470 The Life of Faith. Objet. But is it not Paid that Cbriff eame eating and drinking, and the Pharifees quarrelled with him andbis Difciples, becaufe they didnot fait as john and bis Difciples did; and they called bin. a gluttonous plots, and a winebibber, a friend of Publi- cans andfrnners. itnfw. t. John lived in a tbildernefs, upon !omits and wild honey : andbecaufe Chrift lived not fuch an aufere ercmetical life, the quarrelfome Pharifecs did thus calumniate him. But Chriti never lived in the lean excels. Mark that part of his lift which they thus accufed, and you will find it fuch As the fenfual will be loth to imitate. 3. Chrift was by office to con- verfe with Publicans and (inners for their cure : And this gave occalon to the calumnies ofmalice. 3. There was a difference ofReafons forJohn's autterity, and Chritis : But when he, the Bridegroom was taken away, he feretclleth that his followers thould fait. q.. Chrift failed forty dales at once, and drank wa- ter, and lived in perfc& temperance: Imitate him, and we will not blame you for exccfs : His example preached poverty in [pill:. Direá. II. Remember the Reafons why fulnefs andgulofrty are fo much condemned by God, vis. r. A pampered appetite is unruy; and feedeth your tonal- ?Teener. The flefh is now become our .nrog dangerous enemy ; and therefore it muff be dangerous to pamper it, to the Arengthcning of its lulls : When even Paul was put to baffet and tame it, and bring it into fubjellion, for fear of proving a raft-away afterall his wondrous labours. 3. The pleatingof the appetite toomuch, corruptetb the de- light and reii/i, of the foul. Delight in God, and Heaven, and itfolinefs, is the fumm and life of true Religion; and the de- lights of fenfe andflefbly appetite, turn away the foul from this, and are mot} mortal enemies to thcfe true delights. For they that are after the flefb, do mindor favour the thingsof the Alb ; and they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit, Rom, 8. 6, 7. And thecarnal mind is enmity to God: if it cannot be fubjeü to his Law, certainly it is unfit to rellith the fweetncfs of his Love, and fpiritual mercies. ;. And
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