1. The judgments of God denounced upon the Jews for their luxury; all ranks included.--2. Christ charges his disciples to have a care of the guilt of it: a supplication to the inhabitants of England.--3. Temperance pressed upon the churches by the apostles.--4. An exhortation to England to measure herself by that rule.--5. What Christian recreations are.--6. Who need other sports to pass away their time are unfit for heaven and eternity.--7. Man has but a few days: they may be better bestowed: this doctrine is ungrateful to none that would be truly blessed.--8. Not only good is omitted by this luxurious life, but evil committed, as breach of marriage and love, loss of health and estate, &c. Playhouses and stages most instrumental to this mischief.--9. How youth are by them inflamed to vanity: what mischief comes of revels, gamings, &c. Below the life of noble heathens.--10. The true disciples of Jesus are mortified in these things: the pleasure and reward of a good employment of time. I. But such excess in apparel and pleasure was not only forbidden in Scripture, but it was the ground of that lamentable message by the prophet Isaiah to the people of Israel: "Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walked with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts; in that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments, and their cauls, (or net-works in the Hebrew,) and their round tires like the moon; the chains and the bracelets, and the mufflers; the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and ear-rings, the rings and nose-jewels; the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins; the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods and the veils; and it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell, there shall be a stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty: thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war; and her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground."[4] (Isa. iii. 16-26.) Behold, O vain and foolish inhabitants of England and Europe, your folly and your doom! Yet read the prophet Ezekiel's vision of miserable Tyre, what punishment her pride and pleasure brought upon her; and amongst many other circumstances these are some: "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things; in blue clothes and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, emeralds, purple, fine linen, coral and agate, spices, with all precious stones, and gold, horses, chariots," &c.; for which hear part of