10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSTINENCY»
Discover the use of
abstinency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
abstinency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Religious Intelligencer
Abstinency •and a sober diet, with exercise, are the only means to abate ail
superfluous matter in the human frame, and indeed it binders the generation of »\
\ offensive humor*;;; abstinency is the only Physician that a jjtan can make use of,
...
2
The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, Or: A Discourse ...
ancl' is aFriend to Claw-7; it encourageth- Hope, and is the Only Enemy of that
base and cruel Spirit Suspition, the universal Fomentor of mankind:
ABSTINENCY is a sure Counsellor and a Conductor of all the obfervers thereof in
the wayes of ...
3
Certain Sermons Or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches ...
Let us therefore, good people, eschew, every one of us, all in- temperancy, let us
love sobriety and moderate diet, oft give ourselves to abstinency b and fasting,
whereby the mind of man is more lift up to God, more ready to all godly exercises,
...
4
Certain sermons or homelies appointed to be read in churches ...
Let us therefore, good people, eschew, every one of us, all intemperancy, let us
love sobriety and moderate diet, oft give ourselves to abstinency* and fasting,
whereby the mind of man is more lift up to God, more ready to all godly exercises,
...
5
Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, ...
On the other parte, yf after the publication of the abstinency it was lawfulland
aggreable with the conditions thereof, that persons entred in office within the
towne during the troubles should still presume to collect the customes, or yf some
of the ...
6
Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution: In ...
And the reason assigned by Dr. Wayland for this abstinency by God from
censuring a wide-spread infraction of his law, is really nothing more nor less than
expediency — the apprehension of consequences. The Lord Jesus and the
apostles ...
Richard Fuller, Francis Wayland, 1860
7
Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. ...
Although they a ree with the Turlg in circumcision, detestation of _lma-, ges,
abstinency from swines esh; and divers other 'ceremonies : neverthelesse the ' .
Turk; will not suffer ajew to turn Mahomet-m, unleffe he first turn a kind ofCbrz/
Zian, ...
8
An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws & ...
... and yet unmarried', when she came to the Throne; it may seem she Wanted a
mind to that' course of life, from natural abstinency, or was loath to adventure
herlFeature (which was not excellent ) to the Thm, vo1.,.j Censure of any-Prince
of as ...
Nathaniel Bacon, John Selden, 1682
9
An Entertaining Account of all the Countries of the Known ...
These Counsellors are also confined to certain Rules of Abstinency; when the
Rice begins to ri< vpen, they must not drink to any Excess. They must not eat any
Suet or Fat z for else, as they pretend, the Deer and wild Boars would consume ...
Habere quasi non leaberes, is Christ's council, To have a wife as though thou
hadst none, that is, continency, and temperance, and forbearance and
abstinency upon some occasions : but non lmbere quasi haberes, is not so; not to
have a wife ...
John Donne, Henry Alford, 1839
