[…] What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne? […] So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.
1633, John Randal, Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber-man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace, pages 32–33