The word that is here translated drink, it carrieth with it their festival meeting, Convivium recess•t, that is,1 their feasts and their meetings, it is as wine that is sour and hath lost the spirit and savour of it; For drink they understand their drinkings, that is, the comforts that they have in this world, that these Idolaters do so much satisfy themselves in, as your superstitious Idolatrous people they always seek to pamper their bellies and to be sure to have outward comforts: Now saith he, all this is sour. And indeed all the comfort of this world when God is forsaken, it is but as sour drink, the sweetness and quickness, and life of all is taken away when God and his worship is forsaken: So you may take their drink by a Synecdoche, for all the comforts of this world, even all those carnal things they seek to satisfy their flesh withal, it is all sour, for God is gone when his worship is gone. Perhaps if you had had superstition and Idolatry set up amongst you in England, 2you might have had your drink and your wine at your tables more plentifully, but if God and his Worship had been gone, all had been sour no sweetness in any thing. I appeal to those that have proved Apostates though they have apostatized to enjoy comforts to the flesh, how sour and unsavoury have the comforts of the flesh been unto them? whereas let a people keep close to God and his worship and then their drink if it be but water it will be sweet unto them; As in Acts 2. the Saints that believed they did eat their bread with singleness of heart and with gladness. We were wont to say, Brown bread and the Gospel is good cheer; let us have but bread and water so be it we may have the Gospel and the Ordinances and the Worship of God, and it will be sweet unto us; but let us have wine and all manner of drink at our tables, if we have not the Ordinances and Worship of God, it will be all sour to us. The ten Tribes had as good drink as Judah had, yet all the drink of the ten Tribes was sour.
The word that is here translated drink, it carrieth with it their festival meeting, Convivium recess•t, that is,1 their feasts and their meetings, it is as wine that is sowr and hath lost the spirit and savor of it; For drink they understand their drinkings, that is, the comforts that they have in this world, that these Idolaters do so much satisfie themselves in, as your superstitious Idolatrous people they alwaies seek to pamper their bellies and to be sure to have outward comforts: Now saith he, all this is sowr. And indeed all the comfort of this world when God is forsaken, it is but as sowr drink, the sweetness and quickness, and life of all is taken away when God and his worship is forsaken: So you may take their drink by a Senechdoch, for al the comforts of this world, even al those carnal things they seek to satisfie their flesh withal, it is all sowr, for God is gone when his worship is gone. Perhaps if you had had superstition and Idolatry set up amongst you in England, 2you might have had your drink and your wine at your tables more pentifully, but if God and his Worship had been gone, all had been sowr no sweetness in any thing. I appeal to those that have proved Apostates though they have apostatized to enjoy comforts to the flesh, how sowr and unsavory have the comforts of the flesh been unto them? whereas let a people keep close to God and his worship and then their drink if it be but water it will be sweet unto them; As in Acts 2. the Saints that beleeved they did eat their bread with singleness of heart and with gladness. We were wont to say, Brown bread and the Gospel is good cheer; let us have but bread and water so be it we may have the Gospel and the Ordinances and the Worship of God, and it wil be sweet unto us; but let us have wine and all manner of drink at our tables, if we have not the Ordinances and Worship of God, it will be all sowr to us. The ten Tribes had as good drink as Judah had, yet all the drink of the ten Tribes was sowr.
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