Christian religion

True it is, that eating and drinking, and giving to marriage, buying and selling, planting and building, are in their own nature lawful and necessary; but our Saviour Christ chargeth them with the abuse of these things; thereby to declare, that a great condemnation is due unto those things, which before men are not condemned. And therefore doth charge ⟨p. 281⟩them with these things rather then with idolatry, whoredom, murder, or such like: so God condemned the world in the eating of the forbidden fruit.

True it is, that eating and drinking, and giuing to marriage, buying and selling, planting and building, are in their owne nature lawfull and necessarie; but our Sauiour Christ chargeth them with the abuse of these things; thereby to declare, that a great condemnation is due vnto those things, which before men are not condemned. And therefore doth charge ⟨p. 281⟩them with these things rather then with idolatrie, whoredome, murther, or such like: so God condemned the world in the eating of the forbidden fruite.

How is the abuse of them gathered?

First, from the Hebrew phrase of eating and drinking, which being uttered in the present time, noteth a continuance of eating and drinking. Secondly, from S. Lukes manner of utterance of them, without any copulative conjoining of them, on this manner: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; that is to say, they were excessively, above measure, given over unto these things. Thirdly, from a metaphor borrowed from the manner of beasts, that eat all the day, and some part of the night.