3. Young men, take heed of Gluttony, especially in these leisure days, wherein so much time and cost is laid out in Feasts. This Gluttony is called by our Saviour, surfeiting, which he warneth his ⟨p. 97⟩Disciples against, Luk. 21. 34. Take heed to your selves; lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and that day overtake you at unawares: Here Gluttony and Drunkenness are coupled together, as being much of the same nature, the one is drinking to excess, the other is eating to excess; then our Saviour biddeth, take heed of overcharging their hearts; when the body is overcharged with meat, the heart is overcharged, the Soul is overcharged as well as the Body, and therefore unfit for the service either of God or Man. Then he commandeth them to take heed, lest at any time they overcharge themselves with such excesses; it is not lawful at any time, neither on ordinary days, neither on extraordinary days, not on Feasting days; God alloweth his people to feast, but not to gluttonize; they may eat for necessity, and something for delight, but they must never eat unto excess, to distemper and discompose themselves for action. And lastly, he subjoins an awakening Consideration, lest that day overtake them at unawares, lest the day of Judgement overtake them, if not of the general Judgement, yet of their particular Judgement; lest Death should surprise them, and the wrath of God should surprise them at unawares, and they should be taken away in the act of this sin, as Psal. 78. 30, 31. Whilst the meat was in their mouths, the wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them.
3. Young men, take heed of Gluttony, especially in these leasure dayes, wherein so much time and cost is layed out in Feasts. This Gluttony is called by our Saviour, sursetting, which he warneth his ⟨p. 97⟩Disciples against, Luk. 21. 34. Take heed to your selves; lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfetting and drunkenness, and that day overtake you at unawares: Here Gluttony and Drunkenness are coupled together, as being much of the same nature, the one is drinking to excess, the other is eating to excess; then our Saviour biddeth, take heed of overcharging their hearts; when the body is overcharged with meat, the heart is overcharged, the Soul is overcharged as well as the Body, and therefore unfit for the service either of God or Man. Then he commandeth them to take heed, lest at any time they overcharge themselves with such excesses; it is not lawfull at any time, neither on ordinary dayes, neither on extraordinary dayes, not on Feasting dayes; God alloweth his people to feast, but not to gluttonize; they may eat for necessity, and something for delight, but they must never eat unto excess, to distemper and discompose themselves for action. And lastly, he subjoyns an awakening Consideration, lest that day overtake them at unawares, lest the day of Judgement overtake them, if not of the generall Judgement, yet of their particular Judgement; lest Death should surprize them, and the wrath of God should surprize them at unawares, and they should be taken away in the act of this sin, as Psal. 78. 30, 31. Whilest the meat was in their mouths, the wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them.
