Thatirorld1 things arevnprofitable. Soç ing faith, that gluttonie hath killed many, but fprre diet none : wine. hathhurt innumerable men,.but abflemious lò- briery no man ; manyhaue loft their hues, or at ieafi,haucre- Ambrof. de ceiued their deaths wound euenat their banquets, defiling mina Abel. their tables with their owneblood, but not any haue mif(a- p tied ith temperate diet. Yea howfoeuer famine is much more feared, yct in truth feafting is much more dangerous; both becaufeinnumerable numbers more perifh by glutto- nie thenbywant, and alfo becaufe itbringech them to their iourneyes endby amuch more foule and tedious wayr for whereas famine riddeth men out of their paine in a- few dales, this putrifieth and rotteth themas it wereinchmeale, and by tedious confumptions, and lingring torments,brin- gerh them atlafi to terrible, but yet often wifheddeaches. Ne.iertheleffe fuch is thefollieof the molt that they flee fa- minebecaufeofhisfearefulivifage ,though few perifh by it, and chatby amore eafc,orat leaf/ muchmore fpeedy death, and hug gluttonie in their bofomes, becaufe a elíortplealure accompanied)it, though it bring innumerablemultitudesto muchmore foule and loathfome dellru&ion. And thus youfee thatchefe worldly things littleauaile vs 4.Se17.9. when wee lie vponour ficke beds .But though they could worldly things profit vs, for the°curing offorce ordinarie andnaturall dif- Prefit not isthe cafes, byprocuring vs phyficke and better diet, yet how vn- able yt f°iid` are they to keepebacke old age,which isthe next fore- runner ofdeath ? For whilef} thefe voluptuous pleafures,like ¡hangers or enemies deuoureamans tlrength,gray hciresare heereand therevpon him,andheknoweth it not; as thePro- HoC7.9... phet fpeaketh in another matter. But though they could alto flaythe courfeoftime,& wecould by their helpe renewour age like the Eagle:yet what will theyprofit vs in the dayof Gods wrath, when hec commeth in vifitation to takeven- geanceonvs for our (limes?. Surely then fhall the richtnam Ball hiefishierinto t heflreets,andhidgoldfhall beefame of; his Ezecb.i.t9. fiber and2oldcannot deliner him in thedayofthe rrrathofthe Ze ph. r.18.. Lord. So the Wife man faith, that riches anailenot in theday of+rrath, but righteonfneffedeliuereth from death; and there_ ro.tt.4. . fore the fonne ofSjrach exhorteth vs, not to traf?inour ri- ches
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