~pon the Epifile of J A M I s. 5H every inch with grace, do eajily giv~'Wt!ll to fucceeding corrllptionh . Ye have lived in pltafure] :The word fignifieth indulging the deliCacies and delights of the {eofes in meats, drinks and apparel. x. A fin very natural to us: There were but two common pa• Obfervat. I. rmts rJf t!lfl mankjnd, Adam the Proteplaft, and Noah the Reftorer, ttndrhoth mifcarried by appetite; the one fell b] eating, and the the other by drinkjng. We had need be careful; Chrill: faith Taf<! heedoffurfeiting antldrunk!nnefs to his own Difciples, Lu/z.zi.34· 2o- The fin is 1Mtural'to all,but chiefly encident to the rich. There obferv. 2. is I confefs a. difference in tempers; wealth maketh fome covetam, and othersprodigal; but the ufual fin in the rich is luxury : Pride, idlenefs, andfulnefs ofbreadwere the fins of Sodom, and they are · ufually found 'in great mens boufes; they l.hould be the more wary. · 3~ Though delicate living be a fin incident to 'Wealthy men, yet ob[ervtr.t. 3• their- ·abm~d~nce do~h not ·excufe it : 'Tis charged upon the rich man in the Gofpel, tha t he fared delicioujly every day' Luk.: I 6. God gave-wealth for ano ther purpofe, then to fpend it in pleafur~s: '"Fis p~odigiom ip :poor men to guzzle and drink away their days, which .lhould be fpent in honefHabour ; - but 'cis not excufable in the rich; tltough od allow th them to live more liberally according to their conditien andefrate, yet not inordinately: lntempero. ance is odious to God,be it in any whatfoever they.be :-God threa- "teneth them for their delicacy that h~d beds of ivory, Amos 6. 4· fo ·alfo the f at-Cornand J(ine ofB{!{jhan, Amo-s 4· . 4· Luxury is livi111g inpleafure; eTfV~n(l'tt.1i. God·alloweth us Ob{cn.Jat. 4· ' to ufe pleafures,.._but not to live in them; .to tate delights, but , not they jhould t~t'<.e m ; . to 'li.ve always at the full, is but 2 wanton luxury. - . · · On Earth,] That is,fay fome,like beafis,. which dopronaJJ<Ra– re terrt!lm, in the pofiure of their bodies look earthward; 'ds in– deed their ,happ1nels to live in pleafure, to enjoy pleafures without remorfe. But in any congruity of language you cannot thus inter– pret the Apoftles-.fpeech. . His mtaning is; that in this earthly life they placed all their happinefs,and their fpirits did altogether run a£.. ter e:i\rthly comforts and earthly contentmencs, as having no higher abode•.· Note, ThAt 11.!1 the·pleafure that 'Wick.fd men have,-u upon Obflrvat-;- . earth; here, and ·no where elfe: Luk.:,I6.z;. l<.emtmber that in th]: .li/9 time thou,re(tivefl thy gyood things! 0~ :tis f~~ -~~ ~ut-liv(! ~ YY. 3_. out .
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