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A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CAP. XXV.
Of divers other duties which we ought to perform at our meals.
Of diuers other duties which wee ought to performe at our meales.
§. Sect. 1 That we ought to be content with our allowance.
Other duties there are which at our meals ought to be performed, in which I will be more brief and sparing, because I have been larger in the other then I purposed, the excess of diet in these times drawing me on, and making me also exceed in prescribing rules of moderation. The next duty then which we are to observe at our meals, is, that we be contented with our cheer, as being that portion which God in his wise providence hath thought fitting for us; and not suffer our minds to surfeit by feeding on idle wishes of better cheer, when our sensual appetites are stinted with ordinary fare and short commons. Neither let us murmur and repine because we have such mean allowance, nor envy others their full tables; much less let us (as it is the manner of many nice wantons) excuse our too little or too mean fare, when even their own consciences tell them that they have too much, yea, when they are so proud of their cheer, that their dispraises serve but (as their salt meats to their drinks) to draw on their guests to give more commendations. Nor yet let us (like the same persons upon other occasions) fret and fume when as our meat is not so curiously cooked as standeth with our nice appetite, chafing as much at the small errors of the Cooke, as if the good of the Common wealth, and our own safety and salvation wholly rested on it. But let us that profess Christianity leave these vanities, and learn of the Apostle to be contented