A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Let us be like the deer, who are ever most fearful at their best feeding. Beware lest Indulgentia gulae, be Suffocatio gratiae; be jealous of a great feast. But I shall hold you too long at a feast, unless my cheer were better: I therefore pass to

It may be that my sonnes have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Let us be like the deere, who are ever most fearefull at their best feeding. Beware lest Indulgentia gulae, be Suffocatio gratiae; be jealous of a great feast. But I shall hold you too long at a feast, unlesse my cheare were better: I therefore passe to

4 The effects; which are manifold and manifest. The throats pleasure did shut up Paradise, sold the Birthright, beheaded the Baptists; and it was the chief of the Cooks; Nehuzaradan that first set fire to the Temple, and razed the City. These effects are, 1. Crassitudo, grossness; which takes away agility to any good work: which makes a man move like a Tun upon two pottle pots. Caesar said he mistrusted not Anthony and Dolabella for any practises, because they were fat: but Casca and Cassius, lean hollow fellows; who did think too much. The other are the devils crammed fowls; like Aesop's hen, too fat to lay. Indeed what need they travel far, whose felicity is at home? placing Paradise in their throats, and heaven in their guts. 2. Macilencie of grace: for as it puts fatness into their bodies, so leanness into their souls. God fatted the Israelites with quails, but withal^g sent leanness into their souls. The flesh is blown up, the spirit doth languish. They are worse than [Greek or Hebrew], for [Greek or Hebrew]: they put a pleurisy into their bloods, and an apoplexy into their souls. 3. Consumption of their estates: for it is regius morbus, a costly disease: it makes way for either a writ or a mittimus. Gula gurges, their patrimony runs through their throat. Man that is the Lord of all creatures, hath the least mouth of all creatures: malum non imitari quod sumus. When Temperance that just steward is put out of his office, all runs to decay and ruin: if satiety go before, beggary will follow after. 4. Sickness to their bodies: they wrap up diseases in their full morsels, as pills in pap. Men desire strength of body, and length of daies: sed prohibent grandes patinae. Gluttony was always a friend to Aesculapius. But for the throats indulgence, Paracelsus for all his Mercury had died a beggar. Aches and ay-me's are incident to intemperate houses: Gouts, pleurisies, dropsies, &c. Quae nisi divitibus nequeunt contingere mensis, Horat. We complain the shortness of our lives, yet take the only course to make them shorter.