When may a Christian be said to pursue the affairs of the present life, so as to prevent his advances in grace, dishonour God, and injure his soul? As this question appears to be of so critical and important a nature, and will lead me to touch upon a darling sin, a sin too common amongst us, viz. love of the world; so, to be properly upon my guard, and to clear the way for a direct answer, I would first premise these two things: 1. That all persons ought to be diligent in that calling in which God in his providence has placed them. Diligence in the shop is highly commendable. For want of this, persons have often gone backward in the world, have thereby lost all opportunities of being useful, and have brought themselves into such circumstances, as greatly reflect upon the amiable character they bear as Christians. Poverty and distress are the consequences of slothfulness. Prov. 24:30-34. "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; ...
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