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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If you will not be persuaded to business, your friends if they can should force you to it.
If you will not be perswaded to business, your friends if they can should force you to it.
And if the Devil turn Religious as an Angel of light, and tell you that this is but turning away your thoughts from God, and that worldly ⟨p. 294⟩thoughts and business are unholy and fit for worldly men, tell him that Adam was in innocency to dress and keep his Garden, and Noah that had all the world was to be Husbandman, and Abraham Isaac and Jacob kept Sheep and Cattle, and Paul was a Tent maker, and Christ himself is justly supposed to have worked at his supposed Fathers Trade, as he went on fishing with his Disciples: And Paul saith, idleness is disorderly walking, and be that will not work let him not eat: God made souls and body, and hath commanded work to both.
And if Satan would drive you unseasonably upon longer secret prayer then you can bear, remember that even sickness will excuse the sick from that sort of duty which they are unable for, and so will your disease: And the unutterable groans of the spirit are accepted.