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city_n	part_n	young_a	youth_n	21	3	7.5649	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41897	The great evil of health-drinking, or, A discourse wherein the original evil, and mischief of drinking of healths are discovered and detected, and the practice opposed with several remedies and antidotes against it, in order to prevent the sad consequences thereof.	Morton, Charles, 1627-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1689; ESTC R23417	53,053	146

well said that Majesty was begotten in Wedlock between Reverence and Honour It is not good for Honour to be alone when you sit in the State of your Office Let not Reverence be forced to quit the Room while Healths are drunk to your Honour Reverence takes it ill to be affronted by that Boldness Some Countries forbad drinking Wine to Magistrates But Nehemiah who lived in great Honour and kept a noble House had plentiful Supplies of all sorts of Wine Neh. 5. It is lawful for you to keep great Houses open Tables and to drink Wines but if you would have God to think upon you for Good make that great Man your Example and in this also a greater than he Ahasuerus at whose Feasts none did compel Esth 1.8 And this being written before time in the Holy Scripture is written for our Learning And whether drinking Healths be not a moral Compulsion tho not violent is humbly submitted and also attested by Gasper Sanctius upon that place Cum Principium aut Amicorum salus interponitur nemo poterit non obtemperare A Lapide to the same sense Aug. Serm. de Temp. hereafter quoted I do not by this tax or accuse for I am a Stranger to the great and sun ptuous Tables that are kept but I do humbly beseech them that think it a necessary part of the Grandure of our Metropolis to consider how many Companies and Meetings of Vestry-men and others they become Examples and Authorities to and how impossible it is to restrain this Extravagance this is a very diminutive Word in the City Youth which are so commonly poisoned by these Draughts as long as they have the Warrant of such Examples These have been the parting Cups to many from all Modesty and Vertue and 't is notoriously known to the great Sorrow of many Friends where Young Men began their Journey to a far Country where they are yet lost and not found Luke 15. 2. I desire Parents and who will hear me if they will not in what I desire of them for the sake of God and all that is dear to them and their Posterity that they both by early Instruction strict Injunction and exemplary Practice restrain their Children from the Entrance into this kind of Learning It was a wise Apothegm of Reverend Mr. Dod whom Learned Capel called John the Divine and the worthy Dr. Harris said spake better Apothegms than Plutarch c. If Fathers would but study to be as good themselves as they would have their Children be the World would be better I know some that are very observing and wise that do much complain of the danger of sending their Sons abroad for Education and into Callings Drinking prepares for Debauchery and they like young Swimmers dabble first about the Banks but grow modish and then confident by Healths and keep so long to that Element till they grow stark giddy are drown'd or take Surfeits and are hardly if ever recovered Healthing is to be abhorred for this Effect of it that it makes young Men confident and their seeing it the current Practice Genteel Modish their being abroad a while to see Fashions more than to follow Studies gives Reputation and Encouragement to their Confidence And then turn or stop them if you can If you would have your Sons keep from Debauchery and running into Ruine before your Eyes keep them from dabling St. Augustin the he preach'd twice before the same day caus'd to be assembled not only Old Men but Women and Children to his Church in Hippo that they might fear as long as they lived because of what had happened that day Cyril an eminent Citizen of Hippo had an only Son eum superfiuè diligebat supra Deum he loved him superfluously and more than God and they both are fallen into the Ditch The Father being drunk with superfluous Love forbore to correct him and indulged him to do what he pleased How came they both to fall into the Ditch but because the Father was blind and fond and naught and neglected his own and Children's Salvation And now behold your Cyril had a Son as you know whom he neglected to correct and he did luxuriously consume part of his Father's Goods and now he was overcome with Drunkenness oppressit nequiter he wickedly abused his own Mother forward with Child he would have violated his Sister he hath kill'd his Father and wounded his two Sisters to death O dolorosa Ebrietas c. O most grievous Drunkenness the Mother of all Evils the Sister of all Luxury the Father of all Pride O Drunk●nness thou dost blind the Mind hast lost all Judgment hast no Wisdom or Counsel thou art a flattering Devil sweet Poison O Drunkenness let Men learn to know thee to avoid thee And again to avoid thee to run from thee as from Death for he that covets thee shall not obtain the Kingdom of Heaven It is not enough for all the Faithful to abstain from it themselves but they that abstain to teach others to abstain from it c. Ad Fratr c. s 33. com 10. May you not as well teach them the Modes of Swearing as the Arts of Drinking may you not as safely put them to nurse to Volupia as initiate them in the Rites of Bachus As you would keep them chast be sure you keep them sober or else if they do not kill you they will break your Hearts and kill Joy and Hopes at your very Hearts 3. I earnestly entreat Governours Tutors and Masters in every Faculty If Youths had no rational So uls they would have no need of your Skill and they would be of no use to you you have therefore the Care of Souls your Charge is great and your Work difficult Some must be broken from ill Customs learn'd before they came to you and some must be preserved from Infection that come untainted to you Rules of Art are not more necessary than Regulation of Life● you know the Power of Example If there be any spark of Light if any Divine Authority in what is presented to you Let none that are under your Care have cause to say they had your Example for this playing upon the slippery Brink of the Whirlepool of that drowning Sin of Drunkenness I say again Healthing gives young Men confidence to drink and how can you take them down if you set up the mode I have more than once with some sadness read the Oration of the Learned Sixtinus Arnama when Rector of the Vniversity of Frankere See the last Edit of his Antibai barous Bible where he gives a lamentable account of the GermanVniversities and particularly of that and among other things said this Multos generosae indolis magnae spei Adolescentes quos Parentes Praeceptores integros vitae à se dimiserant indulgens haec mater acceperat intra paucos dies per initiales istas Potationes quibus in ipso introitu Bacho id est Diabolo initiabantur corruptos