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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Tradesman's Calling. › Chapter 2: Of the Necessity of a Particular Calling.
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.
(4.) There is Justice and Equity in it in respect of the Public; it is good for the Common-wealth. And as every Member of the Body is useful to the whole; so should every Person, who is (as before) a Member of the Body Politic, be serviceable to the common Good. No man should stand like a Cypher in his Generation; but should so employ himself, that there may be a want of him in the World. How many Trades have been at work to furnish thee out in Meat, Drink, and Clothes every day? and how unreasonable is it, that thou shouldst make no Returns to them again? That many Rivers should daily empty themselves upon you, and that you should be like a dead Sea without any vent or use to them again? Hence the Apostle gives this Order: Tit. 3. 14. And let ours also learn to maintain good Works [or, as the Margin, profess honest Trades] for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. The very Bees will drive out the Drones from their little Common-wealth. Indeed he deserves not the Protection, that adds not to the Welfare of the Public.
(4.) There is Justice and Equity in it in respect of the Publick; it is good for the Common-wealth. And as every Member of the Body is useful to the whole; so should every Person, who is (as before) a Member of the Body Politick, be serviceable to the common Good. No man should stand like a Cypher in his Generation; but should so imploy himself, that there may be a want of him in the World. How many Trades have been at work to furnish thee out in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths every day? and how unreasonable is it, that thou shouldst make no Returns to them again? That many Rivers should daily empty themselves upon you, and that you should be like a dead Sea without any vent or use to them again? Hence the Apostle gives this Order: Tit. 3. 14. And let ours also learn to maintain good Works [or, as the Margin, profess honest Trades] for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. The very Bees will drive out the Drones from their little Common-wealth. Indeed he deserves not the Protection, that adds not to the Welfare of the Publick.