Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

Answ. Because you are mistaken. A calling is not only to maintain your self and your family, but it is an ordinance of God to preserve and keep you from Idleness: whereby you are not only to maintain your self, but to help others. And therefore ye find that Paul saith, he wrought with his hands; not only to maintain himself but others. Acts 20.34. You know (says he) yea, your selves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. He did not only work occasionally to maintain himself, but others also. And if ye look into the 4th. chapter of the Ephes. The same Church that he spake to in the 20th. of the Acts, ye shall find that he layeth his injunction on them and us. Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. verse 28. Surely therefore a calling is not only appointed to raise a maintenance for our selves and therefore though you can live, & have outward means enough to maintain both you, and others, ⟨p. 57⟩yet you may not therefore leave or desert your calling; it is that trust that God hath committed to you, and you must make good your trust.

Answ. Because you are mistaken. A calling is not onely to maintain your self and your •amily, but it is an ordinance of God to preserve and keep you from Idleness: whereby you are not onely to maintain your self, but to help others. And therefore ye find that Paul saith, he wrought with his hands; not onely to maintain himself but others. Acts 20.34. You know (says he) yea, your selves know, that these hands have ministred unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. He did not onely work occasionally to maintain himself, but others also. And if ye look into the 4th. chapter of the Ephes. The same Church that he spake to in the 20th. of the Acts, ye shall find that he layeth his injunction on them and us. Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. verse 28. Surely therefore a calling is not onely appointed to raise a maintenance for our selves and therefore though you can live, & have outward means enough to maintain both you, and others,