The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 11.

My sonne, saith Sirach, leade not a beg∣gers* 1.1 life, for better it were to die, then to begge.

The life of him that dependeth on ano∣ther* 1.2 mans table, is not to be counted for a life: for he tormenteth himselfe after other mens meate. But a wise man and wel nur∣tured, will beware thereof.

It is not freedome to liue licentiously:* 1.3 neyther is it libertie to liue without labour.

To liue idely, is to liue wickedly: & to* 1.4 depend vpon other mens liberalitie, is the ready way to bring thee to misery.

But to labour, and to be content with* 1.5 that a man hath, is a sweete life.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ecclus, 40, 28,
• * 1.2

  verse, 29,
• * 1.3

  Alex. Seue.
• * 1.4

  Crates.
• * 1.5

  Eccl{us}, 40, 18