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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1667
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 8
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Come forth all ye Gluttons; who have pampered your flesh with delicious food; but never had the least regard to seed your souls▪ which had more need; who have s•e• many hours and days in feasting your bodies, nourishing your selves against the day of slaughter; but when you were invited by my Messengers to the marriage fe•st, to the feast I had prepared for you, of the richest and most costly spiritual dainties; you had no stomach, no appetite, and could not, would not come; what! did you indeed make your belly your God? and can such a God ⟨p. 99⟩save and make you happy? did you think that food which perisheth could give happiness to a never-dying soul? did you not know that both meat and belly would be destroyed? and that your bodies would become food for worms? and yet could you make it the chief business of your lives to feed your bodies? you were allowed food convenient, and something for delight, that your bodies might serve your souls with strength and vigour, and both their Lord and Master; but excess you were forbidden, which did distemper both body and mind, and unfit you for the service of the Lord; and yet would you overcharge your selves? now reap the fruit of this intemperance, and taste the Gall and Wormwood which your sweet bits are turned into.
Come forth all ye Gluttons; who have pampered your flesh with delicious food; but never had the least regard to seed your souls▪ which had more need; who have s•e• many hours and dayes in feasting your bodies, nourishing your selves against the day of slaughter; but when you were invited by my Messengers to the marriage fe•st, to the feast I had prepared for you, of the richest and most c•stly spiritual dainties; you had no stomack, no appetite, and could not, would not come; what! did you indeed make your belly your God? and can such a God ⟨p. 99⟩save and make you happy? did you think that food which perisheth could give happiness to a never-dying soul? did you not know that both meat and belly would be destroyed? and that your bodies would become food for worms? and yet could you make it the chief business of your lives to feed your bodies? you were allowed food convenient, and something for delight, that your bodies might serve your souls with strength and vigour, and both their Lord and Master; but excess you were forbidden, which did distemper both body and minde, and unfit you for the service of the Lord; and yet would you overcharge your selves? now reap the fruit of this intemperance, and taste the Gall and Wrmood which your sweet bits are turn'd into.