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…

or strengtheneth and provoketh the former, it cannot be but sinful, being a feeding of the flesh, a making of provision for the flesh, as if we fostered ⟨p. 384⟩our corruptions of laziness, sensuality, and other lusts, when we feast our selves. 8. Look on it with respect to its opposite, sobriety and temperance; what is not sobriety, is excess, and contrarily; and sobriety being not only no excess, but a denied sober use of creatures, there must be excess when the mind, as well as the body, is not sober, in the use of these things. 9. Look on it with respect to its end (with which we began) when it leadeth not to, and fitteth not for honouring of God, when it marreth our being useful to our relations and others, either by taking up our time, or spending our means that we cannot provide for them, and supply them, or indisposeth us for duties, or hindereth a man from considering his own last end, thus it is sinfully excessive. 10. Look on it in reference to death and Christs second appearing, for certainly our frame and posture in every thing should be such as we may not be surprised with that: Hence is Christs warning, Luke 21.34. Take heed that ye be not overcharged with surfeiting, gluttony, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you unawares: where he maketh not only the coming of the Lord, an aw-band to keep from gross out-breaking into these sins; but joining them with the cares of the world, he showeth that there may be, and oft is, an indisposition for that day even from the inward frame of the mind, occasioned by sensual inclinations and desires, when nothing doth outwardly appear.

or strengthneth and provoketh the former, it cannot be but sinful, being a feeding of the flesh, a making of provision for the flesh, as if we fostered ⟨p. 384⟩our corruptions of laziness, sensuality, and other lusts, when we feast our selves. 8. Look on it with respect to its opposite, sobriety and temperance; what is not sobriety, is excess, and contrarily; and sobriety being not only no excess, but a denyed sober use of creatures, there must be excess when the mind, as well as the body, is not sober, in the use of these things. 9. Look on it with respect to its end (with which we began) when it leadeth not to, and fitteth not for honouring of God, when it marreth our being useful to our relations and others, either by taking up our time, or spending our means that we cannot provide for them, and supply them, or indisposeth us for duties, or hindereth a man from considering his own last end, thus it is sinfully excessive. 10. Look on it in reference to death and Christs second appearing, for certainly our frame and posture in every thing should be such as we may not be surprised with that: Hence is Christs warning,