A Body of Practical Divinity

Fourthly, By Intemperance, Excess in Diet. Surfeiting shortens Life. Plures periere crapula quam gladio: Many dig their Grave with their Teeth. Too much Oil chokes the Lamp: The Cup kills more than the Canon. Excessive drinking causeth untimely Death.

Fourthly, By Intemperance, Excess in Diet. Surfeiting shortens Life. Plures periere crapula quam gladio: Many dig their Grave with their Teeth. Too much Oyl choaks the Lamp: The Cup kills more than the Canon. Excessive drinking causeth untimely Death.

2. One may be guilty of Self-murder Directly and Absolutely.

(1.) By Envy. Envy is Tristitia de bonis alienis, a secret repining at the Welfare of another. Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis. An envious Man is more sorry at another's Prosperity, than at his own Adversity. He never laughs but when another Weeps. Envy is a Self-murder, a Fretting Canker. Cyprian calls it Vulnus occultum, a Secret Wound; it hurts a Man's self most-Envy corrodes the Heart, dries up the Blood, rots the Bones. Prov. 14.30. Envy is the rottenness of the Bones. It is to the Body as the Moth to the Cloth, it eats it, and makes its Beauty consume. Envy drinks its own Venom. The Viper which leaped on Paul's Hand, thought to have hurt Paul, but fell her self into the Fire, Acts 28.3. So while the envious Man thinks to hurt another, he destroys himself.

(1.) By Envy. Envy is Tristitia de bonis alienis, a secret repining at the Welfare of another. Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis. An envious Man is more sorry at anothers Prosperity, than at his own Adversity. He never laughs but when another Weeps. Envy is a Self-murder, a Fretting Canker. Cyprian calls it Vulnus occultum, a Secret Wound; it hurts a Man's self most-Envy corrodes the Heart, dries up the Blood, rots the Bones.