Neville's refusal to let the mystical experience be mistaken for moral improvement, argued from the charge laid against the one he is talking about. Why do you listen to him? He is mad; first of all he is a glutton and a winebibber, a drunkard, and he loves harlots and tax collectors and all the people who are not socially prominent. Neville applies it to himself without flinching and in the present tense: he is the same person, with the same frailties he had before the event, subject to all the weaknesses of the flesh - over-eat, I did it; over-drink, I did it; and I still do both. So in spite of all his weaknesses it happened to him, and you do not become a goody-goody person after the event. The reason this matters to him is that it removes the last route by which anyone could think the thing is earned. Elsewhere he takes the same charge to the concordance and gets a second reading out of it, which a curator may want to keep distinct: a glutton is one who shakes as in the wind and scatters profusely, and winebibber has the root of the word dove and comes from Jonah - so the charge describes the Holy Spirit walking the earth scattering his word to everyone who will listen, some of whom throw it out and some of whom have no depth for it. The lexical reading and the biographical one are both his.