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(2.) We have God's express Command; 1. In the fourth Commandment, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy Work; Exod. 20. 9. This [Thy Work] plainly implies, that every Man (for every Commandment is given to every Man) should have his proper Work or Business, which should ordinarily take up his time from Sabbath to Sabbath; which is further pressed upon all Mankind, from God's own Example, vers. 11. For in six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, which he could have done in six Minutes, but chose to fill every Day with Work, probably for our Instruction and Encouragement to the like Diligence. And, 2. We find Commands to the same purpose in the New-Testament, Ephes. 4. 28.—Rather let him labour, working with his Hands the thing that is good: that is, following some honest Calling. Yea, the Apostle, 2 Thess. 3. 12. doth command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that Men should with Quietness (that is, without disputing or grudging) work, and eat their own Bread. Let all idle and useless Persons consider, how they will answer these plain Injunctions at their Peril. Add to this the sharp Reproofs we find in Scripture upon the Neglecters hereof. When Hagar, Gen. 16. 8. had quit her Employment, the Angel meets her with, Hagar, Sarah's Maid, whence comest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And in the next Verse, sends her home to her uncomfortable ⟨p. 16⟩Calling again. And the Apostle 2 Thess. 3. 11. calls such as work not at all, disorderly People, and such as ought to be sharply admonished; yea, Verse 6. commands them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every such disorderly Person: So that 'tis no trivial Fault in a Man or Woman to live without a Calling.

(2.) We have God's express Command; 1. In the fourth Commandment, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy Work; Exod. 20. 9. This [Thy Work] plainly implies, that every Man (for every Commandment is given to every Man) should have his proper Work or Business, which should ordinarily take up his time from Sabbath to Sabbath; which is further prest upon all Mankind, from God's own Example, vers. 11. For in six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, which he could have done in six Minutes, but chose to fill every Day with Work, probably for our Instruction and Encouragement to the like Diligence. And, 2. We find Commands to the same purpose in the New-Testament,