Eetfe,Quietnefs and 'vividly Peace to bedenied. I 5 / from it. You have much todo, and fouls to fave ; and the eafe ofyour flesh and flefhly minds is one thing that tuft be denied, before it can be accomplifhed. The slothful is ftill craving, yet a little flumber, and yet a little eafe : and he is 'till upondelays, even when he is convinced of his danger and his duty : when he knows that he Inuit turn or die, yet he is de- laying, and putting it off till another time : And fo the vine- yard and garden of the sluggard, are grown over with nettles and weeds : And he hath fcarce a duty to do but there is a thorny hedge or a Lycoa in the way. Deny this eafe, and be up anddoing And there are three forts ofperfons that have efpecial need of this advice. The firft is thofe that by the flegmatick diftem- per of their bodies, aremore prone to heavinefs and flothful- nefs then others. The more fuch aredifpofed to it, the more fhould they watch againft it and resift it. the fecond fort are Beggars, andother idle wandering per- fons, that make a trade of Idlenefs, and worfe : fuch alfo as Ballad-fingers, Stage-players, Juglers, Cheaters , andmolt-- Ale-fellers that fpend their time in tipling and talking with their guefts ; and other idle perfons, that will fpend whole hours together in twaltling and talking idly, and of other mens matters. All thefe live in a courfe of flesh-pleating, and of hainous fin : andmuff better learn to deny the flesh, before they can be the trueDifciples of Chrift. This is not the life that God called you into his vineyard for nor that he fent you into the world for, towafteyour short and precious dales inpotting, and piping, and prating, and ocher ways of idlenefs Nor should fuch be fuffered in a Commonwealth. The third fort,are too many Lords, Knights,atid Gentlemen, that think becaufe they have enough to maintain them,that it is lawful to live an idle life. Or if they do any thing that's pro- fitable to the Commonwealth, it is rather as a recreation,then as a Calling : Now and then an hour in the midft of their plea- fures and idlenefs, is the molt. It is a miserable life that this fort ofperfons live : even in the fins of Sodom (which cry for the vengeance of Sodom) Pride, Fallnejs ofbread, and Idlenefs. As if thefe perfons that have molt wages Ihould do God the
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