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1 With Inconsiderate, and selfe-hurtfull actions. Esau was so greedy of, and so glut∣tonously taken with the curious red red* 1.1 pottage, which his brother had made, that he sold him his birthright for a messe of it, Gen. 25, 30. whence he was afterward called Edom, i. e. Red, and his posterity Edomites.
2 Loathing of that which they loved. The
full soule loatheth the hony-comb Prov: 27. 7.
3 Sicknesse. The Israelites (wherein their God was their belly, for they chose to serve that, before God) although they had no worse fare then the Angels. Ps: 78. 25, like so many sw••ne, snuffed at the pearle, and as if they had been in such a lamentable case, ready to starve for want of meat, fell a weeping, and crying, who shall give us flesh to eat? Num: 11. 4. But how did God an∣swer thē? 'tis true, he gave them their* 1.2 owne desire; but as the Sabines did Tarpeia, who, when she had desired of thē, what th••y had in their left hands* 1.3 (meaning no more then their rings) put upon her, rings, and shields and all, and pressed her to death with the weight. For thus was Moses bid to answer them; Seeing ye are so earnest for flesh, ye shall have flesh; but you shall have it with a venge∣ance; for ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five daies, nor ten days, nor twenty dayes, but even a whole month, untill it come out at your nostrills, and it be loathsome unto you, v. 18. 19. 20. I believe this punishment was in∣flicted upon them, in a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or an unsa∣tisfied craving of the stomack in eating. It is often threatned to the wicked in Scrip∣tures (perhaps sometimes in another sense) in these words, ye shall eate and not be satis∣fied▪ as Levit 26, 26. Isa: 9. 20. Mic: 6. 14.
as, on the contrary, it is promised as a bles∣ing to the Godly, to eate and be satisfied, Deut: 14. 29. Ps: 22. 26. and the reason is, because they have other food to eate with it, hea∣venly food with which a man may be satis∣fied if he have no other, & without which, nor food, nor any thing else will satisfie a man.
4 Taking away, or, Marring of those crea∣tures which they have abused. When the Is∣raelites gathered Manna, if any were so greedy, as to gather more then they could eate, that, which was left till the next mor∣ning, bred wormes and stank. Exod: 16. 20.
5 Hunger, and want. For the Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to poverty, Prov: 23. 21; The Prophet Isaiah, having told the Jewes of their Feasts, which they kept in honour to their Idols, chap: 65. verse. 11. in the 13 verse thus threatens them, There∣fore thus saith the Lord God, behold my servants shall eate, but ye shall he hungry; behold my Servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty. Our Saviour saith, Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger, Luk 6. 25. and so it came to passe in the Prodigall Son, who wasted his substance in riotous living, Luk 15. 13. for afterward, it is said (v. 16.) he would faine have filled his belly with the husks, that the swine did eate, and no man gave unto him.
6 Shortnesse of life. Ordinarily, by their owne intemperance, breeding diseases in their bodies: and this every man sees, and knows, See Ecclus 37. 30, 31. Extraordinarily, by the hand of God. thus Hophni and Phinehas, (who out of gluttony and greedinesse, vio∣lently tooke what they pleased of the flesh of the offerings, while it was raw, to roast it) were punished, not onely in themselves, by dying both, and shortly after, and in one day, 1 Sam. 2, 34. but in their posterity also, For, thus saith God to Eli, There shall not be an old man in thine house, v. 31. which threat is repeated v. 33. with this augmentation, for ever; as if God himselfe tooke this for a great punishment; & would have him take notice how greatly he had offended, by the greatnesse of his punishment. A short life hath beene alwayes counted among the Jewes for a very great punishment from God: and therefore it is, that to this day they have a custome, when they come to 60 yeares of age, to hold a Feast: because at that time, they say, old age begins; the number of 60 being contained in the let∣ters of the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 used in Job, ch. 5, 26. where it is reckoned for a peculiar bles∣sing of the godly to come to his grave, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in a full age, like as a shock of corne cometh in his season.
7 Ʋntimely death. Job's sons and daugh∣ters thus suffered. While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house; And be∣hold, there came a whirlewind from the wil∣dernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead: Job 1. 18, 19. If they were not glut∣tons, then they, who are gluttons, have the more cause to feare the like punishment. No sooner had the rich man said to his soule, Eate, drinke, and be merry Luk. 12. 19: but God said to him, Thou foole, this night thy soule shall be required of thee, v. 20.
It is said of the Israelites before mention∣ed, Numb. 11. 33: While the flesh was yet betweene their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the peo∣ple, and the Lord smote the people with a very great slaughter. Whether they died of a dis∣ease contracted by eating too much of the flesh; or whether it were by a more imme∣diate hand of God, it is not expressed: but the former seemes to be more likely, from those words before mentioned, vers. 19, 20. That gluttonous lust of the Israelites was so odious to God, that, as if there were no o∣ther, or, as if it were the worst lust of all, his spirit hath set it downe under the ge∣nerall
name onely of lust: They lusted a lust v. 4. And so, to make the sin the more odious to men also, the place, where they buried the men that were punished with death for this lusting, was, called Kebroth-hattavah i. e. the graves of lust, because (saith the text) there they buried the people that lusted v. 34.
Among the Jewes, the Son, that was to be stoned to death upon the complaint of his parents, the only vices to be mētioned in the complaint (besides stubbornesse) were glut∣tony, and drunkennesse (which is a kind of gluttony, or, as they call it, intemperantia cir∣ca humidum (Deut 21. 20, 21.
8 Surprisall by the day of judgment; or, The worse usage when they are surprised. Take heed to your selves, least at any time your heart be overcharged with surfetting, and drunken∣nesse, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares Luk. 21. 34, see Mat: 24. 39.
But especially have Gluttons cause to fear God's wrath, if they are such in times of mourning, and publique calamities, for then they are sure to be punished without hope of pardon. In that day did the Lord God of hoasts (and yet they were not afraid to dis∣regard him) call to weeping, and to mourn∣ing, and to baldnesse, and to girding with sack∣cloth. And behold joy and gladnesse, slaying ox∣en, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking
wine; Let us eate and drink for to morrow we shall dye. And it it was revealed in my eares by the Lord of hoasts; surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hoasts. Isa: 22. 12, 13, 14.
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Ps: 78. 29. they did eate and were well filled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 over well filled.
To betray the Capitol of Rome Liv: l. 1.