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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    mans belly, nay, the whole capacity of his belly, bow cl Is, and reines, are made the rule of drinking,&c. To one (n) lohn n Fredericks 2l Papift, Prof four of rAftorie in Colin • who B hath written two learned Bookes again]} Health-drinking : to L Olaus Magnus, Hifl. L13. c. 3 7.39. 40 .to V incentive Obfo- pans de zArtc Bibendi. lib. 2. 3. to Frye ms Puteanus in his Comas: to CMaiJler lohn Dcrwnhame in his Dijfwa/ion from Drttnkenneffe : to (JM.aijler Robert Harris his Drunkards Cup, pag.20, 2 S, 29. to Mai/ler Samuel Ward his Woe to the Drunkard: 'and to the Reuerend, and Learned Diuine, Maijler Robert Bolton,in his Generali Dire Elions for our com¬ fortable Walking with Cjod: pag. 200. to 206. Who haue fully and largely, condemned, and cenfuredthe drinking and pledging of Healthes, as an abominable. Odious, Sinfull, Hea¬ th crufh, Vnchrijlian, and Unlaw full praEltfe, which di/honours Cjod, and man, and produceth Jundry finnes and mifehiefes; as thefe workes of theirs doe at large declare : And fhall wee Chriftiaris and Proteftants ftill praftife and applaud them, when as fo many Moderne Chriftian writers,both Proteftants, and Papifts, haue pafled a V erdieft, Doome, and Sentence of Condemnation on them ? O let vs neuer dare to doe it, for feare, the fore-quoted Scriptures, Fa¬ thers, and the now recited Authors, fhouldrife vpin Iudgement againft vs to condemne vs for it, at thelaft. But iftheie Authorities will not fway vs, nor caufe vs to abandon and renounce thefe Healthes, thenhearein the fourth place, what Councels, what Chriftian States, and Emperours haue concluded & decreed againft them. In the Popifh (0) Councell of Later an voder Innocent the Q , third, in theyeere 1215. Can. 15. there was this Ccnfti- Cti tution made- Let all Clergie men diligently abjlainc from 74 Surfetting and Drunkennejje; for which let them moderate Wine from themfelucs, andthemfelues fomWine : neither let any one bee vrged to drinks, fnce Drunkenneffc doeth banifh wit, andprouokg lufl. For which parpofe we decree, that, that abufe Jhall bee vtterly abolifhed, whereby in diners quarters. Drinkers doe vfe after their manner, to binde one another to drinks