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A20158	A three-fold resolution, verie necessarie to saluation Describing earths vanitie. Hels horror. Heauens felicitie. By Iohn Denison Batchelour in Diuinitie.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 6596; ESTC S109587	139,837	594

made so senslesse in the regard and wielding of good things that neither learning aduise nor any exhortation can do it any good Whilest the prodigall child had wherewith to maintaine his riot Luk. 15.13 he played the ruffian not thinking vpon his father at all so doth sacietie make men dissolute and forgetfull of their heauenly Father Therfo●e doth Moses warne the Israelites to take heede Deu. 8.11 4 lest when they haue filled themselues they forget the Lord. And as sacietie makes men forget GOD so it makes them forget their brethren that are in distresse for when Diues fared daintily Luk. 16. he thought not vpon poore Lazarus Yea it makes them forget themselues and those things that belong to their saluation which causeth our Sauiour to giue that warning Luk. 21.34 Take heede to your selues lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfetting and drunkennesse and that day come vpon you vnawares Lastly it is the tinder to kindle the firebrand of concupiscence and therefore doth the Apostle exhort the Ephesians not to be filled with wine Eph. 5.18 because therein is excesse meaning such excesse as doth breed accesse to sinne A man that refraineth not his appetite saith Salomon is like a citie which is broken downe and without wall Pro. 25. vlt. For as such a battered citie lieth daungerously open to the siege of the enemie so is such a Christian dangerously exposed to the assaults of Sathan who vseth it as an especiall stratageme to intangle the children of God by daintie fare as the lamentable experience of our first parents in Paradise can sufficientlie tell vs. Gen. 3. Seeing then that pompous and daintie fa●e dulleth the wit emptieth the purse nourisheth idlenesse b●eedeth sicknesse causeth forgetfulnesse and kindleth concupiscence it is a grosse error to thinke those happ●e which fare daintily euerie day as Diues did Those gormandizers which are of Philoxenus minde Aristot Eth. ib. 3. ca. 11 who wished that his necke were as long as a Cranes that hee might haue a long tast of his meate and drinke what should they gaine hereby if they had their wishes And those that make their bellies their gods Phil. 3.19 their kitchins their temples their tables their aultars their dainties their sacrifice and so do not serue the Lord but their bellies as the Apostle saith Rom. 16.18 do they not thinke that they must one day answer for the good creatures of God which they haue vainely consumed and for their owne soules and bodyes which they haue abused Yes surely they shall one day disgest their daintie morsels in torments which they haue deuoured in their bankets Aug. in Psa 48. Conc. 2. And what difference in the meane time is there betweene them and the poorest wretch sauing that in their liues they prouide more worke for the Physitian at their deaths more meate for the wormes To them Sampsons riddle will not well agree Iud. 14.14 Out of the eater came meate and out of the strong came sweetnesse for behold their eating yeelds nothing but stinch and filthinesse I may iustly complaine in the Prophets words Ezek. 16.49 The iniquitie of Sodome is the sinne of our land pride and fulnesse of bread and abundance of idlenesse for our opulencie hath made many loftie hearts and lazie hands Men rise vp early to follow dunkennesse Esa 5.11 Iude. 12. and feede themselues at feasts without all feare Little do such thinke of our Sauiours hungering and thirsting and of the bitter cup that he dranke for our sakes but let all those that feare God embrace sobrietie and temperance in their feeding and feasting And although it be lawfull to vse the creatures of God more plentifully at some times then at others and to feast with friends and neighbours yet can Iobs practise teach vs Iob. 1.5 that it is a daungerous libertie and requires the eye of circumspection and the sacrifice of prayer lest our table become a snare vnto vs. Christians should learne at all times to say with a godly father S. Augustin Thou hast taught me O God to come to my foode as I come to take physicke rather to suffice nature then to satisfie his appetite Howsoeuer thou doest prouide for the bodie haue care for Gods sake my Christian brother to nourish the inward man and to feed thy soule a diuine substance ten thousand times more to be respected then thy base bodie and to that end desire the sincere milke of the word 1. Pet. 2.2 that thou mayst grow thereby Is it not a wonder to consider that whereas faith teacheth vs that the soule is immortall and experience sheweth that the bodie is mortall yet most people contrarie both to faith and experience do so neglect the soule as though it were mortall and so cherish the bodie as if it were immortall Prayer and meditation hearing the word of God and reading good bookes which are the foode of the soule they little regard and seldome vse but their bodies they feede both as often as they need and as daintily as they are able But learne thou a better lesson of our blessed Sauiour Iohn 6.27 Labour not for the meate that perisheth but labour for the meate that endureth to euerlasting life Feed vpon Christ Iesus the bread of life by a liuely faith And as Elias went in the strength of the foode ministred by the Angell till he came to mount Horeb 1. King 19. so shalt thou go in the strength of this food vntill thou come to the celestiall mount Sion where thou shalt enioy the foode of Angels and be partaker of those exquisite and daintie viands that are prepared for the lambes supper Reu. 19.9 SECT 5. Of costly Apparell VVE reade that the man in whom the plague of leprosy was found should haue his clothes rent Leui. 13.45 and his head bare and should put on a couering vpon his lips and crie I am vncleane Wold you not imagine the man to be mad that should be proud of those markes of his miserie Consider then that the transgression of Adam stript him and all his posteritie of the robes of grace Gen. 3.7 and brought vpon them the leaprosie of sinne and a shamefull nakednesse and their clothes are like the rent clothes the bare head and the couering of the leaprous man euen demonstrations of their miserie and yet behold they are proud of them and doe glorie in them as it were a theefe in his burning in the hand the euident note of his theft and conuiction or as a beggar bragging of his ragges the onely ensignes of his base estate Lo thus doth man glorie in his shame Phil. 3.19 Is not that matter worthie the title of vanitie which the silly moth one of the tendrest weakest creatures is able to consume or if it be cloth of gold is subiect to rusting or if fine silke is not free from staining and