HEre sits the prodigall Chil­dren, the younger brothers (Luk. 15. 12.) acting y^e parts of hot-spur Cavaliers and disguised ding-thrifts, habiting themselves after the fashions of the world, as one that is to travaile into a farre Countrey. Nisi hominibus placuerit Deus, non erit eo­rum, Deus. Because his father humors him not, with the Idolatrous Cere­monies to follow Popish Innovati­ons, he becomes an errand Peripate­ticke, flying in a dudgeon and discon­tent from Gods houshold, and conse­quently from the Almighties directi­on and protection. Not having God for his guide, hee hath the Devill to his conducter, walking now not only after the lufts of the flesh, and of his mind, fulfilling the desires of both; but after the Prince of the ayre, the spirit that now worketh in the chil­dren of disobedience. With the de­baucht Gallants of these lascivious and loose-living times, he drawes his Patrimony through his throat, be­queathing the creatures to consump­tion for consummation of his intem­perate voracity, delicate luxury, and wastfull prodigality, spending all ei­ther upon his belly or his backe, fol­lowing the proud, apish, anticke, and disguised fashions of the times, to present himselfe a painted Puppet on the stage of vanity.

What with wine and women, horses, hounds, and whores, dauncing, dicing, drabbing, drinking, may the prodigall man say: I am brought unto a mor­sell of bread, yea unto the very huskes of Swine. Pride of spirit makes him to scorne an Alehouse, and therefore with greater eagernesse hee daily haunts Tavernes: where some­times he sits by his liquor, and bloud of the Vine, and the spirits of the Celler, exhausting, and infusing them unto mad ebriety: thus drinking ad modum sine mensura, whole ones, by measure without measure, like the Elephant through the juice of Mulberries, he is enraged unto bloud, and most damnable resolutions and designes, terminated in the death and destruction of the next man he meetes, that never did, neither thought him harme. Or having a noyse of renegado Fidlers, Musicke-abusers, they with him, and he with them, sings and danceth, danceth and sings like a Nightingale Vox est & praetevea ni­hil., or Canarie bird. He is pro­fuse and lavish.

Never sparing till all be spent, dancing, and drinking away both wit and wealth. Now he acts his ryots, anon his revels, and forthwith fer­ries to a Play-house, or Bawdy­house, where the woman with the attire of an harlot kissing him, al­lures this simple sot, voyd of un­derstanding, to solace himselfe, (ver. 18.) and take his fill of love vntill the morning. Lust leades him to dalliance, till a dart (Ver. 23.) strike thorow his liver, untill hee be cast downe and wounded, yea and slaine by her.

This notorious good-fellow (cor­ruptly so called) being a confede­rate of the Greekes, Titeretu's, or joviall roaring Boyes, is of the Poets mind, when he said;

Foecundi calices quem non fecer [...] disertum? Whom hath not wine made witty? He drinkes that he may be eloquent and facete, after his cup of nimis, he harps on Bar­nabies Hymne, or Bacchus his ine­briating Catch, bousing verily, and chanting on this wise merrily:

These are children of spirituall fornication, such as goe a Who­ring from God after the idols of their owne braines: Hos. 1. 2. such are superstitious Romanists, tutoured by their Ghostly Fathers, to beleeve in grosse as the Church beleeveth, which (as Luther saith) is grosse Divininity. These fall not onely from piety to impuritie, but also from Christian verities, to Antichristian vanities, foppe [...]ies, and trumperies.