The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

That thou mayst be the more watchful against this intemperance, consider the manifold mischiefs which usually accompany the same.

1. It is exceeding hurtful to the body, filling it with crudities, noisome humours, and dangerous obstructions, the Mother of most diseases. If thou wouldst enjoy an ⟨p. 124⟩active healthful body, rise always from the Table with an Appetite. But oh the folly of many men, who for a short delight, which lasteth no longer than the meat is swallowing down, do endure many hours grievances, through the oppression of the Stomach, and pain of the Head! yea, oftentimes dangerous Surfeits, which hazard life it self. What pity is there to such who will sell their healths, and their ease, for a few Meals! let them smart for it, their sickness may cure them of a worse disease.

1. It is exceeding hurtful to the body, filling it with crudities, noysom humours, and dangerous obstructions, the Mother of most diseases. If thou wouldst enjoy an ⟨p. 124⟩active healthful body, rise always from the Table with an Appetite. But oh the folly of many men, who for a short delight, which lasteth no longer than the meat is swallowing down, do endure many hours grievances, through the oppression of the Stomach, and pain of the Head! yea, oftentimes dangerous Surfeits, which hazard life it self. What pity is there to such who will sell their healths, and their ease, for a few Meals! let them smart for it, their sickness may cure them of a worse disease.

2. It dulleth the Wit, infatuateth the Mind, emasculateth the Soul, and the powers thereof; quencheth and devoureth the vigour of the Spirits, whereby a man is often made fit for nothing, but to be a Sleeper, or an idle Drone. Is this thy thankfulness for the bounty of the Lord to thee, to make such use of it, that thou art good for just nothing?