Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

Come forth all ye Gluttons, who have prepared your flesh with delicious food, but never had the least regard to feed your souls which had more need, who have spent many hours & days in feasting your bodies, nourishing your selves against the day of slaughter; but when you were invited by my Messengers to the Marriage-Feast, to the Feast I had prepared for you, of the richest and most costly Spiritual dainties; you had no stomach, no appetite, and could not, would not come: what! did you indeed make your belly your God? and can s••h a God save and make you happy? Did you think that food which perisheth, could give happiness to a never doing soul? did you not know that both meat and belly would be destroyed? and that your bodies would become food for Worms? and yet could you make it the chief business of your lives to feed your bodies? you were allowed food convenient, and sometime for delight, that your bodies might serve your souls with strength and vigour, and both, their Lord and Master: but excess you were forbidden, which did distemper both body and mind, and unfit you for the service of the Lord: and yet would you overcharge your selves? now reap the fruit of this intemperance, and taste the Gall and Wormwood which your sweet bits are turned into.

Come forth all ye Gluttons, who have prepared your flesh with delicious food, but never had the least regard to feed your souls which had more need, who have spent many hours & days in feasting your bodies, nourishing your selves against the day of slaughter; but when you were invited by my Messengers to the Marriage-Feast, to the Feast I had prepared for you, of the richest and most costly Spiritual dainties; you had no stomack, no appetite, and could not, would not come: what! did you indeed make your belly your God? and can s••h a God save and make you happy? Did you think that food which perisheth, could give happiness to a never doing soul? did you not know that both meat and belly would be destroyed? and that your bodies would become food for Worms? and yet could you make it the chief business of your lives to feed your bodies? you were allowed food convenient, and sometime for delight, that your bodies might serve your souls with strength and vigour, and both, their Lord and Master: but excess you were forbidden, which did distemper both body and mind, and unfit you for the service of the Lord: and yet would you overcharge your selves? now reap the fruit of this intemperance, and taste the Gall and Wormwood which your sweet bits are turned into.