The Saints' Encouragement to Diligence in Christ's Service / By: James Janeway (1636-1674) / Hardcover 

ISBN-10: 1877611875

ISBN-13: 9781877611872

FROM THE PREFACE: The treatise before you is so weighty, serious, spiritual, and well-clothed that to me it is as savoury as any that he has yet published; and I doubt not but it will seem so to the godly reader when he has perused it.
God has blessed the author with a humble, a serious, a peaceable, and an industrious spirit. His heart is set on the work of God and the winning of souls.
~ Richard Baxter
FROM THE AUTHOR: [A] sin that brings so many souls to poverty, misery, and eternal distress is laziness and spiritual sloth. How strangely dull, inactive, and careless are most! How they sleep, eat, and trifle while their great work lies by or is done by halves!
Brethren, time is short; our work, our Master, our wages are great, and, not to mince the matter, we have yet done little. Instead of creeping, let us run; instead of sleeping and dreaming, let us awake and work diligently.