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

Nor, 4w}, Whether drinking fuch a Health is a Sacrament? Or whether it is done Sacra mentally? But whether the very Aétion it felf of Drinking, applied to the Memory of the, Dead, is made Sacramental? For if the Aétion itfelf is made Sacramental, then the Goufe quence' is clear, that it mull be a horrid Abufe' of it, to prophane it to any civil or common Ufe. As clear, as that if a Houfe is dedicated to God, we cannot apply it to common Ufe' without Pro hanation and Sacrilege only' with this Di erence, That the Delectation o the former, is a Guilt of a much deeper Dye, and of a more abominable Nature.

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