! C s A r.s. EpiJlleto the TheJfalonians. V sit. r4. 477 ----d. S fignment of euery one to his fpeciall vocation, is as an- cient as the World. Adam in Paradife is appointed u to , ( ;cn .i dreffe the Garden. It is mbrofe his obferuaaon out of Phil° : * Though Paradife, in regoefl of the fertilitie of the t âmbro¡ de place, needed no husbandry, yet becaufe the firfl rnan war Parad Toga¡ -.4. to bee a Law to his poflerity,thereforc rs he enioyned labour; to inflruEt vs to painfulneffe, and induflrious employ - ment in our vocations. Accordingly after the fall, thus trained they vp their children ; x CAIN was a tiller of x Gen.4, . the ground ;- A s E L a keeper of fbeepe: like was the courfe of Patriarches, as we may reade along the Storie. Yea, the curled feed of Cain, though they degenerated into vanitie,yer had they their feuerall implorments. In the Ifraelirifh Córnmmonwealth, after their fettling in the Land ofPromife, fuch prouiGon was made, that euery Tribe and Family had their husbandry to bee imployed in< The Tribe of L E v a., whole exemption was mote' from manuali Arts, yet hadtheir feuerall places of e li- niterie, In this grff rank a of inordinate walkers, wee haue, a- las, how many to bee ranged i It is vaine perhaps to fpeake of Monkes, and fuch like Y idle -bellies, as PAY L cals Grecians. Yet this 1 may fay for them : they had the faireft pretence of all of their diforderly order; giseing thernfelues to demotion and beamed, contemplation. A life, I confeffe, abone all others to bee cholen, were a man hornetoh!mfelfealone. But this ground wee mull re. member; Emery man on earth is a member offorre com- mon bodie. And is thereby bound to imploiment in fome office, good to communirie : Whereby it conies to palie, that elan this kind of life, (pent wholly in deuotion and contemplation, isvnpleafing to God. Becaufe, howfo- euer herein they doe good tothemfelues, yet-bring they no .benefit to the common bodie. I confefre, the life bath great commendation amongft Ancients; tome of them call ire heamenly and Angelical!. And lure it is,fuch fhall rTitus r.ta. a-
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