A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. Some Men think that they are above these Directions, to be taught how to eat and drink, and that every Man hath Prudence enough to govern his Appetite. But consider, Christ thought meet to warn his own Disciples; Luke 21.34. Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your Hearts be over-charged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness, and Cares of this Life. A Man would think it a needless Direction to such holy Men; yet saith Christ, Take heed. And certainly Sin is not grown less dangerous, nor we more holy than the Apostles. Besides, now, if ever, is there need of such kind of Preaching; some Men profess to live to the Height of the Creature, and so make Lust as wanton, as it is dangerous always to go near the Pit's Brink; and he that doth all that he may, will soon do more than he should. It is a Character of profane Men, Jude 12. Feeding themselves without Fear. The Throat is a slippery Place, and had need be watched and kept with Fear. We find that an over-spiritual Preaching hath made Men loose and careless, and that moral Duties need to be pressed.

2. Some Men think that they are above these Directions, to be taught how to eat and drink, and that every Man hath Prudence enough to govern his Appetite. But consider, Christ thought meet to warn his own Disciples; Luke 21.34. Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your Hearts be over-charged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness, and Cares of this Life. A Man would think it a needless Direction to such holy Men; yet saith Christ, Take heed. And certainly Sin is not grown less dangerous, nor we more holy than the Apostles. Besides, now, if ever, is there need of such kind of Preaching; some Men profess to live to the Height of the Creature, and so make Lust as wanton, as it is dangerous always to go near the Pit's Brink; and he that doth all that he may, will soon do more than he should. It is a Character of prophane Men, Iude 12. Feeding themselves without Fear. The Throat is a slippery Place, and had need be watch'd and kept with Fear. We find that an over-spiritual Preaching hath made Men loose and careless, and that moral Duties need to be pressed.