Intellectual Defenestration

"A Real Hardship"

Contrary to popular impression, the Puritan was no ascetic. If he continually warned against the vanity of the creatures as misused by fallen man, he never praised hair shirts or dry crusts. He liked good food, good drink and homely comforts; and while he laughed at mosquitoes, he found it a real hardship to drink water when the beer ran out.

From Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Family, cited in Alister McGrath, A Life of John Calvin