[567] See 1 Cor. ix. 6; 2 Cor. vi. 1; 1 Cor. xvi. 10; 2 Tim. ii. 15.
[568] See before, chap. vi. tit. 4. of this: and in my "Treat. of Divine Life," part iii.
[569] Ezek. xlvi. 1; Deut. xvi. 15; ii. 7; Exod. xxxiv. 21.
[570] Socrates was mightily addicted to the exercise of his body, as necessary to the health of body and mind. Laert. Plutarch out of Plato saith, that soul and body should be equally exercised together, and driven on as two horses in a coach, and not either of them overgo the other. Prec. of Health.
[571] Omnes qui sunt, quique erunt, aut fuerunt, virtutibus aut doctrinis clari, non possunt unum ingenium accendere, nisi aliquæ intus in animo scintillæ sint, quæ preceptoris spiritu excitatæ et adjutæ, generosum disciplinæ fomitem arripiant. Petrarch. dial. 41. li. 2.
[572] It was one of Solon's laws: Is qui sectatur otium, omnibus accusare volentibus obnoxius esto. Ut Laert. in Sol. Num solum aquas haurio, inquit Cleanthes? nonne et fodio et rigo et omnia facio philosophisæ causa? when they asked him why he would draw water.
[573] How little have some men (yea, ministers themselves) to show of all the good they might have done through all their lives! The work they have done calls them idle.
[574] 1 Thess. v. 12, 13; Prov. xviii. 9; xxi. 25; 2 Thess. iii.; Prov. xii. 24; xii. 15; Eccl. x. 18.
[575] Prov. x. 26; xviii. 9.
[576] Prov. xxvi. 16; xxiv. 30.
[577] See Psal. cxxviii. 2, "Thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands." Prov. xiv. 23; xiii. 11.
[578] Cleanthes coactum aliquando stipem in medium familiarium intulit, dicens, Cleanthes alium Cleanthem posset nutrire si vellet. And when he was questioned in judgment, how he lived, Adeo robustus, et tam boni habitûs, the gardener that he worked for, and the woman that baked his meal, were the witnesses that acquit him. Hard labour and hard fare enabled him for hard study. Laert. in Cleanth.
[579] Platonem tradunt cum vidisset quendam aleis ludentem increpasse: et cum ille; Quam me in parvis reprehendis? diceret, respondisse, At est consuetudo non parva res. Laert. in Plat.
[580] Callimachus, in Attila, reporteth that when certain players came before Attila, to show the agility of their bodies in their exercises, he was offended to see such able, active bodies no better employed, and commanded them to be exercised in shooting and other military acts: which when they could not do, he commanded that they should have no meat but what they got by hunting at a great distance, and so exercised them till they became excellent soldiers. Page 353.
[581] Ni sis bonus aleator, probus chartarius, scortator improbus, potator strenuus, profusor audax, decoctor et conflator æris alieni, deinde scabie ornatus Gallica, vix quisquam te oredet equitem. Erasm. Colloq. p. 483. See more of this chap. v. and read Luke xvi. and James v.
[582] Rev. iii. 15, 19.
[583] Matt. xxiii. 15.
[584] See Jam. iii.
[585] Rom. x. 2; Acts xxi. 20, 22.
[586] 2 Pet. ii. 7, 8; Ezek. ix. 4; 1 Cor. v.
[587] Matt. vii. 4; Gen. xxxviii. 24; 2 Sam. xii. 5.
[588] 2 Cor. viii. 3; Acts xviii. 25; Exod. xxxvi. 6.
[589] Gal. iv. 15, 18.
[590] Psal. lxix. 10; John ii. 17; Gal. iv. 18; 2 Cor. vii. 11; Tit. ii. 14; Rev. iii. 15, 16, 19.
[591] Jam. v. 16; Rom. xii. 11.
[592] Matt. xi. 12; Rom. xv. 33; Luke xiii. 24; 2 Tim. ii. 5; 1 Cor. ix. 24-26; Heb. xii. 1; Deut. vi. 5; Matt. xxii. 37; 2 Cor. v. 14; Prov. l. 4.
[593] John ix. 4; Isa. lv. 6; Luke xix. 42; Heb. iii. 7, 15; Matt. xxv.
[594] Sam. ii. 23, 29; Rev. iii. 19.
[595] 1 Thess. v. 22; Jude 23; Jam. iv. 7; 1 Pet. v. 9.
[596] Eccles. x. 18; Prov. xxiv. 30; xxi. 25; xiii. 4.
[597] Prov. xxii. 13; xxvi. 13; xx. 4.
[598] Numb. xxv. 11, 13; Cant. viii. 6, 7; Heb. xx. 11; Dan. iii.; vi.; Matt. xiii. 20, 21; Rev. ii. 5; Rev. iii. 16; 2 Thess. ii. 10.
[599] Read before chap. v. the cont. dir. for redeeming time.
[600] 1 Cor. vii. 29, 30; 2 Pet. iii. 11; Rev. xii. 12.
[601] Luke viii. 14.
[602] Rom. xiv. 21, 22; 1 Cor. v. 6; Eph. iv. 29, 30.
[603] Prov. xxii. 24, 25; xxvii. 17; Heb. iii. 13; x. 24, 25; Rom. xv. 14.
[604] Tanto cum strepitu ludi spectantur et artes. Hor.
[605] Among the Ep. of Bonifac. Mog. there is a council held under Carloman, king of France, which saith in the king's name, Necnon et illas venationes et sylvaticas vagationes cum canibus, servis Dei interdiximus. Similiter ut accipitres et falcones non habeant. And sure these are better than cards and dice, which yet some priests now use too much.
[606] It is one of the Roman laws, 12. tab. Prodigo bonorum suorum administratio interdicta esto.
[607] Rom. xiv. 21; 1 Cor. viii. 13.
[608] 1 Pet. i. 14, 15; ii. 11, 12.
[609] Matt. xxiii. 5; Mal. iii. 17.
[610] Laertius saith, that when Crœsus sat in all his ornaments and glory on his throne, he asked Solon, An pulchrius unquam spectaculum viderit? Illumque dixisse: Gallos, gallinaceos, phasianos, et pavones: naturali enim eos nitore et speciositate eximia vestiri.