PARTITION VIII. (Book 8)
Of Temperance in DRINKING, False Ends of Drink∣ing, viz. Good Fellow-ship. Putting away cares, &c.
§. 1. THe second is temperance in drinking,* 1.1 and the ends of eat∣ing and drinking being much the same, I can give no other direct rules in this, then what were given in the former, to wit, that we drink neither of such sorts of liquor, nor in such quantities as may not agree with the right ends of drinking, the preserving of our lives and healths: Only in this there will be need of putting in one cau∣tion, for our understandings being in more danger to be hurt by drink then meat, we must take care to keep that safe, and rather not drink what we might safely in respect of our healths, if it be in danger to distemper our