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

Above all, be conscionably careful of tampering with State-affairs. You ought to make good the place wherein God hath set you, and by all prudent and honest means in your Station, promote the Public-Good; but let no pretence how pious soever, let no pressure how heavy soever, let no prospect how specious soever, prevail with you to dishonour your Political Parents, to disturb the Public Peace, or to embark your self in any design foreign to your own Calling, or unjustifiable by the Laws ye live under. Let Almighty God alone to rule the World, let the lawful Magistrate alone to rule his Subjects, and let it be your business, cheerfully to obey, or quietly to suffer. 1 Pet. 4. 14, 15. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ, happy are ye: But let none of you suffer as an evil doer, or as a busy-body in other Mens matters.

Above all, be conscionably careful of tampering with State-affairs. You ought to make good the place wherein God hath set you, and by all prudent and honest means in your Station, promote the Publick-Good; but let no pretence how pious soever, let no pressure how heavy soever, let no prospect how specious soever, prevail with you to dishonour your Political Parents, to disturb the Publick Peace, or to imbark your self in any design foreign to your own Calling, or unjustifiable by the Laws ye live under. Let Almighty God alone to rule the World, let the lawful Magistrate alone to rule his Subjects, and let it be your business, chearfully to obey, or quietly to suffer. 1 Pet. 4. 14, 15. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ, happy are ye: But let none of you suffer as an evil doer, or as a busy-body in other Mens matters.

10. This Godly Wisdom will help you, To dispose your Outward in subordination to you Spiritual Calling. That is, so to order the particular duties which belong to each of them, that in the instances of practice, they may not clash or jostle with one another; but sweetly agree and be furtherances each to other. I know that some Callings are of that nature, and some Tradesmen again so necessitous, that it is difficult to find Conveniences for the Worship of God and good of the Soul. But Wisdom here is profitable to direct; hereby the pious Tradesman after a due consideration of all Circumstances, and of his necessary business within doors and without, fixes a time for prayer, for reading, and hearing, as well as for working and bargaining; and tho he cannot assign