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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Take heed to yourselves, shunning bad companies and occasions, lest at any time your hearts he overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness and the cares of this life; and so that day come upon you unawares. If the heart must not be so much as overcharged, what will become of those on that day, that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink? Watch ye therefore, and pray always. Luke 21:34-36. Be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 1 Peter 4:7.
Sober and watchful we must be even against the love of the world; since the heart being filled with any thing that is vain, is unable to pray right and enjoy peace; peace being disturbed even by reserving, much more by striving after something for the flesh. But cleaving to Christ alone, ever seeking to relish him and the fullness of his grace, is the best means to secure ourselves from worldliness, uneasiness, and sloth of spirit.
Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent,
Prepares for his own punishment;
What pains, what loathsome maladies
From luxury and lust arise.
The drunkard feels his vitals waste.
Yet drowns his health to please his taste:
Till all his active powers are lost.
And fainting life draws near the dust.
The glutton groans and loathes to eat.
His soul abhors delicious meat:
Nature with heavy loads oppressed,
Would yield to death to be released.
