A guide to the godly, or, The dayly meditations of Returne Hebdon Gentleman who for his conscience (through the tyrany of the Bishops) suffered many years imprisonment in the Kings-Bench and their remained till death : being very useful for instruction of all those that desire to walke in the paths of Jesus Christ.

The first day of the VVeeke. (Book 1)

THere is a corporall idlenesse, which is the way of deadly sinne, as Ezech. 16.49. And there is a spirituall idlenesse, which is the way of apostasie from Christ, as 2 Pet. 1.5. to 8. Now the common Professors, and such as have the authority, and glory of the world, know no Idle∣nesse but bodily idlenesse, and when they urge men to labour, they compell to bodily labour, in a worldly calling for riches, or to get the meat that perisheth: but how to labour for assurance to make their calling and election sure, they are blinde. Wherefore seeing corporall labour is but a type or example of true Christian labour in the minde; all that so much urge labour in an outward calling, and confound the labour in inward calling, as a thing inferiour to the type, these are deceivers of mens minde, and to bee a∣voided, Mark. 8.36.