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V
E
R.
IS.
Epbefans,Chap.
.
6z9
wifdome
of
worldly ones,
falfely called wifdome
:
not
deepe
rea:
ches,
not craft,
not profoundneffc
in
this
or that
knowledge
, which
maketh wife ,
but knowing
and obeying
the
will
of
God. True
it
is
that others
that take another way are
wafer in
their generation ; but
this
is
not
becaufetheirs
is
greater wifdom,but
beçaufe we keep
not
our
felves
fo
to
our
rule,but
often foolifhly fwerve from it,elfe
Achitayheis
wifdotpe
fhould be infatuate and
prove
foolifhneffe , in
comparifon
of
that
which
is
in
obferving the Commandements.
It
lettethus
fee
what
we
mutt
doe
if
we will be
wife,
take
our
di
I;
reáíon
from the
Word.
For looke
as a
fool;
if
he will
doe
a wife acti-
on,
muff
follow better
heads
then
his
owne:
So we foolifh,
in regard
of
all
true wifdome, mutt follow the
counfell
of
the ónely
wife
God,
before we
can
doe any thing
in
wifdome.
Let
us
therefore deny our
felves,ourowne wifdome, and yeild
our felves
in
all things
to Gods
direâion, that
we
may
be
wife.
V
E
ESE
I8.
vtnd
be
not
dranke with
wine
wherein
is excefje
:
bat
VERSE
à
S.
be
filledwith the
Spirit.
Now
followeth the next precept
;
Be
not
dranke with wine.
For the
opening
of
the Precept;
a.
It
doth
intimate
that there
is
a
lawfull
ufe
of
wine
for
health
and
ftrength,
r
7isn.y. Ecclef
t
o.
z.
For delight, for
it is
the
end
gfor
which
God
did create it.
3.
To
fatiate and
content
the deliireofnature: For
it
is
a
piece
of
the curie, to
drink and
not
be
fatisficd
:
but
this precept fprbiddeth
all
excefve
or inordinate,either
affecting,
or
ufing
of
wine, or
any
drink
intoxicating
:
For
drunkenneffe
is
not only
fuch
as
taketh
away
the
ufe
ofreafon,
the feete,
taking
of
wine
to vomit, to
fickneffe,
they
made
the
King
fick with
flagons,
but
all
exceflive
ufe
is
fo
calIed,diinking
to inflammation,
Elay
y.
So
all
inordinate aWeting or
ufing: For
as
there
is
an
inward gluttony, when
the
thoughts
run upon
the diet on
ly,
and
a
man
cheweth the cud before he get
bis
meat
:
So
when the
thoughts
and
affeEtions
are
carried inordinately toward
the
cup, it is
a
kinde
of
inward drunkenneffe , when
a
mans
lips are
alwayes hanging
after
fuch lettïce,
his
heart
is
drunken
,
'though
bee fitterh
in
pri-
vate
:
So
all
inordinate ufing
of
it,
either
in hunting after
it,
in
doting
upon
the
quality of drinkcs,or
in
taking
it
unfeafonably,
or
in
drinking
for goffipping
,
for company
:
they
arc all
to be conceived
as
degrees
and
occafions
forbidden.
The
ufe
of
this
is
to rebuke the
liquid lives
of
many
that do
nothing
V
><.
but follow the butterie,
in
running
to
feeke
their
delight
,
fuch
whofe
thoughts have
no
other
objet#.
It
doth teach
us
our dutie, even
to
keepe
our
felves
unfpotted this
way,
and
to
labour
to
get
out,
if
wee be intangled
:
And for to
helpe
In
it,
I
will
fet
dowse
:
r.
Some confiderations
2. Some
rules
of
prattife.
It
is
good to
confider
how it
is
a
deceit that doth delude
tis;
for
it
g:
Iii
promifcth