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…

8. Eating and drinking may be considered as to the expenses we bestow on what we eat and drink, and the affection we have to them, or delight in them, spoken of; as also in respect of the time we spend on them. Hence is the curse, Isa. 5.11. Woe to them that rise early, and tarry long at strong drink; much time spent this way, even when the grosser effects follow not, will bring a curse from God; for he hath given time for other ends, and will have that no less tenderly minded then estate, health, or any other benefit; and if we dare not spend, waste, or abuse these in eating or drinking for fear of sin, why should we take more liberty as to our precious time?

8. Eating and drinking may be considered as to the expences we bestow on what we eat and drink, and the affection we have to them, or delight in them, spoken of; as also in respect of the time we spend on them. Hence is the curse, Isa. 5.11. Woe to them that rise early, and tarry long at strong drink; much time spent this way, even when the grosser effects follow not, will bring a curse from God; for he hath given time for other ends, and will have that no less tenderly minded then estate, health, or any other benefit; and if we dare not spend, waste, or abuse these in eating or drinking for fear of sin, why should we take more liberty as to our precious time?

9. Consider eating and drinking as a mean seasonably made use of for its end, as strength or health, and the honour of God, or as an end it self, or without respect to another end: and thus it is sinful, Eccles. 10.16, 17. and the Land is cursed that hath Princes that keep not the bounds allowed; which implieth that the using of meat or drink, without respect to its end, and that in due season (as God giveth all things,