haue resolued, according to their owne humour and phantasie, they goe (hauing nothing else to doe) from house to house to possesse others with their conceits, and when they haue priuately trained vp many in their opi∣nions, at last they make a generall muster, and become heads and captaines of that faction, which themselues haue raised; disturbing the peace of the Church, by renting themselues from it, and making warre against the truth; as the miserable experience of these times doth too euidently shew. Neither doth it alone make men busie and curious in matters of Religion, but also in ciuill affaires; for when men grow negligent in their owne bu∣sinesse, they haue leasure to intermeddle with other mens, and hauing no∣thing to doe at home, they range abroad; carrying tales from house to house, and sowing the seeds of discord and dissension among neighbours. Of such idle busie bodies, the Apostle complained in his time, who wal∣ked disorderly, and worked not at all, but busied themselues in other mens matters, and disquieted all whom they came among. And such were those yong idle widdowes, who wandred about from house to house, and by be∣ing idle, became tattlers also and busie-bodies, speaking things which they ought not. And as it is a cause of schisme in the Church, and dissension in families, so also of sedition and rebellion in the Common-wealth, whilest it maketh men inquisitiue after newes, and to pry curiously into matters of state; busie in censuring those that are in authority, and so filling both their owne and other mens minds with discontents, they become sediti∣ous, and vpon all occasions ready to rise and rebell, for want of other im∣ployment; and the rather, that by fishing in troubled waters, they may supply those wants and necessities which negligence in their callings hath brought vpon them, therefore betaking themselues to Armes, because po∣uerty and want (like an armed man) hath first assaulted them. And this was the reason why Pharaoh, fearing that the Israelites would rise and withdraw their neckes from vnder the yron yoke of his tyrannicall go∣uernement, probably, though falsly, coniectured that want of worke was the cause, out of that generall maxime and principle in policie, that idle∣nesse maketh men seditious and rebellious; whereas imployment in their callings so taketh vp their mindes, that they haue no leasure to thinke of things impertinent to their priuate estate and affaires. It is the cause also of couetousnesse, and all the euils that doe spring from it, as wrong and oppression in the mighty, fraud and deceitfull dealing in the weake, yea euen of theft, robbery, and piracie; for when men through idlenesse and negligence in their callings, become poore and haue nothing of their owne, they greedily desire other mens goods to supply their wants, and vse all vnlawfull meanes whereby they may compasse them. Which caused the wise Agur to pray against penury & want of necessaries, lest being poore he should steale, and so take the name of his God in vaine. And this made the Apostle inhibiting stealing, to inioyne labour, as being the best meanes to keepe men from this sinne. It is the cause likewise of gluttony and drun∣kennesse, if want keepe not from this excesse, and emptinesse of the purse preuent not this too much fulnesse of the belly. Whereof it is, that in the Scriptures they are ioyned as companions and mutuall causes one of ano∣ther. So it is said, that the sinnes of Sodom were pride, fulnesse of bread,