Clowns and Princes

“It is not a wotider for a clo7vn, that hath not been acquainted with dainties J to love garlic a)id oftions j but for a prince y that hath beeti acguaiited with better diet, to leave the dai?ities of his father’s table for such base feeding, that were strange. I do not wonder at carnal me7i, that they are delighted with carnal objects: they never knew better; but for a child of God, that hath tasted how gracious ajid sweet God in Christ is, tofijidsap a7id savotir in coarser fare, this is wojiderful.” Yet were our author now alive he might weep his eyes out as he saw professing Christians craving for the ball-room and the theatre. The carrion which professors can now feed upon is disgusting to the very thought of a real Christian. Entertainments are got up among religious people which are unworthy even of decent worldlings. Many true hearts are deeply wounded by this terrible degeneracy. Were it not for a small remnant we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.