joy and gladnesse] In stead of repentance and mourning for their sinnes, the procuring cause of these evils, they abandon themselves to riot, excesse, revelling, and jollitie; in contempt of the menaces of Gods Prophets, vers. 2. Chap. 5. 11, 12. let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die] The Prophets say, we shall die to morrow: let us make merry then, while we may, Chap. 56. 12. Wisd. 2. 6. 1 Corinthians 15:32.