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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    a): yet it is plain the Apottle in this Place - more immediately intends what was the chief Difcipline in order to the Games and Races he alludes to, name- ty, a ftrrct Regulation. in Meats : und Drinks. And ‘the fhowing what are.” the proper Rules and Meatures of a regular Ufe, will naturally lead Men to fee the great Sinfulnefs of an zr regi dar and inordinate Ufe of them; Firft, Initfelf; and next, In its Confiquences _and Effecis. Buf previous to the laying down of thofe Rules, it muft be obferved ig general, that the Conflitutions, Ages, sand other Circumftances among Man- kind, being fo different from one ano- ther; nay, hes fame Conftitation being fo different from itfelf according to different Times and Seafons; there can _ be no one fixed Rule or Meafurein this. Point; becaufe the fame Proportion — ~ which to one Perfon is not a fufficient Nouaifament, may to another be Ex- cefs. So that, what Proportion is ne- -ceflary or convenient, what is within: the Bounds of Moderation and what not, muft in great Meafure be left to, eer
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