Chap ,z4, according tòst MA T T H$ V V. 557 when the winde lies,the great rain fals.FrequentifJimom inititat calamitatis fccuritas, faith the Hiftorian. Paterculut, Verfe 38. They Were eating, and drinking] Wine, likely ; becaufe our Saviour hereupon bids his Apoítles take heed to themfelves left their hearts at any time ehhould be overcharged with furfetting anddrunkenne5e, &c, Luk.ar.34. Like as force do not improbably conjeeture, that Nadab and Abihu were in their drink, when they offered ftrange fire, becaufe after, they weredevoured by fire from the Lord. Aaron and the Prielfs are charged to drink no wine nor ffrong drink, when they go into the Tabernacleof the Congregation, left they dye, Levit.Io.I2,$,9. SC Luke delivers the matter more roundly by an elegant, Afyn- deton, Theyate, they dram, they married, &c. q.d. theypalled without intermiffìon, from eating, todrinking, from drinking, to marrying, &c. they followed it dole, as if it had been their work, and they born for noother end. OfNinias, fecond King ofAffyrians, Nephew haply to thefe Antedihunian belly-Gods, it is laid, that hewas old excellent at eatingand drinking. And of Avon ñv iaf Sardanapulats, one of the fàme line, Tully tells us, that his gut hrzd 971Mo. was his god. Summum bonsam in ventre, aut rub ventre pofuit : Athenx yip. andPlutarch, that he hired men to devife new pleafures for him, rofoph.lib z, Tu/cqux I q. SeemyCommon-place of Abflinence. `¿lntill the day They were fec upon' t, and would loofeno Ptur,insy;,,poj time. Their deftruftion was foretold them to a day ; they were nothing betteredby it : no more would wicked men, fhould they foreknow the very inftant of Chrifls coming to judgement. yo- feph had foretold the famine ofEgypt and the time when it i hould ^ome; but fullneffebred forgetfùllnefie, faturity, fecurity None obferved, or provided for it. Verfe 39. And knew not] i.e. They took no knowledge of Quod vet invi Noabs predictions, or their own peril. Their wits they had ti noravr, non buried in their guts, their brains in their bellies (As of the Affe- agnoverart, fifh it is Paid, that contrary to all other living creatures he bath Sri de wax. his heart in his belly) whoredom, Wine,and new Wine take away the heart, Hof. 4. I i. Carnall fins dilablenature, and fo fèt men in a greater diftance from grace, which is feared in the powersof nature. I read of force defperate wretches, that drinking tobe- I' luaru ther, whenone ofthem haddrunk himfelf (lark dead, the other no I t P uo- whit warned by that fearfull example of Gods wrath, owned his erunr aliqui, y P r p &c,Joh.bl.nf. part ofdrink into thedeaci mans belly. O loc. com. p.. }. 4nd
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