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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
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THE Tradesman's Calling. › Chapter 5 › Section 2: Of Diligence in a Trade.
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.
The same Diligence restrains you also from needless and fruitless Visits. A due performance of these, is not only necessary in order to business, but also to the preserving and cultivating of Friendship and Alliance; but then Religion teaches Men to improve those civil Offices, to our own and others greatest good; either by giving ⟨p. 85⟩or receiving some good Counsel or needful Comfort; but it is the idle and useless Visits, which the diligent Man avoids; the Visits which are spent in ransacking all the affairs and faults of their Neighbours or Acquaintance, in correcting the Miscarriage of Church and State, in judging and condemning Persons that are absent, and so cannot make their own defence: Such as these, 1 Tim. 5. 13. Wandering about from ▪house to house; not only idle, but Tattlers also and Busi-bodies, speaking things which they ought not. The Diligent Man gives his Visits, but commonly they are short, serious and cheerful, whereby he may both leave a savour of Goodness behind him, and a desire in his Friends to enjoy him again.
The same Diligence restrains you also from needless and fruitless Visits. A due performance of these, is not only necessary in order to business, but also to the preserving and cultivating of Friendship and Alliance; but then Religion teaches Men to improve those civil Offices, to our own and others greatest good; either by giving ⟨p. 85⟩or receiving some good Counsel or needful Comfort; but it is the idle and useless Visits, which the diligent Man avoids; the Visits which are spent in ransacking all the affairs and faults of their Neighbours or Acquaintance, in correcting the Miscarriage of Church and State, in judging and condemning Persons that are absent, and so cannot make their own defence: Such as these, 1 Tim. 5. 13. Wandring about from ▪house to house; not only idle, but Tatlers also and Busi-bodies, speaking things which they ought not. The Diligent Man gives his Visits, but commonly they are short, serious and chearful, whereby he may both leave a savour of Goodness behind him, and a desire in his Friends to injoy him again.