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E'phepîaln,
Chap.s,
V
E
R.16.
YTe
z.
It
muff
iliac
us
up
to imploy
all
the
honres
of
our
lives
more
fruit-
fully,
to
take every good occafion, time and
tide
flay
not
; he that
will
not
ftrike
the iron
while it
is
hot,
doth lofe
his
labour when
it
is
cold.
it
is
notablefolly
tofeepe
in barvefl,
Prov.1
o.
5.
And
in
earthly
things
we will take
the
occafion
of
our gaine,
redeeming
it
with
loffe
of
plea
-
lure
with riling from
our
tables.
Doll.
For the fecond thing,
We
fee
that
evills
muff
not make
uegive
place
to
unfruitfulneffe,
but
more
diligent in taking
every good
occafion.
Ifabar-
veft
day be
full
of
clouds and windie, men will
not
keepe
in,but
worke
more diligently
and warily
:
If
the
evill
of
finne
abound, wee
mutt
increafe in holineffe
:
Is
it
not
enough, we our God
di(honou-
red with others
e
thus
David
wept,Pfal.
'19.
t7uine
eyes
gull;
our
with
rivers
ofteares
becaufe
men
keepe
net thy law.
Lot
vexed
his
foul
e.
Solomon
when
he law
the
field of
the fluggard,
learned wifedome.
If
calami-
ties be
in
our times, we
have
more neede to draw neere
to God. It
is
a
ffrong theefe that call into
prifon will
not
ceafe
to
fteale while he
is
in
hold
:
So
if
God
let chaines
of
common
calamities hang
onus,
it
is
notable lewdneffe not then to become converts
;
as
it
is
noted with
an
emphafis
of
i4baz
, z
C+er.
28.
z
2.
That
even in
ho
of
lia`lions, he cea-
f
d
not to offend.
Again, this may hence be periwaded; the
more rare
commodities
grow,
the more we
ingroffe
them.
Again, the
leffe
while
a
thing
is
like
to abide with
us,
the
firmer
hold you
lay
of
it
:
now
opportunities
in evill rimes are
hard to
come
by,
and
not
like
long to
continue with
us
:
fo that
as
men who are
at
worke, when
it
is
now but
an
hone
to night, they
will double their
y
f,
diligence.
This
therefore
doth
reprove thofe who
becaufe
there
are
hinderan-
ces and croffes and fuch abundance
of
evill, thinke
it
a
folly for them
to
flrive againft
the ftreame
and doe
otherwife
then
others doe;
this.is
the
devils
Logicke with which he beguileth fluggards, Prey.
15.
19.
The
way
ofche
flothfull man
is
as
a
hedge
oft
harms, Pray.
a
2.13.
He
faith,
there
is
lyon
in
the
way
:
but
we mull
!carne
the
contrary,
unleffe we
will let
the
devil! kill
us
with our owne weapons; becaufe
men are
fo
fenfualland earthly every where, becaufe there
are fo
many
evills
and
diftraélions ready to take the occafion
out
of
our hand,therfore we will
be
more
carefull totake it.
If
one had
a
commoditie
we
liked, though
there
were fome broakers
that
did lye
in
the winde
for
ir,
we would
not
got
fit
flill,
and fay,
Let them
take
it,
but wee would goe
betime
and bid well,
that they
Mould
know how they carried it
:
fo
the
more things come betweene
us
and
home,
the more carefull
we muff
be
like
good
merchants
to buy the commoditie,
even the opportunitie
of
doing
good.
VERSE
I7j
V
E R
S
E. 17.
Wherefore
be
not unwife,
but
tenderfland what the will
of
the Lord is.
Now
followeth the third
amplification from the
rule
dr
meane
nabling
us
in this circumfpeét
walking; and the precept concerning
it
is
given negatively and affirmatively. For the opening
of
the words.
Where-