The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises

The first is slothfulness, and thou art guilty of this sin, both when thou doest not the labours of thy calling, and when thou observest not the reasons, and opportunities of thy calling, Prou. 10. 4, 5. And that thou mayest be free from this sin, thou must avoid together with it the occasions of it: And so thou must avoid, 1. The love of sleep, Prou. 20. 13. 2. Good fellowship, and haunting of Alehouses, and Taverns, and keeping company with dissolute persons, Prou. 21. 17. 3. Wandering from thine own house, even that unnecessary going from house to house, though it be not to places of ill fame. Fourthly, thou must take heed of pertinacious ⟨p. 632⟩entertainment of doubts and objections about thy calling: thou shouldest be afraid of excuses for idleness, especially to be so self-willed, as to be glad of any thing may seem to patronize thy slothfulness, Pro. 20. 4. & 15. 19. & 26. 16. And therefore to conclude this rule, when thou art about thy calling, what thou dost, do with all thy power, Eccl. 9. 10. & rest not in words or prattling. He is not diligent, that brags much of what work he can or will do, but he that doth it indeed, Pro. 14. 23.

The first is slothfulnesse, and thou art guilty of this sinne, both when thou doest not the labours of thy calling, and when thou obseruest not the reasons, and opportunities of thy calling, Prou. 10. 4, 5. And that thou maiest be free from this sinne, thou must auoide together with it the occasions of it: And so thou must auoide, 1. The loue of sleepe,