The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…

Thus of the Rules that concern thy General Calling:¹ in thy Particular Calling there are seven ⟨p. 309⟩things to be avoided.

THus of the Rules that concerne thy General Calling:¹ in thy Particular Calling there are seuen ⟨p. 309⟩things to be auoided.

1. 17. Things to be avoided in our particular Calling.7. Things to be auoided in our particular Calling.

The first is slothfulness, and thou art guilty of this sin, both when thou dost not the labours of thy calling, and when thou observest not the seasons, 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, Pro. 20. 13. 2. Good fellowship, & haunting of Ale-houses, and Taverns, and keeping company with dissolute persons, Prou. 21. 17. 3. Wandering from thine ⟨p. 310⟩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 entertainment of doubts and objections about thy Calling, thou shouldst 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,