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Thus you see, it must be an eager, not a slothfull course, that must bring you to Heauen. Take heed there∣fore that you auoid all the kinds of this sinne. What∣soeuer you goe about, doe it with cheerefulnesse. Be ashamed of idlenesse, as thou art a man, but trem∣ble at it, as thou art a Chri∣stian.
For bee sure the de∣uill neuer is so happy in his tentations, as when hee em∣ploies them on a slothfull man, who cannot endure to take so much paines as to resist him.
Solomon promises no o∣ther patrimony to a slug∣gard but pouerty. GOD hates the slothfull. Wit∣nesse the fiue foolish Vir∣gins, and the vnprofitable seruant, Matth. 25. The one Christ would not know; the other is branded with two shamefull markes, euill and slothfull, and his talent ta∣ken from him. What more
wretched estate can there be in the world? first to bee hated of God as an idle Drone, not fit for his ser∣uice: then through extreme pouerty to bee contemned of all the world. Oh then at no hand yeeld thy youth to sloth, but so soone as thou hast made thy prayer to God, prepare to rise, and rising vse this Prayer.
In thy Name, Oh bles∣sed Sauiour, I arise, who with the Father, and the holy Spirit, created mee, and with thine own most precious bloud hast re∣deemed mee. I beseech
thee this day, to gouerne, keepe, and blesse mee: lead mee forth in euery good way, therein direct and confirme mee, and after this fraile and mise∣rable life, bring mee to that blessed life which hath no end, for thy great merit and mercies sake.