The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 2.

Gluttony, is a filthy, vile, and vgly vice,* 1.1 consisting onely in a greedie desire after daintie fare.

It is the sworne enemie to temperance;* 1.2 a mortall or deadly foe to health; and a most lothsome blemish to humanitie.

Oh what a monstrous sight is it to be∣hold* 1.3 the full furnished table of some vnsa∣tiable and rich glutton; & how with sun∣dry sorts of the most rarest meates & cost∣liest delicates it is thorowly beset and coue∣red, from end to end. And as the maister of the feast is himselfe there-vnto strangely

affected, such guests for his companions will he cōmonly be sure to haue about him, who (like flattering Parasites,) weighing his inclination, will for theyr owne profit sake, highly extoll him in his grosse worke of vvickednesse; and feede his humour, not onely with vaine talke and foolish ie∣sting, but nowe and then also with some shew of scurility, to make his meate haue the better digestion.

But, they that are so greatly addicted to* 1.4 belly-cheere, and regard more the pampe∣ring of theyr panch, then the wisedome of the minde; may well be likened to fooles, who giue more credite to theyr owne con∣ceit, then to any other mans grounded rea∣son.

And, the man that refraineth not his ap∣perite,* 1.5 is like a Citty broken downe, and without walles.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Gueuara.
• * 1.2

  Hipocrates.
• * 1.3

  Protogenes.
• * 1.4

  Crates.
• * 1.5

  Prou, 25, 28