnder Innocent the Can. 15. and the Comcell of Colen, zsfnno, 1 Parfz- Cap. 24. &7>art. 5. Cap. 6. Which re firaine not onely the Popijh Laitie, but likewife their Parijh Priefis, and Clergie,from drinking of Healthes,which did then abound > % they) hi aiuersparts ; and that before Luthers dayes • though they would felfly flitch them on his fleeue, by tins their falfe, and fleeueielTe flory: Yea, witnelfe Iohn Fredericks himfelfe , the Regiller of this forged Fable : Who tt Hines, (A) That not onely Lay Papifs,but euen their vnho y holy Friers, (JMonkes, and Clergie men, (fuch tem¬ perate and abftemio’is Creatures are they) doe oft times artt.ke and quaff off Healthes vnto the Honour, and Remem¬ brance of their God-defied Saints, and Angels: whichpraEUfe Ei he 35 * toan.frti. ] tie Ritu Sib. ad San A. r.c.$, & 7.p-$ t. x Luitprandl- us, l 6.C.6,?. Baroniu* Ant 963.Numb.i7* 23. Mr.lohn Whites way to the true Church. Di- grcf. 57. Se£f, 9* y Surtut Con• cil.Tom.y.pag, 74 2 <£T Tom. 4-761, 771* z De modo Bib adSan.l.% c.7.