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The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…
The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a calling in general : and directions for the right managing of the tradesman's calling in particular / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed by J.D. for Samuel Sprint, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Tradesman's Calling. › Chapter 4: Concerning the right Entrance into a Calling.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
More particularly, I commend to you these two:
1. Humility. When you are going into a Calling, the best and fittest Garment you can go in, is to be clothed with Humility. An humble Heart within, accounting others better than your self, not reckoning your self too great, or too good for any honest Employment; and showing its self in a modest and respectful Carriage and Behaviour, will make God and Man to be in love with you: A meek and quiet Spirit is in the sight of the Lord of great Price. This will make you content in your Condition. This Work and this Fare, tho it may be hard, yet, saith the humble Soul, it is rather too good for me: The Neglects, yea the Contempts cast upon me, alas they are nothing to what I deserve. What care I for fine Cloths, or any great Respect, that am conscious of my own Unworthiness? This Grace will make you ready to be commanded, easy to be pleased, hard to be provoked, and generally to be beloved. Yea every one will heap Respect on him that flees it, and will honour those that are mortified to Honour. Whereas, carry what Parts, Education, or Accomplishments you will into your new Calling, yet if you carry a proud Heart with you, you will neither be acceptable to others, nor easy to your selves. You'll be disputing when you should obey, you'll be fretting when you should submit, envying whom you should respect, disdaining whom you should cherish, and jostling with those Equals whom you should embrace. ⟨p. 44⟩Every Task will be too hard, every Reproof too galling, every Hour a Year till ye be at liberty; and then you will carry your Chain with you: for he can never be at liberty, that is a Slave to his Pride and Passions.
1. Humility. When you are going into a Calling, the best and fittest Garment you can go in, is to be clothed with Humility. An humble Heart within, accounting others better than your self, not reckoning your self too great, or too good for any honest Imployment; and shewing its self in a modest and respectful Carriage and Behaviour, will make God and Man to be in love with you: A meek and quiet Spirit is in the sight of the Lord of great Price. This will make you content in your Condition. This Work and this Fare, tho it may be hard, yet, saith the humble Soul, it is rather too good for me: The Neglects, yea the Contempts cast upon me, alas they are nothing to what I deserve. What care I for fine Cloths, or any great Respect, that am conscious of my own Unworthiness? This Grace will make you ready to be commanded, easy to be pleased, hard to be provoked, and generally to be beloved. Yea every one will heap Respect on him that flees it, and will honour those that are mortified to Honour. Whereas, carry what Parts, Education, or Accomplishments you will into your new Calling, yet if you carry a proud Heart with you, you will neither be acceptable to others, nor easy to your selves. You'l be disputing when you should obey, you'l be fretting when you should submit, envying whom you should respect, disdaining whom you should cherish, and justling with those Equals whom you should imbrace.