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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
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.
It is an abominable shame to a Saint to be a slave to the beast in him, his sensitive appetite. He that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. Beasts seldom surfeit at their food, never sin. Epicurus who esteemed mans happiness to consist in pleasures, was yet very temperate, as Cicero and others observe. Socrates was wont to say, That evil men live that they may eat and drink, but good men eat and drink that they may live.
It is an abominable shame to a Saint to be a slave to the beast in him, his sensitive appetite. He that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. Beasts seldome surfet at their food, never sin. Epicurus who esteemed mans happiness to consist in pleasures, was yet very temperate, as Cicero and others observe. Socrates was wont to say, That evil men live that they may eat and drink, but good men eat and drink that they may live.
Some of the heathen did very much hate excess, either in eating or drinking. The old Gauls were very sparing in their diet, and fined them that outgrew their girdles. Drunkenness, by Solon's law, was punished with death, The Spartans brought their children to loath drunkenness by causing them to behold the beastly behaviour of their servants when they were drunk.
Some of the heathen did very much hate excess, either in eating or drinking. The old Gauls were very sparing in their diet, and fined them that outgrew their girdles. Drunkenness, by Solons law, was punished with death, The Spartans brought their children to loath drunkenness by causing them to behold the beastly behaviour of their servants when they were drunk.
But how many nominal Christians, in regard of temperance, come short of heathens! Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim, of England (God hath a cup of red wine, of pure wrath, and these must drink the dregs thereof) how doth this iniquity abound! men drink healths so long till they drink away their health and their heaven too? Some mariners observe that as the waters grow shallower (the sea losing)