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d, in short, it is not iu the fact if labouring, but in that for which we labour, thai the evil conatsts. Labour in itself is the nsiy condition of health and of existence, labour both of body and of mind. Activity is the cooditjco not only of fallen existence, but of cxisteaoB unfallen; for the angels and the archangels labotf V.) Tll£ CUA5E; AS TO UODILV LABOUB. \QS'iS in tbeir vocations to serve the Lord, and tominifttac \o bis glory ; but in this wc differ from tht^m, that wb<-rt*as Ifaeir nature worlLetbfof tbeuobk^t, our» worketli for the most ignoble ends; to niak«j the labour of a man as noble as that of an angel, no- thin^'is needed but to clcvnte and ennoble the end for which be hiboura* And herein is to be tound the remedy for the disasters vrbieh we Ihia day lamented, not hi diHronteDtini^ ilm |n-oplc with their humble and miserable cc^ndition, which is to pour vincj^r upon their wounds, but to teach them that tbey have a soul aa well as a body for vriiich to be anxious, and to use exertion; that " man lireth not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out af the moulh of Godj" that " the Gospel is preached unto tlft9 poor;" that Christ^t; iiuitnlions are to " the weary and the heavy laden ; * that there is a heaven as weU as an earth, an eternity as well a^ time, a God* a fQtherly God, a^ well as a master man, of whom to stand in awe, and for whose sake to think and fe«1 and act. The remedy Jbr mortal man, blind- ed by igauraace. cius^heil with bodily lubour, sickened wiih intempenmcc, and wilh sensuality dead, is to cheer his heart witli thei;e coi'd;aisof grace, and fill his mind with the knowledge of salratioQ, to gladden him with hope, and electrify htA whole spiritual man ^roamn^in oppression^ with the redcrtnptiun of Christ, and the rcgencrfitioo of the S[Hrit. a But this subject of the recovery of the toil" worn people is one of such extent and importance, that we cannot think of treating it slightly, and therefore we reserve it for the subject of another head of discourse; to consider how this spiritual 1064 riTK CUKSC At TO BODEtr LABOUII. {ZHi. d«adac«s which hath come upon the labouring cla&sCA of this and other lands, may be best re- moved, and their betlcrand eternal being fecovcred from the dead sleep in which it ii« lietd. Ill, la openiof ibis third part of our subject 1 would first clear the way. by remoriDg cGflan raiscoaccptions conccrtung the evil which we bate Mt forth above, aa if it anwe merely rmm tit quantity uf labuur which