Vox clamantis, or, An essay for the honour, happiness and prosperity of the English gentry, and the whole nation in the promoting religion and vertue, and the peace both of church and state. / by P.A. ...

Title

Vox clamantis, or, An essay for the honour, happiness and prosperity of the English gentry, and the whole nation in the promoting religion and vertue, and the peace both of church and state. / by P.A. ...

Author

Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.

Publication

London :: Printed by John Playford ... for Benjamin Tooke,

1684.

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Conduct of life.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Honoured Sir Iohn Moore Kt. one of the Alder∣men of the City of London.
• VOX CLAMANTIS.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Nature and Kinds of Drunken∣ness and Excess; and the prevalency of it in the World; &c.
  • CHAP. II. Perswasions to Temperance.
  • CHAP. III. To perswade all men, but more especially Gentlemen, to Temperance and all other Vertues.
  • CHAP. IV. Motives to Vertue and Goodness, as fol∣lows; That it is not only Birth and an Estate that makes us truly Gentlemen, or makes us happy, but Vertue and Good∣ness.
  • CHAP. V. A word by the by to the Reverend Clergy of the Church of England, as now by Law Establish'd.
  • CHAP. VI. An Exhortation to all to live answerable to our Christian Religion we profess.
  • CHAP. VII. The great cause of fears we may justly lye under in Christendome; and to per∣swade to unity.
  • CHAP. VIII. Cautions to Gentlemen, to take care to pre∣serve their Estates, by wise management of them.