Man goeth forth to his work
Having taken sleep in the night, being comfortably refreshed, and
his strength recruited; he rises with the rising sun, and goes
forth cheerfully and with intrepidity to his work in the field,
or elsewhere, the beasts being fled and gone.
And to his labour until the evening;
to till the ground, and do other services and labour, either of
the head or hand; for man is born and designed for labour, and
not for sloth and idleness: in his innocent state he was set to
dress the garden and keep it; and, after the fall, his doom was
to get his bread by the sweat of his brow; and he is to work
while the day lasts, till the evening and night come on, when he
betakes himself to sleep and rest again. So the believer, though
the work of redemption and salvation is wrought for him, and the
work of grace is wrought in him, each by another hand; yet he has
work enough to do, which he is created for, and under obligation
to perform; and in which he is to continue steadfast and
immovable, while the day of life lasts, till the night of death
comes, and no man can work; and then he rests from his labours,
and his works follow him.