Virt{i. It. Wbat Glttttany u. ~·I_ I· Direct. IJ. Suppofe you l;rard the end annexed to every fpuch: As when you hear one temp_rmg you to lull, fuppofe he fatd, come, let Uf tak.f ottr plcafim! a-n-·hi!e and be d.Jm;ud for ever :So alfo m every word that tempteth you to any .other fin; if tl~c 1emptrr ptl~ in the fin, do you put in Godt "'ratbland HrU, and fcparate nor that whJCh God harh ad)oyncd, but with theJcrpcnt fee the /!in Y· 12. Direct. 12. Obforve when tbe infiUioJJ firft foizetb on )'fltt, and prefently tak,_e .an amifou ~· exprl it, if yon love your foulJ. The figns of infeCtion are, r. 'When your zeal ab1ccth, and you gro; m?re i~different what you h~ar: ~· Next you will feel feme little inclination to it. 3· Ntxt you wdl a little venture upo? an tmttatJo~•. 4· And laflly you will come to full confCnt, and [o to ruine. If you feel but a remtttmg of your dtfltke and hatred, or any filth or tin6!ure left on your thoughts and fa~tafie, go prefently .and fluke them off; Bewail it to God in true Repentance, and waih your fouls m the blood of Chnil, and call up the poifon by holy refolutions, and fweae our the remnant by the fervent exercifcs of Love and Holinefs. PART. IV. XlireBians far Gowrning tiJe Taft and Appetite. Tit. J, :Direefia11> againft Gluttony. ~· I· T H E moll that is necdfary to be faid to acquaint you wirb the Nature and Evil of rhis fin, is faid before m Chap. 4· Part 7·•,againll Flrjh-plrafing: Bur fomerhmg more particularly mull: be fatd, I· T~ fhew you what IS and what IS not the fin of G!unony, 2· To !hew you the Cau[et of tt. 3· The odieufnt{s of 11, and 4· To acqairnt you with the more parucular Helps and Means againil it. So the JfrA~littt §. 2. I. Gluttony it a VoluntM) txcefi in eating, for tht plepfing of the Appetite or [ome otbrr carnal r~m~~;~~~~ ~nd. H~e note, I· The .M.ztttr, 2o1he .enr:l or ~efftll of this ex:tfi. Jo Ir is fomcti~e an rx;;rjjng G b m ~utJJtttty: when more IS eaten, than tS meet. 2· Or elfe It may be an exceft m the Dcli~ ~~fi~a~~ cioM qutJlity, when more regard is had of the Dtligbt and fwrrtncft than is meet. 3· Or ic thMgtD[dyu, may be a.n excefs in the frequmcie and ordinary unfeafonablenefs of eating: When men eat too oft and was a fin of · fit at it too long. +• It may be an excefs in the cofllim:JI or price, when men feed rhemfdves at too gJioliwo.r b _high rates. 5· Or it may be an cxcefs of curiojity in the drtffi11g, and {arrci1tg and ordering of all. ~n~t:~;e·fo: 2· And ic is ufually for fome carntJl en4: whether it may be properly called Glttony if a man fnould Apperire th3n think that at a Sacrifice or thankfgiving he were bound to tat inordinately, and fo made the fervice of Health. God his end, we need not enquire; (though I fee not but it may have that name ) For thats a cJfe Even fruirful that is more ra.re; and it is ~ndoubtedly a fin: A~d it is Glutt~ny if it. b~ done for the pleafing of bnd fai.tb IJln- other1 that are Importunate wtth you. But the commop Glutt011§ JS whe,n tit IS done for the p!eafing of tarth en~i~bthe Appetite, with fuch a plefJ[ure, as is no help to Health or f?uty, but ufually a hurt to Body or Soul, ech not tf Jt the Body being hurt by tile txceji, the foul is hurt by thdnardintJtt Pleafurt. cl~~~':n:::fo'~ 9· 3: Yea it is a .kJncl of Glrtt!onyand txctfi, when. men w.i11 not fajl or. fJbftain when they are rcgui~ s 1 hm. g red, horn that wh1ch at other times they may ufe wnh.abfhnence and 1 w1thout blame. If a man nfc not to eat cxceffively nor delicioufly, yet if he will Pot abflain from his temperate dyet, either at a publick fall, or when his lull: requireth him to take down his body, or when his Ph~'licion would dyet him for his health, and his difeafe elfe would be encreafed by what heeateth, this is an i~tordinat;: etJting and excefs, to that perfon, at that time. Or if the_Deligbt that the appeiite hath in one fort of meat, which is hurtful to the body, prevail againfi reafon and health fo with the perfon, that he will not forbear it, ie is a ~egree ofGulojity or Gluttony, ·th9ugh·for q~amity and quali:y it be in it Jilf but mean and ordinary. 9· 4• By this you may fee, I· That it is not the fame qu~~lity which is an excc[t in one, which is in another. A labouring man may eat fomewhat more than..one that dothnot tabour, and aftrong and bealth{ztl body more than the WttJk and jicJt: It mull be an exct[s in qf'tJntity, as to that parricuitJr ptrfim.at tb.at time, which i~, when to pleafe his aFpetite he eateth more than is profitable to his heal~h or duty. z. So alfo the fr'9"'"'Y mull be confidered with the quality of the perfon: For one pujon may rationally eat a little and ofim for his health, and another may luxurio~ifly cat otter than 1s pro– lita~le to he~lrh: Ecclef. ro. t6, '7· Wo to thee 0 /a}ld when tkY King it a cb;M, and tby Princrr rat in tb~ morn_i1rg. BJeffed art thou 0 land, when thy Ki11g i1 the fon of Noblcs,· and th)' Princu.cat tn due . feafon, for jlreu~th a1Zd 11ot for drun)(enmfs· 3· And in point of cojl:linrfi, the fame meafure IS not eo be fet to a Prince and toa plow·nun : that is, luxuriouJ Cf<cefs in one, which_m.ay be t,tmp~rance and frugality"in -another: But yet, rmprofitable cojf, which ·au things confidered ~ould do more good tmot~Hr way, is ex.c"ifi in whomfoevcr: 4• And in curiojity ofdyer, a di/ference mufi be allowed:· The happ1er healrhful
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