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

2. This Diligence requires the Employing all your Strength of Body in the business of your Trades. Have you a firm Constitution, a vigorous Nerve, an able Arm, a strenuous Back? all these must serve God in your Callings, for he hath entrusted you with this Strength for this end. And this is especially requisite in the time of youth and health: God having ordained those honest Labours, both to provide for a livelihood for the Body, and to prevent the distempers of the Soul: ⟨p. 79⟩for the more laborious, the less lascivious; that honest industry spending those exuberant Spirits, which are otherwise apt to break forth in unlawful flames. Besides, Sickness and old Age will come, when the strong men will bow themselves, and the grinders cease; and those that look out at the windows will be darkened. It's true, God doth not require or approve, that Men should so exhaust their strength in the labours of their Calling, that they are left spiritless in his immediate service, when their work is done; but observing that moderation which is in every thing requisite, they should not be shy to lay out their strength in the affairs of their Calling; knowing that God accepts their Labour, and will by Food and Rest recruit them again. Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening. Psal. 104. 23.

2. This Diligence requires the Imploying all your Strength of Body in the business of your Trades. Have you a firm Constitution, a vigorous Nerve, an able Arm, a strenuous Back? all these must serve God in your Callings, for he hath intrusted you with this Strength for this end. And this is especially requisite in the time of youth and health: God having ordained those honest Labours, both to provide for a livelihood for the Body, and to prevent the distempers of the Soul: ⟨p. 79⟩for the more laborious, the less lascivious; that honest industry spending those exuberant Spirits, which are otherwise apt to break forth in unlawful flames. Besides, Sickness and old Age will come, when the strong men will bow themselves, and the grinders cease; and those that look out at the windows will be darkned. It's true, God doth not require or approve, that Men should so exhaust their strength in the labours of their Calling, that they are left spiritless in his immediate service, when their work is done; but observing that moderation which is in every thing requilit, they should not be shy to lay out their strength in the affairs of their Calling; knowing that God accepts their Labour, and will by Food and Rest recruit them again. Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.