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

Secondly; God doth mediately discharge a Man from his Calling two ways.

1. By the Hand or Interposition of Man; when it pleaseth him to invest some or other with Authority or with Power over a Person, and by such he is discharged of his Employment. Thus a Child, who is under the Government of his Parents, may lawfully leave his Calling, when he is so required by them, because he is not sui juris, nor is supposed to know what is best for him, in comparison of their Understanding. Thus a Wife may lawfully forsake the Calling, wherein she hath been bred; when her Husband finds any considerable Inconveniences therein, or needs her Assistance some other way: For, God hath invested the Husband with Authority to direct and govern his Wife, and she ought to be subject to him in every (lawful) thing. Thus the Subject, being called and advanced by his Prince to some place of honourable Trust, may lawfully leave his former Calling, because this is supposed to tend more to the Public Good. In like manner, when a Man is put into Restraint or Prison, either by the Magistrate, or by the Suit of his Adversary, he is so long at least discharged from his former Calling, and possibly made incapable thereby from ever following it again. There may other such like Instances perhaps be given, wherein it may be unquestionably lawful for a Man to leave his Calling; which yet must ⟨p. 232⟩be warily collected, and he that is concluded by them, must see that he hath his release from God, tho it be by the Intervention of Men.

1. By the Hand or Interposition of Man; when it pleaseth him to invest some or other with Authority or with Power over a Person, and by such he is discharged of his Imployment. Thus a Child, who is under the Government of his Parents, may lawfully leave his Calling, when he is so required by them, because he is not sui juris, nor is suppos'd to know what is best for him, in comparison of their Understanding. Thus a Wife may lawfully forsake the Calling, wherein she hath been bred; when her Husband finds any considerable Inconveniencies therein, or needs her Assistance some other way: For, God hath invested the Husband with Authority to direct and govern his Wife, and she ought to be subject to him in every (lawful) thing. Thus the Subject, being called and advanced by his Prince to some place of honourable Trust, may lawfully leave his former Calling, because this is supposed to tend more to the Publick Good. In like manner, when a Man is put into Restraint or Prison, either by the Magistrate, or by the Suit of his Adversary, he is so long at least discharged from his former Calling, and possibly made incapable thereby from ever following it again. There may other such like Instances perhaps be given, wherein it may be unquestionably lawful for a Man to leave his Calling; which yet must