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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

better for it Were it a Physical Potion for Health none would drink it but such as value Health but as very a Vanity as it is being dissolved in a pleasing Liquor it is commended and it is taken by Quarts and Pottles by them that love the Liquor better than the Health of Body and Soul Health is the Inscription and Title upon the Glass but they that taste it find themselves no better by it and they that largely drink are constantly the worse What tho Can I think that Men will leave it or thank me for their Information Can it be expected that Men will do by this as by other things if they be good for nothing and if they do more hurt than good throw them away Or rather is it not to be feared that they who are as dry and open as a Spunge to swallow down the Modes of Sin and Vanity will be tenacious and as hard as a Flint to retain them As long as I see the Sacred Oracles disbelived the Holy Commandments disobeyed known Sins committed and known Duties negleced and Things contrary to the Law of Grace and Nature commonly practised no Man can expect much less can I that what is offered to the World with the best Affection and Intention shall be kindly entertained of all or received by them that stand in most need of Instruction and Correction Physicians write of Diseases and Remedies not expecting that every Man that is diseased will apply the Remedies and wax better by them Here are some Antidotes for the Infected and Preservatives for them that with much difficulty escape the Taint of an ill Conversation if but some of either will but kindly take what is humbly proposed it will be a great Reward If I thought Healthing to be inoffensive and harmless I had rather a thousand times that the common Conversation should be blameless than that I should blame it And as I know it is hard rightly to reprove so I know that the best prepared Reproofs are hard of digestion And Men that are fond if not proud of a Virtue that fits them for a general Conversation are most difficultly gain'd to assent to any Limitations and Restraint of the common Liberty that is taken by some if not most of every degree and quality Dear Lovers of Pleasures swell too big to be brought under the strict Discipline of a good Conversation and the growing Naughtiness of the profusely Vicious is such that they take not themselves to be come to Age until they get from under the Pedagogy of Divines and deride Seriousness as much as Seriousness doth lament their haste and labour to undo themselves Some may demand some express divine Prohibition of drinking Healths as if then they would not transgress it But this Demand implies a refusal to yield to any thing that can be said and to be ruled by any thing but what cannot be produced But when such as they will conscienciously obey what is plainly written in the Scriptures they will not whet their Wits to cut asunder rational Connections and Consequences from Divine Precepts to open a broad Path for their Lusts and disorderly Walking I am not so fond of my own Apprehensions and Reasons as to look for wonderful Effects from them nor so dull as not to foresee what work some Men may make of what I write Altho I am sure my Antidotes and Remedies are incomparably better than the moral Disease of Healthing altho it had never killed its Thousands I shall not marvel if this Discourse be tost up and down in sport or kick'd up and down in Anger and Disdain but I will still marvel why Men call'd Christians will make void God's Laws and cast them behind their Backs I will still marvel why Men endued with so noble and divine a Faculty as Reason is and that Reason so finely set in many with a sparkling Wit that both shines and cuts should practise that for which no good Reason was ever produced or offered And I will not only wonder but I will lament that Men capable of immortal Glory and Honour do so debase themselves as to lay their Honour in Wet Dirt to turn their Throats into a Sink and their Bellies into a Common-Shore Are not Men fallen out with their Maker that deface his Image in themselves and others by Intemperance and are not satisfied with that Defacement but proceed to destroy it by cutting off their own and others Lives The Bodies of Men are small Vessels richly laden with a great Treasure an immortal Soul and many rich Gifts and Talents they are put out in a Sea of Mercies and favoured with a prosperous Wind and commanded to keep a straight Course to the Heavenly Canaan But to our great grief and amazement we see some and hear of others very often split and sunk into the bottomless Deep of Eternity and several disabled and lie by to be carin'd The Account of these unvaluable Losses is this in short The Owners and Possessors of these Vessels would not learn the spiritual Art of this Navigation and whereas others that safely arrive do carefully observe the Card and Compass obey Commands take the Wind and Season prepare for Storms and Encounters watch and pray these Extravagants observe no Card keep no Compass neglect the Wind cast off their Commander drink down their Pilot into a deep and dead Sleep make frequent Visits and Invitations treat and drink high and often The Plague of Sin and Vice did spread among them they grew diseased some loved their Friends to death and others quarrelled fought and killed their Companions When we see and hear such Miscarriages as these such doleful Tidings and Reports of Destruction upon Destruction shall we not advise warn and importune those who have yet escaped the Wreck and those who have not yet put out to Sea to take heed that they perish not by the same means Who is so inhumane as not to be moved with and grieve for the Corruption of Society and the Destruction of Men But which is the truest kindness to study to prevent the Death of more or to lament the doleful End of a vain Life of too many The Loss to the Living who lost their share of Comfort and Happiness in the casting away of these mad Adventurers is not comparable to their own and none can compute the Loss but they that suffer it and feel it in Eternity It is unspeakable Folly not to know the worth of that Treasure they carry in them until it is lost in the bottom of another World and that Men will not believe whither they are going till they are gone for ever The River is full of such miscarrying Vessels and Healthing is the River's Mouth at this they first set out who never return to God nor a sound Mind nor the Path of Life I have ever observed the greatest Safety to be in keeping furthest off from it either by keeping Company or taking leave upon firm