'If any that fear God shall complain that, although they have a calling, yet it is hard and laborious one, which takes up too much of their time which they would gladly employ in other and better work, I answer that it is likely that the wisdom of Providence foresaw this to be the most suitable and proper employment for you; and if you had more ease and rest, you might have more temptations than now you have. The strength and time which is now taken up in your labours, in which you serve God, might otherwise have been spent upon such lusts in which you might have served the devil.'
John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence, p.78.
