The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

Thirdly; For the happy Entrance into a Calling, you must take with you firm and good Resolutions. For you must expect both Temptations and Difficulties in every Place and Calling, which you have not met with before. These will be like to stagger you, if you go not forth with a steady Resolution. If your Calling depend most on the Head and Brain; you must not be discouraged with the Crabbedness of your Studies; but seeing God hath endued you with Capacity and Parts (as is before supposed) it is possible, and a resolute Industry will make it facile to overcome all. If your Calling depend on the Labour of the Hand, still resolve to buckle with it; every day it will be easier than other, and that which now you tremble at, shortly you'll play with. You must also expect to meet with some Severities, harsh Looks, harsh Words, harsh Usage, but let none of these things terrify you: All this shall turn to your good. It is the wise Providence of God to permit all these things, for the taming and subduing that Wantonness and Pride in young People, which is for the most ⟨p. 46⟩part inseparable from that Age. Settle your Resolutions therefore at your Entrance, to suffer what is sufferable in your Calling, still hoping that a dark Morning will have a Sun-shine Evening; and in the mean time that the Sun-shine of God's Favour will guild every drop of the Storm that falls upon you, and sweeten it unto you.

Thirdly; For the happy Entrance into a Calling, you must take with you firm and good Resolutions. For you must exspect both Temptations and Difficulties in every Place and Calling, which you have not met with before. These will be like to stagger you, if you go not forth with a steady Resolution. If your Calling depend most on the Head and Brain; you must not be discouraged with the Crabbedness of your Studies; but seeing God hath indued you with Capacity and Parts (as is before supposed) it is possible, and a resolute Industry will make it facil to overcome all. If your Calling depend on the Labour of the Hand, still resolve to buckle with it; every day it will be easier than other, and that which now you tremble at, shortly you'l play with. You must also expect to meet with some Severities, harsh Looks, harsh Words, harsh Usage, but let none of these things terrify you: All this shall turn to your good. It is the wise Providence of God to permit all these things, for the taming and subduing that Wantonness and Pride in young People, which is for the most ⟨p. 46⟩