the Son may be as foolish as Rehoboam O what a great work it is to make a man truly wise and good How many years study doth it usually require What wisdom and diligence in Teachers What teachableness and diligence in Learners and especially the Grace of God! And when all is done the man quickly dieth and obtaineth his ends in another world But his Children are born as ignorant and perhaps as bad as he was born He can neither leave them his Knowledge nor his Grace They must have all the same teaching and labour and blessing as he had to bring them to the same attainments The Mercy and Covenant of God taketh them into his Church where they have great advantages and helps and promiseth them more mercy for their relation to a faithful Parent if he or they do make no forfeiture of it But as their Nature is the same with others so their actual Wisdom must come by Gods blessing on the use of the same means which are necessary to the Children of the worst men A Christian's Child is born with no more Knowledge than a Heathen's and must have as much labour and study to make him wise § 2. It is certain then that the welfare of this world lyeth on a good succession of the several Generations And that all the endeavours of one Generation with God's greatest blessing on them will not serve for the Ages following All must begin anew and be done over again or all will be as undone to the next Age And it is not the least blessing on the faithful that their faith and godliness disposeth them to have a care of posterity and to devote their Children wholly to God as well as themselves and to educate them in his fear If Nature had not taught Birds and Beasts to feed their Young as well as to generate them their kind would be soon extinct O what a blessed World were it if the blessings of men famous for wisdom and godliness were entailed on all that should spring from them and if this were the common case § 3. But the doleful miseries of the World have come from the degenerating of good mens posterity Adam hath his Cain and Noah his Cham and David his Absalom Solomon Hezekiah Iosiah left not their like behind them The present State of the Eastern Churches is a dreadful instance What places on Earth were more honourable for Faith and Piety than Alexandria Antioch Ierusalem Constantinople Ephesus Philadelphia and the rest of those great and noble Countries and these also strengthened with the powerfullest Christian Empire that ever was on Earth And now they are places of Barbarism Tyranny and foolish Mahometanism where the Name of Christ is made a scorn and the few Christians that keep up that sacred Profession by Tyranny kept in so great Ignorance that alas the vices of most of them dishonour their Profession as much as their Enemies Persecutions do O what a doleful difference is there between that great part of the World now and what it was 1400 or 1000 years ago And alas were it not for the name of a pompous Christian-Church how plain an instance would Rome be of the same Degeneracy And some Countries that received the blessing of Reformation have revolted into the darkness of Popery What a change was in England by Queen Mary's Reign And how many particular Cities Towns are grown ignorant and malignant which in former times were famous for Religion The Lord grant it may never be the case of London Yea how many persons of Honourable and great Families have so far degenerated from the famous Wisdom and Piety of their Grandfathers yea and Fathers as to hate that which their Parents loved and persecute those whom their Ancestors honoured The names of many Great men stand honoured in History for their Holiness to God and their Service to their Countries whose posterity are the men that we are most in danger of Alas in how few such houses hath Piety kept any long succession yea some take their Fathers virtues to be so much their dishonour that they turn malignant Persecutors to free themselves from the supposed reproach of their Relations Yea some Preachers of the Gospel devoted to God by pious Parents become Revilers of their own Parents and despisers of their Piety as the effect of factious Ignorance § 4. And on the other side when Piety hath successively as a River kept its course what a blessing hath it proved But how rare is that And when Children have proved better than their Parents it hath been the beginning of welfare to the places where they lived How marvellously did the Reformation prevail in Germany in Luther's time when God brought out of Popish Monasteries many excellent Instruments of his Service And Princes became wise and pious whose Parents had been blind or impious Godliness or wickedness welfare or calamity follow the changes and quality of posterity And men live so short a time that the work of Educating Youth aright is one half the great business of man's Life He that hath a Plantation of Oaks may work for twenty Generations But he that planteth Gardens and Orchards with Plants that live but a little time must be still planting watering and defending them § 5. Among the Antient Sages of the World the Greeks and Romans and much more among the Israelites the care of posterity and publick welfare was the great thing which differenced the virtuous and laudable from those of a base selfish sensual disposition He was the bravest Citizen of Rome that did most love and best serve his Country And he was the Saint among the Jews who most loved Sion and the Security and Succession of its holy and peaceable posterity And the Christian Faith and Hope and Interest doth lead us herein to a much higher pitch and to a greater zeal for publick good in following him that whipt out prophaners from the Temple even a zeal of God's House which eateth us up It teacheth us by the Cross most effectually to deny our selves and to think nothing too dear to part with to edifie the Church of God nor any labour or suffering too great for common good It teacheth us to pray for the Hallowing of God's Name the Coming of his Kingdom and the doing of his Will on Earth as it is done in Heaven before our daily Bread and any other personal Interest of our own Therefore the Families of Christians should be as so many Schools or Churches to train up a succession of persons meet for the great communicative works which God calleth all Believers to in their several measures It is eminently Teachers but it is also all others in their several ranks who must be the Salt of the Earth and the Lights of the World And indeed the Spirit of Holiness is so eminently the Spirit of Love to God and Man that it inclineth every sanctified person to a Communicative Zeal to make others wise and good and
it as if it were but needless melancholy troublesom talk But tell me do you think in Conscience that it is sound reason that they give you and such as should satisfie a sober man that careth what becomes of his soul for ever If it be I make a motion to you Bring any of them to me or any such man and in your hearing let the case be soberly debated I will hear all that they can say against a holy sober life for the World and for their fleshly pleasure And you shall hear what I can say on the contrary and then do but use the reason of a man and judge as you see cause As Elias said to the Israelites Why halt you between two Opinions If the Lord be God follow him If Baal be God follow him If Money Preferment Drink and Lust be best take it But if God Heaven Christ Faith Hope and Holiness be best at your peril refuse them not and halt no longer I suppose you sometime think of the case or else you are dead in sin I pray you tell me or tell your selves which cause seemeth best upon the deepest thoughts and consideration But if you will take the laughter or scorns of ignorant Sots instead of reason and instead of sober consideration you are well worthy of the damnation which you so wilfully choose Qu. 16. But if you think highly of their Wit or Learning who sin as you and who encourage and deceive you I pray you answer these two questions 1. Which side is Christ and his Prophets and Apostles on Which side doth the Scripture speak for Which way went all the Saints whose names are now honoured Were they for the fleshly or the spiritual life Were they for the love of pleasures more than God Doth Christ from Heaven teach you an earthly or a heavenly choice and life Did he come to cherish sin or to destroy it and save us from it You can make no doubt of this if ever you read or heard the Bible And 2. Which do you think were the wiser and better men and worthy to be believed and followed Whether Christ and all his Apostles and Saints that ever were in the world to this day or the Drunkards and Whoremongers and Worldlings who deride the Doctrine sent from Heaven If there be a Heaven is Drunkenness or Sobriety liker to be the way to it But if indeed you will take the mocks of a swinish Sot to be wiser than God than Christ than Prophets and Apostles and all that ever went to Heaven and their jears to be more credible than all God's Word what can a man say to convince such Wretches with any hope Qu. 17. I further ask you Have you not some secret purposes hereafter to repent If not alas how far are you from it and how forlorn is your case But if you have Conscience is a Witness against you that you choose and live in that case and course which you know is worst Were it not worst you need not purpose to repent of it And will you wilfully choose known evil when the very nature of mans Will is to love good Qu. 18. And if you believe that the faithful are in a happier case than you tell me What hindereth yet but you may be like them and yet be happy as well as they Hath God put any exception against you in his word Is not Mercy and Salvation proclaimed and offered to you as freely as to them Did any thing make you so bad as you are but your own choice and doing And can any thing yet hinder you from pardon and Salvation if you your selves were but truly willing What if your Parents were bad and bred you up amiss God hath told you in Ezek. 18. and 33. that if you will but do your own part yet and take warning and avoid your Parents sin and give up your selves unfeignedly to him he will save you whatever your Parents were What if Princes or Lords or learned men should be your tempters by words or example None of them can force you to one sin God is greater and wiser than they and more to be believed and obeyed and your Salvation is not in any of their power What if your old companions tempt you They can but tempt you they cannot constrain you to any evil All the Devils in Hell or men on earth cannot damn you no nor make you sinners if you do it not your selves Refuse not Christ and he will not refuse you And when he is willing if you be but willing truly willing to be saved from sin and misery and to have Christ Grace and Glory in the use of the means which God hath appointed you neither Earth nor Hell can hinder your Salvation Who but your selves keep you from forsaking the Company House or Baits which have deceived you Who but your selves keep you from lamenting your sin and flying to Christ and begging Mercy and giving your selves to God If you think that serious Christians are the happiest refuse not to be such your selves It will be your own doing your own wilful obstinacy if you perish But of this I have already said more in my Call to the Vnconverted Qu. 19. Dare you deliberately resolve or bargain to take your fleshly pleasures for your part instead of all your hopes of Heaven I hope none of you are yet so mad I think it is but few if any of the Witches that make so express a bargain with the Devil If they did O how they would tremble when they see their glass almost run out and death at hand If you dare not make such a bargain in plain words O do not do the same in the choice of your hearts and the practice of your lives and deceive your selves by thinking that you do it not when you do It is God and not you that maketh the conditions of Salvation and Damnation If you choose that life which God hath told us is the condition of Damnation and finally refuse that life which God hath made the condition of Salvation it will in effect be all one as to chuse Damnation and refuse Salvation He that chooseth deadly poison or refuseth his necessary food chooseth Death and refuseth Life in effect God hath said If ye live after the Flesh ye shall die but if by the Spirit you mortifie the deeds of the Body you shall live Rom. 8. Christ tells you that unless you are born again and converted you cannot enter into his Kingdom Ioh. 3 3 5. Matth. 18.3 and that Without Holiness none shall see God Refuse these and choose the world and sinful pleasures and you refuse Salvation and shall have no better than you choose What you judge best choose resolvedly and do not cheat your selves Qu. 20. Have you no natural love to your Parents or your Country O what inhumane cruelty is it to break the hearts of those from whom you had your Being and who were tender of you when you could
thing than meerly to take that name upon you and be of that party and to joyn with the right Church and to have the bare words and picture of believers And then consider whether God will be mocked with Shews and Ceremonies and dead Formalities and false Professions and whether the lifeless Carkass or Image of Christianity will be taken by God instead of the life and power of it and will ever save a Soul Yea whether a false counterfeit Christian bred up under Christian Instructions and Examples do not make your guilt far greater and your case more miserable than Americans or Indians that never heard what you have heard And when perhaps you have spoken against Hypocrites your selves whether there be any more notorious Hypocrites than such as you who say you are Christians and yet live to the Flesh in the odious sins which Christ abhorreth Think what a dreadful thing it is to profess a Religion which condemneth you and to say over that Creed which you believe not and those Petitions in the Lords Prayer which you desire not and those Commandments which you break and will condemn you To rebel against God while you say you believe in him To despise Christs Government while you say you trust him for Salvation To ask for his Grace when you would not have it to sanctifie you and save you from your sin To beg Mercy of God and to reject this Mercy and to have no Mercy on your selves O think what a doleful case it is to see distracted sinners such Hypocrites playing with such Contradictions so near Gods Bar and in his sight And to make no better use of Prayers and the name of Christians and the Profession of the Truth than to give the Devil more matter to accuse you and Conscience to torment you and a righteous God to say to you at last Out of thy own mouth will I judge thee thou wicked Rebel Didst thou not confess that Jesus was the Christ and that thou didst believe the Gospel and the Life to come and yet didst live in the wilful disobeying of Christ and the Gospel and base contempt of God and thy Salvation And when you have considered the sad case of Hypocrites that call themselves Christians to their own Condemnation when they are none such then think seriously what the Covenant was which was made for you in your Baptism and you have taken on you to own Think what it is devotedly to trust to God as your reconciled Father and devotedly to trust to Christ as your Saviour your great Teacher Governour and Mediator with the Father what it is devotedly to trust the Holy Spirit to illuminate sanctifie and quicken you in a holy Life and to strenthen and comfort you against and under all your Trials Consider what it is to take the Flesh the World and the Devil as they are against this holy Life and heavenly Hope for your Enemies and to list your selves under Christ in a vowed War to the death against them Think how you have perfidiously broken this Covenant on which all the Hope of your Salvation lieth And then if you dare not utterly renounce all that Hope presently and resolvedly renew this Covenant Lament your violation of it to God Do it not only in a passion but upon serious consideration make that choice and resolution which you dare stand to at a dying hour and on which you may believe that God for Christs sake will accept you and forgive you O think what a Mercy it is to have a Saviour who after all your heinous sins will bring you reconciled as Sons to God for the merits of his Sacrifice and Righteousness and by his powerful Intercession and will send from Heaven the Spirit of God into your hearts to renew those blind dead carnal minds to God's holy Image and will dwell in you and carry on your Sanctification to the end Thankfully and joyfully accept this Covenant and Grace and again give up your selves to God your Father Saviour and Sanctifier but be sure that you do it absolutely without deceitful exceptions and reserves and that you do it resolvedly and not only in a frightened mood and yet that you do it as in the strength of the Grace of Christ not trusting the stedfastness of your own deceitful mutable Hearts And when you can truly say that you unfeignedly consent and renew this Covenant in your hearts then go the next opportunity to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and there penitently and faithfully renew it openly in the solemn way that Christ hath appointed you thankfully profess your Trust in Christ and receive a sealed Pardon of your sins and Title to everlasting Life and settle your Conversation in the Communion of Saints as you hope to live with such for ever V. Hence forward set your selves as the true Schollars of Christ to learn his Doctrine and as his true Subjects to know his Laws and as those that trust their Souls into his Hand to understand and firmly believe his Promises for this Life and that which is to come And as the blessed man Psal. 1 2 3. To delight in the Law of the Lord and meditate in it day and night As you were wont to steal some hours from God and your Masters to go to the house of Sin and Death so now get such hours as lawfully you can from your other Employments and diversions but especially on the Lords-days and get alone and beg mercy and Grace from God and set your selves to read the Bible and with it read some Catechisms and some sound and serious Treatises of Divinity which are most suitable to your state It is young men that have miscarried and being convinced are willing to turn to God that I am now directing And therefore supposing that you will ask me what Books I would commend to you I will answer you accordingly supposing still that you prefer the Bible 1. For the full resolving of your Hearts to a sound Repentance and a holy life read Ioseph Allenes Book of Conversion Richard Allens Vindication of Godliness and their Book of Covenanting with God and his Victory over the World Mr. Whateleys New birth and some of the old Sermons of Repentance such as Mr. Stocks Mr. Perkins Mr. Dikes Mr. Marburys Bunny's correction of Parsons Book for Resolution Iohn Rogers Doctrine of Faith William Fenners Books Sam. Smith on the first and the fifty first Psalms and his great Assize and on the Eunuchs Conversion Bifields Marrow Mr. How 's blessedness of the Righteous and of Delighting in God And if you would have any of mine read the Call to the Vnconverted or the Treatise of Conversion and the Directions for sound Conversion and Now or Never and a Saint or a Bruit or which of all these Gods Providence shall afford you II. If you would have help to try your hearts lest they be deceived read Alleins foresaid Book of the Covenant and Pinkes Tryal of sincere Love to
Christ many Books of marks are extant Bifields Rogers Harsnets Berries c. And Mr. Chishull and Mr. Mead of being almost Christians If you would have any of mine read the Right method for peace of Conscience and Directions for weak Christians where are the Characters of the false the weak and the strong III. For the dayly Government of Heart and Life read the Practice of Piety Scudders daily walk Mr. Reyners directions three excellent Books Mr. Corbets small private thoughts And if you would have any of mine read my Family Book and the Divine Life the Life of Faith or the Saints Rest and for those that can read great ones my Christian Directory IV. And it will not be unuseful to read some profitable History especially the Lives of exemplary persons and the Funeral Sermons which characterize them I have prefaced to two which are eminently worth your reading and most true both young men that is Iohn Ianeway's Life and Ioseph Alleins and given you the true exemplary Characters in their Funeral Sermons of Mr. Ashurst an excellent pattern for Apprentices and Tradesmen Mr. Stubs Mr. Corbet and of Mr. Wadsworth and Mrs. Baker Read Mr. Samuel Clarks Lives and his Martyrology and his Mirrour Dr. Beards examples or Fox's Book of Martyrs Some Church History and History of the Reformation and the History of our own Country will be useful V. As you grow up to more judgment you may read methodical Sums of Divinity especially Ames his Marrow and his Cases of Conscience which are in English translated and Commentaries Great store of all sorts of good Books through the great mercy of God are common among us He that cannot buy may borrow But take heed that you lose not your time in reading Romances Play Books vain Jests or seducing or reviling Disputes or needless Controversies This course of Reading Scripture and good Books will be many ways to your great advantage 1. It will above all other ways increase your knowledge 2. It will help your Resolutions and holy affections and direct your lives 3. It will make your lives pleasant the knowledge the usefulness the variety will be a continual recreation to you unless you are utterly besotted or debaucht 4. The pleasure of this will turn you from your filthy fleshly pleasure You will have no need to go for delight to a Play-house a Drinking-house or to Beastly lusts 5. It will keep you from the sinful loss of time by idleness or unprofitable employment or pastimes You will cast away Cards and Dice when you find the sweetness of useful Learning But be sure that you choose the most useful and necessary subjects and that you seek knowledge for the love of Holiness and Obedience VI. The sixth part of my advise is forsake ill Company and converse with such as will be helps to your Knowledge Holiness and Obedience and not such as will draw you to sin and misery You have found by sad experience what power ill Company hath on fools with such a merry Tale a Laughter a Jest a Scorn a merry Cup and a bad Example and Perswasion doth more than Reason or Gods Authority or the Love of their Souls A Physician may go among the Sick and Mad to Cure them and a Wiseman that seeth these will pitty them and hate sin the more But what do you do there where you have already catcht the infection of their disease The mind of a man is known much by the Company which he chooseth and if you choose ill no wonder if you speed ill Pro. 13.20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed Prov. 28.7 Whoso keepeth the Law is a wise Son but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his Father Psal. 119.63 David saith I am a companion of all them that fear thee and of them that keep thy precepts 26.4 5. I have not sate with vain persons neither will I go in with dissemblers I have hated the Congregation of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked 119.115 Depart from me ye evil doers for I will keep the Commandments of my God VII Especially be sure that you run not willfully upon Temptation but keep as far from every tempting bait and object as you can Fire and Gunpowder or Straw must be kept at a sufficient distance no man is long safe at the very brink of danger especially if it be his own choice and more especially if it be a sin that his nature is much inclined to No wise man will trust corrupted nature very far especially where he hath often faln already The best man that is should live in fear when an enticing bait of sin is near him If David that prayed turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity had better practiced it O! what heynous sin had he escaped Had he made a Covenant with his eyes as Iob did what wounds had he prevented The Feast that you see not the Cup that is a mile off the person that is far distant the words which you hear not are not they that you are most in danger of But when tempting meat and drink are before you and the tempting person hath secret familiarity with you and tempting or provoking words are at your ears then alas many have need of more Grace Resolution and Mortification than they have If you knew well what sin is and what is the consequence you would be more watchful and resolved against temptations than against Thieves or Fire or the places infected by the Plague VIII Make it the cheif Study of your Lives to understand what mans everlasting hope is and to get a lively well setled belief of it and to bring your souls to take it joyfully for your true felicity and end and thence daily to fetch the powerful motives of your duty and your patience and your contenting comfort in Life and at your Death The end is the Life of all the means If heavenly blessedness be not the chief end that you live hope and labour for in the World your whole lives will be but carnal vain and the way to misery for the means can be no better than the End God that is the beginning is our End We are made and governed by Him and for Him Heavenly Glory is the sight of his Glory and the Everlasting perfection and pleasure of joyful mutual Love But we are not the noblest Creatures next to God in excellency and desert yea we are sinners who have deserved to be cast out from his Love And therefore as in the way we must come to him by a Saviour so at the blessed end we must enjoy him by a Mediator and to see Gods Glory in Christ and the Heavenly Ierusalem the blessed society of Saints and Angels continually flaming in Love Joy and Praises to the most holy God This this is the felicity for which we labour suffer and hope 2. And O! how great and how needful a work it
do 1. The work is so high and requireth such qualifications and miscarrying in it is of such dreadful consequence that no youth should be resolvedly devoted to the Ministry that hath not all these following endowments 1. He must have a good natural Wit and Capacity it should be somewhat above the ordinary degree but it must needs be of the better rank of ordinary wits for Grace supposeth nature and by sanctifying it turns it the right way but doth not use to make wise Teachers of natural drones or weak headed lads that have not wit enough to Learn How many and how great things have they to learn and teach 2. They must have some competent readiness of speech to utter the knowledge they have got One that cannot readily speak his mind in common things is not like to come to that ready utterance which will be necessary to a Preacher 3. He must be one that is so far hopeful for Godliness 1. As to be captivated by no gross sin 2. To have a love not only to Learning but to Religion to the Word of God and good Company and Prayer and good Books and a setled dislike of the things words and persons that are against these 3. And he must shew some sence of the concerns or his soul and regard of the Life to come and that his Conscience is under some effectual convictions of the evil of sin and the goodness and necessity of a godly Life The youth that hath not these three qualifications should not be intended or devoted to the Ministry To devote an uncapable person an ungodly person to such a holy state and work is worse than of old to have offered God the unclean which he abhorred for a sacrifice And to design a graceless Lad for the Ministry on pretence of hoping that he may have Grace hereafter is a presumptious profanation and worse than to design a Coward to be a Soldier a wicked unsuitable person to be a Husband or Wife in hope they may be fit hereafter § 17. II. Therefore if your Parents have been so unwise as to devote that to God which was unfit for his acceptance it concerneth you quickly to look better to your selves and not to run into the consuming fire You should be conscious of your own condition If you may know that you want 1. A competency of natural capacity and ingenuity 2. Or of ready speech 3. Or of serious piety love to godliness and heart devotedness to God do not meddle with that calling which requireth all these § 18. Obj. But you may say What shall we do we have gone so farre that we are fit for nothing else Answ. You are less fit for the Ministry than for any thing That which requireth the highest qualifications will most shame you and condemn you if you want them If you are not fit for Physick or Law be some great mans Servant if not that it s better that you turn to the basest Trade or laborious imployment than to run into the sad case of Hophni and Phinehas or Nadab and Abihu to the utter undoing of your selves and the loss and danger of many others But if your unfitness be not in your disability but your ungodliness whether you be Ministers or not you will be for ever miserable unless you consider well the great things that should change your Hearts and Lives and turn unfeignedly to God and when that is done I am no discourager of you But believe it it is farre better to be a Cobler or Chimney sweeper or to beg your bread than to be an ungodly Clergy man with the greatest preferments riches and applause § 19. Obj. But Parents may say If we devote none to the Ministry till Godliness appear in them how few will be so devoted Children seldom shew much savour of Religion and some that seem young Saints prove old Devils Answ. 1. At the present we have so many supernumeraries that we need not fear a want of number 2. Children cannot be expected to shew that understanding in Religion which men must have But if they shew not a Love to it and a Conscience regardful of Gods authority and the Life to come and a dislike of ungodliness and sin you have no reason to presume that they will be fit for the Ministry If they had never been baptized you ought not to baptize them in such a state They must credibly profess Faith and Repentance before they can be adult Christians and so dedicated to God in baptism much more before they are dedicated to him as the Guides of the Christian Churches 3. And you can judge but according to probabilities if they prove bad after a probable profession it will not be charged upon you but we all know that a hopeful youth is a great preparation to an honest age § 20. II. My next advise to you is abhorre sloth and idleness when you are at Countrey Schools your Masters drive you on by fear but when you are in the Universities and at riper age you are more trusted with your selves and then all the diligence which fear constrained will be left off and if you be not carryed on with constant pleasure and love of knowledge the flesh will preferre its ease and unwillingness and weariness will go so slow a pace as will bring you to no high degree of Wisdom And when you have spent your appointed time and are void of that which you should have attained your emptiness and ignorance will presently appear when you are called out to the use of that knowledge which you have not And it is not your Canonical Habit nor seven or seventeen years spent in the University nor the Title of Master of Arts Batchelor of Divinity or Doctor no nor Bishop that will pass with men in their right wits instead of Knowledge Diligence Humility Patience and Charity nor that without these will do the work to which you are devoted And then when you find that other men discern that weakness and badness which you are loth to know your selves it will be like to exasperate you into diabolical malignity Beleive it the high and needful accomplishments of a true Divine are not easily or speedily attained § 21. III. My next warning is Fear and fly from sensuality and Fleshly lusts and all the baits and Temptations that may endanger you therein Sence and Appetite is born with us and it is inordinate in our corrupted nature and the reason and will that should resist and rule it are weakened and depraved labouring poor Countrey men are not in such danger in this as you are your bodies are not tired and tamed with labours nor your thoughts taken up with Wants and Cares While your bodies are at ease and your Studies are Arbitrary fleshly lust and appetite hath time and room to sollicite your phantasies and incline you to interrupt your Studies and think of the matters of sensual delight either with what to please your Appetite in eating