Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

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 owne blood, 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 becaufe innumerable numbers more perifh by glutto- nie thenby want, and alfo becaufe itbringech them to their iourneyes end by a much more foule and tedious way r for whereas famine riddeth men out of their paine in a- few dales, this putrifieth and rotteth them as it wereinch meale, and by tedious confumptions, and lingring torments,brin- gerh them atlafi to terrible, but yet often wifheddeaches. Ne.iertheleffe fuch is the follieof the molt that they flee fa- minebecaufeofhisfearefulivifage ,though few perifh by it, and chatby a more eafc,orat leaf/ much more fpeedy death, and hug gluttonie in their bofomes, becaufe a elíortplealure accompanied) it, though it bring innumerablemultitudes to much more foule and loathfome dellru&ion. And thus you fee that chefe worldly things little auaile vs 4.Se17.9. when wee lie vpon our ficke beds .But though they could worldly things profit vs, for the°curing of force ordinarie andnaturall dif- Prefit not isthe cafes, by procuring vs phyficke and better diet, yet how vn- able yt f °iid` are they to keepebacke old age,which is the next fore - runner ofdeath ? For whilef} thefe voluptuous pleafures, like ¡hangers or enemies deuoure a mans tlrength,gray hcires are heere and therevpon him,and he knoweth it not; as the Pro- HoC7.9... ph et fpeaketh in another matter. But though they could alto flay the courfe of time,& we could by their helpe renew our age like the Eagle:yet what will theyprofit vs in the day of Gods wrath, when hec commeth in vifitation to take ven- geance onvs for our (limes?. Surely then fhall the richtnam Ball hiefishier into t heflreets,and hid gold fhall bee fame of; his Ezecb.i.t9. fiber and2oldcannot de liner him in theday of the rrrathof the Ze ph. r.18.. Lord. So the Wife man faith, that riches anaile not in the day of+rrath, but righteonfneffedeliuereth from death; and there_ ro.tt.4. . fore the fonne of Sjrach exhorteth vs, not to traf? in our ri- ches