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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 6: Of Religiousness 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.
3. Reason teacheth it. For,
(1.) Religion is the truest Wisdom: When that wisest of Men, Solomon, had searched in vain to find out an Happiness for Man, in all th• Honour, Riches, and Pleasures which the World could afford, (and what can the Man do, that cometh after the King?) he concludes the whole matter in these words, Eccles. 12. 13. Fear God, and keep his Commandments; for this is the whole of Man. This is his real Wisdom, this is his grand Duty, this is his only Happiness. For indeed there is nothing doth so conduce to our Happiness in this World, as true Religion. It is the most certain way to Health, to Safety, to Plenty, to true Pleasure, and to true Honour. Nothing doth so much perfect, and regulate the Faculties of the Soul, nor crown it with that Peace and Tranquillity, as the Fear of God and true Piety; and then it's plain, that it and it only leads us to the Fruition of Eternal Happiness both in Soul and Body: Therefore unto Man be said, Behold, the Fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom, ⟨p. 190⟩and to depart from Evil, is Understanding: Job 28. 28. And therefore let every Tradesman be truly Religious.
(1.) Religion is the truest Wisdom: When that wisest of Men, Solomon, had search'd in vain to find out an Happiness for Man, in all th• Honour, Riches, and Pleasures which the World could afford, (and what can the Man do, that cometh after the King?) he concludes the whole matter in these words, Eccles. 12. 13. Fear God, and keep his Commandments; for this is the whole of Man. This is his real Wisdom, this is his grand Duty, this is his only Happiness. For indeed there is nothing doth so conduce to our Happiness in this World, as true Religion. It is the most certain way to Health, to Safety, to Plenty, to true Pleasure, and to true Honour. Nothing doth so much perfect, and regulate the Faculties of the Soul, nor crown it with that Peace and Tranquillity, as the Fear of God and true Piety; and then it's plain, that it and it only leads us to the Fruition of Eternal Happiness both in Soul and Body: Therefore unto Man be said, Behold, the Fear of the Lord, that is Wisdom,