452 Slot/, Condemned mzd (u.red. before a I..borious condition of life which in orhtr refpeds is better for yOu. A; whu1 a Scrv,mr had: ther live in an ungodly fam!ly wh~re thLrC is _more: eafe ( and fulmfi) to be had, than in a place of P.o,·. ::.6. 13. gr~ateH advantage for the: loul, where there IS more labour ( and want). 9· 'Vheu liule impcdi– ffilmtncs difcouJagc or ftop you: Thejl,tbfirl fait!J, tbere i1 a LJ•on i;: tbe Jl'ay, P1ov. 22. 13. His way is an hedge flf tb~rnJ, Prov. 1 S· l~· He wiU not plow by rra[llft of cold, Prov. 20 • 4 • 1_c. When you make a greaJ tn~Jtlfr of a lzule .bu{i~ufi : h cannot !)C done but with (Uch prepara– tion, and fa much a do, d1at {hews a Hothful mtnd tn the doer. Even the putti 11 g hi 1 homd 10 !Ji 1 moUJb, and pu.lling it out of biJ bo[omc is a bufinefs with the fiuggard; that is, he makerh a grt?lt How little ~uu.ur of a ltttk one, Prov. 26. 15. & 19 24· 1 J. LaHly, The fmitJ of Jl(}thfulmfi ufe to detect have feme H, m fuul, and body, and ltlate: For it cunuptclh, irnpoveriOa·rh and ruiuerh all. The weeds of his m~n? (yea, Fir/d or Gardw, the vica of his foul, the tins of his life, the duties omirttd, or lkepily pcr– ~~~~\~:~\~es) to formed, the difordcrs of his family or charge , and ufUally, or oft, his poverty, do detect him, tllt wol all rhe Prov. 24· 30· & 12· 24, 27· go!Ai th(y '9· 5· By this much it is eafie to difcern the impudcm folly of the ~akcrs and fome ignorant might ha'e Ruttick.s rhat rail againlt MagiHrues and Minifiers for Jiving idly, btcaufe they do nor plow or ~~~~c~~~i~~~:: rhrdh, or ufc: fo~e mcchanick Trade or Labour: As if .the labour of .their higheft CaL'ing 1 were no Theworkrhey labour, but meer 1dlemfs: Thus proud men fpeak ev1l of that wh1ch they underfiand not: HJd have d<.on; they tryed it , they would have found that the work of a faithfUl Minill('r is further difiant call~ them from id!enefs, than a Thrdher is : Dorh not Chri{l and the Holy Ghutt oft c&ll them I.Jbomtr 1 Hllc. f.Uow-labtJurerJ n:ith Chrijf, and worJtmen, and their :vurk...a lahoHr l Luke 10· 27. 1Cor. 3· 9· r Tim: 5· I7, I8. 2 Tim. 2· I 5• Manh. IO· w, I Cor. 3· I3, 14, I5· & 9· 1. Ephd. 4• 12. Phi!. 2. 30. Dirrtl. lo §. 6. Hence alfo you mJy fee, I· That though all that can mull labour, yet there is great divufity ofl.~.?ours; and all men arc not to do the fame work. MJgifirates, and P.tltors, and Lawyers, and Pnyhcjons mul\ I.~buur dilif,.rmly : bur they arc nor all bound ro plow, and thrdh, and ufc: the more fcrvile labours of thLir int~riors. 2. That every man rnufi: labour in the works ofhis own Cal– ling, and di his own bujineji, as 1 Thrif. 4· 11· 2Thrjf. 3• 11· and uke that for rhe employ– rntnt for him, which God. doth eaU him to~ ar.d not pretume to fiep out of his befi place., and take the work of O{her mens Callings out of their hJr.ds. 3· Tbar a man that is paid for his labour by ;mother, (as Lawyers, Phyficions, SchoolrnafleTs, Servants) do rob· them by thr..ir idlenefs, wben they withhold from them any part of that which they are paid for-• .r' j • ~· 7· Dtruol:. 1. The firjl help qgainjl flotb, i< to be wcU acquainted,with the grratmfi of tbt fin. For no wonder if it be committed by them that think it fm1ll : Fir!l there!ore I !lull tell you what it is. r Thdf.! a, §. 8. J, God himfdf reckoneth it with heinous fin<, Ezek. I6. 49· Pridt, fulmfi of bread, and p 8 'l· abundance of idlent[s ( 1he very charaCter of the debi\,uched put of Ihe Gentry ) is laid to have been ;:~·~ ~~.9 S d.wu iin, that was confumed with fire from Heaven. And the 1brffalonitJn.t were forbidden to J.:.!tp 2 ThcO: 3· comp.;ny with fuch as lived diforderly and did not work. Prov. 1 2 14· 9· 9· 2· Idient{s i.t a tempordry dejfn,!Jiun ( aJ to their uft) of ,;zllthe facultitJ of mind a"d body : 1 f .'S· S which jhcHld be cxtrcifed. lt is contrary to Natme: For N.11ure made our fac;lltin for ufe: "el. 10 " 1 ·You bury your felves alive: If it be a fin to hide Gods ltffer Talents, what is it_to bury our felves and all our powers: If ir be pity to fee a de11Jma1t, bccaufe he is rntt{t/ltl CO the world; Is it not pity and jhamt to fee one vobtnt<~rily dead, that m~kcth him[clf r<ftltji by his floth 1 Should not Ihe Church-yard be the dwelling of rhe Jlothjlll, that he may be ntar.dl them m place, that he is m:ardl to in qullity ? ) ~ §. IO· 3· Idle>ttji and jlotp art confumm of all the mercies of God; You are the barren ground where he towtth his feed, and none comes up. You return him but a crop of thorns and bryar.F, F<b. G. S. and fuch grour.d is nigh tocurjing ( the final ""ft ;) rvhoft end i~ to be burnt: DJth God daily fted, and clothe, and keep you, and proteC.t and fuppoJt. you, and teach and warn you, and all for nothing lis idlenefs that for which he hired you? Wi!I you accufe your Maker of fo great imprudence, and your Redeemer of more, as if he created and rcdeemld you to do nothing, or that which is as bad or worfe than nothing ? He calleth to you, Wby jland yott idlt .' Mauh. 20· 3, 6. And it is a terrible fentcnce that fuch (hall receive, Mmh.2 5· 26. Thou rvicktd and flothful firvant ; Cajl tbt un– profitable [ervam iHJo OHifr ditr'Jtneji, &c. 9· II. 4· Idlent[s ii a robbinr. Gud, who ii the Lord of tu and all our faculties, and aD our {er– 'L'ice iJ !JU due: Ymt rub him of the honour and fervice that you might have done him by your diligence. . P<ov. , 0 . >6. §· I2· 5· And it is a robbing )'"'" ftlves of all the good to foul or body, whiCh by your Prov. 18. 9· labour and indu!lry you might have got : The Jlothflll man lyeth wijhing till he pen(h : Prov. 21·25· · §• 1;. 6. And it is a robbing of the Commonwealth , and of all . thofe to whom your la– , hours, or the fruit of tbem was due. You are burdens to the Commonwealth; like Drones in the Hive, Col. 3· 22. 9· I4· 7· Sloth[t<lntji is a great con[umer of 1ime, (as is fi>ewed Cbap. 5· ) Youlofe notonly all the 7ime when duty is omitted, but much of the time in which you perform it ; wh1le you nd no work, atld do it as if you did it not. He that goe1h but a mile an hour, lofeth his Time, though he be Hill going, r..ven as much as he that goeth two milt one hour, ar.d fics fiill the ne~t. 0 what abun– dar.cc of their lives do idle perfons lofe? When Time is gone, they will better underfiand £he great– ncfs of Iheir !in ai_ld Jofs, that now make light of it.
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