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

2. For the Quality. We must not hanker after Quails, and desire dainty Food, that's a sign Lust is made wanton; and Nature being perverted, is grown delicate, which otherwise aimeth but at Necessaries. Indeed it is God's great Indulgence to us, to give such things as are Refreshments to Nature, not only for Support but Delight. The Substance of our Food might suffice to nourish, but God hath created them with Smell, Taste and Colours, for our greater Delight, but we must not be too curious; this is nourishing your Hearts as in a Day of Slaughter, Jam. 5.5. And still the Disposition increaseth: Therefore it is good to check Curiosity at first. Curiosity in Diet God takes notice of, Deut. 14.21. Thou shalt not seethe a Kid in his Mother's Milk; affecting excessively the pleasing of the Palate with too much Curiosity. It is said of the rich Glutton, He fared sumptuously every Day, Luke 16.19. I know Feasts are allowed, and sometimes a more liberal Use of the Creature; Christ honoured a Feast with a Miracle of changing Water into Wine: But a constant Delicacy brings a Brawn upon the Heart, and a Wantonness upon the Appetite. When Men do nothing else but knit Pleasure to Pleasure, they nourish their Hearts, that is, rear up their Lusts, and are fond of the Flesh. We are still to maintain and carry on the spiritual Conflict, and therefore this Curiosity and hunting after Novelties, is contrary to the Intent of the Christian Life, which is a War with the Flesh, not to make it wanton.

2. For the Quality. We must not hanker after Quails, and desire dainty Food, that's a sign Lust is made wanton; and Nature being perverted, is grown delicate, which otherwise aimeth but at Necessaries. Indeed it is God's great Indulgence to us, to give such things as are Refreshments to Nature, not only for Support but Delight. The Substance of our Food might suffice to nourish, but God hath created them with Smell, Taste and Colours, for our greater Delight, but we must not be too curious; this is nourishing your Hearts as in a Day of Slaughter, Jam. 5.5. And still the Disposition increaseth: Therefore it is good to check Curiosity at first. Curiosity in Diet God takes notice of,