Note, 1. Pleasure and liberty ill become a fool: Delight is not seemly
for such a one. A man that has not wisdom and grace has no right nor
title to true joy, and therefore it is unseemly. It ill becomes those
that do not delight in God to delight in any thing, nor how to manage
themselves, and therefore they do but expose themselves. It becomes
ungracious fools to be afflicted, and mourn, and weep, not to laugh and
be merry; rebukes are more proper for them than delights. Delight is
seemly for a man of business, to refresh him when he is fatigued, but
not for a fool, that lives an idle life and abuses his recreations. The
prosperity of fools discovers their folly and destroys them. 2. Power
and honour ill become a man of a servile spirit. Nothing is more
unseemly than for a servant to have rule over princes; it is absurd in
itself, and very preposterous, for none are so insolent and intolerable
as a beggar on horseback, a servant when he reigns, ch. xxx. 22. It is
very unseemly for one that is a servant to sin and his lusts to rule
over and oppress those that are God's freemen and made kings and
priests to him.