A94156:921
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
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.
It is an enemy to a mans estate. Solomon dissuades from sluggishness, from this argument, So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man, Pro. 6.11. Wealth will not come without working. They are deceived who think to have the pleasure of slothfulness, and the plenty of laboriousness. The diligent hand maketh rich, but slothfulness will clothe a man with rags. Pro. 10.4. & 23.21.
It is an enemy to a mans estate. Solomon diswades from sluggishness, from this argument, So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man, Pro. 6.11. Wealth will not come without working. They are deceived who think to have the pleasure of slothfulness, and the plenty of laboriousness. The diligent hand maketh rich, but slothfulness will cloath a man with rags. Pro. 10.4. & 23.21.
2. The season of sleep; In general, the day is by the command of God and order of nature, the time for watching, and the night for sleeping. The Sun approaching draweth forth the spirits from the centre to the Circumferent parts, and openeth the pores of the body, both which do provoke to working and waking; but when the Sun departeth, the spirits return to the inmost parts of the body, which inviteth to sleep; and besides, the natural moisture and silence of the night, are according to Physicians, very conducible to sleep: Wherefore to sleep in the day, and watch in the night, is (unless necessity compelleth it) sinful, and a perverting the course of nature; They that sleep, sleep in the night,