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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 5: Of Contentedness 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.
SECT. 5. Of Contentedness in a Trade.
A Fifth Requisite to the right managing of your Trades, is Contentedness. This the Apostle aims at in that Exhortation, 1 Cor. 7. 20. Let every Man abide in the same Calling, wherein he was called. For it seems that some raw Christians had a conceit, that the Christian Religion dissolved all ⟨p. 159⟩precedent Obligations, that the believing Wife was ipso facto released from her Infidel Husband; that it was unlawful and unreasonable for a Christian Servant, to continue in his outward Servitude. And the Servants by the Jewish and Roman Laws were in such Slavery, that Flesh and Blood was glad of such an occasion for Liberty. Now to rectify this Mistake, says the Apostle, Let every Man (of what Birth, or Parts, or Grace soever he be, let him) abide in the same (outward) Calling, wherein he was (inwardly) called: Tho it be mean, let him stoop to it; tho it be laborious, let him buckle to it; yea tho he be a Bond-Slave, yet let him be quiet, till God that called him into it, call him out of it. Like the famous Epictetus, of whom it was said, that he was Servus & mutilus & pauper, sed Diis Charus. And here, I shall,
A Fifth Requisite to the right managing of your Trades, is Contentedness. This the Apostle aims at in that Exhortation, 1 Cor. 7. 20. Let every Man abide in the same Calling, wherein he was called. For it seems that some raw Christians had a conceit, that the Christian Religion dissolv'd all ⟨p. 159⟩precedent Obligations, that the believing Wife was ipso facto released from her Infidel Husband; that it was unlawful and unreasonable for a Christian Servant, to continue in his outward Servitude. And the Servants by the Jewish and Roman Laws were in such Slavery, that Flesh and Blood was glad of such an occasion for Liberty. Now to rectify this Mistake, says the Apostle, Let every Man (of what Birth, or Parts, or Grace soever he be, let him) abide in the same (outward) Calling, wherein he was (inwardly) called: Tho it be mean, let him stoop to it; tho it be laborious, let him buckle to it; yea tho he be a Bond-Slave, yet let him be quiet, till God that called him into it, call him out of it. Like the famous Epictetus, of whom it was said, that he was Servus & mutilus & pauper, sed Diis Charus. And here, I shall,