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

3 Consider, that if it be so wicked to devour meats gluttonously, what is it to devour men? toⁿ swallow up a man and his house, even a man and his heritage? Such devourers were the Pharisees; and under the colour of long prayers. These are monstrous Epicures: the poor mans bread is his^o life; and he that takes it from him is vir sanguinum, a bloody man. The usurer keeps a slender diet, but his stomach holds abundance of mortgages, forfeitures, and is oppressed with such ⟨p. 131⟩oppressions. He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly, Job 20.15. God shall one day say to such men; Reddite quod devorastis; restore what you have devoured. When the Chirurgeon opens the Epicures dead body, he finds undigested crudities: when God shall unrip the oppressors dead conscience, there will be found five or six impropriated Churches, there a depopulated town, there thousands of acres of decayed tillage; there the lands of Orphans, and the dowries of widows. Multi in hac vita manducant, quod postea apud Inferos digerunt. They devour that on earth, which they shall digest in hell.

3 Consider, that if it be so wicked to devoure meates gluttonously, what is it to devoure men? toⁿ swallow up a man and his house, even a man and his heritage? Such devourers were the Pharises; and under the colour of long prayers. These are monstrous Epicures: the poore mans bread is his^o life; and he that takes it from him is vir sanguinum, a bloudy man. The usurer keepes a slender dyet, but his stomach holds abundance of morgages, forfeitures, and is oppressed with such ⟨p. 131⟩oppressions. He hath swallowed downe riches, but he shal vomit them up againe: God shall cast them out of his belly,