Decline idleness, the very rust and canker of the soul, the devil’s cushion, pillow, chief reposal; his very tide-time of temptation, as it were, wherein he carries with much ease, and without all contradiction, the current of our corrupt affections to any cursed sin. Be diligent, with conscience and faithfulness, in some lawful, honest, particular calling, (a good testimony, if other saving marks concur of truth, and true-heartedness, in thy general calling of Christianity) not so much to gather gold and engross wealth, as for necessary and moderate provision for family and posterity; and in conscience and obedience to that common charge, laid upon all the sons and daughters of Adam to the world’s end, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground,” Gen 3:19. 1. But ever go about the affairs of thy calling with a heavenly mind, seasoned and sanctified with habitual prayer, ejaculatory elevations, and willingness, if God so please, to be dissolved, and to be with Christ; filled with heavenly matter and meditation, picked out of the passages of thy present business. For instance, let the husbandman, in seedtime, collect this sacred soliloquy and heavenly thought:—If I now take not the season, I shall have no harvest, but starve in winter; so, proportionably, if I gather not grace in this sunshine of the gospel, and day of my visitation, I shall find nothing but horror upon my bed of death, and burn in hell for ever hereafter, etc. 2. In all the civil businesses of thy personal calling, let thy eye and aim be upon God’s glory, as the prime and principal end of allthy actions, 1 Cor 10:31, and in them seek and serve the glorious end of God’s honour, not so much in procuring thine own, as the good of the church, commonwealth, neighbours, and family. 3. By earthly employments do not become an earthworm. In using the world, grow not a worldling, and such a one as finds more sweetness and pleasure in worldly dealings, and the coming-in of thy profits, than in thy heavenly traffic and treasures through the practice and business of Christianity.