'D BC AV. YL houlhold dillraClions, invites me to our common devot~ons :not without fome lhon A pre!paration. Thefe heartily performed, fend me up, With a more frrong and chccre. full appetite to my former worke, w~ich I find made ~alie to me by intermiffion,aod varietie :Now ther~fore. can. I dece1ve the hourcs \VIt~ change o1.1eafures, that is, oflabours. One while mme e1es are bulied, another while my ban , and fometimes my mind takes the burden from them both:Whmin, I would imitate the skilfullell Cooks, which make the bell dilheswith manifold mixtures: onehoureisfpent in Textuall Divinity, another in Cootroverlie: Hillorie~ releeve them borh. Now when the mind is weary of other labours, it begins to undertake hrr owoe : fome: , times it meditates and winds up for future ufe ; fometimes it !ayes forth her conccirs into prefent difcourfe; fometimos for it felfe, olrer for otlhers. Neither know I whe. ther itworks orplayes in thefethoughts: I am fureno fport bath more pleafure, no B worke more ufe: Ondy.the docay ofa wcake b~dy, makes me think thefc delights in(enfibly bborious. Thus could I all day (as Rmgers ufe)· make my Jtlfe Malicke with changes, and complaine fooncr of the day for lbortnelfe, then ofthe bufincffe fortoyle; were it notthatthisfaint monitor interrupts me frill in the midll ofmy bufie pleafures, and inforces me both t6 refpite and r<paft : I mull yeeld to both; while my body and mind are joyncd together in thefe unequall couples, the better mufl: follow the weaker. Before my meales therefore, and after, I let my f<lfe loofe from al11houghts;and now,would forger that I ever frudied: A full mind takes away the bodies appetite,oolelfe then a full body makes a dull and unweildy mind: Corn. pany,difcourfe,recreations,are now feafonable andwdcome;Thefe pr<J>i!re me for a diet, not gluttonous, but medicinall ; The palate may not be pleafed, ~but the fro. c; msck, nor that for it owne fake: Neither would I think anyof thefe comli:ms worth rofpeCl in themfelvcs, but in theirufe, in their end; fo farre, as they may inable me to better things. Ifi fee any dilh to tempt my palate, I fcare a Serpent in that Apple; and wouldpleafe my [elfinawilful! denial!: I rifccapableofmore,not ddirous: not now immediately from my rrencher, to mybookc '; bur after fome intermillioa. Moderate fpecd is a fare help tO all proceedings; where l,hofe things which are profecutcd with violence ofendeavour, or dcfirc, either fuccecd not, or continue not. After my latter mcalc, my thoughts are flight: only my memory may be charged with her taske, ofrecallingwhat was committed to her cufl:ody in the day; and my heart is bulie in examining my hands and mouth, and all other fenfcs, of that dayes behaviour : and now the evening is come , no trade f. man doth more carefully take D in his wares,clearc his lhop·board, and Omt his Windowes, then I would lhut upmy thoughtsand clcare my mind. That Student lhalllive miferably,which like aCamell lies down under his burden.All thi~ done,calling together my.family,we end theday with God. Thus dowe rather drive away the time before us, then follow it. I grant, neither is my practice worthy tobe exemplary, neither are our callings proponiona. bk. The lives ofa Nobleman, ofa Courtlcr, ofa Schollcr, ofa Citizen,ofa Countryman, differ noleffe then their difpolitions: yet mull all confpire in honcfr labour. Sweat is theddliny ofall trades, whether of1he brows, or of the mind. God never allowed any man to doe nothing. How miferable is the condition of thofe men, which fpend the time as if it were given them, and not lent~ as ifhours were wafte creatures, ondfuch as lhould never be accounted for: as ifGod would rake this for a E good bill ofreckoning ; Ium, fpcnt upon my plcafures forty ycares. Thefe men lhall once tind,that no blood can priviledge idlcodfc;and that nothing is more precious to God,thcn that which they dclire to callaway;Time.Such arcmy common dayes:but Gods day calsfor ~nother refpett.The fame Suo arifcs on this day,and enlightens it; yet becaufe that Sun of rightcoufncs arofe upon it,and gave a new life unt'b the world in it,and drew the llrength ofGods morall pr<cept unto it,th<rfore jufilydoewe ling withthePfalmill;Th,:r ist.~e d•J .,hichthe Lml hAth m•de.Now I forgctthcworld,and in a fort my fdfe;ond deale with my wonted thoughts,as greatmen ufc,who at fomc timesoftheir privacie,torbid the accclfeofall futers.Prayer,mcditatioa,reading,heariog,preaching,ling~UJg,good conference, are the bufinerfes of this day; wh.ich I dare not bellowon any work,or pkafure, but heavenly.! hate lilpetftition on the one fide, and
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