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nd a little more to the level of everyone's under- standing, if wo consider now, in the second place^^, the way in which bodily labour and bondi worketh upon man a nature, a miserable train cril consequences; when not prerented by ll remedy of llie GonpeL First, he must root the mugh thistle, and the pricldy tbom. and^ wftge a constant warfare ag^ntt anprofltftUe weeds. He must find otii the plants that are good for food, study their various preperlies, their times and their seasons, store their seeds, prepftrtr the earth for their reception, lend their growth like a slave, trpmble at every scorehincf sun ^^^^ Slimmer and surly blast of winter, and b4? afflicte^H with the fear of famine and ftcarvation at every V,} TUS cuhaa: a?i ro bodilf labo^jr* 1047 diTCdtcniag of inolement eeafions: he must catch time by the forelock, be ihc slave of opportunityp and wait upon the changeable weather He; must reap aod gather together into baj-Rs, and inveot irD|}lemeDtsoriiiisbandry, the badges ofhi^ftlavery, and carefully preserve these thm^ \^bich chain him to thecartb. Aud^ aAerall thi£ labour* which it would require a volume to detail, he hath but a husky seed, dry, and uo^ai-oury, from which he roust, by many processes, separate the nulri- cious part, and after paiTw of cooking; anddreMfting, what hath he but a morsel of bread, a cake baked upon the afihcs, for which be;;r?arly and unpalat- able food,--! say beggarly and unpiilatuble, com- pared with thcjuicy fruitaof £don,— he hath paid in a thouftand prostratiobs cf hin upright body, and ten thousand care^^ and troublcft of his hcaren- bestowed mind. Hi^ brow hath sweat for it, hia hand bath toiled for it, his eye hatb waked and watched for it, hi^ heart hath been in ^;:ony for it, and there it ia a dry and unsavoury piece of breed. What an execrable return for such an iDesttmablc outlay of anxiety and toil I And if 1 speak of wine, wlia^e t^oahted cheer is, by tlic wurUUboughtwilbbjicchanubanexcevaeSfdiseBscs, crimes, pains, and remorses; and if I apeak of the clothing of the body, of the noisy looms and sultry atmosphere of the manufacturing; poor, of their ensJaved children, their diii^ipated and meagre selves; oh, if I were to sum up the toils, miserica, and agonies which had to meet together ere that meat which entereib your mouth each day, and that clothing which shelters your limbs, came to you from iJieir many natural residences in the seeds and elements of their being, you would be* 104S 1U£ CUttSE AB lO BODJLV LAM>Uft< [Dit* mor