A34689:1633
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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.
2 So in the duties of a mans calling, if a man be drowsy, this is a lust of the flesh, Prov. 10.15. He that sleeps in harvest is a shameful Son, he shames himself and his Master, and indeed the fitness of his work implies, that in harvest he should be at it early and late, not but that a man may take a little sleep to fit him for his work, but when the Sun is risen and calls him to his business, he loves his bed, this is a lust of the fl sh, and this is called deceitful working; Cursed is he that doth his work deceitfully, that is, with such deceit as comes from slackness, for so it is interpreted, Prov. 10.14. and the Metaphor is taken from a bow that is slack bent, which deceives, Psal. 68.57. a man never reaches the mark he aims at, because it is not strongly bent, so when a mans heart is not strongly bent to his business, he will never reach to his business throughly to purpose, and so it is a deceitful work; cursed is he that aims at any business with a slack bent hand, Prov. 29.9. He that is slothful in his business, is Brother to a great waster; a slothful man and a prodigal, are both of one womb, bred of the same lust of the flesh, and so wastes that which he might have increased, Eccl. 4.5, 6. Better is an handful with ease, &c. saith the sluggard, but such a one shall come to beggary, Prov. 26.21. Idleness will clothe a man with rags, rags will be their raiment, Prov. 19.15. he doth not only mean that an Idle person shall want outward means, but were he of better means yet he shall find his body shall be so distempered, that he shall have no stomach to his meat, so that an idle person, shall either want meat, or a stomach to eat it, when as a diligent shall have both, but that is not all, for it may be extended to the soul; by rising late, and being drowsy, he is so distempered, that he either omits good duties, or else he finds no favour, nor life, nor strength in them.
2 So in the duties of a mans calling, if a man be drowzy, this is a lust of the flesh,