[ 415] The use of the Creatures is conditional.
A Tenant that holdeth land from a Lord,* 1.1 may not use it otherwise then accor∣ding to the Covenants agreed upon, if he do, the Premises are forfeited; Even so it is betwixt God and us, the grant which he maketh to us of his Creatures is conditional, we may take convenient food for our sustenance, decent cloaths to shrowd us from the injury of the weather, and we may bestow our money to supply our own, and other folks necessities; to these ends we may use Gods creatures: but we may not riot with our meat and drink, we may not be fantastical in our appa∣rel, neither may we with our wealth grinde the faces of the poor; we have no Covenant that warrants any of these, and therefore, the doing of any of these is a forfeit to the Proprietary: And how often might Christ re-enter upon our goods, if he would take advantage of our daily abuses; nay, he daily doth re-enter, had we but grace to see it. What multitudes of Inhabitants hath drunkenness spued out of their possessions? What goodly Patrimonies hath pride and oppression brought to nought? It were to be wished that the World did as much take notice of it, as almoste very place doth give them occasion so to do.