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Secondly; This Diligence, as to the Extent of it, stands in these following Particulars.

1. In the serious Employing all the Faculties of your Mind about your Trade and Calling. Your Fancies, your Understandings, your Memories, and all the acquired Improvements of them, are all to be laid out therein. In that, Prov. 27. 2•. where the Holy Ghost commands that Men be diligent, he adds in the Hebr. Set thy Heart to thy Herds. So that whatsoever sagacity of Mind, depth of Judgment, quickness of Invention, soundness of Consideration you are masters of, should be here employed. And tho in some Trades there be less need and use of these than in others; yet there is no Calling, but employment may be had for every one of them. And it is a great commendation to any Man, that having a rich Fancy, a clear Understanding, a strong Memory, instead of abusingt hem to Sin, or misemploying them in matters foreign to his business, he improves them to the utmost in his Calling, how mean soever. And that this is your Duty is manifest from that, Eclces. 9. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no Work, nor Device, nor Knowledge, nor Wisdom in the Grave whither thou goest▪

1. In the serious Imploying all the Faculties of your Mind about your Trade and Calling. Your Fancies, your Understandings, your Memories, and all the acquired Improvements of them, are all to be laid out therein. In that, Prov. 27. 2•. where the Holy Ghost commands that Men be diligent, he adds in the Hebr. Set thy Heart to thy Herds. So that whatsoever sagacity of Mind, depth of Judgment, quickness of Invention, soundness of Consideration you are masters of, should be here imployed. And tho in some Trades there be less need and use of these than in others; yet there is no Calling, but imployment may be had for every one of them. And it is a great commendation to any Man, that having a rich Fancy, a clear Understanding, a strong Memory, instead of abusingt hem to Sin, or misimploying them in matters foreign to his business, he improves them to the utmost in his Calling, how mean soever. And that this is your Duty is manifest from that, Eclces. 9. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no Work, nor Device, nor Knowledg, nor Wisdom in the Grave whither thou goest