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Be moderate In the use of creatures I mean beware
of excess; eat & drink for service, not barely
for pleasure: Let not your Lord be a loser by
his bounty to you, lose not a duty in a dinner.
If you be given to appetites, take heed, give not
your appetite all it craves; let not appetite
but conscience be your measure: Eat not your
souls into leanness, let not your table become
your [?a?e], and that which is given you for
your health, become your [de?ea?]. When you
are at your meat, remember your worth, and
let that limit you; be only as free in your food
as may make you more fit for service: He
that hath such a raid to run, such a warfare before
him, must be "temperate in all things," or
he may loose the goal, & the battle; not only
drunkards, & gluttons, but even Christians, that
are accounted sober, are more peccant this way,
than they are ordinarily servicable of their
spirits wou'd be more free, their service and
be more lively, their worth wou'd be more