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though it have aa fluence of a certain kind, is verj^nferior to true cau»« of the evil, which is the«pirii io wfaidi we labour Then I shall shew the rneana wfiicfe men have within their own power for rt^mcdyio; thifi^^Tjl; and, lastly, open the rctoedy givi men by God. *' This S4^nte^c>c of God upon his disobcdh creatures, hath not only made earnest labour cumbcnt upon u$ all the days nf our life, but hath arisen from the ground, aod bligtiti*d the nature of the labourer; ^n thnt it is pitiful to bchol^B the myriads of our fellow-creature*. whoti<e spirii^" fainteth in them under the hard loads and canker mg cares which this arch-cuT«e hath brought upoa thotn,— how, at home in thiu laud, the palace of the whole earth for wealth, and its eye for know- ledger tnilliona of the people are dniwo down fima thonghtfl of heaven by their earthly toils, the cul- ture of their soul thru?it aside by the culture of their ingenious or luborJous craftit, the very tt- isteaco of a soul within them seemioKly unknown, the Galvation of it certainly indifferent to iheir minds. Abroad over the earth thoy are aittmg m darlcneas, and in gro«s darkiie^a, ground down with op{>re«sion, or brutalized by slavery^ and v.] TIIK CUKSK AS TO UODIlV LABOUK. I0G5 belaboured all the <lays of their life, without lighlt vrithoiit bo|)e> without celestial deure. Into tbis GODdilion of the laborious people, we would i[K)uire ill the followiog diacouT^c. and shew tiic true me- thod by which they arc to be recovered Id to the glo- rious liberty of the fioiiK of GihI. L»bour we havt; shewn lo he no le^zi than the hard ordioaacQ of God^ for the obtaiaiog of any comfort upon the earth; aod it must be endured, otberwi^e human life will fail, or be mumtuined in beggarly mii^crablc scantineas, eta in the hunting or the flAirage fttate, from whence labour is »o far from being abscDt, that though not iu conatatil and mca* sured succession, it is there endured in its extreme heats and luosi trying perils. Whoitocver, there* fore, goeth about to make the labouring classes dis- contented with their conditio!], and advi^th them to lay aajde part of their toils, doth, as a matter of courM. diminish the productions which minister to hnnian contentment and joyfulnesft, unWfl h« hath some other labourers tu take up the rei^ii^ned and abandoned part; in which case he doth but shift the load: or unless he bare some machioo to do it withal ; in which case he is a great benefac- tor to mankind- But simply to call u|)(in the peo- ple to relax in their industry,