A37049:1275
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. There is your drinking at bargains making so frequently, without respect to the end wherefore drink was appointed and given, as if ye were to honour drinking as a help to you in your bargains, although this evil be now alas epidemic; and hardly will a man that hath much business get it at all times shunned, considering the humours of others he dealeth with, yet certainly if ye would all set to it, there would be no great difficulty of reforming it, but if some begin not, how shall it be done? It is an uncouth and strange thing, and even unnatural, that neither a mans appetite, nor his health, nor the time of the day, nor his ordinary diet shall be the reason or occasion of a mans drinking, or the rule whereby to try the convenient wh •n or season of it, but when ever a man shall make such or such a bargain with me, or pay me for, or get payment from me of, such and such things, that must be the rule of my eating and drinking, what beast will be thus dealt with? O how many irrational, and almost infra brutal practises are amongst us?
3. There is your drinking at bargains making so frequently, without respect to the end wherefore drink was appointed and given, as if ye were to honour drinking as a help to you in your bargains, although this evil be now alas epidemick; and hardly will a man that hath much business get it at all times shunned, considering the humours of others he dealeth with, yet certainly if ye would all set to it, there would be no great difficulty of reforming it, but if some begin not, how shall it be done? It is an uncouth and strange thing, and even unnatural, that neither a mans appetite, nor his health, nor the time of the day, nor his ordinary dyet shall be the reason or occasion of a mans drinking, or the rule whereby to try the convenient wh •n or season of it, but when ever a man shall make such or such a bargain with me, or pay me for, or get payment from me of, such and such things, that must be the rule of my eating and drinking, what beast will be thus dealt with? O how many irrational, and almost infra •brutal practises are amongst us?