Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

47E That worldly, things are vnproftable. Vbi multe opts, ding of them with their eyes? In which refpedl men abounding multi etiam teas ant with wordily wealth, haue that benefit by their riches, that v¡us quidem rewards haue in a great family, by the great fummes which diuitiarum a- are committed to their difpofing, whereby (at!earl if they pudalios,di- be faithful!) they onely haue their care and paires increafed uttibus¡alum whilefi they make prouifion for fo many mouthes and bel- nemeu cedit rr lies; and the greater andmore difficult reckoning to make, folicituda, ßer- g g nard.decon- when their mailers call them to yeeld their accounts. For uerf. ad cirri- what are rich men but Gods flewards, who haue their abun.. cog. Senn. datare committed veto them, not to fpend their fuperfluity cap.a :. in riot and exceffe, but to maintaine and relieue their fellow feruants? andwhat in this regard doe theirgreat receits pro- fit them, feeing of all, they haue but meate for their bellies, and clothing for their backes, and of the refi mull bee ac- countantto our great Lord and mailer how they haue be- flowed it, when at the great day ofhis appearing heefhal! call them to a reckoning. Yea but being fiewards theymay allow to themfelues a double portion; and all things corn- ming through their hands, they haue more liberalll mainte- nance, and a greater (hare in thofe rich talents which are committed to their difpofing. For example, they haue the priuiledge offull tables and daintie diet, ofcoVlyapparell, and loft beds; whereas the poorer fort haue fcant and courfe fare, means clothes,andhard lodging. To which I anlwere, that thefe benefits are exceeded by the inconuenienceswhich doe accompanie them; and though they were nor, yet in the very fruition of their things, wherein they glory moil, they haue little priuiledge aboue them who arc skanted of them; teeing howfoeuer they touch exceed them in their flore, yet neither in profit nor delight; for the pieafureof eating and drinking, confifleth not fo much in the dainti- neffe of our fare, as in the difpoiition of chore who fit at the table,feeing he who bringeth with him an hungrie appe- Chryfoll. ad tite and good flomacke, 'feedeth on his courfe fare with pop. Antioch. Homil.a.cot» ,4 more delig ht then he who is glutted with often furfettin on his moll cofily cates, although his flomackebee whetted with great variety ofineates, and innumerable forts of allu- ring fauces. But herein the poore have priuiledge aboue the rich,