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h to whose imperial state a thousand hands do minister, and at wliose command ten thoiisniid draw the sword; whoae chariot^ are a thousand, and his horsemen It-n ihuusand strong ; and contrast his petty power, his puny influence. 1054 TNftCtHSL AS TO BODILY tAfiOCH- [DiS* hh low eBJoymeiil, with lliat of our gre^it wbo, by virtue of hiB first creation, commaiidt upOD the earth, asOod coiiimandeth in the hea^ei and who, without a servant, without odc baiKl' work of toil, waft Ihe iiiost happy, the most ti< and the most powerful of men. We have thus opened the root of tCo Cfil, hi shcwLikg that n]U[i became by this curse a mi or bondsman to the earth, out of which he bad work a i^tinted fare, and being brought to ti his iQvcotioQ and his desire finX of all to the attoii nieut of a hrehhood, the higher parts of his ture were placed under the feet of t]>e lowest ; that sensual being, which ia paradise coat bii noihing, came new to be exaJted over the of that intollcctual and moral being which wi then his crown of glory. To tire is now beci a chief problem iu human life ; to keep fioceaiil at the staff's end, ancmain occupation of the wits of man. And having succeeded, vain glory m generally the more contemptible issue. How bodily labour hath worn down and weaiii out the faculties t>f the scul, if I now discoui of before men who know it better than 1 can describe, 1 do so out of no cruel intention t^l discontent them with ifaeir allotments of Life, bi^' to represent to their minds that which, from litiaf in the midKt of it, tfa«y little think of, and to mi before them the deliverance after which they should strive cither in this world or the woifa^ to come. Also in order to bring out the ti^| picture of our fallen condition, in all place* and ages of the world, it is necessary to loc' the truths howerer uncomely, and to ftp truth though it relish ever so ill. For^, 1 J v.] rut CURSE AS TO BODILY LABOUR, 105S the slavery which we have lo dcscrJb<j. from all the labour which griads down the Bpirit of mui, there rcmaineth a rei^t. aiHlaDcverhLstingholyday to which we would raise the hopes of thci«e who are weary and heavy ladeii. Come then, my rellow-^ClirisliaDS, let us for^ our aeveral prvjadkes, and submit oursekea to the fKvcre discipline of truth. Let us, like phtlaa-* throphi^ts, survey together the miserable condition into which mca is brought by the necessity of plying bodily labour for the aake of a miserable existence upon ibe face of the niggard cartb.