Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

2. The hasty marriages in tender years, wherein Nature being but yet green and growing, we rent from her and replant her branches, while her self hath not yet any root sufficient to maintain her own top: and such half ripe seeds (for the most part) in their growing up, wither in the bud, and wax old even in their infancy.

2. The hasty mariages in tender yeeres, wherein Nature being but yet greene and growing, we rent from her and replant her branches, while her selfe hath not yet any roote sufficient to maintaine her owne top: and such halfe ripe seedes (for the most part) in their growing vp, wither in the bud, and waxe old euen in their infancy.

3. But above all things, the exceeding luxuriousness of this gluttonous age, wherein we press Nature with over weighty burdens, and finding her strength defective, we take the work out of her hands, and commit it to the artificial help of Sack, Tobacco, strong Waters, hot Spices, provoking Sauces, &c. As thou wouldest then, not abridge thy days, and be guilty of thine own untimely death, do not gormandize.

3. But aboue all things, the exceeding luxuriousnesse of this gluttonous age, wherein wee presse Nature with ouer waighty burdens, and finding her strength defectiue, we take the worke out of her hands, and commit it to the artificiall helpe of Sacke, Tobacco, strong Waters, hot Spices, prouoking Sawces, &c. As thou wouldest then, not abridge thy dayes, and be guiltie of thine owne vntimely death, doe not gormandize.

4. Never any man given to his belly, did nobly in any kind, or ever performed any great work; but ordinarily proves a swinish idle unprofitable burden of the earth; and hath his soul only, as they say, for salt to keep his body from putrefaction. The excellency and activity of the soul is quiet damped; and utterly disabled from all deep and diviner contemplations, from all noble achievements and employments of weight, by the burdensome fullness and