The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures

For shame then, O Christians, since that your Work is so great, why will you sit still as if you knew not how to employ your selves? Besides, there is great variety in your Work, and this usually breeds some kind of Delight. You are not always to be toiling and drudging at the same thing: But as Bees fly from one Flower to another and suck sweetness from each of them; so should a Christian pass from one Duty to another, and draw forth the sweetness of Communion with God from every one of them.

For shame then, O Christians, since that your Work is so great, why will you sit still as if you knew not how to imploy your selves? Besides, there is great variety in your Work, and this usually breeds some kind of Delight. You are not always to be toiling and drudging at the same thing: But as Bees fly from one Flower to another and suck sweetness from each of them; so should a Christian pass from one Duty to another, and draw forth the sweetness of Communion with God from every one of them.

¹Thirdly, To evince the greatness of this Work, consider it is a Work that must be carried on against many Encounters and strong Oppositions that a Christian will certainly meet with; within are strong Corruptions, without are strong Temptations; you have a treacherous and deceitful Heart within, and this Traitor holds Intelligence and League with your great Enemy the Devil without: You are sure to meet with Difficulties, Affronts and Discouragements from a peevish ill-conditioned, World in which you live: Never any yet could scape free to Heaven without meeting with these Things. And doth not all this call upon you to work and strive for Salvation? Is it a time to sit still when you have all this Opposition to break through, so many Temptations to resist, so many Corruptions to mortify, Satan that old Serpent to repel, and make him become a flying Serpent? Doth not all this require a morose Constancy, and a kind of sour Resolvedness to go thorough the ways of Obedience, notwithstanding all Opposition? These great Things are not to be achieved without great Pains and Labour; ⟨p. 77⟩