Two sermons, of Jonahs punishmentTwo sermons, of Ionahs punishment

And how loathsome then dost thou seem to God? Therefore the first law that Adam received of God, was abstinence, which if he had kept, he had kept all virtues beside, but intemperance lost all, In abstinence the law came to Moses, and he fasted when he received it, to show that they which received the word of God, receive it soberly. A temperate man seldom sinneth, because the flesh which doth tempt is mortified, least it should tempt but when the handmaid is above the mistress, and a man hath lost the image of GOD, and scarce retaineth the image of man, all his thoughts, and speeches, and actions must needs be sin, and nothing but sin, because the band of virtue, sobriety, is broken, which kept all together: when didst thou want discretion to consider? when didst thou want patience to forgive: When didst thou want continency to refrain? When didst thou want heart to pray, but when sobriety was fled away, and in temperance filled her room? If shame let to sin, it ⟨image 56⟩casteth out shame: if fear let to sin, it casteth out fear: if love let to sin, it expulseth love, if knowledge let to sin, it expulseth knowledge, like a covetous Landlord, which would have all to himself and dwell alone.

And how lothsome then dost thou seeme to God? Therefore the first lawe that Adam receiued of God, was abstinence, which if hee had kept, hee had kept all vertues beside, but intemperancie lost all, In abstinence the lawe came to Moses, and hee fasted when he receiued it, to shew that they which receiued the word of God, receiue it soberly. A temperate man seldome sinneth, because the flesh which doth tempt is mortified, least it should tempt but when the handmaide is aboue the mistresse, and a man hath lost the image of GOD, and scarse retaineth the image of man, all his thoughts, and speeches, and actions must needs bee sinne, and nothing but sinne, because the band of vertue, sobrietie, is broken, which kept all together: when didst thou want discretion to consider? when didst thou want patience to forgiue: When didst thou want continencie to refraine? When didst thou want heart to pray, but when sobrietie was fled away, and in temperancie filled her roome? If shame let to sinne, it ⟨image 56⟩casteth out shame: if feare let to sinne, it casteth out feare: if loue let to sinne, it expulseth loue, if knowledge let to sinne, it expulseth knowledge, like a couetous Landlord, which would haue all to himselfe and dwell alone.