Ofthe RichmanandLazarus z his Con nes hash taken holdvpon thefe dayes, wlieregn the cu(tom eofour. temperate Ancellors is notkept. Fortneanc perfons are not contented with foci fle#h : theymufihauc Manna and Q.Diles, fodand rolled too , or they-firenot well .t.Sam.a, a 5; In our quaffing cuppes, wefacrifice to health,and fpeake ofhealths,when weprepare for nothing fedTe, and thecontrarie followed: ; wherein we doeas fame ofthe heathen did in the daies of facrifice to their idolsfor health for facrificing for health, theybanqueteddrunken- ly.-to t-hepreiudice oftheir health. But takewe heedeofthe pottage to red, Gen.2 5.3 o, that is, cfthe:rivewhen itfZew- eth redin theoil z3.3,r :andofourmorfellswhen they baitevs with their pleafantnes in thedifh , leaf with Efacr (that wasprophane, - and acunninghunter ofthefe things) we thinke the time long , till we haue eaten and drunkea- Way theblefing. One telles a tale of a certaine Bird,which bath theface ofa man , and yet is fo fierceofnature, that imetirne in her hunger fhé will prey vpon Man. This Bird (faith myAuthor) comming to the waterto drinke, and feeinga facein it (which is her owne) like theface of that Manwhichbefore fhe dcuoured ; ingreat farrow for one flainby her fo likeher felfc,rheneuerafter eithereats or drinkes, but beates herfelfe to death. I will not iu(fikethe tale :but methinkes all- drunkards and great dettourers,. (not for any'want,as that Bird,but for wantonand damna- blepleafures) Mould conceiue great farrow ; great er then that Birddid , for killingof one-; notlike themfelues, but their very felues. Me thinites; ifthey would fee that face in their cuppes ofwine,and glafresofífrong drinke,the faceof that Chriffianman, whofe graces andvertues, fo many in one man theyhaue beene the deathof theycouic not; (hawing reafon , which the Birdwe fpakeofhath not, and being greater murtherers by farre) but pierce thetnfe1nes` throughwithmany forrowes, nottodeath, but to true life by foundrepentance. Or,how can they heare either of a flrongman , or a fober man, or a wife man , and not be wounded with flings ofhorriblefeare, in the lends crieof C 3 . their
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