Senn. z z. Hom may we get rid of S piritaall Sloth ? 493 folding of the hand! to fleep. When ch fluggard is cal'd to arife in the morning, he rcfolves to do it, only inrreats one little, one íhort nap more, and then he will arife. So when fon e are called to awaken, a- rife and walk with God in his way in the morning of their age, they crave one ¡bore nap more firîr, and then they will doit; give them leave to get fuch an date, to obtain fuch an honour, to match fuch a child, to fatisfie fuch a haft, and then will they be for God. Such a lluggard was A. f in, a little longer, OLord, a little longer,prefently, prefenly. Matth.z5. to. the five foolifh Virgins refolved to have oyl pgRl,sl,,m,pdu- ir their lamps and veffels, only they would take a nod. Oh how dan- intem,rrtodo ! gerous is delaying Sloth ? the Virgings deferring, provokes Chrift to modo, hoc denying. Archiaa being merry at (upper, had a letter fent him that eratfine mode.' concern'd his life,and though defired to read it, puts it up into his poc.8 ueei .confel' ket, faying, ave+0 6irsdxîa. I'll mind feriou; things to -mor- plurarsl3, in row, but he lived not unto the morrow, to mind thofe ferions things. more/. Such another P.uggard was the rich man, Luke I2. ZO. Stulte bat node. Toldc moray : femper nocuis eiifTerre paratts. Alexander being asked how encen. he came CO cor:quer the World, replied, Nungroam dIerre volens ; if you will overcome more thán Alexander did, not only the World , but alfo Sathan,and your own fiefh, the wont and flrongeft enemy of all, you muff carefully lay hold on every lock of opportunity, and expedi- tioully improve the fame. 3. Disturbing Sloth is, when a perfon doth intend and endeavour to walk in Gods way, but Sloth as mil hinders the wheels of his Soul from coming to, and running in the way of God. The7arpedo if it touch but any part of the angle that a man holds in his hand, corpse torpefcere Alin. nat. h f#. facit, it benums and ftupifies all the members that they cannot flir or lib.gz.cap.r. , ftrive. Stich malignant influence bath Sloth upon the Soul; the cha- riots of Saints Souls fhould drive as 7eh, s heartily and furioufly, z Kings 9. zo.and not as Pbaraoh'schariots heavily and faintly,Excd. 14. z5. all the agility of the Soul, and all theabiliry of the body are required in Gods way, and about Gods work,whatfoever comes fhore of this is Sloth, as whatfover comes fhort of Virtue is Vice. z. Activity in duty is a vic`}orious conqueff over the Great Goliab Sloth, and riding triumph in the wiy, work, and worfhip of God; activity is a Devi ,i's dancing before the Ark with all his might ; there are three things which concur and contribute to complete this activity in duty. I. rota animi intentio. dL in re Z. agenda. BBal. in s jç, Rrr 2 3. A'fdui- 1
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