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.

Title

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.

Author

Morton, Charles, 1627-1698.

Publication

London :: Printed for Jonathan Robinson ...,

1684.

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Subject terms

Temperance -- Early works to 1800.

Drinking customs -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• A serious Address TO Governours and Governed.
• ERRATA.
• discourse
  • THE Introduction.
  • CHAP. I. Shewing that Ceremonies and Rules of engaging to drink to excess, and particularly this of Healthing, hath been reproved by Ancient Fathers, and Modern Divines. How the Question of drinking Healths hath been stated and de∣termined.
  • CHAP. II. Shewing how the Question of drink∣ing Healths hath been stated and resolved, with some Animad∣versions upon it.
  • CHAP. III. Some Things premised. In what Notion Healthing is taken. That Healthing is ancient, is no Plea for it. Liberty of drinking more ancient. A Sacrifice and Prayer, or honorary, memorative Sign, by Ambrose, Augustine, Rosi∣nus, &c. Its Rise. Its Traditi∣on to us.
  • CHAP. IV. Arguments against Healthing, and Dissuasives from it, general and particular, as it implies Sacrifice and Prayer.
  • CHAP. V. Remedies and Antidotes against Healthing.