5. _Julius_ is very fearful of missing prayers; all the parish supposes _Julius_ to be sick, if he is not at _church_. But if you was to ask him, why he spends the rest of his time by _humour_ or _chance_? Why he is a companion of the silliest people in their most _silly pleasures_? Why he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diversion? If you was to ask him why there is no amusement too trifling to please him? Why he gives himself up to an _idle_, _gossiping_ conversation? Why he lives in foolish friendships for particular persons, that neither want nor deserve any particular kindness? If you ask him why he never puts his _conversation_, his _time_, and _fortune_ under the rules of religion, _Julius_ has no more to say for himself than the most disorderly person. For the whole tenor of scripture lies as directly against such a life, as against _debauchery_ and _intemperance_. He that lives in such a course, lives no more according to the religion of Jesus Christ, than he that lives in gluttony and intemperance. If a man was to tell _Julius_, that there was no occasion for so much constancy at prayers, and that he might neglect the service of the church, as the generality of people do, _Julius_ would think such a one to be no Christian, and that he ought to avoid his company: but if a person only tell him, that he may live as the generality of the world does, that he may enjoy himself as others do, that he may spend his _time_ and _money_ as people of fashion do, that he may conform to the follies of the generality, and gratify his temper and passions as most people do, _Julius_ never suspects that man to want a Christian spirit, or that he is doing the devil’s work. 6. The short of the matter is this. Either reason and religion prescribe _rules_ and _ends_ to all the ordinary actions of our lives, or they do not: if they do, then it is as necessary to govern all our actions by those rules as it is necessary to worship God. For if religion teaches us any thing concerning _eating_ and _drinking_, or spending our _time_ and _money_; if it teaches us how we are to _use_ the world; if it tells us what tempers we are to have in _common_ life, how we are to be disposed towards all people, how we are to behave towards the _sick_, the _poor_, the _old_ and _destitute_; if it tells us whom we are to treat with a particular love, whom we are to regard with a particular esteem; if it tells us how we are to treat our enemies, and how we are to deny ourselves, he must be very weak that can think these parts of religion are not to be observed with as much _exactness_ as any doctrines that relate to prayers.