The expediency of preventive wisdom. A sermon preached before ... The Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the ... Hospitals of the City of London ... on Easter-Monday, 1750 ... With a dedication and appendix concerning spirituous liquors ... / [Isaac Maddox].

  • Isaac Maddox
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[1750?]
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Credit: The expediency of preventive wisdom. A sermon preached before ... The Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the ... Hospitals of the City of London ... on Easter-Monday, 1750 ... With a dedication and appendix concerning spirituous liquors ... / [Isaac Maddox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s V / vantages, all the Riches and Strength, that would arife from the Multitudes of its loft Sub¬ jects ? The antient Precaution Ne quid detri¬ menti capiat Refpublica is a primary Confidera- tion in every well ordered State : And if any Species of Liquor, tho’ perhaps fomewhat flower in the Operation, does yet prove as pernicious and fatal as infected Meat, or infeded Goods, is there not the fame Reafon in true Policy, and the fame Juftiee to the Community, to lay Re- - ftraints upon liquid, as upon folid Poifons ? To fay,—u What can be done ? Alas! thePeo- “ pie will have this liquid Poifon,5' is one of the moft dreadful and moft fatal Declarations that can poflibly be made, not only as it is con¬ trary to the fundamental Principles upon which Communities fubflft, and deftroys Government itfelf, by transferring to the inconfiderate Will and Pleafure of the Multitude, that Power and Authority, which belong only to Law and the civil Magiftrate; but alfo as fuoh delponding Lamentations, whether flncere or not, entirely difcourage that jlriB Attention, that aSiive Vi- gilance which fhould be confantly employed to reftrain and aboliflr any Vice, that is fo extreamly pernicious in all Refpeds. Suppofe the Popu¬ lace enflamed againft the prefent Diftribution of Property, and difcovering by outrageous Overt- Ads, the ftrongeft Inclination to bring it nearer 3 to
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