Excerpt from Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead: Being the Substance of a Discourse Deliver'd to the Clergy of the Diocese of Cork, on the Fourth of November, 1713, By the Bishop of That Diocese

The Question I am now to speak to, is this:

Whether Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead, excepting only in Remembrance of Jesus Christ is an Action in it self Sinful, now under the Gospel? And whether the Custom of Drinking in Remembrance of a Departed Monarch is so in particular ?

Aff.

I shall, by way of Preface, only observe to you, That were it not for the Power and Prejudice of a Custom which has lately prevailed, thro' much Inadvertency and Want of a pious Zeal and sincere Concern for Religion, in the Hearts of Men, it wou'd be look'd upon as a very needless Work, to go about to prove the Affirmative of this Question.

Had we liv'd in any other Age since Christ, the very Proposing of it wou'd have startled all good Christians.

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