A Tr'eatife o f the Aeaions: 79 ken with the cares of this life, Luk21.34. Or to be quite drunken with pride, Ifa. 28. i. Drunken with pleafure, drunken with fury, and fo forth. All drunkenne(fe is not drunkenneffeWith drink, faith S.Rierom. Amore & odio mens inebriatur, faith,he. A mans foul may be drunken with a pafïion, drunken with love, and drunken with hatred, and drunken with any other affection. Thus civil men, and fober men, as we call them, though they will never be drunk with wine, or with beer, yet they are drunkards in ' this fenfe, they are drunk with affelEons to other things in this life. A man may be drunken with forrow. faies the Prophet, Thou shalt be f fled With drunkenne f fe, and With f òr- row, Ezek,23.33. That is, thou fruit be filled with forrow, till thou art drunk with it again. So a man may be drun- ken with fear, drinkand be drunken, f ue and fall, and rift no more, bocaufe of the fuordWhich I Will fend among you, Ter, 25.27. That is, ye (hall be drunken and reel too and fro with fear. A man may be drunken with delights and with pleafures, and drunken With fecurity : they are drunken, but not With Wine, for the Lord bath poured out upon them the Jß i- rit of a deep pep, Ifa,29.9,Io. That is, ye are fo fecure, and fo fall afleep in your lulls, as if ye were dead drunk with fecurity. Thus all the a ffelbions may be drunkWith the things of this life. And therefore if' ever we would have our afí'è- &ions to be right, let us be lober in all the things of the world, Ye delire food and rayment, there bound thine affections with fobriety, and be content Ye love the World for the ufe that ye have of it, there limit your affec'lions with fobriety, and ufe it as if ye ufed it not, Buy as if ye bought not, go to the Markets and your Fairs, as if ye went not, Sow, and reap, and gather in, as if ye did it not. And ye will needs be merry and harmleíly jell now and then, O be marvelloufly fparing and fober. Eating mull be and drinking muff be and fleeping muff be, and provi- ding for your felves, and your family muff be if ever ye love your own fouls and falvation, be fparing and fober in Nier.Com, in Etelt. cap,; 4,
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