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need moch bour of the band of man. and much sweet of face, ere it vrill be compelled to Icttve the DOSS of the hoary desert, and the unwccdcd iie«R of the wildernehs, to put on the waving nosw uf thu hardest, or the frugraiU and beauties of the garden: true to the voice of ha heavenly Creditor, the creature earth hath brislM every where to mfln with impenetrable forcsl rough wasted, £Uid hoary mountains, reqoiriikg b6 cleared by the tabour oFplanten, and ftctthEra, and back- wciudEmeti, but never yielding beauty to the taste, or plentiful tusteoaac* life of maDr until fir^ he shall have e: her with the strength of hi& arm, the sweat of kii brow, and the cunning dexterity of his hand : and just in proportion as she is paid in labour, sbt retiirnri in the raw in^tterials of lit«, in cum and grass, aud olives; in hemp, and cotton> and flax; and these, the offspriog of the earth, preaerrug the rubcUioug qualities of their mother, do axasi of ntn much skill and labour ere they will yield him their kindly mioiatry of health and bappinav. Likewise, the fruit-bearing trees produce oidy sour, unsavoury, and unwholesome fruits, while yet thoy remain in the vast forest; and mustbt traDsplantcd, groffcd, dressed, and pruned, aad waited on with sweat and labour, in order to havs from thejn the juicy and nulricious fruits whic^ aro served up at our repasts ; and the ling u^ ^utreatin f VO TUJt CUkl4£ Aft TO AODILY LABOUU, 1043 vbich give UA milk from tfaeir udder», or clotbe us with tki^ir flt^^t:cy cuvcriiigK, arc ut first wild and uotar^od, «ad, beibro tbey will iifford sufficient belp to oiaD, require to be cftusht a&d tamed, and fed on well prepared pastures, aod sheltered with liouse^, \raited on by the service of man, aiid treated with labour and sweat : so that every where God hath placed toil between nisn and en* mxi, between man and existence, aa surely its to bath causod man to be born in sorrow, and brought up in sorrow, and in sorrow to return unto tik« iho dust. Labour, dltB I hath become no Um than the hard ordinance of God for the ob- taining^ of aayoonktort upon the earth, ami itmu*! be endured, or human life will fail, or else be main- tained io beggarly miserable scantiness, as in ihe huntiuf? or the savage state ; from whence labour ia 80 far from b«isg abecnt. that though not in constant and mcaaurcd succession, it lb there en* durcd ID ittfextiemo heats ai>d roost trym^ pcrili. Whoaoercr iherefuns gui:th about to make the labouring classes dUcoiiteuted with Uieir con* dii