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

(1.) The Ordinance and Institution of God to Adam, both before and after the Fall. Before the Fall, when Adam was in the State of Innocence, yet the Wisdom of God chose a Calling for him; Gen. 2. 15. And the Lord God took the Man, and put him into the Garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it. He was God's high Steward over all the Earth, and might, if any Man, have lived at Ease, yet was obliged to an Employment. He that was greater, and wiser, and holier than any of his Off-spring, the second Adam excepted, must have a Calling. Let no Man therefore plead his Birth, Estate, his Parts or Graces, to justify an idle Life. After the Fall; Gen. 3. 19. In the Sweat of thy Face shalt thou eat thy Bread, till thou return unto the Ground. He must into the same Calling again, tho he found more Difficulty in it than he had before; as a broken Tradesman, that sets up again with a less Stock, in worser Times. And having two Sons, they were each of them sixth in a Calling; ⟨p. 15⟩Gen. 4. 2. Abel was a Keeper of Sheep, and Cain was a Tiller of the Ground. Tho they had the whole World before them, yet they had no Writ of Ease from a settled Employment.

(1.) The Ordinance and Institution of God to Adam, both before and after the Fall. Before the Fall, when Adam was in the State of Innocence, yet the Wisdom of God chose a Calling for him; Gen. 2. 15. And the Lord God took the Man, and put him into the Garden of Eden, to dress it, and to keep it. He was God's high Steward over all the Earth, and might, if any Man, have lived at Ease, yet was obliged to an Imployment. He that was greater, and wiser, and holier than any of his Off-spring, the second Adam excepted, must have a Calling. Let no Man therefore plead his Birth, Estate, his Parts or Graces, to justify an idle Life. After the Fall; Gen. 3. 19. In the Sweat of thy Face shalt thou eat thy Bread, till thou return unto the Ground. He must into the same Calling again, tho he found more Difficulty in it than he had before; as a broken Tradesman, that sets up again with a less Stock, in worser Times. And having two Sons, they were each of them fixt in a Calling;