The Life of Faith. or your Families, or whomfoevcr you thould labour for, Prov, 18.9. He that is jlotbful in his worn, is Brother to him that is a great wager, Prov. 21, 25. Tbe'rlt(ireof the fl,ebful killetb kin, becaufe bis hands refufeto labour; that is, r. The flugehnefl of the wither Pori/herbhim : And z. The hunger or delire tor- anentetbhim when he hath not the thing detired, Ecclef 1o.18. By much(loth the building decayrtb ; and by idlenefs of the bands, the boufedroppeth through, Prey. T9.15. Slothfulnefscafietbinto a deepfleep ; andan idle foul ¡ball fuffer hunger. And he that provideth not for his own (kindred and relations) but e#ecialíy for thofe ofhisfamily, bath denyed the Faith, and is mode than an Infidel, r Tim. 5, 8. Hath no one need ofyou ? bath no one hired you ? bath no one any right to your labours, that you are fo long idle ? If none have need of you, what do you in the world ? 17. The idle are drones and burdens of the Common- wealth And thebe(ì ordered Governments have made Laws again(t them, as they did ageintlother p.rniciouscrimes, a Ybef. 3.8. Paul laboured day andnight, that he might not be chargeable to any. And you think becaufeyou have enough, that othermen mull labour faryou, but you may Live idly without any blame. You live then upon the labours of others,but who liveth upon yours ? Yea I have known form lazy perlons, that becaufe they ireprofetrors of zeal in Religion ; or becaufe they are Ministers or Scholars, lave idly in their callings, and take their cafe, and think that all others that have riches are bound to maintain them (like the Popith begging Fryers) and they fay, He is covetous that cheftheth not them in idlenefs ; and he that giveth not to them, doth themwrong ; when Paulcow- mandeth that they fhauld not eat r And when we ask them how they live, they fay, Vpon the providence ofGodr And when the tendcrnefs ofpeople caufeth them to contribute to relieve thcta drones, they hypocritically admire the providence of God, who provideth for thcm, and live in idlenefs, and call it living uponprovidence. 18. Idlenefs deprived you of the great delight of doing good. There is noCuch pleafure in this world, as is found in fuccef- ful doing good : No man knoweth it but he that tryeth it, (and that without any conceits of merit, in commutative Jutticc.)
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