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V
E
a.
z8.
Ephefan:r,
Chap. ¢.
553
therefore not
to
chafe
the
wind;
and take up
our
felves
with new
no
things, but
we
muff fee
that our labour be
about that which
is
lawful!
and fruitful!.
The
fourth thing to be noted
is
the
biding
of God which
is
upon
labour; work; that ye may
have
not only for your felves,but for others
alto;
notethcn
,.
That
walking
in
our
calling,
by
the
keying of
God
ù
beneficial)
unto us;
labour
is
painful!
,
but God
doth
fweeten it with
abourin
our
the
gaine it
bringeth:
The
diligent hand
maketh
rich
Prova 0.4.
He chat
Godsb'cping
tills his
ground(hall
be
fatis
fled: The
diligent
hand(hallrule,
Prov. 2.24.
cotes
a
&ciasl
Thefoule ofthe
fluggard
de
fireth
and bath
nothing, but the diligent
Pule
(ball
be
made
fat,
Prov.13.4.
The
heathens could
fpeak thus
much, that
the
gods
fold every thing
for labour:And the Scripture
doth
give
us
ex-
amples,
as
to
what
Iacob
role from nothing
by the
bleffing
of
God
on
his diligent travail:
For this
muff
be knowne,
though
Paul
taketh this
for granted,
that
our labour
(ball
not
be
fruitleffe; yet
this,
that
it
is
com-
modious,
doth
not come from our toyling, but the Lords
bleffing,
Pfä1.127.1,2.Except
the
Lord
keep
the
city,thewatchman
watcheth
but
in vaine,
Prov.i0.22.
The bleffing
of
God
maketh
rich
; elfe
we
/hould
fifh with
Peter
all
night
and
take
nothing.
For
God though
he will not
have our calling negleéfed,which were to
tempt
him
,
yet he fufpen
deth
all
the
fucceffe
of
them
upon his bleffing ,
that
while we
lacke
things,our truft
muff be in
him,that when we
have any
thing,we might
thanke him,not
our
hands,forthat
were
to
facrifice and
borne incenfe
to
our
own
nets.
And this confideration fhould
comfort
us in
our
travailes, if
they yfe,
fhould bring
no
good to
us, we
might
fay,
As good
play
far
naught
as
!
Is
mould
work
for
naught. But feing
God doth
accompany them with
his bief-
á
g
labour.
ling,
our
plough
muff not (land
fill
:
He
that
keepeth a
ftgtree
¡hall
eat. Prov.z7.,
8.
the
fruit ofit,
Prov.
27.18.
And
we may
lawfully confider this for our
encouragement,
r Cor.
9.10.
He
that
(tweth foweth in
hope
to
be
s
Cor.g.so,
partaker
of
that
he
hopeth
for:
yet though
we may have thefe ends,
not
to
charge
others, to
have
of
our
owne
,
to be
helpful!
to others,
yetthe
principali end mull be toglorify
God;
elfe
as
we
fay
of
hunters
that
look more for the
roaff then the
(port,
it is
but pot
-
hunting
;
So
this
labour
that loaketh
moreto our own
backs &
bellies,then to Gods
glory
in
the
obedience
of
faith,is but pot
labour,
befeeming Heathens
rather then Chriftians.
Butit maybe
laid
that
many true labourers
live
molt poore
labou-
objet,
rers.
Concerning
s/lnfw. t.
This
mull
fo
be taken
as
commonly for the molt part
the
poverty
of
many
painful'
true,
not
univerfally.
labourers.
2.
Again,
that
which
is a
poore
life
compared
to
others more rich,
may
be
a
good comfortable
condition
to
the
labouring
man
;
for no
mans
profperous life
Both ftand
in
abundance.
3.
Many are poore
a
while, though labouring, yet God at length
Both bleffe
them.
4.
If
that povertydoe dwell with them, then they mull
fet
downe ,
that