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friend_n	drink_v	eat_v	honey_n	929	5	11.1626	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26951	The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing B1301; ESTC R5103	494,148	660

in spirit can live upon a little and mind the things of the Spirit so much that they are more indifferent to their appetite And custom maketh abstinence and temperance sweet and easie to them For a well-used appetite is like well-taught children not so unmannerly nor craving nor bawling nor troublesome as the gluttons ill-used appetite is It troubles mens minds and taketh up their thoughts and commandeth their estates and devoureth their time and turneth out God and all that is holy and like a thirst in a dropsie it de●oureth all and is satisfied with nothing but encreaseth its self and the disease As if such men did live to eat when the temperate do eat to live 8 Lastly It is the height of this sin when you also cherish the gulosity and excess of others When for the Pride of great house-keeping you cause others to waste Gods creatures and their time and waste your estates to satisfie their luxury and to procure their vain applause Hab. 2.15 Wo to him that giveth his neighbour drink that puttest thy bottle to him and make-est him drunken also This is the Fulness which is forbidden of God Object But is it not said that Christ came eating and drinking and the Pharisees quarrelled with him and his Disciples because they did not fast as John and his Disciples did and they called him a gluttonous person and a wine-bibber a friend of Publicans and sinners Answ 1. John lived in a wilderness upon locusts and wild honey and because Christ lived not such an austere eremetical life the quarrelsome Pharisees did thus calumniate him But Christ never lived in the least excess Mark that part of his life which they thus accused and you will find it such as the sensual will be loth to imitate 2. Christ was by office to converse with Publicans and sinners for their cure And this gave occasion to the calumnies of malice 3. There was a difference of Reasons for John's austerity and Christs But when he the Bridegroom was taken away he foretelleth that his followers should fast 4. Christ fasted forty daies at once and drank water and lived in perfect temperance Imitate him and we will not blame you for excess His example preached poverty in spirit Direct II. Remember the Reasons why fulness and gulosity are so much condemned by God viz. 1. A pampered appetite is unruly and feedeth your concupiscence The flesh is now become our most dangerous enemy and therefore it must be dangerous to pamper it to the strengthening of its lusts When even Paul was put to buffet and tame it and bring it into subjection for fear of proving a cast-away after all his wondrous labours 2. The pleasing of the appetite too much corrupteth the delight and rellish of the soul Delight in God and Heaven and Holiness is the summ and life of true Religion and the delights of sense and fleshly appetite turn away the soul from this and are most mortal enemies to these true delights For they that are after the flesh do mind or savour the things of the flesh and they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit Rom. 8.6 7. And the carnal mind is enmity to God if it cannot be subject to his Law certainly it is unfit to rellish the sweetness of his Love and spiritual mercies 3. And the Thoughts themselves are corrupted and perverted by it They that should be thinking and caring how to please God are thinking and caring for their bellies Even when all their powers should be employed on God in meditation or in prayer their thoughts will be going after their fleshly appetite as Ezekiels hearers were after their covetousness 33.31 And as some of Christs hearers were after the loaves 4. The use of pleasing the fleshly appetite doth make men need riches which is a misery and a snare Such must needs have their desires satisfied and therefore cannot live on a little And therefore if they have riches their flesh devoureth almost all and they have little to spare for any charitable uses And if they have none they are tempted to steal or get it by some unlawful means And so it tempteth them to the love of money which is the root of all evil because they love the lust which needeth it 5. And it maketh them utterly unfit for suffering which Christ will have all his followers to expect He that is used to please his appetite will take that for a grievous life which another man will feel no trouble in If a full fed Gentleman or Dives were tyed to fare as the poor labourer doth at the best he would lament his case as if he were undone and would take that for half a martyrdom if it were on a pious pretence which his neighbour would account no suffering but a feast And will God reward men for such self-made sufferings How unfit is he to endure imprisonment banishment and want who hath alwaies used to please his flesh If God cast him into poverty how impatient would he be How plentifully and pleasantly would most poor Country-men think to live if they had but a hundred pounds a year of their own But if he that hath thousands and is used to fulness should be reduced to an hundred how querulous or impatient would he be 6. It maketh the body heavy and unfit for duty both duties of piety and the honest labours of your calling 7. It maketh the body diseased and so more unfit to serve the soul It is to be noted that the excess reproved by Paul at their Love-feasts was punished with sickness and with death And as that punishment had a moral suitableness to their sin so it is not unlike that according to Gods ordinary way of punishing it was also a natural effect of their excess 8. It is a most unsuitable thing to such great sinners as we are who have forfeited all our mercies and are called so loud to penitent humiliation when we should turn to the Lord with all our hearts with fasting weeping and mourning to be then pleasing our fleshly appetites with curiosities and excess is a sin that God once threatned in a terrible sort Isa 22.12 13. Fasting is in such cases a duty of Gods appointment Joel 2.12 Luke 2.37 1 Cor. 7.5 Cornelius his fasting and alms-deeds came up before God Acts 10.30 Daniel was heard upon his fast Dan. 9.3 Christ fasted when he entered solemnly on his work Matth. 4. And some Devils would not be cast out without fasting and prayer And is luxury fit in such a case 9. Lastly Remember what was said before that others are empty while we are full Thousands need all that we can spare And they are members of Christ and of the same body with us And so much as we waste on our appetite or pride so much the less we have to give And he that seeth his Brother in need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him when he cannot deny superfluities to himself how