Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

2. Tho it be Gods gift, and you cannot work it in your selves, yet cannot you seek it of God, desire him to work it in you? And can you not use the means by which he ordinarily works it? And are you not as capable of so doing when you live and are in health, as when you are sick and dying? When you are sick you cannot heal your selves; health is Gods gift as well as grace is, tho of another kind. But do you then use to lie still, and say you must wait till God restore ⟨image 102⟩you? Or do you not rather send for your Physician, and betake your selves to the use of means by which God is wont to work it? You cannot get an estate unless God give it you; riches are his gift, Prov. 10.22. Do you therefore sit still and fold your hands in your bosom, and say you must tarry till God give you an estate? Or do you not rather engage in some honest Calling, or Trade, as the ordinary way God is wont to bless to that end? The diligent hand maketh rich, vers. 4. and why do you not do so here too? If you will go on in sin, and say you wait till God give you repentance, you may wait long enough, when every day you continue in sin, so much the farther off from repentance you are, and so much the more you provoke God to deny it you.

2. Tho it be Gods gift, and you cannot work it in your selves, yet cannot you seek it of God, desire him to work it in you? And can you not use the means by which he ordinarily works it? And are you not as capable of so doing when you live and are in health, as when you are sick and dying? When you are sick you cannot heal your selves; health is Gods gift as well as grace is, tho of another kind. But do you then use to lie still, and say you must wait till God restore ⟨image 102⟩you? Or do you not rather send for your Physitian, and betake your selves to the use of means by which God is wont to work it? You cannot get an estate unless God give it you; riches are his gift, Prov. 10.22. Do you therefore sit still and fold your hands in your bosom, and say you must tarry till God give you an estate? Or do you not rather engage in some honest Calling, or Trade, as the ordinary way God is wont to bless to that end? The diligent hand maketh rich, vers. 4. and why do you not do so here too? If you will go on in sin, and say you wait till God give you repentance, you may wait long enough, when every day you continue in sin, so much the farther off from repentance you are, and so much the more you provoke God to deny it you.