Feast the slave, and starve the wife? – Thomas Brooks

Make it more and more your chief work to make plentiful provisions for the eternal welfare of your souls. Your souls are more worth than ten thousand worlds. All is well if your soul is well. If that is safe, all is safe. If that is lost, all is lost God, Christ, and glory is lost if the soul is lost.

Is it madness to feast the slave, and starve the wife? and is it not greater madness to feast the body and starve the soul? to make liberal provision for the body, and none for the soul? Do not they deserve double damnation, who prefer their bodies above their souls? Before all, and above all look to your souls, watch your souls, make provision for your souls. When this is done all is done. Until this is done, there is nothing done which will yield a man comfort in life, joy in death, and boldness before the judgment.

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