2. Because they receive no benefit by them, but repentance.
3. Because they see that it was Gods great mercy, that they were at length delivered from them, and from the death which they bring, in the same Chapter.
4. Because the rest of their time seemes but a little unto them, in respect of the duty which they have to do, in seeking and glorifying God.
Vse 1. This may serve to condemne those, which deferre and put off the time of amending their lives, as if they had not yet sinned enough.
2. To admonish us, to redeeme the time, and spend it in advancing of Gods glory, and our own salvation.
Doctrine 5. Amongst all the vicious lusts and courses of the world, luxury is one of the chiefest, whereby men walke in lasciviousnesse, excesse of wine and banquetings.
Reason 1. Because in these men do most of all pamper the flesh, and have no regard at all unto the soule.
2. Because by these the soule is drowned, as it were in the pleasures of the flesh, so that it cannot lift up itself unto God, and to divine things.
3. Because these make way for the devill, and all devilish sinnes; and thereupon abominable idolatry seemes to be joyned with them in the text, because by them many were brought to be present at idolatrous feasts, and so to honour the idols themselves, though in their consciences they made no reckoning of them.
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, to beware of these wicked courses.