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

2. The second thing in the Description of a Particular Calling, is the Essence of it, which is a settled Employment in some special Business. For it is not enough to be doing something sometimes; no Man is so idle, but that he is sometimes doing: but a Calling is some constant Business, which fills a Man's time; and it is requisite, that it be a Man's own, his proper Business; for we read of those that did not work at all, yet are called Busybodies, 2 Thess. 3. 11. whom the Apostle notes for disorderly Livers; that is, they were busy Intermeddlers in others Affairs, but did not employ themselves in any constant Business of their own. And, 1 Thess: 4. 11. he exhorts them to study to be quiet, and to do their own Business. For the great Governor of the World hath appointed to every Man his proper Post and Province▪ and let him be never so active out of his Sphere, he will be at a great loss, if he do not keep his own Vineyard, mind his own Business.

2. The second thing in the Description of a Particular Calling, is the Essence of it, which is a settled Imployment in some special Business. For it is not enough to be doing something sometimes; no Man is so idle, but that he is sometimes doing: but a Calling is some constant Business, which fills a Man's time; and it is requisite, that it be a Man's own, his proper Business; for we read of those that did not work at all, yet are called Busybodies, 2 Thess. 3. 11. whom the Apostle notes for disorderly Livers; that is, they were busy Intermedlers in others Affairs, but did not imploy themselves in any constant Business of their own. And, 1 Thess: 4. 11. he exhorts them to study to be quiet, and to do their own Business. For the great Governour of the World hath appointed to every Man his proper Post and Province▪ and let him be never so active out of his Sphere, he will be at a great loss, if he do not keep his own Vineyard, mind his own Business.