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

A Calling is some kind of Life to which we are called of God: Now all Christians are called of God to know and believe in him, to love and serve him, and at length, fully to enjoy him. And besides this Calling, and subordinate to it, God doth call every Man and Woman, as if he called them by Name, to serve him in some peculiar Employment in this World, both for their own and the Common-Good. And hence ariseth▪ that Distinction of a General, and of a Particular or Personal Calling; they might with more clearness be styled, our Spiritual, and our Temporal Callings, but only▪ that some, even Particular Callings (as that of Ministers) are ⟨p. 2⟩conversant about Spiritual Matters, tho they are distinct enough from our Christian Calling.

A Calling is some kind of Life to which we are called of God: Now all Christians are called of God to know and believe in him, to love and serve him, and at length, fully to enjoy him. And besides this Calling, and subordinate to it, God doth call every Man and Woman, as if he call'd them by Name, to serve him in some peculiar Imployment in this World, both for their own and the Common-Good. And hence ariseth▪ that Distinction of a General, and of a Particular or Personal Calling; they might with more clearness be stil'd, our Spiritual, and our Temporal Callings, but only▪ that some, even Particular Callings (as that of Ministers) are ⟨p. 2⟩conversant about Spiritual Matters, tho they are distinct enough from our Christian Calling.

Our General or Spiritual Calling then, is whereby a Person is called of God to believe and obey the Gospel; which, being revealed under the Notion of a Covenant of Grace, is named Vocatio ad Foedus. And this, when the Word is accompanied with the Spirit, is Effectual Calling, and leads to Salvation; according to that,