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

A Particular, or Temporal Calling is a settled Employment in some special Business of God's Appointment, for our own and others good: And this is term'd, Vocatio ad Vitae institutum, vel ad munus: The former and this latter are both elegantly mentioned in one Verse, 1 Cor. 7. 20. Let every Man abide in the same [earthly] Calling, wherein he was called [by his heavenly Calling.] No Man should think, that God likes him either the better or the worse, merely for his outward Calling; and therefore let every Man contentedly abide ⟨p. 3⟩in the same Earthly Calling, provided it be a lawful one, wherein his Heavenly Calling found him.

A Particular, or Temporal Calling is a setled Imployment in some special Business of God's Appointment, for our own and others good: And this is term'd, Vocatio ad Vitae institutum, vel ad munus: The former and this latter are both elegantly mention'd in one Verse, 1 Cor. 7. 20. Let every Man abide in the same [earthly] Calling, wherein he was called [by his heavenly Calling.] No Man should think, that God likes him either the better or the worse, meerly for his outward Calling; and therefore let every Man contentedly abide ⟨p. 3⟩in the same Earthly Calling, provided it be a lawful one, wherein his Heavenly Calling found him.

In the abovesaid Description, consider, 1. The Author of a Particular Calling, which is God. So the Apostle, 1 Cor. 7. 17. But as God hath distributed to every Man; as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. Hence certainly these Employments are named Callings, because every Man must be called of God unto them: He directs Men to them, he inclines them, he enables them for them. Now God calls unto them, 1. Immediately by himself: so he called Adam to be an Husbandman,