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Doct. There is best cheer where is best company to eat and drink with. It is said to the same purpose, as it may appear by the force of the argument, in another Proverb, that better is a dry morsel, if peace be with it, than an house full of sacrifices, ¹with strife.

Doct. There is best cheere where is best companie to eat and drinke with. It is said to the same purpose, as it may appeare by the force of the argument, in another Prouerbe, that better is a drie morseil, if peace be with it, than an house full of sacrifices, ¹with strife.

1. 1Prover. 17. 1.Prouer. 17. 1.

There were many great Feasts in the time of the Apostles, and yet of them none are so much commended in the Scriptures as the meetings of the believers, which did eat meat ¹together with gladness and singleness of heart: notwithstanding they had neither so much meat, nor so costly dishes, as divers others had. It is noted of Abraham, that he entertained God and his Angels to dinner. The Lord himself would be his guest, sithence he would be so good an house-keeper: and ⟨p. 21⟩yet the victuals which are mentioned were only butter and milk, and veal that had not time to cool between the killing and dressing: notwithstanding his hospitality is preferred before the Persian Kings royal banquet: for the one ²purposed to show his greatness in pomp, and the other his goodness in love. The one dealt exceeding unkindly with his own wife, and the other very courteously with them that seemed to him to be mere strangers.