Gods husbandry

yea, sometimes when he wants money, or clothes, or food, and is pinched with need, he hath a kind of angry eagerness after it, and he would as lief as his life, have so good a living as his neighbour hath: but he cannot shake off sleep in a cold morning, he can endure no sweats: he ⟨p. 113⟩can endure no sweat, he loves not to rise betimes, and set to work, he cannot travel, he cannot take pains. Not so the good husband; for he thinks of his business, whither he may go, what he may do, what times he must observe for the getting of a shilling; and accordingly takes those times, dispatcheth those businesses, and goes to such places; and neither heat, nor cold, nor wet, nor dry, nor night, nor darkness shall hinder him, but he will go forward with those things, which are requisite for his thriving. Even so the foolish man sometimes, could find in his heart to leave such a sin, and to do such good duties. O it were very well if he had such virtues, and were rid of such vices! and what a good turn had he, if he could do, as such and such: and in a twinge of his conscience, or in a fit, when he is told of heaven, he could be content to leap out of his skin to get heaven, and to get out of hell: but after his fit is over, he cannot away with this confessing of his sins in secret, with this rending of his soul, with this earnest contending with God, and with this crossing of his own nature, and fighting against the lusts of his flesh, even with this labouring for the righteousness of God above all things. But the Christian stands otherwise affected, he museth of the way and means of getting grace, he thinketh seriously what is to be done, for the beating down of such a vice, and building up of such a virtue: he beateth upon his own heart, all such reasons as he can bring, to fix his will in a resolution of doing good, leaving evil; he taketh pains with calling hard ⟨p. 114⟩upon God; takes pains in checking and controlling, in provoking and stirring up himself; in labouring to lament and bewail, to hate and detest his sin; and to work in himself earnest sorrow, and sound grief for sin; and thinks not much, even to weary and toil himself in these spiritual labours. He ploughs his heart, he sows in the Word, be seeks for showers of grace, he weeds his heart, he breaks the clods of his heart.

yea, sometimes when hee wants money, or cloathes, or foode, and is pinched with neede, hee hath a kind of angry eagernesse after it, and hee would as leife as his life, haue so good a liuing as his neighbour hath: but hee cannot shake off sleepe in a cold morning, hee can endure no sweates: hee