An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson.

  • Edmund Gibson
Date:
1766
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Credit: An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Far] Refrefhments,to enable us to goth ‘ough: it with Camfort..and Succefs. From: whence it follows, that one great Rule: and Meafure in the Enjoyment of thofe: Bleffings,. is, to ufe and app iy them In. fuch a Manner, as may make them moft- fubfervient to the daily Bufinefs of our: _ Calling and Profeffion. And. this we: do, when, in our‘ordinary. Courfe,. we: make the Saslonros Eating and Drink- ing what they ought to he, only fhort: Retreats. from abst and not the Bujfinefs of Life; when we take Care,, Duties-and Offices of our Calling; and: to carry with us fufficient Underftand-. ing. and Abilities to purfue at ; and ~ when, what we call the Unbendings of eur Mind, which may be° fometimes:. neceflary,. are- rare, and) without’ any: Mixture of Riot or Excefs. An Enjoy~- ment of the Bleflings of Life, ‘within. ‘thefe Rules, is aqoty = Repairing of our: Strength indis Spirits, and a real Pure. therance in our daily Bufinefs and Vo~. ation ;, and being fo;) is. a- fobor and: temperate Ule of our. iy eats. and. Eran id. *