The Life of Faith. ,,ft conducible toyour health, bothfor qnantity andquality ;. and mark what difeafes and deaths are ufually caufcd'by excels It is more reafonable to be temperate for prevention ofdifeafes, than under the power and feeling of them when pain and ficknefs force you to it, whether you will or not. If you will not obey God fo carefully as your Phyfician ; yet obey the preventing counfels ofyour Phyfician, beforeyou need his curing counfel. Dire& 8. Neglec$ not the manly and the facred delights which Godal/oweth : i mean, thepleafures ofbone(( labours, and of your calling, and of readingandknowledge, ofmeditation and prayer, and ofawell ordered foul and life,andof the certain hopes ofendlefs glory. Live upon thefe, and you will eifily (pare the fldhlypleafures of a Swine. CHAP. XVII. Hw to conquer floth and idlenefs by the Lifeof Faith. J, THE third fin ofSodom, and ofabufcd Profperity, is Idle. nefl, Ezek rd. 49. Concerning which I (hall tirti tell you the nature and ftgns of it, and'then the evil of it ; and then give you more particular Dirc%ions:againll it: Bat this allo but briefly, becaufe I have done it more largely inmy awl 'ban DireUory. I. That you may know who are guilty of this fin,and who not, I thall fire} premife thefe Propofitionr. a. Nothing but difability will.excule any one-from the or- dinary labours of a lawful calling . Riches or honours will excufc none. They are the fubjctits of God, as well as others that have lets : And he that bath molt, hath moti to life, and rnoft toanfwer for : Tb whommen commit much, of them they require the more, Luke 12. 48. & 19. 23. Greatnefs and wealth info far from excufing the forbearance of a calling, that it will not allow any one the omiflio,n of one hours labour and diligence in his calling. If Godgive the Rich more wages than others,ir's unrcafonable tothink that.thcrefore they may do left wort a, Yct.
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