§. Sect. 8 That the pro∣fit of these du∣ties will farre exceede the paines.
Now if any obiect, that though these duties are good and commenda∣ble, yet they are hard and difficult, and that it bringeth great wearinesse * 1.1 thus to serue God both day and night in these spirituall and religious ex∣ercises: vnto such I dare promise, that their profit will farre exceed their paines; and their spirituall ioy and comfort, will abundantly recompence that carnall distaste which our corrupt flesh causeth in them. For if our minds and hearts be thus continually night and day taken vp for Gods vse in these religious exercises, it will bee a notable meanes to keepe out Satan and his suggestions from entring and taking possession; as they easi∣ly will, if they be swept cleane and empty of good meditations and de∣sires. For they who are idle and doe nothing, are at the next step to doing ill; and if we be not imployed in the seruice of God, the diuell will take vs vp like masterlesse men, and hire vs with the wages of sinfull pleasures,