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e of deliver- ance. But, though the hours of the day, and the labours of the body, the speculntioti of the mtud^ and the endurance of the kiuI were nnany times n)uhi|i!ie<1, the evil woidd Lheivby be so many times multiplied, and the hopu of cure so many tinier farther removed. For the root of Uic ©vil U not the love of labour, which both body and mind abhor bc'yond the limit of regular and healthy industry, nor the love of care which is the canker*worm of happiness; but the root of thf? c%-il JK the sensual appetites, or the luxuries, or the fashicHis, and visible proprieties for which it is necessary to iind a supply. The labour is the purchase money and price of these. And as more of these is wanted, the purchase- money mufit be increased p And so our faculties are strain- ed and screwed up to find the ways and means of worldly niu\ bodily enjoyment. And an imr iiiean^ are increased, they are drawn upun; lUid if our time were increased, it would be drawn upoo- and if the speculation of our mind were increased, it would be drawn upon by these same carnal af- fections, unliUome higher ati'ccUons were tmpbnt* cd, which money, ineal, and drink, things seen and temporal, cannot supply, and for which tbe 1062 1HK CDHaK AS TO BOUitT LAAOUA. [, labour of Uie bftnd« and the dutress of Um mind are no equivalent, AVhcD thc&o higher tastes ood desires are j^antcd 111 the soul, there commences a dv aiMl insurrcctioD within. 8eiwe calk for one Ihiaj but tbe tiew priiicipler whatever it be. calls lor diHercot thing. And the object for wbioh labour in body and mJod being divided, the cl of our labour upon the mind bccomeUi ci and though the measure ot il may be as before, its (spirit being altered^ it may imj and elevste the man as much as it formerly ed him, A man who Labours for hii wifa family many weary hours, is a nobleman com] with one svho labours for his own Aen.sual and fish gratification. And the man who labours the education of hi» l^aniily, and for the indej dence of it, and for the well-setthng uf it in M a prince compared with him who labours oi to feed it fat, and keep up a lair show bofofc Uv world. And a son who labours for a widowed mothcn is a kiag compared with one wlio pUcei his molber in the poor-house, and labours only for himself. And a uumwhu labours for the suc- cess of the Gospel, as Paul dtd with botii heart and head, and handicraft, U far more noble tbso one who labours only* as 1 do, with heart aad word only, though I dwelt in an archiepitoofisl palace. An