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…

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 ^adullness of a gluttonous body. We can never look for great matters from that man, which better relisheth sweet sauces, ⟨p. 199⟩then the sweetness of doing virtuously; and hath a better palate then brain. All the greatest personages of the world, and those that have excelled any way, either in managing affairs of Kingdoms, warlike exploits, heavenly, natural, moral, or manual skill, &c. have been sober. Even amongst the very Heathens, as Cyrus, Cesar, the Roman Curij and Fabritij, more ennobled and renowned for their frugality, then famous victories. But now on the contrary, the most execrable monsters for villainy, cruelty, luxury unnatural impurity, that ever lived, have been gluttons, as the