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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    difparagement, and blcmifn to their Honour: to haue their Names, their Healthes, and Perfons, made the very Deuills Sacrifice, and Drink e-offering; the phrafie, the language, complement, and falute of euery Swinilh Drunkard: the chiefe ingredient of euery Cannc or Cup : the l'ubied and clifcourle of euery Drunken meeting: the ^ , occafion and meanes of Drunkennefle,and Excefle: the pa- tronage and protedion of all intemperance, and deboift- IZTJ;;, nefle : the mine, and Damnation of many a Chriftian fine te pottft Soule: And withall, let them lerioufly ponder in their f/icete mhtl: hearts, what great dishonour thefe Healthes of theirs bring to God : in abufing his creatures, defacing his Cui'm 77cc4- image> Violating his lawes: and what infinite, and ap- t*m guifg-, fie- parant danger they pull downe on their owne poore guitar, neceffe Soules, if they giue any voluntary approbation, counte- eft yt etutpet- nance, or conniuance to them, in * intereffmg them,both in n*m tpnfequa f^g ^ pumfoment of all the finnes, that they occafion wmimpjrerit ma‘‘ luch perlons who haue a hand,or lhare in drinking them. And let this caufe them in the Name, and feare of errtrt gutfig-y God, euen as they tender their owne honour, and repu- fdreftdcyt tation either with God, or Man; or the Saluation, and Dc Sum^Bono we^fare °f their Soules, which their Healthes indanger: I 3-c.f i.* to abandon all thefe Healthes for euer from their lips,and a Menfifua cups : to exile them from their Butteries,Sellars,Houfes, gltritmputit Courtes, and Tables; which are oft times made the fiex ex emnes vefy jsjurferies } Sanduaries, Shops, and Sinkes, of Jducittangui Healthes, of Drunkcnncfl’e, Vomit, and Excdfe; but Jdt dread exe- principally in the Chriftmas feafon; wherein fome men ant, Ambr.dq, thinke it a difparagement to their Beare, their Wine, Elia & Iciun. anci Hofpitalitie, that their Guefle fliould returne Tern* b ^vTedtit yt an<^ Sober from their Houles: accounting it (a) their g/o- amieesy et e- rJt0 fittd them atvay wounded, and rDead-drttnke from their mittitUyt tni- Tables, likefo many (b) Swine, or Car cafes of men, that mice]: Repd* ad tueunditatem, cogts ad mortem ; inuitdt ddpdndium, ejferre yfi dd fepuiehrum: Ambr.ib.c-14.. Hoc in emr.i fymtofi* dgttmr yt mentem peUdnt gutcung-, fie dent; ne pedes tnuentant cum eundem tfi. Toltt & bdtuUrt debet: aut tttubdntem mfigradum <* menfdfiputlreferAtjpArttm Uttti tut armed ytdear* accept*}.Puteani Comus.