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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67662	A Warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others ...	Ward, Samuel, 1572-1643.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing W931; ESTC R8118	52,123	82

Providence which lately befell a young man who for some years was very hopefull for Religion a diligent attender upon God's Ordinances and well esteemed of among the People of God but afterwards being led away by temptation he was sometime overtaken with the sin of Drunkenness and it seemed good to the Holy and Righteous God to cut him off in the Act of sin when he was as is generally reported so far overcome with strong drink that he was not able to go but was led and laid upon a Bed and dyed in a few Hours without coming to himself again HIS MAJESTIES PROCLAMATION AGAINST Vicious Debauch'd and Prophane Persons and against drinking his Health CHARLES R. SInce it hath pleased the Divine Providence in so wonderful a manner and by wayes and means no less miraculous than those by which he did heretofore preserve and restore his own chosen People to restore Us and Our good Subjects to each other and to shew Us a very hopeful Prospect if not to put us already into possession of that Peace Happiness and Security with which this our Kingdom hath been heretofore blessed It will become Us all in our several Stations to acknowledge this transcendent goodness of Almighty God in so seasonable a conjuncture with such a Circumspection Integrity and Reformation in Our Lives that we may not drive away that Mercy which so near approacheth Us by making Our selves wholly unworthy of it And in Order hereunto We think it high time to shew Our dislike of those against whom We have been ever enough offended though We could not in this manner declare it who under pretence of Affection to Us and Our Service assume to themselves the liberty of Reviling Threatning and Reproaching others and as much as in them lies endeavour to stifle and divert their good Inclinations to Our Service and so to prevent that Reconciliation and Union of Hearts and Affections which can only with Gods Blessing make Us rejoyce in each other and keep Our Enemies from rejoycing There are likewise another sort of Men of whom we have heard much and are sufficiently ashamed who spend their time in Taverns Tipling-houses and Debauches giving no other Evidence of their Affection to Us but in drinking Our Health and Inveighing against all others who are not of their own dissolute temper and who in truth have more discredited Our Cause by the Licence of their Manners and Lives than they could ever advance it by their Affection or courage We hope that this extraordinary way of delivering Us all from all we feared and almost bringing Us to all We can reasonably hope for hath and will work upon the Hearts even of these Men to that degree that they will cordially renounce all that Licentiousness Prophaneness and Impiety with which they have been corrupted and endeavoured to corrupt others and that they will hereafter become examples of Sobriety and Uertue and make it appear that what is past was rather the Uice of the Time than of the Persons and the fitter to be forgotten together And because the fear of punishment or apprehension of Our Displeasure may have influence upon many who will not be restrained by the Conscience of their Duty We do declare That We will not exercise just Severity against any Malefactors sooner than against Men of dissolute debauch'd and profane Lives with what parts soever they may be otherwise qualified and endowed and We hope that all Persons of Honour or in Place and Authority will so far assist Us in discountenancing such Men that their discretion and shame will perswade them to reform what their Conscience would not and that the displeasure of good Men towards them may supply what the Laws have not and it may be cannot well provide against there being by the Licence and Corruption of the Times and the depraved Nature of Men many Enormities Scandals and Impieties in Practice and Manners which Laws cannot well describe and consequently not enough provide against which may by the example and severity of Uertuous Men be easily discountenanced and by degrees suppressed However for the more effectual reforming these Men who are a discredit to the Nation and unto any Cause they pretend to favour and to wish well to We require all Maiors Sheriffs and Justices of Peace to be very vigilant and strict in the discovery and prosecution of all Dissolute and Prophane Persons and such as Blaspheme the Name of God by prophane Swearing and Cursing or revile or disturb Ministers and despise the Publick Worship of God that being first bound to the good Behaviour they may be further proceeded against and exposed to shame in such a manner as the Laws of the Land and the just and necessary Rules of Government shall direct or permit Dated the Twelfth Year of Our Reign See the Dialogue between Tory and Timothy in the Weekly Pacquet of Aug. 5. 1681. This passage Tory. There are a Thousand of my Companions that are not capable to express their Loyalty any way in the World if they should be barr'd from Drinking of Healths and Huzzaing as if Bedlam were broken loose Tim. Loyalty is the indispensable duty of every good Subject and signifies no more than an obedience and Hearty serving of the King according to Law and I am sure our Most Gracious Soveraign will not be serv'd any otherwise Nor can I understand how a Common Drunkard Swearer Whoremonger c. ought to be accounted either Loyal or a Son of the Church of England since thereby he violates daily the Laws of God Nature and the Land and for the same ought to stand Excommunicated by the Church Such as will not refrain from Intemperate drinking and be reclamed by Scripture Arguments and Examples let the regard of their Bodily Health move them From these weighty reasons of Doctor Maynwaring's shewing how it impairs their Health many wayes Preservaton of Health in the choice of Drinks and Regular Drinking DRink for necessity not for bad fellowship especially soon after meat which hinders due fermentation of the stomach and washeth down before digestion be finished but after the first concoction if you have a hot Stomach a dry or costive Body you may drink more freely than others or if thirst importunes you at any time to satisfie with a moderate draught is better than to forbear Accustom Youth and strong Stomachs to small drink but stronger drink and Wine to the infirm and aged it chears the Spirits quickens the Appetite and helps Digestion moderately taken but being used in excess disturbs the course of Nature and procures many Diseases for corpulent gross and fat Bodies thin hungry abstersive penetrating Wines are best as White-Wine Rhenish and such like For lean thin Bodies black red and yellow Wines sweet full bodied and fragrant are more fit and agreeable as Malaga Muscadel Tent Alicant and such like For Drink whether it be wholsomer warmed than cold is much controverted some stifly contending for the one and some for the