2. But notwithstanding the hard bargains you have, this is not the proper way to mend them. God requires no more from any man, than he can comfortably do. If you had more Faith, you would need less toil; and lively prayers would excuse much of your languishing pains and travel: And therefore, as the Apostle orders, Phil. 4.7. Let your moderation be known unto all men. I bar idleness, but persuade to moderation: work with less intenseness for the meat that perisheth, than for the meat that perisheth not: make not […] life a slavery, Eccles. 2.22. For what hath […] of all his labour, and the vexation of his ⟨p. 214⟩heart, wherein he hath laboured under the Sun For all his days are sorrow, and his travel grief, and his heart taketh not rest in the night this is also vanity. A lively description of this abuse in question, and the censure of wisdom upon it, it is vanity. Yea, this brutish humour is sometimes found in those, that have no need do to it, Ecc. 4.8. There is one alone, and there […] not a second, yea, he hath neither Child nor Brother, yet there is no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither saith he, for whom do I labour, and […] my soul of good; this is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travel Who are the greatest drudges many times, but they that have enough? perhaps no Child or near Relation to care for? Away then with this wretched and uncomfortable life; use the world, as not abusing it. Labour in it, as being above it, and serve it not with more fervency than Him that made it.
2. But notwithstanding the hard bargains you have, this is not the proper way to mend them. God requires no more from any man, than he can comfortably do. If you had more Faith, you would need less toyle; and lively prayers would excuse much of your languishing pains and travel: And therefore, as the Apostle orders, Phil. 4.7. Let your moderation be known unto all men. I bar idleness, but perswade to moderation: work with less intensness for the meat that perisheth, than for the meat that perisheth not: make not 〈…〉 life a slavery, Eccles. 2.22. For what hath 〈…〉 of all his labour, and the vexation of his ⟨p. 214⟩heart, wherein he hath laboured under the Sun For all his days are sorrow, and his travel grief, and his heart taketh not rest in the night this is also vanitie. A lively description of this abuse in question, and the censure of wisdom upon it, it is vanitie. Yea, this brutish humou• is somtimes found in those, that have no need do to it, Ecc. 4.8. There is one alone, and there 〈…〉 not a second, yea, he hath neither Child nor Brother, yet there is no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither saith he, for whom do I labour, and 〈…〉 my soul of good; this is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travel Who are the greatest drudges many times, but they that have enough? perhaps no Child or near Relation to care for? Away then with this wretched and uncomfortable life; use the world, as not abusing it. Labour in it, as being above it, and serve it not with more fervency than Him that made it.
