The expediency of preventive wisdom. A sermon preached before ... The Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the ... Hospitals of the City of London ... on Easter-Monday, 1750 ... With a dedication and appendix concerning spirituous liquors ... / [Isaac Maddox].

  • Maddox, Isaac, 1697-1759
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[1750?]
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Credit: The expediency of preventive wisdom. A sermon preached before ... The Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the ... Hospitals of the City of London ... on Easter-Monday, 1750 ... With a dedication and appendix concerning spirituous liquors ... / [Isaac Maddox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Work, may expert from H i m, came not to deflroy Mens Lives but to fave them ; there is great Reafon to apprehend, that an ample Com- penlation for fome Lofs in this one Duty, would certainly arife in many Particulars, from the en- creafed Labour and Confumptions of a growing, inftead of the prefent declining Number of fober, orderly, induftrious Labourers, Manufacturers and Artificers ; even fuppoling that the en~ creafed Duties upon Malty Hops, Hfc. fhould make no Amends; nor any other proper Equi¬ valent could pojftbly be devifed. For, permit me to obferve, my Lord, that the View is by much too narrow and contracted, if no other Object is looked at, but the growing Produce of one Engle Duty ; or, pojftbly the Sale or fome damaged Corn. - . , How many thoufand Confumers of the gene¬ ral Product and Manufactures of the Kingdom are annually killed; and of courfe all the Be¬ nefit that would have arifen- from that whole Number and from their Offspring, certainly loft to the Nation, and to the Revenue too for ever ! And how many Commodities, and how many Utenfils does this pernicious Gin fupplant or fupply the Place of, to thofe Wretches addicted to it, who as yet crawl about, a public Nufance? How much lefs Bread-corn, Malt, Hops 5 how much lefs Meat of all kinds ; how much lefs b 2 Cloaths,