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A72769	The exercise of a Christian life written by G.L. ; being the first ground and foundaion [sic], whence the two treatises appertaining to resolution, were made and framed, by R.P.; Esercizio della vita cristiana. English	Loarte, Gaspare, d. 1578.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Banister, Mr.	1594 (1594)	STC 16644.5; ESTC S2211	82,607	248

hee is too much bent affectionate to his meat Eccles 37 This vice dooth the wise man in these wordes reprehend saying Long not after euery kind of meate nor eat not greedily vpon euery dish Whose counsell see thou endeuor thy selfe to follow minding not so seriously thy corporall food and nutriture whilest thou eatest but eyther listen to good conference if there bee any vsed or lift vp thy minde to God with some good thought or enterlace some praier or psalme amongest that by thus doing both thy soule and body may be fostered and fed togither The fift and last kind of gluttony is The fift kind of gluttony an excessiue care and thought to seeke out diuersitie of cates and new fangled tastes which thou oughtst as a blame A curious desire of strange tastes worthy thing greatly to eschewe and beware of for feare of beeing like to those the Apostle speaketh of that Phi. 3. Rom. 10. Make their bellies their God seeking with as great care to serue and satisfie it as were requisite for discharge of their duties to God warde For remeie both of these and all other kindes of gluttonie these considerations following shall greatly helpe which thou mayst take for a second remedy First consider how much the ouercharging The 1. Remedie heauines of thy stomach or that remaineth therein hauing after surfetted doth more hurt and troble thee then the diuersity of delicate and sweet meats can delight and doo thee good the tast and pleasure wherof lasteth no longer then whiles the meate is passing from the mouth to Tast how smally it tarrieth the throte neither after it is once gone is there any memoryial or signe of this delight remaining This mayest thou much better vnderstand if thou examine what nowe resteth of al that euer thou hast swallowed and swilled al thy whole life time Note wel What hast thou now left of all thy repasts and all thy sweet tastes of all the dainty morsels that euer thou deuouredst what hast thou now extant forth comming of al this thou seest how al is quite vanished away as though ther had neuer bin any such make account therefore when thou feelest thy selfe tempted with this vice that the pleasure is already gone which so speedily dooth passe away And care not for condiscending to thy flesh in that it thus disordinately may couet an desire Secondly consider the inconueni The 2. Remedy Amb. lib. de Helia ●● ieiunio ca. 12. 16. Eccle. 17. ences that arise of this sin First the cost and trouble thou must be at to satiate this thy gluttony Secondly the number of bodily infirmities that growe by meanes of surfetting Thidly it dulleth and doth obfuscate the mind and maketh a man afterwardes vnfit for spiritual exercise Fourthly call to minde that euerlasting hunger and thirst that Oseae 7. shall bee in the next worlde where no one drop of water shal be graunted as we gather plainely by that example of the rich glutton Remember also what Luk. 6. a filthy substance thy tenderly pampered flesh once being dead shall be Luke 16 dissolued too The third remedie is to thinke on The third remedy Mat. 12. Mar. 2. Luk 6. Christ and his disciples abstinence beeing forced through hunger to plucke off the eares of corne and eate them how our Sauiour likewise fasted forty daies and forty nights in the desert Our sauiors abstinence Mat. 4. Marke 1 Luke 4. Mat. 27. and the gall that was giuen him in his extreame thirst to drinke being vpon the crosse whereof thou oughtest euery time thou art at meat well to bethinke thee The fourth remedie is eftsoones to The 4. remedy Mat. 22. Luke 14. Apoc. 19. The plentifull supper in heauen shuld cause a spare dinner on earth remember that eternall supper of heauen whereto we are all inuited as our Sauiour by one of his parables doth signifie Consider how minding to enioy this so happy and royal a supper it behooueth to absteine in the dinner of this life that by so dooing thou mayst so fill and saciate thee better like as we see in the world he that is inuited to a sumptuous supper vseth commonlie to be moderate and spare at noone not to loose the commodity and pleasure of his appetite at night The last remedie and that a verie The fift remedy secure one is so much as thou maiest possiblie to fly all occasions of gluttonie Occasions to be eschewed as the feastes and iunkettinges of worldly men where there is so great abundance and variety of viandes so many meates drinks delicate pleasant fruites amidst the which may very hardly any manne keepe sobrietie there being so many thinges to allure him to gluttonie Remember what holy Writ sayth of our mother Eue How She saw the tree that it was good to eat Genes 3 and faire and pleasant to the eye she took of the fruite and did eat and gaue therof vnto her husband And thereby was cause of so great a losse both to her selfe and to the whole race of miserable mankind In like manner mayest thou fall into many miseries if thou Rom. 5 fly not the hazarding thy selfe in such like dangers Remedies against the troublesom temptations of sloth and Idlenesse Cap. 19. THere is yet another vice of Idlenes engendred of lasciuiousnes and gluttony Ber. ser 3. at 6. de Ascens Gre. 3 par curae pastor admoni 16. the flesh engendred of the two former spoken of in the former chapter is called sloth and idlenesse which is a lothsomnes disliking of spiritual things and a negligence or fainting to begin any good thing or to finish that which is entred and begun already Against which vice not a little hurt fulit is conuenient likewise to bee armed sith thou shalt not bee without this wearinesse and lothsome temptations whiles thou art harbored in this fleshlie body which as the scripture saith doth aggrauate molest the soule Sap. 9. Seeing that many times through attending to our bodily necessities and the importunities of our fleshe we become slothful distract and dul to doe any good Wherfore to the ende thou be not ouercome with this domestical enimy helpe thy self with these considerations remedies that I shal now prescribe thee First consider the strict account thou The first Remedy must yeeld of the time that God doth grant thee in this life to work well in for that as S. Bernard saith There is no Ber. de trip cust manus linguae cordis time giuen thee in this mortal life wherof thou must not render a reckoning how thou hast employed it For if we bee to yeeld an account of euery idle word as truth himself doth tel vs in the gospel Mat. 12. how much the rather are we to do the same of time spent idlie an without Euery moment to be made accompt of any fruit or