The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Only it must be remembered, that we do not walk above our parts and ¹graces, the issue whereof will be discouragement in our selves, and disgrace from others.

Onely it must bee remembred, that we doe not walke above our parts and ¹graces, the issue whereof will be discouragement in our selves, and disgrace from others.

1. 1Caution

The like may be said for our particular calling, wherein we are to express ¹the graces of our Christian calling, and serve one another in love, as members of the State as well as of the Church, therefore every one must have 1. a calling, ²2. a lawful, 3. a useful calling, 4. a calling fitted for his parts, that he may be ³even for his business, 5. a lawful entrance, and calling thereunto, 6. and […] lawful demeanour in the same. Though the Orb and Sphere we wal• in be little, yet we must keep within the bounds of it, because for our carriage in that, we must give a strict account, and there is no calling so mean, but a man shall find enough to give a good account for. Our care must be to know our work, and then to do it, and so to do it, as if it were unto God, with conscience of moderate diligence; for over-doing, and overworking any ⟨p. 409⟩thing, comes either from ostentation, […] distrust in God: And negligence is […] far from getting any blessing, that rings us under a curse for doing Gods