Puritan Wisdom

"[Satan] makes the duties of our general and particular calling hinder and jostle out one another. Our general calling is serving God, our particular calling is minding our employments in the world. It is wisdom to be regular in both of these, when the particular calling does not eat out the time for God's service, nor the service of God hinder diligence in a calling. The devil's art is to make Christians defective in one of these two. Some spend all their time in hearing, reading, and under a pretense of living by faith, do not live in a calling; others Satan takes off from duties of religion, under a pretense that they must provide for their families; he makes them so careful for their bodies, that they quite neglect their souls. The subtlety of the old serpent is to make men negligent in their duties either of the first table or the second." -- Thomas Watson, 269.