Use of Partners
Bishop Hall. Luke 5:6-11 And when they had this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net broke.… There cannot be a better improvement of society than to help us in gain, to relieve us in our profitable labours, to draw up the spiritual draught into the vessel of Christ and His Church. Wherefore hath God given us partners, but that we should beckon to them for their aid in our necessary occasions? Neither doth Simon slacken his hand, because he had assistants. What shall we say to those lazy fishers, who can see others to the drag, while themselves look on at ease, caring only to feed themselves with the fish, not willing to wet their hands with the net? what shall we say to this excess of gain? (Bishop Hall.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. WEB: When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.