3 LU k a:chef 3, to. Obfer. 1 ;Exod.18.z2. rn dium.8. 2 G. zn Eph.g z8. E11Btt2 ni9 nYt le ñr1 VF,R a H AP.4.. foi r this Mandate of the Apoftle ? In the manner of imploy- ment may be Come oddes ; one more generous, another more feruile: In this I am Cure is none; that all ought to be in their places induílrious. What fhould I fpeake of the flouth growne vpon the meaner rankes of trim : in rich fort, that the goods gotten by Parents induftry,tnaintaining them in fafhion & repu- tation,a fluggifh fon, that brother to a wafter, brings to no- thing ? Ir were ftrangc, Religion fhould bee made a colour for flouth ! Sure I am, there is nothing which Religion le(Te, applauds. Yet how many couens of lazy Fryers, vnder pretence of deuotion and contemplation, haue (pent their whale lines in doing nothing ? And rime thole hiues of Drones difperfed amongf+vs,there are rifen vp a fcartered and vagring company, vnder colour of deuotion,& bun - gring after knowledge,more the thefe drones,negligét in their vocarions.Paas1,I f1aould think, was no enemy to de- notion ; yet had fuch hued in his time,his Canon had bin extended to thetn, They fbould k not eat,that would not labor.. Let it be our care to bend our induf+i y to the vtmoft in our ca.11ings.And thus think we, God is as well pleafedin: thefeafonable per formance of duties in our fiieciall callings, as in thofe that immediately concerne hit worJhip. With your owne bands; So that it is our perfosrallindu- firy that God requires of vs in our callings. Therefore Jethro aduifing Mofesa courlè for cafe of himfelfe and the peo- ple, yet wifheth referuation of i harder twilit, and infpe- Ilion of his f sbordinates to bee continued. And Leuites, fuperannated and difmitled from more publique ferui- ces, yet are commanded to keepe m their charge, and to affil+ their brethren in offices ofinferiour nature. To this property of labour, let vs annexe the qualitie of the matrer,wherein it is to be imployed : which Paul bath in a like exhortation fpecified ; it muff be fame a good thing. That good thing, fo far as it concernes fpeciall cal- lings,,
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