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

(3.) It gratifies the Devil. It encourages that Tempter to tempt you: That wicked and discontented Spirit watches these Opportunities to tempt you, either to take some indirect Courses for your Redress, or to ferment you with an Hatred to God, and possibly to drill you on to Self-Destruction: for he is a Murderer from the beginning. It must therefore be an odious Sin, that so highly offends God, that so gratifies the Devil, and that doth so much mischief to your own selves.

(3.) It gratifies the Devil. It incourages that Tempter to tempt you: That wicked and discontented Spirit watches these Opportunities to tempt you, either to take some indirect Courses for your Redress, or to ferment you with an Hatred to God, and possibly to drill you on to Self-Destruction: for he is a Murderer from the beginning. It must therefore be an odious Sin, that so highly offends God, that so gratifies the Devil, and that doth so much mischief to your own selves.

2. Be exhorted then to rest content in your Calling. Three things will further you herein.

(1.) Faith, whereby to believe God's Word, which hath said, All things work together for good, to them that love God: Rom. 8. 28. To believe his Providence, so that all Events in the World are wisely governed; and that, All the Paths of the Lord are Mercy and Truth (mark it, Mercy and Truth) to them that keep his Covenant: Psal. 25. 10. So that as he can do a Sinner no wrong, so he cannot do his Child any harm. Faith, I say, to appropriate God, and then you have all things, when you have Him that hath all things. They that have not God, patch a sort of Content out of the Creature; one Creature contributes one thing towards it, and another Creature contributes another; now if any one part be away, any one String out of Tune, the Music is spoiled; all the rest cannot fill up that Defect,