Corn. y: Of Sleep aid Idle*fs. Chap, 4; 44 perfon to the Ant,and that the fon of Syracb compares aflothifitl Man io thefilth ofa Eccl. 22.2 dnngbil. In this refpe6f therefore is this fin tobe condemned. 2. In regard of the lofs of time, a thing fo pier ions, that the Pip:file exhorts us Ephef s. i6 by all means to redeem it, if we have mifpent it. And the Pfalmift fers it down as a Gai. 6. to curfe upon the people, that God confumed their days in vanity. pf"m 78. i3 2Thef. 3. 10 3. In regard of the breachof the next Commandment which forbids llealing. For he that confumes his days inidlenefs, maketh ufc of the creatures, to which he path no right. The ApoftIe faith,He that cloth notwork, fhould not eat. The Heathen call fuch men ijdolov áx.Har,an urtneceffary burden. The Scriptures compare them to Lo- cults that devour all where they come ; and the Fathers term them unprotifable and I :L, fie fùperfluous Creatures. The Apoflle (alluding.to this) faith,Lethim thatftoleftealno phef,q: r$ more, but rather let him labour. 4. In regard of the breach of the fixth Commandment forbidding Mufti' ex. For idlenefs is the mother Of manydifeafes. For as there are none of Gods creaturesbut putritie without motion, as the air and water,ffagnantes, velf antes aqua, nec dulces necfilubres (faith Seneca) ftanding waters,are neither fweet nòrwholfome; fo cafe in the body bringeth forthpodagram, the gout, and other difeafesr Computrefcit in ftercore (faith theProphet,) thefeed rots under theclod. And it were to be wifht , Joel t. 17 that not only the lob oftime, wafting the creatures, and the hurt of the body were all thè prejudice that came by idlenefs, fo that the foul might be kept untainted by it;but that alfa is fubjedh to detrifnent by it : for from nihil agere,doing nothing,comes male agere; doing ill. Idlenefs teachethmuch evil, faith thefon ofSyracb, and by this Ecclus.33,27 comes thedifeafe which St.Eafil callspodagram animi, the goutofthefoul. Now idlenefs confìlls in two things. Either r. In too much fleep : or 2. Innot being exercifed (whenwe are awake)in the works of our calling: I. For the find, of too much fleeping. After the Apofllehad told the Romans Rom. 43. 1 it was high time toawake out offleep,he gives them a eaveat,to walkhonejfly, as in the 13 1 day ; not in gluttony and drenkennefr, nor in chambering andwantonnefi : after tv is taon gluttony, and iv 14,9.0.4 drunkennefs; thenhe comes to/4640.g, which we tran.- slate chambering, but it is properly lying long in bed ; and there is joynedwith it d4ia- yela, wantonnefi, the companion of n6t3n, and beginning ofconcupifcence. The Pro- Amos 6,4 phet upbraideth thofeof his time, withftretchiug themfelves upon theirbeds, and not without caufe, for another Prophet tells us, that by it men begin cogitdrenequdm, to Micah 2.1 devifè iniquity, tohave wicked thoughts. We fee the experienceof it in David,who 2 Sam. t t,a after his ileep,was difpofed to take the air in hisTurret,andby that means was made fit for the impreflion of this vice, upon the fight of a tempting obje6t: for which caufe, Salomon gives good counfel for this purpofe, Love notfleep, left thou come to poverty /, open ebene eyes, and thou fhalt befatisfied with bread; for having fpoken rerfe is. of young then, that by their allions they may be known, whether their work be pure, and whether it be right,and in the iz.verfe,that they may be known by this, whether theyapply their ears and eyes to knowledg, ás God created them; he concludes in the i3.verfe, that otherwife if they love fleep, thefe effeds of it fhall come upon them. For remedy hereof two things are to be obferved in fleep. t. The Quantitie, 2. The manner. I. For the quantity. Our fleep mutt not be too long. Vfq;quo dormis ? HOW lang wilt thrill fleep, 0fluggard ? ultrahoram, beyond the hour : there isan hour when to arife ; Flora eft jam, faith the Apotfle, the hour k at band, or as we read it, its not» Rom. 13; s high time to awake out of fleep butthe sluggard, when the hour cometh, when he fhould arife, lies 11111 in,his bed,and is as a door which turneth always upon the hinges, Pray. 26,14 and yet remains in the fame place. 2. For the manner of our fleep. It muff notbe like that of Jonah who wasina Jonah i .g dead fleep ina timeof danger: It muß not be (as SeJerome calls it) fepulturafuffa- cati,asthe burial of one without breath, but requies lair, the ref} of one that is weary. The Prophet threatens it as agreat plague from God, to be given up to the flint of Efay 29, se flamber, which is trueof all iund`fa, drowfinefs of the body, as wellas the foul: And as 'Jonah was in the midst of the tetitpeff when he flept foundly, fo thefe areunder Gods vibration, who are poffefl with this fpirit offlumber. 2. The fecond point of idlenefs is, when we are not exercifed in the duties of K It k z ose
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