15o Eafe, ,Quietneff andworldly Peace to be denied. what a crime is it to be flothful in the work of the God of Heaven? The greater your Mailer is, the more kainous it-is to be lazy in his fervice. Remember the curfe on them that do the workof the Lorddeceitfully, ler. 48.10. All work that you have to do, is the work ofthe Lord. 8. And confider, That the Idle forfeit the protecction andpro- vifion ofGed ; even their daily bread. For muff he fupport and feedyou to do nothing ? His own rule is, that ifany man will not work,neither fhoulci he rat, 2 Thef. 3 . zo. And if he may not eat, we maynot relieve him. 9. And ifidlenefs hadnot been an hainous fin, the ,Apofile would never have commanded us to avoid the company of fuck , fes if they were unfit to converfe with Chriftians. 2 Thef. 3. 1 0. Confider what abundance ofworkwe have to do, and of howgreat importance ! 0what a deal havewe to do for our poor fouls, and for many about us, befides all our bodily imployment in the world ! Methinks, every man that knows why he is a man, and what it is, in an inch of time, to work for everlafting, Mould never find an hour for idlenefs in his life, but fill cry out , Row fhort andTwift is time, and hoW great and long rs the work ! Aman that had all the Town on fire about his ears, or a man that were fighting for-his life, or a man that were in a leaking veirel ready to fink under him, might better be lazy, then a man that is at work for,an endlefs life. i 1. Moreover, iti/exelf id a bafe kindof vice : It is the imita- tionofa block or a {tone that lieth still, when that which hath life will be in adion. 12. And it is ufually a Continual lin, or at leaf takes up a great part of the lives of many that are addided to it. A drunkard will not always be drunk ; and a lyar will not be al- i2eals lying ; But a flothful perfon will be moll commonly floth- ful. And, to condude,lay all this together, and think what a reckoning a flothful perfon is like tohave, that by his fin is al- way running behind hand , andwill have the neglected time, andmeans, and mercies ofalmoft all his life to answer for. And now you fee thegreatnefs of this fin,abhorr i t,and awake from
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