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551,
Ephefians
Chap.+.
2RE
Vfi.
Again
@fuck
as live
idlely
andonlyfollow
theirpleafures.
w
yt.
e
mutt fol-
low
thelabour
e
as
an
calling
axe
of
faith.
Doll.
muft
be
;ut
things
good
and profitable.
yj
otbers,thereforepride
compaff
eth them
a6aat
as
a
chain. It
is
Gods
yoake
which
Both fubdue
the haughtineffe
of
our
nature.
Again, it
is
neceffary
to
keepe
us
from
pride,i
r.
k.
z
6.idleneffe
and
pridegoe together;to
keepe
us
from
luft,
as
we
fee in
the
example
of
David
and
Soloman.
From
playing
the bulk- body,
z
Tint.
5.r3.(pea-
king
of
idle
women,they
wander
about
from
heat
to
hale,
and
not
enely
idle,bat sailers and
btefie.bodies.For
idleneffe
is
the
Butt
the
devil'
fhoo-
teth at, the pillow
he fleepeth
on;
and ftanding waters
are filled
with
filthineffe.
The
life
of
it
is
to
rebuke fuch
as live
idlely;
as
what
is
the
life
of
man y
Gentlemen but that
of
Petiphars!
they
know
nothing but thedifh
they feede
opt:
if
one would paint
them, he
muff
bring them
in with
dogges, hawkes, dice, cards, curtifans,their
dayes are paffed in plea
-
fure:
men muff
have their pleafure; true, for
a
bow
(till
bent, will
prove
a
flugge,
but
recreation
is a
condiment for
a
calling, not it
felfe
an occupation. Again,
fuch is
the
life
of
fome
irreligious and idle
fcholars
with
us in
the Univerfitie; what
is
the
life
of
fuch
but
jetting
up and
downe, jangling, fwaggering, gaming,having
a
tobacco
pipe,
walking
in
their chambers from hand
to
hand blowfrng, theeves
in
that theymifpend
while thus
they continue,both
their founders
allow-
ance,
and
parents
meanes.
Many
that
profeffe,
full
of
idleneffe, for
they
fome
of
them
paffe
their time
in
talking,
in
drinking,gaming,
&c.
that
they
make
the world
condemnc religion
of
idleneffe.
Andthe Papifis
are here evinced
that
teach the
lawfulneffe
of
an
idle life,
their monkes
aas
they taught
before an art
of
lying
in their
equivocation.
This being the
will
of
God,
we muff fweeten the
wearineffe
of
our
callings
with
this confederation, and muff make
our daily
labours
an
obedience
of
faith
to
his
Ordinance; So
it (hail
come to
paffe
that
though God doth not
releafe
us
quite
of
labour,
yet he
will
cafe
us
of
wearifomeneffe, and makeour labours delightful'
to
us.
That
which ssgood,]
that
is,
lawfull
and
profitable; Obferve
hence:
That
oar
caging
muff
be abatis
[itch
things as are
honeff
and
beneficial:
We
muff
labour;
fo
doe theeves
themfelves,
I,
but about that
which
is
good
:
this
isa
rulein callings,
they
muff
be about
fuchthings
as
are
lawfull;
fuch things
as
make
with the good
of
Church,Family,Com-
mon.wealths
:
and therefore
the
kindcs
of
calling we rcade
of
in
the
Scripture,
they
are
either
Church
callings,
or
ferving
to
politic,
or
ferving
theparticular good one
of
another,
as
husbandry,
merchan-
dife, handie-craft,&c.
It
is
better be
idle
then
ill
occupied.
So
that many
may be hence convinced; the
Rage-players, they la-
bour, but what
tends their
labour
to.'
the corrupting of
the mind and
fraighting
it with vanity
:
the common
llfurer,
he occupieth himfelf,
but
about thatwhich
is
not good.The
pedlar-likeParafete,the tradsthat
make ornaments for fuperfluous curiofitie, dice
-
making;
the A(trolo.
ger,Alchytnift, &c,the one labouring
in
that
which it cannot
foretell,
the other
in
that which cannot be
found out.
We
muff have
care
I
there-