The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Quest. 2. What if I were not brought up to labour; am I bound to use it? Answ. Yes, you must yet learn to do your duty, and repent, and ask pardon for living so long in sinful idleness. What if you had not been brought up to pray, or to read, or to any needful trade, or ornament of life? What if your Parents had never taught you to speak? Is it not your duty therefore to learn it when you are at age, rather than not at all?

Qu. 3. But what if I find that it hurteth my body to labour; may I not forbear? Answ. If it so hurt you, that you are unable to ⟨p. 476⟩[…] ⟨p. 477⟩[…] ⟨p. 478⟩do it, there is no remedy: Necessity hath no Law: Or if one sort of labour hurt you, when you can take up another, in which you may be as serviceable to the Common-wealth, you may choose that to which your strength is suitable: But if you think that every sudden pain or weariness is a sufficient excuse; or that some real hurt will warrant you in an idle life, you may as well think that your servant, and your Horse or Ox may cease all their labour for you, when they are weary: or that your candle should not burn, nor your knife be used in cutting, because that use consumeth them.

Qu. 3. But what if I find that it hurteth my body to labour; may I not forbear? Answ. If it so hurt you, that you are unable to ⟨p. 476⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 477⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 478⟩do it, there is no remedy: Necessity hath no Law: Or if one sort of labour hurt you, when you can take up another, in which you may be as serviceable to the Common-wealth, you may chuse that to which your strength is suitable: But if you think that every sudden pain or weariness is a sufficient excuse; or that some real hurt will warrant you in an idle life, you may as well think that your servant, and your Horse or Oxe may cease all their labour for you, when they are weary: or that your candle should not burn, nor your knife be used in cutting, because that use consumeth them.