Thesis 16.
[ 16] It is true that the night is given to man to rest in, it being most fit for that end; but it is not necessary that all the week••ly nights be spent in sleep, for we then do labour, and Gods providence puts men generally upon it to labour in their cal∣lings earely and la••e those nights, and the Lord allows it; nay it would be sin and idlenesse in many not to doe it; besides, that sleep and rest which is to be taken in the night, it is in or∣dine▪ or in re••erence to Day-labour, and is as a whet thereunto and in this respect the whole weekly night as well as the day is for labour; as the sleep we take on Sabbath night is in ordine, or with respect to spirituall rest, and so that whole naturall day is a day of spirituall rest. It is therefore a vain thing for any to make the nights of the six working daies to be no part of the six working daies, because (they say) they are given to man to rest and sleep in; for upon the same ground they may make the Artificiall daies no daies of labour neither, because there must be ordinarily some time taken out of them to eat, drink, and refresh our weak bodies in.