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tion sake neglect the necessary duties of their particular calling.

Fifthly, Lawful care is a discreet and well ordered care; it puts difference between things more or less good, and between things necessary or not necessary, between things more necessary and less necessary. In all things it would keep first due order, then due measure.

1. Caring most for God's glory, as Moses and Paul did, who cared more for the glory of God than for their own lives, honours, and welfare, Exod. xxxii. 12, 32; Rom. ix. 3. Next, it cares for that one thing needful, how the soul may be saved in the day of the Lord, Luke x. 42. As any thing is best, or more needful for the present, that is cared for first and chiefly, Matt. vi. 33. If all cannot be cared for, the less worthy things, the less necessary for the present, and those things to which we are least bound, should be omitted.

2. As lawful care does, through discretion, keep due order, so it keeps due measure, seeking spiritual and heavenly things with more diligence and zeal than those that are temporal and earthly, 2 Pet. i. 5; caring for the things of this life with great moderation, without eagerness and greediness of desire; always proportioning the care to the goodness and worth of that which is to be cared for. Now because the world is to be loved and used as if we loved and used it not, 1 Cor. vii. 31, 32, it being of little worth in comparison; therefore the cares about it in comparison of the best and most necessary things must be, as if you cared not.

SECT. 2. SIGNS OF IMMODERATE CARE.

Cares of the things of this life are inordinate and immoderate, 1. When they will not give men leave to take the comforts and natural refreshments of this life, Eccles. v. 12, as sleep, meat, and drink, and other needful and lawful things; but especially when they