The Life of Faith, much as other men msy do ; becaufe for the pleating of one lull, they feed another. 2. Oche rs that areflegztatickand duff, can never Iced fully, but they arc heavy and drowfie, unfit for prayer, and unfit for work : ufually the health, as well as the confciences of thcfe perlons, doch require a (pare kind ofdyct ; and that which is but enough for others, is too much for them. Becaufc the avoiding of fiat, and the performance of our duties, is the eaeafurc of our food. q.. It is finful Fulnefs, when any of Gods creatures arc taken without any benefit, and in vain. It is a fin to take any more than we have caufe to think is like to do us good ; thoughwe thought it were like to do no harm. That which is tiled only to gratifie the appetite, or for any other unprofitable caufe, and neither furthereth health nor duty, is finfully cats away. And if vain words be forbidden, vain eating and drinking can be nobetter. The evil of the fin is, 1. Becaufc man beings rational crea- ture, thould do nothing in vain : a. Becaule we arc Gods Stewards, and mull give an account of all our talents: 3 Be- caufe Gods mercies are not to be contemned, nor cati away as nothing worth. 4. But efpecially becaufe there are Hoof/aids in want, while you abcund, and if you (pend that in voin, which others need, you wrong God, and rob them, and thew that you want love to your brethren, and preferyour appetites before their nullities. If you think any thing that you have is abfolutcly your own, you arc but foolifh pretenders againfi God : But if you know that God hash lent it you for his fer- vice, how dare you cati it away in vain ? fch. 6. 1 a. When Chriti had multiplied food (or fatisfied mens appetite) by mi- racle, he faith, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be le : Nothing thenmuti be Nr; on your feivcs or others. 5. To bellow too much coti upon thebelly, is a finful Fulzefe too ; though the quantity of food be never fo fmall. Goff is ton much when it is more than is profitable; or when the colt ex- ceedtth the profit. The reafons of this are the fame as of the former ; becaufe we are Gods Stewards,and muff give account of all that we have,and muti improve it all to our Mstiers tits ; and becaufe thoufands want what we might (pare, and fuper- N nn z y
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