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As for those parents who will not use the rod upon their children, I pray God He useth not their children as a rod for them.A Puritan Golden Treasury
Hospitality is threefold: for one's family, this of necessity; for strangers, this of courtesy; for the poor, this is charity.
There are in our age a generation of people who are the best of prophets and worst of historians; Daniel and the Revelation are as easy to them as the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. They pretend exactly to know the time of Christ's actual reign on earth; of the ruin of the Romish antichrist; yea, of the day of judgment itself. But these oracles are struck quite dumb if demanded anything concerning the time past: about the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt and Babylon, the original increase and ruin of the four monarchies. Of these and the like they can give no more account than the child in the cradle. They are all for things to come, but have gotten (through a great cold of ignorance) such a crick in their neck, they cannot look backward on what was behind them.
Diligence, as it relates to trade, is a habitual employment of our bodily and mental powers about our proper callings in a just and happy medium between idleness, supineness, and trifling curiosity on the one hand and slavish drudging and immoderate care on the other.
Industry doth beget ease by procuring good habits and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. By taking pains today, we shall need less pains tomorrow; and by continuing the exercise, within awhile we shall need no pains at all, but perform the most difficult tasks of duty or of benefit to us with perfect ease—yea, commonly with great pleasure. What sluggish people account hard and irksome (as to rise early, to hold close to study or business, to bear some hardship) will be natural and sweet, as proceeding from another nature raised in us by use. Industry doth breed assurance and courage, needful for the undertaking and prosecution of all necessary business or for the performance of all duties incumbent on us.Of Industry in General
Contentment consists not in adding more fuel but in taking away some fire—not in multiplying of wealth but in subtracting men's desires. Worldly riches, like nuts, tear many clothes in getting them; spoil many teeth in cracking them; but fill no belly with eating them, obstructing only the stomach with toughness and filling the guts with windiness. Yea, our souls may sooner surfeit than be satisfied with earthly things. He that at first thought ten thousand pounds too much for any one man will afterward think ten millions too little for himself.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that boasts of it is a devil.Holy and Profane States, 189
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