and to have good hopes that all yours are God's, and shall be delivered from the wrath to come, and be heirs of a Crown of glory? If you talk of pleasure, no pleasure like them that are in duty, and at the end of duty. Well now, What have you to say against your duty? You cry pish, this is the way to be a slave, a mope, a fool. Is it true indeed, that to be enlarged for God in ones place is a slavery? how come such to be so full of peace and joy? Is that the state of slaves? no body is about to debar you of moderate ⟨p. 459⟩liberty and recreation. But will you call nothing liberty and recreation, but that which exposes you and yours to ruin? But if you take this course you shall be poor; if you and your Servants may not lye, cheat, break Sabbaths, you shall never be able to live. How then come so many honest men (that would not do any of all these things for a world) to live so well? Were Abraham, Joshua, David, Cornelius, all such poor men? If diligence, honesty, and holiness undo men, what will make them? I hope you will not say that cursing, lying, fraud, idleness, sensuality, and carelessness, are better ways of thriving. Well, once more, what have you yet to say against what I have been persuading you to? Will you now without delay bewail your former neglect? and in good earnest set to your work, like a man, that in some measure knows the power of divine precepts, the worth of souls, and the greatness of that charge that lieth upon you? O that there were in you such a heart: O that all Masters of Families were resolved for that which humanity, reason, interest, reputation, and their comfort call for; as well as the law of God and men oblige them to; What blessed Families then should we have? What noble Corporations? what glorious Cities? Might not Jehovah-Shammah be written then upon our Gates, and holiness to the Lord upon every door? O when shall it once be?
and to have good hopes that all yours are God's, and shall be delivered from the wrath to come, and be heirs of a Crown of glory? If you talk of pleasure, no pleasure like them that are in duty, and at the end of duty. Well now, What have you to say against your duty? You cry pish, this is the way to be a slave, a mope, a fool. Is it true indeed, that to be enlarged for God in ones place is a slavery? how come such to be so full of peace and joy? Is that the state of slaves? no body is about to debar you of moderate ⟨p. 459⟩liberty and recreation. But will you call nothing liberty and recreation, but that which exposes you and yours to ruine? But if you take this course you shall be poor; if you and your Servants may not lye, cheat, break Sabbaths, you shall never be able to live. How then come so many honest men (that would not do any of all these things for a world) to live so well? Were Abraham, Joshua, David, Cornelius, all such poor men? If diligence, honesty, and holiness undo men, what will make them? I hope you will not say that cursing, lying, fraud, idleness, sensuality, and carelesness, are better ways of thriving. Well, once more, what have you yet to say against what I have been perswading you to? Will you now without delay bewail your former neglect? and in good earnest set to your work, like a man, that in some measure knows the power of divine precepts, the worth of souls, and the greatness of that charge that lyeth upon you? O that there were in you such a heart: O that all Masters of Families were resolved for that which humanity, reason, interest, reputation, and their comfort call for; as well as the law of God and men oblige them to; What blessed Families then should we have? What noble Corporations? what glorious Cities? Might not Jehovah-Shammah be written then upon our Gates, and holiness to the Lord upon every door? O when shall it once be?
