Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
John Newton said, "A propensity to indulgence either in the quantity or quality of food, is a meanness unworthy of a man, still more unsuitable to the character of a Christian, and scandalous in a minister." (Works, 5: 80) Okay, his point about the quality of food is perhaps going too far, nonetheless, he is correct to draw attention to the sin of gluttony. No one is saying that you have to be skin and bone, yet that does not justify the intemperate dietary habits in which we often allow ourselves to indulge.