A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

For Gluttony in general there is a Latin verse, Praepropere, laute, nimis, ardenter studiose. In which five words there are five ways of being guilty of it; 1. By hasting, that is, desiring meat and drink before it be convenient; thus eating and drinking in course, not for hunger or thirst, but for custom, good fellowship, carnal pleasure, &c. is gluttony, and is cursed by the Holy Ghost, Eccles. 10.16, 17. Woe to thee, O Land, &c. here drinking and eating are tied to their seasons. 2. By delicacy in the kind or quality; as when meat and drink are excessive for costliness or fineness, lavishly provided, as Feasts very ordinarily are, Prov. 30.8. So of the rich glutton it is said, he fared delicately every day, Luke 16.19. 3. In the quantity, by too much, when eating is exceeded in, even to indisposition for the duties of our general Christian, and of our particular callings, not to the strengthening us for them, Eccles. 10.17. 4. In the manner, viz. too ardently, when meat is desired with a sort of lust, Prov. 23.3, 20, 21. 5. In the preparing of meat, viz. studiously, that is, when it is too riotously dressed, for pleasing mens carnal appetite and taste, or palate, by the fineness of it, and other curiosities of that kind. More particularly, we may sin either in the excess of meat and drink, when we go without just bounds; or in the defect, which may as well mar the end, to wit, Gods glory and our fitness for duty, as excess may; therefore doth Paul exhort Timothy to the use of a little wine, as needful for him.

For Gluttony in general there is a Latin verse, Praepropere, laute, nimis, ardenter studiose. In which five words there are five wayes of being guilty of it; 1. By hasting, that is, desiring meat and drink before it be convenient; thus eating and drinking in course, not for hunger or thirst, but for custome, good fellowship, carnal pleasure, &c. is gluttony, and is cursed by the Holy Ghost, Eccles. 10.16, 17. Woe to thee, O Land, &c. here drinking and eating are tyed to their seasons. 2. By delicacie in the kind or quality; as when meat and drink are excessive for costliness or sineness, lavishly provided, as Feasts very ordinarily are,