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grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10184	Healthes: sicknesse. Or A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and vtterly vnlawfull vnto Christians by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors, historians, councels; imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce and verdict of prophane and heathen writers: wherein all those ordinary obiections, excuses, or pretences which are made to iustifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or pledging of healthes, are likewise cleared and answered. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitii Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20462; ESTC S115452	103,812	122

all martiall attempts and ciuill enterprises and I your humble loyall and obedient Subiect shall still continue though not to drinke carouze and swill as others doe yet heartily to pray for your Maiesties Health and happy Raigne which God continue prolong among vs to our temporall and your owne both temporall and eternall ioy and blisse Your Maiesties humble and loyall Subiect WILLIAM PRYNNE To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader among all the grosse and crying sinnes which haue of late defiled and ouerspread our Nation and the world it selfe there are few more common few more dangerous hurtfull and pernicious then the vnnaturall vnthrifty odious and swinish sinne of Drunkennesse A sinne which if we will beleeue the Fathers nay Infidels and Pagans whom Christians should excell Is but a flattering deuill a sweet poyson a voluntarie madnesse an inuited enemie a deprauer of honestie a wronger of modestie the mother of all sinne and mischiefe the sister of all ryot the father of all pride the author of murthers quarrels and debates the nurse of furie the mistresse of petulancie the inflamation of the stomacke the blindnesse of the eyes the corruption of the breath the debility of all the members the accelleration of death and poyson of the soule A sinne which crackes mens credites exhausts their purses consumes their estates infatuates their sences besots their vnderstandings impaires their healthes distempers their constitutions subuerts their bodies eates out their liues ruines their families grieues their friends brings wrath and iudgements on their Countries decayes their parts and morrall vertues disables them for all imployments indisposeth them to grace and godlinesse and all the meanes and workes of grace and without Gods infinite mercy and their sound repentance damnes their soules Strange it is that this most vnnaturall vnprofitable vnpleasant vnseemely vnreasonable brutish base and shamefull sinne of all others which makes men odious and ridiculous vnto themselues and all that see them which transformes men into beastes and swine or carkases of men which fights against the Lawes of God of grace of nature sense and reason which wars against the peace and safety of mens soules which excludes and shuts out men from heauen and from the societie and company of Gods Saints and oft-times drawes downe many heauy fatall sad and dreadfull indgements on mens heads sufficient to amaze to split and daunt the hardest and the strongest hearts and to awake the drowsiest and most stupified and cauterized conscienses of all such who are infatuated and benummed with this hellish dropsie should so farre insinuate it selfe into the affections practise and liues of men especially in these radiant blessed and resplendent dayes of grace which teach vs to denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for the glorious and blessed appearance and comming of the great God and our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ as to inthrall and captiuate whole Nations to its base and slauish bondage who professe themselues not onely to be men and reasonable creatures but likewise temperate sober graue deuout religigious and holy Christians I confesse it seemes a mystery and wonder vnto me that naturall and reasonable men much more that such as beare the name and face of Christians should so farre degenerate from the very principles of nature and the rules of common reason as to be intoxicated inamored bewitched and insnared with such an inhumane absurde and Swinish sinne as this which hath no good no honour profit pleasure beauty nor aduantage in it to winne allure or ingage men to it yea so sarre to be affected and delighted with it as to reioyce and glory in it to magnifie honour and applaud all those who are deuoted and inthralled to it and to vilifie contemne reproach and vnderualue such who hate and loath it in their Iudgements or abandon and renounce it in their practise Certainely if I did not knowe the truth and probate of it by ocular and experimentall demonstrations from day to day I could hardly bring my vnderstanding to beleeue that men that Christians should so farre affect admire or odore so foule so filthy so base so vnamiable so vnfruitfull vnprofitable and vnpleasant a sinne so vnnaturall and brutish a vice as this Drunkennes in most mens iudgement and experience is The reasons as I conceiue why men are now so much infatuated with this so odious execrable and vnpleasant sinne are briefly these The first is that very inbred corruption and prauitie of humane nature which being a lawlesse and vnruely euill that nether is nor can be subiect to the law of God till it be mortified and subdued by the power of grace doth beare downe all the bounds and rules of nature reason religion temperance and fobriety and carry men headlong vnto Drunkennesse riot excesse of wine and all vnreasonable vnnaturall and beastly finnes and lusts euen with a full carere The second is the power of the Prince of the ayre the spirit who now worketh in the children of disobedience intending the lusts desires of their flesh mind and carrying them captiue vnto finne Who hath lately gotten such high praedominancie in the soules of vitious and carnall men and added such impudencie and vnbridelednesse vnto their sinnes and lusts that they doe not onely glory in their drunkennesse and grosse intemperance proclayming it oft times vnto the world with Cornets Drummes and Trumpets the common ornaments melodie solace or incrediaries of their licentious mad deboist bacchanalian prophane and heathenish Healthes and ebrious pot-battels but euen purposely bend and set themselues against the God of heauen trampling his word his lawes and all his precepts vnder foote violating the very lawes of nature and rules of reason breaking all the cords and ligaments of nature modesty temperance and sobriety as if they had no Lord no God nor Ruler ouer them felling themselues wholly vnto all excesse and wallowing like so many base and filthie swine in the mire and puddle of drunkennesse and vomite as if they were borne for no other purpose but with that infamous and drink-deuouring Bonosus for to swill and drinke The third reason of the encrease and growth of drunkennesse are those many specious beautifull popular amiable and bewitching names and titles where with this vgly odious and filthy sinne together with the Practisers Patrons and Abettors of it are beautified guilded and adorned and those common termes and mottoes of ignominie scorne and reproach which Satan and his ebrious crue haue cast vpon the graces of temperance and sobrietie and on the persons of all such temperate holy and abstemious Christians who doe in truth pursue them in their liues practise As all other sins and vices so Drunkennes is now shrowded nay countenanced defended iustified and applauded vnder the popular and louely titles of hospitality good-fellowship courtesie entertainement

the face or to assume the name of Christians to themselues that they should euer glory or take a pride as many doe or get an habit or beare a share in drinking Healthes especially on those blessed times and happy dayes which summon and ingage them in a more neere and speciall manner to expresse their loue their thankefulnesse and their best obedience and respect to God for all his kindnesse mercy loue and goodnesse to them or when as hee comes vnto them in his best and richest mercies which call them vnto Temperance and Sob●ietie and not to Drunkennesse Riot and Excesse but let them worship him with a Reuerend Pure and holy Worship with a Gracio●s Temperate and holy Heart and with a Thank●ull Mederate Sober and Awfull vse of all his Creatures as himselfe Enioynes them or else let them vtterly renounce and disclaime the name of Christians and turne professed Pagans both in name and nature as they are in practice O let vs Christians who thinke sco●ne to bee stiled In●idels or Heathens or Carnail Worldly prophane or gracelesse persons bee ashamed to allow or practise that which makes vs either such or worse then such Let vs bee such in trueth and practise as wee would be in name or else let vs bee contented to bee deemed and reputed such euen Infidels and Pagans as our liues our Healthes and actions describe vs for to bee Let vs not honour court nor entertaine our God our Sauiour our Kings our Christian Princes Nobles Magistrates Friendes or Consorts with Healthes and roundes as the manner is as wee would entertaine or court the very Deuill himselfe for what other better complement or well●come could the Deuill Belzebub himselfe desi●e if hee were a bidden guesse vnto our Tables or what ●itter fare or entertainement could we giue him then to plye him hard with Healthes As the Magicians Witches and inferiour Deuills vse to doe vntill wee had got the staggars but let vs imitate the feastes and meetings of holy Christians in former ages Who did begin their Feastes with Prayers continue them with Temperance and Sobriet●e eating no more then would suffice their hunger drinking no more then would quench and satisfie their thirst eating and drinking as in Gods sight discoursing and talking as in his hearing concluding their meetings with a Psalme and Prayer and then departing not to a Tauerne or a Whore-house but to their owne houses with Temperance and Sobrietie hauing their Soules as well replenished with Grace and Discipline as their bodies with grosse and corporall foode If wee would now at last obserue this Antient Godly and Religious practise in the entertainement of our friendes and in our Feasts and meetings which are commonly made the Theaters of Healthes of Drunkennesse and Riot especially in the time of Christs Natiuitie Wherein men commonly sell themselues to Drunkennesse Healthing Dauncing Carding Dicing Idlenesse Epicurisme Wantonnesse and excesse of Sinne as if it were a time of loosenesse and prophanenesse not of Grace and Holinesse doing more true seruice to the Deuill during this Holy time then all the yeere besides what Ioy what Peace and Comfort what increase and strength of Grace would it bring vnto our Soules and to the Soules of all our friendes and guesse which are now so much indangered and without Repentance damned by these sinfull Healthes which wee begin vnto them O therefore let vs now at last abandon these Heathenish Idolatrous and Hellish customes as vnbeseeming Christians as the Inuentions Ceremonies and Customes of Infidels and Pagans whose waies and workes wee must not practise O let it neuer bee recorded of vs Englishmen who haue taken vp this Heathenish custome but of punie times as it is storied of the Polonians That they vsually as their manner is doe ●arrouze and quaffe off great Bowles to the Health of one another oft times against their natures so that their mutuall loue one to another which they doe principally expresse in their Feastes and meetings doeth oft times depriue them of their health and make them subiect to many diseases through to much Healthing That they will oft times force one another to drinke saying either pledge me or fight with me which is the cause of many Duels and that they account him the best seruant who can drinke his Maisters Health best Let not the Moscouites description euer suite with vs of whom it is registred That they know full well how to allure men to drinke and that when as they haue no other occasion of drinking they begin to drinke their Dukes Health then the Prince his Brothers Health and next the Healthes of other men of place and dignitie whose Healthes they thinke that no man either will or dare denie Let it not be storied of vs as it is of the Ancient and moderne Germans That they Carrouze and Health and Drinke so long till they haue laid one another dead drunke vnder the Table or caused one another to vomit vp their shame and surfet a sinne to common in our swinish age and a custome among Drunkards in Saint Ambrose his dayes Let it not be reported of vs as it is of the Ancient Persians That they drunke so liberally at their Feastes that though they were able to carry themselues into their Banqueting-roomes yet they were alwayes carried out of them because their owne legges could not beare them the case of too to many now among vs. Let it be neuer inrolled of vs as it is of the Brasilians That whole Villages of them meet together to drinke and quaffe as they vse to doe at our Countrey Wakes or Reuells carrouzing and drinking off whole Bowles one to another some times three dayes together till they are not able to stand and till they haue drunke vp all the Caouin or liquor in the place Let vs not be of the same minde and iudgement as the inhabitants of Cumana and G●iana are Who account him the greatest and brauest man and the most compleate and accomplished Gallant who is able to carrouze and swill downe most which is the opinion of many Gul-gallants in our Bacchanalian age But since we are Christians and Saints in name and reputation since the Grace of God which bringeth Saluation hath appeared to vs touching vs that denying vngodlinesse and worldly lusts wee should liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that Blessed hope and Glorious appearing of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue himselfe for vs that he might Redeeme vs from all iniquitie and from our vaine conuersation receiued by tradition from our Fathers that hee might Redeeme vs from the World and all worldly prophane and heat henish customes ceremonies ordinances rudiments and traditions of Gentiles Pagans and Infidels and purifie vs vnto himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good workes Let vs be no longer Pagans Heathens and Infidels in our practise in taking vp in vsing