[378] Rom. vii. 7; Matt. v. 28; Eph. v. 5; Heb. xiii. 4.
[379] Prov. iii. 21; Luke xi. 34; Matt. vi. 22; Psal. cxlv. 15; cxxiii. 2, 3; Prov. xxviii. 27.
[380] Psal. xxxv. 19; Prov. x. 10; xxx. 17; Isa. v. 15; iii. 16; Prov. xxx. 13.
[381] Prov. xxiii. 33.
[382] Prov. xxvii. 20; Eccl. i. 8; iv. 8.
[383] Prov. xxiii. 3.
[384] Prov. iv. 25.
[385] Prov. xxi. 10. See Dr. Hammond on Matt. vi. 22.
[386] Prov. xxii. 9.
[387] Isa. xiii. 18; Prov. xxviii. 27.
[388] Matt. vii. 3; Luke vi. 41.
[389] Prov. vi. 4.
[390] Psal. xxxv. 21; x. 8, xxxvi. 1.
[391] Matt. vi. 22, 23; Luke xi. 34.
[392] Prov. xxiii. 29.
[393] Psal. vi. 7; Lam. iii. 48, 49, 51.
[394] Gen. xlix. 2; Exod. xix. 9; Deut. i. 16; iv. 10; v. 1, 25, 27; xxxi. 13; Prov. i. 8; xix. 20, 27; xxii. 17; Eccl. v. 1; vii. 5; Jam. i. 19; Isa. lxvi. 4; lxv. 12; xxx. 9; Ezek. xii. 2; Mal. ii. 2; Acts iii. 23; Lev. v. 1; Deut. xiii. 12.
[395] So the Israelites, Numb. xi. loathing manna, because they must have change of diet, was a sin of gulosity, or gluttony; being more for appetite than health.
[396] Even fruitful land, saith Plutarch, enricheth not if it cost too much the manuring. So here.
[397] As Isaac's pleasant meat, Gen. xxvii. 7.
[398] Non potest temperantiam laudare is, qui summum bonum ponit in voluptate. Est enim temperantia libidinum inimica. Cicero. Saith Aristotle, He is temperate that takes pleasure to deny fleshly pleasure; but he is intemperate that is troubled because he cannot have them. Ethic. 1. 2. c. 3.
[399] Socrates dixit, eos qui præcocia magno emerent, desperare se ad maturitatis tempus perventuros. Laert. in Socrat. Cum vocasset ad cœnam divites, et Zantippen modici puderet apparatus; Bono, inquit, esto animo. Nam siquidem modesti erunt frugique, mensam non aspernabuntur; sin autem intemperantes, nulla nobis de hisce cura fuerit. Idem ibid. Dicebat alios vivere ut ederent, se autem edere ut vivat. Ibid.
[400] Hic est mos nobilium ante alios: artes quæ liberales fuerunt, mechanicæ evasere: ipsique qui bellorum duces, philosophi, rectores urbium, ac patres patriæ esse solent, venatores; atque aucupes facti sunt, utque intelligas nullam esse reliquam spem salutis, nobilitati tribuitur quod est Gulæ. aut proculdubio vanitatis. Petrarch.
[401] 1 Cor. x. 7.
[402] Of this see more in my book of "Self-denial."
[403] See Plutarch's precepts of health.
[404] Rom. xvi. 17, 18. They serve not the Lord Jesus, but their own bellies.
[405] It is a common saying that Gula plures occidit quam gladius. Quicquid avium volitat, quicquid piscium natat, quicquid ferarum discurrit, nostris sepelitur ventribus. Quære nunc cur subito moriamur? Quia mortibus vivimus. Senec. Hierom saith, that he had read of some that had been sick of the arthritis and podagra, that were cured by being brought to poverty by confiscation of their estates, and so brought to a poor diet.
[406] Chrysostom saith the difference betwixt famine and excess is, that famine kills men sooner out of their pain, and excess doth putrify and consume them by long and painful sicknesses. In Hebr. Hom. 29.
[407] As smoke driveth away the bees from their hive, saith Basil de Junin; so gluttony expelleth all spiritual gifts, and excellent endowments of mind.
[408] Saith Basil, A ship heavy laden is unfit to sail: so a full belly to any duty.
[409] Semper saturitati juncta est lascivia. Hieron.
[410] Ventri obedientes animalium numero computantur non hominum. Senec.
[411] It is Chrysostom's saying in Hebr. Hom. 29.
[412] Jer. v. 7.
[413] Magna pars libertatis est bene moratus venter. Senec.
[414] When a friend of Socrates complained to him, What a dear place is this! Wine will cost so much, and honey so much, and purple so much: Socrates took him to the meal-hall, Lo, saith he, you may buy here half a sextare of good meal for a halfpenny (which boiled in water was his meat); God be thanked the market is very cheap. Then he took him to an oil-shop, where a measure (chœnix) was sold for two brass dodkins. Then he led him to a broker's shop, where a man might buy a suit of clothes for ten drachms. You see, quoth he, that the pennyworths are reasonable, and things good, cheap throughout the city. Plutarch. de Tranquil. Anim. pag. 153.
[415] Matt. xxv.
[416] Saith Plato, God is the temperate man's law; and pleasure the intemperate man's.
[417] Heb. xiii. 9.
[418] 1 Cor. x. 31.
[419] Socrates adeo parce et temperatè vixit, ut cum Athenas pestis sæpenumero vastaret, solus ipse nunquam ægrotaverit. Laertius in Socrat.
[420] Multum confert cogitatio exitus, quod cum omnibus vitias sit commune, tamen huic proprium. Petrarch.
[421] Temperantia voluptatibus imperat: alias odit atque abigit: alias dispensat et ad sanum modum dirigit; nec unquam ad illas propter ipsas venit. Senec. Scit optimum esse modum cupidorum, non quantum velis, sed quantum debeas sumere. Senec.
[422] Venter parvo contentus est, si das illi quod debes, non quod potes. Senec.