Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos.

  • James I, King of England, 1566-1625
Date:
1672
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Credit: Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    F 7o] ' • • non between God and our Souls; and I defire the Reader to (urn to them at h;s leifure, and to make the bell ufe and application of them, Hofea 4.1,2,3. 7/1^22.12,13,14. 7/^ 24.7,8, 9. .Gencjjs 12. 10. Chap. 26. 1. 42.5.431,1. Chap. 41. so. 3d. 50. sd. 57. Prov. 15.26,29. J. That Sea-man that being ingaged in a Ship, and fees it in dan- gert' link, or to be cart away i is but an ill and unworthy Sea-man that will not put to his helping- hand to five her. And are not all Enghfh-men engaged in the Ship of the Kingdom, or Common¬ wealth 01 England? and is it not in a Storm, comparted with Ene¬ mies without, and within molelled and alfaulted with the moft dangerous Enemies of alii over-laden with our grand Enemies,Sins of all forts? Is it not the part of an honeft true Englilh-man to help to lave this Ship, by lightening its burden, and calling thefc bad Commodities over-board ? I mean its Sins, that by fo doing we ™y engage God,the Lord of Holls on our fide,and then ,fiVe«s nonjeum cpis contra nos : Did bu tEngland's Sins weigh lighter then her Enemies Sins, then we were more likely to be Victorious and Conquerors over all our Forreign Enemies. Doth not England match any of her Enemies in Sins and Pro¬ vocations, namely Drunkennefs ? Doth it come behind the Dutch Dane, or Srocdc, M are counted the higheft Drinkers in the orld, of the higheft form, and fo for fvvearing moft horrible -Oaths, andfeoffingat Religion and Piety. Within ten days fince I began this CollMon or PoftfcriptJ. was an Lye and Ear- witnefs, That a fvvaggering Blade rapt out this Oath Goddamn me, about a trifle in a fcoffing Frolick, faying.He had act a Presbyterian Band on he thought. Another man on Whitfon Yv: I law foladly drunk, he could neither go nor Hand, but fate down on a Door-Hone, I asked him. Where he had been ? He would give ”0 ,othcJr A'llfvverl but That he nos troubled rnth the Megromes. So I and others about him left him, and know not what became of . I- T ,[e \Wr° wer.e in tlle heart ot the City,near the Exchange. Alter I had ieen King James h\s Countcrbhft againll Tobacco.znd rani 1: a luting to it: I did at the tirlt intend only to get that printed alone, but afterwards meeting with thefe pertinent, futable, and proht; b e Directions, for the prefirvation oflong Life, both ?ial, ard 'ntemp.rate drinking; Publiihed in the -Works of that learned Pnylician Dotftor Haynrvanng, now living: J thought it not amhs to join them together, and litre wife to add l] ■ : a good 1